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    I am Steve. I was born and grew up in South Wales. My favorite place to play was out on the hills where my imagination (想象力) had plenty of space to expand(拓展). My family moved out of Wales when I was thirteen. I went to a new school. One of my subjects was French. Because I had never learned any French, my teacher told me to sit in the corner and write anything I was interested in. That’s the time I started writing, just for myself, and I’ve been writing anything ever since. I have always loved BIG IDEAS, and so I enjoy writing fantastic stories. And I also write horror(恐怖) stories. I think they like the old fairy tales(童话故事), and can teach you important things. I am in my forties on the outside, twelve on the inside. I like rock music, and Indian and Chinese food, and I enjoy drinking. I live in a small village with my wife, Mary, ducks, cats, goats, hens and lots of rabbits. If you’d like to find out more about me and hope to buy my books, go to www.sbowkett.freeserve.co.uk.

    1. When he was 13, the writer____________.

    A. wrote lots of poems              B. moved out of Wales

    C. sold many story books            D. became a famous singer

    2. He liked playing out on the hills because he could __________.

    A. expand his imagination           B. learn English   

    C. listen to stories                  D. buy some books

    3. Maybe the writer is ___________years old now.

    A. 12           B. 22              C. 32          D. 42

    4. According to the passage, the writer keeps ____________.

    A. cats, hens and pigs               B. ducks, goats and rabbits

    C. hens, rabbits and dogs            D. rabbits, pigs and cats

    5. From the passage, we can learn that the writer ___________.

    A. lives in a big city with his son

    B. likes eating Japanese and Indian food

    C. lives in the countryside with his wife

    D. introduces a nice book to us

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    Jane Goodall is a famous scientist. For more than 40 years, Goodall lived mostly in Tanzania in East Africa, studying chimpanzees.

    As a young child, Jane Goodall was interested in animals. She grew up in the English countryside and was always climbing trees or riding horses.

    When Jane was 23, she got a chance to go to Africa. Even though she had never been to college, she got a job with a famous scientist named Louis Leakey.

    One day Louis Leakey said he needed a volunteer. He needed someone to go to a lake in Tanzania to study a kind of chimpanzees. Jane was excited.

    On July 16, 1960, she began her explore (探索). At first, the chimpanzees ran away from Jane. But with time passing, they got used to her being around.

    Every day, Jane would follow the chimpanzees, taking notes on their behavior. She learned many new things about chimpanzees. She watched how a chimpanzee made a tool.

    She learned how some chimpanzees became good leaders. She watched how mother chimpanzees raised their children. She watched animals get angry and get upset. She wrote everything down so others would understand animals as she did. She learned that if you pay really close attention to animals, you will understand what they are “saying”.

    50.  Jane Goodall grew up in the ____.

    A. countryside             B. city                 C. town                     D. college

    51.  Jane learned chimpanzees could ____.

    A. ride a horse             B. follow her        C. make a tool              D. understand her

    52.  Jane ____ the chimpanzees’ behaviors to help others understand them.

    A. wrote down                                        B. took pictures of

    C. made videos of                                    D. drew pictures about

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    阅读理解。
         When Webster was young, he was a teacher. But he quickly became tired of the books he used in
    classes. They were all about the English people and places. Since he wanted books that would be
    interesting to American children, he wrote three books with many American examples.
          Webster worked industriously (勤奋地) to change the spelling of American English. He wanted
    words to be spelled in the same way they were pronounced (发音). For example, he thought the word
    "laugh" should be spelled "1af".
         One day he walked into a print shop and gave the boy there a piece of paper. "Young man," he said,
    "when you print any please don't spell as English people do. For example when you print these words
    "theatre, centre, colour, and labour (劳动)", please always print them as "theater, center, color,
    and labor'." The boy studied it and answered, "OK, but I must ask my boss first."
          With the money he made from his books, Webster could start his work, which took him more
    than twenty years to finish. In 1828, the first American English dictionary was born. And today,
    Webster's dictionary is thought to be the most important American dictionary in the whole world.
    1. What kind of books did he use when Webster was young?

    [     ]

    A. Books about Great Britain.
    B. Books about the USA.
    C. Books about both Great Britain and the USA.
    D. Books that were very interesting.
    2. Webster decided to change the spelling of American English because _____.

    [     ]

    A. he was born in America
    B. there were too many mistakes in them
    C. American children were not interested in them
    D. they were not spelled in the same way they were pronounced
    3. On the paper Webster gave the boy were the words _____.

    [     ]

    A. easy to say
    B. that didn't sound well
    C. whose pronunciations he wanted to change
    D. whose spellings he wanted to change
    4. Webster began to write the first American English dictionary before the year _____.

