阅读下面短文，从短文前的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一个为多余选项。

A. and　B. his　C. push　D. When　E. with   F. to　G. smiling

Eddie was filled with excitement. The mountain bike race was about to start. The waiting crowd shouted with encouragement, and Eddie’s dad was     1     proudly.

The starter’s gun went off and Eddie got away quickly. The road was bumpy (起伏不平), but Eddie was ready for these challenges.     2     he went around a corner, he realized that his friend Riley was the only rider in front of him.

Putting in more effort, Eddie caught up with Riley     3     then suddenly he was in the lead. The crowd began     4     cheer and Eddie heard his father’s voice supporting him.

Moments later, Eddie looked around and saw Riley lying on the road with his bike on top of him. Eddie jumped off     5     bike and ran to Riley. The boys quickly moved Riley’s bike off the road.

The other riders sped past to the finish line. Slowly, Eddie tried his best to do what he could do to     6     his bike to the finish line.

Then, to his surprise, Eddie heard a sound and looked over at the crowd to see them cheering for him. And there was his dad, with the proudest smile of all.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Once upon a time, many feelings lived on an island, including Happiness, Sadness and Love. One day the _____ were told that the island would sink, so they all made boats and left _____ Love. Love was the only one who stayed. When the island had almost disappeared into the water, Love decided to _____ for help.

Richness in a big boat was passing by Love. Love asked, “Richness, can you ______ me with you?” Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is no ______ here for you.” 

Love decided to ask Sadness. “Sadness, please help me!” “I can’t help you, Love. I am so ______ that I need to be by myself!” Sadness answered.

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not hear when Love called her.

Suddenly, there was a(n) ______, “Come, Love. I will take you.” It was an old man. Love was happy and ______ forgot to ask where they were going. When they arrived at a ______ place, the man walked away. Love asked Knowledge, “Who helped me?” 

“It was Time.” Knowledge answered.

“Time?” asked Love, “But why did Time help me?”

Knowledge smiled and answered, “Because only Time can ______ how valuable Love is.”

7.

A．feelings

B．tourists

C．passengers

8.

A．with

B．except

C．behind

9.

A．ask

B．pay

C．prepare

10.

A．drive

B．invite

C．take

11.

A．money

B．room

C．food

12.

A．glad

B．busy

C．sad

13.

A．voice

B．boat

C．island

14.

A．yet

B．even

C．still

15.

A．comfortable

B．quiet

C．safe

16.

A．understand

B．describe

C．imagine

On April Fool’s Day, it’s always fun to get someone a surprise with hoaxes. Here are two interesting hoaxes for you to enjoy.

Story 1: The Left-handed Whopper 1998: Burger King published (发布) a full page advertisement in a newspaper. They announced they had invented a new kind of hamburger, a Left-handed Whopper. The hamburgers were specially designed for the thirty-two million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new hamburgers included the same ingredients (成分) as the common hamburgers, but all the Left-handed Whoppers were rotated (旋转) 180 degrees to suit left-handed customers. Though the following day Burger King announced that the Left-handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to order the new hamburgers.

Story 2: Instant Color TV 1962: In 1962 there was only one TV channel in Sweden, and it played in black and white. The TV station’s technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a new skill, people could change their black and white TV sets into color reception (接收). All they had to do was hanging a nylon sock over their TV screens. Stensson was so convinced that thousands of people were taken in. But when they put the socks over the screens, the TV programs were still played in black and white.

17. The first hoax happened in 　　　.

A．

B．

C．

18. In 1998, there were 　　　 in America.

A．32 million disabled people

B．32 million left-handed people

C．180 million disabled people

19. There was only one 　　　 in Sweden in 1962.

A．TV channel

B．TV program

C．TV set

20. The underlined phrase “were taken in” means “　　　”.

A．believed the hoax

B．were brought

C．forgot the story

When Juliet was a child, she often went to the city park and played with her friends. On a sunny morning, when Juliet came to the park with her mom, she looked around and felt very unhappy.

“What’s the matter, dear? What’s wrong with you?” asked her mom.

Juliet replied, “Mom, how beautiful and clean it used to be! But now there’s so much trash on the ground.”

