On 26th January, the biggest earthquake （地震） in India took the lives of 25, 000 people. In the morning, when everybody was enjoying holiday, earthquake began. It was about 7. 5 on the Ritcher scale. "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been pulled down, " said one of the villagers alive. "There is no water, no food and no one has come to help. "

Nobody died in Pakistan, a country next to India．The City of Lahore was lucky. In Lahore American School, where I was studying, all of the students were safe. They were on the field, so most children didn't feel anything. The earthquake was felt by the teachers that were on the second floor. However, though Mrs. Young was also on the second floor, she didn't feel anything. She didn't know what happened until a teacher told her about it. Those teachers who were on the other floors had different feelings. Mr. Emond, the maths teacher from Australia, said that when the earthquake started he thought there was something wrong with him, but then another teacher said that it was an earthquake．After those words Mr. Emond felt better. Mrs. Davis and Mr. Frost didn't feel anything either.

My mother didn't feel anything. She didn't even know that it was an earthquake till she saw a shaking （moving from side to side） light. My dad saw the computer shaking and then he looked out of the window and saw many people going out.

1．People use "Ritcher scale" to tell      .

A．where the earthquake takes place

B．when the earthquake takes place

C．how serious the earthquake is

D．how long the earthquake lasts

2．We learn that       from the sentence " There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. "

A．India is a large country

B．the Indian people had nothing after the earthquake

C．there is no tall building in India

D．the earthquake in India was serious

3．The City of Lahore is      .

A．in India        B．in America            C．in Pakistan       D．in Australia

4．Which is true?

A．I was with my parents when the earthquake happened．

B．The earthquake in the city of Lahore wasn't serious.

C．People in the City of Lahore were frightened when they knew it was an earthquake.

D．The teachers in Lahore American School were afraid of the earthquake.

When you cut your skin, you bleed（流血）. If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill and may die．Blood is very important. People have always known that．At one time, some people even drank blood to make them strong!

When doctors understand how blood goes around inside the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to people who need it. This is called " blood transfusion". The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the sick person.

But there are two problems. First, it does not always work. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood．There are four groups—O, A, B and AB．We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood to people of group AB．But they find that they must give A-group blood to A-group people and B-group blood to B-group people. I have O-group blood and the doctor told me that I could give blood to anyone else safely.

There is another problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood until someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood．At first they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold．Then they find how to keep it longer. In the end they find a way of keeping blood for a very long time.

We call a place where we keep money a "bank". We call a place where we keep blood a "blood bank". One day, when you grow up, you may decide to give blood to a "blood bank". In this way you may stop someone from dying. Or perhaps one day you may become ill. You may need blood．The "blood ban" will give it to you.

1．From the passage, we learn that sometimes people die when they have blood transfusions because they           .

A．are unhealthy people

B．have lost a lot of blood

C．are not given the right kind of blood

D．are AB-group people

2．Which of the following is true?

A．Doctors can give any kind of blood to the writer.

B．The writer can give blood to B-group people.

C．The writer has never had a blood transfusion.

D．The writer has the same kind of blood as his father.

3．People set up the "blood bank" so that they can      .

A．give the right kind of blood to the people who need it in time

B．keep different groups of blood as much as possible

C．make it easier to sell or buy blood

D．keep blood for more than twenty hundred years

4．From the last paragraph （段落） of the passage, we learn that      .

A．the writer thinks it's good to give blood to a "blood bank"

B．we may become ill if we give blood to a "blood bank"

C．many people died because they lost a lot of blood

D．blood is more important than money

5．The writer doesn't talk about       in the passage.

A．how important blood is to us

B．the four groups of blood

C．where the blood bank is

D．what "blood transfusion" is

"I don't like my parents. They always tell me I should do this, and should not do that. It sometimes makes me angry," said Zhang Hua, a middle school student in Guangzhou．Do you have the same problem? Perhaps your parents had the same problem when they were your age long ago. Why does it seem that some parents are not so friendly in their children's eyes?

One of the biggest things is when someone becomes a parent, he/she likes worrying things. They worry about everything about you, from the time you were born. They do a lot for you, though something would make you angry, because they care about you and worry about you. They worry about your choice of friends, the food you eat, your work at school, how much sleep you get, etc．All these things are part of your life. They want you to grow up healthily and happily.

So how can you make things easier on yourself? It's easier than you think. Just make sure your parents know what you're doing. Get them to know your friends. Phone if you stay somewhere else so that your parents don't call every hospital in the phone book looking for your body. Say sorry to them when you make mistakes. Take responsibility（责任） for what you have done. Talk about your ideas with them. They may talk about theirs with you.

Most of all, try to think about why your parents do this or do that. They are still practising being parents and need help you can give them. Someday, when you become a parent, they may be able to help you how to get on with your children.

