阅读理解

　　Why is 2004 a special year? Because it is a Leap Year（闰年）.

　　What's so special about that? Well, we have a Leap Year every four years. And it has 366 days, not the usual（通常）365. In a Leap Year, we have 29 days in February, while in a usual year we have only 28 days.

　　Why do we have a Leap Year? We have a Leap Year so we can keep the calendar（日历）in step（一致）with the seasons. The calendar is a kind of clock for the year. But how long is a year? A calendar year is 365 days. But a true year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds long. That's the time it takes the earth to go around the sun. So every four years we have one more day, and we put it at the end of February, he shortest month of a year. Then we have a Leap Year.

(1) How often can we have a Leap Year?

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A．Every year.

B．Every February.

C．Every four years.

(2) What is a calendar? It's a kind of clock

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A．for the year

B．for Leap Year

C．for the usual year

(3) It takes the earth ________ to go around the sun.

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A．a day

B．a year

C．a little longer than 365 days

(4) Which is the shortest month of the year?

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A．February.

B．March.

C．May.

(5) Mary was born on February 29,1972. Now she is 32. She has had ________ birthdays.

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A．32

B．16

C．8

The Olympic Games are held ________.

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A．each four year	B．each fourth years
C．every four years	D．every fourth years

　　阅读理解

The Winter Olympics are also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published (发行) to mark (标志) the great Games. The first tamps marking the opening came out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule.

　　During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared (出现) on the stamps of the Winter Olympics.

　　In the 1059's, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries (东道国) as well as the nonhost countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980 when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the Winter Olympics.

　　Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the Winter Olympics. Although 14,500 million stamps Were sold to raise(筹建) money for this sports meeting.

　　Different kind of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.

　　(1)The Winter Olympics and the Winter Olympics ________.

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　　A． are the dame thing

　　B． are different games 

　　C． are not held in winter 

　　D． are held in summer

　　(2)The world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world Games ________.

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　　A． after the year 1936

　　B． after the 3rd White Olympics

　　C． before the 3rd White Olympics 

　　D． before the year 1932

　　(3)The Winter Olympics are held once ________.

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　　A． every two years

　　B． every three year

　　C． every four years

　　D． every five year

　　(4)Which of the following is true?

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　　A． Only the host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games

　　B． Only the nonhost countries can publish stamps to mark those Game

　　C． All the countries can publish stamps to mark those Game  

　　D． Japan can't publish stamps to mark those Game

　　(5)What may appear on the stamps of the Winter Olympics?

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