【正文】 B.It is a piece of cake.3 years.（5）Which of the following can best describe Alan39。20 months.One week.140 days.He studied something useful about the place.（4）How long did Alan39。He asked for advice from other travelers.C.finishing a journey（3）What did Alan do during the journey? A.breaking a journeyB.To show the ability of the blind.（2）The underlined phrase setting off in the second paragraph probably means ________. A.To have a wonderful journey.C.To tell children a story. Walking across the desert is not easy for an ablebodied person, let alone （更不用說） a blind man. Before setting off, Alan spent three years training for the journey. He studied everything he could find about the place and asked for advice from other travelers. During his journey, he only took water, food and sleeping bags. He walked about 20 kilometers a day. He showed great perseverance （毅力） and finished the 140kilometer journey in just seven days. Alan Smith is blind. He teaches blind children in his country. To show the world that the blind can also do something amazing, he walked across the world39。interests14．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。topicsskillshobbiesD.how to give up old hobbiesC.a picture book for hobbies（2）This passage mainly shows us ________. A.a picture book for childrenB.a magazine for old people The way you talk about things can also show what you really like and it can be developed into a hobby. Play to your strengths.t something you39。 If you don39。 Examine your skills and personality. Do you value wisdom or courage? Do you admire artists? Let such question guide you when choosing a hobby. Check what you love doing in your spare time. Do you enjoy reading books? Maybe you want to try your hand at writing your own. Do you like a hot coffee at the end of the day? Maybe your hobby could be trying to make it at home. Turn what you already love into a hobby. Hobbies let you explore interests outside of your line of work. They let you be creative and try all kinds of new things. Picking a different one can get your creative juices flowing again. place pletely in twenty years. （5）Kids and old people often use ecards. 13．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。t use ecads very often. In 1840 the first stamp was used in Britain and sending birthday cards became easier, cheaper and more popular. The development of color printing processes （工藝流程） in the 1930s also helped to increase sales of birthday cards. People send birthday greetings by using cards in both eastern and western countries. It is not known when and where exactly the tradition of sending birthday cards began. It is believed that it began in England in the early nineteenth century. In those days people sent birthday cards when they couldn39。Riding Bikes Is Art12．閱讀短文，判斷正誤。t Be Afraid of Fall inPerseverance Pays offC.a﹣C﹣b﹣d.（5）What is the best title of the passage？ A.C.c﹣b﹣a﹣d.Reaching her goal of riding the bike at once.（4）Which one is the right order of the events? a. Lucy fell and got up lots of times.b. Lucy picked up speed on a flat ground.C. Lucy found her bike was too low for the bumps.d. Lucy rode her bike around the whole track without falling once.A.Getting practice in an easier way.C.? A.Lucy would have trouble riding the bike and give up soon.（3）What did Lucy take the bike into the main park for Lucy would fear to ride the bike and get discouraged.C.To ride her bike along the track.（2）What does the underlined sentence probably mean in Paragraph 2？ A.To discover a track for fun.C.TO play other kids.t want to leave and everyone was cheering her on. But I was only half right. Lucy did have a lot of trouble riding the bike. She couldn39。 Lucy looked at me with fear because she was still a biking newbie. I tried to encourage her too, but really, I was thinking﹣this is going to be a disaster. Not because I thought she would get hurt. More because I thought she wouldn39。 Most people do not know that carrots can be grown during the winter months. If the winter is not cold enough to freeze the ground, you can grow and harvest carrots the same way as you do during the summer months. Carrots are prepared and eaten in many different ways. They ate cut into thin pieces and cooked with other vegetables or meat. They are also washed and eaten just as they e out of the ground. （1）Carrots are easy to plant but hard to harvest. （2）Carrots should be grown in a field without water for a long time. （3）The best way to decide if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its size. （4）Everyone knows that carrots can be grown during the winter months. （5）We can prepare and eat carrots in many different ways. 11．閱讀理解 Weather, soil, condition and time affect （影響） the taste of carrots. Warm days and cool nights are the best time to grow great delicious carrots. Carrots （胡蘿卜） are grown on farms and in small family gardens all over the world. They are easy to plant and easy to harvest （收獲）. They have a good taste. Joining the couple10．閱讀短文，判斷短文后句子的意思是否與短文內(nèi)容相符。Recycling wasteC.the zerowaste lifestyle is not difficult to live（4）Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A.she feels it hard to continue her lifestyleC.likes listening to CDs very much（3）What Yu Yuan says in the last paragraph probably means that ________. A.often buys things she doesn39。offe