本文采取書信形式，一位愛擔憂的老祖父給編輯部寫了一封信，內容告誡年輕女孩兒，不要在街上亂搭不相識人的車游玩，這樣做即危險，也容易造成交通事故，很有教育意義．

　　Dear editor(編輯),

　　Can't your newspaper do something about the custom(習慣) of hitchhiking?

　　A short time ago, on a car travel I counted at least 50 people standing beside the road, asking for rides. Many of them were young women.

　　Don't they understand how dangerous it is to get into the car driven by a stranger? How much do they know about the driver? Is he a good driver or not? Nothing!

　　Many of these young hitchhikers may come from good families. Don't their parents teach them anything about the world? I always taught my children not to talk to strangers. I never let them take rides from people they didn't know.

　　Isn't there enough crime(犯罪) today without asking for trouble by hitchhiking? On the other hand, hitchhiking may bring some traffic trouble.

　　Don't you think what I said is true?

A Worried Grandfather

1．The word “hitchhiking” means ________.

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A．waiting for a bus at the bus stop

B．driving in a dangerous way

C．going on a long way by getting free rides in other people's car

D．a(chǎn)sking a stranger the ways in a car

2．The Worried Grandfather ________.

[　　]

A．doesn't like young women to drive cars

B．thinks it is dangerous for a young woman to get into a stranger's car

C．likes drivers to be careful and strict in their work

D．never lets his children get into other people's car

3．The Worried Grandfather ________.

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A．was hit by a car when he was standing by the road

B．is a good driver and often gives free rides to strangers

C．is in trouble now and he wants to get some help from the newspaper

D．has seen much of the world and he is very careful

4．The Worried Grandfather wrote the letter to tell ________.

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A．the newspaper to let its readers know the danger of hitchhiking

B．young women never to go on a long travel alone

C．young people to listen to their parents at home

D．his children not to talk to strangers on the road

5．What do you think a good editor is going to do after he receives the letter?

[　　]

A．He will either return the letter to the old man or give it to the police station.

B．He will write back to the Worried Grandfather and tell him not to hitchhike any more.

C．He will write or ask someone to write something about the danger of hitchhiking in the newspaper.

D．He will hold a meeting to tell the drivers to make the traffic trouble less.

　　In the sea there are many islands. In its warm waters there are some little ones. We call them “Coral Islands”(珊瑚島).

　　A coral island is very nice to look at. It looks like a ring of land(一圈陸地) with trees, grass, and flowers on it. One part of the ring is open to the water. There is a little round lake inside the island.

　　If you look into this lake, you will see beautiful coral. You may think they are flowers.

　　If you look at a piece of coral, you will see many little holes in it. In each of these holes a very small sea animal has lived. These sea animals make the coral. They began to build under the water. Year after year, the coral grew higher and higher. At last it grew out of the water.

　　Then the sea brought to it small trees and something else. After some years, these things changed into earth. Sometimes the wind brought seeds to this earth. Sometimes birds flew over it and brought seeds(種子) to the island.

　　The little seeds grew. In a few years there were plants all over the island. In a few more years there were trees growing there.

　　So you see, these islands were built little by little. The workers were very small. Do they not teach us a lesson? Can you think what the lesson is?

1．In the sea ________.

[　　]

A．there are coral islands in all places

B．there are some coral islands

C．the water is always warm

D．we can see many flowers

2．A coral island looks like ________.

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3．There are ________ in the holes in corals.

[　　]

4．How did seeds of trees, grass and flowers come to the coral islands?

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A．The wind and birds brought them to the coral islands

B．Only the wind brought them there

C．People brought them there

D．Fishes brought them there

5．From the story we learn that ________.

[　　]

A．small workers can't do big things

B．only big workers can do big things

C．small workers can do big things if they work hard and work a long time

D．a(chǎn)ll small things can do big things

　　There are some places in the world where great cities once stood. There were gardens, trees and grass. But now these cities have gone and the places are like deserts. Scientists began to study this land to find out what happened. Many of them believed the land died when the trees were cut down.

　　Trees help other plants grow and help hold the soil in place. They keep the soil from blowing away. The leaves of trees on the ground keep rainwater from running off. Trees near farms protect(保護) growing plants from strong winds.

　　Once there were hundreds of farms in the Southwestern United States. Then the farms turned into fields of dry dust(塵土). Trees might have saved these farms. But few trees grow in the dry southwest now.

　　Now we try to save trees. In many places, when a tree is cut down, a new tree is planted in its place. We do not want the land to die.

1．Places where great cities once stood are now like ________.

[　　]

2．What can trees do according to(根據(jù)) the passage?

[　　]

A．Trees can keep other plants green.

B．Trees can help other plants grow.

