The world is divided into    1    parts. One half of the world is rich and the other is poor. In the poor part, a lot of people have   2   got enough to eat. When they are ill,   3   of the hospital can receive them because they have   4   money. In the rich part, a lot of people eat too much. For example, a dog    5    a cat in North America eats    6   than a child in the poor countries.

The poor countries have some difficult problems. Sometimes the land is too poor to grow   7    on. People there have   8   rich land   9   enough water. The land can be made better, but a lot of things must be done. The people   10   be taught and water must be found.

But rich countries have problem, too. There are not always good places to  11  . Sometimes the air is not clean and the rivers are   12   dirty to swim in or drink. The roads and streets are full of people and buses. Cars and buses have to move    13  . Noise is too much. Some people don’t have houses. Something must be done about these problems. The air and the rivers must be cleaned and be   14   clean. More houses have to be built.   15   these can’t be done easily.

1. A. one              B. two               C. three             D. four 

2. A. won’t             B. aren’t            C. didn’t            D. never

3. A. all              B. none              C. some              D. any

4. A. a little         B. no                C. too much          D. a lot of

5. A. like             B. as                C. or                D. and

6. A. more             B. less              C. better            D. well

7. A. everything        B. something         C. nothing          D. anything

8. A. no               B. not               C. neither           D. both

9. A. and              B. but               C. nor               D. or

10. A. needn’t          B. must              C. can’t             D. may not

11. A. live            B. live in           C. sleep             D. stay

12. A. very            B. so                C. too               D. stay

13. A. slowly          B. quickly           C. carefully         D. dangerous

14. A. made            B. become            C. kept              D. done

15. A. But             B. And               C. So                D. Because

          was today’s highest temperature?

A. How much      B. How many     C. What     D. How

根據(jù)句意和提示以適當(dāng)?shù)男问教顚?xiě)正確的單詞。

1. Mother's Day is the          / / Sunday in May.

2. He is i          in the interesting story.

3. Have you           // of the Olympic mascot(吉祥物)-the five friendlies?

4. Something must be done to stop the factory from           (污染)the environment.

5. English is used           (廣泛地) in the world.

6. The moon goes round the earth. It’s earth’s s         .

7. He did his homework so carefully that no m          were made in it.

8. The car isn’t w          what you’ve paid.

9. Don’t put the cup on the edge of the table. It may be k          off.

10. Can you give me a d          of what the thief looked like?

         he is poor, he is always happy.

A. Although       B. Because         C. So    D. When

Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time, if corrected too much, he will stop talking.

He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people’s. In the same way, children learning to do all the other things without being taught-to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle-compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly made the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.

If it is a matter or right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what they know or do not know.

1. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by         .

A. listening to skilled people’s advice

B. asking older people many questions

C. point out children’s mistakes whenever found

D. doing what other people do

2. According to the writer, teachers in school should         .

A. allow children to learn from each other

B. give children more book knowledge

C. point out children’s mistakes whenever found

D. correct children’s mistakes as soon as possible

3. The passage suggests that learning to speak and learning to ride a bicycle are         .

A. different from learning other skills      

B. the same as learning other skills

C. more important than other skill           

D. not really important skills.

4. The title of this passage could probably be _________.

A. Let Us Teachers Stop Work

B. Let Us Make Children Learn

C. Let Children Correct Their Exercises

D. Let Children Learn by Themselves

5. In this passage the author says that children should be encouraged to do

        .

A. their own things without others’ help

B. their own things with some timely help from their parents

C. their own things unconditionally

D. their own things and helps can be provided only when necessary.

There were some new soldiers on the ground. They were taught in modern  1   of fighting by their two teachers. They were  2  how a man could trick(欺騙) a soldier and take his gun away from him. First one teacher took a knife away from  3 , using only hands, and then he took a gun away from him in the  4  way. Several days later  5  they made the young soldiers do these things themselves, both of the  6  asked them lots of questions and wanted to see  7  they had understood. One of the questions was what you would  8  when you were on duty with a  9  on a big bridge at night. It was Tom’s  10  to answer the question. He thought carefully for  11  and said, “Well, I think, the  12  thing to do would be to  13  my gun into the river as  14  as possible so that the man couldn’t take it away from me and  15  me with it.”

