Edison often said, “1 will discover what the world needs, then I will try to invent it.”  It is true that he did more than any other man of his time in inventing things. He made more than one thousand inventions in his life and all these have changed our way of living. Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the world. When Edison died in 1931, someone said people should turn off all the lights in their homes, streets and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course it was impossible to do so. And this shows what Edison's inventions mean to people's life.
【小题1】All the things Edison invented were _________ people needed at that time.

A．what

B．that

C．then

D．which

【小题2】Edison _________in inventing new things.

A．took all his time	B．paid all his money
C．spent his most time	D．spent his most money

【小题3】Edison had _________ inventions in all his life.

A．thousands of	B．over one thousand
C．only one thousand	D．less than a thousand

【小题4】Edison was dead for nearly _______ years.

A．fifty

B．severity-six

C．sixty

D．eighty

【小题5】It was __________ to turn off all the lights in honor of the greatest inventor.

A．possible

B．not true

C．nice

D．important

 

In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him. “My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame（名誉）or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius（天才）, who has since then composed（作曲）lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜). 

“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.

Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album（集）he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.

  Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.      

Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事业). He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.

  “So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate（感激） could help me learn and grow with them.”

1.Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?  

①. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.

②. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

③. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.

④. Few people bought his records.

A. ①②③④         B. ④②③①       C. ①③②④      D.④①③②

2.Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?

A. Because he wants to live in the UK.

B. Because his record company asks him to.

C. Because he wants to sell his album in the UK.

D. Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career.

3.Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.

A. taking trips gives him some ideas of music

B. what we really want to follow is the most important

C. music is a thing that can bring him fame and money

D. in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing

4.What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?

A. Kind and helpful.                 B. Proud and confident.

C. Active and hard-working.       D. Calm and disappointed.

 

词汇运用（10分）从方框中选择适当选项，并用其正确形式填入短文后相应题号的横线上，使短文通顺、完整，选项中有两项多余

dirty    with    have    always    time    they large    want    speak    lesson    first    drop

After a quick breakfast, I went into the lecture hall in a hurry. A famous teacher was 1.  to the students. He was holding up a $100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, "Who would like this $100 bill?" The students put up2.hands at once. Then he said,"I am going to give this $100 bill to one of you,but 3. , let me do this." He made the bili into a ball. Then he said, "Who 4. it now?" The hands went back into the air. "Well," he said,,What if I do this?" and he5.it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the 6.bill and said,"Who still wants it?" Hands went back again into the air.

"My friends," he said,"you have learned a valuable(有价值的) 7.today. No matter what I did to the $100 bill! Many8. in our life, we are dropped and stepped on. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what9.happened to you, you will never lose your value.You are 10.valuable to those people who love you. Your value doesn't come from what you do or whom you know, hut who you are."

 

A rabbit is running into its hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee found some food, it goes back to his home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger
comes near. A cat purrs (发出呼噜呼噜的声音)when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have –-- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things what have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.  People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for example,  contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we meet a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the Most useful book.
【小题1】 When a rabbit gives the other rabbits a signal of danger, it _______.

A．runs into its hole

B．stops to move its tail

C．runs with its tail moving up and down

D．stops moving its tail up and down as it runs

【小题2】 A dog can  tell something ________.

A．by giving signals	B．by making different sounds
C．by purring	D．by barking

【小题3】 It has been proved that no animal is able to _______.

A．give the others information

B．tell others how it feels

C．express it actions and feelings with words

D． make different sounds, each with its own meaning

【小题4】Generally speaking, what we mean by “vocabulary” is _________.

A．all the words that we know

B．more and more words we use

C．all the words we need

D．the dictionary which contains thousands of words

【小题5】 What must we do in order to make our vocabulary large?

A．Make more and more new words.

B． Learn more languages.

C． Look up any new words in a dictionary.

D． Try to read as many books as possible.

词汇运用（本大题有10小题，共10分）

1.An accident may happen if you don’t have a driver’s __________（执照）。

2.Students are not  a___________ to use calculators in the exam.

3.He was very happy that he made few _____________ (错误) in  his written test.

4.He is used to taking ___________ (笔记) in class.

5.Lu Xun is my favorite a________. I have lots of his books.

6.Three monkeys ____________ (逃脱)from the local zoo last  night.

7.There is something wrong with one of my____(tooth)                 

8.She was __________ (害怕)when she saw a snake.

9.Taiwan b        to China forever.

10.We are learning English, so we are all English              . (learn)