Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people even try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled(用浆划)a bathtub（浴缸）145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29, 1983. A month later, a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon ,Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes! However, the distance record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Brunt field Bedding Center. This team from Edinburgh pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometers in 1979. It took the team 35 days to cover the distance.
Another group of record makers held the highest dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney, Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28 1989.The climbers carried a dinner table, chairs, and a meal up the mountain .When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.
People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood; however, that now not all the records will be kept in the Guinness Book of Records.
【小题1】According to the passage, what record was made near Ashford in May, 1983?

A．A record for paddling a bathtub.

B．A record for climbing a mountain.

C．A record for pushing a hospital bed.

D．A record for swimming across a river.

【小题2】What was unusual about the highest dinner party held by the nine people in the passage?

A．The people who held the dinner party all came from Sydney.

B．Only nine people held the highest dinner party.

C．They had a meal on the mountain.

D．They carried a dinner table and chairs up the mountain to hold the dinner party.

【小题3】Which of the following show the right order(顺序)of what happened in the passage?
a. A group of 13 members paddled a bathtub on a river near Ashford.
b. A team from Edinburgh made a distance record for hospital bed pushing.
c. A group of nine people from Sydney had a dinner party on the top of Mountain Huascaran.
d. A racing team pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes in Avon.

A．a-b-c-d

B．d-b-c-a

C．a-d-b-c

D．b-a-d-c

【小题4】Which of the following is mentioned(提及)in the passage?

A．Hospital bed pushing was a popular sport in Edinburgh.

B．People living in Ashford usually used a bathtub to carry things.

C．Two different records for hospital bed pushing were given.

D．Hospital bed pushing was held twice a year in Avon, Great Britain.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the largest free-standing mountains in the world, and some say, the most beautiful place on the earth.

The mountain towers 15,000 feet above the plains. Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania and it covers an area of 60 miles long and 40 miles wide. Kilimanjaro is an extinct volcano(死火山), with 3 peaks. Kibo is the highest one in the center.

Because of Kilimanjaro's great height, the mountain influences(影响) its own weather. Winds incoming from the Indian Ocean are stopped upward by the mountain and drop their moisture(湿气) as rain and snow. People have planted coffee, corn, and other crops on the lower slopes(斜坡).

Mount Kilimanjaro now attracts many thousands of walkers each year. Because of a temperature rise in recent years, the beautiful snow cap of Kilimanjaro is retreating(消退) fast. A research said that the white snow on the mountain might be gone in 15 years. What a pity!

1. The writer is worried about Mount Kilimanjaro's_______.

A. great height                                             B. extinct volcano

C. rainforests                           D. white snow cap

2. Mount Kilimanjaro is_______.

A. the highest mountain in the world

B. an active volcano

C. a free-standing mountain

D. 15,000 feet above the sea level

3. The snow on the mountain comes from_______.

A. the Indian Ocean         B. the Pacific Ocean         C. the Atlantic Ocean       D. the Red Sea

4._______ influences the mountain's own weather.

A. Rain and snow            B. Its great height             C. Crops      D. The moisture

 

As we know, Chongqing has changed a lot. Most of the people feel much safer now. More and more trees are being planted in the city. And every day you can see many old people play sports everywhere. The change makes the people in the city live a happy life. The small survey below is from the people who live in Chongqing. One hundred persons were chosen to answer the questions last week.

What they want	Health	Safety	Food
	52%	33%	15%
Where they like to live	In a quieter place	In a busier place	In a greener place
	15%	5%	80%
What they think of working in the city	Bad	Good	No idea
	8%	80%	12%
Whether they plan to change their living places	Yes	No	Difficult to say
	39%	41%	20%

【小题1】From the survey, _______ of the people in Chongqing care about health.

A．41%

B．80%

C．39%

D．52%

【小题2】 Most people think working in Chongqing is _______.

A．bad

B．good

C．hard

D．sad

【小题3】 From the survey, we know most people want to live ________.

A．in a busier place	B．in a quieter place
C．in a greener place	D．on the mountain

【小题4】 According to the passage and the survey, we know that ________.

A．most people plan to change their living places

B．in Chongqing all the people have a lot of food

C．the people in Chongqing don’t like planting trees

D．the change in Chongqing makes people enjoy living there

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and one of the largest free-standing mountains in the world, and some say, the most beautiful place on the earth!
The mountain towers 15,000 feet above the plains. Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania and it covers an area of 60 miles long and 40 miles wide. Kilimanjaro is an extinct volcano(死火山), with 3 peaks. Kibo is the highest one in the center.
Because of Kilimanjaro’s great height, the mountain influences its own weather. Winds incoming from the Indian Ocean are stopped upward by the mountain and drop their moisture(湿气) as rain and snow. People have planted coffee, corn, and other crops on the lower slopes(斜坡).
Mount Kilimanjaro now attracts many thousands of walkers each year. Because of a temperature rise in recent years, the beautiful snow cap of Kilimanjaro is retreating(消退)fast. A research said that the white snow on the mountain might be gone in 15 years. What a pity!
【小题1】The writer is worried about Mount Kilimanjaro’s ________.

A．great height

B．extinct volcano

C．rainforests

D．white snow cap

【小题2】Mount Kilimanjaro is __________

A．the highest mountain in the world	B．an active volcano
C．a free-standing mountain	D．15,000 feet above the sea level

【小题3】The snow on the mountain comes from ________.

A．the Indian Ocean	B．the Pacific Ocean
C．the Atlantic Ocean	D．the Red Sea

【小题4】_________ influences the mountain’s own weather.

A．Rain and snow

B．Its great height

C．Crops

D．The moisture

【小题5】 People should _______ to stop the mountain’s snow cap from melting.

A．save the water of the Indian Ocean	B．protect the environment
C．not visit Kilimanjaro	D．not plant crops on the mountain

C

Like many people ,I have no clear idea about heroes . A t some point , we all wonder if we need a hero and what a hero really is.

Although there are a lot of differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics (特点) which give us courage  and make us want to learn from them.

A hero does something worth (值) talking about, A hero has a special story to tell and people think highly of it. But a hero is not just person with great fame (声誉).

A hero has power(力量) larger than himself . Some people want to live like a hero. And they have to experience life with new and further meaning .A sure test for would- be heroes is what or whom they serve. What do they want to live and die for? If their answer suggests they serve only own fames, they may be famous persons but not heroes.

A hero has a vision from the mountain top .He has the power to move people . He creates new possibility. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of Britain, Without Martin Luther King .Jr, Americans might take different parks , and shop in different stores of the different colors of their skins.

There might be changes in society without a hero, but the speed of the change would be rather slow . Thanks to heroes in history ,they make the society develop so rapidly.

1.` According to this passage , a hero is a person who always ____

A．gives us courage	B．thinks highly of others
C．shares great fames	D．stands on the mountain top

2. I f you want to live like a hero , you should ____|

A．experience a new and meaningful life

B．listen to something worth talking about

C．serve your own fame and try to be famous

D．know where and how you want to live and die

3. The underlined word” vision” in the passage means____

A．风景

B．想象

C．远见

D．形象

4. Black people in American used to ___ before Martin Luther King Jr.

A．shop at the white’s store	B．drive buses with the white
C．take walks in the white’s park	D．eat in restaurants without the white

5. What can we learn from the passage ?

A．we don’t need heroes anymore at some point now

B．heroes are all the same though different in culture

C．people get power from heroes to move to a new place

D．our society has developed faster because of heroes in history.