Kitesurfing as a water sport began in the 1980s, but didn’t get popular until the end of last century. It is also known as kiteboarding, and in some European countries as flysurfing. Kitesurfing works through wind power(动力) by using a large kite to pull a rider on the water at high speed.
At first, kitesurfing was a difficult and dangerous sport. Now it is becoming easier and safer because of the safer kite design. For an able and strong person, kitesurfing can be a very fun, extremely exciting sport, just like skating on the water with a feeling of flying. It has become more and more popular.
Compared with other water sports, kitesurfing is easier to learn. A beginner can understand how to operate the kite with 5—10 hours of training. And anybody aged from 13 to 65 can learn. It is not expensive to get the equipment for kitesurfing, which costs $1,000 to $2,500. Training lessons range from $200 to $500 for two or three hours. With the development of its equipment progress, kitesurfing is becoming even safer. After some training, you can enjoy its excitement and challenging feeling.
With the rising popularity of kitesurfing, most major seaside cities have kitesurfing clubs. In China, Xiamen is the only place that has the kitesurfing club, which provides professional kitesurfing training and equipments.
Kitesurfing has a history of about years.
A.30 | B.50 | C.100 | D.130 |
is mentioned in the passage as the power of kitesurfing.
A.Water | B.Wind | C.The sun | D.The kite |
The underlined word “range” in the third paragraph means “ ” in Chinese.
A.在……范围内变动 | B.按……顺序排列 |
C.向……方向延伸 | D.根据……归类 |
The most important reason for the popularity of kitesurfing is that .
A.its price is getting lower and lower |
B.more and more people are enjoying its excitement |
C.its equipment progress makes it easier and safer |
D.all people can learn and take part in it |
The main idea of this passage is about .
A.the way of operating kitesurfing |
B.the progress of kitesurfing equipment |
C.the history of kitesurfing in China |
D.the development of kitesurfing |
根据图片信息回答问题。(共5小题,每小题1分,共5分)
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Is it a banana?
Can he play soccer ball?
What kind of fruit do you like?
Where are your books?
What time does he eat breakfast?
Mr. and Mrs. Harris had always spent their summer holidays in a small hotel at the seaside near their hometown. One year, however, Mr. Harris made a lot of money in his factory, so they decided to go to a foreign country and stay at a really good hotel.
They flew to Paris, and arrived at a 5-star hotel late in the evening. They thought they would have to go to bed hungry, because in that small hotel where they used to stay in the past, no meals were served after seven in the evening. They were surprised to be told that the hotel served dinner until ten.
"Then what are the times of meals?" asked Mrs. Harris.
"Well, Madam, we serve breakfast from seven to eleven, lunch from twelve to three, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to ten."
"But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the city!" said Mrs. Harris.
Why did Mr. and Mrs. Harris think they would have to go to bed hungry when they arrived at the hotel?
A.Because it’s a 5-star hotel. |
B.Because they thought no meals would be served late in the evening. |
C.Because they were very tired after the trip. |
D.Because they didn’t want to eat anything. |
How long did the service time for lunch last in the hotel?
A.2 hours. | B.4 hours. | C.3 hours . | D.1 hour. |
What did Mrs. Harris think of the times of the meals in the hotel?
A.She thought they would have enough time to see the city. |
B.She thought they would have to spend too much time on meals instead of travelling. |
C.She thought they would have enough time to have meals. |
D.She thought the times were suitable and felt very satisfied. |
Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984. As a little kid, he loved creating little fun computer programs, especially communication tools and games.
When he was a student at Harvard University, Mark founded (创建)Facebook on February 4, 2004. Through Facebook, Harvard students could communicate with each other. Facebook quickly became a great success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school’s students used it in the first two weeks. It soon spread further to any university students, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over in the US.
Facebook developed fast and became popular. People can communicate with others, add friends, and send them messages. Now, it has more than 175 million users all over the world.
