阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Many children act in TV shows. They work several hours every day, _____ they can't go to regular _____. How do they get their schooling?
In Hollywood, about forty ______ give lessons for the children. Their work is very ______. They make sure that the child ______ many different subjects. They make sure, ______, that the child gets enough _____ and play.
Children in Hollywood must attend classes twenty _______ each week. If not, they can't _______ in TV shows any longer.
TV children are usually ______ pupils, and most of their teachers ______ this kind of work. They give the pupils ______ in many interesting _______. Sometimes the “classroom” is a Mississippi _____. Sometimes it is the inside of a spaceship. Often the pupils become ______ stars.

小题1:	A．so B．for C．but D．because

小题2:	A．cinemas B．factory C．school D．farm

小题3:	A．workers B．teachers C．doctors D．players

小题4:	A．important B．nice C．interesting D．good

小题5:	A．learns B．knows C．forgets D．loves

小题6:	A．still B．yet C．too D．already

小题7:	A．money B．rest C．study D．practice

小题8:	A．days B．months C．weeks D．hours

小题9:	A．sit B．study C．work D．teach

小题10:

A．bad B．good C．busy D．lonely

小题11:

A．like B．hate C．follow D．think

小题12:

A．books B．pens C．lessons D．pencils

小题13:

A．places B．rooms C．markets D．parks

小题14:

A．bus B．train C．car D．boat

小题15:

A．bright B．healthy C．famous D．lucky

Recently, a reader asked me about the dangers that pets can face around the house. So, I visited my local animal       last weekend and got some advice to share about how we can make our homes       for our pets.
When I arrived, several pets and their     were in the waiting room. Mr. Smith, with a cat, chatted with me. "My cat will be       for an uncomfortable stomach in a minute," he said. "My children gave       a bowl of milk. However, if she is given milk, she will get a stomachache.”
Just then, the vet (兽医) walked over to us. “Yes, Mr. Smith is      . Only a few people know this, but milk mustn't be fed to cats     some cats can't take it in easily," the vet said. "Other human foods are bad for pets   . For example, if a dog eats chocolate, it will become    ."
I asked the vet what other       there are for pets around the house. "Well,” she replied, “we should not     small things, such as batteries, lying around as they can be eaten by pets. Last month, a small cat was brought     because it had eaten a button which was on the floor without being noticed. "
Before I left, the vet    me some more important advice to share with you:
You should keep all medicines and cleaning products away from pets. Also, pets, such as cats and dogs, sometimes will       their hair if they are unwell, If your pet looks unwell or is acting unusual, you should      your vet immediately. Follow the advice and you can keep your pets safe.

小题1:	A．school B．hospital C．market D．museum

小题2:	A．warm B．safe C．clean D．beautiful

小题3:	A．owners B．visitors C．teachers D．actors

小题4:	A．paid B．chosen C．treated D．returned

小题5:	A．it. B．me C．him D．her

小题6:	A．friendly B．healthy C．good D．right

小题7:	A．until B．though C．while D．because

小题8:	A．as well B．so far C．as usual D．just now

小题9:	A．brown B．sick C．smart D．comfortable

小题10:

A．secrets B．changes C．dangers D．mistakes

小题11:

A．buy B．use C．leave D．collect

小题12:

A．in B．off C．on D．down

小题13:

A．offered B．posted C．wasted D．accepted

小题14:

A．colour B．keep C．lose D．sell

小题15:

A．point to B．ring up C．hear from D．look after

My friend John has got a restaurant in a big city. It is near a supermarket. He gets ten robots for the restaurant. Each robot costs (价钱为) 20,000 yuan. The restaurant is not big, but very popular. Now more and more people come here for dinner.
The robots have different jobs in the restaurant. Two robots cook different kinds of food; one washes the dishes; one cleans the floor and the others give food to the guests (客人).
Although robots do most of the jobs in the restaurant, John is still very busy. He must do many things to keep the robots working well. Luckily, John is good at studying robots and he knows robots very well. I think in the future, there will be a lot of robot themed restaurants (机器人主题餐厅) around the world. 
小题1:How many robots give food to the guests in the restaurant?

