The longest river in the world is in Africa. It is called the Nile River. It begins in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, and goes into the Mediterranean Sea(地中海).

　　The second longest river is in South America. It is called the Amazon River. It travels through very thick forests where some native people live without seeing civilized(文明的) people. They live off the land. They hunt and fish for meat, gather wild fruits and vegetables, collect nuts from trees, and use plants for medicine.

　　The third longest river is the Yangtze River in China. It begins in Tibet and travels through a narrow channel called Three Gorges(陕谷) in Sichuan and Hubei province. It goes through the large city of Wuhan in Hubei province and goes into the Pacific Ocean near Shanghai.

American’s largest river is the Mississippi River. Another river called the Missouri River begins in the Rocky Mountains(落基山脉) and flows into the Mississippi. This river goes into the Gulf(湾) of Mexico which is part of the Atlantic Ocean(大西洋).

Other large rivers are the Columbia River, the Yellow River, etc． There are five large lakes on the border(边境) between Canada and the USA． The largest is called Lake Superior. The others are Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Erie and Lake Huron. These are called the Great Lakes.

1．what are the for longest rivers in the world?

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A．The Nile River, the Amazon River, the Yangtze River and the Missouri River .

B．The Nile River, the Amazon River, the Yangtze River and the Mississippi River .

C．The Nile River, the Mississippi River, the Columbia River, and Amazon River .

D．The Nile River, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Amazon Rive r .

2．The Amazon River is the 1 longest river in 2 .

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A．second, south America

B．third, Africa

C．second, the world

C．second Asia

3．Which of the following is right?

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A．The Yangtze River begins in Sichuan and goes into the Atlantic Ocean.

B．The Yangtze River goes through the large city in Hunan and flows into the Pacific Ocean.

C．The Missouri River is the longest river in North America

D．The longest river in North America is the Mississippi River.

4．They hunt and fish for meat. What does “hunt” mean?

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A．take good care of

B．do something important

C．catch or get animals for food

D．get along well

5．Which is the largest of the five Great Lakes in the North of America?

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根据汉语完成句子。(请将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。)

1.古代中国各诸侯国之间经常发生战争。

Ancient China was a place ____________ states were often __________  ___________  _________  each other.

2.居民醒来时，看到昏黄的天空，狂风夹着黄沙在城里肆虐。

Citizens __________  ___________  __________ an orange sky and strong winds that __________ the city in a thick, brown-yellow dust.

3.它们能毁掉房子，却把房内的家具留在原处。

They can destroy houses, but _________ the furniture inside exactly _________ _________ ________.

4.因“沙漠化”越发严重，中国近年来发生沙尘暴的次数明显增加了。

Sandstorms in China __________  __________ ___________ __________ in recent years as a result of “desertification”.

5.龙卷风能卷起汽车、火车、甚至房子，把它们卷到旁边的街道----甚至能卷到邻近的城镇。

Tornadoes can __________  _________ cars, trains and even houses and __________ them ________ in the next street ---or even in the next town.

With the country’s population reaching 1.6 billion in the mid of this century, most of China’s rivers, including the Yellow River, ________

1. A.
   is drying up
2. B.
   will be drying up
3. C.
   dry up
4. D.
   have dried up

You can’t miss him. He_____ a dark green suit and a yellow tie waiting for you then.

A .is wearing        B will wear          C. wears         D. will be wearing

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　　It is ten o'clock at night and you are outside. You can see many stars in the sky. Each star is another sun. The sky is big, and it hag many suns.

　　Our sun is near to us. It warms us and gives us light in daytime. The stars are not near. We can see their light only at night, and they do not warm us.

　　The stars are not all the same. Many stars are quite like our sun. They are the same size, and they have the same colour, yellow. Other stars are bigger or smaller. A “giant(巨人)” star is very, very big. A “dwarf(侏儒)”is a small star—smaller than the sun.

　　Stars have different colours, too. They can be blue, orange, yellow, white or red. There are giants and dwarfs in all these colours. All stars are, of course, very hot. The hottest stars are the blue ones. White stars come next, they are less hot. Then yellow and orange stars are less hot again. Red stars are the least hot, and they are also the oldest stars.

　　Light moves very quickly across the sky, eighteen million (18,000,000)kilometers in a minute. Our nearest star is a red dwarf. Its name is Proxima Centauri ( proxima ＝ nearest), and it gives a weak, red light. We can just see this light. It left Proxima Centauri 4.25 years ago, and now tonight, it is reaching cur eyes. Think about it! In one minute, 18,000,000 kilometres. So, in 4.25 years—well, how many kilometers? You can find the answer yourself.

　　I will just say this: Proxima Centauri is a long way from us.

1．According to the temperatures on stars, the right order from the lowest temperature to the highest is ________.

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A．red→yellow→white→blue

B．orange→red→blue→white

C．blue→white→yellow→red

D．white→blue→orange→red

2．All the following am right except ________.

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A．a “dwarf” is smaller than the sun

B．there are dwarfs in different colours

C．a “dwarf” is a small star

D．dwarfs are the least hot

3．How far away is the star Proxima Centauri from us?

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A．40,208,400,000,000 kilometres.

B．9,460,800,000,000 kilometres.

C．679,140,000,000 kilometres .

D．279,225,000,000 kilometres .

4．When we say “The star Procyon is ‘ten light years’ away.”, we mean ________.

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A．we can reach the star in ten years

B．we first saw the star ten years ago

C．the light left Procyon ten years ago

D．Procyon has been that far away for ten years