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阅读下面短文，根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确的涂“T”，错误的涂“F”。

　　If you turn on the radio, you may hear “Most of North and South China will have a cold wet day tomorrow.” Or if you read a newspaper, you may read things like “In the Northeast of Sichuan, it will be fine.” Or if you watch TV, you may see and hear “Beijing will be rainy. The temperature will be 2 to 9.” Today we can know the weather beforehand. We can listen to or watch or read the weather report.

　　In the past, some people atched their cat to predict(预测) the weather. They thought when a cat washed its face, it was going to rain. When a cat put its paws(爪子) in front of it, they thought bad weather was coming. When they saw a cat eating grass, they would say “Oh, there's going to be a heavy rain!” When a cat was restless(不安), they thought a big wind was coming.

1．We can listen to the weather report today.

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2．People in the past didn't have a way to predict the weather.

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3．People thought when a cat washed its face, there was going to be a big wind.

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4．People thought when a cat ate grass, there was going to be a heavy rain.

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5．Only the radio and newspaper can offer us the weather report today.

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Simon has read Amy's article about ORBIS in the school newsletter and has become very interested. He finds another article about the history of ORBIS. Read it with him.

　In the past, eye doctors and nurses in poor countries could not study outside their own countries because they could not afford to traveland pay for their school fees. Dr David Paton was a famous eyedoctor in America. He knew that more than 60 per cent of blind people are in poor countries. It is important to train eye doctors and nurses in these poor countries to cure their patients. So in the mid-1970s, he set up ORBIS.

　United Airlines donated a DC-8 plane to ORBIS. There was newmedical equipment inside the plane. It is not an ordinary hospital.It is a flying eye hospital. The plane started to fly to different poor countries in 1982. The eye doctors and nurses on the plane taught the local doctors new skills and knowledge.They also did operations together to cure patients with eye problems in poor countries.

　In 1992, three generous people donated more money to ORBlS. With their donations, ORBIS bought a new plane, DC-1O. The inside of the plane is twice the size of DC-8. Its first trip was to go to Beijing,China in 1994.

　A lot of people suffer from blindness. The ORBIS doctors found that 80per cent of blindness in poor countries can be cured or prevented. So it also carries out special programmes to teach people how to preventeye problems.

　To blind people, ORBIS brings new hope and light. Over the past 30 years, ORBIS has successfully helped 130,000 people around the world. TO those who can see, ORBIS is something we can be proud of .

Simon wants to write a report about ORBIS. He is checking his notes before writing his report. Write a T if the sentence is true. Write an F if it is false.

(1) ORBIS often files to poor countries.　________

(2) Dr Paton set up ORBIS.　　　　　　　　________

(3) ORBIS is an ordinary hospital.　　　________

(4) ORBIS only gives out medicine. It does not do operations ________

(5) DC-10's first trip was to Shanghai.　________

(6) Blindness cannot be prevented.　________

(7) ORBIS also has programmes to help prevent eye problems.________

完形填空（10分）阅读下列短文，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Water, it’s a problem for the whole world. A bottle (瓶) of water may not seem like much to us,  1  it can help the people who live in drought-hit (遭受旱灾的) areas in China.
　　In the past few months, many places in southwest China have 2     a serious drought. There has been very little  3 since last autumn. More than 20 million people are 4   trouble finding safe drinking water.
　　After learning about the drought, many people around the country helped by  5   away water, money and other resources (资源) to the people there.
　　Last week, the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League in China called on (号召) each student to give one bottle of water to the drought-hit area. In Xi’an, 900 students bought over 1000 bottles of water 6     their pocket money. They also wrote their  7   on the bottles. “I hope you get more rain there. I hope you are happy.”
　　A bottle of water isn’t much, but thousands of bottles will be very  8  . The serious drought has also made students  9  the importance of saving water. One student said, “I have decided to take a shower twice a week  10   every day to save water.”