1 . 听下面一段材料，回答以下小题。
1.

A．People are encouraged to be a craftsman.

B．Learning woodworking is not as hard as you think.

C．Learning woodworking will help you know more people.

D．Taking a class in woodworking will be very helpful.

2.

A．Because I am a talent in this art and want to share it with others.

B．Because I am interested in it and want to show it to others.

C．Because I wonder how to pick materials and how to do it well.

D．Because it’s a good way to know more people interested in it.

3.

A．You can expect to do woodworking perfectly the very first time.

B．Doing woodworking means being alone for long.

C．You can also learn from other people interested in woodworking.

D．Taking a class in woodworking costs a lot of money.

2 .

A．They will go swimming.	B．They will climb mountains.
C．They will buy some clothes.	D．They will forecast the weather conditions.

3 .

A．Bargaining with a salesgirl.	B．Shopping with his girl.
C．Promoting a new product.	D．Choosing a novel for his child.

4 . 18-year-old Kayla Perkins explains what is in her bedroom, “I throw something on the floor and I know right where it is.” However, her parents, Steve and Deborah Perkins, of McKinney,Texas, haven’t caught on. Even Kayla admits that, at the worst, her room is a mess.

Most families at some point have at least one child whose room looks like a landfill (垃圾堆) .The mess can disturb the whole household. Dirty clothes pile up; dirty dishes get lost in the mess and smell bad; homework is lost; and valuable things are ruined.

Some parents let it go, believing that a bedroom is private space for children to manage as they wish. Others lecture their children, offer rewards for cleaning, or punish them when they don’t. What doesn’t work, parenting experts say, is constant lectures, verbal (口头的，言语的) threats or getting very angry. Mrs. Perking says they picked up all the clothes on Kayla’s floor and hid them. They cleaned everything up. When Kayla came back to a bare bedroom, there was screaming and shouting, “How can I live without my clothes?” Mrs. Perkins asked Kayla to earn her clothes back by doing housework. These days, she keeps her room clean.

Humour can help, too. For example, since Jessica, the 14-year-old daughter wasn’t bothered by the dirty clothes all over her floor, the whole family started using her room as a place to store dirty clothes. Her attitude changed after her family did that. By the time she gave in and cleaned up her room a few days later, even she was laughing.

Parenting expert, Jim Fay, also recommends that parents first ask children in a nice way to clean up and agree on a reasonable time limit. Children often behave better if you treat them in the way you would want to be treated by your boss at work - with respect and high expectation.

1. What is the best title of the passage?

A．How to Make Children Clean up Their Bedrooms

B．Ways to Correct Children’s Bad Habits.

C．Encourage Children to Share More Housework.

D．Tips on Cleaning up the Room.

2. According to the experts, when children’s room looks like a landfill, parents at first should           

A．let children have their own private space.

B．lecture their children and give verbal threats.

C．set an example and offer rewards for cleaning.

D．ask them in a nice way and set a reasonable time limit.

3. What can we conclude from the passage?

A．Playing hide-and-seek can help children change their attitude.

B．Parents differ over their children’s bedroom cleaning.

C．Children often behave better if parents treat them like bosses.

D．Most children feel uncomfortable when their rooms are too clean.

5 . Rafting the GRAND CANYON Welcomes You!

For exciting, fun and challenging white water tours, Rafting the GRAND CANYON is here to help you plan the right tour for you. Whether you want to travel for two days or ten, hike in or not, go on an oar raft or a motorized trip, we will help you find the trip that meets your needs.

For those who will be vacationing in the off season, a trip on the Native American Red River rafting is available year around or a one-day trip is available on the Colorado River from Diamond Creek to Pierce Ferry (about three hours from Las Vegas).

Most of the trips depart from Lees Ferry, Arizona (approximately 2.5 hours from the south rim of the Grand Canyon). We offer partial trips which allow you to get on or off at Phantom Ranch located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park South Rim. Requiring a hike in or out, with proper planning the horse ride up or down is also an option. Most trips occur between April and October.

Since all rafting on the Colorado requires a permit, planning and reserving your trip requires reservations well in advance. Please let us know when you would like to go and we will contact all the river concessionaires (特许权获得者) to help you find the best trip for you.

For planning your trip, questions, concerns or to make your reservations, please email or call the toll free number below. Since these trips are limited, we highly recommend you make your reservations months in advance.

