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No one can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read correctly the signs around us, we can tell what the more important changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be like on the following day or two is called weather forecasting(天氣預報).
For many centuries and in all countries, people have studied the weather and tried to make weather forecasting. Rings around the sun are a sign of coming rain. That many people feel their joints(關節(jié)) hurt is a sign of wet weather. Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming, but they fly near the ground if rainy or stormy weather is on the way. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will become clear and fine. Such rainbows come in the evening. If the stars twinkle clearly at night, then fine weather will continue. If a fog appears in the morning just above a river, then the day will be warm. If the sunset is mostly red in colour, then the following day will be fine. If a rainbow appears in the morning, rainy weather will probably come.
Most of the above sayings have been made by the people who have used their eyes and brains to make weather forecasting.
【小題1】Which of the following can be used here to replace(取代) the underlined phrase “on the way”?

A．away.

B．gone.

C．disappearing.

D．coming.

【小題2】When you see the stars twinkle clearly at night, the weather will be _______.

A．warm

B．rainy

C．clear and fine

D．cold

【小題3】Which of the following signs can tell the weather will probably be rainy?

A．A rainbow appears in the morning.

B．Some birds fly high.

C．The stars twinkle clearly at night.

D．Fogs appear in the morning just above a river.

Every pet owner loves his pet. There is no argument here.
　　But when we asked our readers whether they would clone （克隆， 復制）their beloved animals, the responses（反應） were split almost down the middle. Of the 228 readers who answered it, 108 would clone, 111 would not and nine weighed each side without offering an opinion.
　　Clearly, from readers’ response, this is an issue that reaches deeply into both the joy and final sadness of owning a pet. It speaks, as well, to people’s widely differing expectations over the developing scientific procedure.
　　Most of the respondents who favored the idea strongly believed it would produce at least a close copy of the original; many felt the process would actually return an exact copy. Those on the other side, however, held little hope a clone could never truly recreate a pet, many simply didn’t wish to go against the natural law of life and death.
　　Both sides expressed equal love for their animals. More than a few respondents owned “the best dog/cat in the world”. They thought of their pets as their “best friend”, “a member of the family,”“the light of my life.” They told moving stories of pets’ heroism, intelligence and selfless devotion.
　　Then the loss is so disturbing---and the cloning so attractive. “People become very close to their animals, and the loss can be just as hard to bear as when a friend or family member dies,” says Gary Kowalski, author of Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet. “For me, cloning feels like an attempt to turn death away…It’s understandable. Death is always painful. It’s difficult to deal with. It’s hard to accept.”
　　But would cloning reduce the blow? This question seemed to be at the heart of this problem.
【小題1】So far as the cloning of pets is concerned, a recent survey shows that, of all pet owners, ____.

A．a lot more of them are for it

B．a lot more of them are against it

C．very few of them are willing to tell their opinions

D．about half of them are for it and the other half against it

【小題2】While talking about the respondents from the readers, the expression “final sadness of owning a pet” refers to ____.

A．the death of one’s pet

B．the high cost of owning a pet

C．the troubles one has to deal with in keeping a pet

D．the dangers about the cloning of a pet

【小題3】From what Gary Kowalski says, we can know that he ____.

A．has never thought about the problem of cloning

B．is going to write another book on pets

C．is in favor of the idea of cloning pets

D．is all against the cloning of pets

【小題4】What is the key question at the heart of the problem of cloning pets?

A．Can cloning make the pain one suffers less when a pet dies?

B．Can pet owners afford the cost of cloning?

C．Does cloning go against the law of nature?

D．How reliably does cloning produce an exact copy of one’s pet?

The website “FarmersOnly.com” calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers.
As he tells it, the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine o’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning.
So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. “You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly.com, but you do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’s Heartland.” 
You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the site listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website.
Some farmers have also found love through a group, Singles in Agriculture, which was formed as a nonprofit organization in 1986. It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website, singlesinag.org, says there are more than 1,000 members across the nation and as far away as France.
【小題1】Jerry Miller started singlesinag.org in order to     .

