1 . Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high school. He loved his computer. He came home early every day, then he worked with it till midnight. But Johnny was not a good English student, not good at all. He got an F in his English class. One day after school Johnny joined his computer to the computer in his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students: the math grades, the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and the grades in English. He found his English grade. An F! Johnny changed his English grade from an F to A. Johnny' parents looked at his report card. They were very happy. "An A in English!" said Johnny's Dad. "You're a very clever boy, Johnny."

Johnny is a hacker. Hackers know how to take informationfrom other computers and put new information in. Using a modem, they join their computers to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank computer accountand put it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called hackers.

1. Johnny changed his English grade with the computer in _______.

A．the classroom	B．the school office
C．a bank near his house	D．his own house

2. When Johnny's parents saw the report, they were happy because _______.

A．Johnny was good at math	B．Johnny loved computers
C．Johnny could join one computer to another	D．they thought Johnny was not poor in English any longer

3. Who are worried about hackers in the story?

A．Johnny's parents	B．School headmasters, teachers and the police.
C．The police.	D．School headmasters and teachers.

4. What should the hackers know well, do you think, after you read this story?

A．Information	B．Back computer accounts
C．Computers.	D．Grades.

5. The last paragraph is about _______.

A．Johnny	B．computers
C．hackers	D．moden

2 . 阅读下而短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I’m Yuan Longping. Look at my sunburnt face and arms and my slim strong body and you will think I’m     1     like a farmer than a scientist. In fact I     2    (struggle) for the past five decades to help     3    (farmer). In 1974, I began to grow a so-called super hybrid rice. This special strain of rice makes     4     possible to produce one-third more of the crop in the same fields.

I was born into a poor farmer’s family in 1931. When I was young, I saw many people go hungry often. So I have devoted myself to     5    (find) ways to increasing rice harvest without expanding the area of fields since I graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953. Now more than 60% of the rice     6    (produce) in China each year is from this hybrid strain. I am circulating this knowledge in India, Vietnam and other less developed countries to increase their harvest. Perhaps you think I am rich.     7    (actual) I live a simple life. I care little for money. In my opinion, a person with too much money will have more troubles. I don’t want to be famous     8     I prefer to have more time to do my research. In my free time I love listening to music, playing mah-jong and reading. I once had a dream, in     9     I saw rice plants as tall as sorghum and each ear of rice was as big as an ear of corn and each grain of rice was as huge as a peanut. Now I have another dream-to export my rice so that it can     10    (grow) all over the world.

3 . Animals can move from place to place, but plants cannot. When an animal is under attack, it can run away or fight back. Plants certainly cannot run away, and they lack teeth and claws. But plants can defend themselves by using both physical and chemical means.

Some plants have their own ways to keep animals away. For example, the leaves of the holly plant have sharp spines (刺) that discourage grass-eating animals. Holly leaves on lower branches have more spines than leaves on upper branches. This is because the lower leaves are easier for most animals to reach.

Some plants, such as the oak tree, have thick and hard leaves that are difficult for animals to eat. Some grasses may contain a sandy material; eating such grasses wears down the animal's teeth.

Many plants also have chemical defenses. Some plants produce chemicals that taste bitter or cause an unpleasant reaction. Some plants may fight against an attack by increasing the production of these chemicals. When a caterpillar (毛虫) bites a tobacco leaf, the leaf produces a chemical messenger. This messenger sends to the roots the information to produce more nicotine. The higher levels of nicotine discourage the caterpillar.

Many plants depend on both physical and chemical defenses. A certain plant in China, for instance, has prickly (多刺的) leaves, and each prickle contains poisonous venom (毒液). A single experience with this kind of plant will teach an animal to stay away from it in the future.

1. The holly plant has more spines on the lower leaves because most animals________.

A．are not tall enough	B．like the lower leaves only
C．are not clever enough	D．can get the lower leaves easily

2. To defend themselves, oak trees use________.

A．chemical means	B．physical means
C．bitter chemicals	D．sandy materials

3. How does tobacco protect itself against an attack from a caterpillar?

A．Its leaves fight against the attack by physical means.

