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Debra Veal is a very brave woman. She took part in a race to row across the Atlantic，a journey for about 3, 360 kilometers. She was in one of the 36 small rowing boats that set off on October 7th, 2001 from Tenerife. Each small boat was the same with food for the journey. She arrived in Barbados on January 26th , 2002 after rowing across the Atlantic for three-and-a-half months.
Debra began the journey with her husband in a small boat called Troika Transatlantic. But after 14 days he became very afraid, so he was taken off the small rowing boat. This did not make Debra give up. For the next hundred days, she rowed her small boat against the waves and the wind.
When she at last arrived at the end of her journey, she was reluctant ( 不情愿的 ) to leave her boat though her husband and family were there to welcome her. The boat had carried her safely to the end of the journey. She said, "I just want to toast(给……敬酒)this lady, this very special lady. I am full of sadness that I will have to leave her. She has protected me through many storms. "
1.Debra Veal's husband gave up because_________.
A. he had to look after their child B. it was a dangerous journey
C. there was no food for the journey D. he was fed up with the journey
2."this lady" refers to_________.
A. her mother B. her boat C. herself D. the journey
3.Which of the following is right?
A. The journey lasted 100 days.
B. Each boat was different.
C. Debra Veal wanted to leave her boat as soon as the race ended.
D. It was hard to get to the end of the journey.
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Happiness is for everyone. You don' t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time.
In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health; when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can' t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving(旋转的)door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.
1.When you fall down in a PE class, both your teacher and your classmates will ______.
A. laugh at you B. play jokes on you
C. quarrel with you D. help you up
2.What will your friends say to you when you make great progress?
A. Congratulations. B. Oh, so do I.
C. Good luck. D. It' s just so-so.
3.Which idea is NOT RIGHT according to the passage?
A. Happiness is always around you though difficulties come towards you.
B. You can get help from others when you make mistakes.
C. You can still be a happy person even if you have little money.
D. People who have cars would never like to walk in the open air.
4.Which of the following is this passage about?
A. Bad luck B. Good luck C. Happiness D. Life.
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Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don't agree with them.
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources , we are short of others, for example, fresh water(淡水). It is reported that we will have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, what can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.
1.From the passage we know that some students often ________ in the school.
A. waste things B. don't work hard
C. eat too much D. throw rubbish everywhere
2.Which is not mentioned in this passage?
A. Forest. B. Fresh water. C. Oil. D. Coal.
3.What may happen in 100 years?
A. We may still have enough oil.
B. We may still have enough coal.
C. We may have a little oil.
D. We may have no coal or oil to use.
4.Which is the best title of this passage?
A. School life B. Stop Wasting
C. Waste in the School D. Rich Resources in China
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You are seeing a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead!
Of course he isn’t really dead. With any luck he isn’t even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars or even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks.
They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall onto hard ground but onto empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!
But although their work depends on tricks of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntman’s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is “ blown up” in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They sometimes get seriously injured, and even killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞 ) failed to open and he was killed.
In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for men only. Men no longer dress up as women to perform some dangerous actions. For nowadays there are stunt girls , too.
1.What can be inferred from the author’s example of the Norwegian stuntman?
A. Sometimes an accident can happen to a stuntman.
B. The percentage of serious accidents is high.
C. Parachutes must be of good quality.
D. The cliff was too high.
2.Stuntmen are those who __________________.
A. often dress up as actors.
B. like to lead dangerous lives.
C. often perform seemingly dangerous actions.
D. often fight each other for their lives.
3.When a stuntman falls from a high building, ______________
A. he needs little protection. B. he will be covered with a mattress.
C. his life is in danger. D. his safety is generally all right.
4.Which of the following is the main factor of a successful performance?
A. Strength B. Speed C. Exactness D. Carefulness
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