FUN TIME

Are you tired of the puzzles you usually do? Sudoku is a new choice. Sudoku consists of (由…组成)the Japanese characters Su ( meaning“number”）and Doku ( meaning“single”）, but it was not invented in Japan. It was created by Howard Games in 1979. The puzzle was first introduced into Japan by Nikoli Puzzle Company in 1984. In 1986, Kaji Maki, the president of Nikoli made the rules strict and clear. Soon in the same year Sudoku became popular in Japan. In November 2004，The Times' a British newspaper, first printed it in the newspaper. It became an international hit in 2005. Now Sudoku becomes very popular all over the world. The rule of the puzzle is to fill in the grids (格子）so that every row, every 3×3 box has the numbers 1 to 9. Here is a Sudoku. Please relax and enjoy. It’s fun.

1.Who created Sudoku?

A. Howard Games. B. Sudoku.

C. Kaji Maki. D. Nikoli.

2.Which is true about Kaji Maki according to the reading material?

A. He was the boss of Nissan Company.

B. He helped to make Sudoku popular in Japan.

C. He was the president of The Times.

D. He is an American.

3.What should “Z" be in the puzzle?

A. 8. B. 5. C. 2. D. 4

An Dun is a daily newspaper reporter in Beijing. And she has a great “Chinese dream”.

Everything about Cao Yulan’s life changed when her mother died during a heavy storm. “I felt like I’d grown up overnight,” she told author An Dun. At the age of 16, Cao left for Beijing. She has worked as a tea salesgirl and a babysitter, among other odd job, over the past 11 years. Her last job before giving birth to her daughter was managing a breakfast stand. What she wanted was to help her little brother and sister grow up to live a better life.

Cao is one of the main characters in An Dun5 s latest book. An Dun shared Cao’s story with the readers at the book launch in late June. The book, written in both Chinese and English, Is the third volume (卷) of The Chinese Dream series. The project will tell the true stories of 100 Chinese people from all kinds of life in 10 volumes, with An as the interviewer.

An Dun enjoys talking to people and she keeps on writing the true stories of “small potatoes”. Her first volumes of The Chinese Dream series have：already been published. Now An is working on the series’ fourth volume.

1.The underlined work “odd” may mean in Chinese.

A.固定的 B.奇怪的 C.临时的 D.优惠的

2.Which of the following is true?

A.The death of Cao’s mother influenced Cao a lot.

B. Cao’s sister lives in the poor countryside now.

C.The Chinese Dream series will be written in English.

D.An dislkes to be a reporter and interview people.

3.An’s book will be written in languages.

A.one B.two C.three D.four

4.In which column （专栏）can An Dun’s The Chinese Dream be found?

A.Business. B.Arts.

C.Society. D.Movies.

Wang Bing’s father began smoking when he was in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette(香烟). He has now been smoking for more than 30 years. It’s an example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes，except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age. It has become a main worry in China that many teenagers begin to smoke. A showed that 22. 5 % of the middle school students questioned had tried smoking and 15. 8% of them smoked regularly(经常). For many teenagers, smoking is a symbol of being an adult，maturity (成熟) and attractiveness because the images who they love best often smoke on screen.

The social environment also plays an important role in attracting(吸引）teenagers, to smoking. They are used to seeing their elders, especially male (男性）family members, smoking at home. Many of them imitate adult behavior and become new smokers.

To increase the price of cigarettes is a useful way to reduce the number of young smokers, as teenagers have no enough money to spend on them.

Another way is to teach the teenagers to refuse cigarettes. A survey shows that 92. 5% of the students know smoking will be bad for their health. If we tell them, in a proper way, most of them may give up smoking.

All in all, the society, the government, the school and the family should join together to take the responsibility(责任）for an anti-smoking(禁烟)act aimed at teenagers，not just to put empty words and warnings on cigarette packs.

1.The writer uses the first paragraph to _______.

A. tell the readers a story of a smoker

B. introduce the topic of the passage

C. introduce the college life of Wang Bing Js father

D. tell the difference between Wang Bing and his father

2.What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and maturity.

B. The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke.

C. The teenagers should be taught to refuse to smoke.

D. The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China.

3.What does the word “imitate” in Paragraph5 mean in Chinese?

A. 指责 B. 忍受 C. 模仿 D. 支责

4.From the underlined part of the last sentence of this passage, we can infer 推断 that the writer thinks putting words and warnings on cigarette packs is ______ to solve the problem.

