In 1947 the pilot of a small aeroplane saw nine strange objects in the sky over Washington. He said that they looked like 1 . Newspapers printed his story under the 2 "Flying Saucers".

Since then, all over the world, people have 3 seeing similar strange objects. No one knows  4 they are or where they come from. Some people say that they do not 5  , but many others say that they have seen them. Usually people on the ground have seen them 6 not always. Airline  7   also have reported seeing them and so have   8    ── the men who fly in spaceships.

Perhaps some people saw them only in their  9 . Perhaps some people made a mistake. But airline pilots and astronauts do not usually make 10 of this kind．Captain Ed Mitchell, who was the sixth man to 11  on the moon, said in 1974 that he believes that some "flying saucers" are  12  . Many other people now believe that these  13  flying objects are visiting the 14   from other worlds in space.

The American government   15    to find out more about these objects. It listened to a great many people who said they had  16   them. But the Government Committee could not decide on what the objects were. It called them UFOs, which is   17   for "Unidentified Flying Objects".

In 1964, a driver of a police car in New Mexico saw a UFO landing a mile away. When he reached it, there were two small figures   18    near it. They looked like little men. When he reported on his radio, they got inside the object and   19  away.

There are many other   20   stories. Some are probably untrue but some may be true. No one knows.

1．A．spaceships         B．objects                    C．saucers                   D．planes

2．A．topic                  B．headline                   C．passage                   D．advertisement

3．A．said                   B．claimed                   C．reported                  D．announced

4．A．what                  B．who                        C．why                        D．which

5．A．circle                 B．understand               C．believe                    D．exist

6．A．still                    B．but                          C．and                         D．or

7．A．drivers               B．passengers               C．riders                      D．pilots

8．A．astronauts          B．scientists                 C．officials                   D．flyers

9．A．creativity            B．imagination              C．mind                       D．eyes

10．A．troubles            B．changes                   C．suggestions             D．mistakes

11．A．walk                B．live                         C．train                        D．plough

12．A．true                 B．important                 C．real                         D．big

13．A．ordinary           B．curious                    C．strange                    D．familiar

14．A．ground             B．earth                       C．land                        D．people

15．A．managed          B．succeeded               C．tried                        D．persuaded

16．A．seen                 B．created                    C．caught                    D．entered

17．A．good                B．long                        C．fit                           D．short

18．A．coming            B．sitting                      C．lying                       D．standing

19．A．rushed             B．flew                        C．went                       D．ran

20．A．fiction              B．different                  C．similar                     D．frustrating

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从11-25各题所给的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并把答案根据题号涂到答题卡上。

Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with 　 11　 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 　　12　 . So, what makes blogging different from writing in a(an) 　 13　 diary?

The biggest difference is that blogging is much more 　14　 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of 　15 that she does not want to 　16　 .

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog 　17 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. When I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but 　18　 in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 　 19 that my sister might read it!

　 The biggest 　 20 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 　 21　 about her in my diary, she would never know. 　22　 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend

might read her blog and get angry.

There are also 　　23 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,” 　24　 would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would quickly respond and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people stay in 　 25　 with her friends and to hear what the people around them are doing.

