“How many common English words were invented by Shakespeare?” How long did  【小題1】_   take people to find the answer to this question 15 years ago? And now? You can google it  【小題2】  find the answer immediately!
Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in 1995,  【小題3】 they were both studying computer science at a university. They dreamed of producing something that could answer  【小題4】 questions in seconds. They decided to make a better and faster search engine(搜索引擎)  45  January 1996. At that time  【小題5】 would give them money for their project, so they had to borrow money from family and friends. Soon they started their own company. Its name Google comes from math. A ‘google’ is 【小題6】 very high number —1 followed by a hundred zeros.
The google search engine was soon used by thousands of people worldwide  【小題7】 it was fast, easy and correct. By 2002 it became the  【小題8】 (big) search engine on the Internet. Google hopes that in the future all the world’s information 【小題9】 be put on the Internet, so that everybody can find everything.

Pearl and June were good friends and spent most of their time together.

They were both very old and they worried about their health. Most of the time they talked about nothing else.

They worried about their food. Was it clean? Would it give them pains in the stomach?

They worried about the weather. Was it too cold and wet? Would it give them pains in their bones?

They worried about pollution in the air. would it give them pains in their chests(胸部)and throats(喉嚨)?

They worried about being hurt in a car accident, killed in a plane crash, getting sick, and so on.

All they could think about was being ill or hurt.

One day they went on a train journey together.

“We’ll need some food,”P(pán)earl said.

“We’ll buy some bananas,”June said.“They are good to eat and always clean.”

And so they bought two bananas to eat on the train.

It was not long before they were hungry.

Pearl took out the bananas and gave one to June. Then she peeled(剝)the skin of her banana and took a large bite of it.

At that moment the train went into a tunnel. Everything went black.“Don’t eat your banana,”P(pán)earl shouted at June.“Mine has made me go blind!”

1.What did the two old ladies talk about most of the time? _________

A. Themselves.      B. Other people.       C. Healthy food.       D. Dangerous drivers.

2. The old ladies didn’t want to ______.

  A. eat any bananas                       B. travel by train

  C. be young again                        D. get sick

3.Pearl ate her banana ________.

  A. after they came out of the tunnel       B. at the station

  C. before June ate hers                    D. before she was hungry

4. Pearl thought that the banana _______.

  A. stopped her from seeing                B. would make her hungry

  C. would make her ill                     D. would be good for June

5.What’s the best title of the story? __________.

  A. What Good Friends                   B. What a Bad Train Journey

  C. Bananas Are Good for You            D. Bananas Are Bad for You

 

Many years ago there lived two brothers in London. They were both very rich. They had   1   ideas about money. They were quarrelling（爭(zhēng)吵）about what would happen if a poor man could  2  a million pound note. One thought that anyone with such a note would have   3  he wanted; the other thought that it would be   4  for him to get anything with the note（鈔票）.They couldn’t agree with each other. So they   5  to make a bet (打賭).
It happened that a young man named Henry was wandering through the street that day, who had come to Britain only chance.  6  home and job, he looked pale（蒼白的）and  7  . Suddenly he saw an apple   8   away by a child. The man was so hungry that he was thinking of picking it up to eat. Just as he was   9 out his hand, he heard a voice calling him. He looked up and saw the two   10. They gave him an envelope. They told him not to open it until two o’clock. They said, “Nothing but money in it.” Then they left…

【小題1】

A．two B．more C．different D．the same

【小題2】

A．get B．make C．find D．give

【小題3】

A．however B．whatever C．whenever D．wherever

【小題4】

A．nice B．possible C．impossible D．certain

【小題5】

A．decided B．had C．wished D．wait

【小題6】

A．With B．Without C．Not D．No

【小題7】

A．strong B．happy C．hungry D．shy

【小題8】

A．thrown B．left C．picked D．found

【小題9】

A．reaching B．putting C．holding D．raising

【小題10】

A．a(chǎn)pples B．letters C．gentlemen(紳士) D．fellows

One afternoon, Bob and Jane were walking along a quiet street when they heard a big noise from the street corner. They ran there and found that a small car had knocked into the side of a truck. Both the car driver and the truck driver were hurt.

“Bob,” said Jane, “run back down the road to Mrs Day’s house. Ask her to call the police and the ambulance(救護(hù)車). Hurry up. I’ll stay here.”

Bob went off as fast as he could. There was nothing Jane could do but wait. She knew that when people were hurt in an accident, they shouldn’t be moved.

It wasn’t long before the police car and the ambulance arrived. The policemen got the car door open and moved the man out. Then they got the truck driver out. Luckily, the men weren’t badly hurt, but they were both taken to hospital. The policemen thanked Bob and Jane.” You were very good to act so quickly when you saw the accident. Thank you for all your help.”

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷正誤。正確的填（A），錯(cuò)誤的填（B）。

1.The accident happened in a quiet street one afternoon.

2.Mrs Day and the policemen heard the noise.

3.Both of the drivers were hurt in the accident.

4.Jane asked Bob to call the police.

5.Jane had got the drivers out before the policemen arrived.

 

One day, Tomas Jefferson, the president of the USA, was crossing a river with a group of travelers. The river was overflowing its banks. So it was very dangerous to cross it on a horse. Each man was fighting for his life! Then another traveler came and he wanted to cross it, too. But he didn’t have a horse. He watched the group and then asked Jefferson to take him. Jefferson agreed immediately. The man climbed on. After they were both safe to the other side of the river, someone asked the man, “Why did you ask present for help? Did you know him?” The man was shocked because he didn’t know Jefferson was the president. “All I know,” he said, “on some of your faces were written the answer NO, but there was the answer YES on his face.”

1.Who was Tomas Jefferson?

    A. He was a businessman.                B. He was a teacher.

    C. He was a captain.                    D. He was the president of the USA.

2. How did they cross the river?

    A. In a boat.                       B. On their horses.

    C. By swimming.                     D. By building a bridge.

3. When the group were crossing the river, ________.

    A. water was flowing out of the river       B. it was windy and very cold

    C. there were many empty boats in the river D. everyone wrote a word on the face

4. At last, __________.

    A. both Jefferson and the man were safe to cross the river

    B. only Jefferson crossed the river

    C. only the man crossed the river

    D. Jefferson’s horse died

5.From the passage, we know that _________.

    A. all the travelers were kind              B. Jefferson was helpful

    C. nobody knew the president                D. the man gave Jefferson some money