Every day in China, about 200 million children go to school. Many of them take school buses. What should we do to keep these students safe on the road?

On April 5, 2012，the State Council(国务院) published new rules about school bus safety. These new rules are stricter than the old ones.

Under the new rules, local governments must make sure that students go to nearby school or boarding schools to reduce traffic risks . Also, local governments must help kids in the countryside reach their school buses.

From now on, school buses have a speed limit of 80 km/h on highways and 60 km/h on normal roads. While on the road, other cars must let school buses go first.

The new rules also say that school buses must never be overloaded (超载的).

There are many other rules as well. A school bus must have more than seven seats. On each bus, there must be at least one adult to keep an eye on the kids. Each school bus must have a fire extinguisher (灭火器), a first aid kit (急救箱) and a GPS.

A series of school bus accidents happened in China in 2011. To stop such accidents, the Central Government decided to strengthen (加强) the rules for school buses.

The most serious accident happened in Gansu in November,2011. When a nine-seat minibus crashed. There were more than 60 children inside, and 21 of them died.

I hope such terrible things won’t happen again and all of us can pay more attention to the safety of the students.

56. What did the State Council publish on April 5, 2012?

A. New rules about school bus safety.　　 B. New rules about student safety.

C. New rules about student home.　　　　 　　 D. New rules about class.

57. According to the passage, the government made new rules because 　　　.

A. 21 students died in school bus accidents in 2011

B. School buses in China were not safe enough before

C. 200 million children in China go to school by bus every day　 　　　　　　

D. the government encourages all students to take school buses　 　　　　

58. What does the underlined “”word mean?

A. 国外的 .　　　 B. 国内的 .　 C. 寄宿的.　 D. 较远的 .

59. What is the best title of this passage?

A. The most serious accident happened in 2011 in Gansu.

B. A school bus must have more than seven seats.　　

C. Local governments must help kids.

D. Safety first on the school bus.

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

53. Edison was______________.

A. interested in changing people’s ideas

B. interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C. very much uninterested in nature

D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

54. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

B. Edison has changed the lives of many other people .

C. Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.

D. Edison invented the electric light.

55. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.

A. people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work

B. Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C. Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

  Mr. Carrey worked at a big company. He went to work by bus. One day when he was standing at the bus-stop, he watched cars go by. Many of the cars were new Sherry 700s, and most of them were yellow.

  Mr. Carrey was a person who did not like to be different from other men. He always wore the same clothes as other men, ate the same food as other people, and did the same things after work as they did.

  Two months later, Mr. Carrey bought a new yellow Sherry 700. He was very pleased with it, and drove to work in it the next morning. When he saw all the other Sherry 700s, in front, behind and on both sides of him, he was even more pleased with his car.

  Mr. Carrey parked his car in a big car-park near the office building, and walked to his office. But when he came back at five o’clock, there were so many yellow Sherry 700s in the car-park that Mr. Carrey did not know which car was his. He tried his key in some of the cars, but people passing by gave him a look which he did not like. So he stopped.

  Mr. Carrey could do nothing but wait nearly forty minutes until his car was the only yellow Sherry 700 left in the car-park. 

50. Mr. Carrey bought a new yellow Sherry 700 because__________________ .

A. he did not like taking a bus      

B. he liked to be different from other men   

C. he liked to do the same things as other people 

D. the bus did not always come on time .

51. In the car-park, “people gave him a look” because _____ .

A. he could not open the door of his car                   

B. he was trying to open the door of more than one car

C. he was in the wrong car-park

D. he had a new yellow car

52. Mr. Carrey had to wait until _____ in the car-park.

A. there was only one car left                    

B. there was no one about to look at him

C. there was only one yellow Sherry 700 left

D. there were no yellow Sherry 700s left

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  Once a young man was traveling by train. It was a long and boring journey. As the train was moving through a wilderness(荒野), the passengers looked out of the windows 35   . When the train reached a bend(弯道)，it slowed down and then a simple house 36   . It was so easy to notice that everybody on the train turned to “enjoy” with eyes wide open. Some passengers even began a discussion about it. The young man was also 37  by the scenery. On his return he 38   the train at the nearest station and found his way to the house. Its owner said that he was troubled by the 39   of the train. He wanted to sell the house, but 40    would buy it.

  41    the young man spent 30,000 dollars on the house. He thought it was a good place for 42    because it was facing the railway bend. When the train moved slowly past, the tired passengers would 43    the house.

  He tried to 44   some big companies and told them that could be used for advertisement. At last the Coca-Cola Company took it to put up their 45   . To everyone’s surprise, the young man was afforded 180,000 dollars for a three-year rent.

  This is a true story. It tells us that discovery is very 46  . Many people have got new ideas from it.

35．A．excitedly         B．quietly           C．safely              D．clearly

36．A．appeared             B．found         C. invented        D．came    

37．A．attacked             B．attracted       C. sticked        D. moved

38．A．got on            B．turned on           C．got off      D．turned off

39．A．track                    B．passengers           C．conductors   D．noise

40．A．nobody           B．someone       C．advertiser         D. everybody

41．A．Gently                 B．Quickly        C．Finally       D．Lately

42．A．discovery      B．renting               C．staying          D. advertisement

43．A．apply for       B．lack of    C. be interested in         D．stay in

44．A．work for       B．join in               C．connect with         D．look up

45．A. messages          B．magazines     C．notices           D．slogans

46．A. interesting      B．important         C．difficult       D．different

—Do you know ________Guangzhou with his family?

— Next week.

　 A. when does Mr. Brown visit B. when will Mr. Brown visit

C. when Mr. Brown will visit　　　　　　　 D. when Mr. Brown visits

 There is a big bank near my home and it   three years ago.

A. is built          B. are built         C. was built     D. is building

—I was at the cinema at 9 o’clock last night. What about you?

—I　　　 at home.

A. am watching TV B. was watching TV　　　　　 　

C. will watch TV　　 　　　　　 　　　　 D. watched TV

—Must I clean my room now, Mum?

—_______. You can do it tomorrow.

A. No, you needn’t　 　 B. No, you mustn’t C. Yes, you need　 　 D. Yes, you must

 Betty will ring me up as soon as she ________ in Shanghai.

    A. arrive          B. arrives         C. arrived       D. will arrive