任务型阅读。
     Ge Fei and Gu Jun are Chinese girls. They like playing badminton (羽毛球) very much. Jordan is an
American. He likes basketball very much. Yao Ming is a basketball player, too. He is a Chinese boy.
Kong Linghui is a good Chinese player. He likes ping-pong very much. Jim Green likes playing baseball.
He"s an Englishman. Lucy and Lily are English girls. They like playing volleyball.
根据短文内容回答问题。
1. Are Ge Fei and Gu Jun Chinese girls?
    ____________________________
2. Does Jordan like basketball?
    ____________________________
3. Is Yao Ming a baseball player?
    ____________________________
4. What sport does Kong Linghui like?
    ____________________________
5. Do Lucy and Lily like playing volleyball?
    ____________________________

缺词填空     Steve Jobs (乔布斯) died last month at the age of 56, after fighting against cancer(癌症). Millions of
people around the world felt sad. He was a businessman, but he was the "Michael Jackson" of
businessman. His Apple products(产品) were like songs that touched people"s hearts and c__1__ their
lives.
     Jobs was not an inventor, but he made Apple products have great style and easy for people to use.
Apple products s__2__cool! The iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad were always the coolest products on the
market.
     Steve Jobs was also a good e__3__ of "The American Dream". He grew up in a working class
family in California. He didn"t have a good e__4__. Instead, he left the college early and started Apple in
his home. But his success was soon f__5__ by bad news.
     Jobs was s__6__ working as CEO of the company in 1985, but that setback(挫折) did not stop him.
Jobs b__7__ a new computer company and also started Pixar.It produced the films Toy Story and
Finding Nemo. Later, Jobs was brought back to s__8__  Apple-and he did it!
     Jobs is a great role model for young people. He had a dream and he took chances (even foolish
chances) to realize that dream. He suffered (遭受)setbacks in business and in his h__9__, but nothing
could stop him m__10__ his dream come true. In the end, he left some words for the young: "Stay
hungry, stay foolish!"
1.______ 2.______ 3.______ 4.______ 5.______
6.______ 7.______ 8.______ 9.______ 10.______

阅读理解。     Yao Ming, the center of the Chinese National Men"s Basketball Team, served the Houston Rockets
in 2002 in NBA.  The 2. 26m, 120kg center became the first player to come from a foreign team.
     Yao Ming was born in Shanghai in September, 1980.  His mother was a center and captain (队长)
of the Chinese National Women"s Team.  His father played basketball, too.
     Yao Ming is widely known in China.  He came to be a very important basketball player in CBA.  It"s
short for China Basketball Association (联赛).  During the 2000-2001 season, he got 27. 1 scores (得
分) for the Shanghai Oriental (东方) Sharks in every match.
     Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in October, 2002.  He said it was a new start in his basketball
life.  He would do his best to learn from the NBA and improve (提高) himself.
     Sport analyst (分析家) Bill Walton said,"Yao Ming has the potential (潜力), the capability (能力) of
changing the future of basketball. "1. The Houston Rockets is the name of a _______ team.
A. table tennis
B. volleyball
C. basketball
D. golf
2. Both Yao Ming"s father and mother were _______.
A. football players
B. basketball players
C. the centers of the Chinese National Team
D. the captains of the Chinese National Team
3. Yao Ming _______ in CBA during the 2000-2001 season.
A. does well
B. is good
C. was good
D. did well
4. Yao Ming _______ the Houston Rockets in October, 2002.
A. did his best to join
B. was well-known in
C. became a member (成员) of
D. liked
5. Sport analyst Bill Walton thought Yao Ming was able to _______.
A. learn from the NBA
B. change the future of basketball
C. improve himself
D. became the captain of the Houston Rockets

根据短文内容,判断下列句子正(T)误(F).     Avril (艾薇儿) Lavigne is an excellent teenage (十几岁的) singer. She made a great success because
of her musical talent (天才, 天赋).
     She wrote her songs by herself, played the guitar and had a wide range of voice (音域) when she was
only 17 years old. She began to sing her own rock-and-roll (摇滚乐) music. She is a talent in the musical
world. People in many different countries like her songs very much.
     Avril Lavigne isn"t a quiet girl. She is a true wild active and crazy girl. She started showing her voice
and character at around age 2. "I"m just coming out and I"m going to be myself. I write what I feel. I never
worry about what others think." Avril said.
     Her music can reach girls" and boys" hearts and even some adults", too. I can"t wait to be out there; I
want to rock the world! I want people to know what music is real and honest (坦率的) —it comes from
my heart. I am just being true to myself.(     )1. Avril became a singer when she was 27 years old.
(     )2. She asked a famous writer to write songs for her.
(     )3. Only Canadian people like her songs very much.
(     )4. She wants to sing and rock all over the world.
(     )5. Avril is a quiet and lovely girl.

阅读理解。     Frederic Chopin was born in March 1810 near Warsaw in Poland (波兰). He was one of the greatest
musicians in the world. In 1831, he went to Paris. No people but he could play the piano very well.
     At that time people in Paris liked the Hungarian (匈牙利的) pianist Franz Liszt.
     One night, at a concert, Liszt went to the piano and people shouted. As all the lights in the concert
were turned off, a wonderful piano concert started. The music was so good that the listeners were all
greatly interested. They kept praising (不停地赞扬) the pianist and thought that Liszt had reached
something new in playing the piano.
     Suddenly, all the lights were turned on again as the music came to an end. And there stood a young
man instead of the famous Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt.
     Liszt planned all this. As the lights went out, Liszt left his chair and let Chopin take his place. So with
the help of Liszt and his own talent (天赋), Chopin soon became famous.1. Chopin was _____.
A. the greatest musician in the world
B. a famous Polish (波兰的) pianist
C. a famous Paris pianist
D. one of the greatest musicians in Hungary

2. The wonderful piano concert started _____.
A. after all the lights were turned on
B. when Liszt sat down at the piano
C. after the lights were turned off
D. when Chopin went to the piano

3. When the music came to an end, _____.
A. Liszt stood at the piano
B. all the lights were turned off again
C. Chopin stood at the piano
D. people went out of the hall

4. Chopin became famous _____.
A. before he came to the concert
B. because he was a student of Liszt"s
C. because people in Paris liked him very much
D. since he played so well at the concert

5. From the story we know _____.
A. Chopin could be famous because of his own talent and the help from Liszt
B. Liszt planned to make Chopin famous
C. Liszt was Chopin"s teacher
D. one could be famous only with the help of a famous pianist