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　　My name is Jim White. I live in America. I had a very  1 experience on Sunday. I saw a UFO in the daytime.   2 this spring, I went outside with my friend Bill  3 lived close to me. We were walking to a hill  4 I saw a large bright light dancing in the sky. I called Jim and asked him to look up. He kept  5 , “What is that?” “A UFO!” I shouted excitedly. I  6 it was round and red in the center.

　　After we looked at  7 for a moment, we found it seemed that it had wings, but it was still round. Bill would not believe me when I told him it  8 be a UFO. We shouted  9 it and we wished that it would land. We wanted to know  10 there was an alien in it. But soon it disappeared. I guessed we scared it off.

　　Do you believe me? It’s a true story.

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You may think there is nothing but sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the desert we can   76   stones. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the   77   , but it is not   78  for most plants.

　　The animals are   79  to the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat the meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use their skins to    80  shoes, water bags and even tents(帐篷). They use the camels(骆驼) for   81  things.

The people of the desert have to keep    82  from places to place. They must always look for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is mo more food for their animals, they take down their tents, put them on the camels and move to    83  place. The desert people are very   84 . No man in the desert would ever refuse to help the people in   85  and give them food and water

Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home; the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

　　One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.

　　But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished(惩罚), so he drank the poison to kill himself.

1.In the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much.

    A. the rich man 　　B. the servant 　　C. both A and B 　　D. neither A and B

2.The rich man knew that it was _______ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

A. the cat 　　 　　B. himself 　　　    C. nobody 　　　　D. the servant

3.The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because_______.

A. there was in face poison in the bottles

B. he did not want the servant to drink his wine

C. he wanted to kill the cat

D. he wanted to kill the servant

4.In fact, _______ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

A. the servant   B. cat   C. the rich man   D. nobody

5.From the story, we know that the servant is very _______.

A. lazy   B. bad   C. clever   D. kind

— Have you ever 　　　 the film before?

— Yes. I think it’s really wonderful and I enjoy it.

A. see         B. seen        C. seeing     

2.26-meter-tall Yao Ming made his NBA debut (初次登台) on October 23, 2002 and got 6 points for the Houston Rockets in the game. The next day, he got 13 points (得分)in another game.

　　Most people think that Yao Ming is a born basketball player. But Yao said, “When you watch it on TV, it looks very easy. But when you are playing in the NBA, it is really not so easy.” He said that joining the Houston Rockets was a new start and a new challenge. “I hope that through very hard work I can make everyone happy and help the Rockets win more games,” he said.

　　Yao Ming speaks some English. Both he and his teammates can undersand each other. They don't think there is a language problem. While Yao Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yan Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yan Ming will bring new energy (活力) to the Rockets. The team has started having lessons to learn more about China, and many people who work for the Rockets have learned to speak some Chinese.

1.Yao Ming got 13 points on October _____, 2002.

2.Yao Ming said that _____.

3.The people of Houston hope Yao Ming will ______,

4.From the passage we can know that Yao Ming ________.

5.The passage is probably ______.