三、阅读理解

A. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。(共15小题，每小题2分，计30分)

A

A plant is a living thing. It uses its many parts to grow from a small seed to a large plant. Each part helps the plant stay healthy. Plants also need sunlight to grow. They get light from the sun and minerals from the soil. These things help the plant stay alive and grow.

31. Which word can be filled in the empty box?

A. Leaves.    B. Sticks.    C. Bushes    D. Grasses

32. Which part might grow around the seeds?

A. The stem.    B. The flower.    C. The root.    D. The fruit.

33. Which sentence is TRUE according to the passage?

A. A plant grows flowers under the ground.   B. Flowers can grow into new plants.

C. Not all plants have fruit.     D. The stem helps hold the roots up.

34. What's the passage mainly about?

A. Plant parts.   B. Plant seeds.    C. Plant leaves.   D. Plant roots.

35. In what subject might you learn this passage?

A. Geography.   B. Biology.    C . Physics.    D. Chemistry.

B

It was another day to jump rope in gym class. Lynn and Mike turned the long rope in big, slow circles. The whole class hurried to get in line to wait for their turn to jump. Millie stood at the back of the line and frowned.

Nick went first. He watched the rope and ran in at just the right time. Everyone counted. He made it all the way to 30 jumps. One after another, the kids watched the rope, ran in, and jumped. Then it was Millie’s turn. She watched the rope go around and around, but she didn’t move. She felt like everyone was looking at her.

Millie’s friends cheered. “Go, Millie, go!”

Millie’s face turned red. At last, she gave it a try, but she failed.

The truth was that Millie had been jumping rope at home every day. With a short rope, she could jump 100 times without missing. She just didn’t know how to run in and start jumping with a long rope. Since she was the only kid on her street, there was no one to helpturn the long rope.Just then, Ms Miles, the gym teacher, brought out a bunch of short jump ropes.

"Let's see how long each one of you can jump without missing," she said as she gave each student a short rope, "Ready, set. Go!"

Millie smiled for the first time ever in gym class. As she jumped, she sang rhymes quietly to herself.

After a while, Millie realized that everyone was cheering, "Go, Millie, go!"

She was the only  one still jumping rope! The surprise almost made her miss a step, but she kept going. When at last she was too tired to go on, she stopped. The whole class cheered. Everyone was looking at her and smiling. Millie smiled back!

36. Which word is the opposite of the underlined word frowned?

A. Sat.    B. Hid.    C. Smiled    D. Cried

37. What problem did Millie have at the beginning of the story?

A. She didn't have any friends in her class.

B. She felt sad because Nick made fun of her.

C. She didn't know  the cheers that the other kids knew.

D. She didn't know how to start jumping with a long rope.

38. Why did Millie smile for the first time in gym class?

A. She did something well at last.

B. She knew the class would cheer for her.

C. She thought that she was going to make a friend.

D. She believed that she would be the winner of the contest.

39. Which sentence can be put in the empty?

A. The class decided to play baseball.

B. Millie was the last one still jumping rope.

C. Nick won the rope-jumping contest.

D. Millie tried to hide in the back of the line.

40. How might Millie feel when she stopped jumping at last?

A. Proud.    B. Bored.     C. Mad.     D. Silly.

C

"Listen carefully to what I say,"  the time traveler said, "I shall tell you something that you will not agree."

"Why will we not agree?" I asked.

"Because the science and mathematics you know are not correct,"  he said. "You believe there are only three dimen sions(三维空间)-length, breadth(宽) and thickness."

"There is nothing to argue with that, "  the youngest member of our little group said.

"Exactly!"  the time traveler answered, "But there is also a fourth dimension - time."

"We all know about time, " another member of the group said. "Time passed.""I do not agree,"  the time traveler said, "Length, breadth and thickness do not pass. They stay in the same place in space.  We move about them. I can prove that time is the same. It does not pass. We move in time the same way that we move in breadth, length and thickness."

None of us believed the time traveler, and we argued with him for many hours.

"If we could travel back in time,"  the scientist said, "We could do things to change the future."

"If we could travel forward in time," the doctor(博士) said, "we could do things that change our present."

The time traveler smiled, "It is clear," he said, "that there is only one way I can show you that I am right. We must do an experiment. Please wait here."

He left the room and soon returned, carrying what looked like a clock.

"This is a model of a time machine. It took me two years to make it," the time traveler said. "I wa nt all of you to understand that when I start the machine, it will immediately travel in time and disappear from the present."

He turned to the youngest of all. "Give me your hand," he said.

The young man put out his hand. The time traveler took it and placed it on the machine. Immediately, there was a sudden wind, and the little machine disappeared.

I was certain this was not a trick, but the doctor was not so sure.

"Are you asking us to believe," he said, "that the machine is now in a different time?"

"Certainly! In my laboratory, a full-size machine is almost complete. As soon as it is complete, I shall send myself on a journey through time. Would you like to see my machine?"

"Are you serious about this?" the doctor asked.

"I have never been more serious about anything," the time traveler said, "Come."

We followed him to his laboratory. There, we saw the actual machine, not quite complete, but large enough for a man to sit in.

