Electronic (电子的) books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read. Now, electronic textbooks are changing the way many students    1  . Many schools in Washington have begun using online course materials for their students. Rather than using a regular textbook, it’s all online.

“Our students are ready to use resources (资源) from different   2  ,” said the head teacher, Peter Noonan. He talked about the   3   of electronic textbooks to a reporter. “The world is changing   4 . Online textbooks can change right along with the things that are happening.  Besides, electronic textbooks   5  less than regular textbooks. We need to pay $8 million for the regular textbooks for our students, but we only need to spend $6 million   6   the electronic textbooks,” said Peter Noonan.

Students have different ideas about the change,   7  most like it. “I don’t have to carry a textbook around, so that is   8  ,” said a high school student named Melanie Reuter. Maria didn’t   9 . “I don’t like it because the Internet sometimes doesn’t work.”

Some students don’t have a computer or can’t go online at home. Stephen is   10  of them. But he said, “I can go to the library, or go to a friend’s house, to go online.”

1.                A．eat            B．learn           C．sleep     D．walk

2.                A．newspapers     B．schools         C．places    D．grades

3.                A．advantages      B．progress        C．messages D．environment

4.                A．normally        B．slowly          C．possibly  D．fast

5.                A．happened       B．cost            C．ended    D．behaved

6.                A．for            B．in             C．at   D．on

7.                A．but            B．or             C．until D．and

8.                A．polite          B．rude           C．good D．bad

9.                A．appear         B．stay            C．agree    D．arrive

10.               A．another        B．one           C．other     D．neither

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Sally often helps me study English. And I help her study Chinese. We help _____.

A. each other   B. others                    C. the other               D. other

Many children like to go to the zoo   31    their parents on    32   . In the zoo, there are many    33   , like elephants, pandas, monkeys, tigers and    34    animals.    35    only live in China. I like them very much. They are black and    36   . They eat bamboo. There    37    a baby panda in the zoo. So I want to see    38   next Sunday. My friend, Linda, wants to go with me. I think we can    39   a bus to the zoo. But I must do my homework    ____40   .

1.A. for B. at C. with D. and

2.A. weekends B. summer C. morning D. evening

3.A. people B. women C. children D. animals

4.A. other B. others C. the other D. else

5.A. Pandas B. Elephants C. Koalas  D. Tigers

6.A. blue B. white C. red D. green

7.A. are B. is C. be D. am

8.A. she B. he C. it D. them

9.A. by B. on C. take D. go

10.A. first B. the first C. one D. the one

“Have ________ try, you are so close to the answer,” the teacher said to Eric.

阅读短文，并按要求完成1—5题。

Failure is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. Although failure happens to everyone, different people’s attitudes(态度) towards failure are different.

Some people don’t think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the (A)      failure later. Some people think they themselves are fools and lose their hearts in everything after they get a failure. Then they(B)      their time and energy on useless things. At last, they may really be fools as they have thought.

（C）Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being hopeless and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. They will be successful after hard work in the end. So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.

1题为判断正误，2补全句子，3翻译成汉语，4为回答问题；5找主题句。

1.Failure happens to everyone. (    )

2.在( A )、(B)处的横线上分别填上一个单词（A）        （B）           

3.将(C)处句子译成汉语：

    _______      _____________      ______________________________.

4.Why do some people pay no attention to their failure?

                                    ________________________      .

5.请找出第三段的主题句，写在横线上__________________________________________.