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　　Games can be both fun and difficult. Scrabble(拼字游戏) is a game I like most, but it is not an easy one. Henry, Tom and I are going to play Scrabble tonight. Henry cannot remember all the rules, so I will explain them. Do you want to learn? Listen carefully, and we will play later.

　　Each player takes seven letters. Your letters might be A, S, T, E, B, P and L. You can spell many words with these letters. You can spell TABLE with five of them, and you can spell LAP, LET, SAT, BAT and others with three of them. But you cannot use names of persons, countries, or cities.

　　You have to be careful. Some letters are worth more points than others. For example. A, E, L, S, and T have one point each, B and P have three points each. The number of points can be different for words with the same number of letters. SAT will give you only three points, and BAT will give you five. TABLE will give you seven points; three for B and four for the other four letters. Use TABLE. You will get more points, and you might win the game.

　　At the end of the game the players add up their points. The one with the most points wins. For example, you might have one hundred forty points. That is a good score. But I might have one hundred sixty points, and Henry might have one hundred seventy points. Then Henry wins. Shall we play?

1．When you play Scrabble, you ___________with seven letters.

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A． can spell AMERIKA

B． may spell LONDON

C． can spell many words

D． have to spell a three or five letter word

2． Which of the following is wrong?

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A． A word with seven letters is worth seven points.

B． Some letters are worth more points than others.

C． Different letters have different points.

D． E doesn't have so many points as B.

3． The word SLEPT Will give you ___________ points.

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4．The players add up their points when ___________.

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A． the game is over

B． they start to play the game

C． they are given seven letters

D． they have more than one hundred points

5． The one with ___________is the winner.

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A．170 points

B． a good score

C． the fewest points

D． the most points

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　　As far back as 700 B.C., man had talked about children being cared for by wolves. Romulus and Remus, the old story twin founders of Rome, were said to have been cared for by wolves. It is believed that when a she-wolf loses her baby, she tries to get a human child to take its place. This idea did not become believable until the late nineteenth century when a French doctor actually found a ten-year-old boy having nothing on walking around in the woods. He didn't walk upright, could not speak, nor could he relate to people. He only growled(嗥叫)and stared at them. Finally the doctor won the boy's confidence (信任) and began to work with him. After many long years of devoted and patient teaching, the doctor was able to get the boy to dress, feed himself, recognize and say a number of words, as well as write letters to form words.

1． The French doctor found the boy __________.

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A． walking in a strange way

B． writing letters to form words

C． dressed in human clothes

D． speaking in an unknown language

2． According to the text we can infer that ___________.

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A．the boy was actually a baby-wolf

B．the boy was brought up by a she-wolf

C．the she-wolf had changed the boy into a wolf

D．having been brought up by a wolf, the boy could never live a human life

3．People before the late nineteen century didn't believe ___________.

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A．wolves were man-eating animals

B．a she-wolf would care for a human child

C．a she-wolf would lose her baby

D．she-wolves were kind-hearted

4．The doctor was able to work with the boy because ___________.

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A． the boy had never lost his mind

B． the boy trusted him

C． the boy liked to dress up

D． the boy worked very hard

5． What do the underlined words relate to mean?

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　　The killer bees are coming! By the time you read this they will have reached Texas. By the mid-1990s, they will have reached all the warmer areas of the United States. Scientists as well as farmers wait for them with a mixture of fear and wonder.

　　The killer bees should not be coming at all! Nature did not put them on this direct path for the United States; human beings did. The killer bees are from Africa. But in 1957 a scientist from Brazil got some of these killer bees for his experiments. The aim was to produce a better bee. However, an accident happened: a guest beekeeper let twenty-six of the queen bees escape by mistake. Before long, groups of killer bees took off for the woods.

　　Since that time, the wild killer bees have multiplied (繁衍) many times over. By 1988, their population was over . They have spread all over South America, central America, and most of Mexico. The United States is the next stop.

　　Are the killer bees really killers? Yes, they are. In their first thirty years in America, they have killed thousands of hens, pigs, and other animals. While no one knows the exact number, it is believed that several hundred people have also been killed.

　　So be careful. Killer bees are on the way. Scientists have no idea what to do with them yet. There must be a way.

