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　　A meteorite (隕石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.

　　The meteorite weighed one kilo, and might be over four thousand million years old.

　　“I heard the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going,” he said. “I didn't know what it was.”

　　Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr Pettiffer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.

　　Mr Pettiffer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange.”

1．The meteorite was ________ Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.

[　　]

A．close to

B．far from

C．hitting

D．coming to

2．The meteorite was already ________ years old.

[　　]

A．40,000,000,000

B．40,000,000

C．400,000,000

D．4,000,000,000

3．Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ________ .

[　　]

A．the trees were afraid

B．the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving

C．it was going to rain

D．the moving was made by wind

4．________ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often eachyear.

[　　]

A．Quite a few

B．Some

C．Few

D．Many

5．Mr Pettiffer was ________ to see the falling of the meteorite.

[　　]

A．happy

B．a(chǎn)fraid

C．sorry

D．a(chǎn)ngry

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When high school started, Sally and I became best friends. We shared many interests and quickly became very close．When high school ended, we both cried because we would enter different   1 in autumn．

Our first term of college life was   2 , so we often sent long e-mails and encouraged each other. We missed each other so much! In the second term, I found some new friends and I felt very   3   with them. These were friends with whom I could be myself and pour out my feelings. I was eager to share my new friends with Sally．

When Sally   4  visited me at my school, we were excited. She brought a toy bear to me    5  a present and told me about her college life.   6 , something unexpected happened when I introduced her to my new friends．Her eyes grew dark and I could see the sadness in them．My new friends tried to share their friendship, but Sally seemed unwilling to accept it．I didn't understand   7 the people I loved most

couldn't love each other．

Sally left. I knew she was not happy. I thought long about what had happened. I asked her many questions but she didn’t answer me. I   8  that she was jealous. She saw me with my new friends and was afraid that we no longer shared the same experiences. She saw that I could still enjoy myself    9  her and wished she could be a part of it．

I wrote Sally a letter to   0  she's always my best friend. I told her everyone had friends from home and friends from school, and all the friends were indeed life's greatest   11 ．Sally wrote me back soon. She was in agreement and felt sorry about   12  she had done．

I think Sally and I both  13  an important lesson from it. Nothing can influence our   14_  and change the experiences we've shared．We are now walking on two different paths of life. While new friends are special and exciting, old friends are   15  there, waiting to share their heart, no matter how far away they are from each other．

1.                A．camps          B．colleges        C．classes   D．clubs

2.                A．hard           B．peaceful        C．modern  D．normal

3.                A．a(chǎn)nxious         B．strange         C．nervous D．comfortable

4.                A．quickly         B．finally          C．luckily    D．easily

5.                A．for            B．like            C．a(chǎn)s   D．by

6.                A．Because        B．However        C．Therefore D．Though

7.                A．how           B．whether        C．that D．why

8.                A．hoped         B．wondered       C．understood    D．dreamed

9.                A．without         B．from           C．for D．a(chǎn)cross

10.               A．suppose        B．explain         C．guess D．predict

11.               A．a(chǎn)chievement    B．problem        C．gift   D．sign

12.               A．that           B．what           C．how  D．when

13.               A．lend           B．learn          C．borrow    D．plan

14.               A．looks          B．interests        C．friendship D．hobbies

15.               A．a(chǎn)lways         B．never          C．sometimes     D．a(chǎn)lready