150 Years of Cool

Look in the bedrooms of young people around the world. You will probably find a pair of blue jeans in each room. Jeans are very popular all over the world.

Jeans give you the feeling of comfort, youth and energy. They have long been liked by every person.

Levi Strauss is an American company. It first made blue jeans. The company was founded in 1853 by 24-year-old Levi Strauss. Twenty years later, he made the first blue jeans in the world. The jeans were used as working trousers for the cowboys of the American West. During the Second World War, American soldiers brought blue jeans to Europe and Asia. People there began to wear jeans. Little by little, they become cool.

People from different countries like different styles of jeans. Americans like to wear simple and single-colored jeans, but many Chinese like to wear jeans with lots of different colors.

Jeans now can be seen everywhere: However, in many places, it’s not always good to wear jeans. No matter how good they may look, or what color they are, it’s often not right to wear jeans in formal places. But, when you are out, relaxing and having fun, jeans are the best choice.

1.The story is talking about_____________.

A. Levi Strauss               B. young people           C. cool        D. jeans

2.Levi Strauss made the first blue jeans_____________.

A. when he was 44            B. when he was 24         C. in 1853     D. in 1924

3.___________ wore jeans after they were first made.

A. American soldiers          B. American cowboys     

C. Levi Strauss               D. The people in Europe

4.Jeans can be cool for nearly 150 years because _____________.

A. they have different styles                      

B. they have different colors

C. they make us feel youth, comfort and energy      

D. they are working trousers.

5.When you _____________, you’d better not wear a pair of jeans.

A. go to an important meeting       B. go on a trip

C. have a party                    D. are having fun

Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories,   destroying (摧毁) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏)  that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.

A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.

“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “When we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”

Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

“There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”

Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter.

1.How many homes altogether (总共) were damaged in the storm?

A. Fourteen                                 B. Twenty-one      

C. Twenty-nine              D. Thirty-six

2.Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?

A. He was in bed.                                  B. He was inside the house.

C. He was outside the house.                 D. He was on the roof.

3.Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because _________.

A. her husband knew there would be a storm

B. they were all inside the house when the storm became worse

C. she felt the house was moving

D. the welfare department helped her

4.The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______.

A. something to eat      B. something to wear

C. somewhere to study      D. somewhere to stay

5.Which of he following may be the best title for this passage?

A. A Terrible Storm   B. A Lucky Woman

C. Good Soldiers        D. Clever People

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。

Jeff Keith has only one leg. When he was 12 years old, Jeff had cancer. The doctors had to cut off most of his right leg to save his life. Every day Jeff puts on a man-made leg. The leg is plastic. With the plastic leg, Jeff can ski, ride a bicycle, swim and play soccer. He can also run.

When he was 22 years old, Jeff ran across the United States, from the East to the West. He ran 5,150 kilometers. That’s about 26 kilometers each day. Jeff wore out 36 pairs of running shoes and five plastic legs.

On his way, in every city people gave Jeff money. The money which Jeff received was not for Jeff himself. It was for the American Cancer Society(协会). The society used the money to learn more about cancer. At the same time, Jeff talked to people about cancer. He also talked about being disabled.

Jeff is disabled, but he can do many things: skiing, swimming, playing soccer and running. He finished college and now he is studying to be a lawyer(律师). Jeff says, “People can do anything they want to do. I want people to know that. I ran not only for disabled people but also for everybody.”

1.Why did the doctors cut off most of Jeff’s right leg?

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2.How many plastic legs did Jeff wear out when he ran across the United States?

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3.What did Jeff talk to people about on his way from the East to the West?

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4.Did he only run for the disabled people?

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5.What can we learn from this story?

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句型转换（5%，每线0.5）

1.“When will he have a concert?” the boy asked.（改为间接引语）

The boy asked        he          have a concert

2.These tigers are facing great danger.（改为感叹句）

_________  ________ danger these tigers are facing!

3.Was he killed? Did he kill himself? I wonder. (合并为一句)

I wonder _________ he was killed _________ he killed himself.

4.We shall make an extra model.（改为同义句）

We shall make __________  ___________ model.

5.To prevent us from floating in the air, we must wear special boots.(提问)

_________  _________ we wear special boots?

根据短文内容回答问题。
Red Ribbon Week is held every year, usually during the last week of October. It started with a police officer named “Kiki” Camarena. He was sent to Mexico in order to investigate(调查) a Mexican drug company and stayed there for four and a half years. His efforts helped put a stop to several major drug making companies. So the bosses wanted to murder the men who brought them down. When Camarena left his office for a lunch date with his wife on February 7, 1985, a car drove up and kidnapped(绑架) him, and a month later he was killed. At that time he was only 37 years old.
Shortly after his death, people in Camarena’s town began wearing red ribbons in his honor. Then Camarena’s high school friend, Henry Lozano, started Camarena Club. Hundreds of people joined the club and promised to be drug-free in order to honor the death of Camarena. And then schools in several states began to join in. Now, at the end of every October, millions of Americans wear red ribbons in memory of “Kiki” Camarena. So, in 1988, the first national Red Ribbon Week was founded in America.
Red Ribbon Week has become the largest drug education and prevention organization in the United States. It encourages communities to stand up against drugs and it encourages children to make a promise not to take drugs in their life.

【小题1】Is Red Ribbon Week held at the end of October in America?
【小题2】How long did “Kiki” Camarena stay in Mexico?
【小题3】What did “Kiki” Camarena do there?
【小题4】Why do people wear red ribbon during Red Ribbon Week?
【小题5】What’s the passage mainly about?