Steve Jobs was one of the fathers of the personal computing time and the founder of Apple. He was also one of the giants of the information age. Here are some of his greatest contributions.

Apple II Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computers Inc. in 1976. A year later, the Apple II was invented. This production was the world’s first mass-market personal computer.	The iMac Under Job’s leadership, Apple introduced the all-in-line iMac computer in 1998. the iMac became the first machine, which offered only a CD-ROM slot.
The iPad By 2010, Steve Jobs was confident. The world was ready to have a tablet computer that would be great for watching movies and playing games. The touch-sensitive iPad is a great success.	iPhone 4s iPhone 4s came out on October 4, 2011, in America. It looks like iPhone 4. It has a larger and wider screen and a slimmer yet wider case. It has a better camera and faster data transfer speeds.

小题1: The Apple II was invented ________.

A．In 1976.

B．In 1977.

C．In 1998.

D．In 2010.

小题2:From the passage, we can know that the iPad ________.

A．has a better camera	B．is the first personal computer
C．has a CD-ROM slot	D．is great for watching movies

小题3: According to the passage, which of the following is True? 

A．IPhone 4s’ screen is the same size as iPhone 4.

B．IPhone 4s has a larger and slimmer case than iPhone 4.

C．IPhone 4s uses less time to transfer data than iPhone 4.

D．IPhone 4s with an improved camera is cheaper than iPhone 4.

This is a true story in Guyana. One day, a child took some silver paper from a cigarette box. He rolled it into a tiny ball and pushed it up his nose. He couldn’t get it out again. He ran crying to his mother. His mother couldn’t get the paper out, either. A week later the paper was still in his nose. His nose began to have a bad smell.
So his mother took his child to the hospital. The doctor looked up his nose. She put a tiny steel rod（钢棒） into his nose and felt the paper. She said she would have to cut his nose to get the paper out.
The child’s mother came home looking sad. She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut. He was a handsome boy and the cut would make him ugly.
Next day, the child’s mother took him to her friend Sidney. Sidney lived in a house with an old woman called May. She asked to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose. He closed his eyes.
“Yes, I can see it,” May said. “It will be out soon!”
As she spoke, she shook black pepper on the child’s nose. He gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out. His mother was surprised. May told her to take the boy to the sea for a swim. She said the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell.
So the child didn’t have to go to the hospital and gave his nose cut.
小题1:How did the silver ball go into the boy’s nose?

A．His mother put it into his nose.

B．The boy himself pushed the ball up his nose.

C．The silver ball rolled into his nose itself.

D．The passage didn’t tell us.

小题2: Why did the boy’s nose have a bad smell?

A．The ball stayed in his nose for too long.

B．The boy didn't like to wash his nose.

C．His nose is cut and gave a bad smell.

D．Because he had a running nose.

小题3: In the last paragraph, the underlined word mighty means _____________.

A．有力的

B．可能的

C．好笑的.

D．坚硬的

Vanilla is my best friend. She is a lovely girl with two big, beautiful eyes. But she always hides them       a pair of black glasses.
One day, however, I       ended our friendship. I remember that day clearly. We were       in the classroom. The teacher was giving us our re­sults of a Chinese exam. I had done badly. I felt so       that I wouldn't talk to anyone. At lunch-time, I even stayed in the classroom alone. Sudden­ly, I heard a      . It was Vanilla. "You look very unhappy," she said. "What's wrong?" I looked at her for a while, but said       . I knew Vanilla had got a good mark (分数) in the exam. I thought she was       me. I sat silently, but Vanilla didn't go away, she       asking me questions_: “Is it be­cause of the exam? Do you want me to tell you the right      ?" I looked away from her. When I looked up again, Vanilla had gone. And so had my exam paper! I didn't know        to do. I looked for my paper every where, but couldn't find it.
In the afternoon, Vanilla came up to my desk and       me my exam paper back. I looked at it and got a big      . Vanilla had written the right answers next to every one of my mistakes. How       she was! My face turned red. I wanted to hug her, but I only held her hands and said," Thank you. "That afternoon,       Vanilla and I were on the way home, I felt quite happy and thanked her again. We are        best friends.

