In Britain you’re allowed to drive a car when you’re seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you can start. When you’re learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren’t allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don’t have to go to a driving school --- a friend can teach you. The person with you isn’t allowed to take money for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.

Before you’re allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don’t pass the test, you’re allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you’ve passed your test, you don’t have to take it again, and you’re allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain’s oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.

Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn’t have to take a test until 1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.

1.A person can’t take money for driving lessons unless he __________.

A. has learnt to drive in a driving school

B. has a full driving license

C. has a full license and a teacher’s license

D. is given a special two-year driving license

2.In the driving test, one _______________________.

A. mustn’t drive his car, even though the car is fit for the road   

B. is usually asked to drive on roads for some time

C. has to be examined only in car driving skills

D. must drive around for more than an hour

3.When can I take the driving test again if I don’t pass it?

A. a few years later

B. right after the first test

C. a few weeks later

D. never

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. There is no limit (限制)to the age of an old man who drives a car.

B. One can take a driving test again and again until he passes it.

C. There was a speed limit to cars before 1878.

D. A car driver didn’t have to get a limit license until 1935.

5.The best title for the passage is _____________.

A. Driving Licenses in Britain

B. Tests for Britain People

C. Driving Cars

D. Young Men’s Driving Licenses

 

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  A car needs gas to run and your body also needs food to work. 1._____ the right kind of food is very important. It can help your body grow strong, so take care of _2.____ you eat.

  There are four main food groups together. The dairy group has food like mild, cheese, and yogurt. The other three __3.____ are the meat and fish group, the fruit and vegetable group, and the bread and rice group. Each meal should have at ___4.___ one food from all the four main groups. With all these food together, you will be __5.____ enough energy during the day.

It’s easy to get into bad eating __6.___. You may eat your breakfast in a hurry to get to school on time. Or you may not have time for a good lunch. It may seem easy to _7. your supper with fish and chips all the time. But you will find ___8.__tired during these days and you can’t think quickly.

Watching what you eat will help keep your body __9._ and strong. It’s also good to take some exercise. It will __10._ you eat more if you take a walk or play games in the open air. Having a good eating habit with some exercise is the key to your health.

 

综合填空

Reading newspapers has becoming an important p______1 of our everyday life. Many people read newspapers a______2 the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so that they can learn what is h______3 in the world.

Sometimes, however, we do not have e______4 time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h______5 that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.

Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v______6 we can see few newspapers.

Some newspapers are published o______7 a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e______8 reading different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are i______ 9 in.

Today newspapers in English have the l______ 10 number of readers in the world.

 

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take actions to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second terrible school bus accident in November, 2011.

     “School buses should be safe mobile campuses(校园) for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women and children, “Society(社会) should remember in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social caring and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.”

School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports.

The second accident, in which a school bus in the northern province of Liaoning rolled over on Friday, left 35 people injured, according to China Daily.

     “In recent days, a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable,” said Mr Wang, an old teacher from Jiangsu. And he also thought that school bus safety must become a serious problem for schools and the government.

Premier Wen has already asked the government to develop new safety standard (标准) for school buses and made sure to help local government with safe buses for school-age children.

1.How many seats did the minibus in Gansu province have before it was turned into a school bus?

A. 64           B. 21           C. 9            D. 19

2.What does “roll over” mean in Paragraph 4?

A. 倒车         B. 翻车         C. 撞车         D.飞车

3.How did Mr Wang feel when such accidents happened?

A. nervous      B. angry            C. stressed         D. tired

4.Which of the following sentences is Not True?

A. 21 pre-school students died in the school bus traffic accident in Gansu.

B. 35 people were hurt in the school bus accident in Liaoning.

C. Mr Wang thought school bus safety was a serious problem.

D. The government has been asked to develop new safety standard for school buses.

 

 

If you are writing or studying, it makes much difference where the light comes from. People use  36  and pens every day. They have to be very careful about the  37   of the light because the light shines on their work.

Every  38  gets its light either from daylight  39  the window or from the lamps,   40   no matter what kind of light it is, the way it shines is very important to the eyes.

Take a book and sit with your  41  towards the window, and try to read. Your shadow(影子) falls all over the page and makes it  4  for your eyes as if you were in a  43  room. Now turn around and face the window. The page is in shadow again,  44  the bright light is in your eyes.Try sitting with your  45  side towards the window. This is very good for reading, but if you were writing, the shadow  46   fall across the page and trouble you  47  .There is another way – sit  48  your left side to the window. Now everything is perfect for  49   as well.

Whatever kind of light is in the room, the rule about the right way to sit is  50  the same. So you see different ways to sit make much difference in writing or studying.

1.. A. eyes                           B. heads                              C. books                               D. hands

2. A. road           B. path              C. way              D. trail

3.A. house                     B. woman                            C. man                                 D. animal

4.A. from                    B. through                           C. into                                  D. inside

5. A. but                         B. until                                 C. if                                       D. when

6. A. side                    B. back                                 C. body                                 D. front

7.A. good                           B. bad                                   C. useful                              D. clear

8.. A. bright                        B. clean                                C. dirty                                 D. dark

9. A. while                           B. or                                      C. if                                  D. till

10. A. front                         B. back                                 C. left                                   D. right

11.. A. can                         B. may                                  C. has to                         D. ought to

12. A. few                            B. a few                               C. little                                 D. a little

13.A. by                     B. with                                 C. against                                     D. near

14. A. speaking                  B. reading                           C. writing                        D. playing

15.. A. only                          B. never                               C. hardly                         D. always