It is not easy for people to travel around the world in quite small boats. Sometimes the weather gets bad．Accidents (事故) can happen easily and quickly.

   One family once had an accident. A big fish swam under their boat and bit holes in it. Sea water came in and the boat soon went down. Luckily these people had another small boat——a lifeboat, so they all got into the lifeboat. They lived in the boat for many days. They ate and slept, and always hoped．At last people in a ship saved them.

   How do people live in a very small lifeboat for a long time? They must be strong in every way, they must have a hope, and they must have a strong desire (愿望) to live. People cannot drink seawater. If they drink a lot of sea water, they will quickly die. They must catch rainwater and drink it. They must also catch fish and birds for food．Lifeboats do not often carry cookers. So people can not cook their food in the lifeboats. Raw (生的) fish and birds are not very nice but they are their only food．They must eat raw food, or they will die.

A．food   B．beds   C．rainwater  D．hope

A．their boat met bad weather   B．their boat hit a big rock and it was broken

C．nobody knew how to sail   D．a fish bit holes in their boat

A．fish and birds   B rainwater

C．both sea water and rainwater   D．both A and B

A．厨师   B．食物   C．炊具   D．大盒子

A．It's not interesting to travel around the world．

B．Fish in the sea are so dangerous.

C．we must have a strong desire (愿望) to live when we are in danger.

D．Nobody knows when we will die.

If you have a bottle of water recycled from urine (尿), would you drink it? Astronauts at the ISS may soon do so.

   NASA (美国航空航天局) said it would use a high－tech machine to recycle waste water at the ISS. The machine will recycle water for washing hands, shower water, water for brushing teeth and even urine to make drinking water. It will save millions of dollars each year.

   At present, each ISS astronaut uses about 4.4 liters (升) of water every day. It costs about 24 million dollars a year to send water up to the ISS. A liter of water costs about $ 11, 000.

   The machine will be sent to the ISS later. NASA hopes it will recycle about 93% of all the water used on the station.

   Will the water be clean? Different chemicals will be put in the wastewater. The water will be heated to 130℃to kill bacteria (细菌). Scientists say that the recycled water is thousands of times better than the water from a city tap.

根据材料内容,选择最佳答案。

When I was about 12, I had an "enemy", a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings (缺点). Sometimes she said I was thin. Sometimes she said I was lazy. Sometimes she said I wasn't a good student. Sometimes she said I talked too much, and so on. I tried to boar (忍受) her as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

   He listened to me quietly, and then he asked, "Are the things she said true or not? Mary, didn't you ever wonder what you're really like? Go and make a list of everything she said and make the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said."

   I did as he told me and I was very surprised to discover that about half the things were true. I brought the list back to my dad. He refused to take it. "That's just for you," he said. "You know the truth about yourself better than any other people. When something that is said about you is true, you'll find it will be helpful to you. Don't shut off your brain and your ears. You should listen to them all carefully, but hear the truth and do what you think is right."

   Many years has passed. The situation often appears in my mind. In our life, we often meet with some trouble and we often go to someone and ask for advice. For some advice, you need to treasure (珍惜) all your life!

My friends and I finished lunch at a hotel when it started to rain heavily. When it became lighter, I decided to get my car at my office three streets away.

My friends said that I shouldn’t go, mainly because I would give birth to a new baby and was seven months pregnant then. I told them that I’d be very careful. One of them wanted to come with me but I asked her to stay with another friend who needed help with her baby.

I walked out of the hotel and started making my way to the car. At the crossing, a black car stopped and a man came out with an umbrella. Before I knew what was happening, he walked right towards me. To my surprise he stopped in front of me and said he’d go with me together. I said there was no need for him to do so, but he still offered to help. During our walk, he kept telling me to walk slower, as the ground was wet. When we got to my car, I thanked him and he went away. I did not get his name. Even I can’t remember what he looks like. Did he stop for me? I’ll never know.

So how did I pay it as a return? I was at home when I noticed two Indian workers walking in the heavy rain. Maybe they were on their way to the working place near my home.            . They were surprised by my action. They were very thankful to me, wondering why a stranger was offering such kindness. I was so relaxed and happy that day.

When I was eleven, my mother worked all day. As a sister, I had to look after my younger sister on weekends. At that time, my little sister was about three years old and she missed Mum all the time.

