In American school there is something called Homecoming Day（校友返校日）. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important thing of the year except Graduation of Commencement Day（毕业典礼日）. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance（预先）.

　　The members of school clubs build booths（摊位）and sell lemonade, apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome the visitors.

　　Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honour（荣誉）to be chosen.

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A．winning the game

B．homecoming

C．selling lemonade, apples and sandwiches

D．Graduation of Commencement Day

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A．many weeks before the day

B．three days before Homecoming

C．the day before Homecoming

D．when the guests arrive

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A．To call on teachers they remember.

B．To watch the football game.

C．To go home to see their family.

D．To see old friends.

(4)The word “vote” in the passage means “______”.

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A．to have a football game

B．to have a celebration

C．to elect or choose

D．to attend a meeting

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A．The guest who is most popular with students.

B．The student who is liked most by students.

C．The player who plays best in the game.

D．The student who is liked most by guests.

　　“Hot water” was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble. One story says it got the meaning from throwing hot water down on enemies（敌人）attacking a town. That happens no longer, but we still get into hot water.

　　“Water over the dam（水坝）” is another expression about a past event. It's something that finishes and it cannot be changed. The expression comes from the idea--water has run over a dam and it cannot be brought back again. When a friends is troubled by a mistake he has made, you might tell him to forget about it. You can say “It's water over the dam.”

　　“Throwing cold water” means “not to like an idea”. For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems, but your parents throw cold water on the idea, because they think a new car costs too much.

(1)“...but we still get into hot water” in this passage mans ________.

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A．we still drink hot water

B．we can still see the enemies

C．we can still meet some trouble

D．we still need hot water

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A．spit in a public place

B．wear shoes

C．meet a policeman

D．walk in your house

(3)When you say “It's water over the dam.” to your friend, you want to tell him ________.

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A．it's not his mistake

B．what he did is right

C．to bring back the water

D．to forget about the mistake he made

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A．throw hot water on it

B．throw cold water on it

C．make the water over the dam

D．make him get into hot water

(5)The best title（标题）for this passage is________.

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A．Throwing Cold Water

B．Some Expressions about Water

C．In Hot Water

D．Water over the Dam

　　Mozart（莫扎特）was born on January 27, 1756 and died on December 5, 1791. When he was three, he often had lessons with his elder sister. His father took him through many different countries, and he played music for lots of people there. But some people didn't believe that a little boy could write such beautiful music. They asked him to stay in a room all by himself for a week and somebody watched the room all the time. In the week, he finished a new piece of music. After that, people believed that he could write beautiful music.

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A．lets you know something about classrooms

B．tells you something about students

C．lets you know something about school life

D．teaches you English

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A．how much service they have had

B．how much they have enjoyed it and where they are

C．how long they have been at a place

D．Above all

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A．Fifteen percent in big cities is OK.

B．20 percent means something a bit more than fifteen percent.

C．The normal tipping coin for small services is 25 cents.

D．The more the better.

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A．waiters, taxi drivers, porters

B．doormen, hatcheck girls

C．you also tip for personal services from barbers, shoeshine boys, beauty parlor attendants, and so on

D．above all

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A．customs officials and other government employees

B．mailmen and airline personnel

C．bus drivers, store clerks and gas station at tendants

D．the men or the women who serve the other people

　　Matt Mason has seen the future--and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system（系统）that's built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸尘器）. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦） it up. “This may trouble you,” says Kara, an expert in Mason's company. “But you can program it to come on at 3 a m, and it will just wet-mop the floor for you.”

　　When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. “More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”

　　“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（触摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e-mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.

　　Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters（工作台）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT's Counter lab has made the dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.

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A．have a recycling system built in the wall

B．get up early to start your cleaning system

C．use your fridge to give orders to a cleaner

D．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine

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A．We will eat something in the fridge from the morning to the evening.

B．We can surf the Internet and check our e-mails from it.

C．We can buy vegetables and watch TV from it.

D．We will have some fridges in our homes.

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A．people will have more and more time enjoying themselves

B．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every day

C．the fridge can be found in the center of a future house

D．people must be expert at computers to use these inventions

　　为了尽快进入甜蜜的梦乡，历史上许多名人绞尽脑汁，有的人终于找到了自己独特的入眠方法，可有的人还是好梦难圆。你想探个究竟吗？

　　Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia（失眠症）.

　　This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin （本杰明·富兰克林）, the famous inventor, had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV（国王路易十四）of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he lay on his side（侧卧）across the end of the bed!

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A．less sleeping time

B．more sleeping time

C．the same amount of sleeping time

D．a fixed time to sleep

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A．moving from one to another of his 413 beds

B．moving from one to another of his 4 beds

C．inventing a bed for himself

D．lying on his side across the end of the bed

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　　In today's world many people seem to be hungry for money. Some of them even lose their lives for it. Money does have its most useful effect（影响）on the poor, but once a person has a rich life, a lot more money doesn't mean more happiness. If money was everything, all millionaires（百万富翁）would have true love, true friendship, good health and a long life. However, this is not always true. Nothing else is more pleasant than the three words which are“I love you”. But can love be bought? I afraid not. Love means to give, not to take. To every person, health and long life are probably the most precious （宝贵的）things. Well, can health and a long life be bought with money? The answer is “No”. Of all the longest living people in the world, few of them are millionaires. True friendship can't be bought either. In a word, where money is worshiped（崇拜）, money can cause brothers quarrel, lovers to hate, strangers to fight and so on. No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough to make you a happy person if you have no one to laugh with, no one to cry for.

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A．Money is everything.

B．Money isn't necessary.

C．Money is important, but not the most important.

D．With no money, with no success.

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A．If you haven't much money, you can't get more happiness.

B．You may live a long life even if you are poor.

C．Every year many people die in the world because their family is poor.

D．If you are rich, you will have less friendship.

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(5)What does the sentence “Love means to give, not to take.” mean in the passage?

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A．爱意味着给你，而不能带走。

B．爱是可以得到的，不要走开。

C．爱意味着奉献，而不是索取。

D．爱是可以索取的，而不必付出。

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A．their love to one another

B．their health

C．the happiness

D．their commitment to one another

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A．they think life is exciting there

B．it is cheap to live there.

C．the rooms are bigger there than in other places.

D．it is expensive to live there.

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A．there are too many people living there.

B．there are too many buildings there

C．people can see or do many interesting things there.

D．Both A and B.

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A．because they don't like villages

B．because they can not find good jobs there.

C．and they all live better there.

D．but life there is not so easy for all of them.

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A．a few people study in good schools

B．the people there are not clean

C．people have to pay much money for living

D．some people enjoy living in big cities.

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A．to move to big cities

B．to stay where they are.

C．to move to big cities to find jobs.

D．not to move to big cities before thinking of the problems.