--How do you think I can make up with Tom?
---Put aside_____ you disagree and try to find_____ you have in common.
A．what, what B．where, what C．what, whether D．where, whether
________, his idea was accepted by all the people at the meeting.
A．Strange as might it sound B．As it might sound strange
C．As strange it might sound D．Strange as it might sound
中小学生的近视问题比较严重，请你用英语简单讲述这一现象的原因，并对同学们该怎样保护视力提出二、三条建议。
注意：文章不少于100个词。
提示：近视short-sighted adj / short-sightedness n
眼保健操 eye exercise
We went to the swimming pool today. I had my first swimming lesson. At first I was very afraid. I hated it when the water went up my nose and into my ears. I kept my eyes closed all 1._____ time.
Slowly, however, I became more confident. The teacher made sure 2.____ would always touch the bottom of the pool with my feet and 3.____ my head was above water. By the end of the lesson I could float on the water for 4.____ least a minute.
I’m glad I’m learning to swim; it can be lots of fun. Soon I hope to be able to dive into the pool 5.____ swim underwater.
A young man from a village called Nawalapitiya married a young woman from Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the man’s big family—his parents, his brothers, their wives and children. The family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.
Three months later the woman went back to her parents’ home, having quarreled with her husband. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart-broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.
It went to the woman’s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband’s home.
1.The writer wrote the story in order to ______.
A．show that elephants are very clever
B．tell how a woman trained a wild animal
C．show that women care more for animals than men do
D．tell how an animal reunited (团圆) a husband and wife
2.The woman left her new home ______.
A．to visit her own parents in Maliyuwa
B．to see if the elephant would follow her
C．because she was angry with her husband
D．because she was tired of the large family
3.After the young woman left her husband’s home, the elephant ______.
A．returned to the forest B．was sad because it missed her
C．went to look for a new home D．was sick because nobody fed it
4.The young wife went back to her husband because ______.
A．she knew he had sent the animal to her
B．the elephant had come to look for her
C．her parents told her to
D．she missed her new home
May: Happenings from the Past
May 5, 1884
Isaac Murphy, son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.
May 9, 1754
Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon (漫画), showing a snake cut in pieces with the words “Join or Die” printed under the picture.
May 11, 1934
The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought (干旱), blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington, D.C.
May 19, 1994
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.
May 24, 1844
Samuel F.B Morse taps out the first message, “What hath God wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Md.
1.We know from the text that Buchanan is ______.
A．Isaac’s father
B．a winning horse
C．a slave taking care of horses
D．the first racing horse in Kentucky
2.What is the title of the first American political cartoon?
A．Join or Die B．Pennsylvania Gazette
C．What Hath God Wrought D．Kentucky Derby
3.In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?
A．1934 B．1960 C．1964 D．1994
4.Which of the following places has to do with the first telegram in history?
A. Washing to, D.C. B. New York City C. Kentucky D. Pennsylvania
