At Beijing’s Beihai Park, there is a good place for visitors. Right now, there’s a lotus(莲花) scene on the park’s lake. ★Enjoying the lotus by boat is a great thing that tourists in Beijing don’t want to miss.
　　Beihai Park’s lotus festival is in its 13th year. The festival came to a stop in 1998 because of a conflict(冲突) between the flower and the fish. It started again in 2006. The park was once a place where the royals(王室) came to enjoy the lotus.
　　The Beihai Park lotus festival runs until August the 10th. A lotus festival is also featured at the Lian Hua Chi, or the Lotus Pond Park in the west of Beijing.
　　Telephone: 86010-64033225
　　Address: No.1, Wenjin Street, Beijing, China
　　Bus: 5, 101, 103, 107, 109, 111, 701, 814, 823, 846
　　Opening Hours: 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
51. When can we come to Beihai Park to see the lotus festival? ____.
　A. In August　　 B. In September　 C. In October　 D. In November
52. From which year did the festival stop for some time? ____.
　A. 2008　　　　 B. 2006　　　　　 C. 2003　　　 D. 1998
53. How many buses can take us to Beihai Park? ____.
　A. Eight　　　 B. Nine　　 　　　C. Ten　　　　 D. Eleven
54. Where can we see lotus in Beijing? ____.
　A. In Beihai Park　 B. In Lian Hua Chi　　 C. In Lotus Pond Park　 D. All the above
55. According to the passage, we can know that ____.
　 A. the tourists don’t like the lotus at all

　　 B. Beihai Park’s lotus festival has a 13-year history
　 C. the Lotus Pond Park is in the east of Beijing
　 D. the lotus festival lasts until August 12th

A thousand years ago Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and more people came to 　31　 in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is　32　 forest left, though there are still some small areas covered with trees. We call these woods.

　　Elephants, tigers and many　33　 animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the　34　 began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and　35　 pigs and chickens in the valleys. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed　36　 to keep themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough food for them. 　37　 did most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon　38　 in the same way.

　　You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong　39　 in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals　40　 there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kong's animals is the barking deer. These are beautiful little animals　41　 a rich brown coat and a white patch (补丁) under the tail. They look like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet　42　. They make a noise rather like a dog　43　. In Hong Kong the barking deer has only a real enemy--　44　. People hunt these little animals though it is illegal (违法的). There are now not many barking deer left. So it is important　45　 people to protect wild animals.

There are many different kinds of cars in the world. My aunt thinks this is because cars are ____1­  their drivers. She says, “Rich people have expensive cars, big people have large cars, and old people drive old cars.” But I don't 2 her.
　　My neighbour, Mrs. Hill, is 82 years old. She drives only on Tuesday, and she drives only to the bank. She 3   drives more than 30 kilometres an hour. Do you think Mrs. Hill has a very   ­­­­­___4   and small car? No, her car is new. It's very large, and it _5  go 200 kilometres for each hour!
My friend is 6  . He draws beautiful pictures with lots of colours. But his car is black! Mrs. Bates has a very, very old one. There is often something 7 with the car. Does she drive that kind of car because she is poor? No, she has four factories and 8   dollars in the bank. My aunt Mary has a very 9 car, though she drives to the country with her husband, her two children, her mother and their dog.
Now you have 10    my friends and their cars. Do you agree with my aunt? Maybe you have a car. Does it say anything about you?

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.
　　A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars , and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.