Many big companies have offered a very high price to buy Facebook, but Mark refused them all. His reason was simple. “We are not planning to sell it. We don’t want to make money from it. We just hope Facebook will make it easier for people to know each other.”
Sometimes the simplest ideas go the furthest. We hope Mark can go much further, maybe even further than Bill Gates!
What was Mark interested in when he was a little kid?
Where was Facebook first used in the United States?
How many people use Facebook in the world now?
Why did Mark not want to sell Facebook to other companies?
What do you think of Mark Zuckerberg? (请考生自拟一句话作答)
I am 15. Now I’m studying English in London. I want to invent a language machine that can help me understand as many languages as possible. Marie, France Aug. 15, 2009 |
I am 13. I dream of going to a top university after I finish middle school. I want to be a reporter in the future. Michiko, Japan Sep.21, 2009 |
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I am a 12-year-old girl. I like traveling very much. How I wish to visit Egypt some day! Masha, Russia Oct. 15, 2009 |
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I am a 16-year-old girl in Tibet. The Qinghai Tibet Railway has been built. I’ll be able to reach Shanghai by train in about 50 hours. My dream is to go to Shanghai to visit Expo 2010. Joma, China June 10, 2008 |
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I am 14 years old. I dream of inventing a machine that can send things or people from one place to another in a minute. Andrew, the USA Nov. 30, 2009 |
What is Michiko’s dream?
A.Visiting Egypt. |
B.Going from one place to another in a minute. |
C.Going to a top university |
D.Inventing a language machine. |
How old is Joma when Expo 2010 Shanghai are held?
A.Fifteen. | B.Sixteen | C.Seventeen. | D.Eighteen. |
The best title for this passage would be ____________.
A.I Have a Dream |
B.Different Students From Different Countries |
C.Five Middle School Students |
D.Our Inventions |
Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out(退学). But he was full of new ideas.
After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life.
Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.
In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage (汽车库). He chose the name “Apple” just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden.
His Apple Computer was such a great success that Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.
Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he ___________.
A.never did his lessons |
B.was full of new ideas |
C.always made troubles with his schoolmates |
D.dropped out |
Steven Jobs designed his new computer _____________.
A.in India |
B.with his friend |
C.in an apple tree garden |
D.by himself |
Steven Jobs was famous for his ________ all over the world.
A.new ideas |
B.apple |
C.Apple Computer |
D.video games |
From this passage we know ___________
A.Steven Jobs liked travelling in India and California |
B.Steven Jobs could only design video games |
C.Steven Jobs didn’t finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates |
D.Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making his new ideas become true |
阅读并排序 下面的短文由六个段落组成,开头和结尾已给出,其余的四个段落均是随机排列的。请根据段落之间的逻辑关系,用字母A、B、C、 D重新排列这四个段落的顺序,使短文通顺。
Samuel Clemens was born in 1835,Missouri.When he was four,his family moved to the town of Hannibal,a port on the Mississippi River,and Clemens loved to watch the big steamboats going up and down the river.He said that all the boys in his school had one ambition in life:to work on a steamboat. |
In 1857, he achieved his ambition and got a job working on a steamboat. He sailed up and down the wide Mississippi River until the American Civil War began.
His father died when he was just 12 years old and Clemens then went to work for a printer to help support his family. He traveled around, and worked in many different cities.
In 1865,Clemens wrote a story about a jumping frog with his pen-name. The story and the writer became famous. After that, he wrote many books, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was published in 1876. He also gave many lectures, and became a very famous and popular man.
Clemens moved around the USA on the steamboat, and tried several jobs. He was a soldier, and a silver miner. And then he started working as a writer for a newspaper. At this time, he decided to use a pen-name for his stories, and he chose the name "Mark Twain". Samuel Clemens died in 1910. He is considered to be one of the greatest writers in American history
阅读下面的短文,并根据短文内容用完整的句子回答问题。
At a special ceremony(仪式), a special award was offered
to a group of students from Changjian University on February 11,
2010. They were brave enough to help save two boys from
Changjiang Rive. All the students were there except three, who lost
their lives when they tried to save the boys.
