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Jeremy Shu -How Lin is an NBA player on the New York Knicks. He is an Asian-American NBA rising star. He was born on August 23rd, 1988. He is 1.91meters tall. He weighs 91 kilos. He is also a graduate of Harvard University. Months ago, few people knew of him, but in February, 2012, Lin started to shine. He led his team to a series of (一系列)wins. He surprised everybody and quickly became famous in the sports world.

US Education Secretary Arne Duncan wrote an article about Lin for Time. He said Lin breaks lots of wrong ideas. One of them is that Asian Americans can’t play basketball well. Another is that you can’t be a great sports player and an excellent student at the same time.

Duncan also noted that Lin’s success was not an accident(偶然). He worked hard and stayed humble(谦虚的). He lives the right way. He plays the right way.

What makes Lin stand out from other players is his hard work and never-give-up spirit.

1. Which team does Jeremy Shu-How Lin play for?

A. The Houston Rockets.                 B. The Los Angeles Lakers.

C. The New York Knicks.                 D. The New Jersey Nets.

2.. How old is Jeremy Shu-How Lin this year?

A. He is twenty.                        B. He is twenty-two.

C. He is twenty-four.                    D. He is twenty-six.

3. Which university did he graduate from?

A. Taiwan University.                   B. Harvard University.

C. Oxford University.                     D. Cambridge University.

4.. According to the passage, do you think a person can be a great sports player and a good student at the same time?

A. Yes, I think so.                    B. No, I don’t think so.

C. Yes, I don’t think so.               D. No, I think so.

5.What makes him a great success?

A. Hard work and his height.

B. His coach and his weight.

C. His character(性格) and his family.

D. Hard work and never-give-up spirit.

 

Mr Smith, Sandra, Rachel, Duane和the Greens正各自安排活动。请仔细阅读题中的个人情况说明和A到F的活动场地介绍，选出符合各自要求的最佳选项，选项中有一项是多余的选项。
【小题1】Mr Smith, an American, is on business in Japan. Tomorrow he would like to visit some famous attractions. He and his assistant both love climbing very much.
【小题2】Sandra is very tired because of weeks of hard work at her lessons. Now she has come up with an idea: Why not try to take a relaxing visit in Britain?
【小题3】Rachel is a hard-working student. She will head for geography in the middle school. This summer she is going to travel across a dessert in a certain country.
【小题4】Duane is an active and energetic student. He has a special interest in the great champions and their achievements. He really hopes to find a wonderful place for the coming weekend.
【小题5】The Greens, who love the sea and enjoy the sunshine, have prepared for travelling abroad. During the trip, they are going to buy some souvenirs for their friends.

A	B	C
Pattaya Beach It is alongside the city centre, close to shopping, hotels and bars. It is one of the most successful beach in the world.	Mount Fuji Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Tokyo. Officially it’s open for climbing during July and August.	Sports Hall of Fame Set up in 1967, it has collected the athletic achievements of the state’s greatest champions who have made their mark in American sports history.
D	E	F
Sahara Dessert It is the largest in the world. The surface of the dessert ranges from large areas of sand dunes to stone plateaus, gravel plains, dry valleys and salt flats.	Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. It is also a very popular place for scuba diving. There you can see colorful fish and smart dolphins.	Big Ben, the UK It has become one of the main signs of London. The sound of the bell, which you can hear at the beginning of many television programs has become well-known all over the nation.

LONDON (Reuters) — British milkman Steve Leech, who saved several shops and flats by putting out a fire with 320 pints of milk, was celebrating Thursday after winning a national bravery award.

Leech, 35, named “Hero Milkman” by the National Dairymen’s Association, said that he had noticed smoke coming out of a shop in Cornwall, southern England, while delivering (递送) milk as usual a year ago.

“I saw the flats up above and thought I’d better do something. So I kicked the door in and started pouring milk everywhere,” Lee told Reuters Thursday.

“When firemen arrived, the fire was almost out,” he said. Firemen said he had helped save the lives of eight people living in the flats above the shops.

