Seeing a volcano erupt (喷发) is a wonderful experience, and you can really feel the heat by climbing to the summit of Pacaya for a close-up view. There are guided tours every day up this highly active volcano from Antigua. Giving travelers a chance to see Mother Nature at her most powerful (强大的).
Pacaya is an easy drive from Antigua, a beautiful city with many colorful houses along its old streets that are turned into art-works during its Holy Week festival. No matter when you come to Antigua, you won’t miss the Pacaya-tour companies.
But climbing Pacaya is no easy job: it is 2,560 metres high and reaching the summit takes two to three hours of seemingly one-step-forward and two-step-back movements. As you climb, you hear the sounds of eruptions high above. Smoke, hot remains from recent eruptions begin to line the path as you near the active summit: the McKenney Cone (火山锥). Just as though you were going to walk over to the edge of the cone, the road turns to the left and up to the safety of the old, inactive summit.
Many tours are timed so that you arrive at the cone of the volcano in plenty of time for sunset and the full scene of the erupting red lava (熔岩) in the darkening sky. On a good day the view from the summit is really exciting. The active mouth boils, sending red lava over its sides, and once in a while shoots hot streams up to 100 metres into the air. There is a strong bad smell in the air even if you take care to be upwind of the cone. As evening turns deeper into the night, the burning lava quietly falls down the side of the volcano. For you, too, it is time to get down.
1.Many tours are timed for people to _____.
A. get down the mountain in time when night falls
B. avoid the smell from the upwind direction of the cone
C. enjoy the fantastic eruption against the darkening sky
D. appreciate the beauty of the 2,560-metre-high mountain
2.The word “summit” appears several times in the passage. It means _____.
A. remained, cooled rocks along the path
B. loud sound and terrible smell in the air
C. the most exciting happening in a place
D. the top point of a mountain or hill
3.What is the main purpose of this passage?
A. To have more tourists come to Pacaya.
B. To describe the beauty of Pacaya.
C. To introduce guided tours to Pacaya.
D. To explain the power of nature at Pacaya.
You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their hands. But soon they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes (撞击) through a window and falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isn't really dead. With any luck he isn't even hurt. Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump from fast moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are well trained. They do this for a living. These men are called stuntmen. That is to say, they perform tricks (花招，手段). Here are two sides to their work. They do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress (床垫). Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on trick of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stuntmen’s success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is "blown up" in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion ju
st at the right moment.
Naturally stuntmen are well paid for their work, but they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously hurt, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, flew over the edge of a cliff (悬崖) a thousand feet high. His parachute (降落伞) failed to open, and he was killed. Although it is full of deadly dangers, this is no longer the work for men only. Men no longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous actions. For nowadays there are stuntwomen too！ (357)
1.Stuntmen are those who ______.
A. often dress up as famous actors
B. prefer to lead dangerous lives
C. often perform dangerous actions
D. often fight each other for their lives
2.What’s the meaning of the underlined sentences in the first paragraph?
A stuntman should _______.
A. crash bravely though a window made of sugar
B. do the well-planned activity at a very moment
C. open his parachute when he jumps down the cliff
D. have got a high degree of skill and training
3.Which could probably the best title of this passage?
A. Fights in the Movies.B. Crashing Out of the Window.
C. Exciting Films Today.D. Most Dangerous Work.
In the big cities of Europe and America — London, Paris, New York, people are moving out of the city. They are usually rich families with much money, and they want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noises and the dirty air of the city, tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They don’t want to sit in traffic any more. They want a house with a garden, and clean air that is not polluted.
So they move out. Some don’t move very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities. Other people move to real countryside, with sheep, cows and horses, and green fields! There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years, many people feel that it was a big mistake. There isn’t much to do. Country people are very different and aren’t always friendly.
As a result, quite a lot of people move back to the city. 
“It’s wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights,” they say. “I’m so glad I’m back in the city!” (203)
1.Some city people move out of their city because of _____.
A. crowds and pollutionB. friendly neighborhoods
C. making moneyD. cows and sheep
2.Why do some people move back to the city again? Because _____.
A. they can breathe fresh and clean air
B. there are big shops and cinema lights
C. they still want to live their city life
D. they can make many new friends
3.Which of the following sentence is wrong according to the passage?
A. Many people love their city’s colorful life.
B. They enjoy seeing animals in the country.
C. All the people move out far from the city.
D. Sometimes country people are not friendly.
FLIGHT INFORMATION
Date | From | To | Departure | Arrival | Fight No. | Price |
July. 11 | Beijing | Hong Kong | 08:05 | 11:35 | CA101 | ￥2400 |
July. 11 | Beijing | Los Angeles | 15:40 | 06:51 | CA985 | ￥7280 |
July. 11 | Beijing | London | 14:10 | 00:45 | CA937 | ￥3950 |
July. 11 | Beijing | New York | 21:00 | 19:00 | CA983 | ￥8750 |
July. 11 | Beijing | Paris | 13:35 | 00:40 | CA933 | ￥4840 |
July. 11 | Beijing | Washington | 14:00 | 09:00 | CA987 | ￥4200 |
1.If you want to have a trip to Paris by plane, what time will you arrive there?
A. 11:35.B. 19:00.C. 00:40.D. 00:45.
2.Which flight will you take to New York?
A. CA987.B. CA983.C. CA937.D. CA985.
3.What’s the price for the ticket from Beijing to Los Angeles?
A. ￥7280.B. ￥3950.C. ￥8750.D. ￥4200.
4.How long will it take you to reach London from Beijing?
A. nine hours and twenty-five minutes.
B. twelve hours and forty minutes.
C. eleven hours and thirty-five minutes.
D. ten hours and thirty-five minutes.
Sudha Chandran, a well-known dancer from India, had to have her right leg cut after a car accident. She 
was also on her career path.
Though the accident brought her bright career to a , she didn’t give up. In the months that followed, Sudha met a doctor who developed a man-made rubber filled with sponge (海绵). So she wanted to go back to dance after she had been fitted with her new leg. Sudha knew that she believed in herself and could realize her dream, so she began her courageous journey back to the world of dancing --- to walk, turn, jump, balance, bend, stretch, twist, twirl...
After every recital (music, dance given by one person) she would ask her dad about her performance. “You have a long way to go” was the answer she used to get in return. In January 1984, Sudha made a historic by giving a public recital in Bombay. She performed in such a great success that it moved everyone to tears and this pushed her to the highest position again. That evening when she asked her dad the question, he didn’t say anything. He just touched her feet as praise.
Sudha’s comeback was so moving that a film producer to make the story into a hit film.
When someone asked Sudha how she had managed to dance again, she said quite simply, “You don’t need feet to dance. is impossible in this world. If you have the will to win, you can achieve anything.” (266)
1. A. taken off B. cut off C. kept off D. put off
2. A. top B. level C. point D. stop
3. A. unforgettable B. different C. painful D. dangerous
4.A. flower B. leg C. gift D. box
5.A. strangely B. lonely C. strongly D. heavily
6.A. learning B. remembering C. wanting D. starting
7.A. yet B. ever C. also D. still
8.A. change B. movement C. comeback D. promise
9.A. story B. performance C. decision D. accident
10.A. same B. new C. normal D. strange
11.A. allowed B. had C. refused D. decided
12.A. Nothing B. Anything C. Something D. Everything
I didn’t know ______ last year.
A. where he lives B. where does he live
C. where he lived D. where did he live
