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James Cook was born on October 27, 1728, in Yorkshire, England. In 1755, he joined Great Britain’s Royal Navy and soon proved his ability. Just after making officer rank, Cook was chosen to undertake a scientific journey to Tahiti to observe the planet Venus as it passed between the earth and the sun, which would help scientists calculate the distance of the earth from the sun.

On August 25, 1768, Cook departed England aboard the Endeavour with 94 crewmen and scientists with secret orders.

Cook was determined to keep his crew healthy. He insisted his men eat onions and pickled（腌渍的）cabbage every day, and made sure that the ship kept fresh fruit and vegetables on board. He ordered his men to bathe every day, to clean their clothing and to air out their bedding. What he did worked to prevent diseases in his crew.

On April 11, 1769, the Endeavour arrived at Tahiti. After viewing the passing of Venus between the earth and the sun for several weeks, Cook opened the secret orders and knew he was to seek out the fabled southern continent and claim it for England. He left Tahiti on July 13 and headed southwest.

When Cook reached New Zealand on October 6, the native Maori people proved to be un-friendly and his crew was forced to fire on them. The Endeavour spent a few months exploring New Zealand and proved it was not part of the great southern continent. On April 9, 1770, Cook explored and documented the location of Australia. After months of exploring, Cook concluded that this continent was not the great southern continent.

The Endeavour made its way to Java in the East Indies in October of 1770. Because of malaria and dysentery, many of his men got ill and dead. He had to sign on new crew in order to go back home. The Endeavour made it back to Dover, England, on July 13, 1771.

1.Cook did the followings to prevent diseases EXCEPT that he insisted his crew __________.

A. air out their covers on beds

B. plant fruit and vegetables on board

C. bathe and clean their clothing every day

D. eat onions and pickled cabbage every day

2.What is the closest meaning to the underlined word "malaria and dysentery"?

A. Local Maori people.　　 B. Fruits and vegetables.

C. Very serious diseases.　　 D. Terrible winds and storms.

3.What is the correct order of the following events?

a. Cook and his men fired on the native Maori people.

b. Cook signed on some new crew and went back to England.

c. Cook was chosen to undertake a scientific journey to Tahiti.

d. Cook concluded that Australia was not the great southern continent.

e. Cook departed England with 94 crewmen and scientists with secret orders.

f. Cook viewed the passing of Venus between the earth and the sun for several weeks.

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C. ceafbd　　 D. ecfabd

4.What is true of James Cook according to the story?

A. James Cook left Tahiti and headed southwest on July 13, 1768.

B. James Cook joined Great Britain’s Royal Navy at the age of 29.

C. James Cook explored and recorded the location of Australia On April 9, 1770.

D. James Cook departed England and started his exploration on August 25, 1769.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

A. Great Sea Discoveries.　　 B. Cook's Heroic Deeds.

C. Great Sea Explorations.　　 D. Cook's Explorations At Sea.

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Donald Watson was a man who thought very much about the food he ate. He was born in Yorkshire, England, in September 1910. And he died in November 2005, at the age of 95. That is a very great age. Watson explained that it was because he never ate any food from animals.

When he was a boy, Watson stayed on a farm. He loved to see the animals. He said that they gave so much to people. And all the animals were so friendly. Then, one day, he saw a man killing a pig. He was very sad. From then on, Watson decided that he would never again eat meat. Twenty years later he decided that he wouldn’t eat anything from animals, such as milk, cheese or eggs. He became a vegan (素食主义者).

Watson formed a group called “The Vegan Society”. The Vegan Society thought it was terrible and wrong to eat food from animals. At first, there were not many people who agreed with him. They thought it was crazy to do it. Most people thought it was too difficult and unhealthy. However, over time, more and more people began to agree with Watson and The Vegan Society.

People become vegans for many reasons. Watson and his friends stopped eating because they loved animals. They believed that it was wrong to hurt another living thing.

Now, people also become vegans for environmental reasons. Keeping animals takes a lot of resources (资源), including water and food. Also, in some places, people are cutting down trees to create more land for cows. By avoiding food from animals, vegans hope to protect these forest areas.

Finally, just like Watson, some people believe that being a vegan is healthier. They believe that food from animals causes heart problems, a high body weight and many other health problems.

1.What do we know about Watson from the first two paragraphs?

