29、Dear Mum,

    I don’t think you understand my life．You think I should be studying all the time．I know  you want me to find a good job when I grow up，but I would like to have a wonderful time．too．You never think about fun thing for me to do like music and sports．Two days ago，when I was watching a football game on TV，you asked me to stop and to do my homework．After finishing my homework，still I read my football magazines．You said I must go to bed early．That was bad enough，but yesterday was the worst day．I bought some computer games，and put them in my bag so that you couldn’t see them．I told you I would do my homework first．I knew it was wrong to lie(撒谎) to you，but you told me that Dad would talk to me later．Mum，I don’t like what you did to me！I really love you，Mum，but I wish you could try not to be so strict with me．

                                                            Love，

                                                            Zhang Ning

根据短文内容，选出最佳答案。

1．Zhang Ning’s mother wants him __________ when he grows up．

    A．to be a teacher         B．to find a good job

    C．to work in a big city    D．to become a football star

2．__________ is Zhang Ning’s favorite sport．

    A．Football      B．Volleyball      C．Basketball    D．Baseball

3．Zhang Ning is asked __________．

    A．to watch TV             B．to do sports

    C．to play computer games    D．to study all the time

4．Zhang Ning put the computer games in the bag because __________．

A．he didn’t like them   

B．he played them many times

    C．he wouldn’t like his mother to find them

    D．there was something wrong with them

5．We know from the letter that __________．

    A．ZhangNing lives a very happy life

    B．Zhang Ning hates his mother

    C．Zhang Ning wishes to study all the time

    D．Zhang Ning’s mother is very strict with him

26、假定你是初三(1)班的李霞，你五月十四日晚上在阅览室里丢失了一个绿色书包，内有两本英语书，一个铅笔盒，一个MP3及自行车钥匙。你非常着急。

    请你根据以上提示，用英语写出一则50词左右的寻物启事。

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25、One day a poor man was cutting a big piece of wood near a river. Suddenly his old axe(斧子)fell into the water. He felt very sad because he lost his only axe. Then all at once a beautiful fairy(仙女)came out and asked the man what was the matter.

"I have lost my axe, "he said. "It fell into the water when I was cutting the wood. "

The fairy showed him a gold(金)axe and asked, "Is this yours?"

"No，"said the man.

The fairy then showed him a silver(银)axe and asked again,” Is this yours?"

"No,” again answered the man.

Then she showed him the old axe.

"Yes, that is mine,” called out the happy man.

"I know it well enough," said the fairy, "I only wanted to see if you would tell me the truth, and now I'll give you the gold axe and the silver axe besides your own one. "

1. One day when the man was cutting something,________.

  A. he fell into the water                    B. his axe dropped into the river

  C. his axe fell into a lake                   D. he saw a beautiful fairy

2. The man was sad because________.

  A. he was poor and had no other axes      B. he could not go on working

  C. he liked his axe very much                  D. his axe was a gold axe

3. The fairy gave him a gold axe and a silver axe, but he didn't take them. Because he________.

  A. did not like them                                B. did not know they were made of gold and silver

  C. was very rich                                    D. knew these axes were not his

4. At the end of the story the man had________.

  A. only one axe          B. two axes         C. three axes       D. many axes

5. The fairy helped the man because he was ______man.

  A. an old               B. a young        C. a poor           D. an honest(诚实的)

23、

1. If someone sees a newly born koala bear, he will be surprised because it’s very ______.

   A. weak                  B. small                 C. short                 D. black

2. A baby koala can’t live without ______.

   A. its father             B. grass                 C. its mother          D. people

3. The kangaroo is the national symbol of ______.

   A. Canada               B. Australia            C. America            D. Britain

4. There are more ______ than people in Australia.

   A. kangaroos           B. koala bears        C. monkeys           D. elephants

5. We can guess that koala bears and kangaroos are ______ animals in Australia.

   A. beautiful              B. playful               C. endangered        D. popular

22、A friend’s grandfather went to America from Eastern countries. After he was processed （移民入境检查） at Ellis Island, he went into cafeteria （自助餐厅） in lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at an empty table and waited for a waiter to take his order.

Of course no waiter came at all. At last, a woman held a plate full of food and sat down opposite him. When she saw the old man without any food, she told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay. After you pay for the food, you can bring it here and eat it.”

“I soon knew how everything works in America,” the grandfather told a friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring to you. You have to get up and get it by yourself.”

