The Red Cross Society of China（RCSC）（中國(guó)紅十字會(huì)）has so far received 150 million yuan (18 million U.S. dollars) as donation (捐款) for tsunami-hit (遭受海嘯襲擊的) countries, reports from the RCSC said on January 14, 2005.

2.66 million U.S. dollars of the money were sent to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand soon after they were hit by the killer disaster（災(zāi)難）late last month. The rest of the money will be sent for rebuilding villages, schools and orphanages (homes for children who lost their parents) in the disaster areas, the reports said.

According to the reports, two RCSC’s rescue (營(yíng)救) teams have arrived in Indonesia and Sri Lanka on Friday. A third team will go to Thailand early next week.

The RCSC will report how much money has been collected and the uses of the money on its website on time, the reports said.

1.The passage is probably from _____.

A. a newspaper                 B. an advertisement                    C. an instruction (指導(dǎo)) book

2.Which countries were hit by a tsunami (海嘯)？

A. Indonesia, China.

B.Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

C. Thailand, Japan and Maldives.                 

3.How many RCSC’s rescue teams have arrived in the tsunami-hit countries?

A.  One.                            B.Two.                                        C.Three.                                

4.The rest of the money will be used to rebuild _____ in the disaster area.

A. villages, schools and orphanages

B.villages, factories and stations

C. orphanages, gyms and schools      

5.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The RCSC has so far received U.S. $ 20.66 million in donation for tsunami-hit countries.

B. The uses of the money will be reported on its website on time by the RCSC.

C.Two RCSC’s rescue teams have arrived in Thailand.

 

Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only traveled to space, but also many of them have lived there in space stations for some time.
The Soviet Union(前蘇聯(lián)) sent the first space station into space in 1971. This space station was called Salyut 1. Salyut 1 was designed as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of astronauts lived there for 23 days. The Soviet Union went on to make seven more Salyut space stations. At about the same time, the United States built its own space station, called Skylab.
Astronauts visited and often lived in these space stations for a short time. However, it wasn’t until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time. Mir stayed in space from 1989 until 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer safe to live in.
Living in space stations seems to be fun, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is food. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be stored in cans. The space station does not have a fridge, but it has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat that do not need special care.
Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away.
【小題1】Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2?

A．Discovered

B．Checked

C．Watched

D．Fixed

【小題2】 What can we infer(推斷)from the passage?

A．Astronauts can never have a chance to eat fresh food when they live in space station.

B．The Soviet Union sent a total of 9 space stations into space in the 1970s and 1980s.

C．Astronauts could live in the Mir space station for no more than three weeks.

D．Space travel has quite a long history of more than 60 years.

【小題3】What is the best title of this passage?

A．Exploring Space

B．Space Travel

C．Living in Space

D．Space Stations

How much sleep do we need? People are all different. Some people need only three or four hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep seven to eight hours a night.

Some people find it hard to fall asleep. About one in three(三分之一) Americans have a problem with sleep. Many of these people can not fall asleep. The name of this problem is insomnia(失眠癥). Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people have special(特殊的) ideas to make themselves sleep. Benjamin Franklin had four beds. He moved from bed to bed to fall asleep. Mark Twain lay(躺) on his side across the end of his bed.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷正(A)誤(B)。（5分）

1.Different people need different amounts of sleep(睡眠時(shí)間).

2.Most Americans sleep more than 8 hours a night.

3.If a person has insomnia, he can never fall asleep.

4.About 1/3 of Americans have a problem with sleep.

5.Mark Twain had four beds to make himself sleep.

 

The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and picked up four people from the street. One of them was in a most  15  condition, and I told the others: You look after the other three. I take care of this one who looked  16 . So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful  17  on her face. She took hold of my   __18__as she said “thank you” and she died. I asked myself what I would say if I was in her  19. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little 20  to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something else, but she gave me much more---she gave me her grateful love. And she 21  with a smile on her face. As did that man whom we picked up from the drain (下水道), half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. “I have lived like an  22 in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.” And it was so  23 to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without complaining, without cursing(詛咒) anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel---this is the 24  of our people.

1.                A．comfortable     B．important       C．difficult   D．terrible

 

2.                A．better          B．happier         C．worse    D．different

 

3.                A．smile           B．tear            C．laugh     D．surprise

 

4.                A．head           B．face            C．coat D．hand

 

5.                A．place          B．room           C．home    D．side

 

6.                A．a(chǎn)ttraction       B．a(chǎn)bility          C．a(chǎn)dvice    D．a(chǎn)ttention

 

7.                A．lived           B．died           C．came D．talked

 

8.                A．a(chǎn)nt            B．a(chǎn)ngel           C．a(chǎn)nimal    D．a(chǎn)ctor

 

9.                A．wonderful       B．difficult         C．grateful   D．important

 

10.               A．a(chǎn)chievement    B．greatness       C．behavior   D．unhappiness

 

 

Think rock. paper, scissors is a children's game? Think again.

    Top players from  around the world came together in Toronto to compete for a ten-thousand-Canadian dollar prize and the title (頭銜) of world champion.

     More than 500 players, including national from Australia, Norway and New Zealand, attended.

     The simple game is often used to make decisions and solve some simple problems.

     Players hold their fists (拳頭~) closed and count to three before making one of three hand signals: a fist 0ock),flat hand (paper) or two fingers (scissors). Paper covers rock, scissors cut paper and rock breaks scissors.

 

   Players  have different ideas about the history of the game, but it is believed to have been played for centuries in Japan

  The Paper Scissors Stone Club was found in  England in 1842 and provided an environment where  players could play together.

    In 1918, the name was changed to World RPS  Club and its headquarters (總部)moved from London to Toronto. In 1925 its members were over 10,000.

    The world championships have been held since 2O02, which are held once every year

1.The winner could get______

         A. $1,000       B.$10,000      C. C$1,00O     D.C$10,000

2.According to the passage the game “Paper Scissors Stone" originated(起源于)in ________

           A. Japan       B Australia    :  C. America        D. Norway

3.Where did the  Paper Stone Club’s headquarters move to Toronto?

           A In 1842    B   In  1898    C  In   1918    D In  1925

4. How many world championships had been held by 2009?

           A. Two.         B. Eight       C. Seventy.       D. Eighty