A farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a sign advertising them on the edge of his yard.
One day, a little boy came to buy one of the puppies. With a whistle（口哨）, the farmer called, “Here, Dolly!” Out from the doghouse ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy stood against the fence（栅栏）. His eyes danced with happiness.
As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared, something wrong with its legs, doing its best to catch up.
“I want that one,” the little boy said.
The farmer knelt（跪下）down at the boy's side and said, “Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would.”
With that, the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so, he showed a steel brace（固定器）running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, “You see, sir, I don’t run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands.”
1.How did the farmer advertise his puppies?
A．Advertise them in the newspaper. B．Put up a sign in his yard.
C．Show them to his neighbors. D．Send pictures to a magazine.
2.The underlined words “four little balls of fur” refer to “_________”.
A．four toy balls B．four balls made of fur
C．four lovely dogs D．four puppies with no fur
3.Why did the boy choose the last dog?
A．Because they have something in common.
B．Because he didn't have enough money.
C．Because it was the most lovely one.
D．Because the farmer wouldn't sell other dogs.
4.According to the story, we know that the boy _________.
A．didn't like dogs at all B．needed a dog to help him
C．could run as fast as others D．had an artificial leg
5.Which of the following words best describes the boy?
A．clever B．lovely C．warm–hearted D．strange
根据句子结构的语法性，在下面空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词的适当形式填空。
1._________ (hear) their teacher's voice, the pupils stopped talking at once.
2.He _________ (bring) up in North Yorkshire by his grandmother .
3.It may be _________ (believe), but it's the truth.
4.She was so tired that she didn't even have the _________ (strong) to stand up.
5.She had her hair cut last night, now it is _________ (thin) and shorter.
6.Thousands of patients have benefited _________ the new medicine.
7.I find _________ strange that she doesn’t want to go.
8.Great changes _________ (take) place in China over the past few years.
9.Those _________ keep working hard will soon be successful.
10.We tried to save the building, _________ it was a hopeless task.
11.Please call me on your _________ (arrive) at the hotel.
12.She did not know _________ had happened.
13.With time _________ (go) by, my memory seemed to get worse.
14.I have borrowed _________ useful book from the library to prepare for my coming exam.
15.People began looking across to see_________ the noise was coming from.
A strange thing happened to me last Sunday. It was such a beautiful day that I decided to go for a 11 in the country. On the way back home，my car stopped. It was out of 12 on a lonely road far from a town. I decided to walk until I found someone who could 13 me a gallon（加仑） or two of petrol. I had 14 almost a mile before I finally found a big house near the road. I was 15 to see it because it was starting to get dark. I 16 at the door and a little old lady with long white hair answered. She said, “I have been 17 for you a long time. Come in. Tea is almost ready.”
“But I only came for some petrol.” I answered. I couldn’t 18 what she was talking about.
“Oh, Alfred! Petrol? You used to 19 tea.”
I quickly 20 that I needed some petrol, but she didn’t seem to hear me. She just kept calling me Alfred and talking about how long it had been since she had seen me. She was acting very strangely and I was 21 to leave. As soon as she went to get tea, I went out of the house as fast as I could. 22 , there was another house down the road and I was able to buy several gallons of petrol. When I told the man about my 23 . He said,“Oh, that is Miss Emily. She lives by herself in that big house. She’s 24 but she wouldn’t hurt anyone. She is still waiting for the man she was supposed to marry thirty years ago. The day before their 25 he left home and never came back because of the war.”
1. A．walk B．holiday C．drive D．picnic
2. A．work B．petrol C．order D．sight
3. A．buy B．borrow C．sell D．send
4. A．rested B．stopped C．stepped D．walked
5. A．amazed B．pleased C．surprised D．tired
6. A．beat B．stood C．knocked D．struck
7. A．waiting B．searching C．longing D．looking
8. A．order B．hear C．imagine D．remember
9. A．like B．have C．drink D．make
10. A．explained B．realized C．noticed D．discovered
11. A．excited B．anxious C．worried D．amazed
12. A．Fortunately B．Lately C．Immediately D．Personally
13. A．expression B．idea C．schedule D．experience
14. A．kind B．funny C．strange D．angry
15. A．marriage B．journey C．plan D．wedding
We don’t plan to cry, but it just happens. In fact when we feel sad or angry, a good cry is almost impossible to resist. But if you didn’t know what crying was, you’d have to wonder why some strong feelings started water streaming from people’s eyes and why they seemed to feel better afterwards.
Now a US researcher had found there may be more in crying than we think. William H. Frey II, author of “Crying: The Mystery of Tears,” believes it may really be one of the body’s clever self-repair mechanisms. Crying may be a way of getting rid of the by-products of stress, he says.
