Chinese space trainer Wang Yuan has been chosen as one of the volunteers for the Mars-500 test project. He was very happy to be chosen and will accept the meaningful challenge(挑戰(zhàn)) Another five volunteers are all space lovers., including three Russians, an Italy-Colombian and a Frenchman. They are about to feel what it’s like to travel to Mars, only without leaving the earth. They are locked up together for a year and a half under a similar condition to the red planet during the whole process. So the experiment is called Mars-500.

When reporters asked what they would miss most during the 520-day special life, French trainer Charles said:”For me, it will be mainly my family, the sun and fresh air.”

The Mars-500 test will be in a special building in Moscow, Russia. Although the people won’t leave the building, they will fell as if they are on a real trip to the Mars. The most difficult thing will be to be separated(分離) from the people that they used to live with. The trainer won’t see sunsets, sunrises, won’t feel rain for 18 months. That will be hard.

The main task is to study the “Man and environment”. It’ll care about the astronauts’ getting experience and physical effects. The 520-day-test is divided into three parts,the first 250days to Mars, the middle 30days of landing on Mars, the last 240 days to return to the earth. Everyone will stay there alone for a long time and will work lonely. They will have to make decisions themselves and only then report to the earth, and the earth will tell them whether they do the right thing or not.

Each astronaut is preparing for the great challenge. It is learned that they will be launched（發(fā)射）early in June. And the experiment will end in November 2011.

1. _______ members were chosen as volunteers.

A．Five              B．Six               C．Three            D．Four

2. The most difficult thing for the trainers is ______.

A．no vegetables to eat

B．they can’t watch TV

C．they can’t see many people

D．they must lie all day

3. Mars-500 test will be done in ______

A．Moscow                              B．a(chǎn) red planet

C．November                             D．Xichang

4. It will take trainers _______ days to land on Mars.

A．250              B．30               C．240              D．520

5. Which sentence is NOT true about the 520-day-test?

A．The trainers won’t see rain or snow

B．The experiment will begin in June.

C．Trainers are all astronauts.

D．Trainers will report to the earth.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容及首字母提示寫(xiě)出所缺單詞，并將完整單詞寫(xiě)在下面對(duì)應(yīng)題號(hào)后的橫線上。

April Fool’s Day is on April 1st. People can play j   1.  on others on this special d    2.  . If you succeed, you usually laugh and say, “April Fool” The person who has been fooled by you l   3.   , too, and he will never be angry with you.

   Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday of May. It’s a day to t   4.    mothers. On that day mothers usually receive flowers and cards from their children. Fathers and children do the housework so that mothers can have a

r   5.  .

   Easter Day falls on the first Sunday after the full moon which on or after March 21st. It is called Easter Sunday. It is said that on that day Jesus Christ comes back to l    6.    . Many people go to church and children often get p    7.    such as toy rabbits.

Thanks-giving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November. It’s a day when people give thanks for the good things in life. Usually families all get t  8.   and have a big dinner.

  Christmas Day comes on D   9.    25th. It’s the most important festival in a year. The beautiful things can be s   10.   everywhere. People exchange gifts, send Christmas cards and visit friends.

Date of birth: July 26. 1985        Weight: 50 kg

Place of birth: Changsha, Hunan    Favorite city: Paris

Height:164 cm                  Hobby: music

Type of blood: AB

Zhou Bichang was the winner of the Super Girls. She did quite well in her studies and got a high score of 681 in her NCEE in 2003.

    Zhou Bichang graduated from Futian High School in Shenzhen and is now a student at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music(??????) in Guangzhou.

Although her parents gave her a name with the meaning "write excellently" in the hope that she would become a writer. Zhou seems to be a born singer. She could sing theme songs of TV shows very well when she was only two years old. She has more than 4,500CDs.

Zhou has been well-known across the country during the contest. Fans gave her a nickname "BB" and themselves a title "Chalks". However, BB doesn't seem to enjoy the sudden success. Now she is back to school but feels a bit uneasy when fans see her. "What I really love is singing," said BB in an interview, "but not the life of a star," But that's exactly why "Chalks" love "BB".

1.Zhou Bichang is called ______ by her fans.

   A. Chalks         B.BB            C. Write fluently     D. Bichang

2.What do Zhou Bichang's parents want her to be in the future?

   A. A writer.       B. A pop singer    C. A film star.        D. We don't know.

3.What's the meaning of the underlined word "uneasy"?

   A. nervous       B. worried        C. excited            D. uncomfortable

4. What do you think Zhou Bichang can do well in from this passage?

   A. Only her study.                  B. Only singing.

   C. Both her study and singing.        D. Her study, singing and writing

閱讀理解

In almost every big university in the United States football is a favorite sport. American football is not like soccer.

Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to move the ball ten yards. They can carry it or throw it. If they move it to the end of the field, they receive six points. This is called a touch—down. It is difficult to move the ball. Eleven men on the team try to stop the man who has the ball. If the man does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.

Each university wants its team to win. Thousands of people come to watch. They all yell for their favorite team. Young men and women called cheerleaders come on the field to help the people yell more. They dance and jump while they yell.

Each team plays ten or eleven games each season. The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game after the season ends. The best teams play again on January 1st, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them on television

1.In American football players can ___.

2. If a team wants to get points, it has to move the ball ___.

3. Who are dancing and jumping while they yell?

4. Most teams play games in ___.

5. When do the best teams play again?

Now, there is a new-type school in New York, which has no everyday lessons, no class teachers and even no school buildings. It is called “City-as-School”. The name just means the city itself is the place where students learn their lessons. They are from the age of 15 to 18. The students choose areas of work which interest them. Then they help to do that work. One girl spends her week in a government office helping the public with problems like housing. Then she goes to help in a theatre for a day and she spends a week for first-year courses at college.

Well, students have to pass Maths and science exams before they enter the “school”. These subjects are not easy to provide in“City-as-School”. Teachers watch the progress of the students. The success rate (比率) is high. 80% of the students go to college after the “City-as-School”.

The students like the duty of their work. They have the sense of purpose. They know a lot about different kinds of work in the city. One of the students, Lizette Martinez, writes “I want to say that I do not know where I would be right now if I had never become part of City-as-School. Leaving my regular high school and going to City-as-School was the best decision I have ever made. The way the school works to get you to go out there and learn different fields instead of sitting in a classroom is wonderful. For all those who are in between school and dropping out, go to CAS and it will change your life forever.”

City-as-School High School is the nation’s leading (引導(dǎo)) external (外部地) learning or experiential (來(lái)自經(jīng)驗(yàn)的) learning model for high school students.

1.What can we learn about“City-as-School”?

2.What do students do in“City-as-School” most of the time?

3.According to the passage,“City-as–School” can help _________.

4.What is the best title for the passage?