7、The climate always v______ from area to area.

6、Egypt, as the birthplace of ancient civilization, is a ___________(神秘的) land.

5、Crops can grow better in the _____(肥沃的) land.

4、Tom, who is my c______, works in the same office with me.

3、Treasure hunts (尋寶) have excited people’s imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such a Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues (線索) found in a book when he wrote a children’s story, Masquerade, in 1979. The book was about a hare, and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of “red herrings”, or false clues, to mislead them.

Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic (邏輯), not by luck. His success came from the fact that he gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words:“One of Six to Eight” under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way with Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spend his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him to continue, and on February 24th 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth ￡3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

64. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?

A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill.

B. Stevenson’s Treasure Island.

C. Katherine of Aragon.

D. Williams’ hometown.

65. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built _______.

A. to tell about what happened in 1773

B. to show respect for Henry VIII’s first wife

C. to serve as a roadsign in Ampthill Park

D. to inform people where the gold hare was

66. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare?

a. Henry VIII’s six wives

b. Katherine’s burial place at Kimbolton

c. Williams’ childhood in Ampthill

d. Katherine of Aragon

e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park

A.  a-b-c-e-d   B.  d-b-c-e-a   C.  a-d-b-c-e    D.  b-a-e-c-d

67. What is the subject discussed in the text?

A. An exciting historical event.

B. A modern treasure hunt.

C. The attraction of Masquerade.

D. The importance of logical thinking.

2、Do you suppose Darwin, one of the greatest scientists of all time, really did fools experiments? Or did he do experiments that were so simple and basic that other people just thought they were foolish?

Sometimes, people think they already know the answer to a question or the solution to a problem. Sometimes, they really do know an answer or a solution, but without thinking they are important.

Charles Darwin didn’t settle for (滿足于) just thinking he knew something. And, he believed all things could be important however simple they seemed to be.

Suppose you drop sheets of paper that are of exactly the same size and shape. If you drop them at the same time in the same place, they will fall in the same way. Now make one of the sheets of paper into a tight little ball and let it drop along with the other sheets. What happens? You have done an experiment that is so simple that you might think it couldn’t be worth anything.

But this simple experiment is important. It explains part of our present-day understandings of physics, ideas that were worked out long ago by Galileo and Newton. And these understandings set aside some of ancient Greek physics.

Scientists sometimes stop to look at very simple things and to think very hard about them. Even the simplest idea, which we might think is foolish, can shake the foundations of science.

60. The passage tells us that Charles Darwin ____.

A. was a great English scientist

B. always liked doing the experiments that others thought difficult

C. thought even the simplest thing was important

D. didn’t get well with others

61.The phrase “set aside” most probably means____ .

A. throw away       B. store up

C. put to use          D. realize

62. The author of the passage tries to ________.

A. tell us that Charles Darwin, Galileo and Newton are the greatest scientists in the world

B. draw the conclusion that basic sciences are simple things

C. prove that two sheets of paper, with the same size and shape, will fall at the same speed

D. draw our attention to everyday happenings around us

63. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Darwin really did fools experiments.

B. According to some people Darwin did foolish experiments.

C. It is believed by all the people that things could be important though they seemed to be simple.

D. Galileo and Newton worked out ancient Greek physics.

1、Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big  36  , and a lot of houses down below Anna’s were washed away. Anna’s house was  37  enough to escape the flood, so when the water had  38  and the other houses were standing there  39   no roof and no walls and all covered with mud(泥), her house was just all right.
　    Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children,  40  Anna took in one of the families that had lost  41  in the flood and she  42  her home with them until it was  43  for them to rebuild their house.
　　   Anna’s friends were  44  when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give 45  so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to  46  .
   　　“Well,” Anna   47   her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very   48  , because her husband had been killed in the  49  and she had a lot of children,  50  I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for  51   this year, so I’m going to make only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a   52   who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. ‘Here’s our  53 ,’ she said to her children.
　　   The children were  54  and happy to get such a present. They  55  the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present.”

34、His studies on literature are very varied, ________ from Chinese literature to westurn literature.

A．ranges                        B．containing          C．ranging                D．covering

33、The person who ________ advantage of the girl ________ a disadvantage didn’t gain an advantage  ________ her .

A．made; in ; over             B．took; at ; on        C．took; at; over      D．made; at; over

32、On a ________ morning the little girl was found  ________ at the corner of the street.

A．freezing, freezing         B．freezing, frozen  C．frozen, frozen        D．frozen, freezing