The worst danger is a house on fire when people are asleep. Always be ready to leave through a window into the garden by making sure you can open it if necessary. If you should be on holiday in a tall building or hotel, make sure you know where the fire escape（太平梯）is. When you can’t find any way out, try to find pieces of cloth and make a rope to get out of a window to safety. If you smell burning in your home, get out right away. If you can’t breathe properly because of smoke on your way out, crawl（爬行）on your hands and knees because smoke rises and the air will be cleaner near the floor. Smoke is a killer and more people have died from breathing it in than actually being burnt.

　　Fire in a cinema, hall or public place often means people pushing to reach a door. Keep your head up with arms up in front of your chest. This protects your chest and gives you the best chance to breathe. Above all, don’t get frightened!

(1) When a tall building is on fire, people _______.

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A．can leave by coming down the fire escape

B．should first check the room windows

C．had better find a long rope

D．must lie down on the floor at once

(2) People can leave a burning house through a window if ________.

[　　]

A．there is smoke in the room

B．there is no other way out

C．they can’t breathe properly

D．they want to put out the fire

(3) In a room filled with smoke you’d better crawl on the floor because ________.

[　　]

A．you won’t get burnt

B．the floor is cleaner

C．there is less smoke near the floor

D．you won’t breathe in any smoke

(4) There are several things to do to keep one safe. Which of the following is NOT talked about in the passage?

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A．Leave the house right away when you smell burning.

B．Get out of the house by crawling on the floor.

C．Raise you head and keep your chest from being hurt.

D．Rush out of the house, dressed in wet clothes.

(5) Which of the following is NOT true?

[　　]

A．In a fire, more deaths are caused by smoke.

B．The most important thing is not to be frightened in a fire.

C．When a public place is on fire, people usually push to leave.

D．Be ready to leave a burning house through a window if there is a garden down below.

　　If you see someone drowning（溺水）, speed is very important. Once you get him out of water, if he isn’t breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely damaged. Support his neck, tilt（使翘起）his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn’t work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Close his nose with your fingers. Open your mouth wide and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, and then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until professional（专业的）help arrives.

　　To bring a child back to life, keep your mouth around his mouth and nose and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible. If the blood starts turning blue gray color, and you can feel no pulse.（脉搏）, then pressing his chest is the last chance of saving his life.

　　With arms straight, rock（摇动）forward, pressing down on the lower half of the ribs（肋骨）. Don’t be too hard, or you may break a rib. Check the result of your effort by seeing if his color improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing, or you must continue until rescue arrives.

(1) To bring a child back to life, we usually ________.

[　　]

A．blow into his mouth first

B．press his chest hard immediately

C．call for an ambulance first

D．check his color and pulse first

(2) Once you get a drowning man out of the water, if he isn’t breathing, you must first ________.

[　　]

A．get him breathing again

B．take him to the nearest hospital as soon as possible

C．find someone to help you

D．call the First Aid Centre

(3) In the last paragraph, the word“rescue”means ________.

[　　]

(4) If the drowning boy has no pulse, ________.

[　　]

A．pressing his chin upwards is enough to get him breathing

B．blowing air into his mouth is sure to save his life

C．pressing his nostrils together with your fingers can work

D．pressing is the last chance of saving his life

(5) Which of the following statements is true?

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A．If a man does not breathe for four minutes, his brain will be completely destroyed.

B．If you see someone drowning, you must give him mouth-to-mouth breathing.

C．Don’t stop pressing his chest, if the drowning man starts breathing again.

D．When pressing, you can do it as hard as you can.

(6) This passage is mainly about ________.

[　　]

A．how to save people out of the water

B．how to give first aid to people who are drowning

C．how to do mouth-to-mouth breathing

D．how to save a child from a river

　Is there life on Mars? We do not know. We are sure that earth people do not like to live on Mars. Earth people need oxygen to breathe. There is almost no oxygen on Mars.

　　Living on Mars would be like living on a very high mountain. There would be little air. It might be 50 degree above zero at noon and 100 degree below zero at night.

　　Many people think there may be plants on Mars. We know that Mars has carbon. This is a kind of material found in all plants and animals on earth. Through a telescope, Mars looks red. In some places, it seems gray. At times, the gray colour turns gray-green, then brown, then gray again. The gray-green colour may be a kind of plant life changing colour with seasons.

　　Will man go to Mars one day? If they do, they will have to take along their own oxygen, food, clothing, and shelter（住所）.

