Ding-Dong！
“Jason, honey? Can you answer the door?”
“I am busy, mom！” Jason shouted back at his mother. He had spent three hours so far working to this point in the game. He couldn’t stop now.
Ding-Dong！Mom′s footsteps approached the front door.
“Jason, it’s your friend Todd.” Mom called from the doorway.
Todd, his best friend, stepped into the room. “ Jason！I need a partner for playing basketball. ”He sounded excited.
Jason snorted. “No way, Todd. I′m playing a game here.”
Jason gave his friend a dirty look, and his character in the game almost got killed while he looked away, “ I almost died because of you！”
Todd looked at Jason′s mother. Jason’s mother looked back at him. They both looked at Jason. “Why don′t you play basketball with your friend?” Jason’s mother suggested.
“Tomorrow, maybe…” There were more levels to beat tomorrow, though, Maybe he had played tomorrow. He’d have to see what mood he was in. He thought he heard footsteps walking away, but he was too busy beating the next level to care.
An hour later, Jason’s father came home. It was dinner time after his father washed up and sat down. Jason didn′t even hear his name being called to the table. He didn′t hear his father walk at behind him and ask him to turn the game off, either.
When the screen suddenly went black and his father’s angry face loomed in front of him, Jason finally heard. “No more game for a month.” Jason′s father shouted at him. “You don’t play basketball, you don′t come to dinner, and you don′t do your chores. We′ll make you do something else before you play any more.”
Jason nodded slowly. He knew better than to argue with his father, and when he thought about it, he had been playing quite a bit. It was fun, but he was letting down his friends, his family, and himself by paying too much.
He′d try harder in the future.
【小题1】What did Todd ask Jason to do?

A．Help him cook dinner	B．Beat more levels for him.
C．Repair the computer for him	D．play basketball with him.

【小题2】Why did Jason finally stop playing the game?

A．He won the game.	B．His mother got dinner ready.
C．His father turned off the computer.	D．He decided to play basketball outside.

【小题3】What did Jason learn in the end?

A．He thought that his father was too strict with him.

B．He found that playing computer games was quite interesting.

C．He realized it was an unhealthy habit to play games without dinner.

D．He couldn’t spend all day playing games, because he had other duties.

【小题4】Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

A．Inside the game	B．Games or Supper.
C．Jason′s Angry Father	D．Use of the Computer.

Ding-Dong!

“Jason, honey? Can you answer the door?”

"I am busy, mom!" Jason shouted back at his mother. He had spent three hours so far working to his point in the game. He couldn’t stop now.

Ding-Dong! Jason’s mother came to the front door.

"Jason, it’s your friend, Todd,” Mum called out. Todd, his best friend, stepped into the room. "Jason! I need a friend for playing basketball." He sounded excited.

Jason said angrily, “No way, Todd. I’m playing a game here.” Todd shook his head, “you can play later, let’s go.” Jason gave his friend a dirty look, and his character in the game almost got killed while he looked away. “I almost died because of you!” Todd looked at Jason's mother. Jason's mother looked back at him. They both looked at Jason. But he just played his game.

An hour later, Jason's father came home. It was dinner time after his father washed up and sat down. Jason didn't even hear his name being called to the table. He didn't hear his father walk up

behind him and ask him to turn the game off, either. When the screen suddenly went black and his father's angry face appeared in front of him, Jason finally heard. "No more game for a month." Jason's father shouted at him. "You don't play basketball, you don't come to dinner, and you don't do your housework. We'll make sure everything else gets done before you play any more.”

    Jason nodded slowly. He knew better than to quarrel with his father, and when he thought about it, he had been playing quite a bit. It was fun, but he was letting down (使失望) his friends, his family, and himself by playing too much.

    He'd try harder in the future.

1.What did Todd ask Jason to do?

A. Help him cook dinner.                     B. Beat more levels for him.

C. Repair the computer for him.                  D. Play basketball with him.

2.Why did Jason finally stop playing the game?

A. He won the game.

B. His mother got dinner ready.

C. His father turned off the computer.

D. He decided to play basketball outside.

3.What did Jason do in the end?

A. He thought his father was too strict.

B. He found playing games was quite interesting.

C. He realized it was an unhealthy habit to play computer games without dinner.

D. He couldn’t spend all day playing games, because he had other duties.

4.The best title of the passage is ______.

A. Inside the game                       B. Games or basketball 

C. Jason’s angry father                 D. Uses of the computer                    

 

 

1.You love peace and do not like to ___________ (争论) with others.

