Algae(水藻) are very simple plants. They grow in fresh water or salty water. Seaweed is algae that grow in salty water. Seaweed is red or brown in color. The Japanese people use these plants from the sea in many ways. From it, they make a food called Kombu. Kombu is seaweed that has been dried, cooked and pressed together. Then it is dried again and cut into long pieces. The Japanese eat a lot of Kombu and like it very much.
     Japanese farmers often use seaweed as fertilizer. It makes their plants grow better. Many farmers also find seaweed makes a fine food for their animals.
     From seaweed the Japanese also get iodine(碘), which they sell to other countries. Iodine is used in many ways all over the world. It is used in making medicine. It is added to the salt we use at the table. Scientists even use one form of iodine to “ seed clouds” when they want rain to fall.
21. Kombu is a kind of ____ according to the text.
   A. plant         B. medicine          C. fertilizer       D. food
22. In the last sentence of the text, “seed clouds” means ____.
  A. clouds spreading like seeds
  B. to make rain fall with human power
  C. the seeds like clouds
  D. dropping seeds by clouds
23. The main idea of the story is that ____.
  A. The Japanese use seaweed in many ways. 

B. Kombu is made into medicine for farmers.
  C. The Japanese eat seaweed when they want rain to fall.
  D. The Japanese eat a lot of Kombu.

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Ning Zetao

Born in 1993 in Zhengzhou, he is 190 cm tall. He is from the People’s Liberation Army Navy swimming team. In 2014, he won the gold medal in the men’s 50-meter freestyle (自由泳) in the seventeenth Asia Games. What’s more, he also won another three gold medals in this Asia Games.

Mo Yan

Born in 1955 in Shandong, he worked hard and became the first Chinese national writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Red Sorghum is his most famous novel. It was made into a famous TV play that was acted by Zhou Xun and Zhu Yawen in 2014.

Wang Yaping

Born in January, 1980 in Shandong Province, she was a pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force with experience of 1600 hours of flying. 33-year-old spacewoman Wang Yaping made history---China’s first teacher in space.

Zhang Bichen

Born in 1989 in Tianjin, she is a famous singer. She was chosen as a member of the Korean group “Sunny days” in 2013. In The Voice of China Ⅲ she beat Perhat and won the first prize. She is also the first female champion in the history of The Voice of China.

24. Zhu Yawen is a(n) _______ .

A. writer                  B. actor               C. pilot                   D. singer

25. Wang Yaping became China’s first teacher in space in _______.

A. 2011                   B. 2012                   C. 2013                D. 2014

26. Perhat won the _______ place in The Voice of China Ⅲ.

A. first                  B. second                C. third                 D. fourth

27. From the passage, we know _______.

A. Red Sorghum is a famous song           B. Ning Zetao is very good at swimming             

C. Wang Yaping is the first pilot in China    D. The Voice of China Ⅲ only has male champions

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents' home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.

I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend's. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.

I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.

Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon, I returned to my car and found that I'd left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership — a shop selling cars — was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.

"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.

"Thank you" — two powerful words. They're easy to say and mean so much.

28．The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City ________.

   A. to visit a friend                   B. to see his parents

   C. to pay at the cash register           D. to have more gas for his car

29．What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?

A. He had it pulled back to the gas station.    B. The couple sent him a business card.

    C. The couple offered to help him.        D. He called his friend for help.

30．The battery of the author’s car was dead because ________.

  A. something went wrong with the lights     B. the meeting lasted a whole day

  C. he forgot to turn off the lights           D. he drove too long a distance

31．By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show ________.

  A. how to write a thank-you letter          B. how to deal with car problems

  C. the kind-heartedness of older people      D. the importance of expressing thanks

LONDON—Manchester is Britain’s fattest city, a survey for “Men’s Health” has found, beating Glasgow for the first time since the magazine started examining the issue three years ago.

Editor Pete Muir said the survey had looked at a variety of factors(因素) from gym membership to heart disease rates to find the fattest city. “Manchester has more fast food restaurants than anywhere else in the UK,” he told Reuters. “People are taking the easy choice —eating and then just sitting in front of the TV.”

Manchester’s problem is part of a wider trend(趋势). On Thursday, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) blamed(责备) a lack of exercise and poor diet for a fifth of adult Britons being obese(过度肥胖的). “Obesity is a major risky factor related to heart disease, diabetes and premature death(糖尿病和早亡),” said an ONS survey. “None of the 108 young men in the survey reported eating five portions of fruit or vegetables on average each day.”

In Manchester, the head of the city’s public health programs said he did not believe that they were necessarily the fattest city, but that they did have problems and were aiming to address them. Social deprivation(贫困) was a major factor. “One of the myths is that the stressed-out(压力大的) rich businessman is the one who is overweight,” David Regan told Reuters. “In fact, it is the poor areas that have the most problems. We aim not to be the fattest but the fittest city but we have a long way to go.”

Second in the survey is Stoke-on-Trent, followed by Liverpool, Swansea and Leicester. Glasgow is sixth.

32. Manchester took the place of ____________ and became Britain’s fattest city.

A. Liverpool    B. London    C. Stoke-on-Trent    D. Glasgow

33. Obesity may lead to the following EXCEPT _______________.

A. heart disease  B. diabetes   C. premature death    D. a lack of exercise

34. David Regan is most probably _________________.

A. the reporter from Reuters        

B. an official of ONS

C. the head of Manchester’s public health programs  

D. a rich businessman who is overweight

35. This article is most probably taken from ________________.

A. a newspaper     B. a science book   C. a novel         D. a biography (传记)

  A group of frogs were traveling through the forests, but unluckily two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how   36   the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn’t   37  and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs   38   saying that they were sure to die.   39  , one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying,   40   . Then he fell down and died.
     The other frog, however,   41  to jump as hard as he could, and at last made it out. When he   42   , the other frogs asked, “Didn’t you hear us?” The frog, who had a poor  43  , explained, “I thought you were encouraging me all the time.”
   The story teaches us a   44  : There is power(力量) of life and death in the tongue. An  45   word to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.
36.  A. small              B. deep               C. big                  D. wide
37.        A. care                B. refuse             C. insist               D. think
38.        A. kept                       B. finished           C. practiced               D. stopped
39.        A. Luckily            B. Finally             C. Suddenly        D. Happily
40.        A. went on           B. ran away         C. jumped out     D. gave up
41.        A. happened              B. continued               C. planned          D. wanted
42.        A. got out            B. ran away         C. got off                    D. woke up
43.        A. smelling          B. eyesight           C. hearing                 D. looking
44.        A. way                        B. skill                 C. sentence        D. lesson
45.        A. interesting       B. exciting           C. excellent         D. encouraging