Millions years ago much of our earth was covered with blocks (块) of ice. These ice blocks were as tall as high buildings in modern cities. Most of the ice was in the northern (北方的)part of the world.

Then the ice blocks started to move south. Cold and rain came with the ice. Animals and people had to move.

At last, the ice began to melt (融化). After half a million years, most of it had melted. More than half of the earth became covered with water. The climate became much warmer. Things began to grow. The earth began to look the way it looks today.

1.Millions of years ago our earth was very _________________.

A. warm            B. hot              C. cool             D. cold

2.What did animals and people try to do when the ice blocks moved south?

A. they tried to stop them moving.       B. They tried to melt them.

C. They tried to stay ahead of them.      D. They tried to move behind them.

3.The melting ice maybe helped to form _____________.

A. mountains and valleys              B. the sun, the moon and the earth

C. cities and countries                D. seas, lakes and rivers

4. The underlined word “climate” means _______________.

A. the freezing ice                   B. the weather of the year

C. the moving of the ice blocks         D. a plant or an animal

5. Which of these things maybe happened because the Ice Age ended?

a. Forests grew                     b. Food became harder to find

c. Fishing became easier              d. The temperature dropped.

A. a; b            B. b; d           C. c; d             D. a; c

 

Put an ice cube from your fridge into a glass of water. You have a piece of string(线) 10 centimeters long. The problem is to take out that piece of ice with the help of the string. But you must not touch the ice with your fingers.
You may ask your friends to try to do that when you are having dinner together. There is a saltcellar on the table. You must use salt when you carry out this experiment.
First you put the string across the piece of ice. Then put some salt on the ice. Salt makes ice melt(融化). The ice round the string will begin to melt. But when it melts, it will lose heat. The cold ice cube will make the salt water freeze(结冰) again.
After a minute or two you may raise the piece of string and with it you will raise your piece of ice!
This experiment can be very useful to you. If, for example, there is ice near the door of your house, you must use very much salt to melt all the ice. If you don’t put enough salt, the water will freeze again.
【小题1】We must use           when we carry out this experiment.

A．a fridge

B．some food

C．a table

D．some salt

【小题2】How long will it take to carry out this experiment?

A．More than three minutes.	B．Five minutes or two.
C．Only one minute or two.	D．About ten minutes.

【小题3】We can learn something about           from the passage.

A．physics

B．biology

C．chemistry

D．maths

短文填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，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。所填单词在答题卷上必须完整写出，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共5分，每格0.5分）

Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people e 1.   try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names r 2.   in the Guinness Book of Records.

Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled a bathtub 145 kilometres for 24 hours. This group had 13 m 3.   . They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28^th and 29^th, 1983. A month l 4.   , a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometres in j 5.   minutes. However, the distance record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding Center. This team from Edingburg pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometres in 1979. It took the team 35 days to c 6.   the distance.

Another group of record makers held the h 7.   dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney, Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28^th , 1989. The climbers t 8.   a dinner table, chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top of the mountain, they had to c 9.   warm clothes to have dinner.

People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now not all the records will be k 10.  in the Guinness Book of Records.

 

在校园网上校长与学生在线对话引起了强烈的反响。下面是一些学生提出的问题和校长给予的回答，请你将学生的问题与校长的回答一一配对。

Students’  questions                                                  Headmaster’s  answers

1.Which do you think is the best middle school in our town?        A. I think they are all very great. They work really hard. They are all good at teaching and they are good with you all.

2.In your dream, what are students in our school like?         B. We know it’s very important for everyone to study subjects and learn other things. I think you should know what you like to do first, and then try to do it better. But you should also try to study better. It’s good for you to find a good job.

3.What do you think of our teachers?                     C. I think our school is the best. Because you are the greatest, and we also have so many great teachers here. And your parents send you here, because our school is the best.

4.I want to join some clubs, but there are not many clubs in our school. Why not have more clubs for us?  D. Every student likes our school and likes to study. They are good at schoolwork and other things. They are smart and healthy. They love their parents and teachers, too.

5.I’m not good at all subjects. I hate to study. But my parents want me to study. What can I do?    E. It’s a piece of good advice. We have some clubs for Grade 7 students now. And we are going to have more clubs for all students. I hope every student can have a good time at school.

 

Here are some tips on listening. We hope it can help you in one way or another.

●Relax yourself.

Before you start to listen to something, You need to relax.

1                                           This will help you with your listening.

●Listen carefully to the first sentence.

2                                          For example, if eyou hear“Many shops in many parts of China have decided to take away all kinds of Japanese goods off their shelves, but some people say it’s not a good idea. Our reporter says…”,you know you will hear a piece of news, not a children’s story or a science report.

●Think when you’re listening.

3                                           For example, you can think of the following questions: What happened? When , where and how? What was the result and what does the speaker want to tell us? In this way, you may undersrand the passage better.

●Listen for important facts.

4                                             For example, if the passage is a science report, you should try to remember its findings , and how the scientists got their results. 

●Don’t think about one or two words for too long.

You may hear some words that you don’t know. But don’t spend too much time on them.

5                                          But you can remember some words or sentences that you think are important, and you can use them when you’re answering the questions.

	A. The first sentence tells a lot about the whole passage. B. It’s important for you to remember some important facts. C. Don’t get nervous or excited. D. Very often, you’ll find out what they mean later when you go on with    the listening. E. When you’re listening, try to do some thinking.