A survey was made about what to do if there was a fire. These are some of the replies.

First name: Emily         State or province: Illinois          Country: USA Stay low, close to the ground and make your way outside. Then call the local emergency(急救)number from your neighbor’s house. This is the most important thing to do. Then wait for the firefighters(消防队员).

 

First name: Vanessa       State or province: Texas           Country: USA If there was a fire and I was in the shower, the first thing I would do would be to make all my clothes really wet and put them on. Then I would break the window with something and get out. If I couldn’t do that, I would lie down and leave the water running.

 

First name: Kystina       State or province: Illinois           Country: USA I’ve never actually been in a fire, but I know what to do. Sometimes at school we have fire drills so that we know what to do if there is a real fire.

 

First name: Henry        State or province: Alaska           Country: USA I would do what they did in the Great Fire, even though it did not happen in the real life. It was a very exciting story.

【小题1】Emily thinks that _____ is the most important thing to do if there is a fire.

A．staying low

B．calling the emergency number

C．waiting for the firefighters

D．making the clothes wet

【小题2】_______ come from the same state.

A．Vanessa and Henry	B．Emily and Kystina
C．Emily and Henry	D．Kystina and Henry

【小题3】Kystina would know what to do because ______.

A．she was once in a real fire

B．she has read a story about a fire

C．she knew the emergency number

D．she sometimes has fire drills at school

【小题4】The Great Fire was ______.

A．not a real fire

B．the biggest fire in history

C．a story that made people happy

D．a story that really happened

【小题5】Which of the following things is NOT mentioned in the passage if there is a fire?

A．Making the clothes wet.

B．Waiting for the firefighters.

C．Putting out the fire by yourself.

D．Breaking the window and getting out.

SPACE is a lonely place. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers from home, astronauts have a hard life. It stands to reason that, once in a while, they need to have a good cry. But this is a lot harder than it sounds.

We still know very little about space, and about living in zero gravity. In fact, we are discovering new things every time astronauts take to the skies (and beyond). As The Atlantic reported in January, crying is not all that simple in space. This is because when a person normally cries,  gravity makes their tears move downwards. But in a spacecraft, this is not the case. Here, there is no gravity, which is why we so often see pictures of astronauts floating around. This means that, strangely, when you cry your tears have nowhere to go. As a result, they just stick to your eyes.

In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this. “Tears,” as he said, “don’t fall off your eye… they just kind of stay there. ” This can be quite painful. In space, your eyes get very dry, and the added moisture is irritating (气人的). Sometimes, things get even weirder(更怪异的). The astronaut Ron Parise told The Atlantic that when tears get big enough, they “break free of the eye and float around”.

No one can be quite sure why we cry. Why should water in our eyes have anything to do with feeling sad? If you stop to think about it, crying is a very strange thing indeed. And now, thanks to the wonders of space, it just got even stranger.

1.The first paragraph mainly wants to tell us that       .

A．living in space is lonely

B．it’s easy to feel sad in space

C．it’s hard to cry in space

D．nobody wants to live in space

2.If astronauts cry in spacecraft, their tears will       .

A．move downwards                       B．move upwards

C．go out of the window                    D．stick to their eyes

3.Astronauts feel       if tears are always in their eyes.

A．sad              B．comfortable        C．happy            D．uncomfortable

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A．In space our eyes are very wet.

B．Tears will float around if they are big enough in space.

C．People know everything about living in zero gravity.

D．Gravity makes people’s tears move upwards in space.

 

根据下列中文信息和英语词汇提示完成80词左右的作文。

1、2009年4月24日，猪流感（Swine Flu virus）在墨西哥爆发（break out）。. 152人已经死亡，并有1995人住院。

2、目前（up to now）人们还没找到原因, 但环境污染(pollution)肯定是一个主要原因(main reasons).

3、你如果有流感症状 ( the symptoms of influenza)应立刻去最近的医疗中心治疗(medical center)。

4、你外出时，请注意在城市公共场合(on public transport)戴口罩(wear face masks)。

5、日常生活中，你要注意勤洗手(wash hands often)；每天保证充足的睡眠(ensure sufficient sleep)；多锻炼多运动。

Against Swine Flu virus

                                                                   

                                                                    

                                                                    

 

Scientists say they are beginning to _____ in the fight against cancer.

A．break in

B．break out

C．break down

D．break through