Extreme sports and the movie Lord of the Rings are the two things that come to mind when one talks abut New Zealand today. But for wine lovers across the world, New Zealand has a completely different meaning.

It’s a long narrow country, but its vineyards (葡萄园)are mostly around three regions, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay and Marlborough.

It was not until the 1980s that New Zealand wines drew the attention of the world with what is now a fashionable classic wine: Cloudy Bay. It was snapped up as it appeared on wine menus in Hong Kong restaurants during the early 1990s. This success was followed by the growing popularity of a wide range of wines from other New Zealand estates(庄园)such as Esk Vally, Villa Maria and Grove Mill. Since then, several other wine growing regions in other countries have tried to copy the New Zealand style without much success.

The New Zealanders were good at white wines right from their early days, but their red wines, too, were catching the fancy of the drinking public. One example of just how fast and sure that happened is Goldwater Estate in Waiheke Island. The little island, which is just a 35-minute ferry ride from Auckland, had only 13 wineries ten years ago. Kim and Jeanette Goldwater set it up as the Goldwater holiday home, with wine making as a hobby, in 1982. But demand soon made them turn that hobby into a business.

Encouraged by family and friends, they decided to take their wine production a step further and entered the commercial market. In 1991, they took their wines to the International Wine Competition in New York and won a Gold Medal.

1.What does the author mean by saying “But for wine lovers across the world, New Zealand has a completely different meaning” in Paragraph I ?

A．New Zealand today is different from what it was in the past.

B．Different people have different opinions on New Zealand’s sports and films.

C．New Zealand is famous for good wines to wine lovers in the world.

D．New Zealand is well known for is sports and movies.

2.Goldwater Estate in Waiheke Island is given as an example show that          .

A．Goldwater Estate is not very far from Auckland

B．Goldwater won great success as a holiday home to New Zealanders

C．the red wines of the New Zealanders are on their way to success

D．encouragement from family and friends can lead to gold medals

3.The underlined phrase “snapped up” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “        ”

A．refused        B．removed       C．sold out       D．wiped out

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Vineyards can be seen everywhere across the long narrow country.

B．New Zealand wines first won their place in the world with Cloudy Bay.

C．Kim and Jeanette Goldwater took wine making as a hobby at first.

D．Wine production from Goldwater was popular with the drinking public.

Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets(彗星)which other scientists had made. The orbit of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems.

    However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a comet had the shape of an ellipse(椭圆形).

    Now Halley set to work. He figured out(解决，计算出)the orbits of some of the comets that had been observed by scientists. He made a surprising discovery. The comets that had appeared in the years 1531, 1607, and 1682 all had the same orbit. Yet their appearance had been 75 to 76 years apart.

    This seemed very strange to Halley. Three different comets followed the same orbit. The more Halley thought about it, the more he thought that there had not been three different comets as people thought. He decided that they had simply seen the same comet three times. The comet had gone away and had come back again.

    It was an astonishing idea! Halley felt certain to make a prediction(预言)of what would happen in the future. He decided that this would appear in the year 1758. There were 53 years to go before Halley’s prediction could be tested. In 1758 the comet appeared in the sky. Halley did not see it, for he had died some years before. Ever since then that comet had been called Halley’s comet, in his honor.

1.Edmund Halley figured out the orbit of ____.

    A. some different comets appearing several times

    B. the same comet appearing at different times()

    C. three different comets appearing at the same time

    D. several comets appearing at the same time

2.Halley made his discovery ____.

    A. by doing experiments()

    B. by means of his own careful observation

    C. by using the working of other scientists()

    D. by chance

3.Halley made a surprising, but correct prediction in the year____.

    A. 1704     B. 1705     C. 1706     D. 1707

4.This passage in general is about ____.

    A. Halley and other scientists()

    B. the orbit of a comet

    C. Newton and Halley

    D. Halley and his discovery()

   Have you ever played the game Hot Potato? Jon Scieszka and a team of 13 popular children’s book authors are playing a writer’s version of the game, and are having a blast.

Here’s how it works. In The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, the “hot potato” is the story, and it is passed from one author to the next. Scieszka wrote the first chapter. Then he passed the story to another author Katherine Paterson.  If Scieszka decides to introduce a roller-skating baby into the story, Paterson and the other contributing authors will have to decide what to do with the baby in later chapters. Every two weeks a new chapter, written by a different author, will be published on the Library of Congress’s read. Gov site. The high rate of hits has proved that Scieszka did not fail to make the readers laugh with his incredibly silly story.

