Story 1

  In America in 1940，the twin boys went to live with two different families almost as soon as they were born．The two brothers never saw each other again until1979，when they met by chance at a party．When they started talking to each other，they discovered some amazing similarities(相似处)．First，they found out that they both enjoyed making things out of wood．Later on，they discovered that they had both married women called Linda，and that they both had one son whose first and middle names were James and Alan．Besides，both brothers had called their dogs by the same name-Toy．As if that wasn’t enough，they also found out that they both took their family holiday at the same place every year．

Story 2

    In 1996，a Filipino woman called Mrs. Jimena told other people that her three children could breathe underwater like fish．Mrs. Jimena said that her children had three small holes on the sides of their necks below each ear，and that these were like the gills(鱼鳃)on fish．Mrs. Jimena said that she didn’t know how to swim and that her children were just starting to learn. Her family lives in a mountain village far from the sea． According to Mrs. Jimena，the holes in her children’s necks become larger when they are underwater, allowing them to stay underwater for up to six minutes．

Story 3

    On 11th October，1994，a 10-year-old English girl called Vicky Willmore told her mother that she had a headache．Soon afterwards，Vicky began writing in mirror image(镜像)．She wrote letters and numbers either upsidedown or back-to-front．Although she could read what she wrote，no one else could．She was examined by different doctors，but none of them could find out what was wrong with her．Vicky became very upset，and soon stopped reading and writing altogether．Instead she started watching TV all the time．On 27th ，September 1995，Vicky was watching her favourite football team，Manchester United，play on television．When the team scored a goal，she became so excited that she jumped out of her seat and fell backwards，hitting her head on a coffee table．The next day，Vicky could read and write properly again．

1．The twin brothers didn’t meet each other until _________．

  A．1940            B．1979             C．1994               D．1996

2．The twin brothers_______．

  A．grew up in two different families

  B．didn’t have any similarities at all

  C．had two sons named James and Alan

  D．didn’t like making things out of wood

3．Mrs Jimena’s children could stay underwater for up to 6 minutes because ________．

  A．their mother was the best swimmer

  B．their village was close to the sea

  C．they had holes like gills below ears

  D．they bad gills like fish in their necks

4．The 10-year-old English girl changed her proper writing habit _______．

  A．soon after she had a headache one clay

  B．while she was watching a football match

  C．when she hit her head on a coffee table

  D．as soon as she stopped reading and writing

5．From the third story we know that ___________．

  A．Vicky wrote backwards for nearly three years

  B．doctors didn’t know what was wrong with Vicky

  C．hitting one’s head can make him write backwards

  D．watching football on television can cause trouble

6．This passage consists of three __________stories．

  A．traditional    B．historical         C．frightening             D．amazing

In junior high school in America, kids study English, writing, math, physics, biology, music and art.
At 12 o’clock, the students eat lunch at school. They have meat, vegetables, fruit, bread and a drink, but they like hot dogs and hamburgers best. American kids like sugar, and after the meal they can have a small piece of cake.
Students sleep for a short time after lunch. They begin classes at 1:30 in the afternoon. They go to school on weekdays and have classes for six hours every day and then return home.
Parents let their kids play or watch TV until dinner at 6:00 p. m. After dinner, they do their homework. Sometimes kids and their parents have a family activity after dinner.
【小题1】What do the students like best for lunch at school?

A．Meat and fruit.	B．Hot dogs and hamburgers.
C．Hot dogs and sugar.	D．Bread and hamburgers.

【小题2】In America, students go to school __________ days a week.

A．4

B．5

C．6

D．7

【小题3】The American kids usually have dinner_____ in the evening.

A．at five o’clock	B．at six thirty
C．at six o’clock	D．at five thirty

【小题4】Which of the following is NOT true?

A．American students like hot dogs and hamburgers best.

B．After lunch students sleep for a short time.

C．The classes begin at 2:00 p. m.

D．Sometimes students have a family activity with their parents.

【小题5】The best title（标题）for the passage (短文) is ______.

A．Favorite food	B．Junior high school
C．Outdoor activities	D．School life in America

阅读短文还原句子

A. For 12 years Marie didn’t speak. B. She put four small coins into the cake, and then she baked (烤) it. C. After six weeks she felt better, but she still couldn’t speak. D. She coughed up something small and black. E. Marie became very happy and confident.