1. Maybe the old man came from ________.

A. Poland              B. India                 C. Canada              D. Egypt （埃及）

2. Who came when he sat down at an empty table?

A. A waiter.           B. A man.              C. A woman.         D. No person.

3. From the text, we know if you want to get success in America, you should ________.

A. get help from your friends               B. know how a cafeteria works          

C. get up again if you fail              D. try to get it by yourself

4. At last, the grandfather________.

       A. got the food himself               B. was very angry with the waiter

       C. ate the woman’s food              D. had nothing to eat

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. From Eastern countries to America  B. Life is Like a Cafeteria in America

C. How to Eat in a Cafeteria                D. Eating in America

21、China had decided to take action to stop the use of plastic bags. Supermarkets, shops and outlets （经销店） in China will not be allowed to hand out free plastic carriers and all plastic carriers must be clearly marketed with prices from June 1.

“People use too many plastic bags every year and fail to deal with them properly, wasting valuable oil and littering the country,” China’s government said in a statement.

While providing convenience for consumers （消费者），the plastic bags have also caused serious pollution and waste of energy and resources.

“We should encourage people to return to carrying cloth bags, and using baskets for their vegetables.” the statement said.

In addition, the production, sale and use of bags less than 0.025 mm thick is banned from the same date. The firms that break the rules will face fines or confiscation （没收） of goods and profits （利润）.

China also said it would consider increasing taxes （税） to discourage the production and sale of plastic bags and encourage the recycling industry.

Rubbish collectors have to separate plastic for reprocessing and cut the number of plastic bags that are burnt or buried （掩埋）.

The move brings China into line with a growing international trend （趋势） to cut back on the use of plastic bags. From Ireland to Uganda and South Africa, governments have experimented with heavy taxes, with the aim of getting rid of plastic bags.

1. China decided to take action to stop the use of plastic bags because _______.

A. they are not free any more               

B. they can’t provide convenience for consumers

C. they have polluted the environment and wasted valuable oil                        

D. the firms have increased the cost

2. The underlined word “banned” in the fifth paragraph probably means ________.

   A. 计划         B. 禁止    C. 打破      D. 消费

3. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

   A. The company that won’t obey the rules will face fines.

B. Taxes will be increased to discourage the production and sale of plastic bags.

   C. Rubbish collectors will burn or bury all plastic bags.              

D. Plastic should be separated for reprocessing.

4. From the passage, we can infer （推断） that _______.

   A. China will be among the strongest nations in the world

B. people all carry cloth bags or baskets for their vegetables

   C. more energy and natural resources will be saved

   D. supermarkets and shops will get more profits

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Plastic Bags are Free                        B. Recycling industry

C. How to Protect the Environment    D. Free Plastic Shopping Bags to be Banned

20、French doctors and American scientists have reported doing an operation in which the doctor was outside the operating room. This kind of operation is known as robotic operation.

Doctor Marescaux did the operation in an office in New York City last month, while a sixty-eight-year-old woman patient was in a hospital in Strasbourg, France.

A doctor in Strasbourg got the patient ready. He placed medical tools and a small video camera in her stomach area. Doctor Marescaux in New York watched the patient on a video screen. Then he used the computer to send messages to the robot machine. The robot moved the tools that cut the woman’s gallbladder （胆囊） away. The woman got well soon after the operation and left the hospital two days later.

Experts say the main problem with such a robotic operation is based on high-speed telecommunications between the doctor and the robot. Technology must be able to send a doctor’s order to a robot to move the tools quickly.

Experts also say a successful robotic operation will improve an operation. For example, the robot can make much smaller movements than a person can. A robot machine can turn tools in ways that a doctor’s hand cannot.

Doctors say such a robotic operation will make possible safer and better operations in the future. They say it will improve doctor training. It will also mean that doctors could do an operation on people in dangerous places far away. And it could mean that people could have operations done by top doctors without having to travel to the city where doctors work.

1. “Robotic operation” means “________”.

A. a special kind of robot invented by doctors

B. an operation done far away

C. an operation done with the help of a robot

D. something done to mend a robot

2. We use the robot in the operation because _______.

A. it can send messages at a high speed

B. even a top doctor can’t do the operation himself

C. it can make the operation safer and better

D. operations can be done without any doctors

3. If we want to use the robot in the operation, we must solve the problem of ________.

A. top doctors                       B. smaller movements

C. doctor training                                D. high-speed telecommunications

4. If the smaller movement can’t be done by doctors in the operation, we may use _______ to solve it.

A. more tools                                       B. a robot machine

C. a video camera                                D. telecommunications

5. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Robotic operation is good for doctor training.

B. Robotic operation has been used in the USA.

C. Experts speak highly of robotic operation.

D. The robot is used to watch the patient clearly.