看图填空，一空一词。（共5小题，每小题1分；计5分）

【小题1】 What can you see in the picture?
We can see that a school                         a skating Marathon.
【小题2】 How many people are there in the picture? And who are they?
There are seven. Five are students and the             of them are            .
【小题3】What are the they doing?
A man and a woman are            Alison, most students are skating and two of them are             on the ground.
【小题4】 What is Alison doing?
He is             the woman's            .
【小题5】When did Alison started skating?
He started skating             hours            .

Miss Evans taught physics in a London school. Last month she was explaining to her class about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her work. She said to them, Now, I have a sister in Washington. If I was calling her on the telephone, and at the same time you were 20 meters away and listened to me from the other side of the street, who could hear what I said earlier, my sister or you? And why?
The cleverest boy at once answered, “Your sister, Miss Evans, because electricity (电)travels faster than sound waves(波).” That's very good, Miss Evans answered, but then one of the girls put up her hand, and Miss Evans said, Yes, Betty?
“I don't think so. Betty said, Your sister would hear you earlier because when it's eleven o'clock here, it's only six o'clock in Washington.”
(   )6. Miss Evans was teaching her class __________.
A. about sound                       B. to hear some strange sound
C. about electricity                    D. how to say time
(   )7. She wanted to make her students know__________.
A. whether she could hear her sister in Washington
B. whether her students could hear her from 20 meters away
C. which was faster, London or Washington
D. electricity travels faster than sound waves
(   )8. The cleverest boy thought that___________.
A. sound waves travel faster than electricity
B. they would hear her sister in Washington first
C. Miss Evans's question wasn't right
D. Miss Evans's sister would hear her earlier
(   ) 9. Miss Evans________.
A. thought Betty's answer was much better
B. thought the cleverest boy's answer wasn't so good
C. was satisfied with what the girl had said
D. was satisfied with(对...感到满意) what the cleverest boy had said
(   )10. Betty thought the cleverest boy was wrong, because_____________.
A. clocks in Washington showed a different time from those in London
B. electricity was slower than sound waves
C. they were only 20 meters away from the telephone
D. electricity travels as fast as sound waves

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Reading is an activity that people enjoy a lot in their free time.
Some like reading newspapers and   【小题1】 enjoy novels or comic books. My  【小题2】  books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always  【小题3】 me a lot of ideas on how to make my own life better.
Great people are remembered not  【小题4】 they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up  【小题5】 their lives were difficult. They tried to use every chance to change their lives and make the world better.
One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the   【小题6】. The plane has made the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the   【小题7】  why the Wright brothers could   【小题8】  this convenient machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes  【小题9】 the sky.
Whenever I read stories about great people, I always   【小题10】 a lot from them and they encourage me to move forward.
This is why I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.