1．We know from the passage that killer bees will spread to the United States ___________.

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2．The killer bees were brought to Brazil in order to ___________.

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3．The passage suggests that to all the creatures on the earth ___________.

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A． experiments are often very frightening

B． beekeepers are the most dangerous people

C． the greatest danger often comes from man himself

D． warmer areas are full of fear and wonder

　　Fat on human body is distributed(分布) in two different ways. Some fat people have a large chest and no waistline (腰身), looking rather like apples. Others are fatter below the waist, looking more like pears.

　　Doctors in Cambridge, England have been examining the relationship between health and fat distribution. They find that the pear-shaped fat people have fewer problems than the apple-shaped people. What seems to be most important is not just how much fat you have but where you have it. The doctors measured the apple-shaped and pear-shaped women and examined them with X-ray scanners(X光扫描器). Human beings have two types of fat——one is outside fat that is the fat below the skin and the other is inside fat which lies inside the body. Using the X-ray scanners, the doctors found that the“apples” have a large amount of inside fat. If this inside fat is much more than outside fat, it will probably cause health problems such as obesity (肥胖病). The best treatment for obesity is to reduce the inside fat. But unfortunately diet treatment(饮食疗法) simply makes and apple-shaped person into a smaller apple and a pear-shaped person into a smaller pear. At the moment there is no effective way of reducing the inside fat.

Multiple choice:

1．According to the relation between health and fatness ___________.

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A．it's better to be pear-shaped than apple-shaped

B．it's better to be apple-shaped than pear-shaped

C．apple-shaped fat people have fewer problems than pear-shaped people

D．fatness is the most dangerous enemy to health

2．The most important thing about fat people seems to be ___________.

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A． the amount of fat they have

B． the place where they have the fat

C． the amount of the outside fat they have

D． which type of the fat people they belong to

3．If you are fatter below your hip (臀部) you are ___________.

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A． either an apple-shaped person or a pear-shaped person

B． neither a pear-shaped person nor an apple-shaped person

C． a pear-shaped person

D． an apple-shaped person

4．The basic reason why some people suffer from obesity is that ___________.

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A． they take very little exercise every day

B． they eat too much

C． the are examined by X-ray scanners quite often

D． they have much more inside fat

5． According to what is mentioned, the best treatment for obesity at present is ___________.

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A．to reduce the amount of food and drinks

B．to make the body shape smaller

C．still to be found

D．already known to those people in trouble

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　　Ben

　　When I left school five years ago, I said to myself, “that's that! No more learning for me. Now I can enjoy myself in the evening.” But about a year ago the boss said, “We're going to get a computer in the near future.” What does he mean? I simply don't know. Anyway, I decided to go to evening classes. I'm quite an expert on computers now and, you know, I actually enjoy studying.

　　Evn

　　I haven't much interest in studying. To be honest, I don't like reading very much, except for magazines and that sort of thing. Just light reading, that is, to pass the time. But I do enjoy TV. Not that I watch everything. In fact, I choose my programmes very carefully. I'm particularly interested in current affairs. In some ways I think I learn more this way than I did at school.

　　Ted

　　I'm a very sort of person - I simply love doing things. That's why I enjoy sports so much. I mean, actually playing. I hardly ever watch it on TV, but I do read quite a bit about it. I'm even interested in the history of sports. I don't have much time for anything else, except that I quite like dancing. Some people say I'm not very good at it, though.

　　Joan

　　I should say I have great interest in studying. I'd rather do this than anything e1se. Since I left school, I've taken courses in all sorts of things. I go to the city library once a week, but I much prefer evening classes because it's more fun that way. My latest “craze(狂热)” - if you can call it that - is foreign languages. I'm learning two, not one!

1．These four people are talking about what they do ________.

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2．According to what they say, which of the following is not true?

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A．Ben was pleased to leave school.

B．Eve does not spend much time in reading.

C．Ted spends a lot of time watching his favourite sport on television.

D．Joan is learning languages in the evening school.

3．Among the four people, ________ are considered to have made good use of time in studying.

