I think these sunglasses make me look ______. What do you think?

I must return the two books to the library. I _____ them for 20 days.

Every student in our calls is looking forward to ______a good future.

Tim is weak in math, so he is trying _________ up with other students now.

The scientist_______ everyone ______ our environment .

His grandma has_______ for 5 years.

Do you like pop music? Most people  1__. One of the best bands on the music scene  2__ the New Ocean Waves. In the last twelve months, they’ve  3__ three major concerts and made a hit CD. They’re going to  4__ on CCTV next month. And then they’re going to go on a world tour in which they will perform in ten  5__ cities. Be sure not to  6___ them if they come to a city near you – if you can get tickets, that is.

“ 7___ years, we played other people’s songs”, says lead singer Zhu Wen. “ But now we play  8___ our own songs. We’ve had _9_  _ songs in the top ten, but we really hope to have a number one hit some day.” Good luck to the New Ocean Waves. They’re 10___ to a great start. And they’re really nice people. Did you know that they gave half of the money they made to a charity for homeless children?

8.A. most    Ｂ. less    C. mostly      D. little

I’m taking my family to other countries to have a trip. My wife and I and our two children are all going along. My elder brother will go with us, too. He has never been overseas and he is even more excited than the children. My father is so old that he’d like to stay at home and take care of the house.

We’re going by train to New York, and then take a ship to Europe. When we arrive in Europe, we’re going to some countries for sightseeing (观光). We’ll go to places either by train or by bus. We’re going to fly home.

It took us a long time to decide where to go, but I think we’ll have a very interesting trip. We’ll go to England, France and Italy. We also talked about how we would go to Europe. At first we wanted to fly because it would be faster and would save more time, But my brother likes to take a boat trip and the children like that, too.

1.How many people of the family will go to have a trip?

2.My father will not go on the trip because ____.

3.We’re coming back home by_____ .

4.In Europe we will _____.                                             

5.My brother and my children would like to _____.

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was a very clever boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and math. When he was 13, he started to play with computers. At that time, computers were large machines. Once he was very interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program with the old machine. Bill sold it for $4,200 when he was only 17.

In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University(哈佛大学). In his third school year, he left Harvard to work for a company called Microsoft. Bill began his company in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing(发展) the software for personalcomputers. They improved(改进) the software to make it easier for people to use computers.

1.Bill Gates grew up in _______.

2.What subjects did Bill like best at school?

3.Bill’s company worked hard at _______.

4.Bill started to play with computers ______.

5.The word “personal” means _______.

用所给词的适当形式填空  (每空2分，共10分)

1.There_________ (use) to be a lot of manatees.

2.So far, no man____ (travel) farther than the moon.

3.How long ______ you ______ (be) in Ningxia? 

4.If it________ (be)a nice day tomorrow, we can go out for a picnic.

5.The aggressive animals should _______ (put) in cages.