A)请阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项                              

A

 

1 How much are the musical tickets for two children?

A. 16 pounds,      B, 35 pounds.      C. 30 pounds.      D. 40 pounds.

2When will the Teenage Drawing Competition be held?

A. On June 7th.                        B. On August 6th.

C. On September 20th.             D. On April 25th.

3 Where can you watch Adele's performance this Sunday afternoon?

A. At St. James' s Park.                 B. At Westfield Theater.

C. At Westfield Shopping Center.        D. At Cambridge Theater.

B

     When I crossed a small road on my first day in Kolkata, I was surprised because I heard a bell-not a horn (喇叭),  It was a tiny man pulling a rickshaw, He stopped and picked up two children from the front door of their house and pulled them to school. For many people, the rickshaw in Kolkata has many advantages, When the traffic is bad, rickshaws find a way through the traffic. If your miss your bus and there aren't any taxis, you can always find a rickshaw in Kolkata. Rickshaws are from your house to the market and waits for you. Then he loads (装载)all your things, drops you off outside your home and helps you unload, No other type of public transport offers this kind of service.

    From June to September, Kolkata gets heavy rain. Sometimes it rains for 48 hours without a break. In some parts of the city, the roads flood (水淹), and anything with an engine(发动机) is useless, But the rickshaw drivers never stop working, even with water all around them.

    But not everyone thinks rickshaws are a good thing. The local government want to ban rickshaws. They believe it is wrong for one man to pull another person when there is modern transport in the city. However, there is a problem with this plan. Many of the rickshaw drivers come from the countryside. The only job they can find in Kolkata is pulling a rickshaw, If the city bans rickshaws, these men won't have a job. So for the moment, the people of Kolkata still go by rickshaw.

   4What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?

    A. The rickshaw drivers carry things for local people in Kolkata.

    B. Parents need rickshaws for taking children to school in Kolkata.

    C. Rickshaws can find a way through the bad traffic in Kolkata.

    D. Rickshaws are very useful for the people' s daily life in Kolkata.

  5 What does the underlined word "ban" mean?

    A. make       B. increase     C. forbid      D. collect

  6What can we learn from the passage?

    A. The rickshaws in Kolkata have loud horns.

    B. The rickshaw is still a part of public transport in Kolkata.

    C. The local government offer many other jobs to the rickshaw driven.

D. The people in Kolkata are supposed to take rickshaws instead of cars.

                               C

     Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.

     Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.

     Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.

     "I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."

   7What did Nathan put on his desk at college?

    A. The Statue of Liberty.

    B. Superman.

    C. His serf-portrait.

    D. A Greenwich Village modal.

  8Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?

    A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.

    B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.

    C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.

    D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.

  9What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

    A. Nathan's work.                 B. Nathan's exhibition.

    C. Nathan's art.                   D. Nathan's self-portrait

   10 What would be the best title for the passage?

    A. The Brick Artist                B. The Brick Exhibition

C. Toy Bricks for Adults           D. The Artist's Childhood

My friends and I had just finished lunch at a hotel when it started to rain heavily. When it became lighter, I decided to get my   1  which was parked at my office three streets away.

My friends   2  that I shouldn’t go, mainly because I was seven months pregnant (怀孕的) then. I promised that I’d be very   3 . One of them wanted to come with me but I insisted that she stayed with another friend who needed help   4  her baby.

I walked out of the hotel and started making my way to the car. At the crossing, a van stopped and a man came out with an umbrella. Before I knew what was happening, he walked right   5  me and told me he’d escort (护送) me. Although I refused, he insisted that he would.

During our walk, he kept telling me to walk slower, as the ground was   6 . When we got to the car-park, I thanked him and he went away. I did not get his name and can   7  recognize (认出) him now. Did he stop for me? I’ll never know.

So how did I pay it forward? I was at home when I noticed two Indian workers   8  in the heavy rain. They were probably on their way to the working place near my home. I went out and passed them my   9 , telling them they should take and keep it. They were surprised by my action. They were very grateful to me, probably   10  why a stranger was offering such kindness. I was so relaxed and happy that day.

