A Trip to the Forest
One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing.
In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometres from their camp（營地）, it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He could not find the road. Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the other went to his house. But all was white snow. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?
Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometres in such cold weather!
It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped. Where were they? 
None of them could tell. John looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents!
【小題1】John and his two friends went to the forest to ________.

A．build their camp	B．find their way home
C．enjoy the mountains in the snow	D．watch the trees in the forest

【小題2】They could not find their way back because ________.

A．there was only one road to their camp

B．they couldn’t decide which of the two roads led to their tents

C．there were no roads in the mountains at all

D．everything was covered by the white snow

【小題3】It is clear that they wanted the horses to take them to _______.

A．John’s house

B．the camp

C．the forest

D．the mountains

【小題4】The horses stopped because _______.

A．it was getting late	B．they were tired after running for a long way
C．they knew that they had got to the camp	D．they had seen John’s house

【小題5】The story happened _______.

A．on a cold winter day	B．on a dark snowy evening
C．in a cold camp far from villages	D．a(chǎn)t night when nothing could be seen

Life in the twenty-first century will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. Travelling will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
【小題1】There will be _________ in the future.

A．small population

B．few changes

C．more people

D．few people

【小題2】In the future the computer will be _________.

A．much bigger and few people will use it

B．much smaller and more useful

C．smaller and not many people will use it

D．bigger and a lot of people will use it

【小題3】In the future more people _________.

A．will go to other countries for holidays

B．will study at school

C．will go earlier

D．will work for many hours

【小題4】People will prefer _________ to _________ in the future.

A．meat and vegetables; fruit

B．meat; fruit and vegetables

C．fruit and meat; vegetables

D．fruit and vegetables; meat

【小題5】The robots will _________ in the future.

A．do the dangerous work

B．do all the work

C．do only housework

D．do the easy work for people

If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票價(jià)) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.
With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (預(yù)防措施) against others?
【小題1】The word “foolish” probably means _____________.

A．friendly

B．careful

C．strange

D．funny

【小題2】Why wouldn’t the driver show the least sign of worry? Because _________.

A．he is sure that the passengers always act on good faith

B．he is afraid to make the passengers angry and unhappy

C．he thinks the passengers may be too poor to pay him

D．he is sure that the passengers are really in trouble

【小題3】The dining rooms in all big hotels ___________.

A．check the guests’ registration card carefully

B．give people meals without paying

C．serve their guests free of charge

D．only serve their guests free breakfast

【小題4】What’s FALSE according to the passage?

A．No one takes advantages although there are many loopholes.

B．All the taxi-passengers come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business.

C．Not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms.

D．Finland is heaven for immoral people because they can always take advantages freely.

【小題5】The sentences “which is which” and “what is what” show that __________.

A．the Finns are foolish

B．the Finns take things seriously

C．the Finns are busy making money for the family

D．the Finns never take precaution against others

課文填空
Did you know that tea, the most popular drink in the world (after water), was invented by __________? Although tea wasn’t brought to the Western world _________ 1610, this beverage was __________ over three thousand years before that. __________ to an ancient Chinese legend, the emperor Shen Nong discovered tea when he was _________ drinking water __________ an open fire. Some __________ from a nearby bush fell into the water and __________ there for some time. The emperor noticed that leaves in the water produced a pleasant __________. Later he decided to taste the hot mixture. It was quite delicious. And _________ this way, one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.

請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下要點(diǎn)提示，以“A Bad Weekend”為題寫一篇80詞左右的短文，談?wù)勀阒苣┧��?jīng)歷的事情。可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮。
1. 和同學(xué)們約好上周六去五峰山玩。
2. 約定在早上8:00在火車站見面，乘火車去那兒。
3. 由于前一晚我睡得太晚，第二天醒來時(shí)已經(jīng)7點(diǎn)半。
4. 沒有吃早飯匆忙趕到車站，同學(xué)們已經(jīng)乘車走了。
5. 難受極了，過了個(gè)很糟糕的周末。
A Bad Weekend
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On weekends,I often ____________ and watch TV.
A.stay at home     B.go to school      C.join the club

Look ____________my new shorts.
A.on            B.in            C.at

I like to play ____________ my friends after class.
A.on            B.with      C.at

His birthday ____________ in June.
A.am        B.is            C.are