It was a Sunday afternoon. It was very____and nobody wanted to stay at home. Mike decided to go swimming in the river. His brother, Jim, wanted to go with him. "____him with you, Mike," said their father. "He will do what you say, I think."

They got____the river quickly. A lot of people were____in it. Mike told Jim

to play on the bank, then he____into the water. About an hour later, Mike swam to the bank with a fish in his hand. Jim was very____. He found a bottle and put the fish in it.

Jim did____except watch the fish that evening. Suddenly Mike heard Jim____in the room. He ran to him and asked, "What's wrong____you, Jim?"

"The fish has died (????)." Jim said, "I thought it was____. So I took it out of the bottle and put it on the chair. I only wanted it to have a rest."

1.A. warm          B. hot          C. cool         D. cold

2.A. Carry          B. Bring        C. Take         D. Catch

3.A. to             B. at           C. of           D. for

4.A. washing        B. running      C. resting       D. swimming

5.A. ran            B. walked       C. fell          D. jumped

6.A. happy          B. angry        C. sad          D. sorry

7.A. everything      B. something    C. nothing       D. anything

8.A. singing         B. crying       C. smiling       D. laughing

9.A. with           B. from         C. to           D. on

10.A. hungry        B. free         C. tired         D. busy

 

Look at the center circles of Diagram (图) A and Diagram B.  Which of the centre circles looks larger? 

Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact , they are exactly the same size.

Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase ? Or two faces? Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time. 

"What's happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?" You may wonder at what you see. Don't worry. Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret (解读) the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it "Visual illusion" (视觉错误). 

Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of illusions.

1.The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B. That's because           .

A. something is wrong with our eyes

B. the two circles are not the same size

C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way

D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other

2.What's the right order according to the passage?

a. We look at things with our eyes.              b. Our brains interpret the messages.

c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.      d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.

A．adbc

B．cabd

C．acdb

D．bcad

3.Movie makers make use of visual illusions to            .

A．help the actors look better

B．make the actors much braver

C．help the actors become stronger

D．make the actors seem different in size

4.In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?___________

   

A.The second one.

B.The third one.

C.The fifth one.

D.The sixth one.

5.The text is probably taken from            .

A．an advertisement

B．a science book

C．a movie magazine

D．a story book

 

 

1.Sandy and Sue usually get up early every day, but today it is a ______.

2. It is a _____ to nine. Sandy and Sue usually go to school in the morning,

but this morning they are ______to the park

3. Sandy and Sue usually go to bed early at night,

but_____ they are playing a game.

4.Miss Williams is _____ her car to school.

Suddenly, she _____."That's funny,” she says.

5."What's the ______?"Mr Crisp asks.

"Look!” Miss Williams says.” A flat tyre."

6.Monday mornings are usually terrible.

  Father always gets up late and he's always _____ ______ _____.

7.On Friday Miss Jones always gives Sandy his piano lesson

  Sandy doesn't like it ______ ______!

8.Here is the weather _______ for tomorrow.

  It's going to _____ in the North and it's going to rain in the South.

9. Never _____, children.

  We can go to the cinema______.

10.What are you doing, dad?

   I'm _____this clock.

11.Is it nearly _____now, Jim?

No, Betty. I can't ______ all these pieces _______!

 

Last Saturday, Tony went to see Benny. But he didn't know   26   Benny lived.   27   the way, he stopped in front of a yellow house, and asked an old woman the   28   to Benny's house. "His house is not far from my house," said the woman. "It's behind the trees. But you can't get there   29   You can go there by bus. It'll   30   you hours to get there   31   foot. " "What's   32   with her?" Tony thought, "I can see Benny's house from here now.  It's behind the   33  ."

Then Tony walked to the other side of the trees. He found the old woman was   34   There was a river in front of him, and he couldn't see a boat. The house was on the other side of the    35  .

1.A. what            B. where           C. how              D. why

2.A. By              B. On              C. Near             D. In

3.A. place           B. house           C. bus              D. way

4.A. well            B. now             C. easily           D. hurriedly

5.A. spend           B. take            C. bring            D. carry

6.A. in              B. on              C. by               D. with

7.A. matter          B. trouble         C. wrong            D. right

8.A. houses          B. rivers          C. trees            D. boats

9.A. right           B. good            C. wrong            D. fine

10.A. road            B. street          C. tree             D. river

 

"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son's room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted.

     "Oh, Tom! You're still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It's half past eleven. If you don't go to bed soon, you'll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White.

     "But I've nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son's face. She sat down beside him.

     "You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What's special about it? Show me what it can do!"

     "I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware (硬件) is good. There's so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, 'Dragon Player', is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don't have to worry about any infected（感染） disks because I have a virus（病毒） detector (探测器) which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders.

    "Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I'm sure it's a wonderful computer, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."

1.When Mrs White was calling Tom, he was ______.

    A. playing computer games in' his bedroom      B. playing with a dragon in his bedroom

    C. playing "Dragon Player" in the study         D. lying in bed reading a book

2. Tom was excited because ______.

    A. the computer has a good memory            B. the hardware is good

    C. he had nearly won the game                 D. his mother came to see him

3. What do we know about Mrs White?

    A. She loves her son too much.

    B. She loves computer games too.

    C. She is very hard on his son.

    D. She is as wonderful as the computer game.