I have six baskets(籃子). Three are big. Three are small. I have some apples and some oranges. I put three apples in each (每個) small basket, and I put three oranges in each big basket and one orange in each small basket. The number of oranges is my age.

1.I have ______ apples.

A. three   B. five   C. seven  D. nine

2.I have ______ oranges.

A. six   B. nine   C. twelve   D. eighteen

3.“ What are those in the small baskets?” “They are ______.”

A. three apples and nine oranges

B. nine apples

C. nine apples and three oranges

D. nine oranges

4.“ Where are the apples?” “ They are in ______.”

A. three big baskets   B. three small baskets   C. a big basket   D. a small basket

5.I am ______ years old.

A. nine   B. ten   C. eleven   D. twelve

 

Stuart and Steve were twin brothers. Stuart loved to play basketball. But Steve loved to read books.

One day Stuart fell and broke his leg          he was playing basketball. When they took him to the hospital, the doctor said he wouldn’t be able to play for six months. Steve went          him and brought him books on basketball. At first Stuart wasn’t going to read them. Then he began to read them and        that there were ways he could play basketball better. He began to think that books weren’t so        .

When Stuart’s leg started getting better, Steve would help him by going for walks with him.          Stuart’s doctor said he could start playing basketball again. Then Stuart showed Steve how to toss (投) for baskets. Steve found that he enjoyed it.

Soon Stuart was ready to          basketball games. Steve went to games and enjoyed himself. From then on they         practiced basketball and read books together.

Now you can see, when          happens, something good may also happen. Steve showed Stuart about books and Stuart showed Steve about basketball. So please          showing others something that you like to do and they may show you something that they like to do.        you can find new things to do.

1.A. until                        B. when                             C. after                            D. where

2.A. to see                     B. to call                             C. to visit                   D. to look

3.A. saw                          B. looked                   C. read                        D. found

4.A. good                       B. bad                           C. better                          D. worse

5.A. But                          B. However              C. Finally                    D. So

6.A. take part                 B. win                               C. lose                    D. join in

7.A. always                           B. never                         C. seldom                  D. much

8.A. anything good           B. something nice      C. something bad          D. anything wrong

9.A. try                               B. practice                     C. enjoy                          D. like

10.A. On the way                B. By the way           C. All the way             D. In this way

 

Reading A

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1.Rocket to Space was written by _________.

A．Diego Ramirez      B．Kitty Wolfe         C．Sam Mcgee        D．We don’t know

2.Pet Companies cost _________ before.

A．$15              B．$39.95            C．$12.50           D．$30

3.The space ship was in space for __________.

A．two days          B．two months        C．one week         D．two weeks

4.Which book can tell you something about the South Pole?

A．Rocket to Space.                        B．Pet Companies.

C．Icy Journey.                            D．Handiwork Make.

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

A．Handiwork Make can teach you how to do the housework.

B．Rocket to Space is about astronauts’ life in space.

C．Pet Companies tells the prices of dogs.

D．Icy Journey is the cheapest of the four books.

 

Kelly Christopher, a student at Lutheran High School in California, US, loves oranges. One day last week, she used a pole(竿子) to pick oranges off trees and collect them in baskets. It's the first time in her 15 years she's picked fruit from trees.
"This is quite different from buying oranges in the supermarket," said Christopher. "Every time I eat an orange, I'll remember this experience."  
Christopher was one of the 30 student volunteers at Soil Born Farms. She volunteered as part of a project which was set up in 2009 to help homeowners in South Land Park pick oranges and other fruits out of their backyards. Before, the fruit would rot on the ground or get eaten by animals. Now the fruit is donated to those who need it.
"It is good for many people", said Randy Stannard, who works for the project. "The homeowner gets fruit picked and more people can have healthy food."
"Two harvests (收成 ) were organized in 2009 and volunteers picked 3,000 pounds (1,360kg) of fruit", Stannard said. In 2010, the number was 20,000. This year, Soil Born Farms hopes to get 40,000 pounds. They will harvest every weekend from January to April.
Shannon Galloway, Christopher's science teacher, brought her students into the project this year.
"You're making use of a resource that might be wasted," she said. "I think it's meaningful to everyone."
Donato Frazier, 15, always climbs up a ladder(梯子) and gets on the top of the tree.
"Standing on the treetop is pretty cool," Frazier said. "I can see clearly that many baskets are filled up, and even see that many people are eating healthy fruit because of our volunteer work."                                          
71. Christopher and other students went to pick fruits from real trees because they wanted to _____.
A. have some fresh fruit for themselves    B. make some money by selling fruit
C. provide people with more healthy fruit   D. buy some cheap fruit from their neighbors
【小題1】 When was the project set up?

A．In 2008.

B．In 2009.

C．In 2010.

D．In 2011.

【小題2】What will happen to the fruit if they don’t help the homeowners pick it?

A．The fruit will rot or be eaten by small animals.

B．People who need the fruit will come to pick it.

C．The fruit will be used as a resource for research.

D．Homeowners will pick the fruit and sell it.

【小題3】 What does the underlined word “mean?

A．資源

B．調(diào)查

C．對策

D．娛樂

【小題4】How do the students feel about their work?

A．It’s interesting and easy.	B．It’s meaningless and hard.
C．It’s meaningful and exciting.	D．It’s tiring and boring.

Basketball is still a young game. It’s over a hundred years old . In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors . As they couldn’t play outdoors , they were unhappy ,and some even got into fights from time to time .

Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was ont easy to invent such a game, because it had to played indoors , and the court(球場)was not very large.

Dr.Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of  ball game .It is a wonderful game with much moving and passing of  the ball .It was played between two teams .To make a score, the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet (英尺)above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket .At first, Dr.Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box, As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name .

1.How long is it since basketball was invented?

A．1000years                            B．Less than 100years

C．1100years                             D．More than 100years

2.The students felt unhappy because

A．they couldn’t play outdoors

B．They often got into fights

C．they had much homework to do

D．they had little time to study

3.Who asked Dr.Naismith to invent a game ?

A．Some students                         B．Some teachers

C．Some students’ parents                 D．Some of his friends

4.When a student  makes a score . he could        .

A．receive the ball

B．throw the ball to another student

C．run quickly with the ball in his hand

D．throw the ball into the basket

5.Which sentence is right ?

A．The students could go outdoors when the weather was bad .

B．It was easy to invent the game

C．Dr.Naismith had to use fruit to throw the ball.

D．The ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet above the floor .