一Hello, this is Taicang Middle School.

一I want to talk to Mr. Chen. Can you________ me ________ ?

A.put…in B.put…out C.put…through D.put…up

I was attracted by the lady's warm smile. It was really like a hidden ________ .

A.pleasure B.treasure C.attention D.invention

一Can you tell me ________?

一I must ask my mom. She may let me do homework at home.

A.if will you come to my birthday party B.how will you come to my birthday party

C.if you will come to my birthday party D.how you will come to my birthday party

一Dustin,I will see the film Resident Evil tonight. Do you want to,with me?

一No, I won't. I ________ it already.

A.saw B.see C.have seen D.will see

My name is Joey. I grew up in a really unstable(不穩(wěn)定的)home. I ________ almost about every exam I took _________ . I was not interested in any class. And I often went out with the wrong friends.

Everything changed when I met John. He gave me much ________ . For example, John once promised me that if I could get good grades and stay active such as doing at least 60 hours of community service, he would ________ me to the " 2Xtreme Dream" trip.

The " 2Xtreme Dream" was a trip to the highest mountain in Europe, Mt. Elbrus. It also included community service to help the poor children there. There were 10 people aged from 14 to 19 that ________ the trip. We all had to work together to get to the top of the mountain. The whole trip was based on our idea, "life is a mountain. " Every step you take is a step toward _______ .

The trip totally _______ my life. I never thought that I would be able to have a trip without my family and friends for 16 days, but I made it. Being at the top of the mountain was the best ________ I had had and I'll never forget that moment. I now know that I can achieve anything I want if I try my best. Thank everybody that was a part of this, ________ John一you guys have helped me become a _______ person. I have more confidence now and believe I will have a bright future.

1.A.missed B.failed C.loved D.avoided

2.A.because B.although C.if D.when

3.A.attention B.balance C.support D.peace

4.A.show B.take C.allow D.guide

5.A.joined in B.arrived in C.talked about D.heard about

6.A.difficulty B.success C.trouble D.pleasure

7.A.started B.controlled C.changed D.marked

8.A.thought B.choice C.dream D.feeling

9.A.certainly B.exactly C.helpfully D.especially

10.A.wealthier B.healthier C.better D.prouder

Still remember the following poems? Memories return every time I read or hear them.

1.The first poem is sung to ________.

A.friends B.mothers C.relatives D.babies

2.What are the two poems mainly about?

A.Food and health. B.Hobbies and habits.

C.Family and love. D.Animals and humans.

One day a ragged(衣衫檻樓的)beggar(乞丐)was creeping along from house to house. He carried an old wallet in one hand and at every house he asked for a little money to buy something to eat. As he was complaining at his misfortune(不幸),he kept wondering why people who had so much money were never satisfied and always wanted more.

He thought that if he only had enough money to buy food and clothing, he would be very happy and wouldn't want anything more.

At that moment, Fortune came down the street. She saw the beggar and stopped. She said to him:" I want to help you. Hold out your wallet and I will pour this gold into it, but only on this condition. All that falls into your wallet will be pure gold, but all that hits the ground will turn into dust. Do you understand?"

"Oh, yes I understand." said the beggar.

"Your wallet is old. Don't put too much in it," said Fortune.

The beggar opened his wallet and a stream of pure gold flowed into it. His wallet grew heavy.

"You are the richest man in the world now," said Fortune.“I think you should stop! Your wallet is going to break!" However, the beggar said he wanted one more handful. Fortune added one more handful and the wallet split. All the gold fell to the ground and turned to dust. The beggar had nothing but his empty wallet. He was as poor as he had been before.

1.What did the beggar want money for?

A.To make more money. B.To buy some food and clothing.

C.To buy himself a new wallet. D.To do some meaningful things.

2.How did Fortune try to help the beggar?

A.She kept pouring gold coins into his old wallet. B.She gave him enough gold coins in his pocket.

C.She told him to take as much gold as he wanted. D.She advised the beggar to hold out his old wallet.

3.What do you think of the beggar?

A.Greedy. B.Unselfish. C.Wealthy. D.Forgetful.

Margaret Knight was born on February 14, 1838, in Maine. She lived during a time when factories were springing up all over the United States and business were booming. Her father died when she was 10 years old and began working in a textile mill(紡織廠).

When she was 12, Knight saw an accident in which a part of one of the marhines flew off, seriously hurting a worker. So she decided to plan a way to prevent such accidents. Knight designed a safety feature that would stop the machines if something got caught in them. The machine soon became common in textile mills and is still used in some factories now.

Although factories were willing to use her first invention, Knight did not receive much in the way of reward for her effort. Because of her youth and her family's lack of(缺乏)of education, Knight was unable to patent(獲得專利)her safety machine to earn money from selling it.

