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　　In ancient Greece,there were four major athletic meetings and the Olympian meeting played the most important part in the lives of the people As time passed,the Olympian meeting gradually lost its local character and became first a national event and then international. No one knows exactly how far back the Oympic Games go but some official records date from 776 BC．

　　The Games took place every four years on the plain by Mount Olympus. Thousands of people came from all parts of the Greek world to watch the games. The winner of the feet race had the great honour of giving his name to the year of his history.

　　After a long history of almost 1,200 years,the Games were stopped for religious (宗教的) reasons. It was then decided in 1896 to start the Olympic Games again. The meeting was held in Athens and 311 athletes from 13 countries took part in it but the idea of such an international meeting attracted the world's attention. After the 1908 London Olympics,many nations sent their best athletes. Although the Games have been time and again threatened by some unfavourable political events,the Games have taken place every four years.

　　Nowadays,the Games are held in different countries in turn. As the biggest international gathering of any kind in the world,athletes from different countries play games together and this provides them with good chances to learn to live together. The friendly feelings in the Olympic Village make people think of the world as one big family. The Olympic Games will be hosted in Beijing in 2008,it is believed that the Games will be a wonder of the world．

(1)The first old Olympic Games took place _________.

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　　A．a thousand years ago

　　B．in the seventh century AD

　　C．before 700 BC

　　D．in modem times

(2)The continuity of the Olympic Games once broken because of _______.

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(3)The Olympic Games meeting finally formed _______.

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(4)The friendly feelings between two countries are strengthened because ________.

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　　A．athletes come from different countries

　　B．they enable people to know each other better

　　C．athletes live in the Olympic village

　　D．they live in one big family

(5)The author believes that the 2008 Olympic Games will he _______.

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　　A．held as usual

　　B．held successfully

　　C．put off

　　D．stopped by some unfavourable events

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　　No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he grunted（发出）呼噜声）like a pig when he lifted something heavy. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him--water splashing（飞溅）, bees humming（嗡嗡响声）, a stone falling to the ground. Somehow he learned to make words. As the centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.

　　People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life.

　　The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy language. Your dictionary is your most useful book.

（1）What do we mean by language?

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A. Sounds made by man

B. All the words made by man

C. Different kinds of sound

D. The way man learns

（2）From the passage we know that long long ago __________.

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A. no one learned how to make sounds or words

B. animals taught man to learn the language

C. man learned the language by lifting heavy things, falling to the ground, and so on

D. man followed a lot of things in nature to make sounds and words

（3）What is the number of language spoken in the world today?

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（4）In which sentence can the word “contain（s）” be put so that it is a right one?

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A. I __________ several dictionary

B. Sea water __________ salt

C. A dog _________ four legs

D. Mr. Smith __________ glasses on his nose

（5）Which of the following is the best if we want to make our vocabulary larger?

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A. To use the words in everyday life

B. To read more books

C. To read easy books

D. To look up new words in the dictionary

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　　Most American school students have a long summer vacation. It is usually from June to September. During this vacation students often travel or have summer work. Some students take courses（课程）in summer school. Mary spent her last summer in summer school. She studied two courses and she travelled with her family. They saw interesting places near their home in Seattle. Mary's friend, Peter worked at a gasoline station（加油站）during the summer. He sold gasoline and mended cars. He made a lot of money and saved nearly all of it. Peter is going to university next year. He needs money for the university tuition（学费）.

（1）In America from June to September __________.

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A. most students take courses in universities

B. all school students are still at school

C. more school students stay at home

D. there are still lessons in summer schools

（2）Peter, one of Mary's friends, is _________.

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A. a gasoline worker

B. a car mender

C. a school student

D. a car mender

（3）“Seattle” is the the name of _________.

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A. a summer school

B. Mary's friend

C. a gasoline station

D. an American city

（4）What did Peter do last summer?

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A. He worked at a gasoline station.

B. He traveled with his family.

C. He studied in a summer school.

D. He visited some interesting places.

（5）Peter saved nearly all his money because __________.

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A. he didn't need to pay for anything

B. his parents asked him to do so

C. he needs money for his summer work

D. he needs money for the university tuition

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　　Americans can travel almost anywhere they choose. But to protect (保护) its people, the government lists (列出) a few dangerous places where Americans cannot go. These places are unfriendly countries or countries at war. There, the traveller might not be safe. These countries are listed in a small book called a passport (护照).

