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1As young students ,you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big such as winning the Nobel Prize; they can also be small such as becoming one of the best students in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?Andrew Matews, an Australian writer, tells us that making your dreams real is life’s biggest challenge. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it’s impossible for you to become a writer. Those kinds of ideas stop you from realizing your dream.In fact, everyone can realize his dream. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want  every day and then your dream will come true faster. You should know that a big dream is, in fact, made up of many small dreams.You must also never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from you. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will help you to get better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book.As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn something more useful and find new hobbies.1．The biggest difficulty on the road to your dreams comes from_____________.A．yourself B．your friends C．your school D．your parents2．Which of the following isn't mentioned in this passage?A．You may think you’re not good at some school subjects.B．Making your dreams real is life’s biggest challenge.C．You must never give up your dream.D．Listening to English more can help you realize your dream.3．If we have dreams in our hearts and work hard, our dreams____________.A．can’t be realized B．can be very smallC．will come true D．can be very big4．How do you make your dream come true faster?A．Remember what your dream isB．Don’t let your dream leave your heart.C．Keep telling yourself what you want every dayD．A ,B,and C5．The best title of this passage is___________________.A．How to become a writerB．How to make your dream realC．A big dream is made up of small dreamsD．Everyone can realize his dream.2 The world uses about a thousand million (百万) tons of water a day. Water is a human right and everyone should have their share. Yet more than 700 million people around the world have trouble getting clean, safe water.Treating wastewater is a good way to provide fresh water for us. And it also helps the environment by keeping waste out of rivers and oceans. 80% of wastewater around the world is not treated at all, and it is running into oceans. But now we have got the technology to treat and reuse the wastewater.While 75% of our planet is covered with water, only about 2% is fresh water—that comes from rivers, lakes, ice and snow. The rest, 98% of the water, is in seas and oceans. It is too salty to drink. Then desalination businesses come in. More than 19,000 factories have been built around the world, mostly in coastal countries. They process (加工) more than 92 million tons of water every day. But the technology they use requires a lot of energy.Scientists are working to create a less costly technology. They want to produce 20 times more clean water and make sure everyone has enough. But for now, the world still faces each day with not having enough water for everyone.6．How many people have trouble in getting clean water around the world?A．Under 10 million. B．Only 19 million.C．About 92 million. D．Over 700 million.7．Treating wastewater helps the environment by _____.A．storing waste in ice and snow B．letting waste run into oceansC．keeping waste out of rivers and oceans D．sending waste to coastal countries8．What does the underlined word "desalination" in Paragraph 3 mean?A．远洋运输 B．潮汐发电 C．食盐销售 D．海水淡化9．At present, the technology to process water_____.A．needs much energy B．saves much moneyC．satisfies everyone D．causes pollution10．What can we infer from the last paragraph?A．Water should be a human right. B．The water problem is still serious.C．Our planet is covered with water. D．Everyone has enough clean water.3 When we look at animals, we know that they are not humans. But how do our closest friends dogs see us? Do they know that we are humans? Or do they actually think that we are just strange- looking dogs?You may be surprised to know that many kinds of animals do not notice such differences very much at all. For example, the cuckoo (布谷鸟) lays its eggs in the nest of another bird. These birds will feed the baby cuckoos, even though they look nothing like their real babies. This is because the birds feed in an instinctive (本能的) ways.Other animals, it seems, will simply separate the world into animals they eat, and animals that eat them. When it comes to dogs, though, there is no simple answer to this question.Sheepdogs leave their mothers when they are born. They grow up with sheep, and come to see them as their family. For this reason, they never attack the sheep, and help protect them, they probably think the sheep are dogs too, but we can’t be certain.Similarly, if you keep a dog from birth, the way it sees the world will be different to a dog that grows up with other dogs. It will probably think it is the same kind of animal as you. This can even be true of humans. A Russian boy called Ivan Mishukov, born in 1998, was raised by dogs for two years and came to believe that he was a dog himself.11．What can we know in Paragraph 2?A．The cuckoo is a stupid bird.B．Birds are different from other animals.C．It’s natural for birds to feed other birds’ baby.D．Birds can’t find any differences among themselves.12．What do some animals usually see other animals as?A．Food or enemies. B．Friends or enemies.C．Neighbors and relatives. D．Friends and neighbors.13．Why do sheepdogs protect the sheep?A．They are afraid of being punished. B．They regard the sheep as their family.C．They think of the sheep as their owners. D．They think sheep are a kind of dogs.14．What can we learn from the last paragraph?A．Dogs can give humans a lot of help.B．Different dogs see the world similarly.C．People should see the world from a dog’s view.D．Environment influences how a person sees himself.15．Which of the following is TRUE?A．Dogs see other animals as dogs too.B．The cuckoo prefers feeding other animals’ babies.C．Animals don’t know they are different from others.D．Dogs raised by humans may regard themselves as humans.4Depression(抑郁症)is a serious problem today. One expert says that depression is like cancer because it is “widespread, costly and deadly”. Depression hits one person in five around the world. Over any six-month period, between five to seven percent of the world's population will be suffering from a serious depression．A recent research shows that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults.The researchers used a nationwide long-term survey of teenage health to investigate(调查) the relationship between media(传播媒介) use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand teenagers who were not depressed when the survey began in 2000.As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio. Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.Seven years later, in 2007, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games of radio etc. But the study did find that every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression. Young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use.The study didn’t explore if watching TV causes depression. But one possibility is that it was taking time away from activities that could help prevent depression.Last December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active, to read, to take part in religious(宗教的) services and to vote.16．The survey shows that of all the media uses          .A．most teenagers prefer to listen to the radioB．teenagers enjoy watching TV very muchC．computer games are teenagers’ favouriteD．magazines are mentioned in the survey17．The result of the research seems to prove       .A．media uses do no harm to teenagersB．teenagers are more likely to develop depressionC．those who don’t watch TV won’t develop depressionD．TV probably causes teenagers to grow up with depression18．According to the passage, we can infer that _______.A．watching TV may lead to happinessB．social activities can prevent depressionC．a teenager should play more video games instead of watching TVD．it was easier for young women to develop depression than young men19．What is the best title for this passage?A．Media use is harmful to teenagersB．Adults, Media use and DepressionC．Teens, Television and DepressionD．Take great care of teenager’s depression    1．A2．D3．C4．D5．B 6．D7．C8．D9．A10．B 11．C12．A13．B14．D15．D 16．B17．D18．B19．C