To talk to a live person call us toll free: 1- 800 - 222 - 6966 or 702 - 655 - 6060.

If you have any questions regarding a trip, please CLIGK_HERE to fill out our form. This will speed up the process of getting you accurate information regarding your trip.

If you would like to send us an email about an up-coming trip you can contact us at info@raftingthegrandcanyon.com.

We look forward to helping you plan your trip! (Please NO Travel Agents)

1. If you don’t want to take an all-distance trip, you can start at ______.

A．Diamond Creek

B．Lees Ferry

C．Phantom Ranch

D．Pierce Ferry

2. On the trip on the Grand Canyon, you are NOT recommended to enjoy ______.

A．oar raft rowing

B．traveling on foot

C．horse riding

D．swimming entertainment

3. Rafting the Grand Canyon does NOT suggest the reader contact them in the way of ______.

A．calling at it in person

B．filling a form

C．sending an email

D．making a call

6 . Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Most people, when they travel to space, would like to stay in orbit for a few days or more. And this stands to reason, if you’re paying $20,000 for your trip to orbit. So in order for tourism to reach its full potential there’s going to be a need for orbital accommodation - or space hotels.     1     Hotels in orbit will offer the services you expect from a hotel - private rooms, meals, bars. But they’ll also offer two unique experiences: impressive views - of Earth and space - and the endless entertainment of living in zero gravity - including sports and other activities that make use of this.

The hotels themselves will vary greatly - from being quite simple in the early days to huge luxury structure at a later date. It’s actually surprising that as late as 1997, very few designs for space hotels were published.     2    

Lots of people who’ve been to space have described vividly what it’s like to live in zero gravity.    3     Luckily, you don’t need to sleep much living in zero gravity, so you’ll have plenty of time for relaxing by hanging out in a bar with a window looking down at the turning Earth below.

    4     And so after a few days you’ll find yourself heading back though you’ll be much more expert at exercising in zero gravity than you were when you arrived. You’ll be thinking how soon you can save up enough to get back up again - or maybe you should change jobs to get to work in an orbiting hotel.

A．What would a space hotel actually be like?

B．The Zero-G Corporation was founded by Peter Diamandis, offering chances to experience what it feels like to be in an environment of true weightlessness.

C．Would it be amazingly expensive to carry out the plan?

D．Of course all good things have come to an end, unfortunately.

E．There are obviously all sorts of possibilities for dancing, gymnastics, and zero-G sports.

F．This is mainly because those who might be expected to design them, haven’t expected launch costs to come down far enough to make them possible.

7 . Around four years ago, I received a call from the principal of our school as to the “Parents View” talk the next morning. He asked me to speak to the group. After the call, my whole body became feverish and panicky. The time from his call to the next morning seemed like years. The whole night, I could not sleep with many ominous apprehensions in mind. One of them was to call the principal with regret and tell him that I could not come. Finally, I gathered some courage. I thought, “If I miss this opportunity, surely the school will never invite me again to any of their programs.”

I reached the school in time. Before my turn came, my whole body was trembling. When my turn came and I started speaking, my heartbeat increased and my mouth went dry. I wasn’t even able to read the written speech properly. I was not aware of where I was standing and what I was reading. That was the day when I realized my biggest weakness, Public Speaking.

After my speech，I met with the principal and explained what happened to me. He told me that this happens to everyone. Even great speakers faced the same things when they started. He suggested that I come again next time.

Around one month later, I was invited to refer to a topic on Motivation. This time I was feeling comfortable. My speech was appreciated by the principal as well as the teachers, because I was able to get my idea across to them. They encouraged and praised my efforts.

After the successful delivering, I became more confident. I said to myself, “If I can speak in front of such a learned audience, like the principal who educates others, I can now speak in front of others too.”

I started delivering lectures in my plant, on various topics like Self-Motivation, Personality Development, Personal Excellence, Spoken English and Presentation Skills. This has become a passion for me. I learned that everything is possible if we have the courage to take the first step.

1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Practice Makes a Man a Better Speaker.	B．Public Speaking Makes a Man Embarrassed.
C．Principal Provides the Best Chances.	D．Spoken English Develops in Speeches.

2. The author had bad feelings before the speech because ______.

A．he disliked the principal	B．he had got a high fever before that
C．he regretted turning down another invitation	D．he feared he couldn’t perform it properly

3. What does the underlined part “ominous apprehensions” in the first paragraph mean?

A．Unlucky opportunities.

