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　　2nd Prize(20 students)=$200 Gift Card each

　　3nd Prize(30 students)=$100 Gift Card each

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　　1.The main purpose of this painting competition is _______.

　　A. to teach the teenagers some painting skills

　　B. to tell the teenagers to walk away from drugs

　　C. to provide the teenager with some art knowledge

　　D. to introduce the history of the Anti-Drug Day to the teenagers

　　2.The size of the paintings like _______ will NOT be accepted.

　　A. 40cm wide by 60cm long

　　B. 50cm wide by 70cm long

　　C. 60cm wide by 800cm long

　　D. 80cm wide by 100cm long

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

　　A. Students must put their paintings in the school box on June 24th

　　B. Each student can take part in the competition with one 3D painting.

　　C. Students can get more information about the competition in two ways.

　　D. Each of the second prize winners in the competition will get 300 dollars.

　　Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

　　To solve this problem , airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.

　　However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude( 海拔 )we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure( 气压 ) reduces one third of the sensibility(感觉 )of our taste buds( 味蕾 ).So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don’t know it.

　　All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy( 辛辣 )food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

　　Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

　　Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

　　1.In Paragraph2,“this problem” means _______.

　　A. passengers stay long in the plane

　　B. food on the plane tastes bad

　　C. passengers have no food to eat

　　D. food on the plane is expensive

　　2.Why do scientists feel it hard to made food on the plane taste good?

　　A. The volunteers don’t know about food taste.

　　B. The volunteers don’t understand them.

　　C. They can’t find enough volunteers.

　　D. They can’t deal with the special environment successfully.

　　3.What is the best title of the passage?

　　A. Taste of Airplane Food

　　B. Airplane Travel

　　C. Scientific Research on Noses

　　D. The Change in Air Pressure.

　　I think it is safe to say that snakes are not popular among most people, It would be hard to find a person who is neutral( 中立的 ),or simply doesn’t care one way or the other, What I wonder is why something even without legs causes such great fear.

　　Snakes are quite useful, but that doesn’t seem to matter, Snakes help control the population of mice. Without snakes, perhaps we would find mice everywhere, Most of us, however, would rather see a mouse than a snake, The poison argument( 毒性的争论? )is a strong one, Some snakes are poisonous, and this causes people’s death , However, the poisonous snakes are only a small number. We can’t say all the snakes are bad just because of a few dangerous ones. And what do we do with the people who really like snakes? They like snakes even more strongly than we dislike them. These people learn about them, find them out, and watch them carefully, Why? The only reason I can think of is that these people are open-minded, They are able to put aside differences and welcome the snake as a friend.

　　Whatever the reason for our like or dislike, snakes do something good in the circle of life.

　　They would prefer to be left alone, and that is what we should do, If you’re lucky, you might not run across more than a few of them in a lifetime, That would be fine with most of us.

　　1.How does the writer describe the appearance of snakes?

　　A. Something even without legs.

　　B. Something not popular among people.

　　C. A person who is neutral.

　　D. A person who cares about nothing.

　　2.Which of the following shows that most people dislike snakes?

　　A. They welcome snakes as their best friends.

　　B. They would rather see a mouse than a snake.

　　C. They wonder why snakes can cause great fear.

　　D. They learn about snakes and watch them carefully.

　　3.Although some snakes are poisonous, _______.

　　A. they cause many people’s death

　　B. they control the population of mice

　　C. they are not dangerous to people

　　D. they are only a small number

　　4.The last paragraph seems to tell us that the writer _______.

　　A. dislikes snakes

　　B. has the best luck

　　C. loves snakes

　　D. prefers to be left alone

　　四、完成句子

　　完成句子：根据所给汉语意思，用单词或短语完成下列英文句子。

　　1.政府要求我们每年种数以千计的树来改善环境。

　　The government requires us to plant ________________ trees to improve our environment.

　　2.我们上周末在城墙上玩游戏玩得很开心。

　　We ________________ games on the city wall last weekend.

　　3.太多压力会让孩子们不开心，也不舒服的。

　　________________ will make children unhappy and uncomfortable.

　　4.多么鼓舞人心的消息啊！

　　________________ news it is!

　　5.这项新工艺得到了更加广泛地使用。

　　The new technology has been ________________ used.

　　五、填空

　　Ⅶ. 任务型阅读.阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

　　Many Germans, both the young and the old, love celebrating their birthdays. In Germany, like in most countries around the world, cake, presents, family and friends bring fun and happiness to such a special day, In general, birthday customs in Germany are similar to the ones in American birthday celebrations, However, there are some different ones one should pay attention to when in Germany.