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　　A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.

　　The meteorite weighed one kilo, and might be over four thousand million years old.

　　“I heard the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going,” he said. “I didn't know what it was.”

　　Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr Pettiffer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.

　　Mr Pettiffer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange.”

1．The meteorite was ________ Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.

[　　]

A．close to

B．far from

C．hitting

D．coming to

2．The meteorite was already ________ years old.

[　　]

A．40,000,000,000

B．40,000,000

C．400,000,000

D．4,000,000,000

3．Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ________ .

[　　]

A．the trees were afraid

B．the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving

C．it was going to rain

D．the moving was made by wind

4．________ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often eachyear.

[　　]

A．Quite a few

B．Some

C．Few

D．Many

5．Mr Pettiffer was ________ to see the falling of the meteorite.

[　　]

A．happy

B．afraid

C．sorry

D．angry

阅读理解(Reading comprehension)

阅读下列短文或图表等，按要求完成文后各题。

Read the life histories for Harry and Sally and then fill in the blanks below.

Harry

age

0 Born 1970

11 Went to Loughborough Grammar School for 6 years

18 Went to London University for 3 years

19 Started going out with Suzie Ended Christmas 1993

22 Went to live in Paris Feb-July 1992

23 Met Sally at a party

24 Got a job in a record shop

25 Married Sally 23 March 1995 Promoted to store manager of the record shop Autumn 1995

26 Bought a house in Wimbledon

now

Sally

age

0 Born 1967 in Ontario, Canada

11 Joined a drama group Start of a life-long passion

15 Came to live in England summer 1982

19 Went to Teacher Training College for 3 years

23 Taught in Poland for two years

24 Met and married Paul August 1991 Had a daughter, Polly, born 13 May 1992

25 Came back to England with Polly but without Paul 1992

26 Divorced (离婚) Paul

　　Started teaching in a school in London Sept 1993 Met Harry Christmas 1993

now

1．Harry went to Loughborough Grammar School ________.

[　　]

2．Harry ________ in Paris in 1992.

[　　]

3．Sally taught in ________ for two years.

[　　]

4．Polly's birthday is ________.

[　　]

5．Sally ________ when she was twenty-six years old.

[　　]

A．was a teacher in London

B．divorced Harry

C．met Paul

D．came back to England

The following are three ads.

　　　　Driver Wanted

　　1．Clean driving license

　　2．Good-looking

　　3．Age over 25

　　Apply(申请) to：Capes Taxi, Shenzhen

　　Te1: 0755－6561382

　　　　Air Hostess(空姐) Wanted

　　1．Age between 20 and 33

　　2．Height from 1.6m to 1.75m

　　3．Two foreign languages

　　4．College graduate Apply to: China airlines, Beijing

　　Tel: 010-88488970

　　　　Teacher Needed

　　For private language school

　　Teaching experience necessary

　　Apply to: Instant Languages Ltd, Dalian

　　Tel: 0411－4313861

1．If you want to work in the south, you can apply for a job as ________.

[　　]

2．You may call ________ when you wish to be a teacher.

[　　]

3．Mary, aged 26, knows English and Japanese. Which job can be given to her?

[　　]

A．Driving for Capes Taxi.

B．Working for China Airlines.

C．Teaching at Instant Languages Ltd.

D．None of the above.

4．What prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxi?

[　　]

A．Liking beer and wine.

B．Breaking traffic rules.

C．Being unable to speak a foreign language.

D．Not having college education.

5．Which of the following is not mentioned in the three ads?

[　　]

用所给词的适当形式填空：

　　Xiao Chen, monitor (班长)of ourclass,is a brave boy.He_____ (fear 害怕 vt.) nothing.