________ money have been spent on the prevention and cure of AIDS.

A．Numbers of                B．Large amounts of

Great changes ________ in the city, and a lot of factories ________.

A．have been taken place; have been set up        B．have taken place; have been set up

C．have taken place; have set up                       D．were taken place; were set up

Nicole lived on a farm where cocks were used as alarm clocks, and coal was burned when it was cold in the winter. She worked as a bank clerk in the day and was a part of a club that collected coins for fun. Although Nicole was   1   with this way of life, she still   2   moving to the East Coast to become a clothing   3 . She loved the feel of different cloths and enjoyed   4   pretty clothes.

Because her  5   was like a close friend to her, she told him about her dream. He was so   6   that he burned his tongue on the   7   he was drinking.

“Nicole,” he said, “Are you   8  ? Do you have a cold or a fever?”

“No,” Nicole answered, “I just want to   9  my dream.”

“Get your head out of the cloud,” her father said, “You’re a clever girl, but you belong here on the   10  .”

When Nicole   11  this, she felt like her father had   12   a door in her face.   13  , she was determined to become a   14   designer. She decided to run away from home.

During the middle of the night, she   15   out of the window with only a coat and some money. It was a long climb down, and she almost   16   herself when she   17  . Luckily, there was a soft   18   nearby that broke her fall.

“That was  19  ,” she thought, “I almost broke my neck!”

It was a good thing that she didn’t because after her spring collection   20   out, she became one of the most famous fashion designers in the world.

1．A．uneasy                  B．satisfied               C．suitable               D．a(chǎn)ngry

2．A．hated                    B．liked                    C．fond of             D．dreamed of

3．A．interviewer            B．designer              C．seller                   D．collector

4．A．selling                   B．exchanging          C．making                D．buying

5．A．father                   B．brother                C．sister                  D．mother

6．A．disappointed          B．excited                C．surprised             D．pleased

7．A．cheese                  B．wine                   C．cake                   D．coffee

8．A．sick                      B．wrong                 C．curious               D．well

9．A．quit                      B．follow                 C．get                      D．have

10．A．farm                   B．way                    C．house                  D．club

11．A．noticed               B．saw                    C．found                  D．heard

12．A．opened                B．built                    C．closed                 D．offered

13．A．And                    B．Still                     C．Thus                   D．But

14．A．coin                    B．cloth                   C．fashion                D．modern

15．A．climbed              B．stepped               C．jumped                D．crawled

16．A．frightened            B．hanged                C．broke                  D．hurt

17．A．screamed            B．landed                 C．walked                D．cried

18．A．voice                  B．bush                   C．wall                    D．rock

19．A．safe                   B．hard                    C．easy                    D．dangerous

20．A．rushed                B．sold                    C．came                  D．carried

I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember that being slow but steady wins the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”

    He opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-meter race, I should wish the Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

    I was shocked．“But the tortoise didn’t wish the hare would fall asleep!”

“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “ Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted, “ He won the race by perseverance(毅力), by pushing on steadily.”

    Sonny thought for a while. “That’s a lie,” he said, “ He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, he’d never have won the race! That’s for sure.”

    I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be.

1．Billy, Tony and Sandy must be __________.

      A．boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father

      B．boys Sonny had run races with before

      C．boys Sonny had never raced with before

      D．boys Sonny did not expect to race with again

2．According to the passage, who do you think learned a lesson?

      A．The tortoise.      B．The hare.           C．Sonny.               D．Sonny’s father.

3．The writer argued with his son because _________.

      A．he liked tortoise while his son liked hares

      B．they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid

    C．he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t

    D．he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son rejected (拒絕) it

If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one knows what time itself is. We cannot see it. We cannot touch it. We cannot hear it. We know it only by the way we mark its passing.

For all our success in measuring the smallest parts of time, time remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.

One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement, because time and movement cannot be separated.

A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes. For time and change are linked. We know that time has passed when something changes.

In the real world—the world with time—changes never stop. Some changes happen only once in a while, like an eclipse(月蝕) of the moon. Others happen repeatedly, like the rising and setting of the sun. Humans always have noted natural events that repeat themselves. When people began to count such events, they began to measure time.

Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest.

A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day. It has a stick or other object that rises above a flat surface. The stick, blocking sunlight, creates a shadow. As the sun moves, so does the shadow of the stick across the flat surface. Marks on the surface show the passing of hours, and perhaps, minutes.

The sundial works only when the sun is shining. So, other ways were invented to measure the passing of time.

