In some parts of the Unites States, farming is easy. But farming has always been difficult in the north-eastern corner of the country, which is called New England.

　 New England has many trees and thin, rocky soil. Anyone who wants to start a farm here has had to work very hard. The first job is to cut down all the trees. The next job is to dig the stumps （树桩） of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has the most difficult job of all, removing stones from his land, which never really ends, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the thin soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep producing more stones.

　 That is why stone walls are used instead of fences around the new England fields. The stone walls are not high, and can easily be climbed, but they keep the farmer’s cow from joining his neighbour’ cattle.

（　 ） 6. New England lies _______.

A. in England 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. in the USA

C. to the northeast of England 　　 D. to the northeast of Canada

（　 ） 7. The word ‘remove’ means _______.

A. move again 　　 B. carry out 　　　 C. take away　　 D. bring back

（　 ） 8. In what order would a farmer in New England do the following things to start a new farm?

a. Removing the stones from the soil　　　 b. Building a stone wall round his fields

c. Digging out the tee stumps.　　 d. Cutting down the trees.

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

（　 ） 9. What is the great difficulty New England farmers have in their farming?

A. The soil is as hard as rock 　　　　　 B. There are too many stones

C. Plants scarcely grow 　　　　　　　　 D. The soil is too thin

（　 ） 10. New England farmers build stone walls around their fields _________.

A. to save the trouble of taking away the stones

B. to keep their neighbours from breaking into

C. because stone walls are stronger than fences

D. because stone walls are easy to build

Jerry Green went to spend a year at the South Pole Station (南极站)as the only doctor in 1998 when she 47. While working at the station that March. she discovered that there was a hard lump (肿块) in her stomach. She knew it was cancer, but she wasn't able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn't leave the station for the next seven until the snow thawed. Dr. Green didn't wait for the death. But decided to fight against the cancer. She tried to about the lump to a hospital in the United States. The doctors said it was cancer. Without the proper wouldn't live for long. Soon a USA airplane came to provide her with some help. She started her own treatments(治疗)after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally spent the long winter there before she returned home that October .Since then, she had become a incubus in support of cancer charities. She also wrote a best-selling book called Ice Bound.
　　 Sadly, Dr. Green's cancer finally returned. She died on June 23.2009.
【小题1】Jerry Green discovered that she bad a bard lump in her stomach in       .

–I called you this morning, but nobody answered.

–I ________ in my garden at that time.

　 A ran　　　 B was running　　　 C an running

—Why didn’t Betty come to school yesterday?

—_________ she was ill.

A．But 　　 　　　　 B．Though　　 C．If　　 　　 D．Because

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.
　　A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars , and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.