A.He enjoyed a very long life for being a vegan.

B.He owned a farm with a lot of animals.

C.He didn’t like eating meat by birth.

D.He became a vegan at 20.

2.The underlined word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to “________”.

A.agreeing with Watson

B.eating food from animals

C.avoiding food from animals

D.forming “The Vegan Society”

3.Now people become vegans because ________.

A.they have many health problems

B.they think keeping animals costs too much

C.they love animals and want to keep them

D.they want to save resources and protect the environment

4.What’s the best title for the text?

A.Donald Watson: A New Way to Eat

B.Vegans’ Opinions on Health

C.Animal Protection in England

D.The Vegan Society

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Donald Watson was a man who thought very much about the food he ate. He was born in yorkshire， England , in September 1910. And he died in November 2005, at the age of 95. That is a very great age. Watson explained that it was because he never ate any food from animals.

When he was a boy , Watson stayed on a farm. .He loved to see the animals. He said that they gave so much to people. And all the animals were so friendly. Then , one day , he saw a man killing a pig . He was very sad. . From then on, Watson decided that he would never again eat meat . Twenty years later he decided that he wouldn’t eat anything from animals, such as milk, cheese or eggs. He became vegan (素食主义者).

Watson formed a group called “The Vegan Society”. In its newspaper, The Vegan Society thought it was terrible and wrong to eat food from animals. At first, there were not many people who agreed with him . They thought it was crazy to do it .Most people thought it was too difficult and unhealthy. However, over time , more and more people began to agree with Watson and The Vegan Society.

People become vegans for many reasons. Watson and his friend stopped eating because they loved animals. They believed that it was wrong to hurt another living thing .

Now, people also become vegans for environmental reasons. Keeping animals takes a lot of resources(资源)， including water and food. Also, in some places, people are cutting down trees to create more land for cows. By avoiding food from animals, vegans hope to protect these forest areas.

Finally, just like Watson, some people believe that being a vegan is healthier. They believe that food from animals causes heart problems, a high body weight and many other health problems.

1. We know from the text that Watson __________.

A. lived a very long life

B. refused to eat meat at 20

C. helped kill a pig on a farm

D. enjoyed good food very much

2. The underlined word “it’ in paragraph 3 means “ ________”.

A. agreeing with Watson

B. publishing a newspaper

C. forming “The Vegan Society”

D. avoiding all food from animals

3. Watson refused to eat meat ______.

A. because of his love of animals

B. because of environmental reasons

C. because he had a lot of health problems

D. because keeping animals needs lots of resources

4. What’s the best title (标题)for the text?

A. Donald Watson : a new way to eat

B. Animal protection in England

C. The Vegan Society：a special group

D. Healthy eating habits

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I was born _______ 22 October 1983. My little brother was born ____ 1987.

A. in; in     B. on; in     C. in; on　　　　　     D. on; on

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James Cameron was born in a small town in Canada on August16,1954. At 15 he discovered what he wanted to do with his life. 　 1. The movie was Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cameron set his hope high. 　 2. But he didn’t know anything about cinema. What’s more, he lived far away from Hollywood, the place for him to realize his dreams.

__3.__ His father told him they would be moving to California and living only a few miles from Hollywood. At that time, he had a great desire to attend film school, but his family couldn’t afford it. So he went to study physics at Fullerton College.

Before long Cameron dropped out of college and began earning his living as a truck driver. But he still hadn’t given up his dream of becoming a movie maker. His first professional film job was an art director in 1980, and in 1984 he wrote and directed the Terminator. 　 4._ 　 after it came a series of successful science fiction action films.

Cameron now could do whatever he wanted. He had several projects in mind, including Titanic. 5. But it ended up earning almost $ 2 billion. After Titanic, Cameron started making Avatar in 2005. It took his team two years just to do the technical research, but the movie has become another huge success.

A. It was a huge success.

B. He wanted to make movies.

C. Cameron had to face the facts.

D. This movie cost $ 200 million to make.

E. However, Cameron got a lucky break in 1971.

F. It happened one night after he saw a movie.

G. They used high technology to get the effects they wanted.

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Panl Frederic Simon is u famous 1.(music), singer and songwriter. He was born on October 13, 1941 in the USA. It’s been more than half a century since he2. (write) his famous song The Sound of silence with his partner Art GarfunkeL They also adapted3.old English folk song Scarborough Fair,which is still popular all over the world now.

