Do you know Intuits (因纽特人)？Let me tell you something about their   16     .

The Intuits live near the North Pole（北极）. There are only two seasons 17      : winter and summer. There are no spring   18    autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can’t 19      the sun for more than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never 20   and there is no light.

The Intuits have    21     clothes. They made their clothes from the skins（皮） of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and 22     .

Near the North Pole trees can’t grow, for it is   23      there. The Intuits have to make their houses from skins, stones or snow. When they    24   in a storm（风暴） and can’t get back home, they make houses of snow. They     25    these snow houses when the storm is over.

Life is hard for the Intuits, but they still like to live there.

(    ) 16.A. lives B. life C. living D. live

(    ) 17. A. there B. here C. warm D. cold

(    ) 18. A. not B. or C. and D. neither

(    ) 19. A. see B. watch C. look D. look at

(    ) 20. A. rises B. goes up C. rises up D. goes down

(    ) 21. A. cotton B. solid C. warm D. cold

(    ) 22. A. food B. drinks C. medicine D. shoes

(    ) 23. A. too cold B. too hot C. either cold or hot D. neither cold or hot

(    ) 24. A. go on B. go over C. go out D. go up

(    ) 25. A. left B. leave C. leave for D. left for

YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve.
【小题1】When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.

根据句意用所给单词的正确形式填空
【小题1】We cried when our school football team __________ ( lose ) the game last week.
【小题2】I couldn’t finish the work ________ ( with ) your help.
【小题3】It rained ____________ （ heavy ）last night.
【小题4】 The earthquake happened and many people were ___________ ( terrible ) hurt.
【小题5】Bad weather sometimes causes __________ ( nature ) disasters.
【小题6】The house _________ ( shake ) when the heavy truck went past.
【小题7】Listen! I can hear an old lady __________ ( scream ) for help in the next door.
【小题8】A large number of people were _________ （ 围困 ）underground in Wenchuan Earthquake.
【小题9】The noise of the thunder became much __________ ( 轻微 ).
【小题10】The telephone suddenly rang and she ____________ ( 赶忙 ) to answer it.
【小题11】The Chinese _________ (政府) wants to protect these birds
【小题12】If you are ill, you must take some m_________.
【小题13】The w_________ of the panda is 20kg.
【小题14】A lot of t_________ go to Beijing to see the Great Wall.
【小题15】Do you know the  i_________ of English?  
【小题16】Help _________(自己) to some fish, boys and girls?
【小题17】The teacher asked us to answer the _________(以下的) questions.
【小题18】There is a lot of _________ （交通）on the roads every morning.
【小题19】L_________, I passed the exam.
【小题20】At the _________ （开始）of the term, I don’t like our school.

When Amy wrote her first novel in secondary school, she never imagined that she would become a writer one day. Like many 16  writers on the Internet, the  17  woman got into this online world accidentally(偶然地).

Three years ago, Amy worked in a medical industry. Her job kept her busy for six months and left her almost  18  to do for the rest of the year. To fill the time, she started writing  19  on the Internet. Her first novel was about her neighbours and their life 20  she is familiar with.

Amy has been interested in writing  21  she was a child. At first, she just wanted to share her novels  22  people she knew. Then one day an editor of a famous website emailed her, asking her 23  she would like to sell the electronic copyright(授权) of one of her novels. She  24  immediately and the novel was moved to the VIP section of the website. She got $ 1,500 for that.

Now Amy is a full-time  25  . So far her eight novels have come out online, and five of them  26  .

“The Internet made me famous and brought me  27  ,” she said. “I earn much more money now— about $60,000 a year. I am 28  with my career, but there is one problem — that my talent might run out after five years and I’ll have to  29  to work in the medical industry.”

“ Before that day comes, I’ll keep  30  for the readers with my light and close-to-everyday-life writing style,” said Amy with a smile.

16. A. other            B. others           C. another          D. the other

17. A. 28-year-old      B. 28-years-old         C. 28 years old     D. 28-year old

18. A. something        B. anything             C. everything  D. nothing

19. A. reports          B. novels           C. diaries          D. plays

20. A. who              B. which            C. that             D. whom

21. A. when             B. while            C. since        D. until

22. A. about            B. of               C. to           D. with

23. A. that             B. if                   C. why              D. how often

24. A. agreed       B. disagreed            C. refused          D. left

25. A. housewife        B. editor           C. saleswoman  D. writer

26. A. will print       B. were printing        C. printed          D. were printed

27. A. success          B. succeed              C. successful  D. successfully

28. A. unhappy          B. angry            C. satisfied        D. proud

29. A. come         B. go               C. return       D. get

30. A. to write         B. writing              C. write        D. written

Do you want to know something about chil­dren in Africa? What to they do for fun every day? Find out here:

Education

School is expensive for many African children. Lots of families can't afford school uniforms or ex­ercise books even though they don't have to pay for school.

For those lucky enough to go to school , they have a lot to learn. Some take two language clas­ses: English or French, and their first language. There is also math, science, history, social studies and geography. Chores take up much of children's time after school. They have to get water and fire­wood for the family every day. Also there's clean­ing , washing and helping Mum with the meal.

Daily fun

It's not all work and no play. Sports are very popular. Children can make goals with twigs ( 嫩树枝)and their own footballs with plastic and bits of string ( 绳子 ). They play in the country and the streets of old towns. There're many football teams for teenagers in Africa.

Internet

It's really expensive to get on the Internet. To surf the net for 20 hours costs over 600 yuan. This is more than the average (平均 的) monthly pay per person.

Egypt and South Africa are the top two users of the Internet in Africa. All of the capital cities there can get on the Internet.

Some schools offer computer lessons but few students can enjoy computer fun at home.

1. The underlined word "Chores" probably means

A．网上冲浪B．家务杂活C．体育活动D．家庭作业

2. Sports are very popular in Africa because chil­dren _________.

A. do not need money to play

B. can play all kinds of ball games

C. don't like to go to school

D. don't like to do their homework

3.The passage is mainly about_________.

A. education in Africa

B. children's school life in Africa

C. the Internet in Africa

D. children's daily life in Africa

4.From the passage, we can infer (推断) that in Africa_________.

A. basketball is popular among children

B. children in Africa have to pay for school

C. some children in Africa have to take two for­eign language classes

D. people in Egypt and South Africa may get higher pay than people in the other countries