Dreams are like short films. They are usually in color. Some dreams are like old films. They come up over and over again. That may be the dreamer worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.
Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.
Too much dreaming can be harmful. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is still at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still tired after waking up.
1. It may be less important to sleep than to _____.
| A．think | B．dream | C．work | D．study |
| A．very long | B．in color |
| C．about work | D．very sad |
| A．Because they are tired in the daytime. |
| B．Because they not interested in their work. |
| C．Because they may be thinking about their work all day. |
| D．Because they are have too much work to do. |
| A．what dream is | B．people like to sleep |
| C．dreams are films | D．we always remember dreams |
| A．Long dreams can make you tired. |
| B．We don't like to dream. |
| C．The mind doesn't work when we dream. |
| D．Too much dreaming can be useful. |
Everyone has his own way of relaxing. Perhaps the most popular form(形式) is to take part in sports. There are team sports, such as basketball and soccer. There are also individual(独立的) sports, such as swimming and running. Skating and mountain climbing are the most popular recreation for people who like to be outdoors.（户外）
Not everyone who enjoys sports likes to take part in them. Many people like watching them on TV or listening to them on the radio. So many people like some forms of indoor recreation, （室内消遣）such as watching TV, singing and dancing.
It doesn’t matter whether we like indoor recreation or take part in outdoor sports. It is important for everyone to relax from time to time, and enjoy some forms of recreation.
1. Which is the most popular form of recreation?
| A．Sports. | B．Watching TV. |
| C．Sleeping. | D．Singing and dancing. |
| A．keep healthy and enjoy life | B．make friends |
| C．find a good job | D．make money |
| A．watching TV |
| B．singing and dancing |
| C．listening to the radio |
| D．skating and mountain climbing |
| A．Because they like sports but don’t like to take part in them. |
| B．Because they don’t enjoy sports. |
| C．Because they don’t enjoy life. |
| D．Because they don’t need recreation. |
| A．basketball is a kind of team sport |
| B．everyone who enjoys sports should take part in them |
| C．different people have different ways of relaxing |
| D．indoor recreation is not as important as outdoor sports |
After several months, the king came to see how the training was going on. He found that one falcon had already been able to fly high in the sky, while the other was staying on the branch(树枝) of a tree quietly, just keeping still.
The king called all his falcons together and ordered them to try every way they could to make the other falcon fly. But none of them succeeded. One day, while the king was taking a walk in the forest, an idea came to his mind. Maybe someone who knew the natural environment well could solve this problem. He spent for a farmer who lived in the forest into his palace to train it at once.
The next morning, the king saw the other falcon flying above in the sky freely. “ it is unbelievable !” shouted the king. How could you make it happen?”
The farmer replied,“It’s very easy. I just cut off the branch where the falcon rested.”
It is always the same to human beings. We all have “two flying wings” in our hearts as well, but we often seem not to notice them and stay where we just for safety and comfort. We won’t realize we can fly so high and freely until the “branch” we are resting on breaks.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What did the king do after he got the two falcons?
| A．He kept them on the branch of a tree. |
| B．He sent them to a farmer in the forest. |
| C．He made the best falconer train them to fly. |
| D．He set them free and let them fly in the sky. |
| A．Because he wanted to get more falcons. |
| B．Because he wanted the other falcon to fly. |
| C．Because he wanted them to see his falcons. |
| D．Because he wanted to know more about his falcons. |
| A．The king. | B．The king’s son. |
| C．The farmer. | D．The best falconer. |
| A．Excited. | B．Moved. |
| C．Worried. | D．Relaxed. |
| A．The Wise King | B．The Nice Falcons |
| C．The Best Falconer | D．The Flying Wings. |
At summer picnic, there is often an informal baseball game. Boys and girls, young and old take turns to bat. There are nine players on each team.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are showed on TV and members(成员) of the important baseball teams become America’s heroes (英雄). At the end of the season, the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go together to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the radio or watch the television. People seem to talk only about the game. Even long after it is over, they still talk about the result and the players.
