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The Turning of the Earth

　　It seems to us that the earth stands quite still. But it is really moving all the time. It turns around a make-believe line through its centre. We call this make-believe line the earth's axis (地轴). The two ends of the earth's axis are called its poles. It makes the earth twenty-four hours travel around its axis once.

　　We look at the sun and say it “rises” and travels across the sky, but the sun doesn't really do so. It is the turning of the earth which makes us feel as if the sun were moving across the sky. We can't see that the earth is moving because everything else on the earth is turning with us. As the earth turns around every twenty-four hours, first one half faces the sun and then the other half. When our half of the earth is facing the sun, we say it is day. When our half is away from the sun, we say it is night. It is the turning of the earth that, tells us when to go to bed and when to get up.

1．What's the meaning of the phrase “a make-believe line”?

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A．It is a line that we can't believe.

B．It's a line that we can't see.

C．It's a line that anyone can make.

D．It's a line that we can make and believe.

2．The meaning of the word “pole” is ________ .

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A．the north and the south points of the earth.

B．a tall piece of wood or metal that stands in the ground.

C．either of the two ends of a line.

D．either of two complete different opinions.

3．Usually we say, “The sun rises in the east and sets in the west”. In fact, the sun ________ .

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4．We can't see the earth moving because ________ .

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A．We live on the earth

B．everything on the earth is moving with us

C．the earth is smaller than the sun

D．Both A and B

5．When do we have “day” and “night”?

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A．When the part of me earth where we live faces the sun, we have “day”, and when the part of the earth where we live turns away from the sun we have “night”.

B．When the earth faces us we have “day”, and when the earth runs away from us we have “night”.

C．When the part of the earth turns to the sun we have “night”, and when our part of the earth turns away from the sun we have “day”.

D．When the sun turns to us we have “day”, and when the sun turns away from us we have “night”.

2.26-meter-tall Yao Ming made his NBA debut (初次登台) on October 23, 2002 and got 6 points for the Houston Rockets in the game. The next day, he got 13 points (得分)in another game.

　　Most people think that Yao Ming is a born basketball player. But Yao said, “When you watch it on TV, it looks very easy. But when you are playing in the NBA, it is really not so easy.” He said that joining the Houston Rockets was a new start and a new challenge. “I hope that through very hard work I can make everyone happy and help the Rockets win more games,” he said.

　　Yao Ming speaks some English. Both he and his teammates can undersand each other. They don't think there is a language problem. While Yao Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yan Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yan Ming will bring new energy (活力) to the Rockets. The team has started having lessons to learn more about China, and many people who work for the Rockets have learned to speak some Chinese.

1.Yao Ming got 13 points on October _____, 2002.

　　  

A．22

B．23

C．24

D．26

2.Yao Ming said that _____.

A．playing in the NBA was difficult

B．it was hard to watch NBA games on TV

C．he was an NBA star

D．it was boring to play basketball

3.The people of Houston hope Yao Ming will ______,

A．speak excellent English	B．bring new energy
C．make NBA games easy	D．face new challenge

4.From the passage we can know that Yao Ming ________.

A．will work hard for his team

B．made the highest score in his first NBA game

C．can't understand his teammates

D．teaches the Rockets workers Chinese himself

5.The passage is probably ______.

A．an advertisement	B．a notice
C．a news report	D．an instruction

 

　　完形填空。

　　The seasons in Australia are opposite (相反) of ours. 1 it is winter here, it is summer there.

　　Australia is 2 the south of the world. June, July and August are the winter months. The summer is the December, 3 and February. The north of the country is 4 than the south.

　　Australia's main (主要的) problem is water. A 5 large part of the country has no rain at all. But east coast (海岸) has the rain 6 the year round. There are no dry months here.

　　In March 1982, there was a terrible drought (干旱) in Australia. The summer rain didn't 7 . There were 138 million sheep in Australia in this year. This was 14% of all the sheep in the world.

　　Because of no 8 rain and the grass didn't grow well, the farmers 9 to sell many of their sheep and many sheep 10 , too. It was great disaster (灾难) for Australia farmers.

　　

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