【正文】 at her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children. “There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利機(jī)構(gòu)) brought them food, clothes and shelter. 1. How many homes altogether (總共) were damaged in the storm?A. Fourteen B. Twentyone C. Twentynine D. Thirtysix2. Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?A. He was in bed.B. He was inside the house. C. He was outside the house.D. He was on the roof. 3. Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because _________. A. her husband knew there would be a stormB. they were all outside the house when the storm became worseC. she felt the house was movingD. the welfare department helped her4. The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______. A. something to eat B. something to wear C. somewhere to study D. somewhere to stay5. Which of he following may be the best title for this passage?A. A Terrible Storm B. A Lucky WomanC. Good Soldiers D. Clever People MWe know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them. No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide that she loves you. She? Yes, she. It’s true that male mosquito doesn’t bite(咬) and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn’t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You’re different from the others!If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(癢) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. By the time the itching begins, and she has flown away. And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She just wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, on a leaf or a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs. 1. “Mosquito” means _______ in Chinese. A. 蒼蠅 B. 蜻蜓 C. 跳蚤 D. 蚊子2. We know mosquitoes very well because ___________. A. they can be found easily B. they fly here and thereC. there are many kinds of them D. they can fly3. If the mosquito doesn’t bite you, it will ________. A. get angry with you B. be afraid of you C. make a lot of noise D. choose another one4. The mosquito bites you _________. A. when you’re asleep B. because you have choose it C. too quickly to let you know D. but doesn’t like you5. Which of the following sentences is wrong?A. The itching begins after the mosquito bites you. B. You feel terrible when the mosquito bites you. C. Mosquitoes use blood to lay eggs. D. All the mosquitoes don’t like to bite people for blood.NShlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to pace in tin boxes.At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容選擇正確答案。1. Shlander thinks the people and things on the earth are very ________.A. strange B. nice C. different D. beautiful2. Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.A. a monkey B. a earth monster C. a tin box D. a strange world3. The earth monster doesn’t have ________.A. heads, arms and legs B. brown or yellow strings on its head C. a hole on its face D. a swing on its body4. The earth monsters don’t put ________ on their holes.A. nice things B. balls C. fire D. water5. The square window box is ________. A. a car or a bus B. a very small earth monster C. a TV set D. a radioOAlfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father’s lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 panies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and