“It was hard work opening all those bottles, especially since they have tamper-proof lids. But it was even harder trying to explain to my boss where all the milk had gone.”

1. This is a(n) _______ from London.

   A. poster            B. review           C. advertisement        D. news report

2. Leech was awarded the prize for his _______.

   A. hard work     B. brave behaviour

   C. invention     D. patriotic behaviour

3. Which is the correct order of what Leech did about a year ago?

   ①The fire was almost put out.              ②He kicked the door in.

   ③He noticed smoke coming out of a shop. ④He delivered mile as usual.

   ⑤He poured milk everywhere.

   A. ①②③④⑤        B. ④②③⑤①   C. ③④①②⑤  D. ④③②⑤①

4.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests (暗示) that tamper-proof lids add to the difficulty of _______ those bottles.

    A. stealing         B. breaking     C. opening      D. wasting

5. Which is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

   A. Leech put out a fire with milk at the age of 34.

   B. Cornwall is in the north of England.

   C. Leech saved eight people in the shops.

   D. The fire was already out before firemen arrived.

 

           

What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love :12+15+22+5=54, and luck : 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t, either.

Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.

Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.

When you change your manner and become friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards failure(失败), you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.

1.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important things in a person’s life?

   A. Hard-work.         B. Knowledge.                 C. Money.            D. Attitude.

2.According to the passage, what’s the mark of the word “succeed”?

A. 50                B. 60                      C. 70                D. 80

3. What does the underlined word “positive” mean in the text?

   A. 正面                    B. 反面                    C.积极的        D.消极的

4.According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to ___________.

   A. change your attitude                          B. say your prayers to God

   C. ask for help from others                   D. try math-solving methods

5.From the passage we can learn that ______________.

   A. different attitudes come from different courses of life.

   B. mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life

   C. failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude

   D. none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more

 

Not long ago, the only time you could see a robot was when you were reading a novel or watching a movie such as Star Wars (星球大战) . Today, however, a lot of things in science stories have been science facts. Robots are starting to appear in our everyday lives. These robots have different sizes, shapes, and colors. But they all have the same type of man-made “brain”. Leading the robot revolution （革命）are industrial(企业) robots that work in factories. Industrial（工业） robots can do different kinds of jobs that are often boring and sometimes dangerous. Robots are also coming to American homes, though not as quickly as they are entering factories. These robots aren’t as friendly and bright as those you saw in  Star Wars. But, their makers say, today’s home robots “walk”, sense objects(感知物体) in their way (and sometimes knock into them), and even carry objects (which they sometimes drop). Well, nobody is perfect.
We may laugh at home robot today, but some day they may see and hear better than humans do. We humans can only see certain wavelengths（波长） of light, and hear certain sounds. That’s because the abilities of our eyes and ears are limited. Robots, however, need not have the same limits as we have. Robot may also be equipped with devices that pick up information humans can’t. To understand what their sensing devices(传感器) pick up is a hard job. Remember, man—made brains handle(处理)information, including all kinds of data, as zeroes and ones. Imagine the difficulty in trying to explain to a robot what a football looks like—using only zeroes and ones.
【小题1】 From the passage, we can see that factory robots _________.

A．help to improve other types of robots

B．are most active in industrial revolution

C．are playing a more important role than other types of robots

D．are the tallest type among robots

【小题2】 It seems that home robots are __________________.

A．more widely used than factory robots

B．less common than factory robots

C．capable of doing any kind of housework

D．free from making mistakes while performing(执行) duties

【小题3】 Robots may deal with information that humans can’t. Which of the following is not one of the reasons?

A．They do not have so many limits as humans do.

B．They have man-made brains.

C．They may be equipped with a special kind of sensing device.

D．They handle information by using zeroes and ones.

【小题4】The development of robots suggests that _________.

A．science and technology are developing fast

B．people are interested in new inventions

C．machines are more capable than humans

D．robots can be very interesting

【小题5】 According to this passage, present home robots ________.

A．are better than human in seeing and hearing

B．are as capable as those in Star Wars

C．can pick up objects more quickly than humans

D．sometimes perform wrong actions