It was December 25^th. Marie, a 13-year-old Australian girl, was happy．It was Christmas, and Marie’s mother was making a special cake. 5．___________ The four coins were for good luck．After dinner Marie and her family ate the cake．They found three coins in the cake and put them on the table．Where was the fourth coin? They could not find it, but Marie’s mother didn’t notice.
After Christmas Marie got sick．She coughed(咳嗽), and she couldn’t speak 6．__________Marie’s parents took her to hospital．Doctors at the hospital looked her over, and then said, “We are sorry, but we can’t help her．” 7．____________ She grew up, she got a job, and she got married．But she never spoke．
One day, when Marie was 25 years old, she got a sore throat(嗓子疼)at work. She began to cough.8． ____________ What was it? Marie didn’t know．She took it to the hospital. A doctor at the hospital said, “This is a coin!”The doctor told Marie, “I think you can speak again.” Marie went to a special doctor, and soon she could talk．

　Moreno, Stanley, and 23 other students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico. This was the last night in the hotel. It was 4 am, Moreno and Stanley came back from a party.

　　Just as Stanley went to sleep, he heard loud noise outside. From the balcony (阳台) of their fourth-floor room, Moreno and Stanley saw black smoke out of one window and heard people shouting.

　　Moreno ran out into the corridor and began knocking on doors and shouting, "Fire!" After that, he went upstairs in a hurry to tell other people. At the same time, Stanley was downstairs helping people get through the smoke-filled room. There he joined forces with Nalewanski, a 21-year-old boy who had a room on the second floor.

　　"Let's go," Nalewanski said. He and Stanley wet their shirts in the bathroom and put them around their mouths and noses so they could breathe. Then they ran up the stairs. On the fourth floor they found Moreno feeling terrible (Moreno had made it up to the eighth floor before turning back). But after making sure he could get back down on his own, they continued upstairs, knocking on the doors on every floor.

　　In the end, no one was seriously hurt. Moreno said, "There were hundreds of people in the hotel. It was our duty to help them."

1. 　　　 students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico.

A．Twenty-three	B．Twenty-four
C．Twenty-five	D．Twenty-six

2. Which floor does Stanley live on?

A．The second floor.	B．The fourth floor.
C．The seventh floor.	D．The eighth floor.

3. Nalewanski and Stanley put their wet shirts around their mouths and noses in order to 　　　 .

A．make them cool

B．stop the smoke from going into lungs (肺)

C．let people find them

D．play a joke with other people

4. What is the correct order?

　　　a. Moreno told other people.

　　　b. No one was seriously hurt.

　　　c. Nalewanski joined them to save people.

　　　d. Stanley and Moreno saw the smoke.

A．d-b-c- a	B．d-a-c-b
C．a-d-c-b	D．c-d-b-a

5. From the fourth paragraph, we can know 　　　

A．the three boys are brave

B．Moreno died in the fire

C．the reason of the fire

D．Nalewanski called the police for help

 

Today Newtown is a clean place, but many years ago there were millions of rats there. The rats even attacked (攻击 ) the cats and dogs. Sometimes many of them tried to bite men or women at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.
The city office ordered every one to kill rats. However, most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats. The city office could do nothing with the citizens and could do nothing with the rats, either. Some time later, they had to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They at once began to kill rats. They got as many dead rats as they could. And some of them even stopped their own work to kill rats because they could get more pay. Every day a city official(官员 ) put all the dead rats together. He was very busy doing that, because sometimes a man brought hundreds of them in one day. Two weeks later, there were not so many rats in the city as before,  but people still brought many dead rats to the city office. The city officials felt surprised at this but at last they found out people were stealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to order his men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it. Soon there were no more rats and the city did not have to pay any more money for that.
【小题1】The rats in Newtown were once ______

A．as big as cats	B．as dangerous as dogs
C．huge in size	D．run into cars there

【小题2】When the city office first ordered the citizens to kill rats, most people ______.

A．had to pay for each dead rat

B．stole dead rats

C．were too lazy to kill rats

D．killed nearly all the rats very soon

【小题3】A big hole was dug so that ______.

A．the rats could come out to attack people at night

B．people could take many rats

C．the people loved dead rats

D．people could not steal dead rats for money