American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the U. S. A. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball. When there is an important game, thousands of people sit beside radios or in front of television sets to get the result.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. According to the passage, which is NOT true?
| A．Boys and girls like baseball games. |
| B．Baseball is played in the open air. |
| C．A baseball game has nine players. |
| D．Children sometimes play baseball in parks. |
| A．May, June, July, August |
| B．March, May, July, August |
| C．January, June, October, November |
| D．February, May, July, December |
| A．People talk only about football games. |
| B．Many baseball fans become members of top teams. |
| C．A lot of people join in the games. |
| D．Two top teams play a wonderful baseball game against each other. |
| A．A. The baseball season | B．The football season |
| C．A baseball match | D．A football match |
| A．the football season in the USA. |
| B．football is more interesting than baseball in the USA. |
| C．the difference between baseball and football |
| D．the baseball season in the USA. |
5 . Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem:" Every grain on the plate comes from hard work(谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦)." But sadly, many of us don't actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don't waste food.
A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? No, according to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well known for being generous(慷慨的). Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.
Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired(开除)because she took some leftover(剩余的)food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and agreed that it was not right to waste food.
What should we do in our daily life to waste less food? Here are some tips:
◆Do not order too much in a restaurant. Only order what you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
◆Don't be too picky(挑剔的)about food. Some food may not taste great. But your body needs it.
◆Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don't buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. According to News One Plus One, Chinese people .| A．save enough food to feed 200 million people for a year |
| B．throw away lots of food every year |
| C．get enough food to feed millions of people every year |
| D．have to feed 200 million hungry people every year |
| A．we have too much food to feed people in the world |
| B．there were 925 million people in developing countries |
| C．because of hunger, six million children die every year |
| D．there are only a few people getting hungry every year |
| A．all Chinese people are generous |
| B．Chinese people always waste food |
| C．Li Hong got fired because she wasted food |
| D．everyone should get into the habit of saving food |
| A．When we order too much food in a restaurant, just take the leftover food home. |
| B．Eat more food that doesn't taste great. |
| C．We should not buy vegetables and fruit. |
| D．We should keep an eye on the food we like. |
| A．Don't waste food. |
| B．Many people die of hunger. |
| C．Don't be picky about food. |
| D．Eat all the food you order. |
6 . When the Audet family turns on the lights at Blue Farm, they are using electricity that comes from cows — cow manure (粪肥), to be specific.
Cows produce a lot of wastes. One cow can create 30 gallons of wastes each day. Now imagine the output of over 1,000 cows at Blue Farm. That’s really a big amount.
When farmers clean their barns, they put the wastes in a big heap, and spread some of them on their fields for fertilizer(肥料). But now places like Blue Spruce Farm have a new way of using cow wastes. They use them to produce electricity.
Here’s how it works: A big machine moves back and forth cleaning the barn floor. “The cows aren’t bothered,” says Marie Audet. “They are animals of habit; they get used to it, and just lift one foot and then another to let it go by.”
The machine pushes the manure into a big 600-gallon tank like a small swimming pool. The tank is called a digester (化粪池) because what happens there is just like what happens inside a cow: Bacteria(细菌) get to work and continue to digest the manure.
Methane gas (甲烷、沼气)in the atmosphere is known as a “greenhouse” gas because it keeps heat just like a greenhouse does, causing our planet to warm up. That’s an environmental concern. But the digester has a good result. Its gas is kept and used to power electric generators (发电机). At Blue Farm, the generators make enough electricity to power 400 homes. The Audet family sells the extra electricity they can’t use themselves.
1. We learn from the text that the Audet family is using cow wastes to ______.| A．make electricity | B．produce fertilizer | C．build their farm | D．feed the cows |
| A．Marie Audet does the work. | B．The job is done by machine. |
| C．The cows lift the cow wastes. | D．Bacteria get to work on them. |
| A．The power of moving water. | B．The heat of burning coal. |
| C．The power of sunlight. | D．The heat of the methane gas. |
| A．reducing | B．saving | C．recycling | D．changing |
| A．To introduce a new way of making electricity. | B．To explain how a new energy works better. |
| C．To show a new rebuilding plan for a big farm. | D．To explain the reasons for green house effect. |
7 . What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage.
Escaping from a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save your life.
It is important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such asstairways and fire escapes, but not lifts.
From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible. Learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury.
The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. An average(平均高度的) person, hanging by the finger - tips will have a drop of about six feet to the ground. It is about the height of an average man. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.
Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed. Or smoke and fire may be drawn into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may leaked(渗) into the room.
