【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 。s too stupid and shy, I said. Then Christian looked up at me with the saddest dog eyes I had ever seen. I felt very sorry at that moment. That night, I couldn39。t sleep because I couldn39。t get Christian39。s face out of my mind. In the weeks that followed, he never met my eyes in class and never smiled at me. It was really hard for me to decide to write him a note asking him to forgive （原諒） me. But I thought I should. The next day in class, I wrote him a note telling him how sorry I felt. About five minutes later, I turned and saw tears in his eyes. You will never realize what your apology （道歉） has meant to me, Jimmy, he said to me. I hope we can bee friends. We had lunch together that noon and we had the best talk I had ever had. Over the years at high school, we were close friends. When I think back, I realize that, if I had not apologized, I would never have known what a lovely person Christian was! Apologies can really change your life, so never miss the chance to tell somebody you are sorry.（1）From the passage, we know Christian was a ________ boy. A.tall and fatB.short and shyC.short and activeD.lovely and fat（2）Jimmy felt ________ after he made fun of Christian with other unkind kids. A.happyB.interestedC.sorryD.bored（3）This passage tells us that ________. A.we should make an apology when we hurt othersB.Jimmy39。s apology was unimportant to ChristianC.Christian wasn39。t lovely in factD.it is impossible to say sorry to others6．閱讀理解 Our monthly talks start at 19: 30 on the first Thursday of each month except August. Admission is at normal charges and you don39。t need to book. They end around 21: 00. November 7th The Canal（運(yùn)河）Pioneers（先驅(qū)者）, by Chris Lewis. James Brindley is recognized as one of the leading early canal engineers. He was also a major player in training others in the art of canal planning and building. Chris Lewis will explain how Brindley made such a positive contribution to the education of that group of early civil engineers. December 5th Ice for the Metropolis, by Malcolm Tucker. Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for food preservation and catering. Malcolm will explain the history of importing natural ice and the technology of building ice wells, and how London39。s ice trade grew. February 6th An Update on the Cotswold Canals, by Liz Payne. The Stroud water Canal is moving towards reopening. The Thames and Severn Canal will take a little longer. We will have a report on the present state of play. March 6th Eyots and AitsThames Istands, by Miranda Vickers. The Thames had many islands. Miranda has undertaken a review of all of them. She will tell us about those of greatest interest. （1）When is the talk on James Brindley? A.On February 6th.B.On March 6th.C.On November 7th.D.On December 5th.（2）What is the topic of the talk in February? A. The Canal Pioneers.B. Ice for the Metropolis.C.Eyous and Aits Thames Istands.D.An Update on the Cotswold Canals.（3）Who will give the talk on the islands in the Thames? A.Miranda Vickers.B.Malcolm Tucker.C.Chris Lewis.D.Liz Payne.7．閱讀理解 What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible? Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas. Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect Find your answers from factsnot start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy ets（封星） or planets which hit into Earth. However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acted like a sponge（海綿）. This suggested that Earth39。s water might have e from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity. I had a pretty hard time making others believe it, he said. But thinking about the fact that you may be the first person to see something for the first time doesn39。t happen very often. When it does, it39。s amazing. Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency39。s Philae, a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which was 480 million kilometres away. The trip from Earth by Philae had taken ten years! The scientists had no idea what the surface of the et would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted. When Philae tried to land, it bounced（彈起） away from the et39。s icy surface twice. Luckily, however, Philae landed successfully and began sending information back to Earth. （1）Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg left college because____________. A.they preferred to learn by themselvesB.they needed standard ways of teachingC.their teachers didn39。t like their new ideasD.their teachers weren39。t able to teach them（2）In Lesson 2, the writer mainly wants to tell us that___________. A.we should get answers from factsB.we can believe what we are taughtC.it39。s hard to make others believe somethingD.an expectation can help get an answer in research（3）The example of Philae in Lesson 3 shows that________. A.Comet 67P was not far away from EarthB.it took Philae2o years to reach Comet 67PC.Philae landed on Comet 67P with a little luckD.scientists know nothing about the surface of Comet 67P（4）The best title for this passage is_____. A.Ways of learning160