7、I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “Son, remember that being slow but steady wins the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”

    He opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-meter race, I should wish the Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

    I was shocked．“But the tortoise didn’t wish the hare would fall asleep!”

“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “ Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted, “ He won the race by perseverance(毅力), by pushing on steadily.”

    Sonny thought for a while. “That’s a lie,” he said, “ He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, he’d never have won the race! That’s for sure.”

    I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be.

1．Billy, Tony and Sandy must be __________.

      A．boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father

      B．boys Sonny had run races with before

      C．boys Sonny had never raced with before

      D．boys Sonny did not expect to race with again

2．According to the passage, who do you think learned a lesson?

      A．The tortoise.      B．The hare.           C．Sonny.               D．Sonny’s father.

3．The writer argued with his son because _________.

      A．he liked tortoise while his son liked hares

      B．they disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid

    C．he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t

    D．he tried to teach his son the moral lesson of the story but the son rejected (拒绝) it

6、If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one knows what time itself is. We cannot see it. We cannot touch it. We cannot hear it. We know it only by the way we mark its passing.

For all our success in measuring the smallest parts of time, time remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.

One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement, because time and movement cannot be separated.

A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes. For time and change are linked. We know that time has passed when something changes.

In the real world—the world with time—changes never stop. Some changes happen only once in a while, like an eclipse(月蚀) of the moon. Others happen repeatedly, like the rising and setting of the sun. Humans always have noted natural events that repeat themselves. When people began to count such events, they began to measure time.

Humans have used many devices to measure time. The sundial was one of the earliest and simplest.

A sundial measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day. It has a stick or other object that rises above a flat surface. The stick, blocking sunlight, creates a shadow. As the sun moves, so does the shadow of the stick across the flat surface. Marks on the surface show the passing of hours, and perhaps, minutes.

The sundial works only when the sun is shining. So, other ways were invented to measure the passing of time.

One device is the hourglass. It uses a thin stream of falling sand to measure time. By the eighteenth century, people had developed mechanical(机械的) clocks and watches. And today, many of our clocks and watches are electronic.

1．What makes it possible for humans to measure time?

      A．The sundial was invented.                   B．Some natural events take place regularly.

      C．The sun rises and sets every day.         D．The hourglass came into being.

2．We can learn from the passage that _______________.

      A．since we can’t feel it, we have no way to deal with time

      B．the existence of time depends on the changes of the world

      C．when the sundial was invented, people had no worry to count time

      D．electronic watches make it possible to measure time without any fault

3．Which of the following statements about the sundial is wrong?

      A．It doesn’t work well when it is cloudy.

      B．It measures the movement of the sun across the sky each day.

      C．It can only show the passing hours when the sun is shining.

      D．It was one of the earliest and simplest devices to measure time.

4．What can be the best title of the passage?

      A．Sundial, an Amazing Device                  B．The mystery of Time

      C．Value Your Time                                  D．Incredible Changes

5、Su Hua is studying at Cambridge, UK. She has bought a bicycle and is worried about security (安全). Her friend, Kate, found this article and sent it to her.

1．Which part of the text gives you information on how to lock up your bicycle when you leave it?

     A．Locks.                 B．Marking.             C．Registration.         D．Basic Security.

2．The underlined phrase “act as a deterrent to a thief” means ______.

     A．help you recognize your bike

     B．help the police find your bicycle

     C．stop someone stealing your bicycle

     D．stop you worrying about your bike

3．The article advises you to keep a record of your bicycle _______.

     A．in the bike shop and your computer

     B．in the police station and a security company

     C．in a security company and your university

     D．by yourself and in a security company

4．The main purpose of this article is _________.

     A．to tell you what to do if your bicycle is stolen

     B．to suggest ways of keeping your bicycle safe

     C．to give you advice on where to buy a good lock

     D．to say why you shouldn’t keep your bicycle in a quiet place

4、根据下列句子及所给的首字母或汉语注解，写出空缺处单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

1．What will happen to you if you don’t eat a balanced d_________?

2．I still felt s_________ nervous when I was doing the speech although I practiced a lot.

3．The plane c_________, killing the 200 people aboard.

4．The boat sank in a v_________ storm at sea.

5．According to a widely accepted t_________, the universe began with a “Big Bang”.

6．Don’t do that to him any more. He has his own religious ________ (信仰).

7．It is an _________ (印象深刻的) scene. 

8．There are clouds ___________ (漂浮) in the sky, which makes it very beautiful.

9．We need to work in pleasant _________(气氛).

10．Have you _________(咨询)your lawyer about this?

3、根据下列句子及所给的汉语注解，写出空缺处所需词组的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

1．If you put your heart into your work, you can succeed ______  ______(最终).

2．We saw two boys flying a kite______  ______  ______(在远处). 

3．Has he ______  ______ (说明) the fact that the money was found in his house?

4．The street lights come on at dusk and go off ______  ______(在黎明).  

5．What can I do to ______ her trust ______(赢回)? 

2、找出并改正错误，每句只有一处错误。此题要求改正所给句子中的错误，按下列情况改正：

该句多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉，在该句右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。该句缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该句右边横线上写出该加的词。该句错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该句右边横线上写出改正后的词。?

1．Leaving the moon’s gravity was not as painfully as leaving the earth’s.    _______

2．Wang Peng sat in his empty restaurant felt very frustrated.              _______

3．He brought up by his grandparents in a small village.                  _______

4．Whether life will continue on the earth for millions of years to come will depend on if the global warming problem can be solved.                                _______

5．My suggestion was that we changed the date for the meeting.            _______

1、4月19日，星期六，你们参观了一家农场，请根据以下内容写一篇120词左右的日记。要点如下：

1．农场位于学校东面20公里处。清晨在校门口集合，然后乘校车前往农场。

2．农场里空气新鲜、景色怡人，可以听到鸟儿美丽的歌声；农场里的庄稼、蔬菜长势良好。

3．中午在草地上野餐，之后组织活动（唱歌、跳舞、讲故事等），一直玩到很晚，然后与农场工人告别返校。

4．参观农场的某些感受。

注意：文章的开头已给出，但不计入总词数。文章可适当增加细节。

April 19 Saturday                         Fine

    Today we paid a visit to a farm.