Do you know about Dolly, a famous sheep? She was created by cloning more than ten years ago in Scotland. Cloning is famous throughout the world. It is an experiment to make an animal that is exactly like its parent. So far, scientists have cloned rabbits, sheep, cows, mice, pigs and some other animals.
          But what is used in cloning? It’s DNA. There is DNA in most living things, including human beings. Your DNA is the same in every part of your body. For example, your fingernails have the same DNA as
your hair. You have your own DNA, which is similar to your parents’ , but not exactly the same. However, Dolly’s DNA is exactly the same as that of the sheep she was cloned from.
          No doubt cloning can help save those animals in danger. And it can also benefit human beings. The cloning technology has been used in human organs. With its help, scientists are able to explore more ways
to treat many serious diseases such as heart disease, AIDs and cancer. However, cloning could be used in some ways to harm society. All governments should make laws to make sure it can be used properly.

1. When and where was Dolly created?

A. More than one hundred years ago, in the USA.           
B. More than fifty years ago, in Scotland.
C. More than ten years ago, in Scotland.            
D. More than fifty years ago, in China.

2. According to the passage, which one hasn’t been cloned by scientist?

A. cows
B. mice      
C. rabbits  
D. giraffe

3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Cloning is an experiment to make an animal that is different from its parent.
B. Your our fingernails don’t have the same DNA as your hair.
C. Your DNA isn’t exactly the same as your parents.  
D. Cloning won’t be used in any ways to harm society.

4. The cloning technology____________.

A. is not famous throughout the world
B. has been used in human organs
C. has been used properly   
D. is useless

5. The best title for passage is ____________

A. Dolly        
B. Society      
C. DNA        
D.Cloning

     Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day.
English speakers are always creating new words, and we are often able to know w  1      most words
come from.
     Sometimes, h  2   , no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about
w  3    hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a
hundred years ago, some men went to America f  4    Europe. They came from a big city in Germany
called Hamburg. They did not speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw
them e  5   round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand
the question and answered, 66We come from Hamburg. " One of these Americans owned a restaurant,
and had an idea.
     He cooked some round pieces of beef like those w  6   the men from Hamburg ate. Then he put
each between two pieces of bread and started selling them. Such bread came to be called "hamburgers".
Today 6'hamburgers" are sold in many countries a  7    the world.
     Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain
meaning is i  8   , too.
1.           2.           3.           4.           5.           6.           7.           8.          

     Men sometimes say, "We are better and cleverer than women.  Women never invent things, we do. "It
is true that men have invented a lot of useful things. But scientists and archaeologists now agree that women invented one very important thing. It has changed history. They invented agriculture. Before the invention
of agriculture men were hunters. They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals and sometimes
animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out every day, too. They collected roots, fruit and grass. Then, one day, more than 100,000 years ago, a woman dropped some grass seeds. They grew and the first wheat was born. The idea grew, too. Women planted fruit trees. Then they could
stay at home and look after the children and the animals. Women like baby animals. Archaeologists think
that women kept the first domestic animals: dogs, cows sheep and goats. That idea grew, too. Then their
husbands did not have to go hunting for meat.They stayed at home.They built villages and cities. Civilization began.
1. Agriculture made it         for mankind to begin civilization.
A. dangerous                    
B. possible
C. popular                      
D. interesting
2. Villages and cities appeared         the inventior; of agriculture.
A. after                        
B. before
C. for                          
D. about
3.          built villages and cities.
A. Scientists                    
B. Women
C. Men                        
D. The children
4. We think          invented important things.
A. both men and women          
B. men
C. scientists                    
D. women
5. Men didn't go out for meat with the help of           .
A. the children                  
B. the animals
C. scientists                    
D. their wives

    Children's schooling is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers k   l    children sitting still for
hours. They made them memorize d  2    kinds of things. In other w    3    , the children had to go on
repeating things until they knew "by heart". Today, many teachers want to know if it is p  4    to make
children learn at all. They say you can o  5      help them learn. They say you must let children learn and
find out things for t    6     .
    But for these children, school is a kind of prison. They are there only because their p  7    make them
go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teacher lets them 1  8    . Many of them want to find
work, but the law will not let them work until they reach a certain a   9   . And so, they have to stay in
school.  Often they do not learn a  10  at all and hate every moment.
1.             2.             3.             4.             5.             
6.            7.             8.             9.             10.             

