任务型阅读：阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。（每题2分，共10分）
This story is about a young man. He worked very hard at his lessons. He was too busy to have a rest. At last, he became ill, so he couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But he always stayed awake and couldn’t fall asleep.
After a while, he decided to visit the doctor, “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do? Could you please help me?”
“I have a suggestion.” said the doctor. “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you’ll be asleep, I’m sure of it.”
The next day the man returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? Did you try my suggestion?”
The man still looked tired. “Yes.” he said, “I tried counting one, two, three…up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some tea so that I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”
1.Why did the young man decide to visit the doctor?
The young man visited the doctor because .
2.What did the doctor ask the young man to do?
The doctor asked the young man .
3.Why did the young man return to the doctor’s office the next day?
Because
4.What did the young man do when he count to five hundred and sixty nine?
He so that he could go on counting up to one thousand.
5.Do you think the young man is clever?
.
短文填空：用所给词的适当形式填空,使短文完整正确，每个单词限用一次。（每空1分，共10分）
meet, play, movie, suggest, interest, good, friend, quiet, view, do |
We all know friends are very important to us. How can we make friends? I think the following1. can help you make good friends.
First, if you want to make friends, you need to go out 2. people. Friends hardly come to knock at your door while you are3. computer games at home.
Second, you don’t have to have a lot of common 4. with people in order to make friends with them. In fact, some of the5. friendships are between two people who don’t have much in common at all, even they have opposite6. . For example, if you are outgoing, you can make friends who are different from you. Though he is 7. than you, you can help each other.
Third, you should often invite your friends 8. many things with you. For example, you can invite your friends to go to the 9. or go to a concert with you. You also should take part in your 10. party. Soon you will find you and your friends have strong friendship.
完成句子:根据所给中文意思，完成下面各句。（每题2分，共10分）
1.我们午饭吃了一些非常特别的东西。
We had lunch.
2. 我一个月吃两次汉堡，你呢?
I eat hamburgers , what about you?
3.这位新老师使我们对数学更加感兴趣。
The new teacher made us math.
4. 机器人将能够代替我们做家务。
Robots to take our place to do housework.
5.为了借到那两本书，我去了市里的图书馆。
the two books, I went to the library in the city.
Here’s a piece of very simple but life changing advice that I first heard from Brain Tracy. Cut down on the TV at night by just one hour. Instead, use that hour to read books that could improve your life.
If you’re a salesman, google for the best and most useful books on improving your sales.
This applies(适用) to all fields, not just the workrelated（与工作相关的）ones. Maybe you want to improve your health, become a more energetic person. Or maybe you want to improve your study, your relations or perhaps do some personal development.
One hour a day is not much. But if you read for one hour a day on weekdays, that’s about 260 hours a year. That’s a large number of books and a lot of useful advice.
If you follow the ideas, who knows what great things and feelings could come into your life. Also, all that information and advice will start to open up your mind. You will start to see more chances in your life.
Now, you might think something like this:
I really don’t have the money….
Answer: Visit your public library or search the database(数据库). Or look for books that are used in places like amazon.com.
I really don’t have the time….
Answer: Buy audiobooks(有声读物) and listen to them in the car while driving to and from work. Or copy them to your MP3-player and listen while riding your bike/bus to work or school. Recently selling audiobooks through MP3-downloads has become popular….
Shut off the TV a little earlier and start reading.
1.What is Brain Tracy’s life changing advice about?
A.Watching TV.
B.Listening to MP3.
C.Using the Internet.
D.Reading helpful books
2.What should you do if you really don’t have the money to read?
A.To buy some books from amazon.com.
B.To download MP3 free.
C.To visit the public library.
D.To borrow audiobooks and listen to them.
3.What is the writer’s idea about audiobooks?
A.They are more useful.
B.Listening to audiobooks is easier than reading books.
C.It’s dangerous to listen to audiobooks while driving or riding.
D.Audiobooks are a good solution to the problem of having no time to read.
4.Which is NOT true about reading an hour a day?
A.It will open up your mind.
B.You will have about 260 hours a year to read.
C.You will read lots of books and get much useful advice.
D.It will probably bring great things and feelings into your life.
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. There was another building not far from mine. A woman lived there. I had never met her, but I could see her sit by the window each afternoon, drinking or reading.
After several months, I began to find that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself, “What a lazy woman! I want to know why she doesn’t wash her window. It really looks terrible.”
One bright morning, I decided to clean my flat, including the window. I worked the whole morning. When I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Everything in the woman’s flat could be seen clearly. Her window was clean!
I began to understand. I watched the woman’s window from my own dirty window. That’s the problem!
This is quite an important lesson for me. How often do I look at and criticize(批评) others through the dirty window of my heart?
From then on, whenever I want to judge someone, I ask myself first, “Am I looking at him through my dirty window?” Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see others’ world more clearly.
1.The writer couldn’t see things clearly through the window because .
A.the woman’s window was dirty
B.the writher’s window was dirty
C.the woman lived far away
D.there was something wrong with the writer’s eyes
2.It’s TRUE that .
A.the writer had never met the woman before
B.the woman often drank and read by the window in the morning
C.they both worked as cleaners
D.the woman lived alone
3.When did the writer begin to understand he had a wrong idea about the woman’s windows?
A.A few months ago.
B.A few months later.
C.Before he cleaned his windows.
D.After he cleaned his windows.
People use money to buy food, books and hundreds of other things they need. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells(贝壳).
In China, cloth and knives were used as money. Elephant tusks(牙), monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of the world. Rice was also a kind of money used by the people in some islands.
The first copper coins(硬币) were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals for their money. Later, some countries began to make coins of gold and silver(银). But gold and silver were heavy to carry when people needed a lot of coins to buy something expensive. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting story from the days of shell money till today.
1.People usually use money .
A.to buy gold
B.to get something they want
C.to buy shells
D.to buy something expensive
2.Long, long ago people all over the world used as money.
A.the same metal
B.the same paper
C.different metals
D.all kinds of things
3.The first paper money .
A.looked like the same as the paper money used today
B.looked interesting
C.looked like a note
D.had a square hole in the center
