A man hated his wife's cat very much and decided to throw it away. One day he drove it 20 blocks from his home and left it at a park. As he was getting home, he couldn't believe the cat was walking near his house. The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the animal there and drove home. When he arrived home, he found that near his house, the cat was running up the tree. A few days later, the man drove the cat 60 blocks from his home. But again the cat went back home earlier than him. At last he drove a few miles away, turned right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right until he reached what he thought was far enough from his home and left the cat there. Hours later the man called home to his wife,“Jen, is the cat there?”“Yes, it's here. But why do you ask about it?”his wife replied. Frustrated, the man answered,“Put it on the phone. I'm lost and let it tell me the way.”

A．The man threw the cat away.

B．The man didn't know his way home at last.

C．The man fought with his wife.

A．The cat ran faster than the man.

B．That cat was good at knowing the way.

C．The cat was cleverer than the man.

　　In the sea there are many islands. In its warm waters there are some little ones. We call them“Coral Islands（珊瑚島）”.

　　A coral island is very nice to look at. It looks like a ring of land（一圈陸地）with trees, grass and flowers on it. One part of the ring is open to the water. There is a little round lake inside the island.

　　Then the sea brought it small trees and something else. After some years, these things changed into earth. Sometimes the wind brought seeds（種子）to this earth. Sometimes birds flew over it and brought seeds to the island.

A．there are coral islands in all places

B．there are some coral islands

C．the water is always warm

A．The wind and birds brought them to the coral island

B．People brought them there

C．Fishes brought them there

A．small workers can't do big things

B．only big workers can do big things

C．small workers can do big things if they work hard and work a long time

　　Jim was a waiter. He liked to grow flowers in his garden when he was free. One Sunday morning after breakfast he put on his old clothes and began digging（挖）in his garden at 8.He dug and dug. Haft an hour later he suddenly found a coin（硬幣）near his foot. He was very glad. He put it in his right pocket. A few minutes later, he found another one. He picked it up and put it the same pocket. The same thing happened for the third, the fourth and fifth time. He was very happy and told his wife about it. She was very happy, too. She said.“A thief（小偷）took away a lot of coins from a shop a few days ago. The police caught him but they didn't find any coins.”Then Jim went on digging some more coins. But just when he began to dig, he felt something cold in his trousers. It ran down one of his legs. He put his hand down quickly and the coin came into his hand. Now he knew there was a hole in his pocket.

A．At 8∶00.

B．Between 8∶30 and 9∶00.

C．At 9∶30.

(3)“He told his wife about it.”Here“it”refers to（指的是）________.

A．the policeman caught a thief

B．he found money in his garden

C．the coins of a shop

　　Man has a big brain（腦）. He can think, learn and speak. Scientists once thought that men are different from animals because they can think and learn. Now they know that dogs, cats and birds can learn, too. They are beginning to understand that men are different from animals because they can speak. But animals can't. They make noises when they are afraid, or unhappy. Apes（猿）can even understand some things more quickly than men. One or two of them have learned a few words. But they cannot join words to make sentences. They cannot think like us because they have no language. Language is a wonderful thing. With its help, men can make anything even our modem world. Every child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, but no animal learns to speak. How does a child learn it? Scientists do not really know. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.

A．Only men can think and learn.

B．Only men can learn words.

C．Only men can make sentences.

(2) What does the underlined word“they”mean?

A．Why apes can't make sentences.

B．How a child speaks.

C．Why men can speak.

A．they have languages

B．they can think words

C．they can learn

A．Speaking by Learning.

B．language and Brain.

C．About Animals' Learning.

　　On Sunday morning, a strong earthquake hit Indonesia and then big tsunamis（海嘯）followed. They soon went on to other countries in the south and southeast Asia as well as East Africa.

　　“They got caught and could not run to safety. This is the reason why so many children have died,”said a police spokesman（發(fā)言人）in Sri Lanka.

　　The Pacific Ocean has a lot of strong tsunamis because of the size of the ocean and large earthquakes there. China doesn't see tsunamis often because its sea floor is quite fiat（平的）. Islands around China also help the country avoid from them.

　　Reported by“China Daily”on Friday, December 31st, 2004.

A．On Friday morning.

B．On December 31st, 2004.

C．On the morning of December 26th.

A．South and southeast Asia as well as East Africa.

B．AII the coastal（海岸的）countries.

C．Only in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

A．they were near the sea every day

B．they didn't know when to run away

C．they were waiting to collect fish

A．In open seas tsunamis are one or two metres high.

B．Sri Lanka has a population of 19 000 000 children.

C．Most of the children who died in tsunamis were under 5～12 years old.

A．Try to find out if there're more earthquakes

B．Run to your parents for help

C．Get to a safe place as soon as possible

　　Yao Ming is widely known in China. He was a very important basketball player in the China Basketball Association. During the 2000～2001 season, he got 27.1 scores for the Shanghai Oriental Sharks in every match.

　　Sport analyst Bill Walton said,“Yao Ming has the potential, the capability of changing rite future of basketball.”

A．basketball players

B．the centres of the Chinese National Basketball Team

C．The captains of the Chinese National Basketball Team

(3) Yao Ming ________ in CBA during 2000～2001 season.

A．learn from the NBA

B．change the future of basketball

C．improve himself

A．19∶00 to 21∶30 on Monday

B．8∶30 to 11∶30 on Sunday

C．14∶00 to 17∶00 on Saturday

　　“Katy, get your books. It's time to go to school.”said Mum.“But I don't like to.”Katy said.“Well, go and have fun.”Mum told her. When Katy got to school, some children asked her to play with them. She really wanted to, but she was too shy to say yes. That night when Katy got home she wasn't happy, so she went straight to her room to play with hex friend Jimmy the Tiger. She told Jimmy about her shyness（害羞）and Jimmy told her,“Tomorrow at school, I will help you, and you will feel good about talking to other children.”The next morning, after breakfast, she left home to catch a bus as usual, but this time with Jimmy. On the bus, Jimmy started telling Katy how he was going to help her to talk to other children. When the bus arrived at school, Katy jumped off and ran to her classroom to put the books away. Then she ran outside. But suddenly she stopped.“I can't go over and ask to play with them!!!”“Go!”said Jimmy. As she was walking over to the children, a girl said to her,“Hey, Katy, do you want to play with us?”Katy said,“Yes, I would love to.”She was so happy. From that day on she loved going to school. And now she is happy to go to school alone, without Jimmy the Tiger.

(4) Who said“I can't go over and ask to play with them!!!”?

A．Jimmy was a school boy

B．Katy went to school once a week

C．Jimmy helped Katy become confident

　　Steven Jobs, the designer（設(shè)計者）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（退學(xué)）. But he was fun 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. 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.

A．never did his lessons

B．was full of new ideas

C．always made troubles with his schoolmates

A．Steven Jobs didn't finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates

B．Steven Jobs liked traveling in India and California

C．Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making his new ideas become true