A．Three.	B．Four.
C．Five.	D．Six.

小题2:What is John good at?

A．Playing games.	B．Studying robots.
C．Cooking food.	D．Making robots.

小题3:From the passage we can learn ________.

A．John’s restaurant is in a small city

B．John is always free because of the robots

C．the robots cost John 200,000 yuan

D．there are two robots sweeping the floor in the restaurant

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The restaurant is big and clean.

B．It is expensive to eat in the restaurant.

C．There are three robot cooks (厨师) in the restaurant.

D．The restaurant is popular in John’s city.

Once there was a poor old woman. She lived by herself in a little house in a village. She didn’t have m_小题1:___ money but she was very kind.
One day a young man named Bill came to her d__小题2:__. He was very thin. He was very hungry and a__小题3:___ the old woman for help. The old woman said, “Come in and have dinner with me, but my dinner is only some potatoes.” They had d__小题4:__together. After dinner, the old woman told Bill to t _小题5:__ some potatoes with him. He thanked her and left.
Ten years later, Bill came b__小题6:_____ to the old woman’s door again and gave her a bag of m__小题7:____. She was surprised. Bill said, “Ten years ago you gave me some p_小题8:_____. I grew some potato plants. From those plants, I grew some more plants. Now I’m a r__小题9:__ farmer. But I never forget how k__小题10:__ you were to me.”

Skin Diving     Interesting & Useful
Skin-diving, a new sport today, takes you into a wonderful new world! It is like a visit to the moon!
When under water, it is easy for you to climb big rocks because you are no longer heavy, much lighter than on land!
Here, under water, everything is green and blue. During the day, there is plenty of light. When fish swim nearby, you can catch them with your hands!
With a tank of air on your back, you can stay in deep water for a long time, but you must be careful when you dive in deep water.
To catch fish is one of the most interesting parts of the sports. Besides, there’re more uses for skin diving. You can clean and repair ships without taking them out of water. You can get many things from the deep sea.
小题1: The underlined sentence “takes you into a wonderful new world” in the first paragraph means ____________.

A．the moon is a wonderful place to visit.

B．climbing big rocks under water is wonderful.

C．skin-diving is a wonderful way for traveling.

D．you can see many things you’ve never seen and enjoy yourself.

小题2:With a tank of air on your back, you can _______.

A．swim like a fish	B．have more fun
C．go deeper under water and stay longer	D．catch fish more easily

小题3:What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Skin diving is a new sport today.

B．Skin diving is interesting as well as useful.

C．How to catch fish.

D．What you can see under water.

小题4:We can probably find this article in a ________.

A．newspaper

B．text book

C．sport magazine

D．guidebook

小题5:Which of the following is Not True about skin-diving according to the passage?

A．You feel lighter when you go under water.

B．You can clean and fix ships without taking them out of water at skin diving.

C．There’s enough light under water all the time.

D．You can see fish and catch them at skin-diving.

Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap（捕蝇草）.
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.
Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen（氮）.Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!
小题1:The Venus flytrap is a kind of       .

A．plant

B．animal

C．food

D．meat

小题2:The Venus flytrap grows in        .

A．most parts of the world	B．some parts of Africa
C．dry parts of the United States	D．wet parts of England

小题3:From the passage, we learn that        .

A．all plants can eat people	B．all plants can eat animals
C．some plants can eat people	D．some plants can eat animals

小题4:he underlined word “presses” probably means       in Chinese.

A．挤压

B．关上

C．打开

D．松开

小题5:Some plants eat animal meat because __________.

A．plants are dangerous to animals

B．animals are dangerous to plants

C．plants want to get what they need from animal meat

D．plants want to protect themselves against animals

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。
Great scientists before us didn’t get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the way. Edison didn’t even finish primary school. But they were all so successful. They invented so many things for mankind. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not taught at school. They would ask many questions as they read. They did thousands of experiments. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. Above all, they knew how to use their brain.
小题1:People go to school to _________.

A．learn several subjects	B．make a living
C．get an education	D．learn from teachers

小题2:According to the passage, the most important thing a teacher should do is _________.

