You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists（拳头）.But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!
Of course he isn’t really dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why ? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catching fire, are professionals（职业）.They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks（骗局）.
There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress（床垫）. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!
But although their work depend on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing（计时）.For example, when he is “blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion（爆炸）just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute（降落伞）failed to open, and he was killed.
In spite of（尽管）all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are stuntgirls too!
1.Stuntmen are those who____________
A．Often dress up as actors
B．prefer to lead dangerous lives
C．often perform seemingly dangerous actions
D．often fight each other for their lives
2.Stuntmen earn their living by___________
A．playing their dirty tricks
B．selling their special skills
C．jumping out of high windows
D．jumping from fast moving trains
3.When a stuntman falls from a high building,___________
A．he needs little protection
B．he will be covered with a mattress
C．his life is endangered
D．his safety is generally all right
4.Which of the following is the main factor(因素) of a successful performance?
A．Strength B．Exactness C．Speed D．Carefulness
5.What can be inferred from the author’s example of the Norwegian stuntman?
A．Sometimes an accident can occur to a stuntman.
B．The percentage of serious accidents is high.
C．Parachutes must be of good quality.
D．The cliff is too high.
在最近的一次主题为“中学生上网”的班会上，同学们对上网的利弊争论不休，
不能统一。作为班长，请你根据下列信息，做出总结。
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大多数同学 |
少数同学 |
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1.提倡课余时间上网 |
1.上网可以,但必须限时 |
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2..网络使我们交流方便，可获得国内外最新消息 |
2许多人上网时玩游戏而不是学习. |
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3丰富了学生的业余生活 |
3.个别同学甚至为了上网而逃学 |
注意：发言稿的开头已给出，不计总数。 词数：100左右
Attention,please!I’m going to give you a summary of today’s discussion
about going online.
根据下列各句句意及所给单词的汉语提示, 写出各单词的正确形式。
1.We were near the ________(边界)between France and Germany.
2.I will send one thousand lucky stars to you and let the good luck ________（围绕）you
3.There are many _______ (理论) about the origin of life.
4.It is generally accepted that smoking is _______ (有害的) to our health.
5.Do you want your vegetables cooked or________（生的）?
When Albert Einstein was young, he was a quiet child
who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to talk and had difficulty in
learning to read.
When Albert was five years
old, his father gave him a compass (指南针). Albert was filled with wonder when he discovered
that the compass needle (针) always pointed in the same
direction —the north. He asked his father and uncle what caused the needle to
move.
Their answers were difficult
for Albert to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time thinking about them. He
said later that he felt something must be behind things.
Albert did not like school.
The German schools of that time were not pleasant. Students couldn’t ask
questions. Albert said he felt as if he were in prison.
One day Albert told his uncle
Jacob how much he hated school, especially mathematics. His uncle told him to
solve mathematical problems by pretending to be a policeman. "You are looking
for someone," he said, "but you do not know who he is. Call him X.
Find him by using your mathematical tools."
Albert learned to love
mathematics. He was studying the complex math of calculus (微积分学) while all his friends were
still studying simple math. Instead of playing with friends he thought about
things such as "What would happen if people could travel at the speed of
light?".
Albert wanted to teach math
and physics. He graduated with honors, but it was a pity that he could not get
a teaching job.
1.According
to Paragraph 2, we can learn that Albert Einstein ________.
A．was interested in the compass B．wanted to be a great scientist C．was not clever enough D．didn’t like thinking by himself
2.Why did Albert Einstein hate school?
A．He couldn’t play with his friends there. B．Students were not allowed to ask questions. C．The schools were small at that time. D．He had to learn mathematics that he didn’t like.
3.What does the underlined word "complex"
probably mean?
A．useless. B．Difficult. C．Boring. D．Interesting.
4.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A．Einstein became a mathematics teacher after graduation B．Einstein gradually loved mathematics with his uncle’s help C．learning mathematics is like working as a policeman D．Einstein liked playing with other children
5.What is the main idea of the passage?
