— Did you see who the driver was?

— No, the car ran so fast _______ I couldn't get a good look at his face.

A. that           B. which        C. as              D. after

She read the instructions to find out how ______ the computer.

A. use            B. to use         C. using         D. uses

There are more than two _______ languages spoken in Nigeria.

A. hundreds           B. hundreds of              C. hundred            D. hundred of

— Would you please ____ the TV a little? Jack is doing his homework.

— Terribly sorry. I will.

A. turn down         B. turn up              C. turn on              D. turn off

Afternoon tea is ______ in the dining room from 3 to 5 p. m. every day.

A. served        B. burned              C. cooked              D. eaten

— Could I ask you a rather personal question?  — Of course, _____.

A. good idea          B. that's right         C. never mind        D. go ahead

    Rudi Matt lived in a small village in the Swiss Alps in 1865. What he wanted most in the world was to climb the   1   peak(山峰)　in the Alps. Rudi's mother and his uncle, Franz, a mountain guide, wanted him to stop   2   and start working in a hotel. Rudi would not   3   his dream and secretly got in touch with an English mountain climber   4   was planning to climb the highest peak.

    Franz was very   5   when he found out what Rudi had done, but he finally agreed to let Rudi go if he went climbing,   6  . Franz also didn't want to see Emil Saxo, a guide from another village, got to the top   7   him.

    Rudi turned out to be a very good climber,   8   as they got close to the top, the Englishman got sick and could go no farther. Franz   9   behind to take care of him, but Saxo continued, wishing to be the   10   to the top. Rudi went after Saxo, hoping to   11   him to the top. When they met, Saxo fought with Rudi and fell down by accident. Saxo was helpless and hurt. Rudi must   12   whether to carry Saxo back down to safety or to continue alone to the top.

    He decided Saxo's life was more 13  than his dream and helped him down. During that time, the Englishman and Franz 14  the climb, and finally they reached the top. Later, when they returned to the village, they told people that   15   was the real conqueror(征服者) of the mountain.

1. A. highest            B. farthest            C. biggest                   D. deepest

2. A. learning           B. playing             C. climbing                 D. talking

3. A. try out             B. give up             C. go over                  D. work out

4. A. what               B. which              C. whom                    D. who

5. A. tired                B. glad                 C. quiet                      D. angry

6. A. again               B. too                   C. once                      D. instead

7. A. after                B. behind              C. before                    D. over

8. A. but                  B. so                    C. or                          D. for

9. A. walked            B. rested               C. stayed                    D. watched

10. A. first               B. second             C. third                      D. last

11. A. take               B. beat                 C. push                      D. help

12. A. wonder          B. remember         C. ask                        D. decide

13. A. important       B. successful        C. popular                  D. interesting

14. A. stopped         B. continued         C. enjoyed                  D. finished

15. A. Franz          B. Saxo                 C. the Englishman         D. Rudi

Why do plants grow in some places and not in others? Why does some land have so much growing on it, while other land has almost no plants growing on it at all?

To grow, plants need several things. One is warmth. In very cold places almost nothing grows. Plants also need water. In very dry parts of the Earth only a few unusual plants can grow. That's why dry deserts everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.

Plants must also have a place in which to put down their roots and grow. They find it difficult to grow on hard land. The town is built on hard land. The plants here have only the soil found between the cracks of the stones to grow in.

Another thing plants must have before they can grow is food.

    What will happen if we try to make things grow on the sandy beach? A few plants, such as beach grass, will grow in sand, but most plants won't. Even if the weather is warm enough and we water the plants each day, many of them will die because the sand on this beach has almost no food for plants.

1.   According to the passage, plants need ______ things to grow well.

   A. two                    B. three                   C. four                          D. five

2. What does the underlined word "cracks" mean in the text?

   A. 縫隙                B. 表面                  C. 夾層                        D. 底部

3. From the passage, we can know it is           for plants to grow in dry places.

   A. easy                 B. difficult               C. impossible                 D. important

4. The reason why most plants can't grow on the sandy beach is that _______.

   A. there isn't enough sunlight                 B. there is too much water

   C. it is too crowded there                      D. it has little food for plants

6.   The passage can most probably be found in a ______book.

   A. science               B. history                     C. travel                       D. math

    Two people sit down to play Go(圍棋). One of the players is an old man. He is now 89 years old. He has spent all of his life playing this game. The other person is a young woman. She has been playing Go for only three years. Before this, the woman was an expert at playing computer games. Now she plays Go the same way she played computer games－by becoming a machine herself.

They will play many games, until they know who the winner is. The woman shows no feelings but thinking about all the possible ways of placing her next stone. The old man, on the other hand, looks at the movements of her hands and of her face. This has always helped him to win.

He wins the first three games. She wins the next game, and the man is surprised. He has never lost to a woman. The old man worries about the way the young woman is playing the game. He can't read her face; he does not understand her way of playing.

"The way I think about the game" says the woman, "is that it is steps for getting what I want." Again, the old man is surprised. For him, the game is a way of life itself, and not a model of life.

"There is no more beauty any longer. Everything is science and rules. Everything is about winning. Nothing is about playing" he says.

They cannot agree with each other; but it is not necessary.

"Change is a necessary part of life" thinks the man.

"Playing is as important as winning" thinks the woman.

    They start to play their final game.

1.    According to the passage, the Go games are played by       ______.

   A. two Go beginners                     B. two Go lovers

C. father and daughter            D. husband and wife

2.    Before the woman plays go, she was ______.

   A. a computer game player      B. a computer science teacher

   C. a computer engineer        D. a computer store owner

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

   A. The old man loses the third game to the woman.

   B. The old man wins all the games against the woman.

   C. The woman has her own way of playing Go.

   D. The woman is very slow in learning how to play Go.

4.    From the passage we can know     ________.

   A. the old man doesn't care who the winner is

   B. the woman pays no attention to the steps

   C. the old man learns something from the woman

   D. the woman loses the last game to the old man

5.    What is the best title of the passage?

A. An Old Go Player              B. A Strange Woman

C. A Boring Game          D. Winning or Playing?

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The Earth needs a helping hand

    The Earth is getting warmer because of the activities of people. We cut down and burn   1   and send gases into the air with our cars and factories. Can we do anything about it? Sure. We may   2   be leaders or scientists but we can play our part in   3    the planet. Here are two ideas.

    Bike, don't ride to school

Do you   4    to school by bus or by bike? If you bike, you are doing   5    for the Earth. Buses, cars, trains and planes produce a lot of carbon dioxide (二氧化碳). If you live near to your school,   6   not bike there on warm spring mornings? Or, you can   7    walk to school to save energy.

    Wash the green way

    Do you help your mom and dad wash clothes? Then wash them   8    an energy-saving way. A recent study by Cambridge University found    9    60 percent of the energy used on a piece of clothing is    10    in washing and drying it. Over its lifetime, a T-shirt can send up to 4 kilograms of carbon dioxide into the air.

    　11    you wash your own clothes, wash them in cold or warm water to save energy, but not hot water. Wash your clothes when   12   fill up the machine. Use the most energy-saving machine you can find. Some new ones use as    13    as one-fourth of the energy of older machines. When they're clean, dry    14    clothes the natural way, by hanging them   15    a line rather than putting them in a dryer. In all, you can cut the carbon dioxide used in washing by 90 percent.