1.                  may be the main reason for the dinosaurs dying out according to scientists.
A. Big fires
B. Earthquakes
C. Acid rain
D. Temperature change
2. The passage mentioned                  ideas that the scientists came up with about the end of the dinosaurs.
A. two                        
B. three
C. four                        
D. five
3. The underlined expression "volcano eruptions" probably is                   .
A.the name of a minor plane
B. one kind of dinosaurs
C. one kind of disaster
D. the name of an earthquake
4. The earth became cold because                    .
A. the sun refused to rise
B. the dust kept the sunlight away
C. there's too much rain
D. there are too many dinosaurs
5. This passage may be found in                    .
A. a science fiction      
B. a story book
C. a dictionary          
D. a science magazine

     The car was invented just a century ago. You may know all kinds of car's names, but many people don't know who was the inventor of the first car. The car was
invented not by a German, but by an American. His name was Henry Ford.
     Henry Ford was born in a poor family. He was the eldest of six children. When he was a boy, he became interested in fixing(安裝) watches and machines. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. Soon he had to work in a machine shop for two
dollars and fifty cents a week. In the evening he mended watches for another one
dollar a week. The hard life made him strong and able. 
     At that time there was another interest in the life of the young Ford. He dreamed of making a machine. The machine could run without horse. It was named "horseless
carriage". He overcame a lot of difficulties and in April, 1893,the horseless carriage
was finished at last. It was the first car.      

1. How many dollars did young Ford get every week?

A. 2. 5 dollars.              
B. 4 dollars.
C. 3 dollars.                
D. 3. 5 dollars.             

2, Who invented the car?

A. A German.            
B. An American.
C. A Frenchman.          
D. A Japanese.

3. From this passage, when was the car invented？

A. More than l00 years ago,
B.Less than l00 years ago.
C. Just 100 years.
D. 50 years ago.

4. "Horseless carriage" means “              ”     

A. a carriage with a horse
B. a carriage with one or two horses
C. a carriage without a horse
D. a carriage with a man and without a horse

5. Henry Ford have         . 

A. five or six younger brothers
B. six brothers or sisters
C. five brothers or sisters
D. three brothers

       The United States has many different kinds of climates. On the northwest coast, the temperature
  changes very little between summer and winter, but the north central states have a very different kind of
  climate. In those states, people wear light clothes in summer, and they need heavy woolen clothes in
  winter.
       In the southwest coast, the climate is rainy and warm during the winter, but the summer is dry and hot.
       In the northeast of the United States, summer temperature's are very different from winter
  temperatures. Summer is usually hot, and winter is usually cold. Spring temperatures are warm, and fall
  temperatures arc cool.
       Years ago, people in the cold parts of the United States didn't often get fresh vegetables and fresh
  fruits during the summer. Today, however, trucks and trains carry fruits and vegetables very quickly to all
   parts of the United States. In this way, Americans "send their climates"to people in other states.

1. The summer and winter temperatures are almost the same _____. 

A. in the northeastern states
B. on the north central states
C. in the western states
D. on the northwest coast

2. The word "fall" in this passage means "_____".

A. drop                    
B. down
C. autumn                  
D. spring              

3. Today people _____ can get fresh vegetables and fruits.

A. in the north central states
B. in every part of the USA
C. in the cold parts of the USA
D. in the southwest part of the USA

4. From this passage we know that the climate of the United States _____.

A. is always very cold
B. is warm in winter
C. is widely different
D. changes very little between summer and winter

5. From Paragraph 2 we know that the climate of the southwest coast is _____.     

A. Maritime (海洋性) climate
B. Savanna (熱帶草原) climate
C. Mediterranean (地中海) climate
D. Tropical rainforest (熱帶雨林) climate

       Have you thought about what might have happened if American President Kennedy was saved in
  1963? Impossible, you'll say Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, on 22nd November, 1963, and that's
   an end to it.
       But what would happen if he came back to life?  That's what the "stuff books"are made of. In 1988 an
   American named George Bernall wrote a book of this kind. The book is called "Promises to Keep". It
  was thought of as the best one of the kind. He made the book like real life. The story was so interesting
  that it kept readers turning the page till the end though it had over 800 pages.
       In fact we know that John F. Kennedy was killed and never came back to life. In this book, he comes
  back to life, and the story begins from there.
       The book set readers thinking, not especially about Kennedy's killing, but about what would happen
  after.

1. The phrase "come back to life" means _____.

A. never die again
B. become alive again
C. know one is still living
D. live forever                          

2. What kind of book is "Promises to Keep"?

A. A kind of study of Kennedy's killing.
B. An American horror novel.
C. A life story about Kennedy.
D. A story book developed from a true story.

3. The book "Promises to Keep" tells us _____.

A. how to write a "stuff book" like the one written by George Bernall
B. how to write about history
C. what would happen when Kennedy was brought back to life
D. how to make up a story about the presidents

4. The book not only keeps the readers interested, until the end, but makes them _____.

A. feel terrible
B. stop thinking
C. laugh at something
D. think about something

5. Although the story is _____, readers like to read it very much.

A. not interesting              
B. long
C. sad                      
D. not exciting