B．Its roots send a messenger to discourage the caterpillar.

C．Its roots increase the production of nicotine when it is attacked.

D．Its leaves produce poisonous sand to drive the caterpillar away.

4. What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Plants and Animals	B．How Plants Defend Themselves
C．Attacks and Defenses	D．How Animals Eat Plant Leaves

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You love your parents like no one else, and you want to give them something special for Christmas. But what would make their holiday bright? Finding them the perfect Christmas gift will be easy this year, with all our top picks in one place.

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The Secret Santa Exchange (交换)

The Secret Santa is a great way to exchange gifts in the office, when it's often impossible to give everyone a present. We've got an office guide right here to help you find proper gifts for the workplace. And then there's always the gift basket, with things that are sure to please everyone in the office.

Business Gifts Under $25

1. What makes Gifts.com popular?

A．Its special gift ideas.

B．Its endless new gifts.

C．It is organized according to personal taste.

D．It gives people a good reason to celebrate.

2. What's special about this year's “Christmas Gifts for Parents”?

A．They are much cheaper.

B．They make a holiday brighter.

C．They list popular gifts in one place.

D．They include top choices from parents.

3. Both “Holiday Gift Baskets” and “The Secret Santa Exchange” _____.

A．provide gift baskets

B．sell gifts from top stores online

C．have a guide to help people choose gifts

D．are designed for people working in offices

4. You may find it most difficult to choose a gift for _____.

A．a parent	B．a teenager
C．a group	D．a businessman

5 . Do you know sand has been used to draw pictures since ancient times? Today, sandpainting, an interesting art, will be produced to you.

       Sandpainting is an art of using the sand to make a fixed or unfixed painting. Maybe we all played fixed sandpainting as we were young. We first painted a simple picture, then we brushed glue(胶水)to the section, and at last we poured colored sand onto the glue in order to make it fixed.

Unfixed sandpaintings have a long cultural history around the world. People poured sand on a surface to make paintings or use some tools to draw pictures in the sand directly. They are often temporary(临时的). Different people draw sandpaintings to express different meanings: love of nature, admiration for God or love of beauty.

Nowadays, sandpainting becomes a performance art and its popularity has risen. On the stages, sandpainting performers make a series of images(图像)by drawing lines and figures in the sand with their fingers and hands. The series of images are used to tell a story.

Kseniya Simonova, who is from Ukraine, is one of the greatest sandpainting performers in the world. People call her “The Lady of the Sand”.

Simonova said that she never dreamed she’d become a sand artist, and when she began practicing, she nearly gave it up. But she persevered, caring for a household and her baby by day and training every night. You Are Always Nearby is one of the most famous performances of Simonoova. It is a story about a young couple separated by a war in which the solider is tragically killed, but returns in spirit to watch over his wife and child. This performance makes all audience cry.

Art is everywhere and is not far away from common people. Art of painting is in our life, even in the sand.

1. Which of the following is necessary to make a fixed sandpainting?

A．Glue	B．A printed picture
C．Colored paper	D．Water

2. What do we know about Simonva?

A．She is the best painter in the world

B．Being a sand artist is her biggest dream

C．She once gave up performing for her family

D．Her performances are popular with people

3. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A．How sandpainting is becoming popular

B．Why sandpainting is becoming popular

C．How an image is created in the sand

D．What sandpainting tries to express

4. The underlined word “persevered” can be replaced by _______.

A．set off	B．gave out
C．held on	D．ended up

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7 . What’s a spacewalk? Any time an astronaut gets out of a spacecraft while in space, it is called a spacewalk. Astronauts go on spacewalks for many reasons. For example, experiments can be placed on the outside of a spacecraft. This lets scientists learn how being in space affects different things. By going on spacewalks, astronauts can also fix certain things instead of bringing them back to the earth to fix.

