Air is always around us. It is around us when we walk and play. From the time we are born, air is around us. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air.

All the animals and plants need air. Living things can’t live without air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we can not live for more than a few minutes without air. We breathe in air. When we are walking or running, we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air.

We live in air, but we can’t see it. We can only feel it. We can feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way. Hold and open a book in you hand in front of your face. Close it quickly! What you feel is the air.

1._________ need air.

A. Some of the animals????????????? B. All the things

C. Some of the plants????????????? D. All the animals and plants

2.We can live for a few days __________.

A. without air????????????? B. without food or water

C. without food or air????????????? D. without air or water

3.We need _________ air when we are asleep.

A. less????????????? B. no????????????? C. most????????????? D. a lot of

4.Which of the following sentences is TRUE(對的)?

A. Sometimes we don’t live in air.????

B. Air is not around us when we go to bed.

C. We can live happily without air.???

D. We need more air when we are working or running.

5.We live in air, but we can’t ________ it.

A. look????????????? B. see????????????? C. get????????????? D. feel

任務(wù)型閱讀（共5小題；每小題1 分，滿分5 分）

1.I often fail to finish the reading test because there is not enough time.

2.I have question with my lessons. But I don’t like to ask the teacher in front of my

classmates.

3.I can’t follow the tape when I am doing listening test, because there are always some 

 words I don’t know.

4.I always forget the new words. Ever though I learned them yesterday, I may forget them

today when I open the book.

5.I don’t dare to speak English with others, though I know I’m good at it.

A. Try to get the main idea of the tape and do not stop to think when you hear the words you don’t know. You don’t need to know every word in the passage.

B. Take short rests and plan your work reasonably.

C. Ask the teacher after class. You can also write the questions down on a piece of paper and give it to the teacher.

D. Review the words again and again until you remember them.

E. Do reading exercises in a given time. Try to read fast. You don’t need to know each word.

F. listen to other carefully and write down what they say. It’s a good way to practice your listening skill.

G. Don’t worry about that. Try to speak English more with your close friends first. Once you can do it well, talk with the others

You can’t see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes．Some of the things you see give off light of their own。The sun，the stars，a lighted lamp are the examples that can be seen by their own light．But most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own．They are just reflecting(反射)light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies．The moon，for example，doesn’t give off any light of its own．It is not 1uminous．You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of the sunlight reflects on the earth．So moonlight is only second—hand sunlight．
When you look at a book，it sends some of the light which fails on it to your eyes，and you see the book．If light could be kept out from where you’re so that there would be no light from the book to reflect．Then you couldn’t see the book even with your eyes wide open．Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you’re reading to your eyes is as short as if there were no time at time．Light reaches us from the moon，which is about 380，000 kilometres away，in only a little more than a second．
【小題1】You can see the book because________．

1.Who wrote Designing Effective Speech Interfaces?

A. Susan Weinschenk         B. Sisson            C. Meier              D. Jack Smith

2.Suppose you are going to join in an English talk show, which of the following can you refer to (參考)？

A. IELTS Listening      B. Car and Driver

C. Quick & Easy Meals.   D. Designing Effective Speech Interfaces.

3.We can find the latest developments in car technology in the _________ of Car and Driver.

A. newspaper            B. Magazine

C. passage              D. article

4.The book Quick & Easy Meals teaches us how to make ____________ in a short time.

A. Chinese food   B. junk food

C. common herbs and spices        D. healthy and delicious food

5.What’s the meaning of the word “delight” in Quick & Easy Meals?

A. To cook the food well   B. To turn on the light

C. To make people happy   D. To show people how to cook.