For a long time, humans have used technology (科技) to study the world around us, and Mars is the latest place we’re using machines to explore. Besides the earth, the “red planet” is seen, as the one place in our solar system most likely to have life.
Early before, the first American robot, Spirit, landed on Mars without any problem. Opportunity, the second robot, landed on the planet more than a week ago. Scientists are very excited about these machines’ safe landing on Mars. It means that now we have an excellent chance to look for water and other signs of life. So far, the robots have found some stones that could show Mars was once a wet and warm planet.
But the trips made by Spirit and Opportunity were dangerous. Mars is often called the “death planet”, because in the past its environment has been unfriendly to the robot explorers. Before Spirit and Opportunity, nearly forty spaceships had been sent to Mars since the 1960s. Two-thirds of them failed. The first spaceship, Korabl, sent in 1962 by Russia was among them. It broke apart (分裂) near the earth.
1.For a long time humans think ________.
A. they can surely find life on Mars
B. there may be life on Mars
C. it’s too late for them to explore Mars now
D. Mars is the only planet that has life on it
2. The two robots ________.
A. have found out that it is warm and wet on Mars
B. were sent to Mars to find some stones
C. were the first two American robots that landed on Mars
D. are the only machines that have landed on Mars so far
3.The third paragraph mainly tell us ________.
A. it’s a very hard and dangerous trip for spaceships to Mars
B. two-thirds of the spaceships sent to Mars have failed
C. Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars successfully
D. Mars is called the “death planet”
Although I had left school against the advice of my teacher, I had, without telling anyone, tried to continue my studies in literature at evening classes. It was a tiresome walk from one end of the city to another and to sit among adults was uninteresting. I was the youngest in the class, so the friendship I knew at school was absent, I put up with it for a short period. It was too long a walk on cold winter’s nights and it was hard to put my heart into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers. So I continued reading books and started writing poetry at home.
By chance, I won some prizes and rewards for literature. A young woman from a TV company came to the college one day. She wanted to make a short film about me, to which I said, “No, I couldn’t do that.” Not that I had any real excuse, I was just frightened. In the end she advised me that I should do it the following day.
So I did. They made a short film of me reading one of my poems and I became more interested in literature than ever. I wondered what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not imagine myself spending the rest of my days dealing with machines. So one evening, I hesitatingly（支吾其词地） told my parents that I wanted to return to school. They wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and whether I realized that if I gave up my job training, it would be very difficult to get a good job. But nothing could stop me, and they asked about the matter on future.
1.Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraphs above this text?
A. The writer’s unhappy childhood.
B. The poor teaching quality of the writer’s school.
C. The writer’s leaving school against his teacher’s advice.
D. Whether it was worth leaving school for job training.
2.The writer did NOT feel comfortable at the evening school because __________.
A. he found it difficult to make friends with his classmates
B. he had to walk a long distance to the evening school
C. he could not put his heart into reading books after he was caught in the rain
D. all of the above
3. After his success, he __________.
A. decided to get a good job
B. decided to continue his studies in literature at the evening school
C. decided to return to the school he once left
D. began to feel very important and proud
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I needed to get something to clean the house this weekend, so I went to a local store. While walking around, I realized that I didn’t _______ at anyone. That was not my character. I almost always smile at strangers in the hope that it may make them a bit_______. But at that special moment, I was thinking about what had worried me earlier that day and not really in the_____ to smile.
When I went to check out my things, I met with a very______ line. To shorten the first line, a second register(收银台) opened up. I _______ turned into it. After a few moments, I began to _____ that all the people before me had lots of things to check out. I wasn’t ______ any longer, so I returned to the first line. After a while, all the people in the second line checked out. I was still standing in the _______ line.
At last, it was my ______ to check out. I found that the man behind the register seemed so happy! He greeted me_______ a big smile.
“________ nice it is to see a smiling face in this store!” I said.
He ______ to me, “I love to smile, because you never know what people are going through.” At that moment, he made me think of ______.
Something in me changed, and we began talking. There was no one behind me, _____ we talked and laughed for a while. What a gift it was to be _______ by this kind young man! I suddenly had all the time in the world.
1.A. shout B. smile C. look D. laugh
2.A. closer B. newer C. happier D. faster
3.A. store B. mood C. place D. room
4.A. long B. short C. boring D. interesting
5.A. simply B. easily C. slowly D. quickly
6.A. remember B. forget C. doubt D. notice
7.A. police B. nervous C. patient D. silent
8.A. first B. second C. third D. last
9.A. turn B. dream C. duty D. courage
10.A. in B. on C. to D. with
11.A. What B. How C. While D. Why
12.A. got B. answered C. replied D. cried
13.A. himself B. myself C. yourself D. herself
14.A. but B. although C. because D. so
15.A. pushed in B. opened up C. cheered up D. put through
When Jim’s mother came in, he________ his homework.
A. is doing B. has done C. was doing D. had done
The girl ________ sing in the next room last Sunday.
A. heard to B. is heard to
C. was heard D. was heard to
----Would you please ______ the paper for me and see if there are any obvious mistakes?
-----Of course I will.
A. look around B. look through C. look up D. look into
