Mr Bean, who is silly, awkward (笨拙的)    1   always funny and enjoyable, is a world-famous comedy character on TV and in movies. He makes people    2 through a series of simple and funny acts   3  body languages. Rowan Atkinson is the   4  who plays Mr Bean. Mr Atkinson is quite   5   for playing Mr Bean. 

Rowan was born on January 6, 1955, and   6  his early years on the family farm with his mother, three older brothers and his strict father, who did not believe   7  the value of television. For a time, he attended the same school as Tony Blair, who was two years older than him. At the age of 13, he   8   at Newcastle University where he had the highest marks in his year. At Oxford he got his Master’s degree (碩士學位) in electrical engineering. He was particularly  9  fast cars, of which he has a large collection.

Rowan’s career change from an electrical engineer to a famous comedian was partly   10  some speaking problems he had in his childhood.

While he was still at primary school, Rowan had already shown great talent in    11  . Although his teachers predicted (預言) a career in acting, Rowan was not confident   12   he met a group of talented people at university, and he realized this could be a career for him. Another important event    13  . One day in 1976, he was playing around and making faces  14 . He realized something. “I discovered my face,” he said later. John Lloyd, who worked for the BBC, says, “When I watched Mr Atkinson act for the first time, I was   15  that he would be more famous than Chaplin.”

1.                A．a(chǎn)nd            B．or             C．but  D．while

2.                A．laugh          B．sing            C．cry  D．dance

3.                A．use            B．using           C．to use    D．to using

4.                A．doctor         B．writer          C．a(chǎn)ctor     D．farmer

5.                A．honest         B．friendly `        C．helpful   D．famous

6.                A．cost           B．took           C．paid D．spent

7.                A．in             B．on             C．a(chǎn)t   D．/

8.                A．worked         B．studied         C．played   D．helped

9.                A．good at         B．a(chǎn)mazed at       C．interested in   D．worried about

10.               A．because        B．because of      C．so    D．since

11.               A．swimming       B．driving         C．a(chǎn)cting D．singing

12.               A．until           B．but            C．a(chǎn)fter  D．before

13.               A．caused         B．missed         C．caught    D．occurred

14.               A．in the mirror    B．in class         C．on the wall D．in the playground

15.               A．a(chǎn)fraid          B．sure           C．worried   D．surprised

Jenny was my grandmother’s sister and she was an amazing woman. She was born in 1901 and  【小題1】  in 2000. It was a pity that she didn’t live to celebrate（慶祝）her 100th birthday,  【小題2】  she had a good,long life.
She had already been a professional   【小題3】  before many women had jobs.She taught in Africa for many years. Then she moved to Malaysia and taught English there for a few years. At that time,people didn’t tralvel  【小題4】  a plane, so she had to travel there by ship. It took her three months  【小題5】  from England to Malaysia in those days. In 1947,she traveled by plane for the first time. This made traveling  【小題6】 easier and quicker. She continued to teach around the world until she was 75 years old.
Jenny really loved teaching and she was also good at telling stories. I always loved to hear her   【小題7】  her stories. They were  【小題8】  interesting that I would like to listen to her when I was free. It was  【小題9】  that she could remember everything even though she was so old. I think it was because she never stopped  【小題10】 .My grandmother’s sister was really an amazing woman.
【小題11】A.death             B.die                 C.died
【小題12】A.but               B.and                 C.or
【小題13】A.singer            B.teacher             C.manager
【小題14】A.on                B.at                  C.by
【小題15】A.to sail            B.sailing              C.to fly
【小題16】A.too               B.much               C.more
【小題17】A.talk to            B.talk with            C.talk about
【小題18】A.so                B.such                C.very
【小題19】A.boring            B.relaxing             C.amazing
【小題20】A.work and think     B.working and thinking   C.to work and think

YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.

Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.

The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.

Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(搖搖欲墜). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.

In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.

Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.

The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.

“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”

The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.

The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.

In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.

“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”

In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.

Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve.

1.When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.

A．Saturday morning                       B．Sunday morning

C．Saturday night                          D．Sunday night

2.Why did many people hurriy home after the earthquake.

A．They wanted to provide rescue to the hit area and give other people a helping hand as volunteers.

B．They wanted to find out the situation of their home.

C．They felt it too dangerous to stay where they had been.

D．There weren’t enough soldiers in the hit-area.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．Xu Yan didn’t make it through the stairs.

B．Xu Yan get out of the dorm quickly.

C．Xu Yan felt the earthquake shaking the stair.

D．Xu Yan was scared that he wouldn’t be able to catch up with the stair.

4.Which of the following is NOT true.

A．Tens of thousands of students were killed in Ya’an.

B．The earthquake also influenced some other cities.

C．The government took very quick actions.

D．Most buildings has collapsed in Longmen.

5.Where would you most probably read this passage?

A．Reader.

B．A History of China’s Earthquakes

C．How to Survive(求生) in an Earthquake

D．China Weekly

Mrs Brown's telephone number was 3464, and the number of the cinema in her town was 5463, so people often made a mistake and telephoned her when they wanted the cinema.
　　One evening the telephone bell rang and Mrs Brown answered it. A tired man said, "At what time does your last film begin?"
　　"I'm sorry," said Mrs Brown, "but you have wrong number. That is not the cinema. "
　　"Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?" said the man. "I'm sorry about that. Goodbye! "
　　Mrs Brown was very surprised. So she told her husband. He laughed and said, "The man's wife wanted to go to the cinema, but he was feeling tired, so he telephoned the cinema. His wife heard him, but she didn't hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening, and the husband will be happy! "
　　根據(jù)短文判斷正誤：（T or F）
(    ) l. Mrs Brown knew a lot about The films, so people often telephoned her.
(    ) 2. The man made a mistake and telephoned her.
(    ) 3. The man didn't want to see a film because his wife was feeling tired.
(    ) 4. The man and his wife didn't go to the cinema because the film had already
begun.
(    ) 5. The man telephoned just to cheat (騙) his wife.