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My brother Tom was very selfish when he was a little boy.He did not want share things with other people. For example, when he bought a chocolate cake he put them in a secret place where I couldn’t find . Then he ate it all by himself. He never helped other. He said he is busy . That is, a game of tennis making him very busy. He did not care if something he did made people angry. For instance, on one night he played strong and loudly music till four o’clock on the morning. But he is difference now. He often helps grandma with housework, helps his classmates with their lessons.

单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

1.The Great Wall of China is a         (象征) of ancient Chinese civilization.

2.The flood destroyed thousands of houses and made many people       (无家可归).

3.Have you          (体验) real hunger?

4.Hurricane is a very        (强烈的) wind or storm.

5.An unhappy home        （环境）can affect a child’s behavior.

6.The film was very          (恐怖的), I was scared to death when I was seeing it.

7.Your idea is         (绝对的) impossible.

8.He has just        (辞职) from the committee.

9.Alexander Bell       （发明）the telephone in 1879.

10.The building          (追溯到) back to 1823.

Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for the London bus. The bus for London would not eave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in lines, others were walking about. There was a group of school-girls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in order. Tom looked around but there was nowhere for him to sit.

He walked into the station cafe. He looked up at the clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat and sat down, facing a large mirror(镜子) on the wall. Just then, John, one of Tom's friends, came in and sat with Tom.

"What time is your bus?" asked John.

"Oh, there is plenty of time yet, "answered Tom.

"Oh, I'll get you some more tea then," said John.

They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again.

"Good heavens! It's going back-ward!" he cried. "A few minutes ago it was twenty to twelve and now it's half past eleven."

"You are looking at the clock in the mirror," said John.

Tom wanted to kick(踢) himself for being so foolish. The next bus was not to leave for another hour. He has never liked mirror since then.

1.The London bus left ______________.

2.Tom went into the station cafe because ____________.

3.What time was it in fact when he looked at the clock in the mirror?

4.When Tom sat in the station café, who came in?

5.Which of the following is true?

Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.

Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air    pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.

Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.

Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.

We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.

Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.

1.Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.

2.What is the biggest problem in today’s life?

3.The most serious kind of pollution is ______.

4.Factories must clean their water ______.

5.From the passage we know that ______.