　　This passport is a government request for the safety of its travelling people. It is also a government's pledge (保证) that the people will obey the rulers of the host (主人) country .

　　To receive a passport from the government, a traveller must prove that he is a United States citizen (公民) . An American cannot go overseas (外国) without a passport. Only certain close countries such as Canada and Mexico do not ask for passports.

　　Pasted inside the passport is the traveller's picture. Children travelling with their parents are included (包括) in one parent's book.

　　Thousands of people from the United States visit other countries every year. An American traveller might carry plane tickets, money. clothing and many other things. But the most important thing that he carries in another country is his passport.

1．A passport is not needed when an American goes to ________.

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2．From the passage we can see that ________.

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A．children can't travel to foreign countries

B．Americans like to travel

C．a traveller is not safe in most countries

D．Americans like to travel to close countries

3．Why does a traveller need a passport?

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A．He needs something more to carry when he travels.

B．It helps the country to protect the people.

C．He needs to have his picture taken more often.

D．It helps the traveller to know where he will go.

4．Which statement does the passage lead you to believe?

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A．People should take care of their passports.

B．It is not important to have a passport to travel.

C．Children are never included in a passport.

D．When you are in another country, money is more important than a passport.

5．Which of the following is true?

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A．When Americans are travelling in another country, they must obey the rules of the country.

B．The American government sometimes allow its people to travel to dangerous places.

C．A passport is needed if an American is travelling.

D．Everyone living in the United States can get a passport from the American government.

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　　In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses, etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses, they take them to Animal Hospital to give them needless so that they won't carry disease. They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people's homes, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud(自豪的) of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder (喂食的器皿) in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed(允许) to kill any animals in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would he punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad about it.

　　People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: Their family tie (关系) is not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve (解决) this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

1．The passage mainly talks about ________.

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A．how to keep disease from pets

B．pets in Canada

C．how to take good care of pets

D．life of the old in Canada

2．They give their pets needles before keeping them at their houses because ________.

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A．the pets are sick

B．the pets are wild

C．they want to stop them from carrying disease

D．they want them to sleep on the way home

3．This passage shows that Canadians ________.

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4．Children leave their parents when they grow up because ________.

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A．they don't love their parents any more

B．they can only find jobs far from their parents

C．their parents' houses are too small

D．they wouldn't depend on (依靠)their parents any more.

5．Which of the following is right?

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A．People buy animal food only at the animal food stores.

B．Pets eat better than people.

C．Almost every family has a birdcage in his house.

D．Any birds can come to the bird feeders to eat.

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　　The national weather map shows a high pressure area all along the eastern coastline which brought them very pleasant, sunny weather from New York to Florida．But showers (阵雨) and thunderstorms (雷暴雨) are appearing from the Ohio River all the way south to the Gulf Coast.

　　By far the worst of the storms has appeared in and around Texas. Some Texas stations are reported up to fifeeen inches of rain in a twenty-four- hour period with high winds and thunderstorms.

　　Heavy amounts(总量) of snow were reported in the Rocky Mountain region with recorded cold temperatures in Denver and Boulder. As much as a foot of snow has fallen in some of the mountain stations.

　　In contrast, temperatures in Arizona and the desert Southeast went over the one - hundred - degree mark again today under bright, sunny skies.

1．This weather report is about ________.

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2．It is sunny in ________.

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3．Along the Ohio River, the storms are ________ than that in Texas.

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4．The cold temperature in Rocky Mountain region is ________.

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A．recorded

B．the same as usual

C．the lowest in its recorded history

D．not talked about

5．The one hundred degree mark of temperature must ______.

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　　There are thousands of different languages in the world. Everyone seems to think that his native language is the most important one, as it is their fist language. For many people it is even their only language all their lives. But English is the world's most widely used language.

　　As a native language, English is spoken by nearly three hundred million people, in the USA, England, Australia and some other countries.

　　For people in India and many other countries, English is often necessary for business, education and other activities (活动). So English is the second language there.

　　As a foreign language, no other language is more widely studied or used than English. We use it to listen to radio, to read books or to travel. It is also one of the working language in the U. N. (联合国) and is more used than the others.

