【正文】 ne asks you about the weather in Texas, you ask him, “What part of Texas do you mean?” 1. Which of the following statements is TRUE? is the biggest city in America. is the biggest city in America. is the second biggest state in America. is the second biggest state in America. 答案 :C 2. In the passage the sentence “Different parts of the state have different kinds of weather.” Means _____. is very big is very big is far from Alaska is very hot 答案 :B 3. _____ is the best time to visit Laredo. 5 答案 :B 4. Which city do you go to in winter if you are a ski lover? . . . . 答案 :A 5. According to the passage, Texas maybe lies (位于 ) _____ of America. the south the north the south the north 答案 :A 閱讀 5 One afternoon, Kate and her brother Bob went out to play. Kate was eight, and Bob was ten. “Let?s go to the bridge and we can see fish in the river.” said Kate. “I don?t know,” Bob said. “Mum told us, ?Don?t go on the bridge?. She said it is dangerous.” Kate said, “I am not afraid. Are you?” They walked onto the bridge and began looking for fish in the river. The bridge was a train bridge. Trains went over the bridge three times a day. The children were standing in the middle of the bridge when they heard a loud noise. “A train is ing!” Bob shouted. “Run!” He ran to the end of the bridge. He was safe. Kate ran, too, but she fell. The train was ing fast. Kate ran towards Bob. She fell again right on the train tracks. There was no time to leave. She had to lie down between the tracks. A few seconds later, the train went over the girl, but she was not hurt at all. She stood up and said to Bob, “Don?t tell Mum! Don?t tell Mum!” At last their mother found out about the story. She was angry because they went onto the bridge. But she was happy that Kate was all right. 1. Bob and Kate were. and sister 答案 :D 2. One afternoon they went to the bridge to see. mother 6 train river 答案 :B 3. When the train came, the children were. the middle of the bridge the end of the bridge their way to the bridge from the bridge 答案 :A 4. Where was Kate when the train was going over her? on the train tracks. one of the tracks the tracks. the tracks. 答案 :C 5. When their mother knew about the story, she was angry and happy 答案 :D 閱讀 6 A man walked into a pet shop one day with a large and very ugly dog. It had long hair, short legs, no tail and a very wet nose. “Good morning, sir.” The owner of the pet shop said. “How can I help you?” “I want to sell this dog.” The pet shop owner looked at the dog and shook his head. “I?m sorry. I can?t give you anything for that animal. No one will want to buy him,” he said. “Why not?” asked the man. “He?s clean, wellbehaved and healthy.” “Look at him, sir,” said the pet shop owner. “He hasn?t got a tail, his legs are too short and his hair is too long. Who would want to buy such a dog?” “Well, I guess you?re right,” the man said. “But he can talk.” “What do you mean he can talk?” the pet shop owner asked. “Yes, he can speak perfect English. Just listen,” the man answered. The dog then spoke. “It?s true, sir,” he said. “I am the world?s greatest talking dog. I?ve been to America and talked to the President at the White House in Washington. I?ve talked to the Queen of England and the Emperor of Japan. Please buy me, sir. This man is very cruel to me. He makes me work too hard and doesn?t feed me very well. He never takes me for a walk or gives me a bath. Sometimes he leaves me alone for weeks. I?m so unhappy, sir. Please buy me and find a good home for me.” 7 The pet shop owner could hardly believe what he was hearing. “That?s amazing,” he said. “You?re right. He is a talking dog. But tell me, why do you want to sell him?” “Because I?m tired of all his lies,” the man said. 1. What did the dog owner want to do? wanted to buy a new dog. wanted to pet his dog. wanted to sell his dog. wanted to show how he had trained his dog to speak. 答案 :C 2. The pet shop owner didn?t want to buy him at first because the dog _____. ?t speak English too talkative wellbehaved ?t goodlooking 答案 :D 3. The man denied that _____. dog was ugly and unhealthy had a talking dog dog was nice to look at was cruel to the dog 答案 :D 4. The dog said that he _____. met and spoken to important people perfectly happy at his owner?s place hard work and baths making tricks 答案 :A 5. The dog plained that _____. owner took him out for a walk had to stay alone for a week. owner wanted to sell him owner looked after him badly. 答案 :D 閱讀 7 In Kansas City, Missouri, a puter helps fire puter contains information about every one of the 35,000 street addresses in the fire fighters answer a call, the puter will give them important information about the burning building, its position and almost all the ways of helping fire fighters with the problems facing example, it can give medical information about invalid living in a burning this information, the 8 fire fighters can take special care to find these sick persons and carry them away quickly and safely. The Kansas City puter system also keeps a medical record of each of the city?s 9,000 fire kind of information is especially useful when fire fighters get injured in this information, doctors at the hospital can treat the injured fire fighters more quickly and easily. is most likely the name of _________. wellknown river head of the fire fighters state in the USA new kind of puter 答案 :C puter can give _________. and useless information about the city information about everyone living in the city information about every street address in the cit