阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在回答所提问题的句子中填上恰当的词。每空一词。

　　EVERYTHING has two sides. One side of SARS is already clear. It is a deadly disease, which causes fear. There were 2,601 cases(病例) recorded on the Chinese mainland on April 24, according to government report. 115 people have died and numbers keep rising.

　　But, there is another side.

　　SARS is a reminder(提醒)of how fragile life can be. Suddenly, it's not just the old people who are thinking about death. Everyone now realizes there might not always be a tomorrow.

　　Wang Xinying, a student in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province came into contect(接触) with a suspected(疑似) SARS patient in mid-April. He was told to stay at home for at least two weeks. “Watching TV about more and more SARS patients dying, I never knew that death could be so close. Life is valuable(珍贵的) and I'm going to treasure (珍惜) every single day,” he said.

　　SARS teaches people to be grateful, both for their own lives and for others. Doctors and nurses, for example, have to spend all their time with infected(被感染的) patients. As a result, more than one fifth of SARS cases in China are medical workers.

Xu Bing, a student of Beijing No. 5 Middle School wants to be a doctor in the future. “Although they certainly know the dangers, doctors and nurses kept working hard on saving people's lives. I'm deeply moved by what they have done. I think they are real heroes,” he said.

　　SARS also teaches sympathy(同情). The past few weeks have been terrible for Chinese people. But there are far worse things than SARS in this world, such as war, earthquakes and robberies. Think of the Iraqis, who have been living terrible lives for 20 years. Think of how the Americans felt on 9/11.

　　And finally, SARS offers the chance to grow. All different kinds of people and the governments are joining together to work in this difficult tine. When this passes, China and its people, will have learned great lessons.

1．What does “Everyone now realizes there might not always be a tomorrow?” mean?

It means life is easy to ________ and we must ________ our life.

2．How long was Wang Xinying told to stay at home?

He was told to stay at home for about ________ a ________.

3．Why can medical workers be easily infected?

Because they have to be with infected patients ________ and ________.

4．What do we learn in the difficult time?

We learn nothing is difficult if we ________ ________.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在回答所提问题的句子中填上恰当的词。每空一词。

　　Clem Quinn was always interested in flying. When he was five, he tried to fly by jumping off the garden shed (小棚) with a golf umbrella, but when he was in his twenties he didn't become a pilot(飞行员), he became a taxi driver. Then 20 years ago he did a parachute(跳伞) jump and loved it. He thought that being a taxi driver in London was a lot more dangerous than jumping out of a plane, so he moved to the country to learn parachute jumping and sky-diving. He says:

　　“I love sky-diving because the world looks so good－blue sky, green fields, white clouds. You float(漂浮) through the air, it's like floating in water. You can see forever, all the way to the French coast(海岸). The scenery is beautiful. You can forget all your worries. People think it is dangerous but it's very safe. Football is much more dangerous. Footballers often have accidents. When did you last hear of a sky-diving accident? Next July I'm going to do a sky-dive with 100 people from six planes. That's a record. I'm never going to give up. I'm going to jump out of planes until I'm an old man.”

1．What job did he do when he was in his twenties?

When he was in his twenties, he didn't become a pilot, he ________ a taxi, ________.

2．Why does he like the sport?

He loves the sport because he loves ________ the scenery in the ________.

3．What's the record according to the passage?

There are a ________ people and ________ planes taking part in the sky-dive.

阅读理解

　　Most people have jobs. They go to work nearly every day. Some people are lucky. Either they have very interesting jobs or they make a lot of money. Most people are not so lucky. Either their jobs are not very interesting or they don't make much money.

　　The most interesting jobs are often the most difficult. People take a long time to learn how to do them. Doctors study for at least six years after finishing school.

　　Some young people have interesting and high-pay jobs. Many young players do their work successfully. Football and tennis stars are usually under 35 years old. Older people usually can not play these sports very well. They cannot move fast enough. Golf, however, is a good sport for older people. Many golf payers are quite old, but they can play it successfully.

　　Most people work until they are 60 or 65 years old. Then they retire(退休) and have a lot of free time. Same people never retire though. These people usually have very interesting jobs. Writers, artists, scientists and actors (演员) usually work until they die. Their work is their life.

根据短文内容，完成下列句子，每空一词。

1．Some ________ people have interesting or high-pay jobs, ________ most people don't have such good luck.

2．Some jobs ________ a long time to learn because they are ________.

3．Young players can ________ very fast, so many of them play these ________ like football and tennis very ________.

4．Golf is a good sport for ________ people.

5．Most people keep ________ until the age of 60 or 65. But writers, artists, scientists and actors can work all their ________.

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)：

22 July

　　Dear Penny,

　　I hope you're all well. We're all terribly busy, even Polly, who has finally managed to find some work. U 1 , it's not a very good job, but at least it's a job, and maybe she will find something better in the future. She has also found somewhere e 2 to live－a small flat about five miles away, so now there's only Joe and me left at home. After 24 years of having children to look after, it's very strange to have the house to ourselves, although I do enjoy coming home to a tidy house at the e 3 of a day. By the way, Polly has broken up with her boyfriend, Peter. We were very sorry, because we got on well with him, and they s 4 to be in love.

　　Alice has some interesting news, as well. She passed her final exams. We heard last week, so of course, we had a small family celebration. She doesn't know what she wants to do yet, but she has plenty of time to decide. She doesn't have a boyfriend at the moment, either. I don't know what's the matter with them! They're both pretty e 5 ! Joe's fine, but he hasn't been able to do m 6 in the garden because of the weather, which has been terrible. Actually it has rained every day for the p 7 few weeks. It's unbelievable, isn't it?

　　Anyway, that's all for my news. How are you all? What are you up to?

　　Do write soon and tell me everything!

　　Love

　　Jacky

Reading comprehension(阅读理解)：

　　Kate Holmes was visiting a friend, old Mrs. Sydney. Mrs. Sydney had known Kate all her life. She liked to tell Kate about mysteries(神秘故事) and see whether Kate could solve them.

　　“You are very good at solving mysteries,” she said to Kate, “but some day I'll fool you! Maybe I'll be able to fool you today. Did I ever tell you about the story of the Unknown Brother?”

　　Kate said no and listened. She liked Mrs. Sydney's stories.

　　“Well,” Mrs. Sydney said, “Jed Wright was my friend when I was a child. He ran away from home when he was very young and lived for years by doing all kinds of jobs. Finally, in 1927, he went to Michigan, where he found a copper mine(铜矿). He bought the land and ran the mine and became a very rich man.

　　“Jed never married. His parents had died years before, and his only relative was a brother.”

　　“One day Jed knew he was dying. He sent for a good friend, Dan Cole, who had worked for him for years.”

　　“Jed gave Dan two envelopes.‘This one is for you,’ he said, ‘ and please give the other one to my brother Alf. He is…’ While he was speaking, Jed died.”

　　“There were his dying wishes in Dan's envelope. It gave him Jed's mine and house. The envelope for Alf had some money and business papers in it. Dan and Alf were each to get about half of Jed's fortune(财富). They would both be rich.”.

　　“Dan had never seen Alf. He had only two clues(线索). One was an old photo that showed Alf and Jed. But it was taken on their tenth birthday, fifty years ago. The other clue was a post card from Alf. It had no address. It had been mailed in Boston the month before Jed died.”

　　“Dan went to Boston. He put an advertisement in the newspaper. It said there was good news for Alf Wright. It told where Dan was staying.”

　　“The next day, more than a hundred men came to Dan's hotel. They all said they were Alf Wright. But though he had never seen Alf, Dan was able to pick him out right away.”

　　When Mrs. Sydney finished her story, she smiled.

　　“All right, Kate,” she said. “How did he know Alf?”

　　Kate smiled too. “That's easy,” she said. “You told me how. The clue was the photo.”

　　“Yes, it was,” said Mrs. Sydney. “But it was taken when Alf and Jed were boys. How could that help?”

　　“You said it was taken when both boys were ten years old, so they were…”

　　Kate gave Mrs. Sydney the answer and she had to admit that Kate Holmes had won again.

Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题，每题所填内容不超过五个单词)：

1．What made Jed Wright a rich man?

The ________ made him very rich.

2．What was in the envelope for Dan?

________________________________________________.

3．Did Dan do what Jed asked him to do?

________________________________________________.

4．What helped Dan to find Alf?

________, ________ and the advertisement.

5．What was Kate's answer to the mystery?

Kite said, “… so they were _____________________________________.”

6．Were they brothers or friends?

Kate and Mrs. Sydney were friends; Jed and Alf were brothers; Jed and ________.

Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格一词，首字母已给)：

　　People often say, “Without stepping 1　　 of my house, I can know 2　　 is happening in the world.” Why? Because we have newspapers. Newspapers not only 3　　 news, but also give us guidance in every aspect such 4　　 first-aid, cooking, playing chess, taking photographs, and so on.

　　Reading newspapers can widen our scope of knowledge. It 5　　 us improve our writing. We ran also 6　　 many new words 7　　 the newspaper.

Reading Comprehension(阅读理解)：

Henry Ford was the first one to build cars. The cars were fast, cheap and reliable. He was able to sell millions of them because he “mass-produced” them, that is, he made a great many cars of the same type. Henry Ford's father had hoped that his son would become a farmer, but the young man did not like the idea and went to Detroit. He worked there as a mechanic. By the time he was twenty-nine, in 1892, he had built his first car. The first mass-produced car in the world, the famous “Model T”, appeared in 1908－five years after Herry had started in his great Ford Company. This car was so popular that it could be unchanged for twenty years. Since Henry Ford's time, mass-produced techniques have become common in industry and have made a great many products cheaper than ever.

Complete the answer to each question(根据短文内容完成下列问题)：

1．Who invented cars?

________ invented cars.

2．What did his father want him to be?

His father wanted him to be ________.

3．How old was he when his first car was built?

He was ________.

4．In which year did he start in his great company?

He started in his great company ________.

5．Why could “Model T” be unchanged for twenty years?

Because it was very ________.

6．How long have mass-produced techniques become common in industry?

________.

根据对话内容，将所缺单词填入下边相应的横线上，使对话完整，每空填一词

　　Alice：Are you 1 tomorrow?

　　Lucy：Yes, I think so.

　　Alice： 2 shall we do?

　　Lucy：I don't know. Let's 3 shopping, shall we?

　　Alice：Good idea. 4 5 shall we leave?

　　Lucy：Let me see. I can't leave before nine o'clock. I have 6 wash my clothes 7 we go.

　　Alice： 8 worry. We can go before nine thirty. I'll 9 for you at the bus stop 10 about nine fifteen.

阅读短文，在空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词

If you are in a hurry and you want to have a quick meal, there is no ________ place than a self-service restaurant. You go into the restaurant, pick up a tray, knife, fork and spoon, and queue at a counter where the is on display (陈列). You pick ________ what you want and put it in your tray, which you have to push along a special rack till you reach the cashier(出纳员). The cashier will ________ you your bill. After paying her, you take your tray to ________ table you like. You can sit ________ or with another customer.

阅读短文，在空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词

Miss Jane had been taking driving lessons and trying to pass her driving test for several years, but she had failed every time ________ she always became too excited and did silly things when she was driving a car. Now she was ________ the test again, but she ________ so many mistakes that she was sure that she had ________ chance of passing, so she was very surprised ________ the examiner nodded at the end of the test and said, “All ________, Miss Jane, I am going to pass you.”