Two thousand years ago，beside the beautiful and rich Loulan Lake，there lay Loulan ancient city of the Silk Road．Businessmen from every country gathered here and there were lots of dancing parties小题1:
However，two thousand years later，this rich land suddenly disappeared from the map of China 小题2: 
Loulan was first “discovered” by a Swedish man，Sven Hedin，in 1900．People from other countries all began to come here小题3: He visited and studied this area and found many relics (遗迹)that were beautifully and carefully made．
It is recorded that the ancient city of Loulan was the capital of Loulan Kingdom during the Han and Jin Dynasties (朝代)，and covered an area of about 100,000m²． 小题4:  Outside the city，there are some dried rivers and much farmland．In the past century，many coins，mirrors and other things from Greek and Roman have been dug out there．小题5:
The Loulan Kingdom is now a lifeless area with endless “forests” of mounds (小丘）which aren’t easily seen in other parts of the world．So people from many countries have been interested in this place．
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A．All these things show that business between East and West once took place there．

B．People in Loulan lived a rich life then．

C．Inside the city there are government offices and other old buildings．

D．Then it became an area covered with sand and dead trees．

E．Then a Chinese named Huang Wenbi came to Loulan．

The future is coming! All over the world there are many new ideas for new places to live and work in. Some of them will be in the sea! They will be very big and lots of people will live and work in them. The Americans are planning to build a town called Atlantis City. It will be in the sea, about five miles away from the land. But the most exciting idea comes from Japan. It is Aeropolis. Aeropolis will be a huge sea city, with parks, schools, a hospital and an airport(飞机场)... And it will move(移动)! It will travel slowly around the world. There are just two problems. Aeropolis will cost a lot of money to make. And for people who get seasick, it won’t be much fun.
小题1:Which country will plan to build a town in the sea?

A．America.

B．England.

C．China.

D．Japan.

小题2:What’s the name of Japanese sea city?

A．Atlantis.

B．Aeropolis.

C．Tokyo.

D．Osaka.

小题3:What does the underlined word “huge” mean?

A．Very small.

B．Very long.

C．Very big.

D．Very short.

小题4:“Aeropolis will cost a lot of money to make” means “                ”.

A．Aeropolis will be very cheap to build

B．People will spend much money to build Aeropolis

C．It will take little money to build Aeropolis

D．To build Aeropolis will cost little money

小题5:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Sea cities will be holiday towns.

B．Sea cities will be on the land.

C．There are already two sea cities.

D．Sea cities will be go around the world.

“Where is the university（大学）?”This is a question that many visitors to Cambridge(剑桥大学) ask. But no one can give them a         answer, for no one can find any walls        the university. The university is the city. You can find classroom buildings,         , museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and          of the thirty-one colleges.    
Cambridge was         a common town before the first students and teachers         800 years ago. It grew up by the river Cranta, and the river was once         the Cam. A          was built over the river as early as 875. So the town got its name “Cambridge”.    
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much         in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now there are over 100,000 people in it. Many young students in
other countries         to study at Cambridge. It has become a well-known place all around the world.   

小题1:	A．true B．clear C．right D．real

小题2:	A．on B．around C．near D．by

小题3:	A．libraries B．parks C．zoos D．markets

小题4:	A．parents B．farmers C．workers D．teachers

小题5:	A．yet B．already C．very D．also

小题6:	A．reached B．got C．arrived D．arrived in

小题7:	A．said B．called C．spoken D．talked

小题8:	A．bridge B．building C．station D．house

小题9:	A．smaller B．slower C．faster D．cleaner

小题10:

A．stop B．hate C．dream D．need

Weekends are important for us. We can relax ourselves. Do you know what Americans in the early twentieth century (1900～1925) did on weekends? What do you do on weekends now? In the early twentieth century, people spent lots of time at home on weekends. Then, new inventions changed the weekends.
*People used electric streetcars to travel in the cities. On weekends, they rode the streetcars to the parks. Young people like roller coasters.
* The first movie lasted only one minute. In the 1920s, movie theaters sold millions of tickets each week! In 1927, movies finally had sound. Sometimes people stayed at home and listened to another new invention —the radio.
* People in cities worked indoors during the weekdays, so they wanted to be outdoors on weekends. Bicycling became a popular activity.
* Now there are more inventions in our life. People have more time and money, too. So they have many ways to spend their weekends.
* People travel by their own cars. Or they can visit big parks like Disney World and ride modern roller coasters and go higher and faster than ever before. *
They can choose from lots of different movie theatres. Or they can watch videos at home.
* More and more people begin to do all kinds of sports at gym.
Others turn on their TV and watch sports on "Family Night".
小题1:Before 1927, __________.

A．people can watch videos at home

B．the movie had sound

C．People could go to the movie theatres to see movies

D．people could watch sports on "Family Night"

小题2:Long time ago, people spent their weekends __________.

A．at home	B．in the theatres
C．outdoors	D．in Disney World

小题3:Which is a popular activity in the early twentieth century?

