If you don't go there, ______．

       A．so will I        B．neither do I         C．so do I          D．neither will I

To write a good article you must first           your ideas very carefully.

A. organize       B. settle       C. report      D. speak

Yesterday we went to visit the farm ____ my father used to work for nearly ten years.

A. in which       B. that     C. where        D. which

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My children go to a primary school where they are not allowed to play football in the playground for fear that a child might be hurt. Besides, now the school says there must be no homework because the local secondary school can't keep up with the amount of homework given in the primary school. Can the school do this?    Puzzled Dad

It can't if enough parents do something about it. It is not just schools. We live in a society which wishes to get rid of risk. However, schools should have a little common sense and courage. Children need risk if they arc to grow up self-sufficient and confident. They need homework, too, if they are to fulfill their academic potential. Complain, loudly.

I have a beautiful teenage daughter who spends an hour making up her face in front of the mirror every day. I tell her to go easy. She just gets mad or bursts into tears. How can I make her understand she's beautiful the way she is.       Plain Mom

You can't. Your daughter is at the age when she's trying to look beautiful, trying on new masks. And if her friends all dress up as she does, you're in for an extra hard time. Support her and tell her she's beautiful — even if she looks ridiculous for now. Then invite her to join you for a day at a spa. Let her try various looks until she's comfortable in her own skin.

Why are the children not allowed to play football in the playground?

A. The school is afraid that children might be injured.

B. The school is not sensible and confident.

C. The children don't have enough time to do homework.

D. The children may fail to fulfill their academic potential.

What disturbs Plain Mom is that her daughter______.

A. becomes mad                                       B. cries a lot

C. spends much time before the mirror    D. is not beautiful enough

The solution to Plain Mom's problem is to______.

A. make her daughter look less ridiculous           B. let her daughter dress up like her friends

C. make her daughter go to a spa every week   D. let her daughter feel herself what beauty is

What does the underlined word spa mean?

A. a place where water with minerals in it           B. a place where people can relax

C. a beauty salon                             D. a swimming pool

Over the past 30 years, China has spent hundreds of billions of yuan to pull its rural population out of poverty. Now China’s Anti-poverty efforts __________.

   A. pay off               B. pay up               C. pay back            D. pay for

Many people will remember the flight of the space shuttle （航天飛機）Challenger , in June, 1993．The achievement of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut to fly into space, made this flight especially memorable．Students from two high schools in Camden, New Jersey, however, are likely to remember Norma rather than Sally whenever they think about the flight．

       Norma didn’t travel alone．She brought about 100 companions along with her．Norma was an ant, a queen ant who, with her subjects, made up the first ant colony （群體） to travel into space．The ants were part of a science experiment designed by the students to test the effects of weightlessness on insects．

       The equipment designed by the students for their colony functioned perfectly throughout the long space trip．The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened．The problem did not occur in space, but on the ground after Challenger had landed．The container remained in the desert for nearly a week before the ant colony was removed．The hot, dry desert air dried out the colony’s container and the ants died from lack of moisture （水分）．

       The project was termed a success because it did provide useful information．Students will continue their efforts to find out exactly what went wrong．They will try to prevent the same difficulties from recurring （再發(fā)生） on future missions ．They don’t want to be discouraged either by the death of the ants or by the $10,000 shuttle fare they will have to pay to send the next colony of ants into space．

The story is mainly about        ．

       A．Sally Ride’s first ride    

       B．space equipment for insects

       C．a(chǎn) space experiment with ants

       D．going to school in New Jersey

The project wasn’t a failure because        ．

       A．some important things were learned     

       B．dead ants are better

       C．everything went as expected  

       D．students wrote about it

The ants died because        ．

       A．weightlessness harmed them  

       B．space caused too much pain   

       C．no one fed them in space      

       D．they dried out in the desert

On the next space trip , ants        ．

       A．will be sent without people   

       B．should not be left in the desert too long

       C．will have to pay double fare  

       D．will escape the trip completely

When the foreigners hear about ______ tale about the Milky Way, they call it _____Chinese Valentine’s Day．

       A．a(chǎn); the     B．the; a    C．the ; the       D．a(chǎn); /

The book didn’t         children probably because the author employed too many scientific terms in it.

       A．a(chǎn)ppeal to     B．a(chǎn)pply to        C．intend to     D．lead to

At that time the blacks reached a stage ________they had almost no rights at all.

A .when   B. which   C. where   D. what

They soon ______ doing the same thing day after day, and finally gave up.

  A. got tired of     B. got along with   C. got away from    D. got down to