According to a new education survey, student safety has become a big problem. Nearly 50 percent of the students say they are worried about robbery on the way to and from school. Now in many big cities in China，some schools have taught an unusual lesson. self-protection；Students like this lesson as there are no exams or boring classes. And they can learn how to save lives and know how to stop danger before it really happens.

Chen Haoyu，a teacher at Beijing No. 25 Middle School and a self-protection expert，gives young students advice on how to deal with danger．

If you are robbed, keep calm. If you cannot cry for help or run away, give the robber your money, try to remember what the robber looks like and tell the police.

If you are in a traffic accident and if you are hurt by a car, take down the car number；if it is a bicycle, try to contact your parents before you let the rider go. This is because you don’t know how seriously you are hurt.

Don’t stay in high places and keep away from trees if it is raining hard and there is lightning.

Get away as fast as you can when there is a fire．Put wet things on your body and try to find an exit. Do not take the lift!    

If someone is drowning and you can’t swim, don’t get into the water. Cry out for help.

Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Take care of yourself at all times!

1.Why do students like the self-protection lesson?

A．Because there is advice on exams

B．Because they can learn how to protect themselves.

C．Because they like self-protection experts.

D．Because they have lots of exams during the lesson.

2.The underlined word “contact” means_________.

A．end up           B．wait for           C．search for         D．get in touch with

3.If your house is on fire, you must __________.

A．put dry things on your body

B．run quickly and take the lift

C．take everything you have and then run away

D．run away and find an exit as quickly as you can

4.If you see a child fall into the river and you are not able to swim, you _______.

A．should telephone the doctor               B．can jump into the river and save him

C．can do nothing                         D．should shout for help

5.What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Protection                            B．Advice on how to deal with danger

C．The popular lesson                      D．An interesting lesson

If you want to find out a piece of information about anything , the best place to search for it is Wikipedia（维基百科）. This online encyclopedia is written by thousands of people around the world. Anyone can add or change the information if he or she finds it not correct or not well written. In this way, people who know a lot about a certain subject can write about it even if they are not university professors.

What is more, Wikipedia includes articles written in about 235 languages. This fact makes it one of the few websites (网站)on the internet that are truly international. It was started in 2001 by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, as a free online English-language encyclopedia project. By April 2008, over 10 million articles had been put on Wikipedia. A quarter of the articles are in English. Wikipedia is also a place where people can find the latest news.

However, Wikipedia has its own problems. There have been many complaints that some of the information on Wikipedia is not accurate（准确的）and some important subjects are not included. This has led to arguments between the writers of articles. The people running Wikipedia say that the accuracy of the information is improving and that it is one of the top 20 visited websites on the internet.

So, if you are looking for some information, why not try Wikipedia?

1.Wikipedia is ___________.?

A. a computer game? ?????????? B. an online magazine

C. a free university????????????? D. a website encyclopedia

2. People who write on Wikipedia__________.

A. know much about a certain subject??????

B. likes writing different stories

C. should be university professors?? ??????

D. are usually famous scientists

3.Wikipedia is truly international because_________.

A. everything is written in English???

B. the articles are in about 235 language

C. there are over 10 million articles??

D. each writer can write in Various languages

4.Besides information about different subjects, people can also__________ on Wikipedia.

A. watch interesting movies??????? B. send e-mail to friends

C. read about the latest news?????? D. play exciting games  

After spending years searching for a planet with life, scientists may have found one. In September 2010, a team of US scientists discovered an Earth-sized planet called Gliese 581g. It has a surface temperature neither too hot nor too cold for liquid（液态）water. Scientists think there is a chance that the planet could have life.

The planet Gliese 581g goes around a star called Gliese 581, which is about 20 light-years from Earth. That is about 194 trillion（万亿）kilometres －500 million times farther away from us than the moon.

A spacecraft traveling at a one-tenth of the speed of light would reach Gliese 581g within about 220 years. A human can’t live that long, but robotic explorers could make the job easier. However, our fastest spacecraft don’t come anywhere near that one-tenth light-speed mark.

At present, scientists don’t know what the surface might be like on Gliese 581g. What they know is that the planet is at the sight distance from its star to have liquid water. It’s also at the right distance to have an atmosphere that could protect the water if it is on the surface.

