34、In the West，there can be some abbreviations（缩略词）in some advertisements（广告）of the newspaper．Here's an advertisement for an apartment（公寓套房）．Most of the words in it are abbreviations，for example，Lrg．apt，i．e．（即）Large apartment；Lrg．lvrm，i．e．Large living-room．Now，please read the advertisement carefully，and then fill in each blank with ONE word．

Complete the following sentences according to the passage above．

1．The apartment is on the _________ floor of the building．

2．If you rent（租用）the apartment，do（千万）remember not to bring（带来）any _________ ，like dogs，cats，birds and so on．

3．There is a large living-room and two _________ in the apartment．

4．The location（位置）of the building is very _________ ．

5．If you rent the apartment，you must pay（付）_________ dollars（美元）every month．

33、Experts（专家） say that students usually need eight to ten hours’ sleep at night, but most Chinese parents are usually glad to see their children study late. They will think their children work very hard. But not all parents are happy about this. Once a mother told us that every morning her 10-year-old boy put up one finger with his eyes still closed, begging for one more minute to sleep. Like thousands of students “early birds” in China, he has to get up before six every morning.

A report shows that without a good night’s sleep, students seem to be weaker than they should be. Many students have fallen asleep during class at one time or another. Too much home-work is not the only reason why students stay up late. Some watch TV or play the computer games late into the night.

Experts have said that students should develop good study habits. So some students never study late, they are able to work well in class.

1．How many hours do the students need to sleep at night?

2．Why do many students fall asleep in class?

3．What’s the meaning of “early birds” in the first paragraph?

4．What do the students seem to be if they have not a good night’s sleep?

5．Should the students get up early according to the experts?

32、O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, （a）出生于in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for （b）______________ he was born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything（c）他需要知道。

   When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison（监狱）. During the three years in prison, （d）he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

   He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with sudden change. （e）This made the readers surprised.

1．将划线部分（a）译成英语:_______________________________________

2．在（b）的空白处填入适当的词组:_________________________________

3．将划线部分（c）译成英语: ______________________________________

4．将划线部分（d）译成汉语: ______________________________________

5．将划线部分（e）译成汉语: ______________________________________

29、Four foreigners in Britain talk about the people and the country…

Nicolac from Romania works in a pub

“British people like children，but they don’t let them go to the pubs（酒馆）or restaurants In my pub we have a rule：’No children under 12’．People in Britain drink a lot of coffee and beer．”

Alexandra from Russia is a student

“This is not a good country for smokers! Many coffee bars and restaurants are ‘No Smoking’．I live with three British students and they don't smoke．When l want to smoke，I must go to the garden”.

Carlos is a teacher from Spain

“People read tile newspaper everywhere-on the train，on the bus，at the bus stop．Cars stop in Britain when you stand on the zebra crossing．Cars don’t stop for you in lily country．”

Marillia from Brazil works for a British family

“I think my British family is typical（典型的）The woman doesn’t cook，but she watches cooking programmer on TV every day The man cooks at the weekend He makes very nice food．”

1．If your sister is 15 years old, can she go to the Nicolac's pub?

2．Where must Alexandra go if she wants to smoke?

3．What do British people often do on the train or bus?

4．What programmes does the woman watch every day in Marillia’s British family?

28、In 1912 Gaffet A．Morga was worried about the large number of fires in the factory of his city．He wanted to make something that would protect the people who had to fight the fire. They were often hurt．Sometimes they were killed by gas and smoke．They needed something that would help them put out fires quickly and safely．

    Morgan developed the safety hood（头罩）. It was a hood to be worn over the face. Two tubes ran down the back leading to an air trap（空气收集器）of clean air below．This hood allowed the firefighters to remain in smoke-filled rooms longer and with less danger.

On July 25．Cleveland，Ohio was rocked（震撼）by an explosion（爆炸）．The explosion trapped（困住）thirty-two workers in a tunnel（隧道）under Lake Erie. Morgan was called to help．Morgan and his brother，Frank，and two other men put on safety hoods. They went into the tunnel．They brought out all the workers．who were still alive．For his help，Morgan received medals（奖牌）from the city of Cleveland and the International Association of Fire Engineers．

    Morgan improved this safety hood in 1917 T11e11 in 1923，he made something else to help make the world safer for people．Morgan invented the first electric traffic signal.

1．What led to the invention of the safety hood?

2．What is paragraph two mainly about?

3．Why was Morgan called to help the people trapped in the tunnel?

4．How many people went into the tunnel except Morgan?

5．What was invented in 1923 by Morgan?

27、Antarctica is the highest continent on Earth，with the coldest temperatures anti the most wind．People have never wanted to live there because it is so cold．The（A）_________ temperature once was －89.2℃! But now scientists from all over the world come to study the ice．They want to（B）learn more about the Earth's history．

Some scientists live on Antarctica for part of the year．But they don't usually stay there for more than six months．Why? There are six months of light and six months of darkness .

Antarctica usually has a good deal of fine weather（C）_________any wind at all．The strong winds are usually only in seine parts of it. It is also interesting to learn that it isn't very wet there（D）There is very little snow or rain．It snows on the ice Ill winter，but at other times Antarctica is dry，just like the Sahara Desert

    In winter the sea around Antarctica （E）changes into ice for thousands of kilometers．But scientists tell us that（F）地球在变暖．So in future，there may be less ice ill the Antarctic sea When that happens．our weather will never be the same again．

1．分别在A和C的空白处各填入一个适当的词：

2．写出可以替换划线部分B和E的同义词或近义词：

3．将划线部分D改写成__________  __________ snow or rain alot．

4．将划线部分F译成英语

5．写出能说明本文主旨大意的中心词语：

26、Moving out，moving back

    In the countries all over the world，people are leaving the countryside in huge numbers to find（A）work in the cities．They leave because the country，side is much poorer than the city and often there（B）_________ much work there Services such as hospitals and transport are usually much better in cities than they al e in the country．They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.

    But in the big cities of Europe and America-London，Paris．New York. people are moving out o the city. These are usually families who have some money, and （C）want to live a quieter life．They are tired of the noise and dirt of the city，tired of the crowded streets， crowded trains and  buses．（D）They no more want to sit in traffic．They want a house with a garden，and clean air that isn't polluted．

So they move out．Some don't go very far，just a little way out of the city，to the towns near the cities．Other people move to the real countryside，with sheep and cows and green fields! There，（E）他们开始新的生活and try to make new friends．

    Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy．After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don't make as much money and there isn't much to do．Country（F）_________ are very different and aren't always very friendly．

As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside（G）move back to the   city．”It's wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights．”they say．“I'm so glad I'm back in the city!”

1．写出可以替换划线部分A和G的同义词或近义词：

2．分别在B和F的空白处各填入一个适当的词：

3．将划线部分C译成汉语：

4．将划线部分D改写成They __________want to sit in traffic __________more.

5．将划线部分E译成英语。