—I like all the dishes ________ the fish. I’m allergic (过敏的) to it.
| A．against | B．besides | C．except | D．with |
3 . Lots of kids have headaches from time to time. Most headaches will go away after you resting or sleeping. When you have headaches, the first thing you should do is asking mom or dad for help. Lie down in a cool and quiet room and close your eyes. Put a cool cloth across your forehead (额头) or eyes. Take some exercise or listen to some music to relax yourself.
You should go to a doctor when a headache is very painful (疼痛的), when a headache doesn’t go away easily, when you can’t see clearly, when headaches happen once a month or more.
A doctor can help you and your parents find out why you’re getting headaches and help you stop them from happening so often. Sometimes exercises or changes (改变) in diet (饮食) or sleeping habits are very helpful. A doctor can also use medicine to control headaches.
If you have a headache, sometimes relaxing is just a good way. Other times, you should go to see a doctor. You, your parents, and your doctor can also do something to help.
1. When you get a headache, the first thing you should do is ________.| A．sleeping | B．taking some exercise |
| C．asking your mom or dad for help | D．listening to some music |
| A．as soon as you feel tired | B．when you can’t see clearly |
| C．when nobody is staying with you | D．when there is no medicine at home |
| A．Playing computer game | B．Lying down and closing your eyes |
| C．Relaxing yourself | D．Putting a cool cloth across your forehead or eyes |
| A．what a headache is | B．different kinds of headaches |
| C．medicine for headaches | D．how to help with the headache |
| A．Parents don’t know how to be away from the headaches. |
| B．Kids should always ask the doctors to help with their headaches. |
| C．Most headaches will go away after you resting or sleeping. |
| D．Kids needn’t go to a doctor when headaches happen once a month or more. |
4 . The world uses about a thousand million (百万) tons of water a day. Water is a human right and everyone should have their share. Yet more than 700 million people around the world have trouble getting clean, safe water.
Treating wastewater is a good way to provide fresh water for us. And it also helps the environment by keeping waste out of rivers and oceans. 80% of wastewater around the world is not treated at all, and it is running into oceans. But now we have got the technology to treat and reuse the wastewater.
While 75% of our planet is covered with water, only about 2% is fresh water—that comes from rivers, lakes, ice and snow. The rest, 98% of the water, is in seas and oceans. It is too salty to drink. Then desalination businesses come in. More than 19,000 factories have been built around the world, mostly in coastal countries. They process (加工) more than 92 million tons of water every day. But the technology they use requires a lot of energy.
Scientists are working to create a less costly technology. They want to produce 20 times more clean water and make sure everyone has enough. But for now, the world still faces each day with not having enough water for everyone.
1. How many people have trouble in getting clean water around the world?| A．Under 10 million. |
| B．Only 19 million. |
| C．About 92 million. |
| D．Over 700 million. |
| A．storing waste in ice and snow | B．letting waste run into oceans |
| C．keeping waste out of rivers and oceans | D．sending waste to coastal countries |
| A．needs much energy | B．saves much money |
| C．satisfies everyone | D．causes pollution |
| A．Water should be a human right. | B．The water problem is still serious. |
| C．Our planet is covered with water. | D．Everyone has enough clean water. |
| A．invitations | B．interviews | C．instructions | D．instruments |
6 . As young students, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. They can also be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in you class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream come true?
Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams real is life’s biggest challenge. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of ideas stop you from realizing your dreams.
In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want every day and your dream will come true faster. You should know that a big dream is, in fact, many small dreams.
Also you must never give up your dream. There will be barriers on the way to your dreams. Don’t be afraid of them. They are not that hard. The biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Turn off the TV. Studying will help you get better exam grades. Don’t buy ice-cream. Saving five yuan means you can buy a new book.
As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn something more useful and find new hobbies.
1. According to the writer, what may stop you from realizing your dream?| A．Failing your exam. | B．Having many challenges. |
| C．Not being the best. | D．Not believing in yourself. |
| A．Dreams. | B．Subjects. | C．Difficulties. | D．Chances. |
| A．yourself | B．your friends | C．your parents | D．your school |
| A．You should never give up your dream. |
| B．It is not easy to make your dream real. |
| C．You may think you can’t do well in something. |
| D．Having some hobbies can help make your dream come true. |
| A．How to Become a Writer |
| B．How to Realize Your Dream |
| C．Young Students Have Many Dreams |
| D．Small Dreams Make a Big Dream |
7 . Athletics VS. Gardening
The students of Southside School were asked to give their opinions about whether the school should run an athletic (体育运动的) program or start a vegetable garden.
