A.慢条斯理地说 B.含糊地说 C.狠狠地说 D.快速的说

( )43. Which of the following can be true according to the passage?

A. The clam opened his shell first. B. The bird removed his beak first

C. The clam and the bird didn’t agree with each other until the young man came

D. The clam and the bird were cooked as a good dinner by the young man

( )44.Which of the following sayings can explain the story well?

A. Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it.

B. Two heads are better than one.

C. Think twice before you do

D. Saying is one thing and doing another

( )45. The best title of the passage is _________.

A. Remove it first B. A daydream

C. A stubborn bird D. The bird and the clam

D

Look at the center circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B.

Which of the centre circles looks larger? In Diagram B. In fact , they

are exactly the same size.

Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces?Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.

“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret(解读)the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “visual illusion(视觉错误)”.

Movie makers often make use of visual illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of visual illusions.

( )46. Why does the centre circle in Diagram A look smaller than that in Diagram B?

A. something is wrong with our eyes

B. the two circles are not the same size

C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way

D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other

( )47. What’s the right order according to the passage?

a. We look at things with our eyes.

b. Our brains interpret the messages.

c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.

d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.

A. a d b c B. c a b d C. a c d b D. b c a d

( )48. What do movie makers make use of visual illusions for ?

A. To help the actors look better

B. To make the actors much braver

C. To help the actors become stronger

D. To make the actors seem different in size ( )49. In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter

than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD.

Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?

A. The second one. B. The third one.

C. The fourth one. D. The sixth one.

( )50. Where is the text probably taken from?

A. an advertisement B. a science book

C. a movie magazine D. a story book

第Ⅱ卷 (非选择题，共50分)

四、根据句意，用所给词的适当形式填空： (共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)

51. Mary passed her exam because she studied very ___________(hard).

52. That’s the ________(enter) to the hall. Please come this way.

53. Look! How ________(happy) Kate looks after hearing the bad news!

54. The man in his (forty) is the person who saved that boy.

55.I can’t __________(simple) understand what you said.

56. We Chinese people devote much time to __________(help) rebuild Yushu.

57. Jim __________( not be) late in the past.

58. He’s _________(ever) been to Beijing before, has he?

59. All the children should____________(treat) well after the earthquake.

60. ---What do you think of my advice? ---Sorry. I _______(think) of something else.

五.阅读下面短文,根据短文内容完成相关任务。 (共5小题, 每小题2分, 计10分)

Failure is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. (1)Although failure happens to everyone, different people’s attitudes(态度) towards failure are different.

Some people don't think their failure is a very important thing at all. So they pay no attention to it. __________ a result, they will have the __________ failure later. Some people think themselves are fools and lose their hearts in everything after they get a failure. Then they spend their time and energy on useless things. At last, they may really be fools as they have thought.

Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being hopeless and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. After hard work, they will be successful in the end.

So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.

61. 在横线上填入适当的单词 ____________ _____________(每空一词)

62. How many attitudes are there towards failure according to the passage?

63. 将(1)处译成汉语：

64. 写出下列句子的同义句：

At last, they will have success after they work hard.

65. 找出文中的中心句

六、短文填空 (共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

Are you having a nice time today? A famous thinker Francis Bacon told us: When you are h 66 , tell your friends, then the happiness will double(双倍) ----b 67 to you and to your friends; when you meet some p 68 and feel lonely or helpless, also tell your friends, then your unhappiness will be h 69 , especially to you! Do you agree?

When you smile to others, others can feel your k 70 . If he or she is facing a d 71 time, the love perhaps will help them go through all the hard time. A smile r 72 has great power.

W 73 will you do when someone smiles at you? Return a sweet smile. You also send your love through the smile. From it, you may get a t 74 friend or a strong supporter. You are in great need of them today, t 75 and forever! So just try it, and then you will find a new and happy world.

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