He has found that tears contain some chemicals which can cause stress. One of these is the hormone prolactin (激素), which is set free when one is feeling stressed. Since women have more of this than men, that might explain why they usually cry more, he suggests.
Unsurprisingly, Dr Frey’s study seemed to prove that most people feel better after a good cry. And sex has nothing to do with it ––– the result was true for women and men. So, next time you feel like bursting into tears, go ahead. If Dr Frey is right, you’ll be doing yourself a favour.
1.The best title of this passage would be ________.
A．Why Do We Cry B．Crying and Tears.
C．Dr Frey and Crying. D．Tears and Chemicals
2.According to the author, we feel like crying because________.
A．crying is one of our habits
B．we can’t control it
C．crying is one of the body’s self-repair mechanisms
D．we can get the by-products of stress by crying
3.According to the passage, men seem less likely to cry than women because_______.
A．their bodies contain less hormone prolactin
B．their tears contain more chemicals
C．they are not so full of feelings as women
D．the chemicals in their tears can’t cause stress
4.The author advised us________.
A．to plan to cry very often
B．not to cry any more
C．to go outdoors without hesitation
D．to cry as we want to
5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Good cries can make most people feel better
B．Only women can feel better after crying.
C．It is easy to understand that people feel better after a good cry.
D．Crying is sometimes impossible to resist.
Scientists are making new studies of color and its effects on our health. They have known for a long time that the color of a room or the color of the light in it can affect our feelings and emotions. Many prisons and hospitals have at least one room that is painted pink. Officials have found that light and color can produce physical changes in our bodies.
Professor Falfan worked with a group of 9 disabled children at school in Albert. Two of the children were blind. The other seven had normal sight. The scientists changed the color of the school room, then looked for changes in blood pressure, heart beat and breathing rate. The effects of color changes were the same for the blind children as for those with normal sight. Their blood pressure dropped from about 120 to 100. Similar changes were reported in heart-beat and the breathing. The children also were calmer and less excited. Then the colors of the room were returned to orange and white. Blood pressure, heart-beat and breathing rate went up and the children became excited again.
Professor Falfan said different colors produce different levels of light energy. He said the differences seem to affect chemicals in the brain that carry messages from nerve to nerve and from nerve to muscle.
1.Light and color can affect________.
A．only one’s feelings and emotions
B．one’s energy
C．one’s mental changes
D．one’s heart-beat, brain activities, blood pressure, feelings and emotions
2.The color of pink had a calming effect, that is to say, the color affects __________.
A．the chemicals in the brain B．the eyes
C．the skin D．the muscle
3.According to the text, orange and white are colors which can make people ________.
A．calm B．active C．sick D．blind
4.The colors in the school room mentioned in the passage were changed from _________.
A．orange to white B．orange and white to dark blue
C．orange and white to pink or some other colors D．gray to more colors
5.After reading the passage we can conclude that ________.
A．blind people can be affected by colors, too
B．one’s heart will beat fast in a colorful room than in a white room
C．the chemicals in the brain change with feelings and emotions
D．if one’s blood pressure drops, his breathing will get slower and slower
When children learn a language, they learn the grammar as well as words or vocabulary. No one teaches them; children just “pick them up”.
Before babies begin to produce words, they produce sounds. Some of these sounds will remain if they occur in the language being learned, and others will disappear. This is called the “babbling stage”.
A child does not learn the language “all at once”. The child first speaks only one-word “sentences”. After a few months, the two-word stage arises. During this stage, the child puts two words together. These two-word sentences have definite patterns and express grammatical and meaningful relationships. Still later, in the telegraphic stage, the child will produce longer sentences. These longer sentences are mainly made up of content words. The child’s early grammar lacks many of the rules of the adult grammar, but gradually it will become perfect.
All normal children everywhere learn language. This ability is not dependent on race, social class, geography, or even intelligence (智力). This ability is uniquely (独特的) for human.
1.This passage is mainly about ___________.
A．differences between a child’s language and an adult’s
B．ways of teaching babies to talk
C．children’s learning of the mother language
D．the importance of learning foreign languages
2.The phrase “pick them up” means____________.
A．raise them from the ground
B．learn them without much effort
C．use hands to help carry them
D．study very hard and remember them
3.During the “babbling stage”, babies ___________.
A．can only produce sound
B．learn to work without falling over
C．can understand people’s talk
D．begin to produce two-word sentences
4.The two-word sentences produced by babies __________.
A．are simpler than those produced in the “babbling stage”
B．are much more difficult than those produced in the telegraphic stage
C．are strictly grammatical
D．are meaningful and have function
5.The passage implies that any children can learn a language as long as he is ___________.
A．well-educated B．clever enough
C．unique D．physical normal
