、阅读对话，完成题。(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)

A: I was not used to the food there.

B: Did you have any trouble there?

C: Where have you been these years?

D: when did you start school?

E: How is your school?

F: How often do you go to school?

A: Hi, Peter. Glad to meet you.

B: Glad to meet you, too.

A: ______________________1.

B: I’ve been in Britain and studying English there.

A: ________________________2.

B: It’s nice. It has only 200 students.

A: That is very small. Isn’t very young?

B: Yes, it is less than 3 years old.

A: _______________________3.

B: Yes, at first I couldn’t understand what others said and________________4.

A: Oh, then ___________________5.

B: At 9:00.

、词汇运用（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、完整。每空仅限一词，选项中有两项是多余选项

Maps are very useful and important  to us today, but  they are not a new_1.___.In fact, people have made and used maps for __2._. It is believed that the first map of the world may be a 2,600-year-old clay map from Babylonia . People in the past did not__3.____ what the world really __4.__ like ,but they had many ideas about  5.___ .

Mapmakers could not draw accurate maps of the earth until people began traveling around the world in the___6._century,mapping small areas each time .In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people  _7.__making correct maps of countries , but the accurate maps of the world were not made until the 1890s.

Maps today are reliable , cheap , and  _8._ to understand . People depend on __9.__ every day. What would our lives be like  _10.__ them?

11.___________12.____________13.__________ 14._________15._______

16.___________17.___________18._____________19._____ ____20._______

、词汇运用（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、完整。每空仅限一词，选项中有两项是多余选项

Maps are very useful and important  to us today, but  they are not a new_1.___.In fact, people have made and used maps for __2._. It is believed that the first map of the world may be a 2,600-year-old clay map from Babylonia . People in the past did not__3.____ what the world really __4.__ like ,but they had many ideas about  5.___ .

Mapmakers could not draw accurate maps of the earth until people began traveling around the world in the___6._century,mapping small areas each time .In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people  _7.__making correct maps of countries , but the accurate maps of the world were not made until the 1890s.

Maps today are reliable , cheap , and  _8._ to understand . People depend on __9.__ every day. What would our lives be like  _10.__ them?

11.___________12.____________13.__________ 14._________15._______

16.___________17.___________18._____________19._____ ____20._______

、阅读与表达 (共10分，每小题2分)

阅读短文, 根据其内容回答问题。

A type of bird that is now extinct (消失) is the passenger pigeon. The passenger pigeon lived in the eastern part of North America. Scientists believe that in the year 1500 there were as many as five billion of these birds living from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. They flew at great speeds and would travel to many places to look for food. Passenger pigeons grew to be about 16 inches long.

Settlers who came to North America killed the passenger pigeon for food and for its feathers. The forests where they lived were cut down to clear the land for farming. Because the passenger pigeon laid only one egg at a time, their population did not grow quickly. The last passenger pigeon died at Cincinnati Zoological Gardens in 1914.

Another type of bird that has become extint is the dodo. The dodo lived on an island called Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. It had short, stubby legs and wings and a large curved beak. The dodo was about the size of a large turkey. It was acturally related to the pigeon, but it could not fly. Like the passenger pigeon it laid only one egg at a time. Dodos became extinct because they were eaten by sailors and animals, such as pigs and monkeys, that the sailors brought to the island. The dodo is believed to have died out in 1680.

Another flightless bird that has become extinct is the moa. The moa lived on the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Like the dodo, the moa’s legs were shorter, but some of these birds grew to be more than ten feet tall. And the causes of its extinction is the same as the dodo’s.   The moa is believed to have died out sometime during the 1700s.

1. Were there many passenger pigeon in the year 1500?

2. When did the last passenger pigeon die at Cincinnati Zoological Gardens ?

3. Where did the dodo live before it died out?

4. How many kinds of birds have died out in the passage?

5.Why have these birds died out?