Today Newtown is a clean place, but many years ago there were millions of rats there. The rats even attacked (攻击 ) the cats and dogs. Sometimes many of them tried to bite men or women at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.
The city office ordered every one to kill rats. However, most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats. The city office could do nothing with the citizens and could do nothing with the rats, either. Some time later, they had to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They at once began to kill rats. They got as many dead rats as they could. And some of them even stopped their own work to kill rats because they could get more pay. Every day a city official(官员 ) put all the dead rats together. He was very busy doing that, because sometimes a man brought hundreds of them in one day. Two weeks later, there were not so many rats in the city as before,  but people still brought many dead rats to the city office. The city officials felt surprised at this but at last they found out people were stealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to order his men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it. Soon there were no more rats and the city did not have to pay any more money for that.
小题1:The rats in Newtown were once ______

A．as big as cats	B．as dangerous as dogs
C．huge in size	D．run into cars there

小题2:When the city office first ordered the citizens to kill rats, most people ______.

A．had to pay for each dead rat

B．stole dead rats

C．were too lazy to kill rats

D．killed nearly all the rats very soon

小题3:A big hole was dug so that ______.

A．the rats could come out to attack people at night

B．people could take many rats

C．the people loved dead rats

D．people could not steal dead rats for money

What would you do if a stranger gave you some medicine and it would keep you slim or help you do well in exams? Would you take it?
Students at Shenzhen Luohu Foreign Language Middle School have learned to keep themselves safe by saying “no”. In fact, what those strangers want to give them are drugs (毒品) . Drugs are dangerous to your health!
“Because teens don't know much about drugs, they might want to try them,” said Zhang Dongsheng, the director of Shenzhen Drug Control Office.
Now, many schools arrange courses or organize some activities to help students know about drugs.
Liang, 16, was a good student before trying drugs. One day, some old friends told him it would be fun. After taking drugs only once, he found it very hard to stop. Liang began to spend all his time and money on drugs. Soon, he stopped going to school and started stealing. In the end, he was put in prison.
In China, taking drugs is becoming a big problem for teens. According to a survey, about one million people in China were using illegal drugs last year, and 72% of them were young people. Worse still, there are about10,000 drug users under 16 now.
Zhang has some good advice on staying clean. He said, “Drugs are dangerous. Never try them, even if you’re curious! It is the most important for you to keep safe and healthy.”
小题1:Teens wants to try drugs because _________ .

A．they are 18 years old

B．they aren't curious about drugs

C．they have enough money

D．they don't know about the harm of drugs

小题2:From Liang's story, we can know that it’s _________ to give up drugs even if one tries only once.

A．easy

B．hard

C．foolish

D．possible

小题3:According to a survey, about _______ young people in China were using illegal drugs last year.

A．1,000,000

B．100,000

C．10,000

D．720,000

小题4:What does the phrase “staying clean” here mean?

A．Being clean.	B．Keeping clothes clean.
C．Staying away from drugs.	D．Wearing clean clothes.

阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容完成表格中所缺信息，每空一词。
There was a big drought(干旱) in southwest China in May, 2010. Most places got less rain than usual in Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Chongqing. People do not have enough water to live. Crops(庄稼) die before the harvest(收获).
People from other places in China are giving help. Kids in different places give them water and money. Students at Yingcai Primary School in Haikou donate 2,512 bottles of water.
Li Jiahang is a 2nd grade student at Huang Cheng Gen Primary School in Beijing. “There are 47 students in my class. We give our pocket money. We hope we can help the kids to drink clean water and buy things they need.”
In China, there are 669 cities. But more than 400 cities are in great need of water. Water is important in our life. Everyone has the duty to save water in our everyday lives. I believe if everyone makes a little effort, we can make a big difference.

Title	1   Is in Great Need
Problems	* There is     2   rain than usual in southwest China.
	* There isn’t   3    water for people to live.
	* Crops     4   before harvest.
Actions	* People     5       6   China are giving help.
	* Students     7   them  water and money.
Lessons	* It’s    8   for us to save water in our    9   lives.
	* Everyone does his best, and we’ll make a big     10  .

June 5 is World Environment Day.This makes us pay more attention to our environment and the need to protect it.
When Wang Baoxuan,a Beijing high school boy,finishes his exercise books,he does not throw them away.He puts them in the big box in the corner of his classroom.Other students do so.Then the exercise books are sold to a paper-factory in Beijing.The paper is collected and used again by students and teachers in the school.At the same time,the money made from selling the paper goes towards schools in Inner Mongolia  for planting trees and grass.During spring time,the sandstorms often attack here.
Wang’s school is one of the schools in the capital that take part in the “green promise”environmental protection activity.So far,nearly 210,000 students have taken part in the activity,collecting more than 174 kilograms of waste paper.
“There are some environment problems in the city,such as sandstorms.We should do our duty and encourage others to do so as well.”Said Wang.
Vice-premier Zeng Peiyan has written a letter to the teachers and students to encourage them to go on taking part in the environmental protection.
小题1:What do Wang Baoxuan and his schoolmates do with the waste exercise books?

