There is a nine-year-old kid, Ken, sitting at his desk, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants gets _________. It’s never happened before. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he knows exactly _________ is going to happen. He even imagines that when the boys find out, he won’t hear the end of the ridicule. When the girls find out, they’ll _________ speak to him. Those are what he can’t stand.

       He puts his head _________ and says quietly.
       “Dear God, please listen to me now! I need _________! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat.”
       He looks up _________ and here comes the teacher, Mrs. Smith, with a look in her eyes that says, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is full of _________, and she is walking hurriedly. Quicker than they can tell, Susie _________ in front of the teacher and water spills out of the bowl on Ken’s pants. Ken acts like he is _________, but at the same time is saying inside.
       “Thank you, God! Thank you, God!”
       Now, nobody will __________ Ken, but everyone feels sorry for him. Mrs. Smith rushes him downstairs and gives him __________ to put on, waiting for his pants to dry out. All the other children are on their hands cleaning up around his desk. This moment is __________ for Ken. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been __________ won’t disappear. It just has come to someone else—Susie. She tries to help, __________ they tell her to get out. “You’ve done enough, you silly girl!”
       Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, “You saw it, didn’t you? ”
       Susie __________, “I wet my pants once too.”1.

A．wet

B．tidy

C．large

D．broken

2.

A．why

B．when

C．what

D．where

3.

A．always

B．sometimes

C．usually

D．never

4.

A．back

B．down

C．over

D．forward

5.

A．help

B．meat

C．paper

D．attention

6.

A．actively

B．sleepily

C．excitedly

D．nervously

7.

A．fish

B．water

C．stones

D．flowers

8.

A．cries

B．falls

C．waits

D．thinks

9.

A．angry

B．bored

C．happy

D．relaxed

10.

A．care about

B．cheer on

C．laugh at

D．look for

11.

A．glasses

B．gloves

C．shoes

D．shorts

12.

A．serious

B．difficult

C．wonderful

D．successful

13.

A．his

B．her

C．mine

D．theirs

14.

A．if

B．so

C．and

D．but

15.

A．shouts

B．smiles

C．thanks

D．remembers

NASA is ready to send six little satellites into space, but it will take about three years to reach space. Those satellites can be able to help scientists keep a closer eye on heavy storms, and they develop a task called TROPICS to send the satellites to space. Importantly, the satellites will help us make a big difference in watching coming heavy storms.

       At the moment, NASA’s weather satellites can only check in on a storm every four to six hours. “So we’re missing a lot of what’s happening in the storm,” Bill Blackwell, at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, said. However, the new set of six satellites will allow researchers to check in on a storm about every hour.
       After sending the satellites, scientists will put them in a perfect place to watch the areas where most storms are born, from the center of America to the south of Australia. Each satellite is just under 0. 3 meters long with a powerful machine that’s about as big as a cup of coffee. The small machine can measure heat and light produced from O₂ and H₂O in the air, then the data will be sent to the Earth.
       It will bring many advantages. First, the data measured by the TROPICS satellites will help researchers study better how a storm grows. They can even build a 3 D model of a storm developing with the help of satellites. Also, scientists will know when the storm will come and get people to safety as soon as possible. Just like last year, hundreds of people died because of Storm Ida coming overnight. It won’t happen anymore.
       That makes it all more important to have more eyes over the sky. “The TROPICS team is super excited to send these satellites and get them running,” Bill Blackwell said in NASA statement.
19. The new satellites can ________.

A．watch the coming storms

B．reach space in a short time

C．check in on a storm every minute

D．find a perfect place for themselves

20. These new satellites work by ________.

A．producing O₂ and H₂O in the air

B．collecting different kinds of storms

C．measuring the heat and light of the air

D．making a 3 D model of a storm growing

21. The writer mentioned Storm Ida in Paragraph 4 to show ________.

A．storms will not come any more

B．the new six satellites are important

C．it’s hard to stay away from the storm

D．scientists do much research on satellites

22. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．The Coming Great Future Life

B．TROPICS—A Wonderful Task

C．Little Satellites, Big Difference

D．Say Goodbye to Dangerous Storms

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

project          since     perhaps       discover        universe

27. Scientists around the world are working hard ________ life on other planets.
28. Building a space station is an important ________ for the country.
29. People can know how the ________ starts from the book The Milky Way.
30. ________ Chinese people will land on the moon in two years.
31. China’s Shenzhou-15 has finished three spacewalks ________ four months ago.