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　　In the 19th century, it was often to hear people in America and Europe say that the resources of the sea could not be used up. Today there is evidence(迹象) that resources of the sea are as really threatened(威胁) as those of the land and the air. Further, the threat to fish is more serious(严重) in some ways. than the threat to birds and land animals because fish are a much needed food resource. Many people throughout the world depend on fish as an important part of their food. Fishermen in the North Atlantic alone every year harvest 20 billion pounds of fish to satisfy food demands. But it is important to know that these practices cannot continue without using fish resources within the next few years.

　　It is only with care and planning in this generation(一代人) that the food supplies of the sea can continue for future generation.

1．In this passage, what topic is the author mainly concerned with?

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A．Air Pollution

B．Stop Sea From Being Polluted

C．Protection of Sea Resources

D．Make Full Use of Sea Resources

2．In this passage, sea resources are mainly referred to ________.

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3．Why are fish resources declining(下降)?

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A．Because fishermen catch too many fish every year.

B．Because too many fish die every year.

C．Because sea is seriously polluted.

D．The passage does not say the reason.

4．What does the author advise people to do to stop the decline(下降) of the fish resources?

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A．He suggests raising more fish.

B．He suggests stopping fishing.

C．He advises people to eat less fish.

D．He advises people to catch fish in a planned way.

5．From this passage, it can be inferred that ________.

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A．the decline of land and air resources is not serious

B．fish supply of the sea can continue to the next generation

C．more and more people eat fish

D．fish resources will be used up in ten years

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　　To find out how the name Canada came about, we must go back to the 16th century. At that time, the French dreamed of(梦想) discovering and controlling more land across the world. In 1535, Francois I, king of France, ordered a navigator(航海家) named Jacques Cartier to explore(探查) the New World and search for a passage to India.

　　Cartier first arrived at the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, which he wanted to explore. He did not know what to expect(盼望) but he hoped that this Gulf was just an arm of the ocean between two islands. If it was, he would soon be on his way to the Far East. So he sailed upwards along the St. Lawrence River. However, instead of reaching Asiahe arrived at Quebec or Stadacona, as the Indians called it. It was at this point that the term(词语)“Canada” entered the country's history. Apparently(明显地) the word “Canada” came from an Indian word “Kanata”, which means “village”. Cartier first used it when he referred to Stadacona or Quebec. What a huge “village” Canada is!

1．Jacques Cartier was ordered ________.

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A．to sail upwards along the St. Lawrence River

B．to know more about America

C．to find a new way to Asia

D．both B and C

2．When Cartier reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence he hoped ________.

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A．he had got to India

B．he had got to the New Continent

C．it was a water way to the Far East

D．it was a water way to Europe

3．The passage tells us ________.

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A．who found the New World

B．how the name Canada came about

C．when the country Canada was founded

D．which way is to Asia

4．When Cartier explored the New World, Quebec or Stadacona was only an Indian ________.

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5．Which is NOT true according to the passage? ________.

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A．“Kanata” is an Indian word for “village”

B．Jacques Cartier was a famous navigator

C．The French king Francois I wanted to get more land across the world

D．Canada has a long history of white settlers

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　　James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name.

　　“J.C.,”he replied.

　　She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.

　　Owens ran his first race at age 13. After high school, he went to Ohio State University, He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935. he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.

　　A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event. He did try, and the results are in the record book.

　　The stage was set for Owens' victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic(体育的) but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African-American winners.

　　“It was all right with me,”he said years later. “I didn't go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”

　　Having returned from Berlin, he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976, four years before his death.

　　Owens' Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground, and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles, and dogs.

　　“Sure, it bothered (烦忧) me,”he said later.“But at least it was an honest living. I had to eat.”

　　In time, however, his gold medals (奖牌) changed his life.“They have kept me alive over the years,”he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard.”

1．Owens got his other name “Jesse” when ________.

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A．he went to Ohio State University

B．his teacher made fun of him

C．his teacher took “J．C” for “Jesse”

D．he won gold medals in the Big Ten meet

2．In the Big Ten meet, Owens ________.

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A．hurt himself in the back

B．succeeded in setting many records

C．tried every sports event but failed

D．had to give up some events

3．We can infer from the text that Owens was treated unfairly in the US at that time because ________.