A．help farmers	B．represent farmers
C．support traditions	D．understand farmers

【小題2】Which of the following is true of singlesinag.org?

A．It provides dating services.

B．Only farmers can become its members.

C．Its services are free.

D．Farmers in France can’t benefit from it.

【小題3】 The author of the text intends to     .

A．advertise for the two websites

B．urge readers to help farmers

C．intro duce two websites

D．encourage social activities

【小題4】It can be inferred from the text that     .

A．farmers are easy to meet new people

B．the Internet helps improve farmers’ social life

C．all farmers desire marriage

D．more farmers get divorced in the USA

In 1620, about half the USA was covered by forests． Today the forests have almost gone． A lot of good land has gone with them, leaving only sand． China doesn’t want to copy the USA’s example． We’re planting more and more trees． We’ve built the " Great Green Wall" of trees across northern part of our country．The Great Green Wall is 7,000 kilometres long, and between 400 and 1,700 kilometres wide． It will stop the wind from blowing the earth away． It will stop the sand from moving towards the rich farmland in the south． More "Great Green Walls" are needed． Trees must be grown all over the world． Great Green Walls will make the world better．
【小題1】In 1620, about ______ the USA was covered by forests．

A．a third

B．half

C．two thirds

D．a fourth

【小題2】A lot of good land has gone with ______．

A．sand

B．water

C．wind

D．forests

【小題3】The Great Green Wall in China is ______ long．

A．7,000 kilometers	B．1,700 kilometers
C．7,000 meters	D．400 kilometers

【小題4】Trees must be grown in ______.

A．China	B．the USA
C．some countries	D．every part of the world

【小題5】_____ will make the world better．

A．The Great Wall	B．Tall buildings
C．Great Green Walls	D．Flowers and grass

Looking back on China’s road to outer space, people can easily find it has not been very smooth. In the past years, Chinese people have made hard and determined efforts to realize the dream their ancestors had for thousands of years.
After China’s first satellite into the Earth’s orbit in 1970 came four flights of unmanned Shenzhou missions(飛行) from 1999 to 2002. The country carried out its first one-piloted space flight in October, 2003, making China the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight ability after the Soviet Union and the United States. Then came another breakthrough on October 12, 2005, when Shenzhou 6, China’s second human spaceflight, was launched, with a crew of two astronauts. What’s more, the landmark(里程碑)spacewalk done by Zhai Zhigang, one of the three boarding Shenzhou 7, launched on Sept. 25, 2008, leads the country further in its space exploration.
Meanwhile, China’s moon exploration project, started in 2004, has also been progressing satisfactorily. Fifty years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, China’s first circumlunar(繞月的)satellite Chang’e 1 took off on Oct.24, 2007, which became the third landmark in China’s space achievements after the above-mentioned manned flights. Chang’e 1 was expected to fulfill four scientific goals, one of which was to expore mineral elements on the moon, especially those not existent on Earth. It’s said that the lunar regolith(月壤) is abundant in helium-3, a clean fuel that may support the Earth’s energy demands for more than a century. Nearly 3 years later, Oct. 1, 2010 witnessed the launching of Chang’e 2, China’s 2nd unmanned lunar probe(勘探),marking another step forward in moon exploration. This time the aim is to test the key techniques of Chang’e 3 and Chang’e 4, as a preparation for a soft lunar landing in the future.
With great expectations, people all over the world are looking forward to China’s greater space achievements.
【小題1】 According to the text, which of the following is TRUE?

A．China sent its first satellite into the Moon’s orbit in 1970.

B．China is the third country in Asia to make human spaceflight.

C．By now, altogether 5 astronauts have made successful spaceflight by Shenzhou spaceship.

D．The launching of Chang’e 1 became the third landmark in China’s space achievements.

【小題2】 Paragraph 2 mainly deals with information about China’s         .

A．landmark spacewalk	B．manned Shenzhou missions
C．first circumlunar satellite	D．unmanned Shenzhou missions

【小題3】We can infer from the text that         .

