A. because  B. growing  C. by  D. found  E. who  F. on G. mother H. enjoyed  I. my  J. which  K. never  L. pleased

  If you had a chance to cook dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner<天堂的午餐> 1.      Liu Xiaoyu, a college student, and you will find a right answer.
Paradise Dinner is a six-minute video. It tells the story of a son 2.        makes a big dinner for his 3.      , but he can only send the dinner to paradise 4.      his mother has passed away.
“If you do not show your love to your mother right now, you might 5.        have the opportunity in the future, for your mother is 6.       older and older day by day-this is the main theme of 7.         video,” said liu.
Liu imagined the story of Paradise Dinner during his 2010 summer vacation. In fact, Liu was hardly 8.         with Paradise Dinner when he finished it. However, screening the video to his parents, he 9.        them moved to tears by his successful completion, which encouraged him to post the video onto the Internet later, and then entered it in the Beijing University Student Film Festival.
Many web users later said they greatly 10.        the video, and most of them said they cried right along with Liu’s parents.

 

A. because  B. growing  C. by  D. found  E. who  F. on G. mother H. enjoyed  I. my  J. which  K. never  L. pleased

   If you had a chance to cook dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner<天堂的午餐> 1._______ Liu Xiaoyu, a college student, and you will find a right answer.

Paradise Dinner is a six-minute video. It tells the story of a son 2. _______ makes a big dinner for his 3. _______, but he can only send the dinner to paradise 4. _______ his mother has passed away.

“If you do not show your love to your mother right now, you might 5. _______ have the opportunity in the future, for your mother is 6. _______ older and older day by day-this is the main theme of 7. _______ video,” said liu.

Liu imagined the story of Paradise Dinner during his 2010 summer vacation. In fact, Liu was hardly 8. _______ with Paradise Dinner when he finished it. However, screening the video to his parents, he 9. _______ them moved to tears by his successful completion, which encouraged him to post the video onto the Internet later, and then entered it in the Beijing University Student Film Festival.

Many web users later said they greatly 10. _______ the video, and most of them said they cried right along with Liu’s parents.[来源:学。科。网]

 

A student newspaper reports that most students go to sleep at 1:30 am. Even if that’s an overstatement (夸张), it’s close to the truth. Scientists say teens should sleep nine hours each night. But that’s hard. Some are even “pulling all-nighters” (开夜车). These students must hand in their homework the next day but they haven’t done it. In the morning they don’t look healthy and you can tell who’s been doing it. One of my classmates did a survey on the topic. She found that most kids pull all-nighters to finish homework, but some do it for other reasons, such as playing computer games!
Maybe our lack(缺乏) of sleep is because of laziness — I think I’m a rather lazy student — or maybe it’s because we have too much to do in American high schools. I usually go to bed around midnight. If I stayed up past 1:30 am, I wouldn’t get any work done. I’d be falling asleep at my computer. My classes begin at 7:30 am. I’m partly awake in my first class. By the second, I’m a little sleepy. By my third class, I’m sleepy. By midday I’m finally fully awake. But by 3:00 pm, I’m slowing down again. Yet I get more sleep than usual students.
Most American high schools seem to have a similar(相似的) problem with sleepy students. High school classes start at 7:30 am, so students have to get up one and a half hours before that to get ready and catch the bus. It’s believed that lack of sleep can be bad for both grades and health. Some schools are paying attention. Classes in those schools start at 8:30 am.
【小题1】What does the underlined sentence “it’s close to the truth” mean?

A．It doesn’t tell the truth.	B．It is quite true.
C．It is impossible.	D．I don’t think it’s right.

【小题2】Why do most of the teens have to stay up late?

A．They play computer games.	B．They watch videos late.
C．They have to do a lot of housework.	D．They have to do a lot of homework.

【小题3】When do students in most American high schools have to get up?

A．At 7:30 am.

B．At 6:00 am.

C．At 9:00 am.

D．At about 7:00 am.

【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the reading?

A．The writer usually stays up past 1:30 am.

B．The writer usually goes to bed around midnight.

C．The writer usually does a survey.

D．Many American students don’t get enough sleep, so they can have high grades.

【小题5】What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Something has to be done to solve the problem of students’ lack of sleep.

B．Many American high school students are sleepy in class.

C．Many kids have too much homework to do.

D．Students can’t play computer games.

A desert is a very dry land where there is hardly any rain. In the day, it can be so hot that you could fry an egg on the ground. But during the night it is sometimes so could that water would turn into ice.






Many desserts are covered in sand. But some have mountains, rocks, or lakes that have dried up in the heat. The Great American Dessert has cliffs(悬崖) that have been made into amazing and beautiful shapes by the wind. The Sahara Desert in Africa is mostly sand. The Australian Desert has red sand.
Sometimes it does not rain for a whole year in the desert. But there is water deep under the ground and some plants have roots that go very deep to find it. Other plants have roots that spread out(延伸) a long way so they can suck up the rain as soon as it falls.
One desert plant is the cactus, which has long, spreading roots. The cactus stores water inside its hard skin. This skin protects it from heat and cold.
Camels are a bit like cactus plants! They store water too—inside their bodies. They have special fur which protects them from the sun during the day and keeps them warm at night.
Some other animals live in deserts, too. They have to be very good at seeing and hearing because most of them only come out at night. This is why many desert animals have extra big eyes or ears.
A desert fox has bigger ears than a normal for. A gerbil has huge eye, so that it can see at night. It stays cool in the day by staying underground, like most desert animals.
Some people live in the desert but they always make their homes near an oasis. An oasis is where water comes from an underground river. Near an oasis, people can grow lots of plants and keep animals.
Life is hard in the desert, for people, animals and plants. But desert people like to live there.
【小题1】A desert is very dry because__________.

A．it is sandy	B．there is so little rain
C．the wind is strong	D．there is no water deep under the ground

【小题2】What does the underlined phrase"suck up"in paragraph 3 mean_________?

A．围堵

B．讨好

C．释放

D．吸收

【小题3】Some desert animals have extra big eyes or ears because__________.

A．the sunlight is too strong in the day	B．they need to see and hear well at night
C．it is very cold at nigh	D．they store water in them.

【小题4】Most desert animals stay cool in the day by_________.

A．storing water in side their bodies	B．drinking water as much as they can
C．staying underground	D．growing lots of plants

【小题5】Which of the following is true?

A．Desert people like to live in the desert though life is hard.

B．People in the desert usually fry eggs on the ground.

C．Camels have special fur to store water.

D．All the deserts are covered in sand.