A．Throw them away

B．Collect and sell them

C．Cut them into pieces

D．Give them to the students in Inner Mongolia

小题2:What is the money from selling the paper used for?

A．Buying new exercise books	B．Helping poor students
C．Planting trees and grass	D．Being their pocket money

小题3:What can we infer(推断)from the third paragraph?

A．Many years later,students will have no exercise books to use.

B．Many years later,there will be no waste paper.

C．Many years later,the sandstorms will be weaker in Beijing.

D．Many years later,Beijing will be much dirtier.

阅读下列文段，完成表格。
Doing exercise can help people keep healthy. Do you often jog (慢跑)? Jogging became popular about twenty years ago and now it is a favorite way of keeping fit for lots of people. People of any age like to do it. Teenagers (青少年) can jog and people in their seventies or eighties can jog, too. They can jog anywhere. People jog around college campuses (校园), around houses, and in parks.
Jogging doesn't need any special (特别的) training. Do some warm-up exercises and then you are ready to start.
Jogging is good for health. It’s good for lungs and the heart. It is easy and convenient.

Sport	Jogging
History	Became popular (81)____________ years ago
Participant (参与者)	People of any (82)______________
Place	Anywhere, around college campuses, houses and in (83)____________
Adcantages (优点)	Good for (84)_________ and the heart, (85)___________ and convenient

We are all busy talking about using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?
Many people are ___36___ when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers ___37___ large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network ___38___ down, the whole network stopped. ___39___ a new network system（系统）had to be set up. It should be ___40___ to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, ___41___ could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on ___42___ all the time.
At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and ___43___ to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing”（浏览）the Internet more convenient.
Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. ___44___ e-mail is more and more popular among students. The Internet has now become one of ___45___ parts of people’s life.

小题1:	A．surprise B．surprising C．surprised D．surprises

小题2:	A．is B．are C．was D．were

小题3:	A．break B．breaks C．broke D．would break

小题4:	A．Because B．So C．But D．However

小题5:	A．good enough B．well enough C．enough good D．enough well

小题6:	A．information B．informations C．an information D．the informations

小题7:	A．work B．to work C．working D．worked

小题8:	A．easy B．easily C．more easily D．easier

小题9:	A．Send B．Sending C．To be sent D．Sent

小题10:

A．important B．more important C．most important D．the most important

To learn a foreign language well, you need to spend a lot of time on it. The ___46___ time you spend on the language, the faster you will learn. This does not ___47___ sitting in class looking out of the window, nor listening to other students who do not speak well. This means spending time enjoyably on the ___48___ you are learning.
Listen to the language you are learning on your MP3 player. Read ___49___ you are listening to. Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can mostly ___50___, or even partly understand. One hour of listening or reading is more effective（有效率）than many hours of class time. If you ___51___ listening and reading, you will improve yourself.
Build up your vocabulary lists, which you’ll need lots of. Start to notice words and how they come ___52___ as phrases. Learn these words and phrases ___53___ listening and reading. Read online, using online dictionaries, and make your own vocabulary lists. Do not ___54___ for someone else to show you the language, nor to tell you what to do, and you should discover the language by yourself, like a child growing up. Talk when you feel like it. ___55___ when you feel like. You are learning and improving. The language will become clearer in your mind. Just make sure you spend enough time on the language.

小题1:	A．worse B．less C．more D．farther

小题2:	A．mean B．point C．bring D．make

小题3:	A．song B．report C．news D．language

小题4:	A．how B．what C．where D．why

小题5:	A．hear B．write C．understand D．check

小题6:	A．finish B．stop C．remember D．keep

小题7:	A．out B．together C．around D．down

小题8:	A．through B．across C．between D．except

小题9:	A．look B．care C．wait D．use

小题10:

A．Speak B．Listen C．Read D．Write

Sales of laptop computers passed desktops in the U.S. for the first time ever this fall, according to market-research firm IDC. That's bad news for backs, necks and shoulders.
Laptops are bad for our body. When you work at a computer, the keyboard should be at elbow height and the monitor should be roughly at eye level, so you can sit well in a chair. But most users simply set their laptops on a desk or table. The keyboard is too high, which makes your arms reach up, your shoulders feel tired and your wrists bend down. The monitor is too low, which pulls your head and neck forward and down and your back may feel hurt.
That's OK if you use your laptop for a short time. But if you use one for hours without stopping – as do millions of college students, business travelers, telecommuters, video-gamers and growing numbers of office workers – your body may feel hurt. Ergonomics experts have warned about laptop problems for years. But people still like laptops better than the desktops. And they use laptops anywhere – in bed, on the floor – in all kinds of positions.
“How can a mouse or a keyboard hurt you?” says Thomas Caffrey, the founder of Myofactors LLC, “Wrong positions can be bad for your body. As time goes by, a wrong position can lead to pain in the neck, shoulders, back and arms, as well as headaches.”
小题1:When you work at a computer, the keyboard should be ________.