On the afternoon of October 24, 2009, some students were
taking a trip to Changjiang River. Suddenly two boys fell into the river. Some of them quickly jumped into the water and saved one boy. However, things didn’t go so well when they tried to save the other one. More students joined in, and, hand in hand, they formed a human wall. Finally the other boy was saved.
However, the human wall broke down and many students were swept away by the rushing water. At that moment several members of a winter swimming team nearby came to help and succeeded in saving many of the students. But the three of them, who were only 19, were nowhere to be found.
What did the students receive at the ceremony?
___________________________________________________________________________
Were all the students who saved the boys at the ceremony?
___________________________________________________________________________
What was described in the second paragraph?
___________________________________________________________________________
Why were many students rushed away by the water?
___________________________________________________________________________
What’s your idea after reading this story?
___________________________________________________________________________
先阅读短文,然后根据要求答题。
President Obama has said that he gives each of his seven and ten-year-old daughters just a dollar a week for their chores, such as setting the table, washing dishes, and cleaning up their play /' ɛəriə / and bedrooms.
People have different opinions about paying little kids for doing
chores or just giving money to them. Some families think that everyone
in the family should do housework, and that kids shouldn’t be paid for
doing so. The supporters(支持者),however, believe that kids should get
paid, and that the money they get will help kids learn important skills of
how to use it.
But for those who /tʃu:z/ to give the money, it can be a headache
deciding on how much they should give, especially in these difficult economic(经济的)times. A good idea is that you can keep /'rekɔ:dz/ of how much you spend on your child daily for two weeks and then decide how much you should give according to the average(平均的)daily amount. Kids can start receiving money around ages 4 or 5, when children start to understand how money works.
A)根据短文内容完成下列语音题:
Write out the word/' ɛəriə /:_________
Write out the word/tʃu:z/:_________
Write out the word/'rekɔ:dz/:_________
In the underlined sentence find one word whose last sound can have incomplete plosion(失去爆破):______________
In the underlined sentence find two words that can be read together(连续):
_____________ _____________
B) 根据短文内容填入一个适当的词
President Obama’s two daughters _________ paid for doing chores.
In the passage there are ________ different opinions about paying to kids for doing chores.
Some people think that children should do housework _________ being paid.
Some people think that it’s important for children to ________ how to use money.
It’s __________ for parents to decide on how much money they should give to their children.
任务型阅读。
Charles,Isabel,Alex,Tara和Toby五个人都爱好体育。现在他们正打算从事各自喜欢的项目。请仔细阅读第76--80题中的个人情况说明,然后选出符合各人要求的最佳选项。
Charles works in the city center and wants to take up a sport that he can often do during his lunch break. He enjoys a game in which he can play with his workmate on the desk to relax.
Isabel, aged 17, is a Chinese girl who studies in the US now. She never misses any matches played by Houston Rockets. She hopes to follow in Yao Ming’s steps.
Alex likes water sports very much. He is good at showing different styles, such as butterflies, frogs and so on. Believe it or not, he can dive under water for 2. 5 minutes.
Tara comes from America. Now she teaches English in a middle school in Beijing. In her free time, she would like to go in for a traditional sport so that she can learn more about China.
Toby is a student in charge of PE lesson in Riverside Middle School. These days he is training hard for the coming sport meet. He wants very much to break the school record of 175cm.
A B C D E
阅读短文,根据短文内容,从短文的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。 有一个选项为多余选项。
A funny thing happened to my sister Tina last month. She lives in Japan and teaches English. In Japan, people don’t usually wear their outdoor shoes in the house or in school, and a lot of buildings have places for shoes. So her school ahs a special place for shoes.
