A book called Here and Now contains stories, poems, and pictures by American high-school students. The material（材料）in the book was produced between 1960 and 1970. It was about some young people. These people dropped out（退學(xué)）of school and committed crimes（犯罪）at that time. It is good to know that most young Americans don’t take drugs or drop out of school. Each year, students write about 150,000 stories and poems. They hope to win prizes in writing. Across the nation, other students make their art works, and hope to win prizes, too. These students work very hard, and they think about other people’s problems. When you read the book you will think about something to help people.

　　Oil can be used in many ways and it’s difficult to imagine what the modem world will be like without oil. But oil isn’t easy to find and get out of the earth. Men must study the rocks. When they think the rocks in a certain place may have oil, a metal tower is built, a machine in the tower cuts a hole down into the ground. At the same time, a steel pipe（鋼管）is pushed down to stop the .sides from falling in and to keep out water. At last if the men are right, usually the oil rushes up the sides with great force（力量）by the pressure（壓力）of the gas in the top of the rock, and it rushes high into the air. If the oil catches a light, there will be a terrible fire,. So a kind of cover is fixed on the top of the pipe, and the oil can run out through taps（活塞）.

(1) The word“exploitation”in the passage means ________.

(3) Which of the following can be true according to（根據(jù)）the passage?

A．Coal gas can’t be used in houses and factories.

B．Oil is very important in the modem world.

C．Many governments encourage people to waste oil as much as possible.

(4) According to the passage, the right picture to show the tendency（趨勢）to the amount of oil on the earth is.

A．The Exploitation of Oil

B．The Use of Oil

C．The price of Oil

　　When a tornado destroys a house, it doesn’t blow it down the way a hurricane（十二級臺風(fēng)）does. It makes the house explode（爆炸）. When air that surrounds a house presses against it all time, it usually has a force of about 15 pounds per square inch. The air inside the house presses out against the walks just as hard. When a tornado passes over a house, it suddenly sucks away the air outside the house. The air inside the house still pushes out against the walls. But now there is nothing pushing back. So the walls are pushed out in an explosion. Pieces of the house are sucked up into the tornado and carried away. There is little left where the house once stood.

A．air pushes from the outside

B．air pushes from the inside

C．there is a different kind of pressure

A．greater than the air pressure inside

B．the same as the air pressure inside

C．less than the air pressure inside

A．the air outside is taken away

B．the air inside is taken away

C．too much air is pushing outside

A．as if there had been a fire

B．like a pile of wood

C．as if a bomb（炸彈）had exploded in it

　　“Excuse me, madam, ”said the man,“Could you tell me how to get to the nearest hospital, please?”

　　Mm. Smith looked at him up and down,“He seems a farmer,”the woman said to herself,“Let me laugh at him.”

　　Then she turned to him said,“Lie down in the middle of the street and you’ll soon be sent to a hospital.”

　　“Please set an example（示范）to me, then.”said the man.

　　She had to tell the way to him and then she said,“I think you’ve been in a city for the first time. It’s much more beautiful than the field. Is that right?”

　　“Yes, madam,”said the farmer with a smile,“But I think it is built on the field!”

A．she felt lonely

B．she didn’t cook breakfast

C．she spent haft an hour in tidying the room

A．he had nothing to do in the evening

B．he was very tired in the day-time

C．he had to cook breakfast next day

A．look at the traffic

B．wait for her husband

C．bask（曬太陽）in the sun-light

A．the man was poor

B．tile man was a traveler

C．the man came from a village

A．Mrs. Smith laughed at the farmer.

B．Mrs. Smith got the farmer into trouble.

C．The farmer cleverly answered the woman.

A．People from northern Asia

B．People from Italy

C．People from Germany

A．northern Asia became very hot

B．northern Asia became very cold

C．they were interested in America

A．didn’t speak the same language

B．spoke English

C．spoke German only

　　A man was traveling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a circus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said,“I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!”

　　Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage. When the man got back to his own country, the customs officers would not believe his story. They said, “You sold your new car while you were. abroad and bought this old one!”It was only when the man showed them the letter from the circus man that believed him.