Recently Paul Simon released4.(the) latest album Stranger to Stranger and received excellent reviews. And Wristband，which is one of the songs from the album, is often played on college radio.

5., Simon is ready to hang up his　　 guitar and stop 6.(make)music. “Show busing dewsn’t　 hold any interest for me,” said the 74-year-old man.

Simon is planning7.(begin) a month-long Lour of Europe on October　　 17,　　 shortly after　　 his　　 75th birthday. After that, he’s going　 to travel　 for a year, perhaps8.his wife, It’s an act of courage to let go, ” said Simon. “I am going to see9. will happen if I let go. Then I’m going to see who I am.”

If he does quit music. Simon will bring a great career to s close, which has spanned sixty years lie has won more than a dozen Grammys and produced a lot of10. (came)songs.Paul Fredric　 Simon has been named by Time Magazine one of the “100　 Peaple Who Shaped the World”,

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Noah Webster was born on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford. At that time, few people went to college, but Noah loved to learn so his parents let him go to Yale, Connecticut’s only college. He left for New Haven in 1774. Noah’s years at Yale were the years of the Revolutionary War.

Sometimes 70 children of all ages were in one-room schoolhouses with no desks, poor books, and untrained teachers. Noah did not like that. Their books came from England. Noah thought that Americans should learn from American books, so in 1783, Noah wrote his own textbook: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

For 100 years, Noah’s book taught children how to read, spell, and pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time. Ben Franklin used Noah’s book to teach his granddaughter to read.

When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English. Noah used American spellings like “color” instead of the English “colour”, “music” instead of “musick” and “center” instead of “centre”. He also added American words that weren’t in English dictionaries like “skunk” and “squash”. It took him over 27 years to write his book. When finished in 1828, Noah’s dictionary had 70,000 words in it.

Noah did many things in his life. He worked for copyright laws, wrote textbooks, Americanized the English language, and edited (编辑) magazines. When Noah Webster died in 1843, he was regarded an American hero.

1.How old was Noah Webster when he went to New Haven?

A. 13　　 B. 16　　 C. 20　　 D. 25

2.How did Noah Webster like American schools in the 1770s?

A. It was impressive.　　 B. It was unusual.

C. It was great.　　 D. It was dissatisfying.

3.Why did Noah write the first American dictionary?

A. He was asked to do it by Ben Franklin.

B. He didn’t like the words used in English dictionaries.

C. He wanted all Americans to speak the same way.

D. He was aware of the fact that the dictionary would make him famous.

4.What can we infer from the text?

A. Noah was a most productive author.

B. Noah studied in Hartford during the Revolutionary War.

C. There had been no books before Noah wrote his textbook.

D. Noah was thought of a hero because of his first American dictionary.

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Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a Seattle lawyer. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a school teacher.

Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer soft- ware, programming computers at age 13.

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version (版本) of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer---the MITS Astair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desk-top and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.

Gates' foresight has led to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. He plays an important role in the technical development of new products. Much of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in touch with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.

In the dozen years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than $ 800 million to charities (慈善机构), including $ 200 million to the Gates Library Foundation to help libraries in North America make use of new technologies and the Information Age.

50. Where did Bill Gates begin his career in personal computer software?

A. At public elementary school.                  B. At the private Lakeside School.

C. At Harvard University.                           D. At Microsoft Company.

51. Why did he drop out of Harvard?

A. To change school.                                 B. To spend all his energies to Microsoft.

C. To find a full-time job.                          D. To earn money.

52. How does Gates spend much of his time?

A. Meeting with people.                            B. Travelling around the world.

C. E-mailing some friends.

D. Meeting with customers and e-mailing Microsoft employees.

53. What does the underlined word "donated" in the last paragraph mean?

A. gave.                B. earned.              C. made.               D. received.

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Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27th, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She grew up on a farm where she learnt about nature and animals. Rachel loved reading and writing stories when she was young. She even had a story published when she was only ten years old. One of Rachel’s favorite subjects was oceanology(海洋生物学).

