I wonder whether there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky. It is so beautiful.

There is a story, saying that whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold. Of course it is not true. You could not find the pot of gold or its end. No matter how far you run, it always seems far away.

A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower. It is only the effect of light shining on raindrops. The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colours which we see. It is called a rainbow perhaps because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow（弓).

That is why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky. We see a rainbow only when there is rain in the air and the sun is shining brightly through the clouds.

Every rainbow has many colours in the same order. The first or the top colour is always red, and the next comes orange, then yellow, and last of all, blue. A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.

1.Children like rainbows because          .

A．they are beautiful

B．they are like bows

C．they can find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow

D．they are good to crops

2.We cannot feel          with our hands.

A．a pot of gold       B．a flower           C．a rainbow         D．a raindrop

3.We can see a rainbow          .

A．when it is raining heavily

B．when it is snowing

C．when it is cloudy

D．when it is becomes fine shortly after raining

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．A rainbow is like bow.

B．A rainbow is the effect of light shining on raindrops.

C．Every rainbow has different colours in different orders.

D．A rainbow is one of the wonders of nature.

5.The first colour of a rainbow is always           .

A．yellow            B．red              C．green            D．blue

A sign is another kind of language. Here are some of them that you see on the roads.

Number one is a sign with the number thirty on it. When drivers see this sign , they must not go at more than thirty kilometers can hour. We see this sign when we are getting near a town. Number two is a sign that we're near a crossing. We must drive carefully. Number three is a sign that there is a bend in the road. Again, we must drive slowly and carefully. It is not safe to go round a bend very fast. Number four is a sign that there is another road coming in from the right. There is a junction at this place. Number five is a sign that there is a hill and number six is a sign that the road gets narrow. Drivers must go slowly and carefully. Number seven has the word “ SCHOOL” on it. This is a sign that there is a school at the side of the street or the road. Perhaps there are children going to or leaving school. So drivers must look carefully and go slowly. Number eight is a sign with the letter “ P ” on it. The letter “ P ” means “ Parking ”. At some places, there're the signs “ No parking ” or “ No waiting”. If a driver leaves his car near one of these signs, a policeman may come and write down the number of his car.

1.At the places where you see Sign 1,        .

  A. you are already out of a town

  B. you still have thirty kilometers to go

  C. there must be many houses and buildings not far away

  D. there must be a town thirty k8ilometers away

2.The underlined word bend probably means         here.

  A. traffic        B. subway

  C. turning       D. danger

3.You have to drive not only slowly but also carefully when you find        .

  A. each of the eight signs

  B. either of Signs 2 and 3

  C. all of Signs 2, 4, 6 and 7

  D. any of Signs 3, 5, 6 and 7

4.People put these signs on the road in order to        .

  A. teach drivers lesson

  B. make drivers even safer

  C. stop cars going there

  D. learn another kind of language

5.Which can be the best title for this message?

  A. Another language.

  B. On the road.

  C. What to do.

  D. Traffic signs.

根据短文内容，选择正确的选项。
The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means(交流方式). Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It’s bad to all living things in the world, but it is not only one kind of pollution. Water pollution kills fish and pollutes drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air.
The pollution of SO2 is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is mostly caused by heavy traffic. It is certain that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means keeping the land, water and air clean. And we must try to control the growth of population at the same time.
【小题1】Our world is becoming much smaller .

Some people have very good memories(记忆力) and can easily learn quite long poem（诗歌） by heart. Some people have  1 memories and can only remember things that they have said again and again.
The  2 English writer Charles Dickens said that he could walk down  3  street in London and then tell you the name of every shop on  4 sides of the street. Great men in the world have wonderful memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns  5   own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign（外国的） countries and they seem  6 two languages as easily as one. At school it is not so easy to learn foreign languages  7 students have little time for it and they are busy with other subjects as well.
A man's mind is quite like a camera but it 8  photos of what we see and it can also take photos of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much work 9  before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends.  10  the same way there is much work to do before we can keep a picture forever（永远）in our mind.

Who's building the new China? It's not the factory owners or the business men and women of China. It's someone else. We see them every day, They work day and night in the terrible working conditions and weather. They build the roads, the theaters, the cinemas and the supermarkets. They even clean up our rubbish. They are China’s migrant workers(民工).

More than 140 million workers have left their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in big cities all over China. They hope to be rich, but they realize they have many difficulties in making enough money. And one of the difficulties that these workers have is the pride and discrimination (歧视) from the people in cities. When night falls, everywhere I look I see the sad faces of the migrant workers. Many are living far away from those whom they love. Yes，they dress differently, they speak differently, and they have different habits, but they work hard .The people in cities regard them as outsiders, and most governments refuse to give them medical care and public schooling for their children. If China hopes to move into the future, many things need to change. The first is discrimination! We need to stop our discrimination against the migrant workers of China! They may not make as much money as some people in cities, but they are good honest people just trying to survive this game of life. These workers are very important and necessary to China’s economic (经济) development and have become an important force for the change of Chinese society. They are building the new China, so we should help them.

1.The journalist think __________ is building the new China.

2.Which is the best title for the fourth and fifth paragraphs?

3.The    word “survive” here in Chinese means “________”.

4.Which one is NOT TRUE about China's migrant workers according to the report?

5.What does the report mainly tell us?   .