A．to teacher his students everything he knows

B．to teach the students how to think

C．to know everything they want to know

D．to teach the students how to work out a math problem

小题3:To work out a math problem, you need to know _________.

A．only a certain formula	B．a certain fact
C．some facts	D．the way to solve it

小题4:Why were many scientists so successful?

A．They received good education.

B．They were very clever.

C．They knew how to learn.

D．They learned lots of facts and formulas.

小题5:How did great scientists study?

A．They read a lot of books and asked many questions while reading.

B．They did thousands of experiments.

C．They always worked hard and never wasted time.

D．All of the above.

The Lunar Calendar（阴历）
Modern Chinese use the solar calendar（阳历）as English people do . But at the same time , they use their own lunar calendar . Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig . This list lasts for 12 years and then starts again .
Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon . And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month . The New Year always starts between January 21 and February 20 . On the last day of the lunar year , there is a big family dinner . All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal , even of they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents . Old quarrels are forgotten , and everybody is happy . After the dinner , the children keep awake to welcome the New Year .
The New Year celebrations last for 15 days , from the new moon to the full moon . On the first day , children and unmarried people go to visit their elders .
小题1:If next year is the year of the dragon , what was the name of last year ?

A．It was the year of tiger .

B．It was the year of the hare .

C．It was the year of snake .

D．It was the year of the ox .

小题2:Suppose that next Chinese New Year’s Day is on 15th February , when will people have their big family dinner ?

A．On February 15	B．On February 16
C．On February 14	D．On February 17

小题3:The family usually have their big family dinner at the home of ________ .

A．the married son	B．the married daughter
C．the unmarried son	D．the parents

小题4:People celebrate the New Year ________ .

A．for 15 days

B．from the new moon to the full moon in the first month of the lunar year

C．from January 21 to February 20

D．both A and B

小题5:From this selection we know that each Chinese month is measured by _______ .

A．the sun’s revolutions（旋转）

B．the moon’s revolutions

C．the earth’s revolutions

D．both the earth’s and moon’s revolutions

Cycling—means riding a bike, is now popular among children from across the UK. Children like      to go to school or go traveling for a short journey. It can help     money in petrol(汽油) cost.
With petrol price rising(上涨), families in the UK are trying to       ways to make the cost less in petrol. So the parents encourage(鼓励) their     to ride bikes to school. They say     a child keep cycling to school all the year round, a family can save about ￡300 in petrol cost.
Also, cycling to school is good for children’s      . It can make them become healthier and    their studies at school. “   cycling to school every day, we become fitter, smarter and better learners，”a student called Tommy said confidently.
“It’s great to see more people cycling, and I     smile when I see a child on a bike. Many kids want to cycle,     we should make it easy and safe for them to get around by bike and keep healthy，”another student, Mark said.

小题1:	A．running B．riding C．driving D．walking

小题2:	A．save B．raise C．spend D．make

小题3:	A．think B．care for C．look after D．look for

小题4:	A．children B．friends C．families D．neighbors

小题5:	A．whether B．or C．what D．if

小题6:	A．health B．mind C．mood D．feeling

小题7:	A．improve B．change C．affect D．solve

小题8:	A．In B．By C．For D．With

小题9:	A．only B．never C．seldom D．always

小题10:

A．and B．but C．so D．or

Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk that looks just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a knife.

It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house – even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of vegetable.
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation, a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. The leaves grow. In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast – sometimes as much as the length of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers come out, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start turning up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down! Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. Bananas are picked long before this – when they’re hard and green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling. If bananas are picked when they are ripe (成熟的), they will spoil on the way.
小题1:What’s the weather like in places where bananas grow?

A．Dry and cold

B．Cold and wet

C．Wet and hot

D．Hot and dry

小题2:The fruit of banana plants come from________.

A．a stalk

B．a tree

C．a seed

D． a root

小题3:Bananas are picked long before they are _____________.

A．green

B．ripe

C．hard

D．red

小题4:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．All bananas are eaten as fruit.

B．Some banana plants grow taller than a house.

C．Bananas get ripe on their way to the store.

D．It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked.