The name of Macau comes from the word Magao (A-Ma Temple), which were shrines (圣地) dedicated to Mazu, a holy sea goddess worshiped by Macau people. It was said that when the Portuguese people first came here in the middle of sixteenth century, one of the officers asked a fisherman the name of the land. The man misunderstood the officer’s question, and answered “Magao” – the name of A-Ma Temple in front them.
Many people wonder how Macau is spelled. Is it “Macao” or “Macau”? Both are actually correct. Macao is Portuguese, and this is the official spelling backed by Macau SAR Government. Macau is English, that’s how they spell it in the U.S. and other parts of the world. However, most publications use “Macau” as the preferred spelling.
Members of the Southern Song Dynasty and some 50,000 followers were the first recorded inhabitants (居民) of the area, seeking shelter in Macau from invading Mongols in 1277. They were able to defend their settlements and establish themselves there.
The Hoklo Boat people were the first to show commercial interest in Macau as a trading center for the southern provinces. During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1643), fishermen migrated to Macau from various parts of Guangdong and Fujian provinces and built the A-Ma Temple in which they prayed for safety on the sea.
Chinese fishermen have been living and working in the Pearl River Delta for more than four thousand years. The small peninsula and islands that came to be called Macau were first settled by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century.
In 1998, Chinese (Cantonese) was given official status and the same legal power as Portuguese, the official language. The Chinese government assumed sovereignty over Macau on December 20, 1999, ending 329 years of Portuguese rule.
68. We can learn from the text that the name “Macau”_________.
A. is named after a sea goddess                   B. is first called by the Portuguese
C. is only used in publications                    D. is given by a fisherman
69. Which is the correct order of the things that happened in Macau?
a. Portuguese people first came to Macau.
b. The fishermen of Guangdong and Fujian migrated to Macau.
c. The first recorded inhabitants established themselves in Macau.
d. the A-Ma Temple was built in Macau.
A. c, b, d, a                  B. d, c, b, a           C. b, c, a, d           D. a, c, b, d
70. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages in Macau.
B. The A-Ma Temple was built in honour of a holy sea goddess.
C. The inhabitants in Macau mainly made their living by fishing before the 16th century.
D. Macau didn’t belong to China until December 20, 1999.
71. Members of the Southern Song Dynasty went to Macau in order to ____.
A. show commercial interest in Macau      B. find a good place for fishing
C. get away from their enemies            D. establish Macau SAR there

Monday — 9:00 p.m.
I love to answer questions about children’s health. Some questions and their answers become articles, FAQ’s, Updates, Fast Facts, Top Tips, or Guidelines here on the site. I answer others in real time during chat. Either way, here is how to submit a question.
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72. The writer is probably ________.
A. an advertiser      B. a lawyer       C. a teacher       D. an adviser
73. If you want to have a talk, you have to _______.
A. wait patiently           B. write to the author in advance
C. be on the line            D. make an appointment
74. Which is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The writer sometimes writes questions into an article.
B. The writer can be visited on Monday — November 22.
C. The talker has to type a “?” mark on the screen.
D. Anyone who asks questions must come to the chat room.
75. The chat with the writer on the screen _______.
A. lasts a long time            B. must be about children’s health questions
C. has to be called on Monday   D. will become articles to be published

Saturday, May 24
★ Star Wars Ⅱ
Bus leaves N flagpole at 5:45 pm. Return leaves immediately following the movie .Cost $15. Sign up on SWIS by noon on Thursday.
★BLOCK PARTY!
Bands, volleyball. Starts at 6:00 pm
★Grandin Cinema Presents ：Hearts in Atlantis
A single mother and her son change when a nice-looking stranger enters their life. Grandin , 7：00 pm.
★ NMH Theatre
Present a modern play by Don Nigro, Silverthome Theatre, 7:30 pm. Tickets are $2 for NMH students, teachers and staff and $4 for all others. Anyone wishing to book tickets should SWIS Jake kavanagh
Sunday, May 25
Trip to Six Flags Amusement Park! This trip includes the following two films and is only for those students not attending the chat. Cost $ 33. Sign up on SWIS or at the ticket office by noon on Thursday.
★Dolben Cinema presents: Heroes and Heroines
Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by a hunter with a gun, who takes them along in his search for the world’s largest and deadliest snake. Dolben, 8: 00 pm.
★Grandin Cinema Presents: The Others
A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two children becomes sure that there are ghosts in their house. Grandin, 8:00 pm.
45. According to the passage, NMH is a ________.
A  company      B  church      C school    D travel office
46. How many movies will be on this weekend?
A.  One         B.  Two      C. Three    D. Four 
47. How much would an NMH teacher pay for the modern play by Don Nigro?
A   $ 15         B $ 2        C $ 4        D $ 33
48. What can we learn from the passage?  
A.  All the weekend activities were organized by Jake Kavanagh.          
B.  Two of the movies mentioned in the ads are about social problems.
C.  Those who go to the amusement park can book tickets on Sunday.
D.  An NMH student inviting his parents to watch the play together should pay $10

American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs. They say reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung diseases later in life. Doctors in Boston studied 1,100 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mother smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.
Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of developing lung cancer if their mothers smoked. The study also showed that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father’s smoking did not affect a child’s chance of developing lung cancer
49.  Whose baby would have breathing diseases?
A.Mother who smokes cigarettes after their baby are born
B.Mother who smokes cigarettes before their baby are born
C.Mother who don’t smoke at all
D.Mother whose mother smokes
50. Suppose John’s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary’ mother. According to this study,  _________.
A. John is more likely to develop lung cancer                                                     B. Mary is more likely to develop lung cancer                           
C. Mary and John have the same chance to develop lung cancer              
D. Neither John and Mary has the chance to develop lung cancer      
51. This passage is to __________.
A. warn us of the danger of smoking before children.
B. warn people with breathing problems not to smoke.
C. warn us that mothers who smoke may affect their children’s health.      
D. warn us that fathers who smoke may affect their children as mothers

Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO2 into glucose（葡萄糖）.Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow. The way plants turn water and CO2 into glucose is called photosynthesis (光合作用).That means “putting together with light .” A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is green. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis .The trees will rest, and live on the food they have stored during the summer. They begin to close their food-making  factories. The green Chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. Then, we begin to see yellow and orange colours. A few of these colors stay in the leaves all the time. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green Chlorophyll.
Red and purple colors we see in leaves are made mostly in the autumn. In some trees, like maples, glucose is stored in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into red. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.
52 the underlined word“chlorophyll” in the first Para means_________in Chinese.
A 葉綠素           B 氧氣          C 胡蘿卜素      D 蛋白質(zhì)
53 The way _________is called photosynthesis.
A  Plants get CO2 from the air           B  plants take water from the ground
C  plants turn water and CO2 into glucose.  D Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow.
54 The gas called carbon dioxide is from the_________
A  ground      B roots        C air      D sunlight
55 Which of the following is not true?

A．when autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter.

B．During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.’

C．During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colors are kept in the leaves all the time.

D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer.

In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice.
Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers .Most hot lines are completely anonymous ,that is to say , callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usually free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls, even if the calls are long distance ones. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short training before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems
56.  A hot line is a telephone line_________
A  that is hot                    B through which people get advice
C  whose number no one knows      D through which callers take a short training
57.  the underlined word“anonymous”in the passage means_________in Chinese.
A   secret      B  well-known        C exact        D wonderful
58.  When people call the hot line advisers, they_________
A  often give their names and telephone numbers
B  generally have to pay for the long distance calls
C  usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice
D  always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers
59. The advisers working at hot lines _________
A  have all been trained for a short time
B  are all volunteers
C  have all received years of education
D  are not all paid
60 The writer of the passage seems to think that_________
A  hot lines help the callers a lot
B  advisers will solve all of the callers’ problems
C  people had better pay for the advice
D  people will not get advice from their families or friends

V. 根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從對話后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。(共5分)
— Can I help you?
— Yes, I am looking for a sweater.
—    61 
— I am an extra large.
—   62   
— Yes, that’s nice.  63  
— Certainly, there is a changing room over there.
— Thank you.
—   64  
— Oh, I am so sorry, it doesn’t fit me, Do you have a larger?
—   65  
— Thank you. I will have it, please.

A．How dose it fit?

B．How about this one?

C．Can I try it on?

D．Yes, let me have a look.

