"What !" said Tom. "I had guessed they were worth at least five dollars."
"No," said the man, "they aren't worth a cent more than two dollars."
"Well," said Tom, taking two dollars out of his pocket. "Here's your money. These trousers were hanging outside your shop. The list price (标价)of them was six dollars and a half. But I thought that was too much money, so I wanted to find out how much they were really worth."
Then he walked out of the shop with the pair of trousers and disappeared before the shop owner could think of anything to say .
1. At first the owner of the shop thought that Tom __________ .
| A．wanted to steal the trousers |
| B．wanted to sell the trousers |
| C．wanted to fool him |
| D．wanted to buy the trousers |
| A．would give Tom two dollars |
| B．would pay three dollars |
| C．would pay five dollars |
| D．would give Tom six dollars and a half |
| A．he wanted to sell them cheaply (廉价地) |
| B．he wanted to buy them cheaply |
| C．he didn't like the trousers |
| D．they were old and dirty |
| A．were hanging inside the shop |
| B．were stolen by Tom from the shop |
| C．had been the shop owner's |
| D．had been Tom's |
| A．the owner sold the trousers two dollars |
| B．Tom sold the trousers one dollar and a half |
| C．the owner bought the trousers three dollars |
| D．Tom bought the trousers four dollars and a half |
Scientists have found out that the radiation（辐射） is the greatest danger to spacemen in space. When spacemen are working in space, they are in danger of the radiation from the sun and other stars, which is bad for their health. The harm of the radiation won’t be found until their children even grandchildren are born. Some special medicine may work a little, but no really effective medicine has been found so far.
Space rubbish is also thought to be a great danger to spacemen. It’s reported that there were 9,000 man-made things flying in space. About 30% of these are satellites, 10% are spaceships, and the rest are space rubbish. An explosion（爆炸）in space in 1999 made a cloud of 300,000 fragments, each at least 4mm in size. A small piece of these even knocked a spaceship window and caused some damage（损坏）.
Scientists are watching and reporting any possible danger all the time. They are working to deal with space rubbish. Although space is really dangerous, it interests many people on the earth. In the near future, it may become possible for people to spend a few days in a space hotel. We may even choose to leave the earth and live in space in a few years. So we should do something to help improve the space environment.
1. ______ shows the man-made things in space in the correct way.
| A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．good | B．helpful | C．useful | D．harmful |
| A．碎片 | B．泡沫 | C．烟雾 | D．飞碟 |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．Scientists have found out ways to solve any problem in space. |
| B．Every one of us can have a travel to space in ten years. |
| C．The harm of the radiation may be found in the spacemen’s children. |
| D．Space is really dangerous, so it doesn’t interest anyone on the earth. |
Only a few years ago, mobile phones were very large. They needed large batteries. They had to be powerful to send their signal to faraway places. This was because most cities had only one antenna tower(中继站) for mobile phones.
Today’s mobile phones are small and easy to use. Now most cities have a lot of antenna towers, not just one. This means that each mobile phone doesn’t have to send its signal far away, so they don’t need to be so powerful. Mobile phones today use small batteries. A large city, where lots of mobile phones are used, can have hundreds of towers.
We can use a mobile phone to do a lot of things, like calling your friends and family from almost anywhere, calling the police immediately if there is an accident, sending or receiving messages. Some modern mobile phones can be even used to play games, take photos, listen to music, watch TV, surf on the Internet and so on.
Sending short written messages is a popular way to use your mobile phone. Many people use short forms of words, so the messages are quick to write and read. Can you guess what these messages mean? RUOK? CUL8r! That’s EZ! That’s Gr8! Can I C U B4 3pm 2moro? Try to read them out. What do you hear?
1. By present we can’t _______with a mobile phone.| A．call our friends | B．surf on the Internet |
| C．do housework | D．play games |
3. What does the writer think of today’s mobile phones?
| A．They are small but very powerful. |
| B．They are very easy for us to use. |
| C．They are very useful but expensive. |
| D．They are big enough to send a signal. |
5. What is the article written for?
| A．To give us some common knowledge of the mobile phone. |
| B．To introduce what use the mobile phone has. |
| C．To tell us what short forms of words mean in written messages. |
| D．To show us in what way the mobile phone is expected to develop. |
4 . Have you ever been ill? When you are ill，you must be unhappy because your body becomes hot，and there are pains all over your body. You don't want to work，you stay in bed，feeling very sad.
What makes us ill? It is germs(细菌). Germs are everywhere. They are very small and you can't find them with your eyes，but you can see them with a microscope. They are very small and there could be hundreds of them on a very small thing. Germs are always found in dirty water. When we look at dirty water under the microscope，we shall see them in it. So your father and mother will not let you drink dirty water.
Germs aren't found only in water. They are found in air and dust. If you cut your finger，if some of the dust from the floor goes into the cut(伤口)，some of the germs would go into your finger. Your finger would become big and red，and you will have much pain in it. Sometimes the germs would go into all of your body，and you would have pain everywhere.
1. Which of the following is TRUE?| A．If things are very small，they are germs. | B．If things can't be seen，they must be germs. |
| C．Germs are only in dirty water. | D．Germs are everywhere around us. |
| A．Making very small things look much bigger. | B．Making very big things look much smaller. |
| C．Helping you read some newspapers. | D．Helping you if you can't see things clearly. |
| A．You haven't looked at it carefully. | B．Water can't be drunk in this way. |
| C．There must be lots of germs in it. | D．Water will make you ill. |
| A．Germs can be found both in water and in the air. |
| B．Germs can go into your finger if it is cut. |
| C．If your temperature is not OK，there must be germs in your body. |
| D．If your finger isn't cut，there aren't any germs on it. |
| A．Germs may make us ill. | B．Germs are in dirty water. |
| C．Don't drink dirty water. | D．Take care of your fingers. |
Peter is a sixth-grader at Woodland Primary School. He is only 12 years old but has been smoking for three years. John, 15, is a Junior 2 student at Woodland Secondary School. He began smoking four years ago. “Smoking is part of my life,” John said. Peter and John are not those boys’ real names. But their problem, smoking, is a very real problem. In many countries, smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people. Most smokers start in their teens or earlier.
A study of 8,000 London students shows that smoking is a problem for many British kids. More than 21% of middle school students and 6 % of primary school pupils said they smoked. “If young people start smoking early, it will be very hard for them to give up later on,” said a professor.
Every year, about four million people die because of smoking. And if people keep smoking, that number will go up to about ten million a year by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. So we have to learn and tell others about the dangers of smoking.
1. The sentence “Smoking is part of my life” probably means “__________”
| A．I don’t smoke very often. |
| B．Smoking is very important to me. |
| C．I don’t smoke at all. |
| D．I’m going to give up smoking. |
| A．He will surely die early. |
| B．He cannot stop smoking. |
| C．It will be difficult for him to give up smoking. |
| D．He will become lazy soon. |
| A．smoking is a serious problem among British students |
| B．there are more and more smokers in England |
| C．some student smokers are having fun smoking |
| D．most of smokers are young students |
| A．smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people |
| B．more and more people die because of smoking every year |
| C．WHO asks young people to give up smoking |
| D．we needn’t worry about the student smokers |
| A．We should start smoking after middle school. |
| B．We should ask others to smoke outside. |
| C．We should laugh at smokers. |
| D．We should say no to smoking. |
