Modern life is 1 without traveling. The 2 way of traveling is by air. With a modern airline you can travel in one day to places. But it 3 a month or more to get to these places a hundred years ago.

Traveling by train is 4 than by air , but it has its advantages(便利). You can see the country you are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining cars. They make even the longest journey(旅程) 5 .

Some people 6 travel by sea if it is possible. There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different places. Traveling by sea is a very 7 way to 8 a holiday.

Many people like to travel by 9 . You can make your 10 timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just 11 you like. You can stop 12 you wish—where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can 13 a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is 14 traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or a plane when they are traveling 15 business.

( ) 1. A. impossible　　　　 B. possible　　　　 C. good　　　　 D. bad

( ) 2. A. fastest　　　　　　 B. faster　　　　　 C. slowest　　　 D. slower

( ) 3. A. spend　　　　　　 B. took　　　　　 C. cost　　 　　　D. worth

( ) 4. A. faster　　　　　　 B. fast　　　　　　 C. slower　　　　 D. slow

( ) 5. A. enjoy　　　　　　 B. harmful　　　　 C. enjoyable　　　 D. tired

( ) 6. A. prefer to　　　　　 B. prefer　　　　　 C. prefers　　　 D. prefers to

( ) 7. A. pleased　　　　　 B. pleasure　　　　 C. pleasant　　　 D. please

( ) 8. A. take　　　　　　 B. spend　　　　　 C. cost　　　　 D. visit

( ) 9. A. jeep　　　　　　 B. truck　　　　　 C. car　　　　　 D. bike

( ) 10. A. owns　　　　　　 B. own’s　　　　　 C. owns’　　　　 D. own

( ) 11. A. to　　　　　　　 B. from　　　　　　 C. as　　　　　 D. with

( ) 12. A. whatever　　　　 B. wherever　　　　 C. however　　 D. whichever

( ) 13. A. enjoy　　　　　　 B. like　　　　　　 C. love　 　　　D. eat

( ) 14. A. what　　　　　　 B. why　　　　　　 C. where　　　　 D. which

( ) 15. A. in　　　　　　　 B. with　　　　　　 C. for　　　　　 D. on

　　A well-trained teacher is not nervous, because she has the confident which comes of knowing that she is fully prepared for her work. She can help all her pupils, from the brightest to the slowest; and when she realizes, from the silence of her class when she asks a question, that they have not understood what she has explained, she is able to repeat her explanation again in different ways. Above all, she must never cause her pupils to lose confidence(信心). She must always speak to them kindly and when one of them turns red with shame at having answered a question after a long delay instead of easily, she must quickly make him or her feel at ease again. I was once sad to see a teacher being unkind to a girl who put up her hand and then answered a question with mistakes.

　　(46) A well-train teacher is never nervous because ___________.

　　A. she knows she has not got everything ready

　　B. she has enough confidence to do it ready

　　C. she never knows it is a shame

　　D. she'd like to be anything but a teacher

　　(47) The underline sentence "She can help all her pupils, from the brightest to the slowest" means that she can help____________.

　　A. neither the brightest pupils of hers nor the slowest ones

　　B. either the brightest pupils of hers or the slowest ones

　　C. not only the brightest pupils of hers but also the slowest ones

　　D. all her pupils with the white skins or dark skins

　　(48) When well-trained teacher sees the silence of her class, _______________.

　　A. she will teach them a good lesson

　　B. she would get angry

　　C. she will not explain it any more

　　D. she is sure to explain what she has explained over and over again

　　(49) When the pupils can't give her correct answers, ________________.

　　A. she will be kind and patient to them

　　B. she will let them turn red with shame

　　C. she will keep them standing for a long time

　　D. she will order them to think over the question

　　(50) Seeing a teacher was once unkind to a girl, ____________.

　　A. the writer got very unhappy

　　B. the writer put up his hand

　　C. the writer answered the question instead of the girl

　　D. the writer was asked to stand up

梂hen shall we leave tomorrow if we don't go by plane?

　　桾he train is much _____ so we must set off very early in the morning.

　　A．slowest　　B．slow　　C．slower

　　There is nothing more important to life than the sun. Without the sun all living things on the earth would die.

　　The sun is a star. In the sky there are thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars, but in the day-time you can only see one star－the sun.

　　The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. That is why it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the earth is as much as 150 million kilometres. Most of the stars are thousands of light years away from the earth.

　　Do you know the light year? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It travels 300000 kilometres a second. And one light year is the distance that light travels in one year.

1．Without the sun, there would be no living things ________.

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2．The stars are ________the sun.

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3．Light travels ________ in the world.

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4．From the passage we know light travels ________ kilometres a minute.

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