8. It's too late. They are (不可能) to come today.

7. 1 am (个不疑) about his winning.

6. They stayed (平静) when they were buried under the coal mine.

5. A big fish quickly jumped over the (表面) of the lake.

4. He told us a (神秘的) story,which inter- ested us a lot.

3. People always want to know when the earth began to (存在) .

2. The first living (动物) sent into space was

a dog named Laika.

课前预习

I.单词拼写

1. The scene was so (吓人的) that the crowd left quickly.

IV.语法填空阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容(不多于 3个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。

I am a junior in high school. There is a lady at my school 1. job is to hand out call-slips (索书单) and prevent students from leaving campus

2. permission. Before today I had never seen her smile.

The other day my friends and I were eating in the cafeteria and I saw her walking around. When she came 3. (close) to us I could see that she was crying. She pulled out a tissue and quickly wiped her eyes. I thought to myself that this lady is so under- appreciated and needs 4. (recognise) for all her hard work. So I wrote a note telling her that the students appreciated everything she did and

5. her contribution to our school made a difference in all of our lives. I signed it “Some thankful students” and slipped it into 6. envelope. Then

I realised I didn't even know her name. I asked all of my professors but 7. knew her name. I final- ly went to ask the lady at student services and

8. (tell) that her name is Kathy. I bought her a bouquet of 9. (colour) sunflowers and taped the envelope to it. I brought the flowers to school and left 10. in her office.

She came into my third period class shortly afterwards to deliver a call-slip,and there it was —a smile on her face!

III.阅读理解

Flying Saucers In 1947,the pilot of a small aeroplane saw nine strange objects in the sky over Washington in the U.S. He said that they looked like saucers. Newspapers printed his story under the headline u Flying Saucers ”.

Since then,all over the world,people have reported seeing similar strange objects. No one knows what they are or where they come from.

Perhaps some people saw them only in their imagination. Perhaps some people made a mistake. But airline pilots and astronauts do not usually make mistakes of this kind. Captain EdMitchell,who was the sixth man to walk on the moon,said in 1974 that he believes that some “flying saucers” are real. Many other people now believe that these strange flying objects are visiting the earth from the outer space.

“They have come to look at us,” they say. The American government tried to find out more about these objects. It listened to a great many people who said they had seen them. But the Government Committee could not decide on what the objects were. It called them UFOs,which is short for “Unidentified Flying Objects”.

Some say they have seen people in the flying saucers!In 1964,a driver of a police car in New Mexico saw a UFO landing a mile away. When he reached it,there were two small figures standing near it. They looked like little men. When he reported on his radio,they got inside the object and flew away.

In 1973 two men were out fishing in Mississippi. They said they saw a UFO shaped like an egg. There were three creatures like men but their skins were silver in colour. They had no eyes,arid their mouths were just slits (裂缝) .Their noses and ears were pointed. They made the fishermen get inside the UFO for a while. Then the creatures photographed them and took them to the place where they had been fishing.

There are many other similar stories. Some are probably untrue but some may be true. No one knows.

1. took pictures of the two fishermen.

   A. The creatures in a UFO

   B. A driver of a police car

   C. A pilot of a plane

   D. Captain EdMitchell

2. The American government tried to .

   A. look for the flying objects

   B. know where the objects come from

   C. learn more about UFOs

   D. report more about UFOs

3. According to the passage,the name “flying saucers”

was first used by .

   A. a pilot of a small plane

   B. an official in Washington

   C. an editor of a newspaper

   D. the man who flies in saucers

4. The purpose of this passage is to tell us .

   A. the shape of UFOs

   B. how to observe UFOs

   C. the danger of UFOs

   D. what we know about UFOs

5. It is implied in the passage that the author

   A. does not believe at all about the existence of UFOs

   B. believes that UFOs are real objects flying in the sky

   C. is not sure whether there are UFOs or not

   D. thinks UFOs come from other planets