A．Watching TV	B．Riding the electric streetcars
C．Listening to the radio	D．Bicycling

小题4:The underlined word "lasted" means          .

A．began

B．was over

C．played

D．spoke

小题5:Which is TRUE about the weekends in America?

A．They still see movies without sound now.

B．They didn't go outside in the early twentieth.

C．The weekends are not the same in different times.

D．They don't go to the parks any more now.

Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?
Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!
In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!
To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”
Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.
小题1:Why was Lara’s success special?

A．She was just a little girl.	B．She was the 2002 champion.
C．She was from Germany.	D．She remembered more words.

小题2:What is true about Mr. Tomoyori?

A．He found pi easy to remember.

B．His memory was the best in the world.

C．He used stories to help remember words.

D．He only made one mistake while saying pi.

小题3:Who remembered the greatest numbers according to the passage?

A．Andi.

B．Lara.

C．Mr. Goto.

D．Mr. Tomoyori.

 Jeans have become one piece of clothing worn by the most people in the world. Everybody wears them, from the farmer to the lawyer and from models to housewives. But why have jeans become so popular？You’ll get many answers. For some people they look cool, for others jeans are just comfortable. 
Jeans were first stronger trousers made for farm workers in the states of the American west. In the eastern part of the US jeans were hardly worn at all. They were connected with farm people and the workers. So the rich wouldn’t like to wear them. 
It was James Dean and Marlon Brando that made them popular in movies and everyone started to wear them. They were a symbol of the rebellion of young people during the 1950s and 1960s. So these new trousers were not allowed in American schools and sometimes in theatres and cinemas. As time went on，jeans became more acceptable. American people in Europe and Japan often wore them when they were not on duty to show that they were Americans. The trousers showed the world a happier way of life, something that people needed, especially after what they had gone through in World War II. 
Jeans had other advantages as well. They didn’t need to be washed as often as other trousers and women didn’t need to iron them. This became more important as more and more women started working and had less time for housework. 
Today jeans are an important part of our lives. They are always washed a few times before they are sold to give them a faded look. 
小题1:Jeans first appeared ___________.

A．in eastern America	B．in western America
C．in Middle America	D．all over America

小题2:From the passage, we can know that James Dean and Marlon Brando were              .

A．film stars	B．Jeans makers
C．young students	D．farmers or workers

小题3:What is the possible meaning of the underlined “rebellion” in this passage?

A．奢侈

B．活力

C．清纯

D．反叛

小题4:Which of the following was a possible advantage of jeans to women?

A．They could easily be bought anywhere in the world.

B．They didn’t need to be washed often or ironed.

C．They had many different styles and colors.

D．They were comfortable and easy to wash.

小题5:What is the best title of the passage?

A．Jeans --- Symbol of Wealth

B．Jeans --- Working Women’s Best Choice

C．Jeans --- Popular Piece of Clothing in Our Daily Life

D．Jeans --- Part of the Lives of Farm People and Workers

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.
For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war (战争). By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.
About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn’t have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.
A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The Green Revolution (革命) is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的) scientists who had green thumbs.
小题1:According to the passage, a greenhorn means________ now.

A．a young cow or ox whose horns have not yet developed

B．a soldier who has not had any experience in war

C．a person who is new in a job

D．a man who doesn’t have the skills to live in the country

小题2:The meaning of the underlined word “ripe” in the second paragraph is ________.

A．未完成的

B．成熟的

C．青涩的

D．老练的

小题3:Which of the following about the Green Revolution is NOT right?

A．If there weren’t the Green Revolution, we would have no rice to eat.

B．The expression “the Green Revolution” appeared several years ago.

C．Because of the Green Revolution, we have more kinds of rice and other grains.

D．Agricultural scientists with green thumbs started the Green Revolution.

小题4:We can know from the passage that _______.

A．all growing plants is green

B．green is the most important color in nature

C．a person with a green thumb can make plants grow well

D．the expression “a green thumb” has a history of two hundred years

小题5:The main idea of the passage is ________.

A．a greenhorn	B．a green thumb
C．the Green Revolution	D．the word “green” and its story

Two Chinese spacecrafts successfully completed China’s first space docking (对接) early November 3, 2011, which has taken the country a step closer to building its own space station.

Nearly two days after its launch, the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII docked with the space lab module Tiangong I more than 343 km above the earth surface. Shenzhou VIII and Tiangong I took apart after flying together for 12 days. On the 14th of November, the two spacecrafts finished the second docking. Then Shenzhou VIII parted from Tiangong I again and returned to the earth safely on the 17th. Tiangong I is still traveling around the earth in the space, waiting for the arrival of Shenzhou IX and X and so on in the near future.
That marked another great leap for China’s space program and made China the third country in the world, after the United States and Russia, master the space docking technique (空间对接技术).
The world’s first space docking was achieved in 1966, when the manned U.S, spacecraft Gemini 8 docked with an unmanned Agena Target Vehicle. Space docking is necessary to explore space beyond Earth’s orbit (轨道). “The capability increases China’s ability to act independently in space, as well as its ability to work together with others,” said Gregory Kulacki, a U.S. space scientist and senior analyst.
“With the success of its first space docking, China is now equipped with the basic technology and ability required for the construction of a space station,” said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China’s manned space program.” The country is on its way to building a permanent manned space station around 2020.”
小题1:What did the success of the first space docking mean to China?

A．China has caught up with the United States in the space exploration field.

B．China took a step closer to building its own space station.

C．China became the first country to master the space docking technique.

D．China has the ability to build a permanent manned space station right now.

小题2:What does the underlined word “That” in the third paragraph refer to?

A．Shenzhou VIII

B．Tiangong I

C．The Space Station

D．The success of China’s first space docking

小题3:What can we learn from the passage? 

A．Tiangong I will fly in the space for 12 days.

B．The first space docking of the world was achieved in 1966, by Russians.

C．Without space docking technique people can’t explore space beyond Earth’s orbit.

D．The U.S.A helped China achieve the first space docking.

小题4:Which of the following statements is Not True?

A．Shenzhou VIII docked with the space lab module Tiangong I on November 3, 2011

B．Shenzhou VIII returned to the earth safely on November 17, 2011.

C．The USA , Russia and China have mastered the space docking technique

D．Tiangong I is still traveling around the earth, waiting for the arrival of Shenzhou IX and X around 2020.

小题5:What’s the passage mainly about?

A．The first space docking of China.

B．The history of space docking.

C．The first space docking of the world.

D．The space docking technique

  A turkey named Courage gave thanks to President Obama for saving his life on the day before Thanksgiving. Honouring a 62-year-old tradition, the President pardoned(赦免)the bird on Thanksgiving eve.
The tradition of a turkey pardon at Thanksgiving began with President Truman in 1947. Courage comes from Ellsworth, Iowa. The name Courage was chosen by voters (投票人)who took part in a survey posted on the White House website. The lucky turkey walked on the lawn of the Rose Garden and posed for the cameras at the presidential podium(讲台).
The dinner that has become known as the First Thanksgiving was actually a harvest festival celebrated in December of 1621. That’s when English settlers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, gave thanks for the progress they had made after a hard winter in their new country. As America grew, Thanksgiving customs also spread and got bigger. George Washington declared that the first national Thanksgiving would be on November 26, 1789. In the decades to follow, however, people celebrated Thanksgiving locally, with no official date. President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November 1863 a national day of Thanksgiving. It stayed that way until 1939, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved it one week earlier. He wanted to lengthen the shopping period before Christmas to encourage gift-buyers and to help businesses. So Congress（议会） ruled that, after 1941, Thanksgiving would be an official federal holiday falling on the fourth Thursday of November.
This year we celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, November. Millions of Americans got together to give thanks with friends and family. The lucky turkey, Courage, was one of them. After his pardon, Courage would be sent to Disneyland Resort in California, where he would be the grand assemble of Disney’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
小题1:That the turkey Courage was pardoned was decided by ________.

A．George Bush	B．Congress
C．President Truman	D．the public

小题2: The first Thanksgiving Day was held to ________.

A．celebrate the harvest of British settlers

B．celebrate the progress of Americans

C．encourage the struggle with British settlers

D．celebrate the joy of all Americans after a hard winter

小题3: We can infer(推断)from the passage that ________.

A．President Obama pardoned a turkey before Thanksgiving because of the economic crisis

B．the turkey named Courage was pardoned by President Roosevelt before Thanksgiving

C．the pardoned turkey walked on the lawn of the Rose Garden on Thanksgiving eve

D．the pardoned turkey will appear in a celebrating parade of Thanksgiving Day

Many people believe that 3G mobile phones will be used in almost all everyday activities. It____that we won’t go shopping because most things will be available(可得到的) on the Internet. There will be no more____ because all texts will be available in electronic libraries. The Internet will be used to plan holidays, rent films and_____ food. Most telephone calls will be ____ by 3G mobile phones as well.
Some people are ____ about the new development. Others, however, don’t think that 3G mobile phones will replace the old __   of shopping and communicating.
Let’s look at books, for example. Some people believe that one day we won’t read books made of paper. ____, we’ll read books by using 3G mobile phones. These mobile phones will store the contents（内容）of many different books at the same time. We won’t need to turn lots of pages and paper will be ____. Is the Internet shopping as fun as traditional shopping? Many people say it’s not. It’s __   _ to go into shops and look at things. It’s also___   that most people will want to read books on their 3G mobile phones. Maybe 3G mobile phones won’t change these two habits.

小题1:	A．is thinking B．has thought C．is thought D．to think

小题2:	A．dictionaries B．people C．letter D．books

小题3:	A．order B．heat C．eat D．cook

小题4:	A．built B．made C．bought D．used

小题5:	A．afraid B．interested C．worried D．excited

小题6:	A．ways B．time C．places D．houses

小题7:	A．Besides B．However C．Instead D．So

小题8:	A．sold B．saved C．wasted D．collected

小题9:	A．boring B．interested C．terrible D．fun

小题10:

A．important B．comfortable C．impossible D．normal