41. How many dimensions did the time traveler say there are?

A. Two.    B. Three.    C. Four.     D. Five.

42. How long did it take the time traveler to make his model time machine?

A. Two years.   B. Two months.   C. Twenty years.   D. All his life.

43. Which is the right order of what happened in the story?

a. The model time machine disappeared with a wind.

b. The time traveler came back to the room with a model time machine.

c. The members of the group argued with the time traveler for many hours.

d. The time traveler showed them a full-size time machine which was not quite complete.   e. The youngest man's hand was placed on the model time machine.

A. e c a d b    B. b c e a d     C. c e b a d     D. c b e a d

44. What can we infer(判断) from the passage about the time traveler?

A. He believed that they could move in time.

B. He was playing a trick on a group of people.

C. He sent the young man to the future in the model time machine.

D. He would possibly send himself on a journey through time.

45. What kind of story do you think the passage is?

A. A detective story.     B. A science fiction.

C. A romantic fiction.     D. A horror story.

第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题，共60分)

B. 任务型阅读。(共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息，没空一词。

You will read about how you are a citizen in your school, community and nation. A citizen is a person who belongs to a place. You are a citizen of the community where you live and the nation where you were born.

Citizens Have Rights

As a citizen, you have rights that the government prot ects. A right is something you may do. As a citizen, you have a right to speak freely and to practise your religion. You also have the right to privacy. That means you may decide what to show or tell someone and what not to tell.

Citizens Have Responsibilities

Along with right s, citizens have  responsibilities. A responsibility is something that you should do. For example, you should follow the laws. A law is a rule that everyone in a community, state or country must follow. Laws keep people safe and help them get along well with one another. When people follow the traffic laws, they help keep others safe. When you follow laws in a park, you help others enjoy the park.

Being a Good Citizen

Good citizens care about people's rights. They try to make things fair and safe for everyone. Good citizens work together to solve problems. Children can be good citizens by solving problems together in their school or community. They may follow proper steps to deal with problems. First, name the problem. Then, list ways to solve it. Next, choose the best way. And finally, find out if it solves the problems.

Citizens'     46    and Responsibilities

Passage outline                                                 Supporting details

Main idea                        Learn about     47    to be a good citizen.

☆ Speak     48   .

Rights                    ☆Practise your  religion.

☆Make a    49   on what to show or tell someone and what not to.

☆Follow the laws, which are   50    that everyone should follow.   Responsibilities            ◇Obey a traffic law to keep    51    people safe.

◇Follow laws in a park to help others    52    the park.

☆Care about people's rights.

☆Try to do things in a    53    and safe way.

Ways to be good citizens      ☆Work    54    with others.

☆Learn to solve problems    55    in four steps.

C. 阅读与回答问题。(共5小题，每小题2分，计10分)

Read a Timeline

Every family has a history. A timeline can show events in a family's history. A timeline is an ordered group of words and dates that shows when events happened.

Learn the skill

Step1 The title tells what the timeline is about. The timeline has a line divided in equal parts. Each park stands for 10 years.

Step2  Look at the first and last numbers on the timeline. The numbers are years. The events on the timeline happened between these years.

Step3  The numbers with the events on the timeline tell the year in which each event happened.

Practice the skill

Title _______________________

1930            1940            1950            1960          1970          1980         1990         2000

56. How long does each part in the timeline stand for?

_____________________________________________________________________

57. Where did Lily's great-grandmother come from? (in no more than 4 words)

____________________________________________________________________

58. Who was born in 1970?

____________________________________________________________________

59. What happened in 1994?

____________________________________________________________________

60. What's the best title of the timeline?

____________________________________________________________________

四、词汇(共20小题，每小题1分，计20分)

A. 根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。

英语试题  第7页 (共8页)

61. The players in the Chinese men's soccer team are paying more attention to their ___ training. (日常的)

62. These new types of energy cost very little and ___ little pollution. (产生)

63. Volunteers from different ___ feel like part of one big family. ( 背景)

64. Internet users now use the character "duang" to ___ any kind of special effect. (描述)

65. As we reached the top of the mountain, we felt a sense of ___. (成就)

B. 根据句意用所给单词的适当形式填空。

66. Everyone should behave ___ in public. (polite)

67. --Who's that boy standing over there?  --Sam, a foreign friend of ___. (I)

68. After working all night, Kate couldn't stay ___ the next morning. (wake)

69. The UK is an old ___ country, where there are many palaces and castles. (Europe)

70. Nothing would prevent UNICEF, an international charity, ___ the living standards of the children in p oor areas. (raise)

C. 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。

English people like DIY. A lot of people always spend their holiday making their homes more b   71  . If there is anything that needs repairing or decorating around their homes, such as p   72   the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs themselves. They s   73   DIY experience  with their friends. More and more people show an i 74    in DIY. Sometimes people also DIY in order to s  75   money. They are trying to find ways to make their house better when they can't a  76   the cost. So, it is not surprising that DIY is very popular.

DIY can be difficult. People often find it not e  77   to build a piece of furniture because they can't understand the instructions well. Sometimes the instructions are simple and clear, but the furniture i  78   is difficult to build. DIY can also be d  79  . People should learn much about DIY work before doing it. Unluckily, many people don't care about that. So they may be in danger. It is r  80   that i n just one year thousands of people were hurt while doing DIY in the UK, including those who fell off  ladders.