What is the sky(天空)? Where is it? How high is it? What lies above it? These questions are hard to answer, aren’t they?
Is the sky blue? The sky has no color. We know that there is air around the world. When planes fly, they need air to lift their wings(翼) . Planes cannot fly very high because when they go high, the air gets thinner. If we go up about 1,200 kilometers from the earth, we find there is no air.
Perhaps(也许) we can answer some of our questions now. The sky is space(空间). In this space there is only the sun, the moon and all the stars.
6.What is the sky?
A. It’s the clouds       B. It’s space.     C It’s air      D It’s nothing
7. The sky _____
A. is blue        B. is white        C. is black     D. has no color
8. Planes cannot fly very high because _________.
A. the air becomes thinner                         B. the flying machine is not good       
C. people will be afraid if the planes fly too high      D. it is not necessary for planes to fly so high
9 If we go up about 1,200 kilometers from the earth, we find ___________.
A. there is more air   B. there is less air   C .there is nothing but air   D there is no air
10. In space there is _________.
A. nothing       B. air everywhere       C. everything       D. only the sun , the moon and all the stars

选词填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分；选对单词或短语但形式错误不得分。）

1.Reading English ______________________ you to understand it. Many students never spend enough time (about 15 minutes) reading every day.

2.A ______________ diet is very important for young students, so you can’t eat too many hamburgers.

3.Dad, what’s the time? Is it time ____________________ now?

4.The boy likes roller skating very much, but his father doesn’t have the time to take him to People’s Square. So he often skates ____________________ his house.

5.________ Miss Tian _______________ Hunan or Sichuan? She eats so hot food.

6.---- What is your uncle doing?

---- He ___________________________ his e-friends on the Internet.

7.Sometimes she feels hungry , so she eats an apple or a pear.

8.Usually our parents new clothes us.

9.---What sports should I do to ?

---Swimming is the best sport.

10.Cakes and sweets have sugar and are bad for your teeth.

缺词填空

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词在答卷上必须完整写出。（本大题共6分，每格0.5分）

I think life will be very different in one hundred years’ time. Some things will be b___1_ and some things will be worse.

Firstly, people won’t l_2___ on the land of the earth. Our cities will be in large domes(圆顶屋) under the sea. Special machines will p___3_ oxygen and light but the environment won’t be the same.

Secondly, trees and plants won’t grow because t__4___ won’t be any soil. As a result, people won’t be able to grow crops, food will mainly be in the f__5__ of pills. If the sea isn’t too polluted, people will eat f___6__.

What’s more, I think people’s e__7__ life will be different. They won’t have to w_8___ long hours because computers will help them. No one will have to do housework, e_9___.

Finally, I believe that everyone will be able to travel to the moon, to other p___10__ and perhaps even to other galaxies(星系) f___11__ a holiday.

In a w_12___, I think that in the future we will live in the interesting places.

Dear Addie,

Greetings from New Jersey, how is New Zealand? I’m very excited to have you as my pen pal. I guess it’s my turn to tell you about myself.

First off, I live with my parents, two sisters, and our pet dog Brighty. Our town is called Whippangong. It is only about a half-hour away from New York City. My oldest sister, Ingrid, just turned 17, that means she now has a drive’s license. She drives us to the mall. Do you have a mall near you in Te Awamutu? My other sister is 11 and her name is Lucy. I guess I would say that she is my best friend. We still fight, though. She rides horses and takes lessons every Saturday morning. I have to go with her sometimes, and that is truly the most boring thing in the world. Do you like horses?

I take tap dancing classes. I like to practice in the food store. The sound of my feet stepping on the hard floors echoes(发出回声). I play scores in the fall; I’m on the swim team during the summer. I like swim, but I am really looking forward to diving this year. Next year I will start music lessons in school. I think I am going to play the piano.

Our house has eight rooms and a small backyard where every year we try to grow vegetables. We mostly get zucchini because the rabbits eat everything else. I guess rabbits don’t like zucchini. I have a bike and mum allows me to ride up and down our street, but nowhere else. I hope that I will get to ride it to school someday. Right now I ride the crowed and yucky bus.

Well, that is enough about me for now. I look forward to hearing from you again soon. I hope your surfing lessons went well. And I hope your mum does let you learn to play the drums.

Write soon

Love,

Jessica

1. In this letter, Jessica doesn’t talk about .

A. her family numbers B.her spare time

C. her house D.her ambition

2. what does the underlined word “fall” mean here? .

A. 跌倒 B.降落 C.秋天 D.瀑布

3.JessicA、thinks riding horses is very .

A. different B. fool

C.exciting D.frightening

4. Zucchini is likely to be a kind of .

A. animals B.vegetable

C.flower D.fruit

5. Which of the following is TURE? .

A. Jessica likes Lucy very much but they don’t always get along.

B. People below 18 can’t get driving licenses in New Jersey

C. Jessica usually goes to school by bike, but sometimes by bus.

D. Ingrid gets to take riding lessons and JessicA、wishes she could, too.

6. What might be Addie’s problem?

A. She can’t take surfing lessons.

B. She wants to play the drums.

C. There are no malls near her house.

D. She has no family.