The 29th Olympic Games will be held in our country in 2008. As a great many people will visit our country, the government（政府）will build new hotels, a large stadium（体育馆）and a fine new swimming pool. They will also build new roads. The games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area（地区）will be called “Olympic City” Workers will build a railway and some new roads by the end of 2005. The fine modern buildings have been designed（设计）by the best designers.

　　The people, old and young, in the capital are getting ready for the Olympic Games by learning English. We will be very glad to see the new buildings go up. We are very ex cited and looking forward to the Olympic Games because for our country, it is the first time to hold the Games

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A．a new road will be finished

B．a large number of people is visiting our country

C．many new roads and railway lines will be built

D．a lot of new buildings will be built

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A．are being held in our country

B．will be held in our country for the first time

C．are held in our country every four years

D．will be held in our country after 2008

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A．is busy building roads

B．is studying English

C．is designing buildings

D．is having sports and games

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A．building

B．stadium

C．Olympic City

D．Olympic Games

(5)“Go up”in the last passage means ________.

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Read the passage and choose the proper words to fill in the blanks. 阅读短文, 选择合适的词语, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

　　Jim Green is an announcer (播音员) for the program. Most of the girls and boys like the program. They (1) ________ like Jim Green. Some of them often make phone calls to him and thank him for his work. There are lots of letters to him every day, too.

　　Jim Green gets up at 6:00 every morning. He has bread and a glass of milk (2) ________breakfast. He leaves home at 6:30 and (3) ________ his office at 7:15.

　　The program (4) ________ at 7:30. He plays the new records (唱片) of pop songs and modern music for his listeners. At 8:00 it's time for the news.

　　Jim finishes work at 10:30. He goes home (5) ________ his car. He reads newspapers and listens to music after supper.

　　He thinks his life is very interesting.

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Complete the following dialogues with proper sentences in the box(选出适当的句子，完成下列对话，用A、B、C或D表示)

A．What are you good at?

B．Let me have a try.

C．You'd better take part in sports as often as possible.

D．Our teacher was proud of me.

E．Sports help people to train character.

F．Don't give up.

G．I can't decide on which item to enter for.

　　A：Have you entered for any event?

　　B：No, not yet. 1 Because I am not good at sports.

　　A： 2

　　B：I am good at writing. Last year I won the first prize in the contest. 3

　　A： 4

　　B：I agree with you 5

　　A：How about the long jump? It's very easy for you.

　　B：OK. 6

1．________ 2．________ 3．________ 4．________ 5．________ 6．________

Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　A driver stopped his car on the pavement to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed his eyes, a man came up and knocked at his window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It's 3 p.m.” he said. Then he went to sleep again. But soon he woke up because another man was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have the time?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 3:10.

　　The driver was really annoyed. If it went on, he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and stuck it on the window for all to see. It said, “I don't have the time.” Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later a third person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said. “It's half past three.”

Choose the best answer. 选择最恰当的答案, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

(1) The driver stopped his car on the pavement to ________.

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A．have a break

B．have a meal

C．have a drink

D．have some rice

(2) The first two men knocked at the window because they

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A．didn't want the driver to stop the car on the pavement

B．wanted to wake up the driver

C．wanted to have a rest

D．wanted to know what time it was

(3) The third man knocked at the window because he

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A．didn't want the driver to stop the car on the pavement

B．wanted to tell the time with the driver

C．wanted to tell the driver about the time

D．wanted to know what time it was

(4) The driver was ________ to be woken up.

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A．pleased

B．glad

C．unhappy

D．sorry

(5) That day the man ________ in his car.

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A．had a good rest

B．could hardly sleep

C．didn't want to sleep

D．slept for a long time

Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. 选择最恰当的单词或词语, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

　　Do you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their (1) .

　　The Eskimos live near the North Pole. There are only two seasons there: winter and summer. There is no spring (2) autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never (3) .

　　The Eskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and shoes.

　　Near the North pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, stones or snow. When they (4) in a storm and can't get back home, they make houses of snow. They (5) these snow houses when the storm is over.

　　Life is hard for the Eskimos, but they still (6) to live there.

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