Tina teaches English in the evening. One Friday, she went to school, and she put her shoes in the shoe box—as usual. Then she had an interesting spoken English class with her students. But to her surprise, her shoes weren’t in the box. There was only one pair of those there, and they weren’t her hoes! She had to get home in a hurry.
On Monday, at her next English class, her shoes were in a shopping bag on her desk! There was a note that said, “I’m so sorry. I took your shoes by mistake!” Somebody felt a lot of shame!
A. It’s a shoe box. B. Tina is my sister. C. So she put on the shoes and left. D. After class she got ready to leave. E. But there was no name on the note. |
Here are two letters to George and his replies.
Alice is worrying about ________.
A. her friends B. her marks C. her height D her weight
Bob should _______ according to George’s letter.
A.take more exercise | B.talk to his friends |
C.join a basketball team | D.learn some French. |
George advises Alice to talk to _____ for help.
A.her mother | B.her teacher | C.Bob’s teacher | D.Bob’s friends |
One day a young man went to the town and bought himself a new pair of pants. When he got home, he went to his room and put them on. He found they were about two inches(英寸) long. He went into the kitchen(厨房). His mother and his two sisters were doing some washing there. He said to them,“ The new pants are too long. They need cutting(剪) by two inches. Would one of you do this for me?” His mother and sisters were busy and nobody said anything.
But after his mother finished washing, she went to her son’s room and cut the pants by two inches. She came back without saying anything to her daughters. After supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s pants. She went to his room and cut the pants by two inches without saying anything to anyone. The younger sister went to the cinema. But when she came back, she also remembered her brother’s pants, so she went to his room and cut them by two inches, too.
The pants were .
A.too long | B.new | C.for the young man | D.A, B and C |
The young man’s mother and sister didn’t answer him because .
A.they don’t like him at all |
B.they were too busy at that time |
C.they didn’t want to do it for him |
D.they didn’t hear him clearly |
If the pants were 197 inches at first, at last they were .
A.191 inches | B.193 inches | C.195 inches | D.199 inches |
From the story, we know .
A.The young man’s mother and sister didn’t want to help him. |
B.The young man can wear the pants to go out now. |
C.The young man can cut his pants himself. |
D.The young man wouldn’t be very happy after he saw his pants. |
Which one is true from the story?
A.The young man’s mother and sisters wouldn’t like to talk with each other. |
B.The young man’s mother and sister didn’t hear the young man’s words. |
C.The young man’s pants were too long for him now. |
D.The young man had to buy another pair of pants now. |
This is a picture of our classroom (教室). The walls(墙) are white. A blackboard(黑板) is on the wall. Two doors (门) are in the wall. Six brooms (扫帚) and a baseball are behind (在……后面) the door. Fifty desks and chairs are in our classroom. They are our desks and chairs. Three plants are green. We like(喜欢) our classroom. 26 boys and 24 girls are in my class. We are all friends.
This is a picture of ________.
A. our classroom B. our room C. our school
________ is on the wall.
A. A blackboard B. A baseball C. Two doors
_________ are behind the door.
A. Six brooms and baseballs. B. The desks and chairs C. A baseball and six brooms.
What are green?
A. The doors B. The plants C. The walls
“Fifty desks and chairs are in our classroom.”
The number:fifty = _________
A. 26 B. 24 C. 50
根据以下个人信息卡,选择正确的答案。
First Name:Bruce Last Name:Collins Sex (性别):male (男) Nationality (国籍):English Phone Number:578-6203 E-mail:Bruce 1996@163.com Postal Code (邮编):NY 20963 |
His name’s _________.
A. Bruce Collins B. Collins Bruce C. Bruce Collin
Bruce is _________.
A. a girl B. a boy C. a student (学生)
Bruce is _________.
A. English B. Chinese (中国人) C. Japanese (日本人)
His phone number is _________.
A. NY 20963 B. 578-6203 C. 6203-578
“E-mail” means (意思是) ________.
A. 邮编 B. 邮局 C. 电子邮件
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