“Working on The Exquisite Corpse Adventure was so much fun,” Scieszka says. “I got to write the first chapter so I could set up all these foolish traps for the other authors and make them have to write about clowns and ninjas(忍者).”

The story might be crazy, but all of the authors agreed that writing the story together was a whole lot of fun. “I started in the middle of the story,” author Steven Kellogg said, “That’s kind of fun.  I got to read about everyone else’s characters and then brought them into the chapter that I was writing. It’s really good to think about other authors’ ideas and connect them with my own.”

You may wonder why the book is called The Exquisite Corpse Adventure. In fact Kellogg and the other authors are playing a game that is over 100 years old. Exquisite Corpse is actually the name of an old game in which players begin a story on a sheet of paper and pass it on to the next player to continue the tale. The game ends when someone finishes the story, which is then read aloud.

1.How is the game Hot Potato played according to the passage?

A．People make up the story about the “hot potato” one by one.

B．People throw the “hot potato” to hit one another.

C．People pass the “hot potato” from one person to the next.

D．People hit by the “hot potato” must tell a funny story.

2.We can infer from the passage that           .

A．it’s the first time such a game of writing has ever been played

B．the story hasn’t been finished yet

C．the clues of the story have been decided by Kellogg

D．every chapter will be online for two weeks

3.Kellogg thinks the game is fun because            .

A．the story is very silly and crazy

B．he writes the main part of the story

C．he could continue the story by sharing it with other authors

D．there are so many different characters in the story

4.The last paragraph is mainly about            .

A．how the game ended

B．when the game stared

C．how the book was named

D．how the Exquisite corpse worked

As a kid, I can remember going to the supermarket and grabbing eggs off the shelf. I would run them home to my mother because they were usually going into a delicious cake. Times have changed. Cage-free? Organic? Brown? White? Omega-3s(一种脂肪酸)?Help! Here are some tips to help you figure out which eggs you should be eating.

Brown or white? In fact, color is simply a sign of the breed of hen. Find the freshest egg with the most flavor and let color be a secondary concern.

Extra Omega-3s? Omega-3 eggs come from a hen whose diet has added flaxseed (亚麻籽)，which produces an egg containing an average of 225 mg of Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E. The countless health benefits for humans make these eggs an attractive purchase. My opinion? Eat a piece of fresh fish and get a pure pill of Omega-3s. Let eggs be eggs.

Does your egg need exercise? Free-range eggs are from hens raised without the limit of a cage, though they may or may not have spent much time outdoors. Organic eggs are from hens whose food must meet organic standards. These hens must be raised humanly, and they must be given time to the outdoors. Hey, happier hens do lay tastier eggs.

Does local make a difference? Nothing is better than local eggs. They may have a feather or two stuck to them or be a little imperfect in shape and may or may not be certified organic; however, they have one quality. I know exactly where my food came from and how it came into being! In some cases I can even ask the farmer when the eggs were laid and what they were fed.

1.What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Which Eggs Should You Be Eating?

B．Eggs Are Changing as Times Are Changing

C．Which Kind of Egg Is the Best?

D. The First Concern When Choosing Eggs

2.What does the author think of extra Omega-3s eggs?

A．They are a good choice for people to buy.

B．They contain fewer Omega-3s than fresh fish.

C．They have the highest content of pure Omega-3s.

D．They are not the best source of Omega-3s.

3.The underlined word “free-range” probably means “           ”

A．wild        B．cage-free         C．organic        D．Omega-3-free

4.According to the passage, which of the following has nothing to do with an egg’s quality?

A．The egg’s color.                         B．The hen’s exercise.  

C．The hen’s living conditions.                D．The hen’s food.

 “Mr. Mandela has spent 67 years making the world a better place. We’re asking you for 67 minutes”. Nelson Mandela turns 91 on the 18^th of July, and the call has gone out for people everywhere to celebrate his birthday and the global launch of Mandela Day by acting on the idea that each person has the power to change the world.

The call by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and its sister organizations for the creation of an official global Mandela Day is gaining great support. It is to be celebrated on the 18^th of July every year－Mandela’s birthday.

“The celebration of Mandela Day aims to call on people to recognize their power and devote 67 minutes to making an imprint (印记) and helping change the world around them for the better”, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said at the launch of the campaign in April.

