When he was teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a special hospital for people with mental health problems. When he left hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, in America. But when he was there, he did things in different ways. For example, he didn’t like the doctors’ white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients, and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams very much because he was too different.

Adams believed that people in hospital need more than just medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them, not just as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in hospital, and often put a special red nose on his face so he looked like a clown and made the children laugh.

When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called The Gesundheit Institute, with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.

Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, “Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who’s a friend. I enjoyed playing him”

1.Was Hunter Adams a doctor?

2.Where was the medical school?

3.How did Hunter Adams make children in the hospital laugh?

4.What did Hunter Adams do after he finished medical school and became a doctor?

5.In Hunter Adams’ opinion, what was a good doctor like?

— How was your visit to the Green Expo Garden？

— Wonderful! We enjoyed          very much during the whole trip.

A．itself             B．myself            C．yourselves         D．ourselves

There are many unusual hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice, open between April and December every year. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and a bathroom in each room. And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel.
Thousands of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But over time, all the water disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts.
The larger of the two deserts, the Uyuni salt desert, is 12,000 square kilometers. During the day, the desert is bright white because of the salt. There are no roads across the Uyuni desert, so local people must show guests the way to the hotel.
In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks (块) of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt: the walls, the roof, the tables, the chairs, the beds, and the hotel’s bar.
The sun heats the walls and roof during the day. At night the desert is very cold, but the rooms stay warm. The hotel has 12 rooms. A single room costs＄40 a night, and a double room costs＄60.
A sign on the hotel’s wall tells guests, “ Please don’t lick the walls-it doesn’t taste good!”

1. 1.

   People can go to __________ to visit the ice hotel in April.
   

   1. A.
      Greenland            
   2. B.
      Turkey              
   3. C.
      Bolivia
2. 2.

   The Salt Palace Hotel is unusual because __________.
   

   1. A.
      it has a long history        
   2. B.
      it’s made out of salt      
   3. C.
      the rooms stay cold all day
3. 3.

   Where did the salt used for the hotel come from?
   

   1. A.
      A salt factory.          
   2. B.
      The desert.             
   3. C.
      The lakes.
4. 4.

   The underlined word “lick” means __________ in Chinese.
   

   1. A.
      摸                       
   2. B.
      踢                  
   3. C.
      舔
5. 5.

   The best title for the passage is _________.

   1. A.
      Unusual Hotels          
   2. B.
      Salt Desert             
   3. C.
      A Story of Juan Quesad

Beijing-- During the 24-hour period ending at 4 pm on Sunday, China confirmed(确诊)six new cases of human H7N9 bird flu(禽流感) , including five in Zhejiang and one in Jiangsu.

The National Health and Family Planning Commission(国家卫生和计划生育委员会) said that a total of 102 H7N9 cases have been reported in China, including 20 that have died.

Of the total, 12 H7N9 patients have been discharged from hospitals after receiving treatment, and the other 70 patients are being treated in designated（指定的） hospitals, according to the commission.

A total of 33 cases, including 11 that have died, have been reported in Shanghai. Twenty-four cases, including three deaths, have been reported in Jiangsu province, and 38 cases, including five deaths, in Zhejiang province. Anhui province has reported three cases, including one death. Beijing has reported one case and three have been reported in Henan province.

China officially confirmed the human cases infected （感染）with the H7N9 virus since last month.

According to the commission, China’s confirmed H7N9 cases are isolated （隔离）and there has been no sign of human to-human transmission（传染）.

1.According to the passage, how many new cases have been found in China?

A．4                B．6                C．5                D．1

2.The underlined word “discharged”in Paragraph 3 probably means _____.

A．治疗             B．死亡             C．出院             D．住院

3.In _____ , the most deaths have been found.

A．Shanghai          B．Beijing            C．Zhejiang          D．Anhui

4.According to the passage, which of the statements is NOT true?

A．Twenty people have died of H7N9.

B．Since last month, the human cases infected the H7N9 virus have been reported.

C．Not all the hospitals can take in the H7N9 patients.

D．One person can be infected by staying with the H7N9 patients.

5.We can probably read this passage in a(an) _____.

A．story book         B．newspaper        C．advertisement      D．magazine

All the wisdom of the times, all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply available to all of us in books, but we must know how to make use of this treasure. The unluckiest people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.

I’m very interested in people and finding out about them. Some of the most amazing people I’ve met could only  be found in a writer’s imagination, then in his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I’ve found in books new friends and new worlds.

Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the writer’s or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate(分开的), in some way they are connected with each other. The same ideas, or related(相关的) ones, appear in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in books, but with different solutions(解决方法) according to different writings at different times. Books influence each other. They connect the past, the present and the future and have their own generations (age groups), like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families of ideas, and in the end, you not only find out about the world and the people in it, you find out about yourself, too.

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on(专注于) books somebody tells you “ought” to read, you probably won’ t have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time — and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won’t suffer during the process.

1.Which of the following ideas may the writer of this article agree with?

A．You will never meet amazing people in your life unless you read.

B．You think actively instead of getting facts passively（被动地）when reading.

C．You will get much delight from any book that you are told to read.

D．You can relax yourself by reading because it involves little thinking.

2.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A．We can often find something connected with ourselves in books.

B．Different writings at different times share the same characteristics.

C．The same problems will appear in different books with similar solutions.

D．Reading books which are written for your generation is more helpful to you.

3.What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?

A．To advise us to enjoy ourselves by reading.

B．To encourage us to make full use of libraries.

C．To encourage us to find out solutions in books.

D．To advise us to discuss books with other people.