---Were you caught in the rain yesterday?

---Good luck．No sooner ______ home that it poured down.

       A．I had reached      B．had I reached      C．did I reach         D．I have reached

It’s not ____ good idea to go for a picnic in such ____ weather.

       A．a; the              B．the; a                C．a; /                 D．the; /

       从A.B.C.D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分相同的选项。

近年来全球许多国家对公共场所吸烟限制越来越严；从2007年1月1日起，我国香港地区室内全面禁烟。针对这个问题，你班同学组织一场辩论会，请你根据下表内容，以“Ban Smoking in Pubic Places?”为题，写一篇短文，客观介绍双方的不同观点。

注意：1、词数：100左右；　2、题目和开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Ban Smoking in Public Places?

Smoking bans can be seen in public places in many countries.                      

Lillan Hanson, a college junior, expects to graduate in about two years. Mrs Hanson, a rather unusual student, plans to go on to take more courses after she gets her degree. What makes Mrs Hanson different from most of her classmates?

What sets Lillian Hanson apart from the college crowd is her age-73 years. She has been going to college, a few courses at a time, for 27 years.

When Mrs Hanson graduated from high school, she went to her local bank and asked for a loan for college tuition and fees. The banker gave her no encouragement. He didn’t think that country girl should be borrowing money to go to college. He thought she should be home doing work in the house or around the farm. So Mrs Hanson went home and raised a family of nine children instead of going to college. She still lives with her husband on the farm that has been in the family for five generations.

Mrs Hanson never forgot her dream of getting a higher education. When her children were grown, she tried again.

She finds the hardest part of going back to school at her age is to be sitting in class for long periods of time, because she is not as agile as she used to be. Mrs Hanson often gets up and walks around between classes to keep her joints from getting stiff. At the beginning of a course in using the computer, the other students all gave Mrs Hanson a warm round of applause when she introduced herself and explained why she was there and what her goals were.

52. Mrs Hanson has gone through college       .

       A. rapidly and well                              B. slowly but surely

C. without any help at all                     D. as a form of entertainment

53. A person who is agile is       .

       A. stiff in the joints                             B. poor in certain subjects

C. intelligent at schoolwork               D. able to move around well

54. We can learn form the passage that Mrs Hanson         .

       A. is troublesome at college because of her old age

B. often disturbs her teachers’ teaching by walking around in class

C. is popular and well-admired on campus

D. is good at all her subjects except computer studies

55. This story mainly about        .

       A. a woman too old for school

B. a persistent and unusual student

C. the hardship to get college degree

D. how to realize one’s dream

It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old. Welcome to your future life.

Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror, “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronic are rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe that you are 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged.

As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear: “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that, ” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code on the cereal box find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible foods appear on the counter as kitchen checks its food supplies.

“Ready for your trip to space. You ask your son and daughter. ” In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space－and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips or longer vacation. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel. ” Thanks to medical advices, vaccination shots are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.

It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office.  Autopilot,” you command. You car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video films rather than read it.

48. What changes the color of your shirt?

       A. The mirror                                                            B. The shirt itself

       C. The counter                                                          D. The medicine

49. How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?

       A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl

       B. By listening to the doctor’s advice

       C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen

       D. By checking the nutrition details of the food

50. The strawberries the children eat serve as         .

       A. breakfast                 B. lunch                  C. vaccines                D. nutrition

51. How is the text organized?

       A. In order of time                                           B. In order of frequency

       C. In order of preference                                  D. In order of importance

A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27 (Sat. ＆ Sun.). At 5:30 am, the riders will leave Tian’ anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometres as a training leg. Then the next 55-kilometre leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive(竞争性的) part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli.

The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside at Nandaihe, covering a distance of 20 kilometres. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Bejing.

Cost: 200 yuan

Telephone:4675027

Brazilian footballers

The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guo’an Team at the Workers Stadium on August 26. The club has four national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World Cup star Romario who has promised to play for at least 45 minutes.

Ticket prices:60, 100, 150 yuan

Time/Date: 4:30 pm, August 26 (Sat.)

Telephone: 5012372

       The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on August 26-27 at the Huairou Mountain-climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin and other places will take part in it, A Japanese team will give an exhibition of climbing. Free for spectators(观众).

Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou.

Time/Dates: 9-12 am, August 26 and 27

Telephone: 7143177, 7144850, Wang zhenghua

44. The main purpose of announcing the above events is to give information about        .

       A. visiting teams                                               B. famous players

C. things to do for the weekend                         D. prices to pay for the sports events

45. The underlined word “leg” in “Bicycle tour and race” probably means       .

       A. race              B. practice           C. part of the training          D. part of the tour

46. What is special about the rock climbing competition?

       A.A foreign team takes part in it

B. You don’t have to pay to watch it.

C. You don’t have to be a sportsman to take part

D. The bus trip to the place of the competition is free.

47. If you want to find something to do just for Saturday afternoon, which telephone number will you call?

A. 4675027                   B. 7143177             C. 5012372             D. 7144850

Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any spouts team. “Football, tennis, cricket―anything with a round ball, I was useless, ” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15^th birthday that changed him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually, Sanders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway’s cold-eater exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, he decided that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled up and over rocky rice.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski along to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis.

40. What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 years old?

       A. He became good at most sports.             B. He began to build up his body

       C. He joined a sports team                   D. He made friends with a runner.

41. The underlined word “exploits” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to        .

       A. journeys            B. researches                     C. adventures             D. operations

42. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Saunders?

       a. He ran his first marathon                 b. He skied alone in the North Pole

       c . He rode his bike in a forest              d. He planned an adventure to the South Pole

       A. a c d b              B. c d a b                C. a c b d             D. c a b d

43. What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?

       A. He is a success in sports                          B. He is the best British skier.

       C. He is Ridgway’s best student                  D. He is a good instructor at school

Most animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership(伙伴关系) which is good for both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites(寄生虫) on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so because they remove the cause of discomfort. So although they can manage without each other, they do better together.

Sometimes an animal has a plant partner. The relationship develops until the two partners cannot manage without each other. This is so in the corals(珊瑚) of the sea. In their skins they have tiny plants which act as “dustmen”, taking some of the waste products from the coral and giving in return oxygen which the animal needs to breathe. If the plants are killed, or are even prevented from receiving light so that they cannot live normally, the corals will die.

36. Some birds like to sit on a sheep because         .

       A. they can eat its parasites                          B. they enjoy traveling with the sheep

       C. they depend on the sheep for existence      D. they find the position most comfortable

37. The underlined word “they ” in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to        .

       A. birds and parasites                                   B. birds and sheep

      C. parasites and sheep                                  D. sheep, birds and parasites

38. We learn from the text that corals depend on plants for         .

       A. comfort                B. light                C. food                D. oxygen

39. What does the second paragraph mainly discuss?

       A. Some animals and plants depend on each other for existence

       B. Some animals and plants develop their relationship easily.

       C. Some plants depend on each other for food.

       D. Some animals live better together.