A．at elbow height	B．at eye height
C．on a desk	D．on a table

小题2:The writer asks us not to use the laptop ________.

A．for a short time	B．to play video games
C．for hours without stopping	D．to buy things on the Internet

小题3:From the passage, we know that laptop computers ________.

A．are not so popular as the desktops

B．are more popular than the desktops

C．are not bad for our body

D．have no mouse now

小题4:Using a laptop in a wrong position may make ________.

A．people’s sight lower	B．people have cancer
C．people’s arm longer	D．people feel pain in the body

小题5:According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A．When you use a laptop, you should put your monitor at eye height.

B．Laptop computers sold more than desktops this autumn.

C．To keep healthy, you should use laptop computers.

D．Business travelers often use the laptop computers for a long time.

The rapid growth of Smartphones and electronic tablets（平板电脑）is making the Internet favourite for Americans reading news, a report said.
News consumption online increased 17% last year from the year before. Television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience last year. For the first time, the number of people who get news online at least three times a week is larger than the number of people who get news from the newspapers. TV news has been the most popular since the 1960s. It has replaced the afternoon newspapers. But now the online news seems to be more popular than the TV news.
People are used to having the Internet available on phones or small tablets. In December, 2010, 41% of Americans said they got most of their news on the Internet, more than double the 17% who said that a year earlier, the report said. In January, 2011, 7% of Americans owned electronic tablets, nearly double what it was three months earlier. It was the fastest-growing new digital technology, ahead of mobile phones when they were introduced. The online ad income was expected to surpass（超过）print newspaper ad income for the first time in 2010.
The news business used to be the intermediary（中介）. You needed newspapers and TV stations to reach your customers. In this age of the computer, it’s the software developers that you need.
小题1:Americans like getting news from ________ best today.

A．TV news

B．the Internet

C．newspapers

D．radios

小题2:About ________ % of Americans got most of their news on the Internet in 2009.

A．7

B．17

C．24

D．51

小题3:Which of the following media has more readers?
① TV news        ② the Internet        ③ the afternoon newspapers

A．①>②>③

B．②>①>③

C．③>①>②

D．③>②>①

小题4:About 3.5% of Americans had electronic tablets in ________.

A．October, 2010

B．December, 2010

C．February, 2011

D．March, 2011

小题5:The news business depends on ________ today.

A．the reporters

B．the readers

C．the newspaper sellers

D．the software developers

Do you like drinking Coke? As a symbol of American culture, Coca-Cola is liked by many people, especially young people all around the world. But from now on, perhaps it will be hard for students in the US to get it on campus. A new agreement will end almost all sales of high-sugar fizzy drinks in US schools. The agreement allows only unsweetened juice, low-fat milk and water in primary and middle school vending machines（自动售货机）and cafeterias. Former American president Bill Clinton helped the American Heart Association and the beverage industry（饮料业） to come up with the agreement. He suffered from a weight problem and has had a heart operation since leaving the White House. He takes the agreement as “a bold step forward in the struggle to help 35 million young people lead healthier lives”.
Rising childhood obesity（肥胖）has become a big problem in America. A federal report noted that obesity has tripled among teenagers in the past 25 years. It called for new limits on the marketing of junk food to children. Soda is a particular target because of its caloric content and popularity among children.
Britain has already taken similar steps to fight obesity. A recent study shows that people in the UK are much healthier than the people in the US. However, it’s better late than never. Now American schools are trying to make new rules to guide the students to choose healthy drinks. American schools say goodbye to Coca-Cola.
小题1:What kind of beverage is NOT allowed to sell on campus?

A．High-sugar fizzy drinks.	B．Unsweetened juice.
C．Low-fat milk.	D．Water.

小题2:What does the underlined word “tripled” in the second paragraph mean?

A．Became as much.	B．Became twice as much.
C．Became three times as much.	D．Became four times as much.

小题3:What is the writer’s attitude（态度）towards limits on junk food?

A．Positive.

B．Neutral.

C．Negative.

D．Unclear.

小题4:Which of the following statements is WRONG?

A．Coca-Cola causes students’ obesity.

B．Coca-Cola makes people unhealthier.

C．Coca-Cola isn’t very popular in the world.

D．Coca-Cola is bad for our body.

小题5:Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Say “Goodbye” to Coca-Cola

B．The Junk Coca-Cola

C．Coca-Cola in China

D．Coca-Cola in the World