A lift is wonderful. It is really only a small room. Rooms usually stay in one place. Lifts travel up and down all day long.
Sometimes a worker stands in the lift. He or she operates it up and down. In modern lifts there is no worker. The people walk in. They know what floor they want. They push a button and the lift goes to that floor. It is all very fast and easy.
Lifts are very important to us. Why? Think about a tall building. Maybe it has twenty floors. Maybe it has fifty or more. Who can walk up all the stairs? Maybe people can climb them one time. Can someone climb thirty floors to an office every day? Can small children walk up to their room on the twenty-fourth floor? Can their mother and father carry food up all those stairs? Of course not.
We can have high buildings because we have lifts. We could not have all the beautiful tall buildings in the world without lifts. They are really wonderful.
【小题1】Which of the following is true?

Is your schoolbag too heavy? The e-schoolbag will help you. It is said that e-schoolbags are going to be brought into   43   in Chinese middle schools soon.

Heavy schoolbags have been a serious   44  for a long time. But the e-schoolbag will  45  . An e-schoolbag is  46   lighter than a usual schoolbag. Perhaps, the e-schoolbag should be   47   an e-textbook. It is a small computer for students. It is as   48   as a usual book,   49   it can still have all the things for study, such as textbooks, exercise books and so on which can be made   50   chips(о?) like stamps. The students can read the text page by page on the screen, take notes, or even send e-mails to their teachers. They only need to   51  the right chip into the e-schoolbag. Then they can use it.

Some people say   52   e-textbooks can be easily broken, while others say it is not good for eyes. But only time will tell.

1.A.use  B.useful          C.used            D.to use

2.A.idea B.problem         C.question        D.thought

3.A.work it out            B.work out it     C.work out        D.work them out

4.A.very B.much            C.too             D.so

5.A.call B.calls           C.called          D.calling

6.A.small                  B.smaller         C.smallest        D.most small

7.A.and  B.as              C.or              D.but

8.A.into B.from            C.up              D.of

9.A.bring                  B.get             C.take            D.put

10.A.if  B.what            C.that            D.which

Can plant eat people? Probably not. But there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big, and they can eat small animals. One famous meat- eating plant is the Venus flytrap(捕蝇草).
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of the book.. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly(苍蝇) touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes very quickly. Then the fly can’t go out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly. Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all the important things, especially nitrogen(氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen. So some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea.
根据短文内容判断。
1. The Venus flytrap grows in wet parts of the United States.
2. The Venus flytrap is a kind of plant.
3. The underlined word “presses” probably means（挤、压） in Chinese.
4. In the world, many animals eat plants but plants never eat animals.
5. From the passage, we know that not only animals eat plants, but also some plants eat animals.