A．in a big bus

B．in a green jeep

C．in a red car

A．there was a traffic accident

B．the circus man broke it

C．the elephant sat on it

A．he would pay for part of the damage

B．he would pay for all of file damage

C．he wouldn’t pay for the damage

A．would check his new car

B．only checked his car

C．wouldn’t believe what he had said

A．the letter from tile circus man

B．a newspaper from the country

C．the certificate of his

　　China adopts the “five-year-plan” strategy（計(jì)劃）for economic development. Because of the opening-up policy（改革開放）, the 9th Five-Year Plan (1996～2000) was outstandingly（顯著地）successful, and the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001～2005) mapped out the first plan for the new century, setting these main targets（目標(biāo)）:

A．quickly

B．slower than last Five-Year

C．as fast as ever before

How much is GDP（國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值）in 2003?

(5) In the 22 years following reform and ________ in 1979 in particular, China’s economy developed ________ an unprecedented（空前的）rate.

A．open-up, for

B．up-opening, with

C．opening-up, at

　　We use the Internet for many things: business, shopping, writing letters, talking to people, finding information mid so on. In recent years, a new kind of English.has grown on the Internet. There’s no real word for it yet, so we’ll call it E-talk. People don’t like typing too much. To save time, they turn phrases into a few letters (alled acronyms). Acronyms are often used in chat rooms（聊天室）. Some of them are: BTW (by the way) BRB (be right back) LOL (laughing out loud) IMO (in my opinion). People also use many abbreviations. They are shortened forms of words. Some common abbreviations are: info (information), puter (computer), pic (picture), sec (second). We usually don’t see people when we communicate（交流）on the Net, so people have new ways to show feelings. Most people use their keyboards to draw “feelings”, such as:

　　These days, many forums（論壇）have picture feelings. For example:

　　There are even whole new words, like“newbies”(someone who is new on a chat board or forum). When you write something bad about someone else, it’s called“flaming”the person. It takes time for people to get used to（適應(yīng)）E-talk. Also, different groups on the Net have their own special ways of communicating. Newbies sometimes have to ask other people what they mean. As the Intemet grows, E-talk will continue to grow and change.

A．To show their feelings.

B．To make jokes.

C．Because people can type them quickly.

A．The person is happy about getting a new computer.

B．The person has to go away from their computer.

C．The person is sad that his computer is having problems.

A．keep changing

B．stay the same

C．be used by people on the telephone

A．E-talk

B．Pictnm Feelings

C．How to Use Abbreviations

　　Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van（住房汽車）.

　　A small car can hold（容納）four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded（擁擠）. A van hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all gavel together. Mr. Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. The sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home the suitcases are brought into the box behind the car, thus they can carry their grandparents. Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays, when a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular, In America there are many parks for motor homes.

A．sold their old house

B．moved to their grandparents’ house

C．sold their second car

A．a baby

B．much money

C．more than two children

A．to gavel with all the family members of holiday

B．to do some shopping with all the family members

C．to visit their grandparents at weekends

A．they can take people to another city when people are free

B．they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays

C．some people think motor homes are cheap

　　We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe（歐洲）did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.

　　There is a story about an English sailor（水手）who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a“tea party”.When her friends came to the“tea party”, the old woman offered（給）them brown tea-leaves（茶葉）. The old woman’s friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.

　　At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said,“Mother, what have you done with the tea?”

　　“I boiled（煮）it, as you said.”

　　“And what did you do with the water?”

　　“I threw it away, of course.”answered the old woman.

　　“Now you may throw away the leaves, too.”said her son.

A．drank tea every day 300 years ago

B．drink tea every day

C．know nothing about tea

A．countries in the west

B．countries in the south

C．India or China

A．she wanted to sample（品嘗）the tea together with her friends

B．she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea

C．she liked to show off（炫耀）

(4) At the“tea party”, ________.

A．all the woman’s friends spoke highly of the tea

B．nobody knew what to do with the tea

C．the woman offered her friends some dried（干的）tea

A．boiled the tea

B．did as the sailor said

C．poured away the water