One day something went wrong with a man’s bicycle chain(鏈條). The man could not repair it, so he looked    36   for help. The only house nearby belonged to a woman who had    37   there a few months earlier. The man knocked at the door, but the woman did not answer. The door had clear glass in it, and the man    38   see that the woman was home. He decided to knock again. Finally the woman came to the door. The man immediately explained his    39  . “I can fix the chain,” the woman said. Later when the bike was    40   to go, the man said, ‘Thanks. I hope I can help you some day.” “I never need help,” the woman said.

The following week the man was riding his bike    41  he noticed the woman walking down the street. A strong wind suddenly lifted her hat and sent it into the branches(樹枝) of an old tree. The woman tried to get her hat with a stick, but she failed. She seemed    42   because she clearly was not dressed for tree-climbing. The man hurried over, quickly climbed up to the hat and    43   it into the woman’s waiting hands. When she put on her hat, she    44   the man as he climbed back on his bike. ‘I think I told you I never need help,” the woman said, “I’m glad you didn’t    45   me. Thanks.” Then they both smiled.

1.	A．out B．up C．down D．a(chǎn)round

 

2.	A．left B．moved C．waited D．stopped

 

3.	A．could B．might C．couldn’t D．didn’t

 

4.	A．idea B．plan C．problem D．message

 

5.	A．hard B．ready C．slow D．unable

 

6.	A．when B．before C．a(chǎn)fter D．though

 

7.	A．bored B．relaxed C．frightened D．worried

 

8.	A．dropped B．put C．collected D．brought

 

9.	A．saved B．passed C．studied D．chose

 

10.	A．excuse B．notice C．find D．believe

 

Thomas Edison made more than 1,000 inventions in his life．（A）他的許多發(fā)明已經(jīng)改變了世界。His first invention was a vote recorder（投票投票記錄器）in 1869．This machine allowed people to place a vote by pressing a button instead of saying“Yes”or“No”．（B）H ________，American government officials did not like Edison’s invention because they preferred to call out their votes．

    Then Edison started a company with his friend．Franklin Pope．（C）was，morning，night，busy，until，Edison，from，early，late．As a result of hard work，he invented telegraph to print the price of gold and silver．He sold it to Western Union Company for $15,000．

    With some of the money Edison started his own company．Next he invented a stock ticker．（D）This machine was used to record the price of stocks（股票）in New York．Western Union paid Edison $40,000 for this invention．

    Edison used this money to open a shop in Newark in the state of New Jersey．In 1875，Edison and his family moved to Menlo Park in the same state．There he built his own laboratory．

1．將（A）處畫線部分譯成英語：

2．根據(jù)首字母提示，在（B）處填寫一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~：

3．將（C）處畫線部分連詞成句：

4．將（D）處畫線部分譯成漢語：

5．Which state of America does Menlo Park belong to?  _____________

Is the world too crowded? Well, that’s a hard question to answer. It’s all a matter of perspective(視角).In Montana, you might drive for a mile in any direction and not see another human being. In Macao, 60,000 people live in every square mile!
What is true is that the world’s population doesn’t stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate(比例).That’s in part because in each generation(代) these are more people who then have children than in the last generation.
Five hundred years ago, the population of the world was about 460 million. In 1900,the world’s population was under 2 billion(十億).Right now it is doubling every 40 years. That means, if this rate of growth continues, when you are a parent, there will be twice as many people on earth as there are now. Wow! Now that’s a whole lot of people! Soon the world’s population will probably reach 7 billion. Some people worry about that! But there is a lot of disagreement about just how many people on earth equals(相當(dāng)于) too many people. But everyone agrees that the more people there are, the more resources(資源) the world needs to feed, house and take care of all of them, and the more need there is to think carefully about how we live and use the earth’s resources.
【小題1】From the first paragraph we can know that ­________.

A．Montana is too crowded

B．Macao is too crowded

C．the world is too crowded

D．the world is not too crowded

【小題2】The population is increasing fast partly because ________.

A．people live longer than before

B．there are less wars than before

C．medicine is developing faster than before

D．more couples now would like to have children than before

【小題3】What was the world’s population 100 years ago?

A．450 million.	B．a(chǎn)bout 2 billion.
C．40 billion.	D．7 billion.

【小題4】The writer thinks that with the population increasing, we should ________.

A．find more resources

B．use more resources

C．think about our ways of living

D．move to other places

【小題5】From the passage we can learn that the writer ________.

A．thinks the world already has too many people

B．thinks the world can feed no more than 7 billion people

C．is not sure when the world’s population will reach 7 billion

D．is not sure what the largest population that the world can feed is