1．The writer thinks we should       if we go back home later than usual.

A．tell our friends

B．tell the teacher

C．say sorry to our parents

D．make a telephone call to our parents

2．The writer thinks        .

A．it's wrong of parents to worry about their children too much

B．some parents are unfriendly, which makes their children angry

C．children should do everything as their parents say

D． parents love their children very much and the children should understand them

3．Which is the best title（标题） for the passage?

A．Parents' Responsibility

B．How to get on with parents?

C．Zhang Hua's Problem

D．What are parents worrying about?

用所给的单词的适当形式填空，使句子意思完整通顺，每条横线限填一个单词。

1．1 couldn't understand why he was so       （interest） in the invitation.

2．He did the work very       （ care）. Everybody said he had done a good job．

3．I met an old friend of       （I） in the Summer Palace last Sunday.

4．Many new       （potato） will grow from one potato planted in the ground．

5．We hope it will be       （sun）  tomorrow, for our picnic．

按要求变换句型，每格只准填写一个单词。

1．The Smiths usually have supper at half past six.

The Smiths usually have supper at half past six,                ?

2．You must throw the broken pottery away at once.

The broken pottery                                   at once.

3．Jim wants to go boating and his parents want to go boating too.

Jim wants to go boating, and                 his parents.

4．They enjoyed themselves at the garden party.

They                            at  the garden party.

5．The Indian old lady no longer lived there.

The Indian old lady       live there              .

6．The ice on the lake was so thin that people couldn't skate on it.

The ice on the lake was not       enough       people                         .

在下面对话的空格内填上一个适当的词，使对话意思完整，语句正确。

 （A）

A：Mum, I shall not have lunch at home today.

B：Why not, Linda?

A：I want to go to the pet（宠物） shops at noon with my classmates. Most of the students in our class have their own pets. Mum, as you know, I 1    got a pet yet.

B：What 2    of pet do you want to have?

A：A dog 3    a cat. I haven't decided yet.

B：You'd better not keep a dog in our flat. It would make much noise．And a dog has to go out every day, and there isn't a 4    near our building．And the dog food is expensive.

A：Then I'll have a cat．Cats are cheaper than dogs, and they are quiet, too.

B：Yes, cats are easier to5    

（B）

A：Huang Hai, why do you look so tired and worried today?

B：I got up very early this morning as my family has moved to a new building. The new flat（套间） is much 6   than the old one.

A：Congratulations!  You've moved to a new flat!

B：Thanks．But it's about ten kilometres from my new house to the school. It takes me a longer time to go to school. The population of Guangzhou is 7    very fast, you see．But there is not enough space for us to build new buildings in the city centre. Most of the new buildings have to be built in the places 8  away from the city centre.

A：I quite 9  with you．And people spend more money and more time on their way to work.

B：What's more, the traffic will be heavier and the air will be 10   because there are more and more buses and cars. So the population problem may be one of the serious problems of the world today.

（C）

A：Huang Xumei, I'm  glad you can come  for our Thanksgiving（感恩节） dinner.

B：Thanks for  11    me, Helen. Why do you call it dinner when we are eating at noon?

A：Because it's a big  12  . We call it dinner when we have a lot to eat.

B：Is that a chicken? It's so big!

A：No, it's a turkey（火鸡）. It's 13    bigger than a chicken.

B：Why do Americans and Canadians celebrate （庆祝）Thanksgiving?

A：It's  14   your  Mid-autumn Festival.  In China, families get together and enjoy looking at the bright, round 15   In America and Canada, families get together to celebrate the harvest（收获）.

B：So we each have an autumn festival. Something is the same in China, America and Canada．

根据短文内容填入适当的单词，使短文的意思完整，每格限填写一个英语单词，要求开头第一个字母与所给的字母相同。在填写答案时，单词开头的第一个字母要写出来。

Dear Tom,

Are you surprised to hear from me? I have not heard from you s   1   the beginning of the summer h   2  . How are you getting on with your s 3    ? How are your parents? Is your brother Bill b 4     f 5   Canada yet?

My stamp collection （集邮） is g 6   bigger and bigger. I have collected stamps of more than forty d 7   countries. In my stamp books, I usually put the stamps from each country together. I have got a pen-friend from Britain. She gave me some B 8  stamps. My American teacher has given me some beautiful American and Canadian stamps. I'm glad to know you are going to give me some foreign stamps, but I still have not r 9   the stamps of Nepal which you said to p 10   me. Have you sent them off yet?

Please write to me soon.

Yours,

Zhou Wen

I really like _____ book you lent me yesterday．

A．a          B．an           C．the           D．不填

Let’s play table tennis _____ Tuesday morning, shall we?

A．on          B．in          C．to          D．at

Is there any difference between your idea and _____?

A．he          B．his          C．she           D．her