When astronauts go on spacewalks, they wear spacesuits to keep themselves safe. Inside spacesuits, astronauts have the oxygen they need to breathe and the water they need to drink. To keep the astronauts and the spacecraft safe, the astronauts must leave and go back to the spacecraft through a special door. When on a spacewalk, astronauts use safety tethers to stay close to their spacecraft, which connect the spacewalkers with the spacecraft. They keep astronauts from floating away into space. Another way astronauts stay safe during spacewalks is by wearing a SAFER. SAFER is worn like a backpack. It helps an astronaut move around in space.

How do astronauts train for spacewalks? One way is by going for a swim. Floating in space is a lot like floating in water. Astronauts practice spacewalks underwater in a huge special swimming pool. For every one hour they will spend on a spacewalk, astronauts need to train seven hours in the pool. Another way astronauts practice for a spacewalk is by using virtual reality(虚拟视镜). It looks and feels just like a spacewalk.

Today, only three countries have finished spacewalks independently. They are Russia, the United States and China. The first person to go on a spacewalk in the world was Alexei Leonov from Russia. Zhai Zhigang is the first Chinese astronaut to go on a spacewalk. The world record of spacewalks is held by Russian astronaut Anatoly Solovyev. He has been on 16 spacewalks and spent more than 82 hours outside in space.

1. What can an astronaut do by going on a spacewalk?

A．Fix different objects.	B．Collect any things he wants.
C．Carry out an experiment.	D．Study how things changes in space.

2. What does the underlined word “tethers” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Special ropes.	B．Spacesuits.
C．Spacecraft.	D．Special backpacks.

3. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A．Walking in space is as easy as going swimming.	B．A virtual reality should be used in a spacewalk.
C．Only three countries have ever tried spacewalks.	D．Russia keeps the world record of spacewalks.

4. Where is this passage most likely from?

A．A diary.

B．A magazine.

C．A novel.

D．A guidebook.

8 . I take the train to work every morning from a train station near my house. I can get to the station quite __________ because there is a shortcut(捷径) to the station. But in the summer, it can get quite smelly because of all the __________．So I always try to __________ through it.Today I was trying to do so as usual __________ something made me stop for a moment.I saw the most beautiful __________ by an old woman walking in front of me with the help of a white __________．

She was short and __________ and had white hair. She was walking __________ as each step took some effort. I hadn’t specially noticed her __________ , until she stopped near a rubbish bin.

She slowly placed her walking stick __________ the rubbish bin.Then she leaned(倚靠) on it with her right hand. She bent down and __________ the rubbish. She clearly found it __________ and it took her a while. She __________ some rubbish with her left hand and slowly straightened(挺直) herself up again. All the while she used the rubbish bin to __________ herself. She threw the rubbish inside the bin and then __________ walking. It all took her great effort.

There’s so much rubbish and no one ever does __________ about it. I was moved to __________ this old woman make such a great effort to keep even a small part of it __________ ! I haven’t been able to __________ thinking about that all day.

I want to follow her example. I’ve decided to pick up rubbish off the __________ if I see it from now on. I hope people will do the same as I do.

1.

A．hard

B．early

C．easily

D．late

2.

A．rubbish

B．boxes

C．bottles

D．paper

3.

A．walk

B．pass

C．go

D．rush

4.

A．so

B．until

C．when

D．because

5.

A．back

B．act

C．mark

D．colour

6.

A．bike

B．stick

C．dog

D．umbrella

7.

A．weak

B．rich

C．clever

D．sad

8.

A．quickly

B．happily

C．angrily

D．slowly

9.

A．at midnight

B．at noon

C．at last

D．at first

10.

A．in

B．around

C．against

D．under

11.

A．searched for

B．threw away

C．reached for

D．looked at

12.

A．unable

B．difficult

C．different

D．impossible

13.

A．picked up

B．dropped down

C．put in

D．lifted up

14.

A．warm

B．enjoy

C．support

D．hide

15.

A．continued

B．started

C．enjoyed

D．remembered

16.