Juliet’s mom looked around. There were scraps (碎片) of paper, boxes, glass bottles and a lot of other trash everywhere.

“What can we do?” asked Juliet sadly.

“I’m sure you will think of something,” said her mom.

As soon as Juliet and her mom went home, Juliet painted a picture of the park and wrote a sign in large black letters at the top of the picture. The sign read “PLEASE KEEP OUR PARK CLEAN”. Later, she took plenty of bags and went back to the park with her mom. Juliet put up her picture on a big trash can (垃圾桶).

“Will you help me pick up the trash, mom?” Juliet said as she handed her mom a bag.

“I surely will,” replied her mom smilingly.

The children at the park ran over to see what was going on. Juliet handed them each a bag. “Let’s clean this place up,” said Juliet. Then they began to pick up the trash, talking and laughing. Soon all the bags were full.

“We need to come back another day. There’s still some trash on the ground, but the park looks much better,” said Juliet.

Her mom said, “So it does. I knew you would think of a way to help.”

21. Why was Juliet sad?

A．Because the weather was bad.

B．Because she couldn’t find her mom.

C．Because there was too much trash at the park.

22. Juliet drew the picture to 　　　.

A．show off her painting skills

B．give her mom a big surprise

C．encourage people to keep the park clean

23. What can we learn about Juliet’s mom from the underlined sentence?

A．She was proud of Juliet.

B．She was angry with Juliet.

C．She thought Juliet was lazy.

24. Which of the following is TRUE about the children at the park?

A．They bought some bags from Juliet.

B．They had an awful and tiring day.

C．They joined Juliet in picking up the trash.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余选项。

Sleep plays an important role in brain (大脑) development. Children should get enough sleep.

    29     A study says that because of being short of sleep, it is much harder for children to do something carefully. And also they become forgetful and easy to make mistakes. Another study shows that the right amount of night-time sleep is just as important for children’s development as healthy eating and taking exercise.

    30     In general, a younger child needs more sleep than an older one. Children at the age of 5—11 will need 10—12 hours of sleep a night while children at the age of more than 11 will need fewer hours.

In fact, many parents don’t know how to help their children get enough sleep. Here is something you can do. For children at the age of 5—11, a 30—40 minutes’ routine (常规) before sleep is helpful.     31     In the activities, children relax and enjoy themselves a lot, and they will go to sleep more easily.

Children at the age of more than 11 may go to bed late in the evening, talking with friends online, playing games or watching TV.     32     And even they will be tired during the day. So limit (限制) your children’s use of the Internet, games and the TV before they go to bed.     33    

A．If not, many problems will come to them.

B．Why does a child need so much sleep?

C．How many hours of sleep is enough for a child?

D．So they will find it difficult to get up in the next morning.

E．It includes a bath, reading a story together and so on.

F．And don’t allow them to have a computer or TV set in their bedroom.

阅读下面短文，根据其内容填空和回答问题。(1至4题每空不超过3个词，5题回答问题。)

Humans have always been interested in the moon. About 2, 000 years ago, scientists had already known that the moon moves around the earth and where it would be in the sky at different times of the year. In old times, everything about the moon was learned by watching it carefully at night.

When scientists could use telescopes (望远镜) to study the moon more closely, they found the moon was made of rocks. Most scientists thought moon rocks would be different from those on earth. This was because they believed the moon had once been a planet that was caught in the earth’s gravity millions of years ago.

In 1969, moon rocks were finally brought to the earth and studied. Much to their surprise, scientists found that, except for water, the moon and the earth were made of the same things. Once again, new ideas were needed for this new study.

After years of study, most scientists now think that the moon was once part of the earth. They believe very early in its history, maybe 4 million years ago, something that was about the size of Mars hit the earth. This sent billions of rocks into space around our planet. These rocks slowly joined together and after many years became the moon.

Humans’ steps of exploring the moon will never stop. In the future, even though our ideas about the moon may change again, we’ll still show an interest in it.

34. At first, most scientists thought moon rocks were ________ from earth rocks.
35. ________ were finally brought to the earth to study in 1969.
36. Now most scientists think the moon once belonged to ________.
37. People will never stop ________ and they’ll still be interested in it.
38. How did people learn about the moon in ancient times?
________________________________________