C．Trees can help the land grow.

D．Trees can keep other plants in place.

3．Which of the following sentences is true?

[　　]

A．Trees let the rainwater run off.

B．All the farms in the United States have turned into deserts.

C．There aren't any trees in the dry southwest now.

D．Land will die if there are no trees.

4．The main idea of the passage is ________.

[　　]

A．that farms are better than cities

B．how farms turned into deserts

C．that trees are important to the land

D．how people save trees

5．From the passage we know that ________.

[　　]

A．trees can blow soil away

B．man should protect the land

C．trees grow only in deserts

D．trees die easily

　　A young man once went to town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went to his bedroom and tried them on. He found that they were about two inches longer.

　　He went to the kitchen where his mother and his two sisters were washing up the tea things. “This pair of trousers is too long,” he said. “It needs shortening(縮短) by about two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me, please?” His mother and his sisters were busy and none of them said anything. However, the mother shortened the trousers by two inches after she had finished washing, but she did not tell her daughters about it.

　　Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother's trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she did it again without saying anything to anyone. The young sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she, too, remembered what her brother had said, so she took two inches off the legs of the new trousers.

　　You can imagine the look on the young man's face when he put the trousers on the next morning.

1．The trousers the young man bought were too long because ________.

[　　]

A．he was too tall

B．he didn't try them on in the shop

C．he liked longer trousers

D．there were no short trousers in the shop

2．His mother and sisters didn't answer him, because ________.

[　　]

A．they didn't like him

B．they thought he was not clever

C．they had no time to answer him

D．they didn't hear what he said

3．Who was the last one to shorten the young man's trousers?

[　　]

A．The young man himself.

B．His mother.

C．His elder sister.

D．His younger sister.

4．The trousers were shortened by ________ inches altogether(總計).

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5．The young man would be very ________ when he put on his new trousers the next morning.

[　　]

　　Peter Judd wanted very much to be a soldier when he was a child. So he joined the army when he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier. He did quite well in everything except shooting. One day he and his friends were practicing their shooting, and all of them were doing quite well except Peter. After he had shot at the target(靶子) nine times and hadn't hit it once, the officer who was trying to teach the young soldiers to shoot said, “You are quite hopeless, Peter! Don't waste your last bullet(子彈)! Go behind that wall and shoot yourself with it!”

　　Peter felt ashamed(羞愧的). He went behind the wall and a few seconds later, the officer and the other young soldiers heard the sound of a shot.

　　“Oh, dear!” the officer said. “Has that silly man really shot himself?”

　　He ran behind the wall as quickly as he could, but Peter was all right. “I'm sorry, sir,” he said, “but I missed again.”

1．Peter Judd joined the army in order to ________.

[　　]

2．The officer thought Peter was hopeless because ________.

[　　]

A．he didn't know how to use a gun

B．he didn't get along well with other soldiers

C．he was poor at shooting

D．he couldn't do anything well

3．What the officer said at the end of the first paragraph shows that ________.

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A．the officer really wanted Peter to die

B．the officer was very angry with Peter

C．the officer was not a kind-hearted man

D．the officer was afraid that Peter would shoot himself

4．The officer felt ________ when he heard the sound of a shot.

[　　]

5．What happened at the end of the story?

[　　]

A．Peter became a good soldier.

B．Peter killed himself behind the wall.

C．The officer was pleased with Peter in the end.

D．Peter missed the target for the tenth time.

　　O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy. he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.

　　When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison(監(jiān)獄). During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

　　He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.

1．________ was the real name of the famous American writer of short stories.

[　　]

2．O. Henry was sent to prison because ________.

[　　]

A．people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper

B．people thought he had stolen money from the bank

C．he wanted to write stories about prisoners

D．he broke the law(法律) by not using his own name

3．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．O. Henry was from a rich family.

B．O. Henry was in school for a long time.

C．O. Henry learned everything he needed by himself.

D．O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy.

4．O. Henry got most materials(材料) for his stories from ________.

[　　]

A．his happy life as a boy

B．the city and the poor of New York

C．the newspaper

D．his life in prison

5．People enjoyed reading O. Henry's stories because ________.

[　　]

A．they had surprising endings

B．they were easy to understand

C．they showed love for the poor

D．they were about New York City

　　Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from place to place. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.

　　No one knows how or when those people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.

　　People began to live near one another. And so the first villages grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew bigger and bigger.

　　When people had machines, life in the village changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.

　　Today, some people arc moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?

1．From the passage we know that people lived on(以……為食) ________ before cities began.

[　　]

2．Why could men stay in one place?

[　　]

A．Because they knew how to hunt animals.

B．Because they built houses.

C．Because they began growing crops.