A．something

B．anything

C．everything

D．nothing

17.

A．feel

B．see

C．have

D．let

18.

A．busy

B．beautiful

C．dirty

D．clean

19.

A．keep

B．stop

C．mind

D．regret

20.

A．wall

B．desk

C．ground

D．classroom

9 . Have you ever cleaned and organized your increasingly high-tech households, your hard drive, phone or tablet? It’s not just stuff. Your privacy needs a cleanup too.     1    

1. Clean up your browsers（浏览器）

Cookies are blocking everything up and keeping your computer from running fluidly. A free program called CCleaner helps you sort out the cookies and archives（存档）you don’t really need.     2    . CCleaner analyses its backlog of information and lists the data that seems unnecessary.

2. Speed up your smartphone

Most of us already know about e desktops, but what about smartphones? Our phones are essentially handheld computers, and when they overflow with useless information, their operations can also slow down. These aren’t necessarily apps, but overburdened call logs, search history, and saved texts.

For Android users, there’s 1Tap Cleaner, an app that earns its name.     3     Most of us are surprised by how many updated messages and URLs get archived, a data stream that we will probably never refer to again. Then again, you do want to make sure irreplaceable bits (landmark texts, unsaved photos) survive the deep clean.

3.     4    

Digital photos are easy to shoot, upload and copy, which is handy in almost every respect, especially if you grew up lugging rolls of film to the one-hour photo lab. The downside is that you may end up with multiple copies of the same picture. If you’re shooting with a decent camera, each shot could take 10MG or more of space. This volume adds up.

    5     This is the premise behind Duplicate Photo Fixer, which is designed to filter through your photo collection in search of double takes.

A．Make your photos shine.

B．The app gathers that data in one place, letting you decide what to keep.

C．This aim of this app is to clean your smartphones.

D．Remove redundant images.

E．When you download the app, you can focus on a specific browsers that you would like to clean up.

F．Here are three tools that can help you organize your virtual (and real) environments.

G．The trick is to safely delete redundant photos without losing the original image.

10 . My Grandpa has arthritis (关节炎), and it’s getting harder and harder for him to do certain things.

When I was a little girl, my grandpa would play this game with me. He would tell me to hold out my hand, and in it he would place a shiny silver quarter. Wow, I thought I had the world sitting in my hand. He would tell me that if I could keep it away from him, I could have it. I knew that I couldn’t keep it away from him, but I would always try. Then he would tell me that if I could get it away from him, then he would give it back to me.

I remember feeling so small compared with him, and I also remember feeling embarrassed because I knew there was no way that I could get that quarter from him. But I tried. I would climb down from my chair, with defeat weighing heavily on my back.

“Bug?” he’d say.

“Ya Grandpa?” I’d reply, trying to sound as sad as possible.

“Here.”

There in his outstretched hand would be my quarter. It always ended the same. He would always hand it over. I always knew that I would have to wait until the game was over to get my quarter, because he had so much pride and self-worth that he couldn’t lose to a 4-year-old girl. After I grew up, when we played the game again, I never wanted to defeat him. I just wanted to be with him. I loved to hear him tell me what I did wrong, and how to get it right the next time, and I loved the pride in his voice.

1. In which order did the following things happen during the game?
a. Grandpa placed a shining silver quarter in my hand.
b. Grandpa told me if I could get it away from him, I could keep it.
c. He gave the quarter over to me and I got it.
d. Grandpa told me if I could keep it away from him, I could keep it.

A．a d b c	B．a b c d
C．a b d c	D．a c d b

2. This passage is mainly about _______.

A．the writer’s grandpa’s serious arthritis

B．the writer’s deep feeling for her Grandpa

C．games between the grandpa and the writer

D．grandpa’s success in all games

3. Why didn’t the writer want to defeat her grandpa?

A．She couldn’t defeat her grandpa.

B．She liked to see his pride.

C．She didn’t want to shame her grandpa.

D．She was afraid that Grandpa wouldn’t play with her.