At present, more and more people are crazy about travelling. Why do people travel?  “To see more of the world,” many people would say. But travelling abroad now means much more than that for the growing number of Chinese tourists. Of course it offers us good opportunities to meet people from other countries, learn about their culture and customs.

According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), more than 1 billion people travelled to another country in 2012. In 2012, Chinese people travelled abroad 30 percent more than in 2011. The prosperity (繁荣) of the tourism industry can also bring both our country and foreign countries great economic benefits (经济利益). Chinese people usually join large tourist groups and visit several countries in one trip.

Chinese people don’t just travel for sightseeing. The China International Travel Service Company said that all their tour trips sold out a month before Christmas Day. Stores offered discounts (打折) during that time, so shopping in Europe and the United States is popular among Chinese travellers.

In December, China is going through a very cold winter. So many people like to go to some countries in Southeast Asia because the weather there is quite pleasant.

The improvement of living standards means more Chinese can travel abroad. But many of them don’t have a sense of public manners. A report by Living Social website in March 2012 even listed Chinese as the world’s second worst tourists.

If you want to change that bad name, remember to avoid the following: littering, spitting, snatching bus seats, line-jumping, taking off shoes in public, talking loudly and smoking in non-smoking areas. Besides, we should learn some necessary manners of foreign countries.

1.Chinese people travel abroad not to _________.

A. go shopping                                            B. see more of the world

C. go sightseeing                                         D. make money

2.According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, ________.

A. 30% of the people who travelled abroad are Chinese

B. the number of people who travelled abroad rose by 30%

C. more than 1 billion people travelled abroad in 2012

D. more than 1 billion Chinese people travelled abroad in 2012

3.Which of the following is NOT true about Chinese people? _________

A. Chinese people like joining large tourist groups.

B. Many Chinese like to go to Southeast Asia in winter for sightseeing.

C. More and more Chinese people can travel abroad now.

D. Chinese are the second worst tourists in the world.

4.As a good tourist, you should ________.

A. litter and spit here and there

B. jump the line and take off the shoes in public

C. have a sense of public manners

D. speak loudly and smoke as you like

5.What’s the best title of the passage? __________

A. Travelling                                                      B. Travelling abroad

C. Chinese tourists                                                D. Chinese people like travelling

 

先阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框给的词中选出最恰当的10个，并用其适当形式填空，每个词只限用一次。（10分）

leaf,  then,  large,  learn,  ones,  grow,  thick,  has,  mean,  first,  easy,  begin

  Everybody likes oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections, so it is   【小题1】 to eat them. Some oranges do not have any seeds(种子). Some have a   【小题2】 skin, and some have a thin skin.
The orange tree is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green   【小题3】 . The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree   【小题4】 flowers and fruit at the same time.
There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the  【小题5】  
today. The orange tree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges  【小题6】  in China today. The Chinese started to raise(栽培) orange trees about 4,400 years ago.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East   【小题7】  to raise oranges from the Chinese.  【小题8】 
they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the new world (North and South America). They took them to Florida   【小题9】. Oranges are a very important crop in Florida today.
In English, orange   【小题10】 both a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for the color.

Mascots for the Olympic Games

20th	23rd	26th
1972	1984	1996
Munich (慕尼黑)	Los Angeles	Atlanta
Germany	America	America
Europe	North America	North America

 

27th	29th
2000	2008
Sydney	Beijing
Australia	China
Oceania	Asia

1.From the above, we know the Olympic Games is held(被举行) every ____ years.

A. 3                B. 4                C. 5                D. 6

2.The Beijing Olympic Games has 2 more mascots than those for ____Olympic Games.

A. Sydney       B. Los Angeles  C. Atlanta      D. Munich

3.The 20^th Olympic Games was held in ____.

A. North America    B. Europe       C. Oceania      D. Asia

4.The 23rd and 26^th Olympic Games were held in the same ____.

A. town         B. city         C. country      D. province

5.Which of the following information is NOT true?

A. The 1996 Olympic Games was held in America.

B. The 27^th Olympic Games was held in Europe.

C. Beijing held the 29^th Olympic Games.

D. The mascot for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is not only one.

 

We can see walls everywhere in the world. But the Great Wall of China is the biggest of all. The Chinese call it. “The Ten-thousand-Li. Great Wall.” It’s in fact (事实) more than 6,000 kilometers long. It’s 4-5 meters wide. In most places, five houses or ten men can walk side by side. When you visit the Great Wall, you can’t help wondering (疑惑) how the Chinese people were able to build (建造) such a great wall thousands of years ago. Without any modern machine (机器), it was really very difficult to build it. They had to do all the work by hand. It took millions of men hundreds of years to build it.
The Great Wall has a history of over two thousand years. The kings began to build the first parts of it around two thousand seven hundred years ago. Then, Qin Shihuang had all the walls joined up (连起来). He thought that could keep the enemy (敌人) out of the country.
Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest. Not only Chinese people but also people from all over the world come to visit it.
【小题1】The Great Wall is the biggest of all walls in _______.

A．China

B．Europe（欧洲）

C．the world

D．Asia (亚洲)

【小题2】How long is the Great Wall ?

A．It’s less than six hundred kilometers.

B．It’s more than six million kilometers.

C．It’s six thousand kilometers.

D．It’s over six thousand kilometers.

【小题3】It took ________ men _________ years old to build the Great Wall.

A．millions, millions	B．hundreds of, hundreds of
C．millions of, hundreds	D．hundreds of, millions of

【小题4】The Great Wall was built ________.

A．by people all over the world

B．without any modern machines

C．with some other countries’ help

D．by all Chinese Kings.

Tony Wheeler was born to travel. His father worked for an airline. For the first 16 years of his life，Wheeler and his family lived in many different countries.

In the early 1970s，Wheeler met a young woman named Maureen. They soon married. Before getting jobs， Tony and Maureen wanted to travel. They took a year-long trip from London，through Asia，to Australia. On the trip，they visited places like India， Iran， and Afghanistan.

When Tony and Maureen arrived in Australia，people asked many questions about their trip. To answer these questions，Wheeler wrote a guidebook called Across Asia on the Cheap . The book told people about different countries' weather，customs(风俗），and places to see. But unlike travel guides in the 1970s，Wheeler’s book also talked about places most tourists did not go. He also wrote about unusual things to see and do. The book was very popular．

Wheeler and Maureen started a company called Lonely Planet. They continued travelling. They wrote guidebooks for each place they visited. Today，400 people work for Lonely Planet. The company has over 650 guidebooks. Wheeler still writes about travel “hot spots” (for example，Cambodia in Asia and Croatia in Europe). For more information，read the books!

1.Which trip was Tony Wheeler’s first guidebook about?

A.The United Kingdom.

B.From Asia to England.

C.From Australia to Afghanistan.

D.From England to Australia.

2.Why did Tony Wheeler write his first guidebook?

A.He needed the money.

B.His wife asked him to do it.

C.Many people asked questions about his travels.

D.He liked writing books.

3.How was Across Asia on the Cheap different from other travel guides?

A.It talked about places most tourists did not go .

B. It was longer and more expensive.

C.It told people about a country’s weather，customs，and places to see.

D . It was the first guidebook about Asia .

4.Which sentence below is true?

A.Tony Wheeler still travels and writes guidebooks.

B.Tony Wheeler’s first guidebook was not popular.

C.After their first trip，Maureen did not travel with Tony .

D.Today，Lonely Planet is still a small company.