A Hard-working Student

This story is about a young student. She worked very hard at her lessons. She was too busy to have a rest. At last, she became ill, and couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when she went to bed, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep. But the more she tried, the more she stayed awake.

After a while she went to see a doctor, “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do?” “I have a suggestion (建議),” said the doctor, “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you will be asleep. I’m sure of it.”

The next day the student returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? Did you try my suggestion?” The student still looked tired. “Yes,” she said, “I tried counting one, two, three...up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee so that (以便) I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”

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1. Why couldn’t the young student go to sleep?

2. What did the doctor ask the young student to do while she was lying in bed?

3. The underlined word “awake” in paragraph 1 means “______”.

4. What did she do after she felt sleepy?

5. The coffee made her ______, so she still couldn’t fall asleep.

Take a look at the label(標(biāo)簽) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.

One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”

Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加熱) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.

Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized?

1. The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.

2. Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?

(1). He received college education in Paris.

(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.

(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.

(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.

(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.

3. What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A small boy lived with his mother and grandmother in a big house. His father had died.

A bucket（桶）of water fell on the small boy’s left foot, and it began hurting a hot. His mother said, “I’m going to put something very hot on your foot tonight. That’s always very good. Tomorrow your foot won’t hurt any longer.”

In the evening, the small boy’s mother came to his bedroom. She had a hot poultice（膏藥）in a bowl. The small boy looked at it and said, “I don’t want that. I had one a month ago. Poultices hurt.”

His mother sat down on his bed and said, “You’re going to have this poultice on.” She pulled his sheets（床單）and blankets（毯子）away, and put the poultice near his foot, but the boy pulled it away quickly, and poultice fell on the bed.

His mother was angry. She went down stairs and came back with his grandmother and a stick. She said to her son, “Your grandmother’s going to put the poultice on your foot, and I’m going to hold this stick. Now don’t be a stupid boy.”

She held the stick over the boy, and the grandmother took his foot and put the poultice near it. The boy said. “Stop, you…” but his mother brought the stick nearer, and he did not say anything else.

The grandmother brought the poultice near the foot again, and the boy stopped her again, but his mother was angry now and said, “I’m going to hit you.” The boy did not finish his words, and his grandmother put the poultice on his foot. He let it there for a few minutes and then took it off again.

The boy’s mother and grandmother put the sheets and blankets over him again and he said, “My left foot hurts, but you put the poultice on my right foot. I stopped you twice, but you didn’t listen to me.”

1. The small boy’s foot hurt because ____.

2. In the evening ___ first came to the small boy’s room.

3. The small boy ____ his mother.

4. The small boy took the poultice off because ____.

5.The best title for this passage is ____.

一說(shuō)到考試，同學(xué)們總有講不完的故事。在你的記憶中，那些發(fā)生在考場(chǎng)內(nèi)外的故事，一定有使你至今感慨、難忘的吧?請(qǐng)以考試為話題，寫(xiě)一篇題為“An Unforgettable(難忘的)Experience”的短文。

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fresh,public,crowded,free,wonderful

1. You mustn't do that in a _______ place.

2. We’ve been having ________ weather recently.

3.You don’t have to pay; the exhibition is _______.

4. This morning in the park the ________ air makes me feel quite good.

5. He always prefers riding a bicyclerather than ride on a ________ bus.

1. Is there a good restaurant ________(eat) around?

2. I’d like to buy some _________(write) paper.

3. You can take the elevator to the ________(two) floor.

4. Look! There is an old man ________(sit) under the tree.

5. Jane prefers ________(be) outside to staying at home on weekends.

between,past,into,across from

1.You can sit _________ Jack and talk with him.

2. Go ________ the bank, and you’ll find the music store.

3.The ship sails ________ Shanghai and Dalian.

4. When the bell rang, the children rushed _________ the classroom.

5. He wants to go to the bookstore _________ the station, so he must cross the road from the station.

1. 當(dāng)你到了那兒后，請(qǐng)給我打個(gè)電話好嗎？

Could you ___________________________ when you get there?

2.請(qǐng)?jiān)谶@條路的盡頭向右拐。

Please _____________________ at the end of the road.

3.你能告訴我在哪里可以買到一些郵票嗎？

Could you tell me __________________________ some stamps?

4. 為什么不和你媽媽去購(gòu)物呢？

_______________________ with your mom?          

5. 這條購(gòu)物街是個(gè)閑逛的好地方。

The shopping street is __________________________.

A: Excuse me. (1)_________

B: Well, go along Zhongshan Road, and take the second turning on the right. (2)_ ________

A: (3)_________

B: It’ll take you about half an hour to walk there.

A: (4)_________

B: Yes, you can.

A: (5)_________

B: The No. 105 bus. The bus stop is over there.

A: Thank you.

B: You’re welcome.

E. Can you tell me which bus I should take?

F. Could you tell me whether Ishould go there?

G. Then you can see a bookstore around there.

1. The street is_________(crowded) because the Spring Festival is over.

2. The shirt is only 15 yuan. It’s _________(expensive).

3. They want to visit the world’s ________(large) water slides.

4. There are some ________(clown) playing with children in the park.