【正文】 t of the world except ________.A. cold and dry placesB. swamps, rivers and lakesC. the surface of the waterD. B and C.3. Which of the following statements in true?A. Only male mosquitoes sting people for blood.\B. Female mosquitoes lay their eggs in the places where they like.C. Bothe female and male mosquitoes bite people and animals.D. Female mosquitoes usually fly to a surface of the water and lay their eggs in the water.KEY: AAD（6） As the American writer, Mark Twain, once said, “Everyone talks about weather, but nobody does anything about it.” It is true that everybody talks about the weather. Many people begin their talks by saying: “Isn’t it a nice day!” “Do you think it will rain?” “I think it’s going to snow.” Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like. But sometimes they don’t agree with each other. One man may say, “Do you see how cloudy it is in the east? It’s going to rain tomorrow.” People often look for the weather they want. When a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell him it’s going to rain, and he doesn’t look for anything else. When friends have a piic, they hope the weather is going to be fine and they can sit eating their lunch under the blue sky. Almost everyone listens to what the weather man says. But he doesn’t tell us what we want, and sometimes he makes a mistake. Still, he is right most of the time.1. People often begin their talks by ______.A. saying hello to each other.B. drinking teaC. saying something about the weather D. looking for the good weather2. People sometimes have different ideas about______.A. how to begin a talkB. how to have fine weatherC. what we should do about the weatherD. what the weather is going to be like3. _________, they always hope the weather is going to be fine.A. When people stay at homeB. When people have a piicC. When the farmers need waterD. When people talk about weather4. What’s the best title for the passage?A. How to Begin a TalkB. Story About a WeathermanC. Weather ReportD. About WeatherKEY: CDBD（7） Miss Jones teaches at a school. She teaches the boys and girls about nine years old. The pupils are not good at maths in one of her classes. Miss Jones always wants to make her lessons interesting.One day she gave them a question. “ If you go to the shop to buy apples,” she said, “and an apple and a half cost twelve cents(美分), how much will you have to give for twelve apples?” The pupils began to write in their exercise books, and for a long time nobody spoke. Then one boy put his hand up and said, “could you say the question once again, please?” Miss Jones said, “If an apple and a half…” But the boy shouted, “ oh, an apple and a half? All the time I am working it out (算出來(lái))in oranges, Miss Jones. So the answer must be different.” Jones teaches______.A. not well B. middle school students C. maths in one class D. very good students2. Miss Jones______.A. wanted her pupils to buy applesB. wanted to buy apples for childrenC. wanted her pupils to be interested in the lessonD. gave them a very difficult question3. The pupils began to work,_____.A. and soon they got the answerB. and they did it very quicklyC. but only one worked it out quicklyD. but one was not clear about the question4. Apples and oranges are different things,____.A. so the answer must be differentB. but the answer would be the sameC. so the pupils couldn’t work it outD. and the boy found Jones was wrong5. The boy was really ____.A. not clever B. very quick C. quite clever D. carefulKEY CCDBA（8）A little mouse thought he was the tallest and strongest animal in the world. His mother said to him, “Don’t say that in front of an elephant. He doesn’t like that.” The little mouse didn’t listen to his mother. He went out to look for the elephant, but he didn’t know who the elephant was. He asked an ant(螞蟻)first, “Are you an elephant?” “ No, I’m not,” said the ant. Then