1、Parks Shop 15 Barrett Road 10 minutes from town center Try our famous chocolate, eggs and sugar hearts Prices lower than in other shops Open MondaySaturday 9:00 a.m. 5: p.m. Painting Competition For young people 6-14years old Paint a picture of a little animal Send it to Artist Magazine 12 High Stre
2、et before 15 September and win a bicycleCity Library Books, CDs and videos Over 100 foreign newspapers and magazines Entrance free MondaySaturday30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. New England House. Museum Street 1. Happy Days Club opens at _ . A. 8:00 p.m. B. 10:30 p.m. C.9:30 a.m. D.8:00 a.m.2. In Parkers Shop, yo
3、u can buy _. A. pictures B. chocolate C. CDS D. books3. Where should the picture be sent? A.12 High Street B. Museum Street C. 41 Smith Street D.15 Barrett Road BJulius is a 15 year-old Kenyan, with his feet in his country and his eyes on the West. He wears jeans and a baseball cap to school. He lov
4、es watching American films on TV. His elder brothers hang out （闲逛）after work in places like the Hard Rock Cafe. Juliuss brother Paul says, The music is cool, its not too expensive and its the place where I can meet all my friends.Julius is lucky because his parents have enough money to send him to s
5、chool. Many children in Kenya do not go to school because their parents are too poor to pay for schooling. Kenya, like many countries in East Africa, has a lot of problems. There is very little industry and farmers do not receive high prices for their crops. Half the people in the capital Nairobi li
6、ve in slums （贫民区） where whole families crowd into a single-roomed hut. In the north of the country the situation is worse. The rains have failed for several years and the people have not enough food. It is a young country. Almost half people are aged under 15. Many people there have been hit hard by
7、 AIDS. Because the country is poor, it cannot pay for the expensive medicine that can control AIDS. Julius is worried about his future. I dont know what I will do when I leave school. There are very few jobs for young people. He would like to work with computers on the Internet, maybe start up an In
8、ternet cafe. However, there are several problems with this. The computers are very expensive. Next the electricity supply does not run all day every day. Finally, the telephone connections are not very good, and sometimes Net signals are lost. 4. Which of the following is true? A. All children in Ke
9、nya go to school B. Many childrens parents are as rich as Juliuss. C. Schools are free in Kenya. D. Juliuss parents can pay for his schooling. 5. Why have many people got AIDS in Kenya according to the passage? A. Because there is little industry. B. Because whole families live in a small hut. C. Be
10、cause half people are aged under 15. D. The country is too poor to control the disease. 6. How many problems does Julius need to solve if he start up an Internet cafe? A. Two. B. Three. C. One. D. Four. C Automobiles were originally developed in Europe. German engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Ben
11、z built the first successful gasoline engines in 1885. After 1900, however, the United States became a leader in automobile production. The first cars were handmade and very expensive. Only people in rich cities could afford them. The first company to make gasoline cars in the U.S. was the Duryea Mo
12、tor Wagon Company. Then, in 1901, Ransom E. Olds Began mass-producing his car, the Oldsmobile. In 1913 Henry Ford made great strides in the mass production of cars by using an assembly line in his factory. Mass production meant that each car was less expensive to make. Now car ownership was affordab
13、le for the average person. By 1916 there were more than one million cars in the United States. The automobile gave people the freedom to travel anywhere there were passable roads. Families that lived great distance apart could travel by automobile to visit each other. People could visit places they
14、had never seen before. Before the mass production of cars, people lived close to work. Their means of transportation included walking, riding a bicycle, using a horse and carriage, or taking a train. The automobile gave people the ability to live farther away from work. The result was that gradually
15、 people moved out of the cities to the less crowded suburbs. The automobile industry created millions of jobs. The jobs were not just in the auto factories, where the cars were assembled. Workers were needed to make auto parts, run gas stations and repair shops, and work at new motels and restaurant
16、s that served people who traveled by car. Jobs became available at car rental companies. People were needed to build roads. These jobs and many others still exist because of the automobile. 7. The first gasoline cars that were produced were _. A. very affordable B. very expensive C. mass-produced D.
17、 bought by many people8. The rise of the automobile industry _. A. destroyed many jobs B. made travel more difficult C. created many jobs D. had no effect on suburbs 9. Cars that were mass-produced _. A. made people move to the cities B. were bought by only a few people C. made nature enjoying more
18、difficult D. were possible for more people to afford10. Before the automobile was mass-produced, people traveled in the following ways exceptA. by airplane. B. on foot. C. by horse and carriage. D. by bicycle. D A small city in southwest Britain is banning（禁用） plastic bags to help the environment an
19、d cut wastea step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe. Shopkeepers in Modbury agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead. Last month, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to b
20、an plastic grocery bags. Internationally, laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where governments either tax （收税） shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out. Bangladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 small Alaskan
21、villages. Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London, has also declared a bag amnesty（宽限期）, allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that are kept at home. They will be sent for traveling. The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effect of bags on sea life while he works i
22、n the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman. She said response（反应） in the town so far had been “really positive”“Modbury is quite an oldfashioned city and a lot of people have wicker baskets to go out shopping anyway,” Hosking told Sky News Television. The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research
23、 agency, states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone. More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world. 11. What does the underlined word “disposable” in the passage mean?A. acceptable B. throwaway C. long lasting D. valuable 12. It can be inferred
24、 from the passage that _. A. most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bags B. most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags C. fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the world D. San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the world 13. Which of the f
25、ollowing may be the best title of the text?A. British Cities Banning Plastic Bags B. Some Cities Banning Plastic BagsC. Effect of Plastic Bags on Sea Animals D. Environmental Protection答案 A DBA B DDB C BCDA D BCB 第二组AMr. Zhang正在国外旅游, 这是他所入住宾馆的房卡。请根据房卡正反两面的信息，回答下列问题。1. Mr. Zhang lives in . A. Hotel E
26、iffel B. Hotel Concorde C. Hotel Mapol D. Hotel Napoleon2. buses can reach the hotel. A. Two B. Three C. Four D. Five3. If Mr. Zhang gets lost, he can_.A. take Bus 507 to the hotel B. wait until the light is greenC. go back to the hotel to search the InternetD. call the hotel at the phone number on
27、the cardBIs it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Hiroyukis bed will solve your problem! Here is how it works. The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music. The tape recorder in Hir
28、oyukis bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispers in a sweet voice, “Wake up, darling, please.” A few minutes later, Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss. His boss shouts, “Wake up at once, or youll be late!” If you dont get up after the second recording, a mechanical “foot” in the bed
29、will kick you in the head. The bed waits a few more minutes. What? Youre still in bed! Slowly the top of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally you slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are out of bed and awake!Hiroyukis bed is not in stores. There is
30、only one bed - the bed Hiroyuki made for a contest. Maybe someday a company will make Hiroyukis bed and sell it in stores. Maybe people will buy millions of beds. Then Hiroyuki will be rich. If the bed makes Hiroyuki rich, he wont need to go to work, and he wont need to get up early!4. The bed is us
31、eful to the people _. A. who cant sleep well B. who cant get up early C. who go to bed early D. who go to bed late 5. The bed is not connected to _. A. an alarm clock B. a tape recorder C. a TV D. a mechanical foot 6. The word “whisper” in the second paragraph means “_ ”. A. speak loudly B. speak sadly C. speak angrily D. speak quietly CNew rules and behaviour standards for middle schoo