小题1:	A．behind B．below C．among D．near

小题2:	A．slowly B．quickly C．nearly D．happily

小题3:	A．singing B．sitting C．dancing D．playing

小题4:	A．happy B．sad C．funny D．excited

小题5:	A．voice B．sound C．noise D．cry

小题6:	A．everything B．something C．anything D．nothing

小题7:	A．knocking at B．shouting at C．laughing at D．pointing at

小题8:	A．forgot B．kept C．practiced D．remembered

小题9:	A．answers B．exams C．results D．notes

小题10:

A．that B．who C．which D．what

小题11:

A．gave B．turned C．carried D．moved

小题12:

A．pain B．interest C．surprise D．fun

小题13:

A．kind B．brave C．healthy D．careless

小题14:

A．whether B．when C．after D．unless

小题15:

A．still B．yet C．also D．ever

On a snowy evening, a rich lady was standing by the road．She was very worried．Her    had broken down．Just then a poor man named Robert came．He was on his     back home from work as usual．
The lady wondered, “Is the man going to   __  me? He looks very cold and hungry．" But to her surprise,   _ stopped and said with a smile, “Can I help you, madam?"
After forty        , the car was at last fixed by Robert．The lady wanted to pay him．
“No, that's       , madam．” he said, “I was just helping someone in     ．If you really want to pay me back, I hope       you see someone in need, you should give him a hand．”
A few minutes later, the lady      a very old house by the road．She remembered Robert's words, so she stopped．
The hostess(女主人) warmly asked her     ．The lady could see that it was a      family and that they needed help.When the hostess was making tea in the kitchen, the lady      on a table 500 dollars and went away quietly．
Robert came home later than before, thinking how     their life was．His wife was pregnant(怀孕) and the baby was to be born the next month but there was not      money．His wife went up to him, gave him a kiss and said softly, “Don't worry, dear! Everything's going to be all    ．A stranger has helped us out．"
Let's always be ready to help others because helping others is helping ourselves．

小题1:	A．bike B．motorbike C．bus D．car

小题2:	A．step B．way C．road D．life

小题3:	A．help B．save C．kill D．find

小题4:	A．she B．he C．I D．they

小题5:	A．days B．hours C．minutes D．years

小题6:	A．nothing B．something C．everything D．anything

小题7:	A．picture B．rain C．need D．danger

小题8:	A．whatever B．whenever C．however D．whichever

小题9:	A．saw B．heard C．smelt D．felt

小题10:

A．out B．away C．in D．along

小题11:

A．terrible B．sad C．rich D．poor

小题12:

A．dropped B．forgot C．lay D．left

小题13:

A．exciting B．hard C．happy D．interesting

小题14:

A．many B．some C．enough D．few

小题15:

A．right B．wrong C．glad D．well

When our children were younger, it was popular for city people to buy a small farm in the country and       a few animals there.
One of our new neighbors        ducks. They seemed very lovely; however, they were       to run around in their yard and the neighbors’ yards—     ours. Our vegetables were their favorite food. Often we would “shoo” the ducks home and want to know_      there wasn’t a fence to keep them.
One day, I asked her if she     her ducks were bringing trouble to my garden. She told me that they were her   _  and he was away traveling. My attitude （态度） to her was bad. We realized that our neighbors were not planning to build a       , so our son built one .The ducks now stayed in their own yard. I didn’t see my neighbor again       months later.
A women’s church group asked me to       at their mother and daughter party. The topic was “Love”. Much to my       ，the first woman I saw when I walked into the church was my neighbor. I knew I could not speak about love to them when I hadn’t been     __ my neighbor. So I walk        to her and said sorry for my attitude. She forgave（原谅）me and then we talked a lot     _ .
Do you have anybody like that in your life? Let me encourage（鼓励）       ，if at all possible, go to clear the air between you.

小题1:	A．put B．keep C．send D．take

小题2:	A．bought B．sold C．dropped D．showed

小题3:	A．made B．allowed C． invited D．chosen

小题4:	A．except B．but C．without D．including

小题5:	A．what B．why C．if D．when

小题6:	A．saw B．understood C．thought D．realized

小题7:	A．husband’s B．daughter’s C．wife’s D．grandma’s

小题8:	A．fence B．house C．home D．room

小题9:	A．after B．before C．until D．while

小题10:

A．speak B．talk C．say D．tell

小题11:

A．happiness B．disappointment C．sadness D．surprise

小题12:

A．worried about B．patient with C．strict with D．annoyed with

小题13:

A．up B．along C．around D．down

小题14:

A．angrily B．seriously C．happily D．carefully

小题15:

A．us B．you C．ourselves D．Yourselves

A man has a cat. He likes her very much. At mealtime the cat sits at the table with him. The man eats with a knife and a fork, but the cat eats from her plate. Sometimes, when she finishes her dish, her master will give her a bit of his food. He shares his meal with her. One day the cat is not at the table at mealtime.
“Ah! Where is my cat?” asks the man.
His wife says, “Can’t you eat without her?”
So the meal begins without the cat. Before lunch is over, the cat rushes into the room and jumps onto the chair quickly. She has two mice in her mouth, and before anyone can stop her, she drops(扔下) one into her own plate, and the other into her master’s plate.
“Dear me!” cries the woman, “A mouse is in your plate!”
“Hush(安静)!” says her husband. “This shows that she is a nice cat. She knows what friendship is. She wishes me to share her dinner as I often share mine with her.
根据短文内容，判断正误，正确（T），错误（F）。
小题1:The master loves his cat very much.
小题2:The cat always shares her food with her master.
小题3:One day the cat is not at the table at mealtime.
小题4:The cat hurries home with two mice in her mouth when the master and his wife are having lunch.
小题5:The story tells us the cat also loves her master.

Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal(偷) the bell on his neighbour’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of(抓住) the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, “I must do something about the noise,” he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the door of his neighbour, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbour came running out. “Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson(教训),”the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbour found out he was stealing the bell. “Why did he come out just then?” he wondered(感到疑惑).
小题1:The thief was trying to get            .

A．his neighbour	B．his neighbour’s doorbell
C．some cotton	D．a door with a bell on it

小题2: The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be      for him to steal the doorbell.

A．safe

B．difficult

C．dangerous

D．easy

小题3:The neighbour ran out probably(很可能) because__________________.

A．he knew his doorbell was being stolen

B．he thought someone was eager(渴望的)to visit him

C．He realized(意识到)something strange happened

D．Both B and C

小题4:The neighbour hit the thief to_____________________.

A．give him lessons	B．punish (惩罚) him for stealing
C．help him with the bell	D．be his teacher

小题5:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The thief understood why he was hit on the nose.

B．The thief knew why the neighbour came out.

C．The thief thought the neighbour could not hear the bell.

D．The thief didn’t want to know why the neighbour ran out just at the time he stole the doorbell.

完形填空 从每小题A，B，C，D四个选项中选择能填入相应空白处的最佳答案。（10分）

               
Pleasant Sheep 喜羊羊                  Pretty Sheep 美羊羊
Hi! I’m Pleasant Sheep. I’m __小题1:___ boy. I’m seven __小题2:__ old. I have a    小题3:  mouth, and my 小题4: are big. My nose is small. I have four good  小题5: .We are movie stars(电影明星).We are   小题6:  the same class. They are nice to me. Pretty Sheep is my 小题7:   friend. She is a nice girl. Does she have big eyes? Yes, she 小题8: big eyes, too. Our （我们的）monitor(班长) is a girl. She is eight years old. She has a big head,  小题9:_  her eyes are small.   小题10: , who is she?

小题11:

A．a B．an C．the D．/

小题12:

A．years B．year C．/ D．ear

小题13:

A．small B．long C．wide D．short

小题14:

A．nose B．eyes C．leg D．hand

小题15:

A．students B．teachers C．cars D．friends

小题16:

A．at B．on C．in D．to

小题17:

A．big B．good C．nice D．small

小题18:

A．have B．has C．am D．is

小题19:

A．too B．but C．in D．from

小题20:

A．Guess B．Thank C．Know D．Meet

Guess, who am I? Oh,yes. I’m Mr. Bean(憨豆先生). I’m from England. I have a big head, and my hair is short. I have a round face. My ears are big, and my eyes are big, too. My nose isn’t small. My mouth is wide. Now I’m in the USA. I have some good friends. They are nice to me.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
小题1:Where is Mr.Bean from?
A. Canada.  B. China.  C. The USA.  D. England
小题2: Mr.Bean has _______hair.

A．big

B．long

C．short

D．wide

小题3: Mr. Bean has a ________nose.

A．small

B．long

C．short

D．big

小题4: Mr.Bean’s mouth is __________.

A．wide

B．small

C．big

D．long

小题5: Are Mr. Bean’s friends nice to him?

A．No, they aren’t.	B．Yes, they are.
C．Yes, they have.	D．No, they don’t.

C

	This is Yi Jianlian. He is from Guangdong, China. He is a basketball star (篮球明星). His QQ number is 65432879.
	Who is he? He is Phelps. He is from the U.S.A. His QQ number is 38685590.
	Who is he? He is Xie Tingfeng. Where is he from? He is from Hong Kong (香港). His QQ number is 34569869.
	She is an actress (女演员). She is from Korea (韩国). She is very nice. Her QQ number is 35681168.

根据所给信息，选择最佳答案。(10分)
小题1:           QQ number is 38685590.
A.Yi Jianlian’s       B. Xie Tingfeng’s     C. Phelps’ 
小题2:           is a basketball star.
A. 图a             B. 图b             C. 图c
小题3:Phelps is from           .
A.China             B. England          C. the USA
小题4:There are          Chinese people (中国人)in the form(表格).
A. one               B. two              C. three
小题5: The people in the form(表格) are from           countries. (国家)
A.two               B.three             C.four