1.                A．money         B．bag            C．car  D．raincoat

 

2.                A．argued         B．received        C．calmed   D．disliked

 

3.                A．brave          B．careful         C．proud    D．helpful

 

4.                A．for            B．about          C．with D．on

 

5.                A．through        B．past            C．below    D．beside

 

6.                A．wet            B．dry            C．tough    D．crowded

 

7.                A．often          B．even           C．hardly    D．nearly

 

8.                A．fighting         B．playing         C．working  D．walking

 

9.                A．umbrella        B．coat           C．love D．kindness

 

10.               A．trained         B．wondered      C．talked D．refused

 

 

Believe it or not, the day when you can go to the moon is coming soon. You can go into space   1   space shuttle. It   2   about three days for the shuttle to go from the earth to the moon. The shuttle flies a long way to a space station. You can stay there for a short rest and then it will   3   you to the moon.

       Now you can jump out of the shuttle. But you mustn’t take   4   your spacesuit, because it is very hot in the daytime and very cold at night on the moon. The moon is much smaller than the earth. Things are   5  on the moon than they are on the earth. You can jump high every time you take a step. You will find that it is never tiring to walk on the moon. You don’t need to take an umbrella or a raincoat with you,   6   there is no rain on the moon. You can hear   7   because there is no air on the moon. And there are no animals or   8   living things there.

       The moon moves more slowly than the earth, so one day on the moon is as long as two weeks on the earth and one night is just as long as two weeks on the earth. What could you do in   9   long days and nights and in a silent world? Now scientists are trying to make the   10   of the moon. But our earth is really a far better place to live, as long as we take good care of it.

1.    A. on                           B. in                      C. by                    D. with

2.    A. spends                            B. costs                 C. takes                 D. pays

3.    A. bring                        B. carry                 C. ride                   D. fly

4.    A. up                           B. down                C. on                    D. off

5.    A. light                         B. heavy                C. lighter               D. heavier

6.    A. since                        B. when                C. if                      D. so

7.    A. something                B. anything            C. everything         D. nothing

8.    A. any                          B. other                 C. another             D. /

9.    A. so                            B. such                 C. so a                  D. such a

10.   A. worse                      B. worst                C. better                D. best

　 Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse. It was raining hard. The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to go to a restaurant. It was a quarter past three in the afternoon. The old man got to a small restaurant. There were lots of people in it. The old man couldn't come near the fire. He thought and thought. At last he said to the waiters, "Take some fish to my horse." The waiter and the people were very surprised. The waiter said, "A horse doesn't eat fish." The old man told the waiter, "This horse is very interesting. It can sing, dance and does all kinds of things. It can eat fish, too," So the waiter brought the horse some fish.
All the people in the restaurant ran out to see the horse eat except the old man. Now the old man sat beside the fire. After a while the waiter came back and said, "Your horse didn't eat any fish." The old man said, "All right, take the fish back and put it on the table. I'll eat it."

(　 ) 61. The old man felt very cold because______.

A. it was a windy day　　　　　　 B. it was snowing heavily

C. he had travelled in the heavy rain　 D. he was hungry

( ) 62. All the people in the restaurant ran out except the old man　　　　　　　　 because_____.

　 A. they wanted to see the old man

　 B. they wanted to see the horse eating fish

　 C. they had been told there was a horse there.

　 D. there was no fire over the stove
(　 )63. Indeed, the horse couldn’t _____or ____.

　A. walk...eat 　B. sing... sleep C. sing...eat fish　 D. talk...drink
(　 )64. Why did the old man ask the waiter to take some fish to his　 horse?　 Because ______.

A. his horse liked eating fish　　　

B. he was cold

C. he wanted to sit by the fire, but wasn't able to do so at first
　 D. he himself also liked to eat fish

(　 )65. We can tell from the story that ____.

　A. the old man's horse can eat fish
　B. the old man cheated all the people in the restaurant

　C. all the people in the restaurant were fools

　 D. we shouldn't believe strangers