A．China’s road to outer spacehas not been very smooth for a long time

B．the lunar regolith is believed to be rich in a clean fuel called helium-3

C．China’s lunar exploration project was started in 2004 and completed in 2007

D．China’s scientists are researching into techniquesfor soft lunar landing

【小題4】What can be the best title for the text?

A．Ancient Chinese’s Dream	B．China’s Major Space Achievements
C．China’s Moon Exploration	D．The World’s Great Expectations

【小題5】The auther’s attitude towards China’s space exploration is _________.

A．negative

B．positive

C．critical

D．indifferent

The word “conservation” has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such a good condition that others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials: most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish idea that the treasures were “l(fā)imitless” and could “l(fā)ast forever”. Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to all the others.
Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of school work; scientific forestry was a new idea; wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climatic cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.
For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about correcting the mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should be made part of everybody’s daily life. To know about the water table (水位) in ground is just as important to us as a knowledge of the basic math formulas(公式). We need to know why all watersheds (上游集水區(qū)) need the protection of plant life and why the running current of streams and rivers must be made to give their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, grown trees, because living space for most of man’s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic（立方體的） volume above the earth. In a word, it should be our goal to restore as much of the original beauty of nature as we can.
【小題1】The author’s attitude towards the use of natural resources is_________.

A．positive

B．uninterested

C．optimistic

D．critical

【小題2】According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that________.

A．they had no idea about scientific forestry

B．they had little or no sense of environmental protection

C．they were not aware of the importance of nature study

D．they had no idea of how to make good use of raw materials

【小題3】To avoid repeating the mistakes of our forefathers, the author suggests that ________.

A．we plant more trees

B．natural sciences be taught to everybody

C．environmental education be given to everybody

D．we return to nature

【小題4】How can you understand the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A．Our living space on the earth is getting smaller and smaller.

B．Our living space should be measured in cubic volume.

C．We need to take some measures to protect space.

D．We must preserve good living condition for both birds and animals.

A weather map is an important tool for geographers.   A succession of three or four maps presents continuous picture of weather changes. Weather forecasters are able to determine the speed of air masses and fronts (氣鋒) to determine whether an individual pressure aroa is deepening or becoming shallow and whether a front is increasing or decreasing in intensity (強烈).They are also able to determine whether an air mass is retaining its original characteristics or taking on those of the surface over which it is moving. Thus, a most significant function of the map is to reveal a summary picture of conditions in the atmosphere at a given time.
All students of geography should be able to interpret a weather map accurately.Weather maps contain an enormous amount of information about weather conditions existing at the time of observation over a large geographical area. They reveal in a few minutes what otherwise would take hours to describe. The United States  Weather Bureau issues information about approaching storms, floods, frosts and all climatic conditions in general. Twice a month it issues a 30-day"outlook" which is a rough guide to weather conditions likely to occur over broad areas of the United States. These 30-day outlooks are based upon an anaiysis of the upper air levels which often set the stage for development of air masses, fronts and storms.
Considerable effort is being exerted today to achieve more accurate weather
predictions, with identifying and tracking storms over regions which have but few meteorological (氣象)stations. Extensive experiments are also in progress for weathef modification studies.
【小題1】 One characteristic of weather maps NOT mentioned by the author in this passage is_______.

A．floods

B．fronts

C．temperature changes

D．frosts

【小題2】 The thirty-day forecast is determined by examining________.

A．daily weather maps	B．upper air levels
C．satellite reports	D．changing fronts

【小題3】The observation of weather conditions by satellites is helpful because it________

A．is modern

B．uses electronic instruments

C．makes weather prediction easier

D．shows things that would otherwise take hours to describe in a few minutes

【小題4】A weather map is a summary because it_______

A．sums up a great deal of information	B．appears daily
C．shows changing fronts	D．is a science book

【小題5】You may possibly read this article in_________.

A．a magazine

B．newspaper

C．a novel

D．a science book

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【小題1】 How long does it take the battery to charge up an iPhone?

A．15 minutes.

B．30 minutes.

C．1.5 hours.

D．3 hours.

【小題2】What is special about the battery?

A．It is built in an iPhone.	B．It is the smallest of its kind.
C．It can also be used as a charger.	D．It keeps power for about 30 days.