One device is the hourglass. It uses a thin stream of falling sand to measure time. By the eighteenth century, people had developed mechanical(機(jī)械的) clocks and watches. And today, many of our clocks and watches are electronic.

1．What makes it possible for humans to measure time?

      A．The sundial was invented.                   B．Some natural events take place regularly.

      C．The sun rises and sets every day.         D．The hourglass came into being.

2．We can learn from the passage that _______________.

      A．since we can’t feel it, we have no way to deal with time

      B．the existence of time depends on the changes of the world

      C．when the sundial was invented, people had no worry to count time

      D．electronic watches make it possible to measure time without any fault

3．Which of the following statements about the sundial is wrong?

      A．It doesn’t work well when it is cloudy.

      B．It measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day.

      C．It can only show the passing hours when the sun is shining.

      D．It was one of the earliest and simplest devices to measure time.

4．What can be the best title of the passage?

      A．Sundial, an Amazing Device                  B．The mystery of Time

      C．Value Your Time                                  D．Incredible Changes

Su Hua is studying at Cambridge, UK. She has bought a bicycle and is worried about security (安全). Her friend, Kate, found this article and sent it to her.

1．Which part of the text gives you information on how to lock up your bicycle when you leave it?

     A．Locks.                 B．Marking.             C．Registration.         D．Basic Security.

2．The underlined phrase “act as a deterrent to a thief” means ______.

     A．help you recognize your bike

     B．help the police find your bicycle

     C．stop someone stealing your bicycle

     D．stop you worrying about your bike

3．The article advises you to keep a record of your bicycle _______.

     A．in the bike shop and your computer

     B．in the police station and a security company

     C．in a security company and your university

     D．by yourself and in a security company

4．The main purpose of this article is _________.

     A．to tell you what to do if your bicycle is stolen

     B．to suggest ways of keeping your bicycle safe

     C．to give you advice on where to buy a good lock

     D．to say why you shouldn’t keep your bicycle in a quiet place

根據(jù)下列句子及所給的首字母或漢語注解，寫出空缺處單詞的正確形式。（每空只寫一詞）

1．What will happen to you if you don’t eat a balanced d_________?

2．I still felt s_________ nervous when I was doing the speech although I practiced a lot.

3．The plane c_________, killing the 200 people aboard.

4．The boat sank in a v_________ storm at sea.

5．According to a widely accepted t_________, the universe began with a “Big Bang”.

6．Don’t do that to him any more. He has his own religious ________ (信仰).

7．It is an _________ (印象深刻的) scene. 

8．There are clouds ___________ (漂浮) in the sky, which makes it very beautiful.

9．We need to work in pleasant _________(氣氛).

10．Have you _________(咨詢)your lawyer about this?

根據(jù)下列句子及所給的漢語注解，寫出空缺處所需詞組的正確形式。（每空只寫一詞）

1．If you put your heart into your work, you can succeed ______  ______(最終).

2．We saw two boys flying a kite______  ______  ______(在遠(yuǎn)處). 

3．Has he ______  ______ (說明) the fact that the money was found in his house?

4．The street lights come on at dusk and go off ______  ______(在黎明).  

5．What can I do to ______ her trust ______(贏回)? 

找出并改正錯(cuò)誤，每句只有一處錯(cuò)誤。此題要求改正所給句子中的錯(cuò)誤，按下列情況改正：

該句多一個(gè)詞：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該句右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。該句缺一個(gè)詞：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號（∧），在該句右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。該句錯(cuò)一個(gè)詞：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，在該句右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。?

1．Leaving the moon’s gravity was not as painfully as leaving the earth’s.    _______

2．Wang Peng sat in his empty restaurant felt very frustrated.              _______

3．He brought up by his grandparents in a small village.                  _______

4．Whether life will continue on the earth for millions of years to come will depend on if the global warming problem can be solved.                                _______

5．My suggestion was that we changed the date for the meeting.            _______

4月19日，星期六，你們參觀了一家農(nóng)場，請根據(jù)以下內(nèi)容寫一篇120詞左右的日記。要點(diǎn)如下：

1．農(nóng)場位于學(xué)校東面20公里處。清晨在校門口集合，然后乘校車前往農(nóng)場。

2．農(nóng)場里空氣新鮮、景色怡人，可以聽到鳥兒美麗的歌聲；農(nóng)場里的莊稼、蔬菜長勢良好。

3．中午在草地上野餐，之后組織活動(dòng)（唱歌、跳舞、講故事等），一直玩到很晚，然后與農(nóng)場工人告別返校。

4．參觀農(nóng)場的某些感受。

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April 19 Saturday                         Fine

    Today we paid a visit to a farm.