1. A. ways       B. clothes           C. trousers     D. hats

2. A. taught     B. shown             C. questioned   D. asked

3. A. the man   B. the soldiers     C. the other    D. modern

4. A. different  B. same             C. difficult    D. modern

5. A. when       B. while             C. before       D. after

6. A. soldiers   B. men              C. women        D. teachers

7. A. how hard   B. how hardly        C. how well    D. how badly

8. A. take       B. bring             C. do         D. throw

9. A. book       B. gun               C. radio      D. ball

10. A. work     B. turn              C. duty       D. business

11. A. an hour  B. a week            C. a month    D. a moment

12. A. worst    B. last              C. first     D. earliest

13. A. throw    B. put             C. send        D. push

14. A. quickly   B. slowly           C. quietly    D. softly

15. A. thank     B. help             C. teach      D. kill

It’s raining            outside, the people could            go out.

A. hard, hard       B. hard, hard    C. hard, hardly           D. hardly, hard

I am sorry to tell you that I was not as            as you.

A. luck              B. lucky                        C. luckily                       D. more lucky

All the students           to watch the football match. There’s nobody in the classroom.

A. go      B. will go     C. went        D. have gone

The spider (蜘蛛) is very little and clever. Its body is made up of two parts. It has four pairs of legs and eight little eyes.

The spider loves work. It begins to work as soon as it begins to live. Every spider is a weaver. Even the youngest spider knows how to weave (編織) its web (網(wǎng)) just as well as the oldest.

The silk of which it makes its web comes from its body. It is like hairs. Many of these hairs come out at the same time, but they are all formed into one rope of silk. It is so thin that a hundred of them together are only as thick as a human hair.

First the spider fasten (固定) one end of the silk thread (絲線) to a leaf or to a piece of wood, then it turns and fastens it to the other end.

When the spider fastens both ends, it can run down the silk and fix some more threads. These are the cross ropes of the web. Then it weaves other lines round them, and makes about twenty rings.

Then spider works hard and fast, and it finishes its work in less than an hour. The web is then so strong that the wind cannot blow it away and the rain cannot break it. The purpose (目的) of the spider’s web is to catch insects (昆蟲(chóng)), which are its food.

Insects cannot walk or fly out of the web, because the spider covers it all with something like glue (膠水), which sticks to (粘) anything that touches the web and holds it fast (牢固).

Not all the spiders are the same sort of work to do.

Some spiders are masons(泥瓦匠). They build houses the size of a big thimble (頂針). They make doors in them, which they shut after them when they go in. They can even fasten the door of the house from the inside, so that no robber can get in.

The garden spider lets thread float in the air till they stick to plants or to the branches of trees. It then uses these threads as the roads or bridges to cross from one place to another. 

1. What is the spider’s silk like?

A. It’s very thin. One hundred of them are as thin as a human hair.

B. It’s very strong. It is made of human’s hair.

C. It’s really like human hair and it’s as thin as human’s hair.

D. It’s no color and it is a strong line just like human’s hair.

2. While the spider makes its web,         .

A. first it makes a leaf or a piece of wood

B. first it fixes one end of the silk thread firmly to a leaf or a piece of wood

C. first it fixes one end of the silk thread to its own head

D. first it fixes human’s hair to a leaf or a piece of wood. Then makes a web along the air

3. The spider makes about          rings.

A. thirty        B. a hundred        C. fifty         D. twenty

4. The spider finishes its work         .

A. more than a day                  B. in less than an hour

C. in a week                        D. in half an hour

5. Which of the following is true?

A. All the spiders are masons.

B. The garden spider lets thread float in the air to catch insects.

C. The silk of which makes its web comes from human’s hair.

D. The spider is both little and clever.