Last Saturday night Jenny was walking through a mall in London , texting on her phone. She wasn’t watching where she was going , so she fell into a sewer (下水道) and got trapped. Luckily she didn’t hurt badly. She quickly climbed out and walked away. But her accident was caught on a mall camera. Then someone posted it on YouTube. The video was viewed almost 2 million times and received national attention. Jenny was angry with this, but she learned a deep lesson: Texting while walking is dangerous. This time I just fell into a sewer. Next time I didn’t know what would happen. Maybe I would be knocked down by a car or something else. It was horrible.
Jenny may be famous for her mistake. After that, she was laughed at by her friends and workmates. She regretted what she had done. But it was too late. However, she wasn’t the only one who got into trouble while texting on the phone. In 2008, more than 1000 Englishmen visited hospital for similar reasons. They were walking and texting or talking on the phone. Suddenly a wall appeared! Or a hole or something like that got in the way. There were cuts, bumps, broken bones and even worse result happened on them.
So we must be careful when we are walking. Don’t send messages or talk with somebody on the phone while walking. Or you may hurt yourself and become another Jenny in the future.
【小题1】The story happened in ______ last Saturday night.

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　　Everybody talks about weather. “Isn't it a nice day?” “Do you think it will rain?” “I think it's going to snow.” These are common ways of starting a conversation in England.

　　Many people think that they can tell what the weather is going to be like. But they hardly ever agree with each other. One man may say, “Do you see it is cloudy in the east? It's going to rain tomorrow.” Another man will say, “Yes, it's cloudy in the east. We're going to have fine weather tomorrow.”

　　People often look for the weather they want. When a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell himself that it's going to rain. When people play in a park on a rainy day, they are sure that the weather is going to be fine soon. They even sit eating their lunch while it rains.

　　Most people listen to what the weatherman says on the radio. But he doesn't always tell them what they want to hear. Sometimes he makes a mistake, but he is still right more often than anyone else.

(1) English people ________ to start a conversation.

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A．They usually ask each other's name

B．They usually talk about their children

C．They usually talk about the weather

(2) think they can tell what the weather is going to be like.

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A．Many people

B．A few people

C．Some people

(3) People often look for the weather ________.

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A．they talk about

B．they don't want

C．they want

(4) When a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell him that it is going to ________.

[　　]

A．be sunny　　　　B．be rainy　　　　C．be windy

(5) ________ is right more often about the weather?

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A．The farmer

B．The weatherman

C．A Englishman

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　　Lucy bought shoes from the shoe factory and tried to sell them to the people. There were not any shops in small villages. People there did not want to go to town to buy their shoes. So Lucy sold a lot of shoes there. One day Lucy drove along the street. She stopped in front of a house. There was a small boy beside the door. Lucy opened the window of her lorry and called to the boy, “Hello! Is your mother at home?”

　　The boy looked at Lucy. Then he answered,“ Yes, she is.”

　　“That' s good.” Lucy said. She got out of her lorry, took some shoes and went to the door of the house. She knocked at the door and waited for a few more minutes, but nobody came to answer the door.

　　Lucy knocked again and waited for a few more minutes, but still no one answered.

　　Then Lucy looked at the boy and said angrily, “Your mother is NOT at home!”

　　“She is!” the boy said.

　　“Why didn't she open the door?”

　　“This isn't my house!” the boy shouted.

(1) Lucy was a ________ .

[　　]

A. shoemaker

B. shoe seller

C. shoe keeper

D. factory worker

(2) ________ in the village bought shoes from Lucy.

[　　]

A. No one

B. A few people

C. Few people

D. A lot of people

(3) Lucy stopped her lorry in front of ________ house.

[　　]

A. the boy's

B. her

C. a woman' s

D. a

(4) There was ________ in the house.

[　　]

A. a boy

B. a woman

C. the boy' s mother

D. nobody

(4) Lucy was angry because ________ .

[　　]

A. the boy's mother wasn't at home

B. she thought the boy told lie

C. nobody came to answer the door

D. this isn't the boy's house

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　　Steven Jobs, who designed(设计)Apple Computer, Was not quite successful in his early years. He was not among the best students at school, and he often got into trouble with either his classmates or his teachers. But he was full of new ideas, which few people could see the value(价值)of. Things were still the same when he went up to college and he dropped out (辍学)halfway.

　　Steven Jobs worked first video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only few months and then he traveled to India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a change in life for the better.

　　After he had returned from India, he began to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steven Jobs began making a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Woziak, he designed the Apple I Computer in his bedroom and in fact built it in his garage (车库). He chose the name“Apple”because he thought of a happy summer he once spent in an orchard (果园) in Oregon.

　　His Apple Computer became such a great success that Steven Jobs soon became famous. Today he has lots of factories and he is very famous all over the world.

(1) Steven Jobs seemed ________ when he was young.

[　　]

A. to be one of the best students at school

B. not to be a good student at school

C. to be liked by all his teachers

D. too lazy to think

(2) Which of the following is true?

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A. Steven Jobs was full of new ideas, but none of them was valuable.

B. The value of Steven Jobs's new ideas was understood by few people.

C. Steven Jobs finished his college study.

D. A lot of people liked Steven Jobs's new ideas.

(3) Steven Jobs traveled to India because________.

[　　]

A. he was interested in India

B. he was given a job as a designer there

C. he hoped to get some new ideas from the trip

D. his friend asked him to go there

(4) Steven Jobs made his first computer

[　　]

(5) Which of the following is NOT mentioned (提到的)?

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A. Steven Jobs was full of new ideas.

B. The college Steven Jobs went to was very famous.

C. Steven Jobs made his Apple Computer a great success.

D. Steven Jobs once spent his summer in an orchard.