Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.

One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”

Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.

Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized?

1. The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.

2. Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?

(1). He received college education in Paris.

(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.

(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.

(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.

(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.

3. What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

Lao She was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century. He was not only an excellent writer,???? also a great modern novelist小说家 and dramatist剧作家.

Lao She was born into a???? family in Beijing and his real name was Shu? Qingchun. His family was poor after his father died. His mother had a very???? time. Lao She worked his way through college. After graduating he started to work as a???? in primary and middle schools. He liked???? since he was a child. He didn’t write his first novel until 1???? He was famous???? his novel Camel Xiangzi and the play Teahouse. Teahouse shows the???? of the Chinese people between 1898 and 1945. Most people like to see it.

Like???? famous intellectuals 知识分子 in China, he experienced lots of bad things in the middle 1960s.???? , he killed himself in a lake in 1966.

He was married to Hu Jieqing and they????? four children, one son and three daughters.

1.A. and??????? B. but????????? C. or??????????? D. so

2.A. poor?????? B. mistakes???? C. rich????????? D. plans

3.A. happy???? B. good???????? C. mad????????? D. hard

4.A. guide????? B. doctor?????? C. teacher????? D. waiter

5.A. writing???? B. singing????? C. listening????? D. reading

6.A. as???????? B. for?????????? C. to??????????? D. with

7.A. idea?????? B. family??????? C. life?????????? D. interest

8.A. other????? B. others??????? C. another?????? D. else

9.A. Luckily??? B. Unluckily???? C. Quickly ????? D. Certainly

10.A. took????? B. played???????? C. spent???????? D. had

My earliest memory of dad is grabbing (抓住) his hand while we walked together. As I       older, I remembered my father and I listened to many basketball games on the radio. I always fell asleep                the game was over. When I woke up in the morning, the score sheet (计分表) with the       score on it would be lying next to me. I’ll always remember that.

On cold mornings my father would drive his bread truck by the house. I used to ride on the floor of that bread truck as he delivered (分送) the bread to the stores. The       and the warmth from the bread made me hungry and kept me warm. I’ll always remember that.

My father would attend all my games. One night before an important game my father told me           that he wouldn’t be able to watch the game because he had to deliver the bread and it was a three-hour       from his route. The next day as the game time drew near, I thought about my dad. I happened to look across the field and       saw his bread truck pulling into the stadium. He tried to make the game. I’ll always remember that.

Years later I became a teacher. I’ll never forget the voice on the phone early one morning telling me dad had just been killed in a traffic accident. I could hear my heart beat in my ears. I       up the phone and went back to my bedroom. After that nothing was very important to me. One day I was on the playground when a little boy walked up to me and grabbed my hand. His hand held mine the         way I used to hold my father’s by the last two fingers. At that moment I found my       in life again. You see even though my father was gone, he left something with me. He left me his smile, spirit and touch. My purpose was to use those gifts as he did. From that day I started. I’ll always remember that!

1.A. went                              B. changed                           C. turned                              D. grew

2.A. when                       B. although                      C. because                          D. before

3.A. public                            B. final                        C. official                             D. lucky

4.A. smell                            B. color                                C. taste                                 D. shape

5.A. happily                    B. sadly                             C. slowly                              D. simply

6.A. ride                               B. walk                                 C. race                        D. drive

7.A. successfully             B. peacefully                  C. surprisingly                      D. unusually

8.A. set                               B. picked                   C. put                                  D. hung

9.A. strange               B. safe                         C. same                          D. special

10.A. pleasure                 B. purpose                    C. problem                          D. progress

A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing(爆炸) destroyed her home and killed her mother.

Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad(巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they leave their homes in Baghdad.

“Dad, why are the Americans fighting us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.

He tries to comfort him by saying ,“The bombs（炸弹） are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed.

“All we do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu, “We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear(恐惧). We feel hopeless and helpless. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”

1.During the war, children are ______________.  

      A.studying at school       B.safer than their parents    C.in great danger

2.The children have to flee(逃离) their homes because_________.

A.it’s dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing.

B.their parents are not at home

C.they want to get food and water.

3.Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because___________.

A.he doesn’t want to tell him the real reason

B.he doesn’t want to tell a lie.

C.he doesn’t know how to explain it clearly.

4.“sleeping pills” are __________.

     A. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war.

     B.a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep

     C.a kind of food to make them strong

5.According to the passage we know that__________.

    A. all the children in Iraqi are looking for something to eat.

    B. all the children in Iraqi are thinking about something to solve the war problem

    C. the children in Iraqi are feeling fearful, helpless and hopeless during the war.