Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.
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. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages 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 moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?
【小题1】The best title(题目)of the text should be ___.

A．Cities or Villages	B．Back to Towns
C．How Cities Grew	D．People and Animals

【小题2】The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.

A．villages

B．animals

C．cities

D．people

【小题3】When factories were built, ___.

A．more people live near the factories

B．people began to live in the factories

C．many people began to work in villages

D．many machines appeared in big factories

【小题4】We can learn from the text 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

【小题5】In what order did people do the following things?
A. Worked in villages       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

 Mr. Su _____ in Zhuyuan Middle School since 1998. He regards it his second home.

A. lives           B. lived           C. has lived      D. will live

 

People cannot reach an agreement on the use of science and technology. For example, will radiation from electronic equipment destroy the environment? Should medical scientists change gene structures to prevent genetic disease or to create “more perfect” human beings? While people are arguing about these and others, technology continues to influence our everyday lives—the home, health and education, entertainment and communication, and so on.

   Some people carry on active social lives with computers —their own or the ones in public places like cafes, social centers, libraries, and so on. Communicating with others in chat rooms,  computer users can get to know people they might never meet in traditional ways. With live online video connections, two people with cameras in their computers can see and talk to each other from separate places.

   With modern telephone technology, most people stopped writing lettters—especially personal letters and notes. But now, writing to communicate has returned in electronic form, or e-mail, which is a way of sending messages from one computer to another. For some computer users, the wish to communicate intelligently or creatively with others makes them want to write better.

   Computer technology has also made it possible to run a house electronically. From turning lights on and off to starting the coffee and cooking the hot meal, computers are taking care of people at home. Many modern machines have computer chips that allow their owners to program them. For instance, you can “instruct” a microwave oven how to cook a dish. Most entertainment equipment operates with computer technology too. Computers can even start cars automatically so that on cold winter mornings you can get into a warmed-up vehicle and drive off.

   Although much of the technology in our everyday lives has good effects, there are some uses that raise questions. For example, are interactive media ( i.e., a combination of television, telephone, and computer) going to control minds, cause people to forget about family life and personal relationships? What effects will the genentic engineering of food have on people’s health? High-tech medical treatments can make a person live a much longer life, but can they improve the health and happiness of human beings? Only time will tell, but, in the meantime, science and technology will continue to move forward. 

1. What does the underlined word “ chips” mean?

A. thin pieces of potatoes  B. small holes    C. small pieces of wood   D. central parts

2.We can know from the passage that _________.

   A. technology never stops changing our everyday lives 

   B. with computers each of us can live a comfortable life

   C. people can do more activities with computers

   D. the more you use computers, the better you might write

3.What can we infer from the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A. The longer you live, the happier you are.

B. High-tech medical treatments can’t improve our health and happiness.  

C. High-tech medical treatments can’t help us with everything.

D.The writer questioned high-tech medical treatments somehow.

4.What is the best title for the passage?

   A. Science and New Technology        B. Computers Change Our Lives

   C. Everyday Uses of Technology        D. Only Time Will Tell

 

Do you know where _________ now？

A．he lives

B．does he live

C．he lived

D．did he live

 

Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.

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. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages 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 moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?

1.The best title(题目)of the text 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 live near the factories

B．people began to live in the factories

C．many people began to work in villages

D．many machines appeared in big factories

4.We can learn from the text 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 villages       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