Although spacecraft won’t be getting there anytime soon, one way to look for life on Gliese 581g is to turn our radio telescopes（望远镜）towards the planet and search for radiation（放射）. By studying the radiation, scientists would find out about the chemicals（化学物质）around the planet and discover it Gliese 581g has an atmosphere. If it has one, studying the atmosphere would give us a good idea if the planet has life or not. But it’ll probably be many years before we can do this properly.

People have been arguing about whether there is alien life on Gliese 581g. Any discussion about alien life is just guessing at this point, according to its discoverers.

1. What did scientists find in September 2010?

    A. A planet with water.                 B. A planet similar to the earth.

    C. A planet without life.               D. A planet near the earth.

2.According to the article, Gliese 581g ________.

    A. is at the right distance from its star   B. moves around the earth

    C. is as far away from us as the moon       D. can be reached in about 220 years

3. Paragraph 5 is mainly about ______.

    A. the possibility of living on Gliese 581g

    B. the kinds of chemicals around Gliese 581g

    C. the way of looking for life on Gliese 581g

    D. the aim of studying the radiation on Gliese 581g

4.Which of the following is the best title for the passage above?

    A. Gliese 581g, a Likely Living Planet  B. Gliese 581, a Likely Living Planet

    C. Gliese 581g and Its Star             D. Gliese 581g and Radiation

There are about 80,000,000 mines*  under the ground in more . than 60 countries. It is difficult and dangerous to clear these rnines, About 50  people including many children were’ killed ‘or htirt each iay.  In 2003,  APOPO,  a Dutch research com pan y that uains the an imals, came up with the-idea of s\ng rats to search for the mines.

The animal trainers ‘found that a kind of rats from Africa were clever and had.a sharp*  sense of smell.  The rats were about 75 cm long and.weighed about l.35 kg, light enough to run across a minefield without setting off the mines.

  In January 2004, the APOPO started this project. First, the trainers let the 4-week-old baby rats get familiar with humans. A few weeks later, the rats were no Ionger afraid of people and ‘the things around them. Then they were trained to connect a click* sound with food. After the rats had leamed that, the trainers then taught them to tell the difference between the smell of mines and other smells. When the rats could do it, the click was sounded and they were given a bit of banana.  The method was called clicker training. “The training isn’t easy, said trainer Abdullah Mchomvu.  “You have to be patient. Sometimes I get angry, but then again, I tell myself these are animals.”

  After nine months’  training, the rats were taken to a minefiel山  They’ran across the minefield, stopped, sat and scratched the ground to tell the deminers*  that they smelt out’a mine.  Then the mine was cleared. It had  taken two ‘deminers  a day to clear a 200㎡ . minefield,  but with the help of two rats ‘they could finish it in two hours.

  The rats and ~he deminers saved thousands of lives,  “The rats did this job much better than we expected. So far they have helped to make almost 2,000,000㎡ of land safe. They are heroes,” said Bart Weeqens, the head of the APOPO.

1. The APOPO trained the rats to search for     .

A. children    B. animals      C. mines     D. bananas

2. While training the rats, the trainers have to be

A. patient     B. clever        C. brave         D. serious

3. How long did the training last?

A. Two hours.    B. One day.    C. Four weeks.    D. Nine months.

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Each day about 200 people were killed or hurt by mines,

B.The APOPO started to train the rats in January 2004.

C. The trainers gave the rats food after they smelt out a mine.

D.The rats and the deminers saved thousands of lives.

根据所给句子括号内的要求改写句子。在答题卷相应的横线上写出合适的单词，每空只写一词。

1.I usually use the computer to search for information.  （对划线部分提问）

      ▲  do you usually use the computer   ▲  ？

2. Can you show me how I can get to the railway station?  （改成同义句）

    Can you show me   ▲     ▲   get to the railway station?

3.The job is very important. You must finish it on time.  （将两句合并成一个句子）

    It is   ▲   an important job   ▲   you must finish it on time.

4.They have been married for fifteen years.  （改成同义句）

    They   ▲     ▲  fifteen years ago.

5.We will donate all the money to Project Green Hope.  （改成被动语态）

    All the money will   ▲     ▲   to Project Green Hope.