(1) What do you think is the main reason why men can't live on Mars? Because

[　　]

A．living on Mars is like living on a high mountain

B．there is no oxygen on Mars

C．there are not any plants or animals on Mars

D．on Mars it is too hot at noon and too cold at night

(2) The story does not say this, but from what we have read, we can tell that

[　　]

A．someday we may know if there is life on Mars

B．men must take food and clothing with them when they go to Mars

C．people on Mars need no air to breathe

D．the plants on Mars are red

(3)“Carbon”is _______.

[　　]

A．a kind of food

B．a gas only found on the earth

C．a kind of material whose colour is gray

D．a kind of material that almost all living things need

(4) The main idea of the whole story is that________.

[　　]

A．there may be life on Mars

B．earth people could live on Mars

C．Mars turns its colour with seasons

D．Man will one day land on Mars

(5) Which of the following does this story lead you to believe？

[　　]

A．Some earth people have already visited Mars.

B．There is a lot of oxygen and carbon on Mars.

C．There may be strange forms of life on Mars.

D．Mars is earth people's future home.

　　What will city life be like in the future? Some people think that life in the cities is going to be horrible. They say that cities will become more and more crowded. As the number of people increases, there will be less space for each person. This overcrowding will cause other problems—more crimes, dirtier streets, and worse problems with traffic than we have now. How will people find enough drinking water, energy (such as gas and electricity) and housing? Because life will be hard, people who live in cities will worry more, and they may become sick. For these reasons, some say that nobody will want to live in city areas.

　　How can we deal with such problems as overcrowding, crime, and traffic? In some cities, thousands of people are already sleeping in the streets because there is little suitable housing—and because houses are too expensive. The crime rate isn't going down. Instead, it is increasing so fast that many people are afraid to go out at night. Traffic is also getting worse.

　　More and more often, traffic jams are so bad that cars don't move at all for several streets. These problems have been getting worse, not better, so many people see no hope for the future of the city.

　　Los Angeles, California, for example, has no subway system and buses are slow. Instead, many commuters drive many miles from their home to work. Many of these drivers spend several hours every day on busy freeways. New York, however, has a big transit system--buses, commuter trains, and subways. Because the public transportation is crowded and dirty, many people drive private cars, and the traffic jams are worse than in Los Angeles. A taxi driver complains：“I was driving home, but in forty-five minutes I moved only two miles ! Finally, I turned off the engine and just sat there. A lot of people left their cars where they were in the middle of the street and went into a bar for a few beers!”

　　On the other hand, some cities have clean, fast and pleasant public transportation systems. In Paris, France, and Toronto, Canada, for example, anyone can use buses and subway to move quickly from one part of the city to another.

(1) What do some people think is the main problem of the city life？

[　　]

(2) Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

[　　]

(3) The best way to work out the problem in Los Angeles may be________.

[　　]

A．cutting down the number of private cars

B．getting more buses in the freeway

C．persuading people to live nearer to their work

D．building a subway system

(4) According to the passage, _______ has a better traffic condition.

[　　]

　　If you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn’t breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck tilt（使翘起）his head back and press his chin（下巴）upward. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn’t work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils（鼻孔）together with your fingers. Open your mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until help arrives.

　　To bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and nose and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey color and you can feel no pulse, pressing is the last chance of saving his life.

　　With arms straight, rock forward, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don’t be too hard, or you may break a rib（肋骨）. Check how effective you are by seeing if his color improves or his pulse becomes independent of your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Or continue until rescue arrives.

(1) ________ is the most important thing in saving a drowning person.

[　　]

A．Mouth-to-mouth breathing

B．Repeating

C．Speed

D．Removing blocks in his throat

(2) The correct steps to do the mouth-to-mouth breathing are ________.

[　　]

a．pressing his nostrils together

b．blowing into his lungs

c．opening your mouth and taking a deep breath

(3) Which of the following statements of pressing is TRUE?

[　　]

A．It can be done directly when you see a drowning person.

B．It can make the drowning person turn a blue-grey color.

C．It helps the pulse work.

D．It should be done together with the mouth-to-mouth breathing.

(4) What’s the best title for this passage?

[　　]

A．Saving the Drowning

B．Safety Rules

C．Mouth-to-mouth Breathing

D．Saving the Dying

How soon will it be before robots（机器人）become so intelligent that will be able to do things, such as teaching languages or looking after patients in hospital? Some experts believe this will happen within in hospital? Some experts believe this will happen within twenty years while other disagree.

