Tom and Fred are t    l      about the year 2050.
     "What will the world be like in the year 2050?" asks Tom.
     "I don't know,"says Fred.  "What do you t   2    ?"
     "Well, no one knows. But it is interesting to guess," says Tom.  "In the year 2050 everyone will
c   3   a pocket computer. If we have problems, the computers will give us a   4     . And we can talk to
our friends all over the world. P 5      we will work only two or three days a week. We can f   6    to
the moon by spaceship and spend v   7    there. "
     "I'm very glad to h   8    that. I h  9    to fly to the moon, and I also hope to   10    in the sea," says
Fred. "Won't that be very interesting? Just like a fish. "

     Football is so popular in China. Almost everyone is interested in the sport,young and old, boys and girls,and
now even robots.
     Last week at Hangzhou Guangming Middle School, kids from several schools played football with their robots.
     The robot football is very different from human football. Only two robots play in each match. The field is as big
as a ping-pong table. One half is black and the other is white. Each robot tries to catch the " football" and push it
into the goal. The robot with more goals won.
     Gao Linge,a boy from Guangming Middle School, helped make one of the robots for the match.
     " My school bought the main board (主板) ," said Gao,14. " Then I decided what my robot looked like and made
a computer programme for it. "
     Gao's robot was eight cm tall and had two arms.It had four sensors (感应器 ) to " see " and "kick" the football.
Ying Xuehai, a 12-year-old student from Gao's school,also made a robot. His robot played against Gao's.The match
decided who would go to the final game. Ying lost the game. So he gave many of his robot's parts to Gao.
     Even with the help, Gao's robot didn't win the final. It played well in the first five minutes.
     Then it slowed down. By the end of the match,it could hardly move.
     What was wrong?
     Gao and Ying found the problem. Their robot ran out of batteries(电池) !
     " We'll solve the problem and beat the other schools next time ! " said the two boys.

1. How many robots are needed in one match?

A. Only one
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four

2. The third paragraph mainly talks about        .

A. the difference between human football and the robot football
B. how to make more goals
C. the rules of the games
D. the way to win the match

3. Why did Gao Linge lose the match?

A. Because his robot had no power.
B. Because he broke the match rules.
C. Because he used Ying Xuehai's parts.
D. Because his robot went wrong.

4. Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A. Gao Linge is as old as Ying Xuehai.
B. Ying Xuehai's robot was eight cm.
C. Gao's and Ying's robots were bought from the shop.
D. The text doesn't tell us who won the final.

5. From the text we know that if you want to take part in the match,        .

A. you must go to Hangzhou
B. you must know something about computers
C.you must know how to play football on the playground
D. Gao Linge and Ying Xuehai are in different schools

     My friend has a large dog named Jack. Every afternoon my ffiend takes it for a walk. Jack likes the
walk in the park very much.
     One Sunday afternoon a man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. He talked and talked.
Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for his walk. Jack worried about this. It walked around the
room several times and then sat down in front of the visitor and looked at him, but he kept on talking.
Jack couldn't stand it any longer. He went out of the room and came back a moment later. He sat
down again in front of the visitor, holding the visitor's hat in his mouth. Seeing this, the visitor couldn't help
laughing. He stood up and said good-bye to my friend in a hurry.

根据短文内容，完成下列句子。

1. The dog, Jack,liked            very much in the park.
2. Every             my friend takes the dog for a walk.
3. Jack sat down again in front of             holding the visitor's hat in its mouth and looked at him in order
    to tell the visitor that it was time for him to say good-bye.
4.The second paragraph tells us that             is very clever.

1. How many people does Mr Brown see in the street one day?  

A. Ten.                          
B. Eleven.    
C. Four.                          
D. Ten children.

2. Why is he surprised? Because _____________.  

A. all the children are boys    
B. all the children are in the same clothes    
C. all the children are lovely    
D. all the children are wearing the same trousers

3. Why does the woman dress her children in the same clothes? Because_____________.  

A. she has so many children    
B. she loves her children    
C. she doesn’t want to take her children home    
D. she wants to see her children easily among others

4. What kinds of clothes are the children wearing when Mr Brown sees them?    

A. White caps，blue coats and yellow trousers.    
B. Blue caps，yellow coats and white trousers.   
C. Yellow caps，white coats and blue trousers.    
D. White caps，yellow coats and blue trousers.

5. “We don’t want to take other children home by mistake.”

这句话的汉语意思是：_____________.

