48. What does the adviser want Sara to do?

A. top being so shy. B. Stop being so bold.

C. Make more friends. D. Give more information about herself.

49. What does Molly want to do?

A. Make more friends. B. Enjoy school more.

C. Stay at the bottom of her class. D. Improve her exam results.

50.By the end of the year, where should Molly be in all her subjects if she does as the adviser says?

A. At the bottom. B. A little way up from the bottom.

C. Quite a long way up from the bottom. D. At the top.

(B)

Computers are useful machines.They can help people a 1ot in their everyday life.For example，they can help people save much time，and they can help people work out many problems they can't do easily.Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.

Today more and more families own computers.Parents buy computers for their children.

They hope computers can help them improve(提高)their studies in schoo1.But many of the children use computers to play games，to watch video or to sing Karaoke.instead of studying.So many teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind.So computers are locked by parents in the boxes.

In some other countries，even some scientists hate computers.Thy say computers let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.

Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves.

51. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because .

A.our country asks us to learn it B.it can help us a lot

C.we can use it to play games D.it can help us to find jobs

52. What do many teachers and parents complain about?

A.Their students and children use computers to play games.

B.Computers let them lost their jobs.

C.Computers make the students and children fall behind.

D.Computers bring people a lot of trouble.

53. In this passage we know computers ________.

A.also bring us trouble B.bring us happiness only

C.are hated by people D.are bad for people’ health

54. What does the underlined word “complain” mean?

A.抱怨 B.赞赏 　　 C.考虑 　 D.解释

55. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage?

A.Computers are used by people

B.People can live well without computers

C.One must decide how to use computers

D.Computers are strange machines

(C)

Thomas Edison lost the first job. For the next five years he went around the country from job to job. At last Edison went to New York. He had little money. He could not buy enough food to eat. He had no place to sleep.

For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing machines. He could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison’s new machines. He was going to give Edison $ 40,000 for them. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.

Thomas Edison was then 23. He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people working for him. But he worked more than any of them. He rested very little. Soon he was making more than 40 new things at one time.

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. It could carry voices a long way.

56. After he lost his first job, Edison ________.

A. found no jobs in the next five years

B. lived in New York for the next five years

C. had a bad time in the next five years

D. had no food and no sleep during the next five years

57. In New York ________.

A. Edison was always hungry

B. Edison began to have good luck after he found the work fixing machines

C. Edison got $ 40,000 by fixing machines

D. Edison made more money by fixing old machines

58. The head man was interested in ________.

A. Thomas Edison himself B. The old machines

C. the new machines D. Edison’s telephone

59. Edison made a telephone. It ________.

A. was the first one in the world B. carried voices much farther

C. carried voices more clearly D. carried more voices

60. What is the best title of the passage?

A. The First Telephone B. Thomas Edison’s Shop

C. Thomas Edison’s New Job D. Thomas Edison—An Inventor (发明家)

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