A Kentucky（肯塔基）family took a vacation to New York City. One day，the father took his son into a rather large building. They were surprised at everything they saw—especially（特别地）the elevator（电梯）at one end of the building.

The boy asked，“What’s this，Pa?”

The father answered，“Son，I have never seen anything like this in my life. I don’t know what it is!”

While the boy and his father were watching in surprise，an old lady walked slowly to the moving walls and pressed（按）a button. The walls opened and the lady walked into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small lights above the walls light up. They went on watching the lights up in the opposite direction. The walls opened again，and a beautiful young lady stepped out.

The amazed（惊愕的）father quickly turned to his son and said，“Go，get your Mom here.”

1. Where did the family go?

_________________________________________________

2. Did the father see the elevator before?

__________________________________________________

3. How many people appeared in the passage?

__________________________________________________

4. Were the old lady and the young lady the same woman?

__________________________________________________

5.Why did the father want his son to get his wife there?

__________________________________________________

根据句意和首字母提示，完成下列句子 （10分）。

1.I         (注意到) the man leaving the house just now.

2.My grandmother raises some ____________ (兔子) at home.

3.There will be a strong ___________ (东北方) wind tomorrow.

4.Try to ___________ (记住) eight or ten words a day.

5.Tom likes eating          (三明治).

6.He usually goes to work by bus.But sometimes he r         a bicycle.

7.Don’t read the story. It is a little b         .      

8.She is afraid of walking t          the forest at night.

9.The box is too h_________. Can you help me to carry it?

10.There are many kinds of shoes. Which pair will you c_________?

Don’t read________ the sun, it’s bad________ your eyes.

1. A.
   under; for
2. B.
   in; for
3. C.
   for; in
4. D.
   at; in

Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.

In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of the city to a dump(垃圾站). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs(澡盆) and other places.

To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.

In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus(腐殖土), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.

1.You can most probably read the passage in _______.

A. a history book       B. a TV guide      

C. a science book       D. a telephone book

2.The underlined word “sewage” in the passage means_______.

A. 排污             B. 染色         C. 洗涤             D. 吸尘

3.According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again_______.

A. to feed animals     

B. to feed plants  

C. to build a house   

D. to make machines

4.How should we take care of a used metal box according to the passage?

A. By burning it off.                      

B. By putting it in water.

C. By throwing it away.                

D. By reusing and recycling it.

Mr. Read works in an office. He is very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he’s always tired and wants to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after supper. She doesn’t stop talking until she 1.________________________, but it’s usually too late and Mr. Read has to get up in time in the morning.

One day the man felt terrible and couldn’t go to work. He decided to 2. ____________________. Mrs. Read went with him. The doctor wrote out a prescription and said to Mrs. Read, “The bottle of medicine is for your husband and the pills are for you.”

“For me?’ the woman said in surprise. “I’m fine. I don’t need any medicine!”

“3. ______________________, madam,” said the doctor. “They are sleeping pills. Your husband will soon be all right if you take them.”