B．Negative ideas.

C．Curious colleagues.

D．Happy comments.

4. What can we conclude from the passage?

A．Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.

B．Knowledge makes one humble, while ignorance makes one proud.

C．A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

D．Necessity is the mother of invention.

8 . I’m sure he will help her if he ________ her.

A．knows

B．will know

C．is to know

D．can know

9 . How many of you drink Cola? Nearly everybody. Did you know that cola started out not as a soft drink but as a cure for headache back in the late 1800’s? John S. Pamberton, a druggist from Atlanta, had experimented for many months trying to find a ________ for the common headache. He worked in his backyard, mixing and heating different mixtures of oils and flavors（香料）________ he found one that seemed to work well. Pamberton bottled the mixture and began selling it in drugstores as a concentrated（浓缩的）syrup（糖浆）that the customer had to ________ with water before drinking. The invention of Cola came about quite by accident. One day, a customer came into a drugstore complaining of a headache and ________ a bottle of cola syrup. He wanted to take it ________. So he asked the clerk to mix the medicine while he waited. The clerk, ________ walking to the other end of the counter to get plain water, ________ mixing the syrup with soda water. The customer agreed, and after drinking it, ________ how good it tasted. The clerk continued offering the mixture and it grew in ________. Today this kind of Cola is sold in most countries around the world. And although they no longer ________ the ingredients to kill headache, they are still very refreshing.

1.

A．reason

B．mixture

C．source

D．remedy

2.

A．as

B．until

C．after

D．since

3.

A．fill

B．mix

C．eat

D．milk

4.

A．left for

B．accounted for

C．applied for

D．asked for

5.

A．right away

B．for nothing

C．sooner or later

D．back home

6.

A．in addition to

B．instead of

C．except for

D．as well as

7.

A．admitted

B．preferred

C．suggested

D．enjoyed

8.

A．told

B．proved

C．remarked

D．wondered

9.

A．surprise

B．popularity

C．confusion

D．history

10.

A．support

B．provide

C．ensure

D．contain

10 . Elixir

written by Eric Walters

Twelve-year-old Roth becomes a friend of Dr. Banting and his assistant, Mr. Best,who are in search of a cure for diabetes (糖尿病). She finds herself torn between her   sympathy for the animals being experimented on and her friendship with Banting and   Best.

George Washington Carver

written by Elizabeth Macleod

Meet the "Peanut specialist", George Washington Carver, the inventor and professor who made over 325 products out of peanuts. Through his agricultural research, he also greatly improved the lives of countless black farmers in the   southern Unite States. See also MacLeod's Albert Einstein: A life of Genius.

The Inuit Thought of it: Amazing Arctic Innovation

written by Alootook Ipellie and David MacDonald.

Explore more than 40 ideas necessary to Inuit survival. From ideas familiar to us today to inventive concepts that shaped their lives, celebrate the creativity of a remarkably intelligent people. Also see other books: the Chinese thought of it by Tingxing Ye and A Native American Thought of it by Rocky Landon and David MacDonald.

Made in Canada:101 Amazing Achievements

written by Bev Spencer

What things do we use daily that have a Canadian connection? Here Are 101 common things that were invented in Canada or by a Canadian, including the Blackberry, alkaline (碱) batteries the Blue Box recycling program.

Newton and the Time Machine

written by Michael McGowan

Ten-year-old boy Newton has invented a time machine to see Dinosaurs up close.

But it disappears on a test run with his two huge friends, King Herbert and Queen   Gertrude, in it! Can he save them before time runs out?

1. Which of the following best describes Roth's feeling in Book 1?

A．Frightened.	B．Curious.
C．Painful.	D．Disappointed.

2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Book 3 introduces 40 inventive concepts.

B．Animals are mentioned in Book 1 and Book 5.

C．Alkaline batteries were invented by Dr. Banting.

D．George Washington Carver was a black farmer in the US.

3. In Book 5, King Herbert and Queen Gertrude are _____.

A．Newton's human friends	B．the names of the time machine
C．the inventions of the time machine	D．two dinosaurs

4. If you are interested in native Americans, you may read the book by _____.

A．Elizabeth Macleod	B．Eric Walters
C．Rocky London & David MacDonald	D．Bev Spencer