One day Trudy saw an advertisement in a magazine. It offered a packet of 100 mixed stamps for $10. Trudy wanted to start a stamp collection so she ordered the packet. One hundred mixed stamps seemed a good way to begin a collection. She sent a postal order to the stamp company with her order, and waited excitedly for the stamps arrived. Trudy checked the mail every day for four weeks but the stamps didn’t arrive. So Trudy decided to write to the company. “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote, “a month ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. They haven’t arrived. Please send them by return of mail.” another month passed. The stamps still didn’t arrive and she didn’t receive any replay to her letter. She asked her father for advice. Her father said, “You must write a stronger letter. Make the stamp company worry that you will report them to the authorities.” “Dear Sir/Madam,” she wrote in her second letter. “I am writing to complain about your poor service. Two months ago I sent you a postal order for $10 as payment for 100 mixed stamps. I didn’t receive the stamps. A month ago I wrote to inform you of this. I still haven’t received the stamps, and you haven’t replied to my letter. If I do not receive the stamps within seven days. I shall report this matter to the authorities.” Two days later Trudy received the stamps in the mail.
1.Trudy ordered the stamps because _______.
A.it seemed a good way to start a stamp collection
B.she wanted to give them to her father
C.she need them to mail some letters
D.she thought they were cheap
2.Trudy paid for the stamps with ________.
A.cash B.a check C.the credit card D.a postal order
3.Trudy checked the mail every day for ______.
A.4 months B.a week C.a month D.for 3 weeks
4.In her second letter Trudy complained about how _______.
A.expensive the stamps were
B.boring the stamps were
C.poor the company’s service was
D.slow the postal service was
5.Trudy received the stamps ______ after she sent the second letter.
A.a week B.a month C.two months D.two days
The question whether there is life on Mars (火星) has made the public think a lot for more than a century. The closest look showed Mars to be a dusty, cold world, covered by air too thin to breathe. A British spaceship and Europe's Mars spaceship plan to land on Mars or enter orbit (轨道) around it. One of the NASA’s (美国宇航局) spaceships is expected to land on January 3, the other is going to land on the opposite side of Mars on January 24. Since 1960, over twenty spaceships sent to Mars have failed. Most have been lost on flying up or landing because those are the most difficult times of any flights. Scientists wanted to find out whether there was water in Mars. In October, a team of scientists reported that Mars had been a dry wasteland. But weeks later, a second team reported differently that they had found some marks showed clearly that they were made by the rivers. Such marks told us that Mars was a warmer place billions of years ago — just as life first appeared here on Earth. Scientists at once raise a question: if what they said is true, what happened on Mars? Then what about the earth?
1.Which is right about Mars?
A.It’s cold without dust.
B.There is no water or air.
C.It’s warm with some thin air.
D.It’s a dusty, cold world almost without air.
2.Two NASA’s spaceships _______________.
A.will land on the different sides of Mars
B.will land on the same day
C.will enter orbit around Mars
D.will land with a man
3.The most difficult times of a flight are _______________.
A.taking off
B.flying up and arriving
C.entering the orbit and landing
D.leaving the earth and entering the orbit
4.A team of scientists reported that there might be_____________ in Mars.
A.nothing but air
B.nothing
C.water billions of years ago
D.thick air and lakes
5.What are scientists worried about when they raise the question?
A.Life disappeared on Mars.
B.Spaceships can’t land on Mars.
C.The air on the earth gets less and less.
D.The earth might be changed like Mars
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Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family and no one to love her. So she often 1 sad and lonely.
One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small 2 was trapped unluckily in a bush. The butterfly tried to fly away 3 failed. The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care. Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned 4 a beautiful fairy (仙女). The little girl was very 5 .
“Thank you for 6 me. You are so kind. I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.
The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be 7 !”
The fairy said, “Very well. I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl’s ear. Then the fairy disappeared.
As the kind little girl grew up, she was 8 ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers. No one in the village was as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the 9 of ther happiness. She always smiled and 10 , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind 11 when I was a little girl.”
When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the 12 all gathered (聚拢) around her bed because they were 13 that her secret of happiness would die with her. They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”
The lovely old woman still 14 and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or 15 . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”
1. A.thought B.found C.sounded D.felt
2. A.butterfly B.bird C.snake D.squirrel
3. A.so B.or C.but D.as
4. A.on B.up C.into D.down
5. A.surprised B.tired C.mad D.angry
6. A.catching B.beating C.killing D.saving
7. A.active B.happy C.energetic D.humorous
8. A.always B.never C.seldom D.hardly
9. A.success B.secret C.power D.lesson
10. A.asked B.hoped C.answered D.refused
11. A.witch B.fairy C.ghost D.princess
12. A.village B.town C.city D.world
13. A.excited B.pleased C.glad D.afraid
14. A.shouted B.cried C.smiled D.jumped
15. A.young B.great C.nice D.quiet
--Tom,be careful not to drive to fast._________ .
--Thank you for your advice.
A.It’s better to be safe than sorry.
B.Too many cooks spoil the broth.
C.Many hands make light work.
D.Every dog has its day.
We must do everything we can _________ our earth clearer and safer.
A.made B.to making C.make D.to make
We all know that paper burns in _________ .
A.CO2 B.N2 C. O2 D.CO