At 10 o’clock last Saturday night I came out from the  1.       

cinema.It was very much cold and the road was covered with snow. 2.      

SuddenlyI saw a woman fall down her bike. She couldn’t 3.     

get up. I ran to her at once and try to help her to sit up.   4.      

She said that her right leg was broken. I was worried about   5.       

when a young policeman came over. He called a taxi. I took  6.    

him to a hospital and telephoned her family about the matter.  7.       

As I saw the woman was good looked after, I said goodbye   8.     

to her.I felt happy I could help the woman but I also hope   9.      

she will be soon getting well on.                       10.        

I saw a case falling off a man’s bike on my way to the      1.     

cinema in this afternoon . I shouted out to the man       2.     

to stop. But he didn’t hear me and ride away. I was       3.   

wondering what to do while I had an idea. I stopped a      4.    

taxi and got in it with the case. Soon I caught up with      5.  

the man. Got the case back, he was so thankful that he     6.    

offered me some money, and I refused it politely. Then    7.     

the driver took him to the cinema. When I paid him, the driver    8.      

pushed my hand away and said with smile, “Neither will I     9.      

accept your money”. I felt very happy though I was late for the film.  10.   

加拿大高中生David在互联网（Internet)上登出启事（notice），希望结识一位中国朋友，以便学习中国的语言、文化（culture）。假设你是李华，请在看到这则启事后，用英文给David发一封电子邮件，主要内容包括：

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注意：1.电子邮件的格式已为你写好。

      2.词数：100词左右。

Dear David,

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Yours sincerely

                                                        Li Hua

An annoying problem for humans, who like to boast (夸耀) about all the distant planets and moons we have explored, is that we've never taken a good look right under our noses. The inside of the earth is relatively close, but how can we get there?

The deepest oil well enters a mere six miles into the crust (地壳) (the center of the earth is about 4,000 miles deeper). Russian scientists dug the deepest hole in Siberia, but bottomed out at about 7.5 miles below the surface. The Mohole project, a U.S. plan in the 1950s, called for drilling a hole 25 miles down to the boundary between the hard rocks of the crust and the soft mantle (地幔). Sadly the project involved government supporting.

It gets harder and harder to drill deep into the earth because rocks get softer and softer. Hard but easily broken at the surface, rocks become plastic at depth, and the pressure caused by the weight of the overlaying crust ---  about 52,800 pounds per square inch at a depth of ten miles, makes further drilling impossible.

What little we know about the inside of the earth (like the fact that there's a crust, a mantle, and a core) comes from indirect evidence, such as the analysis of earthquakes.

So maybe it's time for a thorough new method to explore the earth's inside. Scientist David Stevenson says we should forget about drilling holes. Instead, we should open a crack (裂缝).

Stevenson suggests digging a crack about a half mile long, a yard wide, and a half mile deep (not with a shovel) but with an explosion on the scale of a nuclear bomb. Next, he'd pour a few hundred thousand tons of molten (熔化的) iron into the crack, along with a robot. The iron, thicker than the surrounding crust, would move downward at about 16 feet per second, carrying the robot with it and opening the crack deeper and deeper. The iron mass would drop for about a week and 2,000 miles to the outer edge of the earth core, the robot sending out data to the surface.

Stevenson compares his idea to space exploration. "We're going somewhere we haven't been before,"he says. "In all possibility, there will be surprises.”

This idea can probably be put in the drawer marked with Isn't Going To Happen. The robot would have to survive temperatures that would melt pretty much anything. But Stevenson's idea may inspire a new look at an old problem. Great things can come from what seems like impossible ideas.

Going inside the earth is _____ than going into space.

A. more interesting B. more possible C. easier  D. more challenging

How deep have we gone into the earth until now?

A. 6 miles.  B. 4,000 miles. C. 7.5 miles.  D. 25 miles.

Which of the following is TRUE about David Stevenson's idea?

A. It is an inspiring but not practical idea now.

B. It is a practical proposal that has come into use now.

C. It is a good proposal that will soon be put into practice.

D. It is a false theory that cannot be carried out at all.

What might be the most suitable title for the text?

A. An Annoying Problem for Humans

B. To the Center of the Earth

C. The Mohole Project

D. David Stevenson's Proposal

NASA is moving ahead with plans to put a long-armed lander on Mars’ icy north pole to search for clues^① for water and possible signs of life.

The $386 million Phoenix Mars is planned to touch down in the Martian arctic in 2008. The stationary probe will use its robotic arm to dig into the icy land and pick up soil samples^② to analyze. In 2002, the Mars Odyssey orbiter spotted evidence of ice-rich soil near the arctic surface.

Scientists hope the Phoenix mission will find clues to the geologic history of water on the Red Planet and determine whether microbes^③ existed in the ice.

Phoenix will be the first mission of the Mars Scout program, a renewed, low-cost effort to study the Red Planet. “The Phoenix mission explores new territory in the northern plains of Mars analogous to the permafrost regions on Earth,” Peter Smith said.

True to its name, Phoenix rose from the ashes of previous^④ missions. The lander for Phoenix was built to fly as part of the 2001 Mars Surveyor program. But the program broke down after the well-known disappearance of the Mars Polar Lander in 1999. The Polar Lander lost contact during a landing attempt near the planet’s south pole after its rocket engine shut off prematurely, causing the spacecraft to fall about 130 feet to almost certain destruction.

The Phoenix probe had been in storage at a Lockheed Martin clean room in Denver before it was reused for its present mission. It will carry science instruments that were designed for the Mars Surveyor program including an improved panoramic camera and a trench-digging robotic arm. Phoenix will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in August 2007 and land on the planet nine months later.

Notes:

clue  n. 线索

sample  n. 标本，样品

microbe  n. 微生物

previous  adj. 先前的

The passage mainly tells readers that _________.

        A. clues of water will be found in Phoenix

        B. Phoenix will be sent to find clues of water on Mars

        C. August 2007 will see Phoenix lift off

        D. the Mars Scout program will be carried out

The underlined word “prematurely” (paragraph 5) means _________.

        A. on time     B. behind the time      C. out of work       D. ahead of time

According to the passage, we know Phoenix will land on Mars _________.

A. in May 2008            B. in August 2007   

C. in August 2008          D. in September 2008

According to the passage, the name “Phoenix” is after the meaning of _________.

        A. rebirth         B. death        C. energy        D. hope

After Phoenix lands on Mars, we can infer it will firstly _________.

        A. find soil samples and send them to the earth

        B. look for the icy land to dig for the soil samples

        C. take photos and send them to the earth

        D. find the remains of the Mars Polar Lander

The flowers _______ sweet in the botanic garden attract the visitors to the beauty of nature.?

A. to smell　B. smelling?

C. smelt D. to be smelt?

Walter offered us a lift when he was leaving the office, but our work _______,we refused the offer.

A. not finishing

B. had not been finished?

C. not having finished?

D. not having been finished?

—You learned to drive a car quite young, didn’t you?

—Yes, my father _______ me when I was thirteen.?

A. taught B. had taught?

C. would taught D. was teaching?

Sales of CDs have greatly increased since the early 1990s, when people _______ to enjoy? the advantages of this new technology.

A. begin B. began?

C. have begun D. had begun?

His idea of having weekly family meals together,which seemed difficult at first,has _______ many good changes in their lives.?

A. got through B. resulted from ?

C. turned into   D. brought about?