New books this month
The Long Night This is David Reilly’s first book. David became a writer after teaching English for several years. Maha is a nurse in northern Australia. She works in a small hospital. One day a baby is so ill that Maha has to drive all night to get her to the nearest big city. They have a lot of problems getting there and…	Hard Work This exciting story is Joanna’s twentieth. Hard Work is about Sombat. He works with his father, a carpenter, in Thailand. They work long, hard hours making tables and chairs, but they do not have any money. Then one day a man dressed all in black buys the most beautiful table in the shop…	Hospital or Cinema Marcie Jacome, who studies English in London, wrote this story earlier this year. Tina is a young Indian woman whose dream is to become a doctor. She goes to London to study English and medicine, but one day she meets a man who asks her to go to the USA with him to become a film star…What will Tina do?

【小题1】The story of Hard Work happened in _________.

A．Australia

B．Thailand

C．India

D．England

【小题2】From the passage we can see Tina is ________.

A．a doctor

B．a film star

C．a writer

D．a college student

【小题3】__________is about a difficult journey.

A． Hospital or Cinema

B．Hard Work

C．The Long Night

D．Harry Potter

People who have finished education often admire students for their carefree life. But they don't know how difficult it is to ___1__ a student. He can never finish his homework. Furthermore, he has to ___2___ the great pressure of examinations. Everyone wants to get the first __3__ in exams. And after school, there are also many extra classes waiting for him. The worst of all is that students can hardly do ____4__they really love to do, for they ___5__ almost all their time on studies.
(    ) 1.  A. grow    B. take      C. as        D. be
(    ) 2.  A. use     B. become    C. face      D. wait
(    ) 3.  A. place    B. top       C. position    D. desk
(    ) 4.  A. how    B. why      C. what     D. which
(    ) 5.  A. take    B. spend     C. take     D. have

任务型阅读（本题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）
Life in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And Computer Studies lessons will be one of the most important subjects in schools then.
People will work _______ hours than they do now and they will have _____ free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
【小题1】在文中空格处填上适当的词 _____________ ______________
【小题2】 将划线句子译成汉语_________________________________________________
【小题3】找出同义句: Every family will have one computer or more.
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【小题4】 回答问题：What will be one of the most important subjects?
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【小题5】找出或写出本文的主题句_________________________________________________