1．The native language is a person's________ language.

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2．People in________ use English as their second langage.

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3．English is ________ used as working language in the U.N.

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4．English is used in ________ ways by people all over the world.

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5．People in China use English as a ________ language.

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　　The development (发展) of the English language falls into three reasonable different periods. Old English lasted from about 450A. D., when the first Germanic tribes (部落) began to settle in England, until about 1100. Middle English extended from about 1100 to about 1475. And Modern English began about 1475 and has lasted to the present time. Of course, the breaks were not as sudden and definite (确定) as these dates suggest. There has never been a year when the language was not changing. In spite of that, the traits of the three periods are so different that a man who knows both Old and Modern English well will find a great deal of difficulty reading some of the Middle English writings without additional (另外的) study in the important aspects (方面) of the language.

1．The writer organized (组织) this passage according to ________.

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2．This passage suggests that a person who knows Old English well ________.

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A．can learn foreign langnages well

B．will have much trouble in reading Modern English

C．probably has no difficulty in learning German

D．can certainly speak Modern English well

3．According to passage, which of the following statements is true?

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A．The English language will be different from what it is today in fifty years.

B．If you want to learn Modern English well, you must learn Old English well first.

C．English is spoken widely in the world.

D．The history of the English language is short and simple.

4．We know from this passage ________.

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A．Old English began with the first Germanic tribes' settlement in England

B．Middle English was developed by the Germanic tribes

C．Old English lasted 650 years

D．Middle English lasted 375 years

5．Shakespeare wrote his famous plays during the late 1500s and early 1600s, we can say that he wrote in ________.

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　　In America the red barn (粮仓) has been a familiar sight since the early 1800s.But why have been barns always keen painted red? Why not green or blue or yellow?

　　A painted barn was an unusual sight before the 1800s, because paint was considered an unnecessary expense. Then farmers realized that exposure (曝露) outside harmed wooden buildings. Thus barn painting began.

　　To save money, most farmers mixed paint from materials already on hand. A mixture was usually made from milk, lime (石灰)and glue (胶) made from cow's hooves (蹄). To add colour, they tried something like animals' blood, roots, and grasses. None of those materials, however, successfully coloured the paint.

　　Eventually (偶尔) one farmer used iron oxide (氧化物) , and it worked. Iron oxide made the paint reddish-brown. Thus, the red paint was born.

　　Later scientists discovered that the color red absorbed (吸收) the sun's rays. That kept the barn cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Today cooling and heating systems have made the color red less important for barns, but barns are still often red. They have become a farm tradition (传统).

1．Red barns were hardly seen in the USA ________.

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2．At first barns weren't painted, because farmers thought it ________.

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3．Farmes tried coloring their paint with ________.

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A．milk, lime and glue

B．water, glue and lime

C．animal blood, roots and grasses

D．iron oxide

4．Scientists discovered that red was a good color for barns because ________.

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A．it absorbed the sun's rays

B．it kept a barn cooler in summer and warmer in winter

C．it kept hanks away from the farm animals

D．both A and B

5．The best title of this passage is ________.

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A．Why American barns are often red

B．American barns

C．Clever farmers

D．Good color red

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　　Take three basins, fill the first basin with water which is as hot as you are able to bear (承担) with your hands. In the second basin mix hot water with cold water. This luckwarm (微温的) water. Fill the third basin with cold water from the tap.

　　Now place the basins on the table. Put your right hand in the hot water. Put your left hand in the cold water. You will find that your right hand feels hot and your left hand feels cold. After twenty seconds move both your hands into the luckwarm water. What do you feel? Your left hand feels warm and your right hand feels cold. But both hands are in the same basin of water!

1．From the passage we can know that the water in the second basin is ________.

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A．either cold or warm

B．luckwarm water from the tap

C．neither cold nor hot

D．what you are able to bear your hands

2．Twenty seconds, that is to say exactly, is ________.

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3．According to the passage we know that the hand you just took out of ________ feels cold in the luckwarm water.

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4．This passage shows that ________ .

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A．When we measure something we must put both our hands into water

B．We can't really tell whether a thing is hot or cold by feeling it

C．doing experiment is the most important thing

D．basins of water can help us with everything