“Nelson Mandela has been making an imprint on the world for 67 years, beginning in 1942 when he first started to fight for the human rights of every South African. He has set a good example to the world. ”

Mandela said at the time of the launch that he would be honoured if such a day can serve to bring together people around the world to fight poverty and improve peace.

Former US president Bill Clinton said Mandela’s example showed that the power of public kindness does not require public office, but a well-placed heart and a determined mind .

South African President Jacob Zuma said it would give people in South Africa and all over the world the opportunity to do something good to help others. Let us wholeheartedly support Mandela Day and encourage the world to join us in this wonderful campaign.

1.The underlined word “launch” in the first paragraph can be replaced by“          ”.

A．celebration            B．creation           C．realization         D. activity

2.The aim of setting up Mandela Day is to            .

A．celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday

B．improve the international position of South Africa

C．encourage people to fight poverty

D．call on people to make the world a much better place

3.It can be inferred from the passage that Bill Clinton and Jacob Zuma        

A．do not support some ideas of Nelson Mandela

B．were too busy to attend Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday celebration

C．think highly of the contribution Nelson Mandela has made to the world

D．disagree with the idea of setting up a global Mandela Day

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Nelson Mandela began to fight for the human rights in 1942.

B．It took 67 minutes to celebrate Mandela’s birthday.

C．Presidents form all around the world will attend the celebration.

D．The Nelson Mandela Foundation made 18^th July Mandela Day.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The town I live in is about to put cameras at all traffic lights to catch people who run red lights. It  1me of how many people I’ve seen who take the yellow light as a signal to go faster. I also can’t  2why people don’t move when the traffic light has turned green. Above all, there are those  3situationsin which someone doesn’t even4that the light is red, and just keeps going; that is how many accidents happen. All these situations make me  5about the purpose of traffic lights.

However, it’s even more  6to imagine letting people make their own  7at a crowded traffic crossing. Who decides who goes next?  8I guess I do like the idea of a system to  9traffic. And I also do my best to  10the traffic signals: to go, to be11, and to stop when I’m supposed to.

It occurs to me that my  12have done much the same for me in terms of  13me how to live. They have given me many  14lights: to live in harmony with others to help others, to live with  15and purpose. They have also given me some red lights so that my  16doesn’t goastray(走入歧途): to watch my temper, and to control my desires. And there have been some yellow lights: to watch how much I drink, to keep control of my behavior, to  17school regularly and work hard.

If I obey these signals, my life will be as  18as it can. Just as I’m wise to pay attention to the traffic lights when I’m walking  19the street, I’m wise to pay attention to the “life  20” given me by my parents.

1.A. informs    B. reminds  C. suggests D. indicates

2.A. realize    B. understand   C. prove    D. remember

3.A. surprising B. competitive  C. dangerous    D. mysterious

4.A. feel   B. stop C. receive  D. notice

5.A. care   B. worry    C. complain D. wonder

6.A. frightening    B. relaxing C. confusing    D. interesting

7.A. attempts   B. efforts  C. decisions    D. preparations

8.A. Since B. But  C. So   D. As

9.A. affect B. control  C. serve    D. improve

10.A. obey  B. recognize    C. reflect  D. recover

11.A. defenceless   B. angry    C. careful  D. hopeful

12.A. teachers  B. relatives    C. parents  D. friends

13.A. allowing  B. seeing   C. encouraging  D. teaching

14.A. yellow    B. red  C. colorful D. green

15.A. worry B. joy  C. luck D. chance

16.A. confidence    B. life C. dream    D. opinion

17.A. attend    B. miss C. leave    D. join

18.A. good  B. convenient   C. special  D. simple

19.A. through   B. across   C. over D. above

20.A. purposes  B. plans    C. qualities    D. signals

 measures have already been taken to ensure enough supply of food and medicine in the earthquake-stricken areas of Qinghai Province.

A．Impressive       B．Effective     C．Creative      D. Attractive

 If your knowledge can be in some way        with my experience, we are sure to finish the task very well.

A．mixed        B．connected       C．joined        D. combined

 Seeing the happy         of lovely children playing in the park, I’m full of joy and confidence in the future of our country.

A. sight           B. view          C. sign        D. scene

 Tom’s parents were very busy when he was a child, so he was      by his grandparents.

     A. grown up        B. turned up      C. brought up     D. fed up