No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.

    People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew very big. When machines appeared (出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.

    Today some people are back to small towns. Can you tell why?

1. The best title (题目) of the passage should be ________.

    A. Cities or Villages 　　　　　　　　    B. Back to Towns

  C. How Cities Grew 　　　　　　　　   D. People and Animals

2. The underlined word “they” in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ________.

    A. villages　　　　　　  B. animals　　   C. cities　　　　　　　　 D. people

3. When factories were built ________.

    A. more people lived near the factories

    B. people began to live in the factories

    C. many people began to work in village

    D. many machines appeared in big factories

4. We can learn from the passage that ________.

    A. people like to work only in big cities

    B. some people don’t like to live in big cities

    C. there will be no small towns in the future (将来)

    D. it is better to live in cities than in villages

5. In what order did people do the following things?

a. Worked in village.　　　　　　　　　　　　   b. Lived near the factories.

c. Learned to grow food.　　　　　　　　　　　　   d. Built factories.

e. Began to live near each other.

    A. d, b, a, e, c　　    B. e, a, c, d, b　　    C. c, e, a, d, b　　    D. a, c, d, e, b

　　Is there a park ________ the neighborhood?

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　　Is there a strange something high up in the world's tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?

　　No one knows. This mystery (谜) has puzzled (困惑) the world for years.

　　In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints (脚印) in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don't walk without shoes in the snow In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very quickly.

　　Fifteen years later, newspapers, had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “Snowman” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.

　　From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape (猿) man? The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Someday we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.

(1) The passage is about ________.

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A．some mountain climbers

B．some strange animals

C．some large footprints

D．the mystery of the Snowman

(2) Why were people interested in the footprints?

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A．They were footprints of a large bear.

B．They looked like the footprints of a large man.

C．They were found in the snow.

D．They were found in the world's tallest mountains.

(3) The pictures of large footprints were taken by a mountainclimber in ________.

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(4) Why did the mystery grow when a mountain climber brought back pictures of large footprints?

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A．They were footprints of an ape man.

B．They were footprints of a snowman.

C．The pictures showed clearly how the Snowman walked.

D．The pictures showed clearly how an ape man walked on two legs.

(5) Since a mountain climber first found the large footprints in the snow, the mystery of the Snowman has puzzled the world for ________ years.

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A．one hundred and seventeen

B．ninety-five

C．eighty

D．fifty

　　“Is there a river near here?”she asks her mother on the first morning. Her mother answers,“No, there isn't, but there's a nice park near and there's a pool（池塘）in it. We're going there this afternoon.”Sarah is happy now.

　　After lunch Sarah and her mother go to the park. Sarah wants to walk near the pool, but there is a sign before it. Her mother reads it to her,“Warning: This pool is dangerous（危险）. 367 people fell（落）into it.”Sarah looks into the pool carefully, and she says,“But I can't see any of them.”

A．Sarah's family move to the big city.

B．There are 367 people in the pool.

C．Sarah fell into the pool.

阅读理解：

　　Is there a strange something high up in the world's tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear(熊)? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man? No one knows. This mystery(谜) has puzzled(困惑)the worried for years. In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints(脚印)in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don't walk without shoes in the snow!

　　In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very quickly. Fifteen years later, newspapers had new stories about the“something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the snow man“walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man. From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape(猿) man? The mystery grew And the mystery keeps growing. Someday we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.

The passage is mainly about ________.

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A．some mountain climbers

B．some strange animals

C．some large footprints

D．the mystery of the Snowman