    [     ]

    A. 1808
    B. 1820
    C. 1828
    D. 1858

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    　　She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 110 pounds, but Miss Bessie was a towering presence in the classroom．She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf and think for a few stupid days that I liked it．From 1938 to 1942, she taught me English, history－and a lot more than I realized．

    　　I shall never forget the day she scolded(批评)me into reading Beowulf．“But Miss Bessie, ” I complained, “I ain’t much interested in it．”

    　　Her large brown eyes became sharp．“Boy, ” she said, “how dare you say ‘ain’t’ to me! I’ve taught you better than that．”

    　　“Miss Bessie, ” I said, “I’m trying to join the football team, and if I go around saying ‘it isn’t’ and ‘they aren’t, ’ the guys are gonna laugh me off the team．”

    　　“Boy,” she replied, “you’ll play football because you have guts(勇气)．But do you know what really takes guts? Refusing to lower your standards to those of the crowd．It takes guts to say you’ve got to live and be somebody fifty years after all the football games are over．”

    　　I started saying “it isn’t” and “they aren’t, ” and I still joined the team without losing my friends’ respect．

    　　Negroes, as we were called then, were not allowed in the town library, except to sweep floors or clean tables．But with the help of some nice whites, Miss Bessie kept getting books out of the white library．That is how she introduced me to the Bront?s, Byron and Keats．“If you don’t read, you can’t write, and if you can’t write, you might as well stop dreaming, ” Miss Bessie once told me．

    　　So I read whatever Miss Bessie told me to, and tried to remember the things she insisted that I store away．It could be embarrassing to be unprepared when Miss Bessie said, “Get up and tell the class who Frances Perkins is and what you think about her．” Forty-five years later, I can still recite her “truths to live by”．

    　　Miss Bessie noticed things that had nothing to do with schoolwork, but were essential to a youngster’s development．Once a few classmates made fun of my worn-out hand-me-down overcoat．As I was leaving school, Miss Bessie patted me on the back of that old overcoat and said, “Carl, never worry about what you don’t have．Just make the most of what you do have － a brain．”

    　　No child can get all the necessary support at home, and millions of poor children get no support at all．This is what makes a wise, educated, warm-hearted teacher like Miss Bessie so essential to the minds, hearts and souls of this country’s children．

    (1)

    The underlined words “towering presence” in the first paragraph means _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    Miss Bessie was strong enough to influence her students

    B．

    Miss Bessie was watching the students all the time

    C．

    the students thought she was tall and heavy

    D．

    the students felt nervous in front of her

    (2)

    What can we infer from the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    Carl’s friends came from poor families．

    B．

    Carl hated to read Beowulf in public．

    C．

    Miss Bessie wanted Carl to be a better man．

    D．

    Miss Bessie didn’t want Carl to play football．

    (3)

    Miss Bessie asked Carl to read a lot because _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    his parents were too poor to afford books

    B．

    he was not allowed into the library

    C．

    the whites didn’t want the blacks to read

    D．

    she expected him to have a goal in life

    (4)

    Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    Dreams Go with Education

    B．

    An Unforgettable Lesson

    C．

    Unforgettable Miss Bessie

    D．

    Reading Makes a Full Man

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    This week we asked students at New Star High School about the best ways to learn more English．Many students said they learned  1  using English．Some students had more specific __2  ．Lillian Li，for example，said the best way to learn new words was by reading English magazines．She said that memorizing the words of pop songs also  3  a little．When we asked about studying grammar，she said，“I  4  study grammar．It’s too boring．”

    Wei Ming had a very different idea．He had been learning English for six years and really loved it．He  5  studying grammar was a great way to learn a  6  ．He also thought that watching English movies wasn’t a bad way became he could watch the actor  7  the words．Sometimes，however，he found watching movies frustrating became the people spoke too quickly．

    Liu Chang said that joining the English club at school was the best way to improve her English．Students got lots of practice and they also had fun．She added that having conversations with friends was not helpful at all．“We get  8  about something and then end up speaking in Chinese，”she said．

    （    ）1．A．by                  B．with             C．in                          D．from

    （    ）2．A．way               B．plans            C．subjects                 D．suggestions

    （    ）3．A．learned           B．helped           C．tried                             D．worded

    （    ）4．A．sometimes        B．usually          C．never                     D．always

    （    ）5．A．asks               B．thinks           C．asked                     D．thought

    （    ）6．A．language          B．English         C．lesson                    D．word

    （    ）7．A．to say             B．saying           C．say                        D．said

    （    ）8．A．interested         B．interesting       C．excited                   D．exciting

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