E. What size are you?
F. How would you like to pay?
G. Yes, here you are.

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題，每小題1分，滿分20分）
I like watching TV very much for I think it has many advantages（長處）. First of all, watching TV is a good rest. After a day of hard work, we need a good rest. Watching TV can make our mind and body not tired any more because of the pleasant music and TV plays.
Besides, watching TV is entertaining（娛樂消遣）. There are many kinds of entertainment, such as sports activities（活動）, singing and dancing concerts, plays and films all over the world at every time. It's not possible for us to go to every place to enjoy all the activities within a short time. We need at least over ten hours to fly from New York to Paris, a week by train from Beijing to Moscow and an hour to drive from Queens District to Manhattan District. But within just one second, TV can bring us from an NBA game in New York to a fashion show in Paris by changing the channels.
Most important, watching TV is educational（教育）. Our children can learn every kinds of subjects through the educational programmes and the special reports on TV, and it's easy for them to learn Chinese from a Chinese teacher in Beijing and to learn Russian lessons from a Russian teacher in Moscow. Even we can learn how to behave well from the TV plays. Meanwhile, a teacher can teach millions of students without a huge classroom.
56. The best title for the text is_______ .
　 A. TV brings good rest         B. The advantages of watching TV
C. Today's TV programmes      D. How to use TV in schools
57. Which of the following is true according to the text?
　 A. The writer likes watching TV than others.
B. There are different kinds of programmes on TV in China and Russia.
C. There are many kinds of entertainment programmes on TV.
D. It's not easy to drive from Manhattan to Queens District.
58. According to the writer what is the most important reason for watching TV?
　 A. We can learn something useful.    B. Watching TV is a good rest.
C. We can see whatever we like.     D. We can enjoy ourselves.
59. In the second paragraph the writer wants to show_______.
A. TV brings different parts of world in front of us
B. TV stations send programmes quickly     
C. how to go to different places and enjoy ourselves
D. how long it will take a man to drive to different places
60. The writer writes the text to_______
　A. persuade us to buy a TV            B. tell her ideas about TV
C. introduce some TV programmes      D. tell us how to learn from TV

Every year, there is an important lottery（彩票）in Newtown. The lottery raises money for the local hospital. Most people buy at least one ticket, because the first prize is a million dollars!
One year, John Smith won the first prize. He immediately gave up his job and started to enjoy himself. He bought the fastest and most expensive car he could find. He bought a motorboat. He traveled twice around the world, eating and drinking at the most expensive restaurants. He went on a safari in Africa. He explored the South Pole. He lived a life of pleasure, luxury and adventure. He put on a lot of weight from eating too much good food.
Two years later, after he had spent all his money, he returned home and asked for his job back. He had only been back at work a few days when one of the girls in the office tried to sell him a lottery ticket.
“You must buy one, John,” she said. “Remember how lucky you were last time?”
“I am not buying any more lottery tickets. ” He said.
“But you must,” the girl argued. “You might win again. ”
“That’s what frightens me,” John said. “If I try to do again all the things I did last year, I will be dead before the end of this year!”
61. Where did the lottery take place?    
A. In the local hospital.    B. In Newtown.   C. In Africa.  D. At the South Pole
62. What was the money raised by the lottery used for?   
A. To buy fast cars.             B. To allow people to travel
C. To help the local hospital.       D. To feed hungry people.
63. What did John Smith win?     
A. A lottery ticket.     B. A car      C. Money      D. A vacation
64. When John Smith won, what was the first thing he did? 
A. He ate a lot.                 B. He bought a motorboat.
C. He bought another ticket.       D. He stopped working.
65. How long did it take John Smith to spend his money?   
A. Two years     B. One year.     C. A few days    D. Until the end of the year.

Shanghai is different from New York in many ways, but there are many things that are similar.
Shanghai is one of the most populated(人口眾多的) cities in Asia, and New York is one of the most populated cities in North America. The weather in summer is very hot in Shanghai, and it is the same in New York. Shanghai is a port and industrial city, and New York is too. Shanghai has a problem with pollution, and New York has a similar problem. They both have serious traffic problems.
The traffic problem in Shanghai is caused by many bicycles. The traffic problem in New York is caused by many cars. Most of the people in Shanghai live in apartments in low buildings, while most of the people in New York live in apartments in high buildings. People eat with chopsticks in Shanghai, but they eat with knives and forks in New York. While there are some differences, the main problems of big cities are almost the same everywhere in the world.
66. New York is in _______ .  
A. South Asia     B. North Asia     C. North America     D. South America
67. Shanghai has problems in _______.  
A. pollution             B. population  
C. traffic                D. A, B and C
68. People in New York live in _________.  
A. small houses in low buildings      B. apartment in high buildings
C. apartment in low buildings       D. small houses in high buildings
69. Which of the statements is right?  
A. The weather in Shanghai is hot, white the weather in New York isn't.
B. The traffic problem in Shanghai is caused by cars.
C. People in New York eat with knives and forks.
D. Shanghai is an agricultural city.
70. The main problems of big cities are _______.      
A. different       B. similar     C. complete same     D. polluted.