He is very busy. I don’t know if he _____ or not tomorrow.

A．come	B．comes
C．will come	D．is coming

 

. He is very tired working all day. Don’t ________ him waiting outside in the rain any longer.

A. continue     B. leave C. make  D. remain

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项。选项有两个为多余选项。（此题请答在答题纸上）

—He is very good, isn’t he?

—    6     

—I said the singer was great.

—    7  

—Have you seen him here before?

—    8    I think he probably writes the music and words because I’ve never heard any of the songs before.

—It’s not fair.

—    9      

—People with musical ability like that having to stand here to make a living.

—    10     

What do you mean? Sorry, what did you say? I hope so. Do you like popular music? Be quiet, listen to him. Yes, and interesting to watch. Oh, yes. He’s always at exactly the same place on Saturdays when I come into town.

33 Chilean miners were trapped nearly a half-mile underground after the mine accident. They had no real hope that they’d ever be found. Luckily, though, the men had Luis Urzua. They were rescued to safety on October 13, 2010.Urzua, 54, was the shift leader at the time of the disaster, and used all his wisdoms and his leadership talents to help his men stay calm and in control for the 17 terrible days it took for rescuers to make their first contact with them.
It was no surprise that Urzua was the last of the 33 miners to leave the mine.
Urzua --- after shaking hands with rescue workers ---- climbed into a capsule barely wider than a man’s shoulders at 9:46 and was hauled up (拖上来) from a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet of rock. He arrived at the top 11 minutes later.
“We have done what the entire world was waiting for,” he told Chilean President Sebastian Pinera immediately after his rescue. “The 69 days that we fought so hard were not in vain.” Pinera greeted Urzua, saying “You have been rescued, coming out last like a good leader… You have no idea how all Chileans share with
you your hardships, your hope, and your joy. You are an inspiration.” With Urzua by his side, the president led the crowd in singing the national anthem.Robinson Marquez once worked with Urzua in a nearby mine. He described Urzua as a calm, professional person and a born leader. “He is very protective of his men and obviously loves them. He wouldn’t have left until all of his men were safely above ground,” Marquez said.
Under Urzua’s leadership, the men stretched an emergency food supply meant to last just 48 hours over two and a half weeks, taking tiny sips of milk and bites of fish every other day.He described the difficulties of the first days, saying that it took about three hours for the dust to settle before the men could inspect where tons of collapsed rock sealed off (堵住) the main way out. When the rescuers first made contact by drilling a narrow hole into their refuge (避难处), the miners were so excited that everyone wanted to hug the drill hammer.After the collapse, Urzua was the first to speak to Pinera and to urge him not to let him and his men down. “Don’t leave us alone,” he asked the president, who assured the workers that they would not be abandoned, telling them he would do everything he could to get them back to the surface.
【小题1】The mine collapsed on ____.

A．March 2

B．June 3

C．August 5

D．October 13

【小题2】Which word can’t be used to describe Urzua?

A．Selfish

B．Calm

C．Optimistic

D．Talented

【小题3】What do you know about the capsule?

A．It is very spacious.	B．It is very narrow.
C．It is made by Urzua.	D．It is used in space.

【小题4】The emergency food supply was designed to last ____.

A．over two and a half weeks	B．five days
C．one week	D．two days

Ayesha and Latisha Jones need to take a break in their own homework to help their dad, because at the age of 52, John Jones is just now learning to read.

“I was so uncomfortable and so ashamed,” he said. For many years, unable to read a menu or a bus schedule, Jones was just one of the estimated 65,000 adults in Buffalo, New York who cannot read above a 5th-grade level.

And a new study shows the problem is getting worse in many states. California, New York and Florida have all shown surprising increases in illiteracy（文盲）rates. The situation has improved in a few states, like Mississippi, Rhode Island and Kentucky. But worldwide, the United States doesn’t perform well.

Fourteen countries rank higher in reading ability than the United States, including Finland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, South Korea, UK, Japan, Sweden, Iceland, Belgium, Austria, France and Norway.

Back in Buffalo, a program called Read to Succeed targets the problem early, teaching preschoolers shapes, colors and letters.

“We have a lot of poverty and that means a lot of children don’t have the skills, but they have the potential（潜质）,” said Helene Kramer of Read to Succeed. The theory is : you’re never too young or too old to learn.

Working with Buffalo’s literacy volunteers has given Jones a fresh start. “They gave me a chance to open a door that I could never open before,” he said. “I could never open it before, because I couldn’t read.” It’s not easy, but Jones says seeing his daughters read inspires him to try.

64. In America, which of the following states has seen an improvement in the situation of illiteracy?

A. New York.   B. Mississippi.   C. Florida.   D. California

65. Helene Kramer would probably think that _______.

A. kids should not learn to read too early

B. old people aren’t able to learn to read

C .poverty contributes to poor reading ability

D. most poor kids have difficulty reading

66. What can we know about John Jones?

A. He is very tired of learning to read.

B. He is thankful for the chance to learn to read.

C. It is easy for him to learn to read.

D. His children don’t like to help him.

67. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. Canadians perform better in reading than Americans

B. American children’s ability to solve problems is quite bad

C. the illiteracy rates in New York have dropped

D. Norway ranks the lowest in reading ability

68. What might be the best title for the passage?

A. America ranks higher in reading ability.

B. volunteers help a man live a new life.

C. Reading offers more chances to children.

D. Find inspiration to fight illiteracy.