On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto cement(水泥) might end in injury. Bushes(灌木丛) and grass can help to break a fall.
1. It is important to ________.| A．put out the fire in the burning house |
| B．know the ways to escape the fire |
| C．jump off a burning house |
| D．keep the door closed |
| A．if there are some bushes on the ground |
| B．if you are strong enough |
| C．if you live on a lower floor |
| D．ff you have a long rope |
| A．You can escape through stairways. |
| B．You can choose fire escapes. |
| C．Escape from the windows that open onto a roof. |
| D．Use a lift to come down at once. |
| A．you can get fresh air |
| B．you can call for help |
| C．you can easily jump off |
| D．you can be seen first |
| A．Escaping from the Windows |
| B．Save Yourself in the Burning House |
| C．Knowledge on Fire |
| D．Waiting for Help |
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources（资源）, we are short of（缺乏） others, for example, fresh water（淡水）. It is reported that we will have no coal（煤） or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources， what can we use in the future and where can we move？Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life，we can do many things to prevent waste from happening， for example， turn off the water taps（水龙头） when we finish washing， turn off the lights when we leave the classroom， try not to order more food than we need， and so on. Little by little， everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day， if we do our best.
1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.
| A．eat too much | B．don’t work hard |
| C．waste things | D．throw rubbish everywhere |
| A．Fresh water | B．Forest. |
| C．Oil. | D．Coal. |
| A．We may still have enough oil. | B．We may still have enough coal. |
| C．We may have a little oil. | D．We may have no coal or oil to use. |
| A．Waste brings problems. | B．Waste can bring no problem. |
| C．China is rich in fresh water. | D．Students never waste things. |
| A．Stop Wasting | B．School life |
| C．Waste in the School | D．Rich Resources in China |
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus, which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.
1. What’s the main idea of the article?
| A．To let us know taking away rubbish is a big job. |
| B．To explain the need for rubbish collection. |
| C．To introduce different ways to treat rubbish. |
| D．To tell us to take useful things out of rubbish. |
| A．a science book | B．a story book |
| C．a history book | D．a tour guide |
| A．吸尘 | B．洗涤 | C．安全 | D．排污 |
| A．to feed people | B．to feed plants |
| C．to build a house | D．for us to eat |
| A．By throwing it away. | B．By putting it in earth. |
| C．By burning it off. | D．By reusing and recycling it. |
10 . I was in line waiting to pay. A little boy in the front was buying some clothes.
I noticed that the little boy was paying mostly with change (零钱). It seemed that he had broken his pig bank (猪形储蓄罐) to do this shopping. However, the cashier told him he was $ 8.00 short after counting his money.
It was clear that the boy had already used all the money. The lady in front of me said, “Well, I could pay half of that.” I told the boy that I could pay the other half. We dug into our handbags. However, both of us only had ten-dollar bills (纸币). Other shoppers began digging into their pockets to find some change. It was amazing and touching as all these strangers seemed to react (反应) with the same mind. All wanted to be of help. Within minutes the cashier said, “I have too much money.” The cashier didn’t need our ten-dollar bills. Then the lady in front of me said, “Wait! I didn’t even get a chance to give anything!”
I smiled at her and said, “You did your share, because it was your idea and you started all this.” The little boy smiled and thanked us. I was left with a good feeling. I saw the love and goodness of others all around me. The woman in front of me smiled and said, “It sure feels good to give, doesn’t it?” I smiled back and said, “Yes!”
1. What is this passage mainly about?| A．Love and goodness. | B．Culture and tradition. |
| C．Friendship and honesty. | D．Communication and understanding. |
| A．$ 8.00. | B．Ten dollars. |
| C．All his money. | D．All his money and another $ 8.00. |
| A．Because the boy had saved some money. |
| B．Because they both didn’t need to give anything. |
| C．Because the cashier didn’t look down on the boy. |
| D．Because all the shoppers around were willing to help the boy. |
| A．令人感动的 | B．令人难过的 |
| C．令人失望的 | D．令人害怕的 |
a. The cashier got enough money for the boy’s clothes.
b. The cashier counted the boy’s money.
c. The shoppers looked for some change in their pockets.
d. The boy went to the line to pay.
| A．b, a, c, d | B．b, c, a, d | C．d, b, c, a | D．c, d, b, a |