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，用单词的正确形式完成以下短文。
       These days, Deng Qingming has become a popular topic among people. Deng, was not known until the Shenzhou-15     32     (宇宙飞船) flew into space. He has been waiting for nearly 25 years. He was called a “hidden     33     (英雄)”. This is his first time ever in space. Everyone     34     (期待) it for a long time!.
       As a hard-working student, Deng     35     (参加，加入) the PLA Air Force in 1984 and started training. After finishing school in November 1987, the school sent him to Jilin for more training. In January 1998, Deng was chosen as one of the first group of Chinese     36     (宇航员), together with Yang Liwei. In the following years, Deng spent almost all of his time     37     (战斗) for a chance to fly into space. But he has always been away from good luck.
       In many people’s eyes, it’s     38     (不可能) for him to go into space anymore, but Deng never thought of giving up. “ For me, I will never let myself     39     (错过) the chance when the task comes by, so I will spend my whole life preparing silently, ” said Deng in the     40     (新闻). We’ re all glad his     41     (梦想) finally has come true. And we believe he won’t let us down.

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Everyone needs sleep. Sleep plays     42     important part in people’s daily life.

           43     (get) a good night’s sleep is good for your health. But do you know     44     sleep is so important? In fact, sleep is made up of different     45     (moment). In the first few moments, your mind stops thinking back about what has happened     46     day to night. Also, your mind stops worrying about what is going around. When you fall more deeply asleep, your body begins to relax. You     47     (come) to the last moment called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) in several minutes. At this time, you will sleep deeply     48     (important) part of all these moments when you are asleep. It helps keep you active during the day.
       So,     49     you don’t get enough sleep, you may feel awful the next day and not want to eat anything.     50     (you) body may have a hard time protecting itself from illnesses. As time goes by, you may fall ill and become weak     51     (easy).
       Sleep is very important, so make sure you’re getting enough of it!

The Simpsons

           53     It is the longest-running American television series, with 34 seasons and more than 700 episodes, created by animator Matt Groening in 1987. In the Simpsons family, stay-at-home mom Marge, troublemaker son Bart, and baby Maggie. The Simpsons has been a hit over the years since it started in 1989. People around the world like it.     54     . Even if someone has never seen The Simpsons, they probably know “D’oh!” or“okily dokily do. ”
           55     While it is known mainly for its humor, it has also managed to work heartwarming moments into many stories. The first episode of the series “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”shows how Homer tries hard to provide a good Christmas for his family. He chooses not to tell his wife about not receiving a bonus, looking for low-cost gifts that each family member might like. To earn more money, Homer takes a job as Father Christmas at the mall. His son can’t help but is grateful for what he is doing. The episode nearly won two Emmy Awards, because it is not only funny but touching as well. The touching stories always warm people’s hearts.
     When does The Simpsons come to an end? It is 34 seasons in and it shows no signs of slowing down. “I mentioned that there might be an ending where the last episode, the Simpsons would go back to the first episode, so that the whole series was a continuous loop. “The good thing is that the show runner Mr. Al Jean does not foresee this stress to end the show in the near future.     56    . But no matter when that day eventually comes, the series will undoubtedly live forever with its presence on streaming.
将方框中的句子填入文章空白处。其中有一个为多余选项。
A. How exactly the show will go on is still to be seen.
B. Why does The Simpsons win the hearts of people?
C. However, there are many different voices about it.
D. The Simpsons is a world-famous American cartoon.
E. Especially the language in the show becomes very popular.
符合“Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”剧情的配图为    57    
A. B. C.
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     Hello, everyone, I’d like to share my favourite cartoon today. It’s called The Simpsons. After it was shown on TV, it soon became a     58    . People of all ages liked it at that time. It shows us the life in a     59     family. Most people like this cartoon not only because of its     60     but also the     61     moments. Till now, it’s still popular. Although it has already had more than 700 episodes, nobody knows when it will     62    . Let’s wait and see!