　　One London company, UAS (Universal Automated Systems)has already developed machines that can be used as“home helps”for old people unable to look after themselves and who are living on their own or in special homes. These machines can now do such things as cooking eggs and cleaning the floor, and the company says that future models still accept simple voice instructions（指令）and be controlled by a“brain”that is the equivalent（当量）of the latest IBM microcomputer. The director of USA, Mr．Henry Jeffries, believes that in the next five to ten years companies will have developed even more sophisticated（复杂的）robots for use in industry. By this time, it is likely that they will also have begun to sell new forms of these machines into ordinary homes. Robots could do a wide range of household tasks, such as preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and so on. By then, the price of such machines may have come down to as little as ＄ 1000.

　　But Dr．Sandra Lomax, who has done research into artificial intelligence（人工智能）at Sussex University and MIT(Massachusetts Intelligence of Technology)believes we have a long way to go before we can develop truly intelligent machines.

　　“Preparing an omelette（煎蛋）may seem easy enough. But suppose one of the eggs has gone bad, even the most‘intelligent’robot would probably still use it. If something slightly unusual needs doing—something that requires even a little bit of ordinary human imagination, a robot is useless. They need programming for even the simplest of tasks and are not able to learn from experience. And teaching a robot how to recognize a bad egg is far more difficult than teaching it to prepare the omelette the egg goes into.”she says.

(1) A London company called UAS has already developed a machine which _________.

[　　]

A．can teach languages and care for the patients in hospital

B．can help old people do certain jobs in the house

C．is controlled by microcomputer "brain"

D．can accept simply voice instructions

(2) The director of UAS believes that in the next five to ten years new forms of machines will ________.

[　　]

A．be able to "think" with their own brains and do anything with imagination

B．cost much less than ＄1000

C．be used more in ordinary homes than in industry

D．do more housework

(3) Dr．Sandra Lomax thinks that ________.

[　　]

A．no robot will ever be able to prepare an omelette

B．a robot will soon be able to do unusual house work people can’t do

C．we can programme a robot to learn from experience

D．making an omelette is easier for a robot than recognizing a bad egg

(4) Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?

[　　]

A．All experts agree that there will soon be robots that can teach languages and look after patients in hospital.

B．Dr．Sandra Lomax believes there are very great problems in developing intelligent robots.

C．Robots have taken an important part in people’s daily life.

D．Such machines are already being sold into ordinary homes.

(5) Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

[　　]

A．Servants of the Future

B．How to Make Robots

C．Robots More Clever Than Man

D．The Household Tasks in Future

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　I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise． At the end I said：“Son, remember：slow and steady wins the race． Don't you think there's something to learn from the tortoise?”

　He opened his eyes wide．“Do you mean next time when I'm entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

　I was shocked（震惊）．“But the tortoise didn't wish the hare would fall asleep!”

　“He must have wished that,”Sonny said．“Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did．”

　“He didn't have such a wish,” I insisted．“He won the race by perseverance（坚持）by pushing on steadily．”

　Sonny thought for a while．“That's a lie,”he said．“He won it because he was lucky．　　 If the hare hadn't happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race．　　 He could be as steady as you like or a hundred times steadier, but he'd never have won the race! That's for sure．”

　I gave up．　　 Today's children are not like what we used to be．　　 They're just hopeless．

(1) The writer argued with his son because

[　　]

A．he liked tortoises while his son liked hares

B．they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid

C．he liked the story of the hare and tortoise while his son didn't

D．He tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but his son rejected

(2) Sonny believed that the tortoise

[　　]

A．won the race by his own effort

B．took a risk by agreeing to race

C．was not given a fair chance in the race

D．in fact did not win the race

(3) Billy, Tony and Sandy must be

[　　]

A．boys Sonny had run races with before

B．boys who were unknown to Sonny's father

C．boys Sonny did not expect to race with again

D．boys Sonny had never raced with before

(4) The writer thinks that his generation

[　　]

A．were more clever than Sonny's generation

B．had the same ideas about life as Sonny's generation

C．were more hopeful than Sonny's generation

D．had different ideas about life from Sonny's generation

(5) According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?