A. not enough B. of no use

C. of great help D. of great importance

A new study finds that plants communicate with one another to warn of danger.

We often consider plants as the furniture of the natural world. They don’t move; they don’t make sounds；they don’t seem to act on anything. But as is often the case, plants talk to each other all the time. And the language is a chemical (化学物质).

Over the years, scientists have reported that different types of plants, from trees to tomatoes, give out chemicals into the air to help neighbouring plants. These chemical warnings can spread information about one plant’s disease or infestation (虫害)，so other plants can protect themselves. But how plants receive and act on the information exactly is still mysterious (神秘的）.

In this week’s Science Magazine, researchers in Japan offered some explanations. They have found out one chemical message and traced it all the way from beginning to end.

The scientists looked at tomato plants infested by a common pest (害虫）. To start out，they grew plants in two separate plastic spaces connected by a tube (管子）. One plant was infested and placed upwind and the other was uninfested and placed downwind. The downwind plants were later exposed (暴露的）to the pest. The results showed that plants near sick neighbours before were able to protect themselves better against the pest.

They found one chemical appeared more often in the exposed plants. The chemical is called HexVic. The scientists discovered where HexVic came from, and put it over healthy plants. Those plants were then able to produce HexVic. Researchers made sure that uninfested plants could fight off bugs and diseases. How do they know when to protect themselves? They are warned first by their friendly plant neighbours.

It is not a simple story , and it may be happening in many other plants besides tomatoes. It may also be happening with more chemical signals that are still unknown to us. In a word, we know that plants not only communicate, but also look out for one another.

1.The underlined word “traced” in the fourth paragraph probably means _______here.

A. reported B. followed C. doubted D. developed

2.For scientists, which are the right steps to watch tomato plants infested by a pest?

① Place the infested plant upwind.

② Place the uninfested plant downwind.

③ Expose the downwind plants to the pest.

④ Grow plants in two separate plastic spaces connected by a tube.

A. ③①②④ B. ①④③②

C. ④①②③ D. ④②①③

3.You can put the sentence “The researchers also studied leaves from exposed plants and unexposed plants. " at the beginning of Paragraph ____.

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

4.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

A. Communicating Plants and Terrible Diseases

B. Talking Plants and Friendly Warnings

C. Protecting Plants and Clear Information

D. Growing Plants and Mysterious Chemicals

单词拼写（10分）

1.On the last day of his trip to Japan, he made a big _____(决定).

2.They have searched for some_____ (宝贵的)information about their trip to Hong Kong.

3.Never do anything_______（违反）the law, or you will be punished.

4.She was lying _____(醒着的）in her bed when I saw her.

5.We are surprised to find that Jim is (缺席的) from school today.

6.Smoking is one of the_____(原因）of heart disease.

7.My father has _______ (许诺）to buy me a new bike on my coming birthday.

8.I'm interested in_______ he'll go abroad or not.

9.—Did you watch the football game last night?

—No. My parents went home early so I had no_____ but to turn off the TV.

10.—Why did Emma go to the police?

—She was in _____ of her life. She believed someone would kill her.

句子翻译（15分)

1.直到他站起来我才注意到他。

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2.这个问题应该得到足够的关注。

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3.我们应该既不要炫耀自己，也不要嘲笑别人。

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4.玛丽很有条理，总是把书整理地井井有条。

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5.我不知道我穿黄色是否好看。

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书面表达(30分）

目前中学生学习任务重，学习压力大；而广泛的阅读有利于开阔视野，调节身心。在课业学习和业余生活中，你喜欢阅读吗？你喜欢阅读什么样的书籍呢？作为中学生的你，是如何看待阅读的呢？请就这个话题，谈谈你的想法和理由，可适当给出建议。

注意：1．词数80左右；

2．文中不得出现真实的地名、校名和人名；

3．要求调理清楚，语意连贯，字迹工整，可适当发挥。

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Shanghai is bigger than_____in Jiangsu and bigger than______in China.

A. any city, any city

B. any city, any other city

C. any other city, the other cities

D. any other city, any city

The children enjoyed_______ very much last night.

A. they B. them C. themselves D. theirs

Jim, ___ read books while you are walking in the street. It’s very dangerous.

A. don’t B. doesn’t

C. won’t D. can’t