【正文】 matical equation（相等）, I told my parents, than in a piano sonata（奏鳴曲）. So when I went to college, I chose to study mathematics, not music. Then I got a job, working as an accountant.Now I work with numbers every day. My parents couldn39。t understand, and even now I guess they are still angry with me. They say I wasted a special gift. But I still believe what I did was right for me.1．It cost the writer39。s parents a lot to ________.A．help him with his lessonsB．raise their son to be an excellent pianistC．bee professional musiciansD．practice playing the piano2．At first what the writer did showed that ________.A．he was hopeful in musicB．he hated playing the pianoC．he didn39。t have a gift for musicD．he liked mathematics better3．The writer39。s parents felt very sorry for their son because they thought ________.A．his heart wasn39。t really in musicB．they didn39。t like his job of an accountantC．he wasted a special giftD．he didn39。t realize his mistake4．Which is the best title of this story?A．Nobody Understood MeB．The Road to My CareerC．My Parents39。 DreamD．Don39。t Be Sorry for MeCMatt Mason has seen the future—and it39。s fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system（系統(tǒng)）that39。s built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸塵器）. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦）it up. “This may trouble you,” says Kara, an expert in Mason39。s pany. “But you can program it to e on at 3 a. m., and it will just wetmop the floor for you.”When it es to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. “More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（觸摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.Ever wonder why a man and a woman have to cook meals on counters（工作臺(tái)）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT39。s Counter lab has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.1．How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?A．Three. B．Four. C．Five. D．Six.2．In future, if you want to clean your house, you will ________.A．have a recycling system built in the wallB．get up early to start your cleaning systemC．use your fridge to give orders to a cleanerD．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine3．What is future kitchen work like?A．Terrific and relaxing. B．Easy and interesting.C．Enjoyable and exciting. D．Funny and amazing.4．From the passage, we know ________.A．people will have more and more time enjoying themselvesB．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every dayC．the fridge can be found in the center of a future houseD．people must be expert at puters to use these inventions四、完形填空Mr. Klein told the class that a new student, Inez, would join them soon. He 1 that Inez was deaf. She “talked” with others by using sign language. Mr. Klein knew sign language, and he decided to teach 2 students so that they could also “talk” with Inez.First, they learned to sign the letters. Some letters were hard to 3 . Other letters, such as C, were easier because the shape（形狀）of the hand was the same as the shape of the letter.The 4 thing they learned was fingerspelling. They signed one letter after another to spell a word. They 5 with twoletter words such as ‘a(chǎn)t’ and ‘on’. Then they spelled 6 words.Finally, Mr. Klein showed that 7 one sign could be used for a whole word. To make the sign for the word fine, a person spreads out（張開）the fingers on one hand, 8 the thumb（拇指）to the chest（前胸）, and moves the hand away from the chest. Signing is not just 9 with the hands. Expressions on the face are also 10 The students learned to sign a question mark by using expressions on the face.When Inez first entered the classroom, she looked 11 . But the students signed, “Good morning, Inez.” She gave the class a big smile and signed back, “What a wonderful 12 !”1．A．hoped B．said C．guessed D．thought2．A．his B．my C．her D．our3．A．spell B．check C．remember D．write4．A．first B．only C．last D．next5．A．met B．started C．a(chǎn)greed D．helped6．A．newer B．easier C．longer D．nicer7．A．never B．perhaps C．still D．just8．A．joins B．fixes C．touches D．ties9．A．made B．done C．given D．chosen10．A．important B．different C．difficult D．strange11．A．serious B．surprised C．frightened D．nervous12．A．wele B．congratulation C. progress D．success五、閱讀與表達(dá)閱讀短文，根據(jù)其內(nèi)容回答問題。Jason Queally is one of the fastest men in the world on a bicycle. But do you really call the thing in the picture a bicycle? Well, yes. Jason39。s human powered（人力的）machine, with its two wheels, is, of course, a bicycle.Every year, a very important humanpowered bicycle race is held in Nevada, USA. The speed of the bike is measured（測(cè)定）for only 200 metres, but players take more than a kilometre to get their bikes going fast. Jason Queally39。s fastest speed for the 200metre race was kilometres an hour.At this year39。s race, Jason failed to reach the finishing line. He was speeding along at about se