On October 31st, 2009, Chinese famous scientist Qian Xuesen, died in Beijing when he was 98 years old. He is famous as "the country’s father of space technology and king of rocketry". 
    Qian was born in 1911 in Hangzhou.He left for the United States after winning a scholarship to graduate school in 1936.He studied at the Massachusetts Institute(学院) of Technology and later at the California
Institute of Technology.
     Qian began his career in the US and was regarded as one of the brightest minds in the new field of
aeronautics{航空学) before returning to China in 1955.
     After he returned, Qian set up the first missile (导弹) and rocket research institute of China.The institute later helped start Chinese space program. He led the development of China's first nuclear-armed ballistic
missile and worked on its first satellite.
     He retired in the year before Chinese manned space program was launched in 1992. But his research
formed the basis for the Long March CZ -2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.
In August, 2009,Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Qian and praised him for devoting his life to Chinese defense technologies. Qian told him, "I'm trying to live to be 100 years old"

1. Qian was regarded as __________ before returning to China.
A. A father of space technology        
B. king of rocketry 
C. one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics 
D. one of the best-known scientists
2. When did Qian Xuesen retire? 
A. In 1970      
B. In 1991      
C. In 1992      
D. In 2009  
3. What does the underlined word mean in Chinese? 
A. 发奖品        
B. 批评      
C. 赞扬          
D. 鼓励
4. List the following things in correct orders. Which is the correct?
    ① left for the United States      
    ② won a scholarship to graduate school
    ③ returned to China from the United States
    ④ set up the first missile and rocket research institute of China
    ⑤ studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
A. ②①③④⑤    
B. ②①⑤③④.  
C. ⑤③④②①  
D. ⑤②①③④
5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 
A. Qian was born in 1936 in Hangzhou.    
B. Qian began his career in China. 
C. The Lρng March CZ-2Frocket carried YangLiwei into orbit in 2009. 
D. Wen Jiabao visited QianXuesen in August 2009.

　　Thomas Stevens was born at Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England,
on December 24,1854. In 1871 he went to the USA.He left Oakland, California
in 1884 on a Columbia Standard and became the first person to ride a bicycle
around the world. More than one-third of the route(路线) had to be walked. He
traveled for 83 1/2 days and couldn't travel for 20 days because ofwet weather,
etc., so it took him 103 1/2 days to get to Boston. The distance is about 3700
miles. He followed the old California trail  (踪迹) that most of the way across
the plains and mountains, meeting with many strange and interesting things. Mr.
Stevens got to Boston in August, and then he arrived in New York, where he
hoped to make arrangements which could help him to finish the journey around
the world.

1. Thomas Stevens was born in _____.

A. Japan    
B. England
C. America  
D. China

2. When did Thomas Stevens go to the USA?

A. 1854.      
B. 1880.
C. 1884.      
D. 1871.

3. Thomas Stevens became the first person to _____ around the world.

A. take a plane  
B. drive a car  
C. ride a bicycle  
D. walk

4. Mr. Stevens got to Boston in _____.

A. August  
B. May  
C. October  
D. December

5. This  passage  is  mainly about Thomas Stevens' _____.

A. friends    
B. life    
C. travel    
D. work

     Steve Jobs was one of the fathers of the personal computing time and the founder of Apple. He
was also one of the giants of the information age. Here are some of his greatest contributions.

1. When was the Apple II invented?
A. In 1976.      
B. In 1997.        
C. In 1998.        
D. In 2010.

2. When did the iMac first come out?

A. In 1976.      
B. In 1998.        
C. In 2010.        
D. In 2011.

3. Which one was the oldest?

A. The Apple II.  
B. The iMac.       
C. The iPad.      
D. The iPhone 4s.

4. From the passage, we can know that the iPad _______.

A. has a better camera            
B. is the first personal computer
C. has a CD-ROM slot            
D. is great for watching movies

5. According to the passage, which of the following is True?
A. iPhone 4s'screen is the same size as iPhone 4.
B. iPhone 4s has a larger and slimmer case than iPhone 4.
C. iPhone 4s uses less time to transfer data than iPhone 4.  
D. iPhone 4s with an improved camera is cheaper than iPhone 4.

       Maybe every Chinese knows the story of Hua Mulan. No one    1   (know) if the story is true.  But
people still love it.    
       In the story, Mulan's father had to fight for the king. But he was too sick to fight, so Mulan dressed
up(打扮）as a man and   2    (join) the army. She fought for over ten years and she was very   3    
(success). The story shows that womencan do as    4   (well)  as men even in the war.      
       People try to use different ways    5   (tell) the story of Mulan.  Some tried to tell it in the way of an
opera-Chinese Opera Mulan Psalm. And they really made it. Even Japanese people like it very much.

     Jackie Heinricher's love with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing among the
golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when it was windy, the bamboos sounded musical. It was my
favorite place."
     A biologist (生物学家) by training, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in a company in Seattle, where she
lived with her husband, but she found it too boring. Her garden gave her the idea for a business. She would
plant bamboo on their private farm. 
     Heinricher started Boo-shoot Garden in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to appear
on the rest of the world. Bamboo is useful as well as earth-friendly. It can be used to make skate-boards,
buildings, fumiture, floors and even clothing. Bamboo takes in four times as much carbon dioxide (CO₂) as
hardwood trees and gives out 35% more oxygen (O₂).
     First she had to find a way to produce a lot of the plants.   It was a hard task since bamboo flowers create
seed (种子) only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a
bamboo plant too often kills it."People kept telling us we'd never succeed," says Heinricher. " Others had
worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going."
     After a nine-year experiments, she found a way to grow millions of plants. The number of workers in her
company increased from 5 to 55. Now she is working on all kinds of bamboo and selling them all over the
world.   
     "We are at the wonderful moment," she says. "It takes me a lot of time to decide where to pay my
attention. Producing bamboo products? Selling plants to gardeners? Educating farmers about the economic
(经济的) and environmental value of bamboo forests? Or asking the govemment to line roads with bamboo?"

1. When did Heinricher begin to love bamboo?

A. When she was a child.
B. When she was
C. Twenty-seven years ago.
D. About ten years ago.

2. Bamboo is earth-friendly because _______.

A. it can produce musical sounds
B. it can be used widely
C. it can make our city beautiful
D. it can help clean the air

3. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Heinricher's bamboo garden.
B. Heinricher's bamboo company.
C. Heinrieher's bamboo story.
D. Heinricher's bamboo products.

4. What is Heinricher's work like now?

A. It's still in great trouble.
B. It has been successful.
C. It's in perfect condition.
D. It has begun to go easily.