Excuse me, sir．Could you tell me     ?

A．where is the bank nearest

B．where is the nearest bank

C．where the nearest bank is

D．the nearest bank is where

—How did the accident happen?

—You know, it       difficult to see the road clearly because it      .

A．was; was raining                 B．is; has rained

C．is; is raining                     D．will be; will rain

—Hi, Tom! Can you tell me when        for London?

—Yes, tomorrow afternoon.

A．leaving        B．leaves             C．to leave        D．are you leaving

Don't worry．All the children       by the nurses.

A．are well taken care of                B．take good care of

C．are taken good care of                   D．take good care

Have you       your new classmates yet?

A．had friends with                  B．made friend with

C．got friend to                   D．made friends with

Peter and Paul passed by a small house on their way home late at night. They saw thick  1 coming out of its windows. "It's on fire!" said Peter. "We must get help. "

The two brothers ran 2   the road shouting "Fire! Fire! "They 3  on the door of the next house. They asked them to 4  the police and the firemen.

They ran back to the house. They saw 5  the window an old lady sitting in an arm-chair. It was  6  that she could not move. Peter and Paul tried hard to carry her out of the 7 and so they did! Some neighbors （邻居）came and helped take some things out.

In no  time  the  firemen 8  as  well  as  the policemen. The fire was put out. The old lady cried sadly 79 she was not hurt. She thanked Peter and Paul and her neighbors 10 .

1．A．snow               B．clouds              C．fire         D．smoke

2．A．over                B．along               C．at           D．with

3．A．knocked              B．beat                C．locked         D．opened

4．A．tell                 B．report               C．telephone        D．find

5．A．at                B．through               C．above         D．on

6．A．old                 B．difficult               C．free          D．clear

7．A．arm-chair              B．window              C．house        D．road

8．A．arrived               B．fought              C．left          D．returned

9．A．so                B．for                 C．and          D．but

10．A．up and down       B．again and again       C．hour after hour  D．from side to side

On 26th January, the biggest earthquake （地震） in India took the lives of 25, 000 people. In the morning, when everybody was enjoying holiday, earthquake began. It was about 7. 5 on the Ritcher scale. "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been pulled down, " said one of the villagers alive. "There is no water, no food and no one has come to help. "

Nobody died in Pakistan, a country next to India．The City of Lahore was lucky. In Lahore American School, where I was studying, all of the students were safe. They were on the field, so most children didn't feel anything. The earthquake was felt by the teachers that were on the second floor. However, though Mrs. Young was also on the second floor, she didn't feel anything. She didn't know what happened until a teacher told her about it. Those teachers who were on the other floors had different feelings. Mr. Emond, the maths teacher from Australia, said that when the earthquake started he thought there was something wrong with him, but then another teacher said that it was an earthquake．After those words Mr. Emond felt better. Mrs. Davis and Mr. Frost didn't feel anything either.

My mother didn't feel anything. She didn't even know that it was an earthquake till she saw a shaking （moving from side to side） light. My dad saw the computer shaking and then he looked out of the window and saw many people going out.

1．People use "Ritcher scale" to tell      .

A．where the earthquake takes place

B．when the earthquake takes place

C．how serious the earthquake is

D．how long the earthquake lasts

2．We learn that       from the sentence " There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. "

A．India is a large country

B．the Indian people had nothing after the earthquake

C．there is no tall building in India

D．the earthquake in India was serious

3．The City of Lahore is      .

A．in India        B．in America            C．in Pakistan       D．in Australia

4．Which is true?

A．I was with my parents when the earthquake happened．

B．The earthquake in the city of Lahore wasn't serious.

C．People in the City of Lahore were frightened when they knew it was an earthquake.

D．The teachers in Lahore American School were afraid of the earthquake.

When you cut your skin, you bleed（流血）. If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill and may die．Blood is very important. People have always known that．At one time, some people even drank blood to make them strong!

When doctors understand how blood goes around inside the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to people who need it. This is called " blood transfusion". The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the sick person.

But there are two problems. First, it does not always work. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood．There are four groups—O, A, B and AB．We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood to people of group AB．But they find that they must give A-group blood to A-group people and B-group blood to B-group people. I have O-group blood and the doctor told me that I could give blood to anyone else safely.

There is another problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood until someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood．At first they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold．Then they find how to keep it longer. In the end they find a way of keeping blood for a very long time.

We call a place where we keep money a "bank". We call a place where we keep blood a "blood bank". One day, when you grow up, you may decide to give blood to a "blood bank". In this way you may stop someone from dying. Or perhaps one day you may become ill. You may need blood．The "blood ban" will give it to you.

1．From the passage, we learn that sometimes people die when they have blood transfusions because they           .

A．are unhealthy people

B．have lost a lot of blood

C．are not given the right kind of blood

D．are AB-group people

2．Which of the following is true?

A．Doctors can give any kind of blood to the writer.

B．The writer can give blood to B-group people.

C．The writer has never had a blood transfusion.

D．The writer has the same kind of blood as his father.

3．People set up the "blood bank" so that they can      .

A．give the right kind of blood to the people who need it in time

B．keep different groups of blood as much as possible

C．make it easier to sell or buy blood

D．keep blood for more than twenty hundred years

4．From the last paragraph （段落） of the passage, we learn that      .

A．the writer thinks it's good to give blood to a "blood bank"

B．we may become ill if we give blood to a "blood bank"

C．many people died because they lost a lot of blood

D．blood is more important than money

5．The writer doesn't talk about       in the passage.

A．how important blood is to us

B．the four groups of blood

C．where the blood bank is

D．what "blood transfusion" is

"I don't like my parents. They always tell me I should do this, and should not do that. It sometimes makes me angry," said Zhang Hua, a middle school student in Guangzhou．Do you have the same problem? Perhaps your parents had the same problem when they were your age long ago. Why does it seem that some parents are not so friendly in their children's eyes?

One of the biggest things is when someone becomes a parent, he/she likes worrying things. They worry about everything about you, from the time you were born. They do a lot for you, though something would make you angry, because they care about you and worry about you. They worry about your choice of friends, the food you eat, your work at school, how much sleep you get, etc．All these things are part of your life. They want you to grow up healthily and happily.

So how can you make things easier on yourself? It's easier than you think. Just make sure your parents know what you're doing. Get them to know your friends. Phone if you stay somewhere else so that your parents don't call every hospital in the phone book looking for your body. Say sorry to them when you make mistakes. Take responsibility（责任） for what you have done. Talk about your ideas with them. They may talk about theirs with you.

Most of all, try to think about why your parents do this or do that. They are still practising being parents and need help you can give them. Someday, when you become a parent, they may be able to help you how to get on with your children.

1．The writer thinks we should       if we go back home later than usual.

A．tell our friends

B．tell the teacher

C．say sorry to our parents

D．make a telephone call to our parents

2．The writer thinks        .

A．it's wrong of parents to worry about their children too much

B．some parents are unfriendly, which makes their children angry

C．children should do everything as their parents say

D． parents love their children very much and the children should understand them

3．Which is the best title（标题） for the passage?

A．Parents' Responsibility

B．How to get on with parents?

C．Zhang Hua's Problem

D．What are parents worrying about?

用所给的单词的适当形式填空，使句子意思完整通顺，每条横线限填一个单词。

1．1 couldn't understand why he was so       （interest） in the invitation.

2．He did the work very       （ care）. Everybody said he had done a good job．

3．I met an old friend of       （I） in the Summer Palace last Sunday.

4．Many new       （potato） will grow from one potato planted in the ground．

5．We hope it will be       （sun）  tomorrow, for our picnic．