It’s ten at night. I’m very tired. I would rather ______ than ______ TV.

A. to sleep; watch????????????? ????????????? B. sleep; to watch

C. sleep; watching????????????? ????????????? D. sleep; watch

阅读理解（５分）：

　　　New York can be a very dangerous city—especially（特别地）at night. Many people do not go out alone into the streets after dark. This problem is even worse for women.One New Yorker found unusual answer to the problem. As a singer, she has to drive alone to clubs（俱乐部）late at night. Then she has to drive home after the show.

　　　The singer needs a "friend". So she has got herself Bob—a balloon（汽球）that looks like a man. He sits in the passenger（乘客）seat of her car while she drives at night.People in the street think the woman driver has a man with her, and she feels safe.

1． Many people in New York dared（敢）not go out alone after dark because ________.

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A． it is dark in the street.

B． it is hard to drive a car at night.

C． the city is not safe at night.

D． the people often prefer to stay at home

2． The New Yorker in the story is ________.

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A．a woman singer

B． a man passenger

C． a man driver

D． the woman's friend

3．When she drives home after the show, ______.　　　

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A．it's late at night

B． it's about supper time

C． it's late in the evening

D． it's getting dark

4． Bob is the name of ________.

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A． the singer's husband

B． the car driver

C． a strong passenger

D． a big balloon

5． She feels safe because ________.

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A． she has a balloon along with her

B． nobody knows Bob is a balloon

C． she has a man together with her

D． many people are afraid of the balloon

阅读理解

　　There's an old saying, “Whether it's cold or whether it's hot, we're going to have weather, whether or not.” That is true, weather is always around us.

　　Everybody spends a lot of time doing something about the weather. You get dressed every day. You wear warm clothes in winter and put on light clothes in summer. You take an umbrella when it looks like rain, and you put on boots if there snows. If it's cold at night, you put on more blankets on your bed. If it's hot, you take them off. Every time you do any of those things, you've done something about the weather.

　　There are lots of people earn a living by doing something about the weather, such as the people who make clothes and umbrellas, the ones who make air conditioners, the people who sell these things or fix them or deliver them, the people who help to build buildings and the ones who make the tools and materials buildings are built with.

　　People spend lots of money doing something about the weather. They buy clothes, they pay rent or buy houses, they buy coal, oil or gas to warm the houses and they also buy air conditioners to cool them in hot summer.

　　Can people change the weather by doing these? No, but they change what weather does to people. Weather is one of the main things that make us live the way we do.

1．The story is mainly about ________.

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A．things people do to change the weather

B．things people do because of the weather's changes

C．people spend a lot of time doing things to change the weather

D．weather is very changeable

2．If you lived where it was very hot, you could do something about the weather by ________.

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A．going skating on the lake

B．buying coal or oil to warm the house

C．using an air conditioner to cool yourself

D．taking an umbrella with you

3．If the weather was always the same, people ________.

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A．might build more houses

B．might not spend as much money

C．might not earn a living doing something about the weather

D．might live happily

4．People change what weather does to them when they use ________.

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A．fans, sunglasses and boots

B．televisions, radios and books

C．clothes, socks and pants

D．roads, bridges and buildings

______ it's late at night, the light in the teacher's room is still on.

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A. Because　　B. Though　　C. But　　D. So