Jack Johnson is one of the most popular singer-songwriters in the world. Jack was born on May 18, 1975 in Hawaii. Being the son of a famous surfer, Jack naturally has an interest in surfing. Most of his life lessons were learned in the water. At the age of 17, Jack entered the finals of the Pineline Masters---the world’s most famous surfing competition. Everyone thought Jack would become a professional surfer like his father. Unluckily, one month later, he had a deadly accident while surfing and was seriously hurt.
Life is like a revolving (旋转) door. When it closes, it also opens. Jack started to practice playing the guitar and write songs when he was staying in hospital. At first, his father thought Jack only did it for fun, but soon he was surprised at the great progress his son had made.
When studying in the university, Jack didn’t stop practicing his guitar skills. He played the guitar for school parties. He wrote songs and sang for his teachers and friends. They liked his songs. His first music album Brushfire Fairytales came out in 2001. It was a great success. His second album, On and On, was much like his first one. They were filled with sweet, easy-going songs that everybody liked listening to. Later, Jack had lots of concerts in and out of America. He became popular all over the world.
Jack had five albums by 2010 and more than 15 million copies of them were sold. His music doesn’t fit into any of the popular music styles like pop, rock, R&B or hip-hop. It is more like fold music, played with a guitar and beautiful voice. When listening to his songs, you feel like lying on the beach enjoying the warm sunshine.
Jack is a talent, though he himself says he is only a surfer who loves music. In his songs we can find his secret of success: Whatever happens in our lives, we have to accept it and do the best we can.
【小题1】In 1992, Jack ___________.

A．had his first music album	B．took part in a surfing competition
C．had his first concert	D．become popular all over the world

【小题2】Jack started to write songs ____________.

A．while he was staying in hospital

B．when he had concerts out of America

C．after his second album came out

D．after he played the guitar at the school party.

【小题3】What is the secret of Jack’s success ?

A．He was born in Hawaii.

B．His father was very famous.

C．He wrote many songs for his teachers and friends.

D．H e always faced difficulties bravely and tried his best.

【小题4】What’s the best title for the passage ?

A． A Famous Writer	B．Surfing in the Sea
C． A Guitar Player	D．Surfing in the Music

Laura lived in a small village near the sea. One day she decided to go for a swim in the sea. She knew that the sea near the ____36_____ has a strong tide (浪) , but she was a good swimmer, so she wasn’t __37______. Laura left her friends lying on the sands and ran into the sea. She swam quite far from the beach and waved（挥舞） to her friends in the distance. After a short while she decided to swim ____38___. She tried her best, but she couldn’t get any closer to the beach . The tide kept___39___her back. She waved her arms in the air to let her friends know that she was____40____, but they just waved back, for they didn’t know what she___41_____. After a long time, Laura became very ______42___ and she couldn’t swim any more. Her legs ____43____and she lost hope. Suddenly, her foot touched ____44____! All the time she had been swimming in a place where the water wasn’t deep! When at last she went back to the beach, one of her friends asked, “ Did you ___45____your swim?” “Yes, it was lovely.” She answered. She never told them what really happened.

1. A town        B city         C village          D country

2.A lonely       B surprised     C interested        D afraid

3. A up          B back        C down           D on

4.A pulling      B pushing      C throwing        D putting

5.A in trouble     B happy       C out of trouble     D in the water

6.A found       B meant        C said             D saw

7.A hungry      B sleepy       C thirsty           D tired

8.A came up     B were broken  C went down       D moved on

9.A a tide       B the sand      C a fish           D one of her friends

10.A enjoy       B remember    C drop            D forget

 

In the summer of 1978 an English man named Steven was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was lying on the ground. The flattened wheat formed(形成)a circle about six meters across . Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat.
　 Three years later a farmer who lived nearby discovered almost the same circles in one of his fields. These circles were larger—nearly 15 meters across . That same year , another English farmer discovered three circles of flattened wheat on his land—one large circle between two small circles. During the following years, farmers in England found circles in their fields more and more often.
　 The circles are called “crop circles” because they usually appear in fields of wheat or corn. The wheat in the circles lies on the ground but is never broken; it keeps on growing, and the farmers can later harvest it. Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September. What causes the crop circles?
　 At first, people thought that some kids were making them as a joke, or that farmers were making them to attract tourists.(In fact, in 1991, two men said they made the circles themselves, but many scientists don’t believe them.) People tried to copy them: They tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of wheat without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the wheat without breaking it.
　 Several times people reported seeing stranger objects near the fields where crop circles later appeared. Many people believe that these crop circles are the messages sent by living things from outer space(外层空间)or the marks left by their spaceships.
　 Scientists who have studied the crop circles try to find out what causes them. In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment(最新高科技设备). The equipment—worth 1.8 million dollars—got nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field, crop circles formed in the field behind them, which were quite different from the others. The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything.
　 When Steven discovered the crop circles on his land in 1978, he said, “It was just like something that had landed in the field from the air and gone back up again. I don’t know what to make of these things.”
　 Crop circles have appeared in England, Japan, the United States and Russia. Experts from all over the world have studied them, and they say what Steven said: They don’t know what to make of these things.
【小题1】Which picture is probably the one formed in the field behind the scientists?

【小题2】“Flattened wheat” means ___________.
　　  

A．broken wheat

B．lying wheat

C．harvested wheat

D．growing wheat

【小题3】The passage is mainly about something ___________ .

A．that is done by living things from outer space

B．that cannot be solved but found all around the world

C．that cannot be made clear or understood

D．that is discovered and copied by the farmers

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The flying fox is not a fox at all. It is an extra large bat (蝙蝠) that has got a f   1    head, and that feeds on fruit i     2  of insects . Like all bats, flying foxes hang themselves by their toes when at rest, and t    3   in great groups when out flying. A group will l     4   in one place for y    5   . Sometimes several hundreds of them occupy (占据) a tree. As they return to the tree toward sunrise, they quarrel a    6    themselves and fight for the best places until long after daylight.

Flying foxes have b    7    once a year, giving birth to only one at a time. At first the mother has to c    8    the baby on her chest wherever she goes. Later she l    9    it hanging up, and brings back food for it to eat. Sometimes a baby bat falls down to the g    10   

and squeaks (尖叫) for help. Then the older ones swoop (俯冲) down and try to pick it up. If they f    11    to do so, it will die. Often hundreds of d    12    baby bats can be found lying on the ground at the foot of a tree.

 

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come   give   pick   fly    be

Joan is a nice girl. One day when she was taking a walk in the park, she saw a bird lying on the grass. Joan found that there was something wrong with its wing(翅膀) and it counldn’t fly. She ran to the bird and (1)_____ it up. Joan took it home. She looked after the bird very carefully. Soon the bird got better. Joan let the bird (2) _____away.

Now, the bird often (3)_____to Joan’s window. Each time the bird (4) _____some food by Joan. It seems that the bird enjoys visiting Joan. For Joan, the bird (5)_____her friend since she brought it home.