   One day, she started crying for Mum after lunch. She was so young and really needed Mum. To make her stop crying, I dressed her up, helped her to put on the shoes, carried her on my back and walked out to the park. Soon she fell asleep (入睡) on my back.

   Before we got to the park, I found one of her shoes lost. I took her off my back and put her down.

   I knew we needed to find that shoe, for our mother didn't have enough money to buy her new shoes. I had to go back to find it, so I told my sister to wait right there.

   A man happened to hear my words and stopped me just before I walked off. He asked me, "Are you leaving your sister here to find the shoe? What will you do if she is not here when you return?" I didn't know how to answer that question. "It's OK if you can't find the shoe, but it is not OK to lose your sister," he added. Then he sent us to Mum's workplace by taxi and left without another word.

   People always say, "Do not believe in strangers (陌生人)." But during my whole life, the kindness of the man is always in my mind. I feel regretful that I can't find him and say "Thank you". I do not even remember what he looked like, but he taught me a lesson－people are more important than things.

根据材料内容选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Years ago I worked at a factory in a small county. Every day I got up very early and often did much extra work at night.  I was so tired and exhausted. My whole life was hopeless. Then one day I read the following article from a magazine:

   “A woman went to live with her husband in camp on the Mojave Desert during the war. She simply hated the place: the heat was almost unbearable, 125 degrees in the shade, the wind blew incessantly, and there was sand--sand everywhere. Finally, in desperation(不顾一切地)she wrote her parents in Ohio that she couldnˈt stand it another minute and was coming home.

 Quickly came the reply by airmail from her father--just two lines:

  ‘Two men looked out  from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars.’

  The daughter did some real thinking, not only with the intellect (思维)but also with her heart. She decided to stick to her post. She made friends with the natives,  learned to love the country, and eventually wrote a book about it. The desert hadnˈt changed, but her attitude had. Because she listened with her heart to the words her  father sent, a whole new world opened up to her.”

   A change of attitude could change everything.

   After reading the article, I was deep in thought（陷入沉思）…

When we got to my Dad’s home，we found Dad still coughed a lot，but his smile was as sure as ever. He was sick. My husband and I stayed with him for the weekend，we had to return to our jobs on Monday. But I wanted to let him know that we also cared about him，even when we weren’t with him.

Then I remembered when our children were small. Before leaving their grandparents’ home after a visit，each child would write a love note to their grandparents. For days，their grandparents would smile as they read these notes of love.

So when I cleaned Dad’s kitchen and made the bed for him, I wrote some notes. Some were like this，“Dad，I put the food in the fridge.”  Some were like this，“Dad，I hope you will sleep well in your new bed.” Most notes were put downstairs he would stay for several weeks when he was. But I put one note upstairs under his pillow(枕头), “If you have found this note, you must be feeling better. We are so glad!”

These notes helped improve his health. A few weeks later, I asked Dad how he was doing on the phone. He said, “Much better. I just found your note under my pillow upstairs!”

任务型阅读：根据短文内容，填写下列空格，每格只填一词。

♦ The writer's father was   (1)   at that time.

♦ The writer   (2)   to her job after she stayed with her father for the   (3)  .

♦ When their children were small, each child wrote a love   (4)   to their grandparents.

♦ The writer wanted to let her father know that they also  (5)   about him.

♦ A few weeks later, when the writer called her father, she knew he felt much   (6)   .

A little boy invited his mother to the first teacher-parent meeting(家长会) of his middle school．To his surprise, she said she would go．This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher met his mother．She was a beautiful woman, there was a scar (伤疤) that covered nearly the right side of her face．The boy never asked his mom why or how she got the scar．

At the meeting, other people were impressed by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother, but the little boy felt embarrassed for his mom’s looks, and hid himself from everyone．However, he heard the conversation between his mother and his teacher．

    “How did you get the scar on your face?”the teacher asked．

The mother replied,“①When my son was a baby, his room caught fire one day．Everyone was too afraid to get into the room, but I rushed into it．While I was running towards his bed, a beam(横梁) fell down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him．I was knocked and I knew nothing．②我们是如此的幸运有人救了我们。”She touched the burned side of her face. “But I have never regretted(后悔) doing what I did,” she added．

Having heard that, the little boy was so moved that he ran towards his mother with

tears in his eyes．He hugged (拥抱) her and held her right hand tightly for the rest of the day.