D．Because they had machines.

3．What happened when factories were built?

[　　]

A．People began to live in the factories.

B．More and more people lived near the factories.

C．There were many machines in the factories.

D．Machines were very useful.

4．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．People had to move often before they began growing crops.

B．People didn't like to live in big cities.

C．The villages were bigger than the cities.

D．All the people like to move back to small towns today.

5．The main idea of the story is that ________.

[　　]

A．how people grew crops

B．how people built houses

C．how villages grew

D．how cities began to grow

上網(wǎng)，傳遞信息，網(wǎng)上搜索，瀏覽、電子信箱等一系列語匯，是當今的時代語言，該篇粗略地介紹了這些語匯的用途．

　　We are all busy talking about and using the Internet(因特網(wǎng)), but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

　　Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up(建立) in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks(網(wǎng)絡) didn't work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system(系統(tǒng)) had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information(信息) could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on working all the time.

　　At first the Internet was only used by the government(政府), but in the early 1970s, universities(大學), hospitals and banks(銀行) were allowed(允許) to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use, Scientists had also developed software(軟件) that made “surfing”(瀏覽) the Internet more convenient(方便).

　　Today it is easy to get on-ling(上網(wǎng)) and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. Sending email(電子郵件) is more and more popular among students.

　　The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people's life.

1．The Internet has a history of more than ________ years.

[　　]

2．A new network system was set up to ________.

[　　]

A．make computers cheaper

B．make itself keep on working all the time

C．break down the whole network

D．make computers large and expensive

3．At first the Internet was only used by ________.

[　　]

4．________ made “surfing” the Internet more convenient.

[　　]

5．Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A．In the 1960s, computer networks worked well

B．In the early 1970s, the Internet was easy to use

C．Sending e-mail is now more popular among students than before

D．Today it's still not easy to get on-line

　　Now satellites are helping to forecast(預報) the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere(大氣), because this is where the weather forms(形成). They send these pictures to the weather station. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will change.

　　Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries can receive satellite pictures. When they receive the new pictures. When they receive the new pictures,they compare(比較) them with the earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, they can tell people about it.

　　So the weather satellites are of a great help to the scientists at the station. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours earlier. Now they can make good forecasts for 3 or 5 days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead.

1．The weather forms ________.

[　　]

A．in any part of the world

B．in the atmosphere

C．in space

D．on the ground

2．Changing clouds in the atmosphere means ________.

[　　]

A．a(chǎn) rainy day

B．a(chǎn) windy day

C．that the weather will change

D．a(chǎn) sunny day

3．Without satellites, scientists could forecast the weather for ________ ahead.

[　　]

4．The main(主要的) idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in ________.

[　　]

A．taking pictures of the atmosphere

B．many ways

C．receiving pictures of the atmosphere

D．weather forecasting

　　This reports shows something of home computer use by a group of young people. It is a common idea that children today know about computers and have a good knowledge of using them in all sides of their lives. We decided to try to find out whether this was true.

　　We asked thirty young people between 14 and 18. All the children said they had computers at home. We asked them how much time they usually spent on their computers in a week, but we were most interested in what they used their computers for.

　　The usual time spent on a computer in a week was about 12 hours, with the highest user about 32 hours and the lowest user only 5 hours. There was no great difference between boys and girls.

　　All the children said they usually used the computer to play games. Fourteen told us they did some wordprocessing(文字處理) at home, but not very much. Only 2 of them said that computers helped them with their studies, and 8 people told us they kept addresses and telephone numbers on their computers or used them as diaries. Only 3 people said they were learning to make computer programmes, and nobody looked up databases(數(shù)據(jù)庫) (other than their address lists). None of the people used their computers for any other use. The diagram(圖表) gives all the results one by one.

　　The results show that computer use is quite high among 14-18 year-old children. They also show quite clearly that computers are seen by most young people as little more than games machines. The only other great uses are for wordprocessing and keeping address lists. It seems to us that, though computers are common in the homes of young people, they have not yet become useful in everyday life.

1．In the diagram, what does the letter “d” show?

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A．3 people between 14 and 18.

B．Only 2 of the group.

C．To help them with their studies.

D．To help them with computer programmes.

2．We are afraid there is one mistake in the diagram What is it?

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A．the words “Number of people” and “Computer use” should be changed each other.

B．Add all the numbers from “a” to “g”, the number should just be 30.

C．The number of “d” should be higher.

D．There should be not number about “f”.

3．In the report, “l(fā)ittle more than” means ________.

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4．If children could use computers usefully, that means ________.

[　　]

A．children could play all kinds of different games

B．more other databases than address lists should be learnt

C．there would be great different between boys and girls

D．computers would be much more popular