1.We may read the passage from a ________________.
A. notebook B. dialogue C. test paper D. diary
2.What does “PAT DAY” mean?
A. The day for the students to make music tests.
B. The day for the teachers to practice teaching.
C. The day for parents to meet teachers at school
D. The day for students to ask questions about music.
3.According to the above, the class will______________ on Friday.
A. decorate the classroom
B. sing their thanks to their parents
C. buy presents for their parents
D. welcome a new music teacher
4.Why does Millie’s mother feel nervous?
A. Millie does not do well at school.
B. She is afraid of talking to teachers.
C. Millie’s father is going to the school, too.
D. She has to sing a song in front of the class.
5.What can you infer(推测)from the passage?
A. Millie likes the activities on the PAT Day.
B. Mother’s Day is on May 17th.
C. Millie’s mother won’t go to PAT Day.
D. Millie will buy her mother a present.
In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
1.The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.
A. the word “stewardess” was made up by Ellen Church
B. Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane
C. Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane
D. Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane
2.From the second paragraph, we learn that ________.
A. Ellen did not behave in the same way as most other girls
B. Ellen’s family was not rich enough to support her education
C. Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital
D. Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely
3.The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.
A. her flying experience
B. her university education
C. her nursing experience
D. her life attitudes
4.The passage mainly talks about _______.
A. the background of early flying pilots
B. the experience of flying passengers
C. the history of early flight attendants
D. the development of airplanes
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