11. A. the same　　 　　 B. troublesome　　 　　 C. difficult　 　 D. daily

12. A. familiar 　　　　 B. special　　　　　 C. similar　　 　 D. different

13. A. personal　　　 　　 B. ordinary　 　　　　 C. common　 　 D. traditional

14. A. attractive　　　 B. public　　　 　　　　 C. convenient　　　 D. quick

15. A. thoughts　　 　　 B. puzzles　　 　　　　 C. mysteries 　 D. secrets

16. A. tell　　　　　　 B. share　　　　　　 C. publish　　　 D. solve

17. A. instead of　　　 B. as well as　　　　 C. in favor of　 D. in spite of

18. A. only　　 　　　　 B. already　　 　　　　 C. still　 　　　 D. never

19. A. angry　 　　　　 B. concerned 　　　　 C. glad 　　　 D. worried

20. A. problem　　　 　　　　 B. doubt　　　 　　　　 　　C. trouble　　 　 D. mistake

21. A. hard　　 　　　 B. wrong　　　　　　 C. mean　　　　 D. funny

22. A. Besides 　　　 B. However　 　　　 C. Therefore　 　 D. Then

23. A. reasons 　　　 B. disadvantage　　　 C. shortcomings　 D. advantages

24. A. everyone　　 　 B. no one 　　　　　 C. anyone　　　 　 D. someone

25. A. friendship　　 　 B. contact　　　 　　　 C. public 　　　 D. mind

Would the voice of Amanda Holden saying “your city had talent” encourage you to use a litter bin? Or maybe former Monty Python star Michael Palin telling you no one had expected “the Spanish bin-quisition”？
Organizers of a plan persuading celebrities（名人）to lend their voices to “talking bins”believe it can make a real difference to keeping Britain tidy. They hope that by using humor, they will succeed where fines and warnings have failed in keeping streets and parks clean.
A similar experiment in Sweden found a talking bin received nearly three times as much rubbish as an ordinary one because people were attracted by its quality of being new and unusual value.
Twenty-five specially adapted bins to be installed（安装）in the streets of London and Liverpool next  month will use a sound card to play a themed message when litter is placed inside. For example，one near the Royal Opera House will play a “thank-you” message sung by Janis Kelly to the tune of Nessun Dorina. Bins installed in Liverpool will play Beatles-themed messages. For others，Britain’s Got Talent  judge Holden is expected to record the message：“This is Amanda, and this city’s got talent.”
The campaign，entitled Bin Thinking, is being organized by art group Sing London. If successful，talking bins could become a familiar feature on Britain’s streets.
Colette Hiller, director of Sing London, said, “ The idea is to reward people in a small way for changing their behavior and raise awareness through a sense of fun.”
【小题1】What is the plan persuading celebrities to lend their voices to “talking bins” aimed at？

A．Attracting passers’-by attention on celebrities.

B．Encouraging people to use the litter bins to keep Britain tidy.

C．Making fun of those who won’t keep the streets and parks clean.

D．Thanking people for cleaning the litter bins through a sense of fun.

【小题2】The following stars’ voices are to be lent to “talking bins” except_________________.

A．Amanda Holder’ s	B．Michael Palin’s
C．Janis Kelly’s	D．Nessun Dorma' s

【小题3】We can infer from the text that_________________.

A．children are most attracted by “talking bins”

B．different messages will be played due to different streets

C．Britain is the first city where the experiment on “talking bins” was made

D．“talking bins” might take the place of ordinary litter bins in Britain

【小题4】What would be the best title for the text?

A．Lending your voice to “talking bins”

B．Sing London art organization

C．A campaign named Bin Thinking

D．A new experiment on litter bins

We have known for a long time that flowers of different plants open and close at different times of day. This is so    1    that there seems to be no need to ask the reason for it. Yet no one    2    understands why flowers open and close like this at particular times. The process is not as    3    as we might think, as recent experiments have shown. In one study, flowers were kept in constant    4   . We might expect that the flowers, without any information about the time of day, did not open as they    5    do. As a matter of fact, they    6    to open at their usual time. This suggests that they have some mysterious(神秘的) way of knowing the    7   . Their sense of time does not    8    information from the outside world; it is, so to speak, inside them, a kind of “inner clock”.

This    9    may not seem to be very important. However, it was later found that not just plants but also    10   , including man, have this “inner clock” which    11    the working of their bodies and influences their activities. Men, then, are also influenced by this mysterious    12   . Whether we wish it or not, it affects such things in our life as our need for sleep, our need for food.

In the past, this did not really    13    because people lived in natural condition. In the    14    world, things are different; now there are spacemen, airplane pilots and, in ordinary life, a lot of people who have to work at night. It would be very   15  , then, to know more about the “inner clock”. Such things as flowers might help us understand more about ourselves.

1.A. familiar       B. strange      C. similar          D. special

2.A. partly     B. personally       C. really           D. willingly

3.A. complex        B. simple           C. mature           D. meaningful

4.A. quietness      B. darkness     C. loneliness       D. sadness

5.A. finally        B. completely       C. physically       D. normally

6. A. refused       B. decided      C. continued        D. failed

7.A. time           B. secret           C. process      D. study

8.A. deal with      B. add to           C. give away        D. depend on

9.A. discovery  B. activity     C. invention        D. method

10.A. beasts        B. animals      C. strangers        D. humans

11.A. controls      B. studies          C. measures     D. destroys

12. A. world        B. flower           C. power            D. experiment

13.A. happen        B. exist            C. matter           D. work

14.A. ancient       B. modern       C. wonderful        D. peaceful

15.A. hard      B. expensive        C. convenient       D. important