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n Smart Aleck—a game show which my best friend Carla and I both has a good imagination, and I know a lot of history, so we thought we’d be good __35__ for the few days later, held a meeting with everyone interested in told us that Smart Aleck uses a five member also said that three more people would be needed as backup(替補(bǔ)).Unluckily four times that many students were at the said we would have a __37__ and the top eight scorers would bee the team and the agreed that this was a __38__ way to , all of the hopefuls went to the dining hall after would have to decide the starting lineup(陣容). acted as the a couple of hours, all the __39__ on the team were set except and I __40__ for that last had to hold a oneonone petition between the two of winner would be on the team and the loser would be the through our twoperson petition,I was starting to pull I saw the look on Carla39。s waited for a second and knew what I had to much as I wanted to be on Smart Aleck,Carla wanted __42__ even ,starting with my next question,I held back and le t Carla __43__,just by a little expression as she __44__ she would be on the show made up for my not being on the since I will go as backup,I39。ll still have the fun of seeing the show up I __45__ by not trying as hard as I could?I don39。t think one noticed,and Carla and I didn39。t __46__ won39。t hurt the team because Carla will be a very good petitor on the real think that making my best friend happy was the right thing to [來新 課標(biāo) 第一 網(wǎng) 閱讀理解(共44分)六、閱讀下列短文,根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選擇最佳選項(xiàng)。(共26分,每小題2分)A Join Us for a Day at Sun Valley Amusement Park Children aged 10 to 14 are invited to take part in the “Event of the Summer” at Sun Valley Amusement Park, the most popular amusement park on the East Valley has more than 80 amusement sports lovers, there are basketball courts, an indoor baseball field, and climbing amusement park would be plete without a gift Valley has won’t want to miss out on this day of us at Sun Valley Amusement Park on July 14 Register(登記) The cost of the trip is $ includes tickets and all We suggest that all children bring Buses leave at 9:00 AM and return at 5:00 Rain Date: Wednesday, July at the Children’s RecreationCenter at the Town Hall by July oneday registratio n will also be held on July 1 at the Brown more information, call Jane Parks at 5557267 can take part in the “Event of the Summer”? under 5 over 16 aged 1014 aged 59 children had better bring ____ basketball gift can children register at the Brown School? July 1 July 3 July 14 July 16 B Street Ping Pong— Ping!Do you like table tennis? If you had travelled to cities in the UK like London or Birmingham last summer, you might have seen one of the dozens of free tablesthat were there as part of a project(項(xiàng)目)called Ping!.What is Ping!?[ xk b o m] Ping!is a threeyear table tennis has been running since 2010 and this year, 2012, is the final idea is to put free table tennis tables in eight different towns in the UK for four weeks during the table es with its own bats and balls and is free to can find the tables does Ping!hope to achieve? It would be great if Ping!helped find a new Olympic table tennis star but what Ping!really achieve is just to get people playing and having fun together.“Putting a ping pong table on the street gives people a chance to connect with other people,” said MeeraSodha, Ping!Project of the towns that took part in the project was Hull, a city in tables were put into the , an ESOL student , said, “I really enjoyed playing table tennis in the was alsoagood way for me to practise my English and meet people.” 50 When did the Ping!project start? 39。s the Ping!project? table tennis table tennis people how table free table tennis tables in some purpose of the Ping!project is help people practise English invite people to visit the UK cities get people to play and have fun encourage people to take part in the 2012 0lympics C The right name is important in the business you have to do is think of the names for some of the products you buy every day and you’ll agree that the name and the product are connected in the everyone’s many countries, successful trade or brand names are protected by is so that other panies cannot make a product and, in fact, be buying something register a pany or a product name with the fact, more than 1,000 product and pany names are registered every panies spend a lot of money to find the right name for their good example of this the car successful names for cars have powerful associations(聯(lián)系).The Ford Mustang and the Jaguar are only two examples of choosing the names of animals that are fast and a pany decides to sell its product in another country, it has to make sure that the product name translates CocaCola introduced its soft drink to China, it looked for the right wanted a name that would do two was to present its image(形象)in Chinese and the second was to be close to its first brand name— took some efforts before finding the right word —which sounds similar and translates as “happiness in the mouth”.Asian pany names are not new to the United brand names of Samsung and Sony have been the right brand name is a big panies that sell to foreign markets pay to find a name that will connect with its are even naming panies that specialize in inventing product panies can charge(要價(jià))up to $100,000 a word for their it’s worth panies know how important the right brand names are for their are trade names protected by law in many countries? make panies pay for naming help people choose the best products present good images of the prevent good images from being copied can we learn from the passage? panies care about the cost of finding the right names trade names can help panies to have a larger sale government often does business with naming panies is considered necessary for cars t