A．How Albert Einstein studied in school. B．Something about Albert Einstein’s early interests. C．Something about the young Albert Einstein. D．Why Albert Einstein learned more than his classmates.
Today, when a man steps on to the moon, or something new and important happens, the world learns about it immediately. What did the newspapers say about that first flight in 1903? Strangely enough, they said hardly anything about it at all. There are only a few reports about it in the papers. These reports said very little. Some of the things they said were not even correct.
In 1904 the Wrights built a second machine. They called it “Flyer No. Two”. They invited some reporters to a field near Dayton to watch them fly. Unfortunately, there was some mechanical(机械的) trouble with the plane and it did not fly at all that day. The newspapermen went away. They were disappointed and did not come back. The Wrights went on with their work. In 1905, they built an even better machine, “Flyer No Three”. They were able to stay upon the air for half an hour and more in the machine. Farmers and travelers on the road around the Dayton often saw them flying, but when three people told newspapermen about it, they refused to believe them.
The Wrights offered “Flyer No. Three” to the United States government. The government was not interested. They seemed to think the Wrights wanted money in order to build a plane. They did not understand the Wrights had already done this, and flown it as well. Experts were still saying that mechanical flight was impossible. At the end of 1905, the two brothers took their planes to pieces. The parts were put into a huge wooden box. It seemed nobody was interested.
1.The reporters were disappointed in 1904 because________.
A．the Wrights did not invite them
B．the plane could not stay long in the air
C．the plane did not fly at all that day
D．they had wanted to see a better machine
2.The U．S. government could not understand that________.
A．the Wrights had already built a machine that could fly
B．experts still thought flight was impossible
C．the Wrights wanted more money to build an airplane
D．“Flyer No. Three” was now in a wooden case
3.The Wrights took their plane to pieces because________.
A．they planned to go to Europe
B．nobody was interested
C．the government didn't give them any money
D．the newspapermen didn't report their flights
4.What does the underlined word “Flyer” mean?
A．Pilot. B．Drive. C．Plane. D．Kite.
5.Which of the following is NOT true?
A．Today, people are very interested in new things.
B．People in the past talked little about new things.
C．Reporters are now as interested in new happening as in the past.
D．People in the past even told each other wrong things.
Teenagers in England do much the same as children in America do. They enjoy sending messages by their mobile phones and they also like swimming, listening to the latest music, watching TV and surfing the Internet.
How do teenagers in England spend their free time and holidays? Let’s follow Sally, a British teenager, and spend five days with her during her school holiday.
Day One
After breakfast, Sally’s mother went out and left her alone at home. She checked her mobile phone during lunch —one of her friends sent her a message early in the morning. Dinner was at 6:30 p.m. After that, she finished her English home-work. Then she surfed the Internet.
Day Two
Sally and her mother paid a visit to their friends and went swimming together. Later, they went shopping for clothes and books, and had dinner in a restaurant.
Day Three
She went to the supermarket with her mother to buy fish and chips for lunch as well as some pens. After she got back home, she spent the next few hours surfing the Internet and watching TV.
Day Four
She surfed the Internet. Her mother took her out for lunch before she went to work. She then read stories after lunch.
Day Five
She woke up at 2 p.m., and so did her mother. They went to a park. Her mother met some friends there. When they got home, it was already time for dinner. Afterwards, she did her homework until 10 p.m.
1.When did Sally do her homework?
A．In the morning. B．In the afternoon.
C．At lunch time. D．In the evening.
2.Sally and her mother went shopping again to buy __________.
A．food for lunch and pens B．some books and pens
C．some fish and clothes D．food and books
3.Which of the following things did Sally do on Day Four?
A．She went swimming. B．She went out for breakfast.
C．She read books. D．She went shopping.
4.How many times did Sally and her mother meet their friends during the five days?
A．Once. B．Twice. C．Three times. D．Four times.
5.According to the passage, it can be inferred that ________.
A．a park is the best place to meet a friend
B．parents shouldn’t leave teenagers alone at home
C．teenagers don’t usually do their homework during their school holidays
D．surfing the Internet has become an important part of teenagers’ lives
