Leader of the pack (P1)
Choose the best answer:
1. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. Gerrard’s love of Liverpool
B. what kind of person Gerrard is
C. Gerrard’s latest performance on the pitch
D. Gerrard as captain of the Liverpool football club

2. From the text, we can see that _____.
A. Gerrard has outshone other captains of Liverpool
B. Gerrard did quite a good job in leading his team
C. Gerrrad intended to make the captain’s role his own
D. Gerrrad has been confident of being a captain since chosen

3. Gerrard admitted that he learned more from _____.
A. try-outs with various clubs
B. unsuccessful experiences
C. steering the team to the top
D. striving for the league title

4. From the last two paragraphs, we know that _____.
A. Gerrard compared Liverpool with other football clubs and finally decided on it
B. Gerrard was made captain soon after he signed with Liverpool
C. Gerrard believed the next season would be his dynasty
D. it was Liverpool that Gerrard had his eye on all along

1-4 DBBD
本文主要是关于杰拉德成为队长的表现和感受，所以D正确。
作为队长，文章有几处comment—第三段His efforts steered the team to the top of the Premier League.以及第四段第一句等等，可以看出他做得相当不错，所以B正确。AD文章都未涉及。
原句是第四段最后一句But Gerrard believes he has learned more from being a captain “when things haven’t gone too well”，还有下段他的具体解释。所以B正确。
4. 最后两段呼应开头的 “a boyhood dream”，说明了杰拉德的利物浦情结，所以只有D正确。Have one’s eye指“想要”。

Christmas fun in the... (P4)
Choose the best answer:
1.What does the passage mainly focus on?
A. The similarities of spending Christmas Day between Australians and other Westerners.
B. Various activities people prepare for Christmas Day throughout the whole world.
C. The differences of spending Christmas Day between Australians and Americans.
D. The ways in which the people in Australia celebrate the festival of ChristmasDay.

2. What does the phrase “come alive” most probably mean in Paragraph 4?
A. become lovely          B. become lively  
C. become exciting        D. become vivid

3. Which is FALSE about what Australians do on Christmas Day?
A. They will go to the beach and have a picnic lunch.
B. They will enjoy some barbecued steak and lamb.
C. They will surely eat some cherries and peaches.
D. They will have a talk about their past experiences.

4. What can we conclude from the passage?
A. Australians like to go out to celebrate their Christmas Day.
B. To celebrate Christmas, people often have a big breakfast.
C. Backyard cricket has the same rules as regular cricket.
D. Australians in a big family often get together at festivals.

5. The following all describe the stereotypes about Christmas except that______.
A. people have dinner together in the open
B. families get together and sit around a fireplace
C. Santa Claus sits on a sleigh pulled by reindeer
D. boys and girls will get some Christmas presents

1-5 DBCAA
1、D。主旨大意题，本文主要介绍了澳大利亚人是如何度过圣诞节的。
2、B。词义题，根据文章的意思：公园和海滩由于人们的到来而变得活跃、充满了活力。become lively 指的是变得活跃、充满了活力。故选B。
3、C。细节题，这四个选项分别出现在文章第三、四、五、八段中。根据文章第五段可得知，人们喜欢的是cherries and mangoes，而不是cherries and peaches。
4、A。细节推论题，根据文章第三、四段可得知答案。
5、A。细节题，根据文章第一段可得知答案。A项未提到，那是澳大利亚人和通常/典型的圣诞节不一样的。

The year’s best  (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. Which is TRUE according to the text?
A. NASA’s Phoenix Lander managed to land on Mars’s far north for the first time.
B. China launched her first manned mission with two persons in spaceship in 2003.
C. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s highest-energy molecule accelerator.
D. A US biology professor reconstructed 80% of the long extinct woolly mammoth.

2. Which of the following advancements succeeded with the help of gene?
A. The North Pole of Mars
B. Cenozoic Park
C. China soars into Space
D. Large Hadron Collider

3. What can we conclude from the last two paragraphs?
A. It was some researchers in France who found the oldest nuclear family.
B. The mentioned family is considered to be the oldest one that ever existed.
C. Scientists confirmed that was a family by means of analyzing their DNA.
D. The grave in which the family lay is considered to be as old as 4,000 years.

4. Which of the following group contributes a lot to space exploration?
A. The North Pole of Mars and Large Hadron Collider
B. China Soars into Space and Cenozoic Park
C. First Family and China Soars into Space
D. The North Pole of Mars and China Soars into Space

1-4 ABCD
1、A。细节理解题，根据文章第二个科学成就分析可知答案。
2、B。细节理解题，根据文章第四个科学成就分析可知答案。
3、C。细节判断题，根据文章最后一段After analyzing their DNA evidence可得知答案。
4、D。细节理解题，根据文章第二、三个科学成就分析可得知答案。

Polar bears find new...  (P6)
Choose the best answer:
1. From the text, we can conclude that _____.
A. global warming has affected polar bears greatly
B. goose and duck eggs as food source will prevent polar bears from starving
C. bears could develop one day hunting skills on land due to the pressure of survival
D. bears have retreated to tundra where they can only survive on its own fatreserves

2. The word "thrive" in Paragraph 5 means closest to _____.
A. nest    B. live       C. increase              D. move

3. The purpose of writing the last paragraph is _____.
A. prove to us "survival of the fittest" again
B. inform us the present situation is still not the worst
C. show us that fighting for survival is always true for bears
D. give us confidence that "polar bears could survive" again

1．根据文章可以知道北极熊遭受饥饿，面临灭绝的危险是因为他们的栖息地的冰都融化了，所以是全球升温对他们影响很大。B项根据倒数第二段末句可排除。C项对于北极熊将来会发展什么技能文章根本没有涉及。D根据第五段末句可排除。
2．这个词根据第二段an increasing goose population，第五段in fact there are too many of them可判断C正确。
3．因为全文都是说北极熊因为有了鹅或鸭蛋作为食物来源或许能免遭灭绝，所以最后一段科学家提到历史上北极熊就成功地度过了一个温暖期而幸存下来，说明有可能北极熊再次熬过这次温暖的阶段。因此D合理。

（天津新题型）
1. Why have the polar bears’ populations declined greatly in recent years? (No more than 10 words)
2. Please explain the word "thrive" in Paragraph 5 in English. (No more than 5 words)
3. How might polar bears survive extinction, according to scientists? (No more than 10 words)
4. What is the purpose of writing the last paragraph? (No more than 20 words)
5. Do you think we need to take some measures to help polar bears? (No more than 20 words)

Suggested answers:
1. Because their icy habitat is melting./Because of global warming.
2. To increase.
3. By eating goose and duck eggs.
4. The purpose is to tell us history has shown that polar bears could survive this warm period again.
5. I don’t think it necessary since the last paragraph shows that polar bears once have survived a warm period.
From the article we can see it’s possible for polar bears to disappear so it’s better to prevent this happening.
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