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　　Timothy Lloyd, whose parents were both doctors, had always wanted to work in medicine. At last he did quite well in the examination, well enough to get into a school of nursing. On his first school day, Timothy was so excited that he could hardly eat any breakfast, and left home so early that he was at the school long before it opened.

　　The first thing he had to do was to have a meeting with new head of the school, whose name was Thompson, and other new students. The head, a woman who had herself been in the nursing profession(职业)for many years, congratulated the new students on entering the nursing profession, shook hands with each of them and hoped them to work hard during their time at the school. She warned them that their work would not be easy, begged them always to remain sincerely loyal(真诚地忠于职守) to their chosen profession and then wished them good luck.

　　When that was all over, the new students went off to their first lesson. The teacher whose class they joined always gave his new students a test on the first day, to judge how much they already knew, to see how clever they were, and so on.

　　“Does anyone know,”he asked,“why a doctor wears a mask(口罩) while he or she is doing an operation?”

　　“Oh, yes,”Timothy answered quickly.“Because then, if the operation isn't successful, the patient won't know whose fault (过错) it was!

1．Timothy Lloyd entered a school of nursing because ________.

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A．his parents wanted him to be a nurse

B．he himself wanted to be a nurse

C．he did well in the examination

D．both B and C

2．On the first day of the term, Timothy ________.

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A．was too excited to go to school early

B．went to school very early without breakfast

C．went to school just before it opened

D．had his breakfast quickly and went to school early

3．Thompson was ________.

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A．head of the school

B．Timothy's mother

C．the teacher who always gave his new students a test on the first day

D．another new student

4．The teacher gave his students a test on the first day ________.

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A．to see how much knowledge the students had

B．to see how clever they were

C．for some other reasons

D．both A and B

5．What do you suppose the teacher would do after he heard Timothy's answer?

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A．He would punish(惩罚)him by beating him hard.

B．He would say to Timothy,“Yes, you are right.”

C．He would be greatly surprised and gave a sad smile.

D．He would praise him for his clever answer.

    Suppose the year is 1666 and we can see a student called Isaac Newton. He’s away from his university for a holiday and at home with his family. Isaac Newton continues to study at home. He enjoys physics and thinking about the mysteries of the world.

    On a day there is rain and sun at the same time, so he sees a beautiful rainbow( 彩虹 )in the sky. It has many different colors. He is told that there are five. Newton wants to have his own rainbow because he wants to look at it closely. He decides to do an experiment. On a sunny day he goes inside a small room and makes the room very dark. Then he makes a small hole and the sun comes inside; it’s a small ray of light. It’s white. Newton takes a prism( 棱镜 ) and holds it up to the light. The ray of light goes through the prism, but it isn’t white now---there are many colors. The prism has split up ( 分解 ) the white into different colors: Newton has a rainbow.

    Newton looks at his rainbow carefully. He can see more than five colors, and he can see seven. He says the colors are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

    But Newton is a scientist and he’s always very interested in how things work.  He has his rainbow but he wants to know more. So he takes another prism and holds it up to the rainbow. The rainbow goes through the second prism, but it isn’t colorful now---it’s white again. The prism has joined up the colors back into white light. Newton is the first person to understand that light is a combination ( 结合 ) of all the rainbow colors together.

1. In 1666 Isaac Newton was _____.

  A. a famous doctor                        B. an assistant in a lab

  C. a university teacher             D. a university student

2. What is the Chinese meaning of the words “ray of light”?

  A.光线           B. 光圈             C. 光速           D.灯光

3. The prism can split up the white into ____.

  A. less than five different colors              B. seven different colors

  C. five different colors              D. more than seven different colors

4. Which of the following is RIGHT according to the sentences underlined（画线）?

 

        A                  B                C                D

5. Which of the following is NOT according to the passage?

  A. Newton did his experiment on a sunny day.

  B. Newton continued his study at home during his holidays.

  C. If we put five different colors together, we get the white light.

  D. Newton can see seven different colors in his experiment.

【小题1】_____license number is B395961136.

A．Michael T.Wright’s

B．Mary H. Strenton’s

C．Phyllis Roth’s

D．Bob Harris’s

【小题2】Mary H. Strenton ______.

A．is a student in American	B．is from the UK
C．was born in 1975	D．lives in Canada

【小题3】Which card shows the card’s date of issue?

A．The California Driver’s License.	B．The Student Card of University.
C．The European Identification Card.	D．The Health Insurance Card.

【小题4】. What are the four cards in common?

A．They each show the person’s height.

B．Each card has its own numbers.

C．All of the cards show the person’s date of birth.

D．None of the cards show the person’s date of birth.

【小题5】. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Phyllis Roth is studying medicine.

B．Michael T. Wright was born in September.

C．Bob Harris was born in Canada.

D．Mary H. Strenton is younger than Michael T. Wright.

At last, the mid-term exams are over. You’ve done the hard work, but you can’t relax. You have to prepare for the next exams. Do you hate exams? If you do, you are not alone. Students in other countries hate them as well.
Luckily for them, British students have fewer exams than Chinese students. And they only have them once a year. Every summer they take a test in each subject. Each test lasts about an hour. These exams don’t count for much, even if a student does really badly they still progress to the next grade. When the results come out, they are then placed in an end-of-year report. The report is sent to the child’s parents. It describes how the student studied at school.
This report is private, so only the teacher, the student and his or her parents see it. This means that the students don’t know how other students scored(得分) in the test. Some students choose to tell each other, but others keep it secret.
Parents’ meetings are held twice a year, at the end of winter term and then at the end of the summer term. Children go along with their parents to meet their teachers privately and discuss their performance at school.
【小题1】For British students, the school life is         than that of Chinese students.

A．more relaxing

B．much tenser

C．more boring

D．much harder

【小题2】The underlined phrase “don’t count for much” means           

A．难以计数

B．不太重要

C．期望不多

D．难度不大

【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true for British students?

A．They have exams once a year.

B．They don’t know their classmates’ scores.

C．Parents’ meetings are held at the end of the terms.

D．They like to tell each other their scores