【小題3】 If you are not satisfied with the product, you ______.

A．may get your pre-paid money back with any reason

B．can demand an apology and the money back within 30 days

C．have the privilege of one-month return without any reason

D．are probably unable to have the return privilege with a return label

【小題4】Who mentions the transporting of the battery?
A. P.S.     B. B.L.     C. M.C.     D. T.K.
【小題5】The customer comments on the battery are mainly about its _______.

A．quality

B．service

C．function

D．shopping

When Emily Beardmore first heard that a trip was being planned by the biology class at Windsor High School, she thought about how much fun it would be.
“I thought it would be a really good experience to go with other friends and teachers to another country in an environment other than a vacation environment,” the 17-year-old girl said.
A few months later, Emily got her chance when she and 14 of her classmates, along with biology teacher Tamara Pennington went to Costa Rica for eight days in late May.
“It was not just a tour,” said Pennington, who organized the trip. “You can go any place in the world on just a tour. This one was really working with the sea turtles (海龜) and practicing conservation(保護). It just seemed like the perfect science field trip for kids who think they want to get into science to see what it's really like to be out in the field and enjoy themselves.”
Emily said her time on the turtle program, which was the focus of the trip, was “crazy.”“We were walking on the beach at night and you can’t see anything—just see a big black dot.” She said with a laugh. “I was not expecting the turtles to be that big.” The turtles are leatherback turtles, which are becoming extinct (滅絕) because their eggs are used as food.
“When they would move their legs while laying their eggs they were really hard to control because they were a lot more powerful than you would imagine,” Emily said.
Once the eggs were collected, the students took them back to a hatchery(孵化場) and dug holes to copy the hole the mother turtle had made and then buried the eggs for the 60 days needed to hatch.
“The experience was so cool,” Emily said. “You go to another country to see what their culture is like and learn what their everyday lives are like. It made me really want to help out my mom a lot more than I do, and value what I have.”
【小題1】What did Pennington consider the trip to be?

A．It was a common tour to a foreign country.

B．It was a journey to practice what students learned.

C．It was to attract students’ interest in science.

D．It was a trip to do practical science activities.

【小題2】From what Emily said on her turtle program, we know that     .

A．she was afraid of walking on the beach at night

B．she didn’t dare to catch the powerful turtles

C．she had thought turtles were small animals

D．she got crazy at the sight of turtles at night

【小題3】What did Emily learn from her experience?

A．She learned to be grateful to her teachers.

B．She understood the importance of what she had.

C．She realized the beauty of foreign culture.

D．She knew the importance of everyday life

【小題4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Teens Help Fight Turtle Extinction.

B．Teens Take a tour to Costa Rica.

C．Teens Have a Research on Turtles.

D．Teens Learn to be Independent.

What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.
We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists (心理學家) think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become dull and unintelligent.
Parents should also be careful with what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as “That was a very clever thing you did.” or “You are such a smart child.”
【小題1】The words “intelligent” and “brilliant” in the first paragraph probably mean _______ while “dull” in the second paragraph means ________.

A．bright and splendid; slow in thinking and understanding

B．pretty and handsome; ordinary-looking

C．great and important; common

D．hopeful and helpful; careless

【小題2】According to the context we can guess that a genius is ________ while an idiot is ________.

A．a normal person; a funny person

B．a strong person; a weak person

C．a highly intelligent person; a foolish or weak-minded person

D．a famous person; an ordinary person

【小題3】 A person ________ is more likely to become a genius.

A．whose parents are clever

B．often thinking about difficult problems

C．often helped by his parents and teachers

D．born with a good brain and putting it into active use

【小題4】 It is better for parents ________.

A．to praise and encourage their children more often

B．to be hard on their children

C．to leave their children alone with nothing to do

D．to give their children as much help as possible

【小題5】Which of the following is NOT true according to the article?

A．Parents play an important part in their children’s growth.

B．The less you use your mind the duller you may become.

C．Intelligence is obviously the result of where and how you live.

D．What makes a person bright or stupid is still under discussion.