In Knight's day, paper bags were shaped like envelopes(信封), which made them difficult to fill. While working at a paper bag factory, Knight thought of bags with flat, rectangular(長方形的)bottom. Then she tried to invent a machine that would produce them, and she succeeded.

Knight worked for months to perfect her work, but when she asked for a patent, a man named Charles Annan had seen an early model of Knight's idea and had tried to patent the machine as his own.

Knight insisted that the patent should be hers and ended up taking Annan to court(法庭). During the case; Annan said that a woman would not be able to invent such a complex and innovative(創(chuàng)新的)machine. But Knight provided evidence proving that the machine was hers and received patent in 1871.

Knight died in 1914, and one newspaper described her as a "woman Edison". At a time when women's hard work and knowledge were taken too lightly, she proved that women too could develop new ideas that would shape the future of industry.

1.Why didn't Margaret patent her safety machine at first?

A.She had no money to do it. B.She didn't consider it worth her effort.

C.She expected her invention to be of use to all. D.She had no sense of patent at that time.

2.We can infer from Margret's story that at Margret's time________ .

A.women didn't get well protected at work B.women got badly paid at factories

C.women weren't expected to achieve much D.women had no right to invent things

3.Why did the writer write the passage?

A.To tell the importance of role of women in society. B.To call on girls to learn from a woman scientist.

C.To encourage women to fight for equal rights. D.To introduce a famous woman inventor in America.

Frank was a very talkative little boy. He never saw a new thing without asking a great many questions about it.

His mother was very patient and kind. When it was proper to answer his questions, she would do so. Sometimes she would say, “You are not old enough to understand that, my son. When you are ten years old, you may ask me about it, and I will tell you.” When his mother said this, Frank never bother(煩擾)her any more. He knew she always liked to answer him when he asked proper questions.

The first time Frank saw an hourglass, he was very much interested, but he did not know what it was. His mother said, “An hourglass is made in the shape of the figure 8. The sand is put in at one end and runs through a small hole in the middle. As much sand is put into the glass as will run through in an hour.”

Frank watched the little stream of sand. He was impatient, because it would not run faster. “Let me shake it, mother,” said he, “it is lazy, and will never get through.”

“Oh, yes, it will, my son,” said his mother, “The sand moves by little and little, but it moves all the time. When you look at the hands of the clock, you think they go very slowly, and so they do, but they never stop. While you are at play, the sand is running, grain by grain(一粒粒). The hands of the clock are moving, second by second. At night, the sand in the hourglass has run through twelve times. The hour hand of the clock has moved all around its great face. This because they keep at work every minute. They do not stop to think how much they have to do, and how long it will take them to do it.”

Now, Frank’s mother wanted him to learn a little hymn(贊美詩), but he said, “Mother, I can never learn it.”

His mother said, “Study all the time. Never stop to ask how long it will take to learn it. You will be able to say it very soon.”

Frank followed his mother’s advice. He studied line after line, very busily; and in one hour and a half he knew the hymn perfectly.

1.According to the story, which word can best describe Frank?

A.Naughty. B.Curious. C.Stupid. D.Lazy.

2.What did Frank’s mother do one day in this story?

A.She asked her son to shake the hourglass hard.

B.She answered every question her son asked.

C.She bought her son an hourglass as a gift.

D.She encouraged her son to learn a hymn.

3.Why did Frank’s mother say a lot about the hourglass and the clock?

A.Because she would like to show her patience to her son.

B.Because she wanted to compare the hourglass with the clock.

C.Because she thought it a good way to tell Frank not to waste time.

D.Because she happened to know a lot about these two objects.

4.What’s the best title of this story?

A.Frank and His Mother B.Frank and The Hourglass

C.The Hourglass and The Clock D.Mother and The Hourglass

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Travel in Montreal's underground city

Montreal is the second largest city in Canada with a population of over 4,100,000 people. When we go shopping in Montreal in Canada, we may find that 1.. Why? That's because many people do their shopping under the ground. With 4,350 hotel rooms, 2,727 apartments, 930 shops, 68 subway stations,9 fitness centers, 3 skating rinks, 2 libraries，and a small church，2.. If you live in one of the underground apartments, 3.. Because of outdoor temperatures that may drop to–35℃ in winter, 4.. The underground city is thought as an important tourist attraction by most Montreal travel guidebooks. If you like, 5.. In 1962, while breaking ground for the city's first subway, the idea for an underground shopping mall was born at the same time.

A. more than 4. 5 square miles make up the world's largest underground city

B. people prefer to stay under the ground in order to get away from the coldness

C. you cannot do sports in Montreal's underground city

D. it is not crowded at all in the shopping malls

E. you can take the subway to work and do the shopping

F. Montreal remains an important center of industry.

G. you can spend a week in the underground city