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A．he was not of the right race

B．he was the son of a poor farmer

C．he didn't shake hands with Hitler

D．he didn't talk to the US president on the phone

4．When Owens says “They have kept me alive over the years, ”he means that the medals ________.

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A．have been changed for money to help him live on

B．have made him famous in the US

C．have encouraged him to overcome difficulties in life

D．have kept him busy with all kinds of jobs

5．Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

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A．Jesse Owens, a Great American Athlete

B．Golden Moment a Life time Struggle

C．Making a Living as a Sportsman

D．How to Be a Successful Athlete?

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　　Few can predict(预言) a winner in the popular Tour de France, the yearly twenty-five hundred miles of French countryside. Anything can happen, and usually do, in this difficult bike race which has been called the world's roughest road race. Accidents and tiredness may force more than half the contestants (参加者) drop out before he reaches the finishing line.

　　The real dangers of the race become clear where he decides to win. Cycling up a wind mountain road, a racer may hit sixty miles and hour with no hope of stopping; if he loses control (控制) then, he will fall off his bike and hits rock. But the skilled and lucky winner can get as much as a hundred thousand dollars a year.

1．Almost nobody can tell who will be the winner of the coming bike race because ________.

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A．no one knows the names of the contestants of the bike race

B．who is the best cyclist

C．people can't get the history records of good cyclists

D．anything can happen to a cyclist even a very good cyclist can't escape

2．From this passage, we can get an idea that ________.

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A．this bike race is held in cities

B．this is a well-known bike race

C．this is a countryside bike race

D．it is the longest bike race in the world

3．This bike race is called the world's roughest road race because ________.

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A．it is a long distant bike race

B．it is a dangerous bike race

C．it is a tiring bike race

D．all of above

4．It can be inferred that ________.

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A．many cyclists want to be winners so as to make a lot of money

B．not many people take part in the race

C．accidents make the half of the contestants give up in the race

D．only half of the contestants can reach the finishing line

5．According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

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A．It is a world bike race.

B．It is a long but safe bike race.

C．Many accidents happen on the mountain road.

D．Several hundred people watch the bike race.

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　　An enormous (巨大的) fast-food industry gives hungry Americans the snacks they want when they want them. Ice cream, popcorn, and hot dogs are on sale everywhere. Best known, perhaps, is the McDonald's hamburger business .With an American love for numbers, McDonald's count the hamburgers they sell .Hamburger number one was sold in 1984. Hamburger number fifty billion was eaten in November 1984.

　　But if more and more Americans eat fast food, more and more Americans also worry about it. Fast food makes you fat, and Americans are the fattest people in the world. They are also the most interested in their health, and snack food is not healthy. The fashion (时尚的) for healthy food is growing all the time. Among middle-class people, salads, beans, and fruit have taken the place of steak and ice cream. Drinking is going down too. Only 67 percent of adults drink alcohol(酒) .

　　At all, and one-third of those drink less than they used to. Smart business people order mineral water, not wine, at their business lunches.

　　Being fat, in fact, can cause real problems for an American. He or she will find it harder to get a good job, or even to make friends. If you want to do well, you must be thin. It doesn't seem fair, does it? Advertisers and fast-food sellers scream at people to eat, eat, eat. But inside, there is another voice saying “stop, stop, stop”.

1．What's the main idea of the passage?

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A．McDonald in America.

B．American fast food.

C．Hamburger is more popular than any other food in USA.

D．Food and health .

2．From the passage we learn ________.

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A．Americans are all fond of fast food

B．all Americans don't like fast food

C．people in USA will stop eating fast food because it causes a lot of trouble

D．people who eat fast food often find it hard to get a good job.

3．The word “snacks” means ________.

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A．hamburger

B．hot dogs, ice cream and popcorn

C．A and B

D．fast food

4．According to the passage, which following statement is true?

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A．Most Americans drink alcohol.

B．Businessmen never drink any alcohol.

C．Generally speaking, the middle-class people in USA don't like fast food.

D．The fat people in USA have few friends and can't find a good job.

5．Through the passage we can infer that the writer wants to ________.

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A．encourage people to eat hamburger

B．persuade people to stop eating fast food

C．let people know that there are some bad effects in eating fast food

D．ask people to change their food.