2.Blindness can be treated with modern ___________（医药）and skills.

3.It is ____________ (不可能) for her to finish the work in half an hour.

4.Orange can bring you ____________ (成功) and cheer you up when you are feeling sad.

5.The teacher asked the students to read as many ____________ (杂志) as they could during the reading week.

6. Blue is a calm and __________ (peace) color. It can make you feel relaxed.

7. I think the clever girl can work out the problem__________ (easy).

8.The two American scientists ___________ (work) in the computer company since they came to Nanjing

9.Look at the sign！We are not ________ to park cars here. (允许)

10.The Chinese _________ cares about the people in the drought-hit areas all the time. (政府)

11. What an _________ (愉快) journey we had yesterday!

12.Our Maths teacher spent 2 hours _________ the tough problems to us like this. (解释)

13. So far, five ________ of the boys in Tom’s class have visited the Slender West lake（twelve）

14.I’m __________ sorry to bring you so much trouble. (True)

15. Many students sent Mrs. Wang lots of beautiful flowers on her _________ birthday. (Forty)

 

Peter Qwen has been making wigs (假发)since the 1980s . He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies ,including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has designed the hair and makeup for the three Lord o f the Ring movies . He had just six weeks to design and make more than a hundred wigs, each one a different style, color, shape and length.

    The hair and makeup in a movie are just as important as the costumes or the sets. Over the years, Peter has made actors look older, younger, healthy and sick. For one movie he even made a female actor look like a man! "What people don't realize about wigs is that we are not always making people more beautiful," he says. "Often we are covering up beauty and making them look ordinary."

    All Peter's wigs are handmade using human hair, so they look as real as possible. This also makes them very expensive -between US $ 4,500 and US $12,500 each! He knows he's done a good job when people don't realize the star of the movie is wearing a wig. So he was pleased when one newspaper said that Nicole Kidman had dyed her hair dark brown for a movie. "It was a wig and no one knew that9" he said.

1.What's the best title for this article?

A. How Peter Qwen's wigs change people

B. Peter Qwen: A wigmaker to the stars

C. Peter Qwen: Making real and expensive wigs

D. Peter Qwen's wigs are important in a movie

2.What special feature about wigs does Peter mention?

A. They can make people more beautiful.

B. They can change people's hair styles.

C. They can cover up beauty and make people look ordinary.

D. They can make people look younger.

3.Why are Peter's wigs so expensive?

A. They are made in foreign countries.

B. Peter makes the best wigs.

C. They are only made for rich film makers.

D. They are handmade using human hair.

4.Which statement is NOT true about Peter?

A. Peter Owen has made wigs for lots of movies.

B. Designing and making the wigs for The Lord of the Rings was a huge job.

C. Peter can make actors look quite different from their real looks.

D. lf people know the star is wearing a wig, Peter will be happy.

 

Think stars don’t move? Think again! When you look at the sky at night, the stars may appear to stay in the same place. But stars are always on the move—they are just so far away that the movement is hard to see.
But some stars move in ways that appear to be strange to be real. In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found one of these space oddities(奇特). It was located on the outer edge of the Milky Way, the galaxy(星系) we live in. The star was speeding away like nothing he’d ever seen. “It seemed unbelievable. No star in the galaxy has a speed like that,” Brown remembers. “I thought, oh my goodness, I have something kind of special here.”
No one had ever seen a star like this one. What does a scientist do when the results don’t make sense?
Brown didn’t give up. Instead, he kept looking. And he kept finding more of these strange and speedy stars, called hypervelocity stars. Hyper means “above” and velocity has to do with speed. He and his team just found six more of these “above speed” stars, bringing to the total of 16. And, he says, he’s found even more, and is just waiting for the scientific community to confirm them.
【小题1】In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found___________.

A．a star was speeding away very fast.

B．a stars was moving away very slowly.

C．some stars were not real.

D．some stars were not in the Milky Way.

【小题2】Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Stars never move at all.

B．No star in the galaxy has a fast speed.

C．It’s hard to see the stars moving.

D．Brown has never seen something special.

【小题3】The underlined word “hypervelocity” in the last paragraph probably means”_____”.

A．匀速的

B．超速的

C．超重的

D．超常的

【小题4】The writer writes this passage to tell us____________.

A．something about an astronomer.

B．where the Milky Way is

C．something about the speedy stars.

D．how scientists do their research