A
Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class pickedfor any sports team. "Football, tennis, cricket — anything with around ball, I was useless," he says now with a laugh. But back thenhe was the one always made fun of in school gym classes inDevonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday thatchanged him. At first he went hiking alone in a nearby forest. Thenhe began to ride the bike along with a runner friend. Gradually,Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speedand strength. At the age of 18, he ran his firstmarathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as aninstructor at Ridgway' s School of Adventure in Scotland, where helearned about Ridgway 's cold-water exploits. Greatlyinterested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorersand adventures, then decided that this would be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started hisfirst long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It tookunbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite (冻疮) , ran into a polarbear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loadedsled(雪撬) up and over rocky ice.
Saunders has become the youngest person to ski alone to theNorth Pole, and he' s skied more of the North Pole by himself thanany other British man. His old playmates would not believe thechange.
Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast ofAntarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometre journeythat has never been completed on skis.
1. What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 yearsold?
A. He became good at mostsports.
C. He joined a sportsteam.
2. The underlined word "exploits" (paragraph 3) is closest inmeaning to ____.
A.journeys
3. Which of the following is the correct order of the eventsthat happened to Saunders?
a. He ran his firstmarathon.
c. He rode his bike in aforest.
A.acdb
4. What does the story mainly tell us about Saunders?
A. He is a success insports.
C. He is Ridgway' s favoritestudent.
B
It' s 2035. You have a job, a family and you' re about 40 yearsold. Welcome to your future life.
Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror. "Turnred," you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tinypreprogrammed electronics (智能电子元件) are rearranged in your shirt tochange its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard tobelieve you' re 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances inmedicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old.You' re not even middle-aged!
As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfastcereal into a bowl, you hear, "To lose weight, you shouldn't eatthat," from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code(电子源码) onthe cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide tolisten to your shoes. "Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?" Alist of possible foods appears on the counter as the kitchen checksits food supplies.
" Ready for your trip to space?" you ask your son and daughter.In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space — andvery few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trips orlonger vacations. Your best friend even works in space. Handingyour children three strawberries each, you add, "The doctor saidyou need these for space travel. " Thanks to medical advances,vaccination shots (防疫针) are a thing of the past. Ordinary foodscontain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, thekids head for the front door.
It' s time for you to go to work. Your car checks yourfingerprints and unlocks the doors. " My office. Autopilot," youcommand. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothlyinto traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll youre-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer.Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video film ratherthan read it.
5. What changes the color of your shirt?
A. Themirror.
6. How do the shoes know that you shouldn't eat the breakfastcereal?
A. By pouring the breakfast into abowl.
C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen;
7. The strawberries the children eat serve as ________
A.breakfast
8. How is the text organized?
A. In order oftime.
C. In order ofpreference.
C
Police today stepped up a murder probe（调查）after a father waskilled by a gang. They attacked him with an axe.
9.Which of the following is NOT true according to thepassage?
A. John Purcell was attacked around 10:30 pm in EasterhouseRoad.
B. John Purcell had three children, but he did not live withthem.
C. Before the murder, John Purcell went out and turned left downthe road.
D. Detective Chief Inspector John Riggans did not catch themurderer.
10.What can we infer from the passage?
A. John Purcell lived with his wife Elizabeth Malcolm before themurder.
B. John, as well as his sister and brother, loved John Purcelldeeply.
C. John Purcell was attacked by a gang with a gun.
D. Detective Chief Inspector John Riggans did nothing butwait.
11.The word “devastated” in the third paragraph probablymeans___________.
A.upset
12. What is the best title of the passage?
A. An UnbelievableTragedy.
C. A GreatDetective.
D
WILD WEATHERMAN
I wanted to be a foreign journalist. I took courses in weatherscience at Eastern Kentucky University, but I majored inbroadcasting news.
How did you finally become a weatherman?
My first job in the early 80’s was at the local TV station inPaducah, Kentucky. I did everything from turning on the lights inthe morning to writing and delivering morning news. I put togetherweather forecasts, and became interested in them.
Back then, how did you forecast weather?
Independent companies collected computer information thatshowed, for example, how a single weather system might split intosnow or snow mixed with rain. The information was often oppositeand the job of a weatherman was to study the information and makethe best educated guess about the storm.
Has weather forecasting changed much with newtechnology?
Advanced computers, satellites, and Doppler radar (sound wavesused to track storms) have made forecasting more exact. But westill know very little about how weather is shaped. So far, we justhave theories.
Any advice for children who’d like to become weatherscientists?
To me, weather is the most exciting field in the world. Thereare still so many more questions about weather than answers. Afterall, if we can’t foresee floods or hurricanes, how safe a societyare we? Weather forecasting is wide open for scientists who love tosolve puzzling problems. The next generation of meteorologists(weather scientists) will unlock many of Earth’s weather secrets.So get a general knowledge of Earth science, and study meteorology(weather science) in college.
Thanks, Sam.
13. Judging from the writing style, the text is ________.
A. adiary
14. As a child, ABC-TV’s Sam Champion wanted to be a________.
A. spacescientist
15. Present weather forecasting technology ________.
A. has made weather report more exact than ever
B. is still not perfect
C. hasn’t changed much in the last 50 years
D. both A and B
16. The study of weather science is called ________.
A.meteorology
E
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibilityupon him，and let him know that you trust him.” These words are fromthe black American educator，Booker Washington. He was sayingthat，“If you want people to grow up，you have to stop treating themlike children.”
17．The passage is intended to encourage the youthto
18．A child of seven is given an allowance so that he can_________.
19．The author implies that many Chinese children
20．The main idea of the last paragraph is
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