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A．The tortoise　　　B．The hare　　　C．Sonny　　　D．Sonny's father

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　My secret for staying young is simple． Put all attention to the part of you-your brain and keep it young and growing． Keep your mind awake and you'll stay young all over． These are exciting time． Take an interest in the world around you, and stick to learning at least one new thing every day．

　No matter how old you are, it's not too late to make your life interesting．　　 I know a housewife with no knowledge before who made herself into a well-known industrial engineer．　　 I know a retired（退休的）electrical engineer who has become a highly paid ceramic（陶器的）artist．

　Get over the idea that you are ever too old to go back to school．　　 I know a man who entered medical college at 70．　　 He got this degree with honours and became doctor．　　 Another man went to law school at 71 and now an active lawyer．　　 Staying young is easy for those, old or young, who live in the future．　　 You can do it if you care enough to try．　　 Keep your mind awake and active;that's the only elixir（万验灵丹）．

(1) The statement that the brain to people of all ages, remains young and growing is ________．

[　　]

A．impossible

B．a scientific fact

C．supposed to be true

D．a wrong conclusion

(2) It is wrong to ________．

[　　]

A．think oneself too old to go back to school

B．keep one's mind awake

C．try to stay young

D．get one's degree with honors

(3) The passage tells that the man who entered college at 70 became ________．

[　　]

A．an active lawyer

B．an electric engineer

C．famous for medical science

D．a highly-paid ceramic artist

(4) The only youth elixir is ________．

[　　]

A．to go back to school

B．not to consider one's age

C．to live in the future

D．to keep one's mind awake and active

(5) According to the writer, you should ______ learning at least one new thing every day．

[　　]

A．take care of　　　B．turn to　　　C．set out　　　D．keep on

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　　 　A supersonic airliner（超音速客机）like the Concorde（协和式）flies at twice the speed of sound．　　 A passenger can leave London at noon and arrive in New York at ten o'clock that same morning. There is a five-hour time difference between the two cities, and the Concorde can cross the Atlantic in only three hours That evening the passenger will feel it is time to go to bed when it is only six o'clock in the evening．　　 Airline pilots suffer from this jet lag very much．　　 It may be in the middle of the night in Hong Kong but their stomachs are still on London time, where it is dinner time．Pilots and other airline crew have to adjust to （适应）constant changes in time．　　 That is why they often look fifty years old when they are only forty．　　 This adjustment to sudden changes causes all sorts of problems．　　 Businessmen who travel from one side of the world to the other in one day are told never to make important decisions during the first twenty-four hours after landing．

　　 　Air travel is getting faster all the time．　　 Engineers say that soon people will be shot to their destinations（目的地）in huge rockets, which will be able to carry 170 passengers at a time．　　 They will be able to cross the Pacific Ocean, from Los Angeles to Honolulu in only eighteen minutes．

(1) When it is twelve o'clock in London, it may be ______ in the morning in New York．

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A．ten　　　B．eight　　　C．five　　　D．seven

(2) Suppose a supersonic airliner reaches New York at 10 a．m．, it is already _____ the same day in Lon．

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A．3 p．m．　　B．4 a．m．　　C．9 p．m．　　D．11 p．m．

(3) An airliner like the Concorde can fly at twice the speed of ______．

[　　]

A．sound　　　B．light　　　C．a rocket　　　D．a spaceship

(4) It will take the passengers ______ to cross the Pacific Ocean in huge rockets．

[　　]

A．half an hour

B．three hours

C．more than a quarter of an hour

D．less than ten minutes

(5) Which of the following is Not true?

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A．There is, a five-hour time difference between London and New York．

B．The Concorde can fly across the Atlantic within three minutes．

C．The pilot and the crew suffer a lot from jet lag．

D．Midnight in Hong Kong may be around 6 p.m. in London．

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    We are used to the idea of aging ourselves. We are so used to this　　 that it comes as a surprise to find that there may be some animals　　 that do not age. Sea anemones (海葵) are an example. Some have been　　 kept for nearly a century without showing any signs of losing vigor　　 (活力). Some sea worms can even "grow backwards". If starved and kept　　 in the dark, they get smaller. They finally end as a ball of cells,　　 looking rather like the egg from which they come. Under favorable　　 conditions the ball will turn back to a worm and start growing again.　　 One could probably keep them growing and "un-growing" indefinitely.　　 　　

(1) Some sea worms get smaller when they ___________.　　 　　

[    ] 　　

A. lose their breath　　　　

B. lose weight　　　　

C. suffer from cold　　　　 　　

D. suffer from hunger and do not see any light 　　

(2) According to the passage, some sea animals ___________.　　 　　

[    ] 　　

A. are afraid of light　　　　

B. die when they become a ball of cells 　　

C. do not grow old　　　　

D. do not eat food at all