     Long long ago the Mouse King had a beautiful daughter. When she was old enough to be married,
he called together the oldest and cleverest mice to talk about it.
     "My daughter," He said, "is far too beautiful to marry just anybody. I have decided to marry her to
the greatest thing in the world. Now, who shall it be?"
     "The sun," the first mouse said at once,  "is the greatest thing in the world. It shines over the whole
world. "
     "Why, then, I shall marry her to the sun," said the Mouse King.
     "But," said the second, "a cloud can cover the sun. "
     "Then, she must be married to the cloud. "
     "But," said the third, " the rain breaks through the clouds and puts an end to them. "
     "That is true. I must marry her to the rain. "
     "But," cried the fourth, "no matter how hard the rain falls, it cannot wash away the trees. "
     "Then she must be the tree's wife. "
     "But," shouted the fifth, "a strong wind can blow down the trees. "
     "Very true. Then the wind must be her husband. "
     "But," remembered the sixth,"  no matter how hard the wind blows, it cannot blow away the earth. "
     "Then I must marry her to the earth. "
     "But," called out the seventh," the earth is covered by the wooden floors of men's houses. "
     "Then she shall marry the wooden floor at once. "
     "But," the last said slowly, "no matter how strong the wooden floor is, a mouse can bite his way
through it. "
     "It is clear that a mouse is the greatest thing in the world," the happy Mouse King said, with a smile
on his face.
     And that was why the Mouse King's daughter married a mouse at last.

1. How many mice are mentioned in the passage?
A. Eight
B. Nine
C. Ten
D. Three
2. Which mouse had a beautiful daughter?
A. The old one
B. The cleverest one.
C. The first one
D. The Mouse King.
3. Who thought the wind should be the daughter's husband?
A. The second mouse
B. The fourth mouse.
C. The fifth mouse
D. Both A and C.
4. What was the result?
A. There was no result.
B. All those would be the daughter's husbands.
C. The daughter would be married to a mouse.
D. The daughter would live alone.
5. Why was the result so?
A. Because all the mice agreed.
B. Because all the mice wanted to have a rest.
C. Because the Mouse King thought a mouse was the greatest thing in the world.
D. Because the daughter was glad.

      An American went to Paris and bought a picture from a French artist (艺术家). The American thought the picture was very good. But when he came back to his room and was going to put the picture on the wall,he couldn't tell the top from the bottom of the picture. He turned the picture this way and that,but he still didn't know.
      He thought and thought. He hung(悬挂) the picture in the dining room. Then he asked the artist to dinner.When the artist came,the American said nothing to him about the picture,he went with the artist into the dining room to have the meal. When the artist began to eat,he looked at the picture for some time. When he began to eat the fish,he put on his glasses and looked at the picture again. Before he began to eat his apples,he stood up and walked to the picture and looked at it carefully. At last when he began to have his tea,he looked again and found the picture was upside down (颠倒).
      "Why,my friend," he said,"the picture is upside down. "
      "Indeed! But why did it take you so long to find that out?" said the American. "You painted it, didn't you?"

1. The American asked the French artist to dinner because       .

A. he wanted to thank the artist
B. he wanted to ask the artist to draw another picture for him
C. he wanted to know if he hung the picture right
D. he wanted to teach the artist a lesson

2.The artist looked at the picture several times,but he didn't say anything,because       .

A.he couldn't tell the top from the bottom at first, either
B. he thought it was an ugly picture
C. he wanted to say something after the meal
D. he thought it was right to hang the picture like that

3. Which of the following is NOT right?

A. Sometimes even an artist can't tell the top of a picture from its bottom.
B. The American was clever.
C.The French artist gave the picture to the American as a present.
D. The American liked the picture very much.

4. How many times did the artist look at the picture before he found it was wrong?

A. Only once.
B. Twice.
C. Three times.
D. Four times.

5.Why didn't the American ask the artist as soon as he came into the house?

A. Because he thought it would be foolish to do so.
B. Because he didn't want the artist to lose face.
C. Because he knew the picture was upside down.
D. Because he was hungry.

     Once there lived a very exact(精确的) man. One day when he was walking in the street, an old woman came over and asked him," Excuse me, where is the nearest restaurant?"
     "The nearest restaurant? You have to cross the bridge and then turn to the right," answered the man.
     "And is the bridge long?"
     "Very long, thirty meters."
     The old woman thanked him and went towards the bridge. Suddenly she heard someone running after her. "Stop ! " the man was shouting. "I'm very sorry. I just remembered: the bridge is forty meters long. If you go thirty meters and then turn to the right, as I told you to do, you'll fall into the river. "

1. What was the man doing one day?

A. He was thinking about an interesting problem.
B. He was doing some running in the park.
C. He was on his way to see a film.
D. He was walking in the street.

2. The old woman wanted _________.

A. to buy a coat in a shop
B. to go to the nearest restaurant
C. to take a walk
D. to go to the nearest theatre

3. The man first told her the bridge was _________.

A. half a kilometer
B. forty meters long
C. thirty meters long
D. twenty minutes' walk

4. Why was the man running after the old woman? Because _________.

A. he just remembered the real length (长度) of the bridge
B. he knew her name
C. he didn't tell her the way to the restaurant
D. he wanted to catch her

5. If he didn't stop her, the woman would _________.

A. lose her way
B. fall into the river
C. be angry with him
D. also find the restaurant