Chinatown is the name given to an area in the middle of London. It is just between Leicester Square and Shaftsbury Avenue. Gerrard Street is at the center and is the most important street in the area. There is a large Chinese community (社区) with a lot of Chinese restaurants, Chinese supermarkets and shops in this street.
In the 1950s, it was a poor area and everything was very cheap. At the same time, the world rice market changed and thousands of farm workers in Hong Kong lost their jobs. They began arriving in London to look for work. They found jobs in the restaurants in this area. Many British (英国的) people like Chinese food, and the restaurants were popular.
These restaurant workers often worked 17 hours a day and had no time to learn English. As more Chinese arrived, more shops and businesses grew up. Wives came and joined their husbands, and children came and joined their fathers. The community grew, and Chinatown was born.
In the 1970s and 1980s, British-born Chinese started to have a better education and this brought economic (经济的) success to the area. Many families moved out of Chinatown, and there was more space for businesses. Gerrard Street became a street only for visitors and was soon a popular place for tourists.
Now everyone knows about London’s Chinatown. During the Chinese New Year, the streets are seen with national flags and thousands of Chinese go into the streets. For most of the year, though, Londoners and tourists go there mainly for the food in the Chinese restaurants. The best restaurants are the ones where the Chinese eat.
【小题1】Is this Chinatown in the middle of London?
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【小题2】How was the area in the 1950s?
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【小题3】Why did the restaurant workers have no time to learn English?
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【小题4】When did British-born Chinese start to have a better education?
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【小题5】What is the topic of this article?
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Once there lived a man in a small town. He often said, “If I have lots of gold(黄金), I shall be the happiest man in the world.” One day he was traveling in North Africa. He lost his way and he was so hungry and thirsty that he couldn’t walk any more. There were only stones and sand around. Just then he saw a bag on the sand. He took it up. But when he opened it, he saw it was full of gold. He left the bag on the sand and cried, “What is the use of gold to a hungry man?”

1. What did the traveler love best?

A. Food        B. Drinks      C. Stones         D. Gold

2.When he lost his ways in the desert(沙漠) of North Africa, __________.

A. he had nothing to eat or to drink    

B. he saw a bag full of stones and sand

C. he was happy to find a bag of gold   

D. he found a bag full of drinks

3.“He lost his way” means____________________.

A. “he didn’t know where he was and where to go

B. “he didn’t know where he came from”

C. “he didn’t know how to return home”  

D. “he lost what he had on the way”

4.When he found a bag full of gold he felt______________.

A. happy      B. hungry     C. thirsty      D. sad

5.What’s the most useful to a hungry man? _____________.

A. Food       B. Gold      C. Drink      D. Stones

It’s reported that a company called MicroCHIPS has developed a wirelessly controlled device(装置). The device is put under the skin and can supply a drug directly into the patient’s body. People give the name “microchips” to it.
Microchips bring good news to patients with long-term( 长期的) illnesses, for example, Osteoporosis( 骨质疏松症). People with Osteoporosis have to get daily injections( 注射) of medicine. One type of treatment requires injections for two years. Many patients stop taking the medicine because of the pain and stress of the infections. However, microchips can deal with it. Doctors will program the device before putting it under the skin, and the device has the ability to release(释放) a dose (剂量) at a given time, every single day. One microchip can hold a full year’s worth of medicine.
Microchips may one day free (使…… 摆脱)people from having to remember to take their medicine, or get injections. The device may also be useful in treating other long-term diseases, including heart disease, cancer and even AIDS.
【小题1】What is the passage mainly about?

A film star’s day
--Good morning, Miss Winters. What are you going to do today?
--I am going to swim for half an hour first, and then I’m going to have breakfast at ten o’clock with my producer Frank Zinc. Then the photographers will take pictures for a newspaper. In the afternoon I’m going to do some shopping.(1)I’m going to try on some new clothes for my next movie.    (2) five o’clock I’m going to sleep for one   (2)  two hours, because at seven o’clock I’m going to have supper with a good friend. We are going dancing at the King Club…but I hope you aren’t going to write that in your newspaper. We are only good friends. And then I’m going to bed at about eleven o’clock.
--Ok, thank you.
【小题1】将(1)句译成汉语。
【小题2】将(2)句空白处填上恰当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺：____________ _________
【小题3】回答问题。What is Miss Winters going to do at seven o’clock?
【小题4】在文中找出与but I hope you won’t tell others about that in your newspaper.
意思相近的句子
【小题5】写出最能表达该短文主题的句子或短语。

用括号中所给词的适当形式填空，使语篇意思完整。（共10个小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

   Our neighborhood 1._______ ( use ) to be very quiet. However, these days strange things are happening in our neighborhood and everyone is2._____ ( happy ) .Zhou Gu , the local school teacher, is extremely 3.____( worry ). When he 4._____ ( interview ) by the local newspaper, he said, “every night we hear strange 5._____( noise ) outside our window. My wife thinks that it could be an animal, but my friends and I think it must be teenagers6.______ ( have ) fun. My parents called the police, but they can’t find 7.______( something ) strange. They think it might be the wind. I don’t think so!”

Zhou Gu’s next door neighbor Qi Hui is sad too. “At 8.____( one ), I thought it might be a dog, but I can’t see a dog and I still hear the sound outside.” Everyone 9._____( have ) his or her own ideas. There must be something 10._____ ( visit ) the homes in our neighborhood , but what is it?