An athletic program is much better than gardening. How will we win the Inter-School Athletics without training? At the moment, we only do athletics for one term and the teachers train us. We need experts (专家) to teach us things like throwing and high jump. Kids should get enough exercise when they are growing up. Gardening can’t make a kid get much exercise. However, an athletic program can make it. Athletics is much better for health and lots of kids can try at the same time. I don’t think there would be enough jobs for everyone in a garden. In fact, I think a garden is a really bad idea. I don’t know why we’re even considering it. Liz, Grade 8 |
I think a vegetable garden is a great idea. We already do hours of sport, including athletics. And not everyone likes sport. Gardening is a great way to get exercise without worrying about whether you’re good at it, or whether you’re going to win. And you can really get exercise when you garden. There’s digging, weeding (除草) and watering. Even picking things can be hard work. And think about it: what helps you to be good at sport? You need to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. If we learn to cook all the things we grow, the garden will keep us healthy, and then we’ll be better at sport. Sam, Grade 8 |
1. What is one reason Liz gives for saying “garden is a really bad idea”?
| A．Students can’t get exercise at all by gardening. |
| B．Some students don’t enjoy being outside. |
| C．Some students already know how to garden. |
| D．The garden can’t offer enough jobs for everyone. |
| A．Kids should eat vegetables. | B．Kids should take exercise. |
| C．Kids should try to win more. | D．Kids should learn to cook. |
| A．To change the topic. | B．To support Liz’s idea. |
| C．To introduce his next reason. | D．To explain health is important. |
8 . The first robots were invented in the 1920s. Robots have appeared in many American films. In some films, they are stronger, faster and cleverer than people.
In real life, robots are mainly used in factories. They do some dangerous and difficult jobs for humans.
Robots also help disabled people, for example, blind people. Today many blind people have a guide dog to help them. In the future, guide dogs might be robot dogs.
One kind of robot guide dog has wheels. It moves in front of the owner. It is very clever. It knows the speed of its owner’s walk. The owner wears a special belt. This belt sends instructions to the owner from the dog, such as “Stop here”, “Turn left” or “Turn right”.
In the United States, another kind of robot helps disabled people to take care of themselves in their daily life. The robot hears the sound of its owner’s voice. It follows instructions such as “Turn the page” or “Make a cup of coffee”.
Robots are also used in American hospitals. They can do simple jobs. At one hospital, for example, a robot takes meals from the kitchen to patients’ rooms. It never gets lost because this robot has a map of the hospital in its computer memory.
Though robots can help people in many different ways, they will never take the place of humans.
1. From the passage, we know robots cannot be _______.| A．dangerous animals | B．factory workers |
| C．guide dogs | D．hospital helpers |
| A．goes in front of blind people | B．walks side by side with blind people |
| C．has a map in its head | D．helps patients with their meals |
| A．不能的 | B．有害的 | C．失灵的 | D．残疾的 |
| A．take care of themselves | B．talk to other people |
| C．become scientists | D．do dangerous jobs |
9 . Illegal (违法的) driving is really dangerous. It may cause traffic accidents, even deaths. It’s reported that thousands of people die from illegal driving each year. Many countries are trying their best to control it. France, for example, has made some strict rules and laws to stop it.
People are warned not to eat while driving. Any driver who is caught eating while at the wheel will be stopped by the police. Then he will be fined up to £ 50 for it.
Drivers are not allowed to read a map, make a phone call or listen to very loud music while driving. Besides, it is against the rules for the motorists (汽车驾驶员) to use any kind of earphones. Things change easily on the road. Drivers never know what will happen next.
From July 2 on, it will be illegal to smoke when there is a child aged 12 or under in the car. Smoking is also banned (禁止) outdoors at children’s play areas, including those at motorway rest areas. Notices in several languages have been put up at motorway service stations to warn foreign visitors of the rules.
Driving after drinking can put people in danger. All the drivers are asked to carry an alcohol breath equipment test (酒精测试) in their cars. Anyone who breaks the rule will be punished.
1. The underlined words “be fined” here probably mean “_______”.| A．raise money for the police | B．get money as a prize |
| C．make money with the police | D．pay money as a punishment |
| A．By reading the newspaper. | B．By reading the notices. |
| C．By asking the local people. | D．By listening to the radio. |
| A．tell drivers not make a phone call while driving |
| B．discuss the rules against driving after drinking |
| C．introduce the rules and laws against illegal driving |
| D．talk about traffic accidents |
10 . Now more and more people buy and sell things on the Internet. They buy and sell goods to make money. So hackers (黑客) around the world are interested in this.
Hackers are often young people who love computers greatly. They use computers to get on the Internet, looking for ways to go into computer systems run by banks, homes and all kinds of offices. If they go into a computer system, they will find other people’s credit cards and try to steal the numbers. With the numbers they can take the money out of the bank.
Hackers often break into your computer system, but it’s difficult to find them. So it is also difficult for you to find the hacker who is taking your money out of the bank. Hackers can get the money from a bank with the credit card number they have got from your computer.
Scientists always ask people who have computers to pay attention to hackers. They also tell people how to fight the hackers. The answer is to choose a clever password (密码) and change it often and not to show your credit card out to anybody. If you are not careful, it’s just like keeping the bank door wide open.
1. The underlined work “this” refers to _______.| A．helping others on the Internet |
| B．buying and selling things on the Internet |
| C．saving money on the Internet |
| D．giving money to others |
| A．They are often young people. |
| B．They look for ways to go into computer systems. |
| C．They love computers greatly. |
| D．They steal money from others’ computers. |
| A．easy | B．nice | C．hard | D．wrong |
| A．Choosing a clever password. |
| B．Changing the password often. |
| C．Putting your money into the bank. |
| D．Don’t show your credit card out to anybody. |
| A．Be careful to use our credit cards. |
| B．We shouldn’t use computers often. |
| C．Show your credit card out to somebody. |
| D．We must catch the hackers. |
