Jim gets up very early one day and finds some changes（變化）in his house．But he can' t tell why．He carefully looks around the house and he sees that：

    ◆The big tree is on the right side of the house，but now it's on the left．

    ◆The garden with flowers is gone（消失）．In its place there is much grass．

    ◆There is a dog house in the corner of the yard, but it's gone．

    ◆The green clock in his bedroom is now a yellow one．

 “Mum! Mum! An alien（外星人）changes our house!” Jim runs to his Mum and tells her about it. Mum is cleaning the living room．She's not surprised（驚訝）at all．“Oh，it's your Dad．He thinks our house is too boring and wants to have a change． What do you think of the changes? Do you like them?”

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確的答案。

1．After Jim gets up，he thinks there are     in his house．

A．a(chǎn)ll changes                                              B．some changes

    C．no clocks．                                               D．not any changes

2．The underlined（劃線）word　“grass”　may mean“     ”in Chinese．

A．操場(chǎng)                   B．草地                    C．池塘                      D．牧場(chǎng)

3．How many changes are there in Jim’s house?

A．Four．                                                   B．Five．

C．Six．                                                        D．We don't know．

4．Who Changes Jim's house？

A．An Alien．           B．His mother．         C．His father．            D．His uncle．

5．What’s Jim’s mother doing at that time?

A．She's cooking．                                      B．She's cleaning．

    C．She's watching TV in the living room．       D．She's sleeping．

Superman’s super fan

 Superman fan Christopher Dennis

 takes a photo with his Superman

 collection in his living room in Los

 Angeles，California. He has l5,000

 collections so far, and they cost

$100.000

Age deosn’t matter

 Johanna Quass, an 86-year-old lady

 shocked everyone when she showed

 her gymnastic skills at the 2012

 Cottbus Gymnastic World Cup(科特布斯體操世界杯)in Germany．

Three climbing as a PE lesson

 South China’s Xiamen University is The first one in the country to open a Dew PE course named tree climbing,

which caught a lot of attention As the new semester began，the course was in great need Only one out of ten students can be lucky enough to

 take the class.

From game to cartoon

 Am you getting bored of watching

 Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry? Now, the popular phone game Angry Birds us going to become a weekly cartoon on TV, and  a movie of the game is also in the works The cartoon will come out this year, and

 the movie will be showed in 2016.

41. The movie Angry Birds will be showed in ______.

      A． 2012             B. 2014             C. 2016             D. 2017

42. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

      A. People can watch the cartoon Angry Birds on TV every day.

      B. Johanna Quass showed her gymnastic skills at the age of 86.

      C. Christopher Dennis has 100~000 superman collections so far.

      D. Xiamen University students have no interest in the new P. E course.

43. We can probably find the above information in a ______.

      A. newspaper       B. diary             C. guide book       D. dictionary

本文為紀(jì)實(shí)性報(bào)導(dǎo)，作者目擊了國(guó)際重大悲劇慘案，因而思緒萬(wàn)千．讀后會(huì)激發(fā)學(xué)生：學(xué)習(xí)興趣，用英文了解國(guó)際事件，外國(guó)朋友的心態(tài)．

　　One of the things I always believe is that no matter how bad something is, you can take something positive out of it. The one time I wasn't sure of that was on September 11.

　　I usually wake up at 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning. That day, I happened to wake up earlier. I turned on the TV and I saw that a plane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. My first reaction was that it was a terrible accident. Then I saw another plane fly into the South Tower and I realized that I was witnessing an act of terrorism.

　　My wife and I spent the day watching the terrible pictures over and over again. When I watched family members looking for their loved ones, the pain in their eyes was something I would never forget. I couldn't understand how something this terrible could have happened.

　　It wasn't until a few weeks after September 11 that I began to see that perhaps some good did come from this tragedy. People seem different now, more understanding, more tolerant. Little things that seemed to be such a trouble before are no longer big things. Personally, I am more tolerant than I was. I realize life is too short, and too precious, to let myself get worried over small things. I've learned also that you can't take things for granted. Things change in the blind of an eye. People go to work and don't come back. One moment they're living and the next minute they're not. And, it doesn't matter who you are, there is nothing you can do about it. We never know when our time here will be over, so we all need to make the most of every minute we have.

　　You try to learn from what happened. You can't be used up by it. You can't live by it. All you can do is just live.

　　注：crash撞擊　　reaction反應(yīng)　　witness目擊　　tragedy悲劇　　tolerant寬容的　　precious珍貴的　　take…for granted認(rèn)為……是當(dāng)然的

1．The word “positive” in the passage probably means ________.

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2．What did the writer see after he turned on the TV that morning?

[　　]

3．From September 11, the writer has realized that ________.

[　　]

A．people should make the most of every minute they have

B．he has become less tolerant towards others

C．he should get worried about little things

D．life is too short to care about others

4．What's the best title(題目) of this passage?

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A．A Report about September 11

B．The Tragedy of September 11

C．September 11 and My Family

D．September 11 and My Turn