【正文】 t for musicD．he liked mathematics better3．The writer39。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。t breathe. At seventy kilometres an hour, a crash（撞擊）could be very serious. Jason was frightened, but he managed to stop the bike safely. He would repair his bicycle and try another time to be the world39。ll ____________________________ Becky Wang．3．天太黑，他什么也看不見。Dear Li Ling,These days Tom Cruise, the film star, always es into my mind. I think of him night and day. I just sit in my room and watch videos of his films again and again. I39。re lucky if you39。s your ________（觀點）of this great book?3．Gone with the Wind is ________（認為）to be one of the greatest books in American literature．4．Compass was invented in ________（古老的）China．5．They found treasure in a ________（山洞）of a mountain far away．B．用括號中所給單詞的正確形式填空。s fingers because they were not always clean.Everybody got angry at that. Did Mr. Coryate think that people in England always had dirty hands? And weren39。Nobody knows when or where kite flying began, but there are some stories about the history of kites. Early kites may have been simple flat shapes such as leaves. Later, kite designs improved as people discovered how to put lightweight coverings over frames. Silk and paper are lightweight materials that were invented in China. China is the earliest known center of kite making. Chinese kites date back（追溯）at least 2,000 years.The first Chinese kites may have been used by armies, perhaps as signals. As time passed, kites took on other uses. They were flown during spec。t eat meat with their fingers.A．unhappy B．sorry C．sad D．worried4．The first piece of meat fell to the floor when Thomas took it with the fork because ________.A．the fork was very difficult to use B．the fork was badC．Thomas could not use it quite well D．the steak was too hardBAs prices and building costs keep rising, the “doityourself”（DIY）trend（趨勢）in the . continues to grow.“We needed furniture（家具）for our living room,” says John Ross, “and we just didn39。t known as a great ________（think）like Confucius.5．I think surfing at sea is ________（excite）.6．Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ________（read）by many young people all of the world.7．Today, to hold the Olympic Games ________ as a rich prize for a country（consider）.8．More and more foreign ________（visit）are interested in Beijing.9．There are ________（million）of people on the square.10．During the school holidays, the children enjoyed their ________（free）.二、單項選擇1．English ________ by many people around the world.A．is spoken B．is speaking C．speaks D．spoke2．Many kinds of books, newspapers and magazines ________ in this library.A．a(chǎn)re kept B．is being keptC．a(chǎn)re keeping D．have kept3．— The environment is getting better and better.— Yes. More trees are ________ here every year.A．cut B．planting C．planted D．cutting4．— The shirt feels soft. What is it ________ of?— Cotton, I think.A．make B．makes C．making D．made5．Students are often told ________ at people who are in trouble.A．not to smile B．to smile C．not to laugh D．to laugh6．— Betty, you ________ on the phone.— Thank you.A．want B．a(chǎn)re wanting C．a(chǎn)re wanted D．have wanted7．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is still ________ by many children today.A．reads B．read C．to read D．reading8．The classrooms in our school ________ every day.A．is cleaned B．a(chǎn)re cleaned C．were cleaned D．cleaned9．The noodles ________ by my mother. Would you like to have some?A．makes B．was making C．made D．were made10．— This kind of rice tastes nice.— Yes, it ________ in northeast of China.A．was grown B．has grown C．is grown D．is growing11．Travellers ________ to use mobile phones while flying.A．don39。re great if you love others when you39。ll meet him and that he39。One of the best ways to improve your English is ________________________.5．我寫完作業(yè)就去看電影。re surprised that these bikes go so quickly, but is it useful? It could be. Cars are being more and more popular, and they are very safe, fortable and easy to drive, but they also pollute the air in our cities. Scientists and engineers are learning from fast racing bikes how to make humanpowered vehicles（車輛）that might be useful for daily travel.1．Is Jason39。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.Fina