The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system, known as the "iPhone OS" until mid-2010, shortly after the release of the iPad. The first generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, the most recent iPhone, the seventh-generation iPhone 5S, on September 20, 2013. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity (2G, 3G, 4G, and LTE).

An iPhone can shoot video (though this was not a standard feature until the iPhone 3GS), take photos, play music, send and receive emails, look through the web, send texts, and receive visual voicemail. Other functions—games, reference, GPS navigation, social networking, etc.— can be enabled by downloading apps; as of 2012[update], the App Store offered more than 775,000 apps by Apple and third parties.

There are six generations of iPhone models, each accompanied by one of the six major releases of iOS. The original 1st generation iPhone was a GSM phone, and established design precedents, such as a button placement that has persisted through all models and a screen size maintained until the launch of the iPhone 5 in 2012. The iPhone 3G added 3G cellular network capabilities and A-GPS location. The iPhone 3GS added a faster processor and a higher-resolution camera that could record video at 480p. The iPhone 4 featured a higher-resolution 960 × 640 "retina display", a VGA front-facing camera for video calling and other apps, and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with 720p video capture. The iPhone 4S upgrades to an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p video recording, a dual-core processor, and a natural language voice control system called Siri. IPhone 5 features the new A6 processor, increases the size of the Retina display to 4 inches, and replaces the 30-pin connector with an all-digital Lightning connector.

The resounding sales of the iPhone have been credited with reshaping the smart phone industry and helping make Apple one of the world's most valuable publicly trading companies in 2011–12. However, there has been criticism of the company's outsourcing and move of jobs from the US to China. Apple and its manufacturing contractor Foxconn have received criticism due to poor working conditions at the assembly plant in China.

1.An iphone is from __________.

A. the USA??? ???????????????????????????? B. South Korean

C. the UK?? ?????????????????????????????? D. Australia

2.What is the newest kind of iphone at present?

A. iphone 4??????? ?? B. iphone 4S ????????? C. iphone 5??? ??? D. iphone 5S

3.How many generations of iphone models are there now?

A. Five?? ?????????? B. Six???????????????? C. Seven?? ?????? D. Eight

4.What are the features of iphone 5?

A. The new A6 processor??? ??????????

B. increases the size of the Retina display to 4 inches

C. replaces the 30-pin connector with an all-digital Lightning connector?? ????????? ?????

D. A, B and C

Who wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children. Nobody wants one shoulder to be lower than the other, and paining（疼痛）too. In India, most of us would look at the reduction（减少）of textbooks as a way out. But in a country like America, there are always more choices. A company called goReader has created a "school bag" which is the size of a laptop computer（笔记本电脑）, weighing about 2.5 kg. The goReader has a color screen and can "hold" all the textbooks that a student may need, says a report in ’The Asian Age’ newspaper.
The company plans to work closely with the publishers（出版商） of textbooks so that these books can be supplied on the Internet. All the students will have to do is to download（下载） their textbooks. Making notes and marking important parts of a lesson can be done just as lots of students have done on their textbooks before.
At present, the plan is being tested out in a university. Richard Katzmann, the owner of the company is having his creation tested at Chicago’s DePaul University, where he studied. Does that mean it is goodbye to the new paper, and the smell of the black ink?
【小题1】What does the underlined word “bulky” in the first line mean?

David is a middle school student. He had lived in a small village for fifteen years. ?? 1.??? His father, Mr. Hill, was a rich farmer and later on he opened a shop in our town. He bought a house here last month. His family moved to the new house and his son began to study in our class. But he had few friends here. 2.???

His neighbor Cathy is a kind girl. She has many friends. She finds the boy never talks with anybody and decides to help him. ???? 3.? Now they’re good friends.

One afternoon, Cathy told David, “???? 4.??? I'll have a birthday party. Would you like to come?”

“Certainly. I’m glad to,” the boy said happily.

David got home and thought of a present he could give to Cathy. ? 5.??? He couldn’t telephone her because he didn’t know her number. At that moment Mrs. Hill came and asked, “What’s the matter, dear?”

“What would you like if it was your sixteenth birthday, Mom?”

“Nothing,” the woman said, “I just wish I were sixteen.”

Teddy' s Bear

The story of how the teddy bear was invented is an interesting one. In 1902, American president Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt was hunting (打猎) in the forest   1  several of his friends. Almost everyone had successfully shot (射中) an animal, but the president   2  not.  Nobody wanted to make the president look   3 , so they tied an American black bear to a   4  . They wanted the president to shoot (射中)   5 .
The president was very surprised to see the bear tied to a tree. He felt it was   6  to shoot the bear, because it couldn't run away. He   7  to shoot it, and the story of his decision went all over the country.   8  was moved by the president's beliefs (信念). There was   9  a cartoon showing the president refusing to shoot a cute bear.
It was this cartoon and the story behind the president's hunting trip that gave Morris an idea to make a new   10 . He made a small, soft bear and   11  it in his shop window. Next to the bear he made a sign that read, "Teddy's Bear". The new toy was a big success and it   12  Morris with the money to create a toy company.
Teddy bears have been   13  since they were first made. A teddy bear would be the first choice   14  people think about children's toys. Theodore Roosevelt's famous   15  on a hunting trip in 1902 brought millions of soft, stuffed (填满填充物的) bears. They are being loved by people across the world.

单词填空（每小题1分，共10分）

请根据所给首字母或中文提示，写出单词在句中的正确形式。每空只能填一词，将单词完整地写在答题卡上。

1. My brother’s schoolbag is small, but Jim’s is b       .

2. Look! That is my lovely c       . It’s running after a mouse.

3. Please o        the door and come in.

4. Miss Qin is a good t       . She teaches English well.

5.Don’t ride your bike too f        in the street. It’s very dangerous.

6. Boys and girls, please take out your         (钢笔) and write down the new words.

7.--- How about this         (红色的) skirt?  --- It’s vey nice. I will take it.

8. A girl from a primary school in Guilin was very         (幸运的) to get a free ticket to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

9. When you         (接受) a present, you must use both hands. It’s a traditional custom in China.

10.The villagers         (庆祝）the Dragon Boat Festival by having a dragon boat race last Wednesday.