Rachel attended college at the Pennsylvania College for Women where she majored in biology. She later got her master’s（硕士） degree in zoology from John’s Hopkins University. After graduation, Rachel taught for a while and then got a job at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At first, she wrote for a weekly radio program that educated people on marine（海洋的） biology. Later, she became a marine biologist and chief editor of publications for the Fish and Wildlife Service. In addition to her work at the Fish and Wildlife Service, Rachel wrote articles for magazines about the ocean. In 1941, she published her first book called Under the Sea Wind. However, her second book, The Sea Around Us, made her famous. The Sea Around Us was published in 1951 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 39 weeks. With the success of the book, Rachel quit her job at the Fish and Wildlife Service and concentrated on writing full-time.

After World WarⅡ, farmers began to use pesticides (农药) such as DDT on their crops. Rachel was concerned about the effects that large-scale spraying of DDT may have on the health of people as well as the environment. Rachel began to gather research material on pesticides and write a book about the subject.

Rachel spent four years gathering research material and writing the book. She named it Silent Spring referring to bird death due to pesticides and the spring being silent without their songs. Published in 1962, the book became very popular and brought the environmental issues of pesticides to the general public.

On April 14th, 1964, she died of breast cancer in her home in Maryland.

1.What did Rachel Louise Carson major in for her bachelor’s（学士） degree?

A. Oceanology.　　 B. Zoology.

C. Biology.　　 D. Engineering.

2.What is the right order of the following events about Rachel’s life?

a. She collected material for Silent Spring.

b. She taught for a while after graduation.

c. She gave up her job at the Service.

d. She had her first book published.

e. She became a marine biologist.

A. d-a-c-b-e　　 B. b-e-d-c-a

C. d-c-a-b-e　　 D. b-d-c-e-a

3.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. Rachel showed a talent for writing at a young age

B. it took little effort for Rachel to write Silent Spring

C. it was Silent Spring that brought Rachel instant fame

D. Rachel is believed to be more a biologist than a writer

4.What type of writing is the article likely to be?

A. A short story.　　 B. A book review.

C. A biography.　　 D. A news report.

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Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27th, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She grew up on a farm where she learnt about nature and animals. Rachel loved reading and writing stories when she was young. She even had a story published when she was only ten years old. One of Rachel’s favorite subjects was oceanology(海洋生物学).

Rachel attended college at the Pennsylvania College for Women where she majored in biology. She later got her master’s（硕士） degree in zoology from John’s Hopkins University. After graduation, Rachel taught for a while and then got a job at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. At first, she wrote for a weekly radio program that educated people on marine（海洋的） biology. Later, she became a marine biologist and chief editor of publications for the Fish and Wildlife Service. In addition to her work at the Fish and Wildlife Service, Rachel wrote articles for magazines about the ocean. In 1941, she published her first book called Under the Sea Wind. However, her second book, The Sea Around Us, made her famous. The Sea Around Us was published in 1951 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 39 weeks. With the success of the book, Rachel quit her job at the Fish and Wildlife Service and concentrated on writing full-time.

After World WarⅡ, farmers began to use pesticides (农药) such as DDT on their crops. Rachel was concerned about the effects that large-scale spraying of DDT may have on the health of people as well as the environment. Rachel began to gather research material on pesticides and write a book about the subject.

Rachel spent four years gathering research material and writing the book. She named it Silent Spring referring to bird death due to pesticides and the spring being silent without their songs. Published in 1962, the book became very popular and brought the environmental issues of pesticides to the general public.

On April 14th, 1964, she died of breast cancer in her home in Maryland.

1.What did Rachel Louise Carson major in for her bachelor’s（学士） degree?

A. Oceanology.　　 B. Zoology.

C. Biology.　　 D. Engineering.

2.What is the right order of the following events about Rachel’s life?

a. She collected material for Silent Spring.

b. She taught for a while after graduation.

c. She gave up her job at the Service.

d. She had her first book published.

e. She became a marine biologist.

A. d-a-c-b-e　　 B. b-e-d-c-a

C. d-c-a-b-e　　 D. b-d-c-e-a

3.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. Rachel showed a talent for writing at a young age

B. it took little effort for Rachel to write Silent Spring

C. it was Silent Spring that brought Rachel instant fame

D. Rachel is believed to be more a biologist than a writer

4.What type of writing is the article likely to be?

A. A short story.　　 B. A book review.

C. A biography.　　 D. A news report.

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