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　　HAVE you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours though it is about 40,000 kilometers?Now,maybe you can.Last Saturday,the American X-43A

airplane made its first flight.It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers an hour.This makes it the fastest plane in the world.X-43A is only three to four meters long,but it's very heavy:it weighs 1,270 kilos.

　　HOW old can an insect be?400 million years!Last Wednesday,scientists found the world's oldest insect fossil(化石) in Britain.The fossil shows that the body of the insect was as big as a piece of rice and had wings(翅膀).In the past,people thought the earliest insect was 380 million years old.

　　THERE will be a new "star" in the sky soon.China plans to send a satellite(衛(wèi)星) into space be September 2009.It will stay in space for one year.It will go around the moon and take pictures.It must be very expensive,right?That's for sure ?.4 billion yuan!

　　YUAN Longping,the father of hybrid rice(雜交水稻),won the World Food Prize on Monday.Yuan developed the world's first popular and widely grown hybrid rice.Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than the ones people grew before.

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If the X-43A goes round the Earth,it will take about ________ hours to finish the trip.

　　A.3　　B.5　　C.8　　D.12

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(2)

The newly-found insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was ________ years older

than believed.

　　A.10 million　　B.400 million　　C.20 million D.380 million

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(3)

Which of the following about the new star is NOT true?

　　A.It will go into space by September 2008.　　B.It will stay in space for twelve months.

　　C.It costs a lot.D.It will go around the moon.

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(4)

Yuan Longping won the World Food Prize because he ________.

　　A.is the father of his children

　　B.likes to eat hybrid rice

　　C.developed tile world's first popular and widely grown hybrid rice

　　D.grows more rice than others

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(5)

The above paragraphs are taken from ________.

　　A.a story　　B.an advertisement

　　C.an explaining writing　　D.a newspaper

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答案：1．B ;2．C ;3．A ;4．C ;5．D ;
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　　Ways to Fall Asleep

　　為了盡快進(jìn)入甜蜜的夢(mèng)鄉(xiāng)，歷史上許多名人絞盡了腦汁，有的人終于找到了自己獨(dú)特的人眠方法，可有的人還是好夢(mèng)難圓。你想探個(gè)究竟嗎?

　　How much sleep do we need? The answers are different.　Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Amexicans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.

　　Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia(失眠癥).

　　This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin(本杰明·富蘭克林), the famous inventor, had four beds.He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV (國王路易十四) of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he hy on his side(側(cè)臥)　across the end of the bed!

(1)

Most Americans usually sleep for about　_________　hours a night.

　　A. 3　　B. 5～6　　C. 10　　D. 7～8

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(2)

As people grow older,they need　__________　at night.

　　A. less sleeping time

　　B. more sleeping time

　　C. the same amount of sleeping time

D. a fixed time to sleep

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(3)

If there are 100 million people in the US hav-ing a problem with sleep,what's the popula-tion of it? About　_______.

　　A. 200 million　　B. 300 million　　C. 600 million　　D. 900 million

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(4)

Franklin tried to go to sleep by　__________.

　　A. moving from one to another of his 413 beds　　B. moving from one to another of his 4 beds

　　C. inventing a bed for himself　　 D. lying on his side across the end of the bed

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(5)

It's not mentioned in the passage,but we know that Mark Twain was　___________.

　　A. a Frenchman　　B. an Englishman

　　C. an American　　 D. a German

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