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PDAs are very useful. They are like small computers. You can put a lot of information into them. For example, you can put in telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Many people use PDAs to remember important dates. Some of these super machines can even send and receive e-mails.

PDAs are small and convenient. A few years ago, they were expensive. Now, they are cheap. Many people use them at work and at school. People can carry PDAs in their shirt pockets.

But, it’s important to be careful. These little machines are easy to lose. People put so much important information into their PDAs. It’s really terrible to lose them.

1. What is the main idea of the article?

A. PDAs are like small computers.

B. PDAs are cheap.

C. You can do many things with a PDA.

D. Too many people use PDAs

2. The article does not say a PDA can __________

A. talk to you

B. send e-mail

C. remember information

D. do some things like a computer

3. What do we learn about PDAs?

A. They are not very expensive now

B. Students do not like to use them

C. All of them can send and receive e-mails

D. They are very large.

4. What kind of person would not use a PDA?

A. A business person

B. Someone who hates computers.

C. A student

D. A person with a busy schedule.

    请将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在答题卡上标有题号的横线上。

86.她似乎知道那个秘密。

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87.开始一年他不适应苏州的天气。

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88.她表妹去美国2年半了。

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89.这种教育光盘昨天就卖完了。

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90.我爷爷告诉我们50年前我们家乡的样子。

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Mr Green is a teacher of English. He comes from America. He teaches English in China. He speaks English quite well. He reads a lot of books and his wife Mrs Green often writes books for the students. He gets up at five in the morning. He leaves home at ten to six. He begins the first lesson at 8:00. He teaches English every day except Sunday. At ten to twelve he finishes his lessons. Ten minutes later he has lunch. In the afternoon he often plays games with his students at about four o’clock. Sometimes he teaches his students in his room. Supper time is at about six. After that he reads newspapers and watches TV. At about ten to eleven he goes to bed.

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。

1. Mr Green comes from ________.  

A. China        B. Australia    C. England       D. America

2. He leaves home at ________.  

A.5:00           B. 5:50         C. 6:10             D.6:30

3. The students come to school every day except _______in a week .

 A. one day   B. two days   C. three days   D. four days

4. He has lunch at _______.  

A. 11:30        B. 12:30       C. 12:00          D. 11:50

5. He watches TV or reads newspapers _______.

A. at six         B. at five      C. after supper  D. in the afternoon

    Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is“happier”，then you are right，based on a study published seven years ago．It found that people become happier and experience less worry after age fifty．In fact，it found that by the age of eighty-five，people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen．

    The finding came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008．At that time，people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five．

    Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study．His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five．Stress levels dropped sharply(急剧)after people reached their fifties．

    Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies．

    The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns(情感模式)as they grow older．However, women at all ages reported more sadness，stress and worry than men did．

    So why would happiness increase with age? One theory(推测)is that，as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions．They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences．

1．How many adults were included in the survey?

    A．300        B．40，000       C．340，000       D．103

2．What can you learn from the findings of the survey?

    A．People become happier and feel less worried before age 50．

    B．People are happier with their life at 18 than they were at 85．

    C．Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the least stress．

    D．The kids and those in their early seventies feel the happiest．

3．Why does happiness increase with age?

    A．People aren’t able to control their emotions better．

    B．It takes them less time to think about bad experiences．

    C．People become less thankful for what they have．

    D．Women feel sadder, more stressed and worried than men．

4．Which of the following is the best title of this passage?

    A．Differences Between Stress and Happiness

    B．Differences Between Age and Happiness

    C．Relationship Between Stress and Happiness

    D．Relationship Between Age and Happiness

Moscow. The inside of the theater is as brightly golden(金色的) as it was before 1917, but the audience(观众) has changed. Many of the men are without ties(领带) and the women are wearing dark clothes. In the nineteenth century this was Moscow’s great opera house.

“Bolshoi” means “big”, and the theater can hold 4 000 persons. Culture has always been important to Russians. That’s why through all these years they have been trying to maintain(一直保持) arts, like ballet, fine opera(歌剧) and plays.

The government gives the theater 12 000 000 dollars each year. Even the New York Metropolitan Opera(纽约大都会歌剧院) can only get half of the money. The Bolshoi is very large, and has its own factories even. About three thousand people work in the theater and 250 ballet dancers are working here and they get the highest pay.

根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1. Where is the Bolshoi Theater?

2. What does “Bolshoi” mean?

3. How many persons can the Bolshoi Theater hold?

4. Which theater gets more money from the government, the Bolshoi Theater or the New York Metropolitan Opera?

5. In the past what kind of people often went to the Bolshoi Theater, the rich people or the poor people?