Dear Robert, I hope you are well. Thank you for your last letter. You ask me about Mid-autumn Day. Now, let me __1__ you something about it. Everyone in China likes Mid-autumn Day. It __2__ comes in September or October. __3__ that day, everyone eats mooncakes. A mooncake is a delicious, round cake. It __4__ the moon. There are many different kinds of mooncakes. Some have nuts in them, __5__ some have meat or eggs in them. My friend Li Lei likes mooncakes with meat. But I think the __6__ with nuts in them are __7__. Han Meimei says the nicest cakes __8__ Guangdong. At night, families often stay __9__ the open air near their houses. There they __10__ the moon, and eat the cakes. Mmm! How delicious they are! Yours, Sun Huimin |
( )1. A. speak ( )2. A. never ( )3. A. On ( )4. A. like ( )5. A. but ( )6. A. moon ( )7. A. delicious ( )8. A. hear from ( )9. A. under ( )10. A. look at | B. tell B. usually B. At B. likes B. until B. moons B. nicer B. comes from B. with B. look after | C. say C. sometimes C. For C. looks for C. and C. ones C. nicest C. is from C. into C. look for | D. talk D. not often D. In D. looks like D. so D. one D. bigger D. come from D. in D. look up | 阅读理解。 | We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet? Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time , computers were large and expensive. Computer networks (网络) didn"t work well. If one computer in the networks broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a new network system (系统) had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information (信息) could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on working all the time. At first, the Internet was only used by the goverment (政府),but in the early 1970s, university (大学), hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. Howerver,computers were still expensive and the Internet was difficult to become cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software (软件) that made "Surfing" (浏览) the Internet more convenient (方便). Today it is easy to get-on-line and it is said that millions of people use the internet every day. Sending e-mail is more and more popular among students. The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people"s life. | 1. The Internet has a history of _____ years. | A. about 40 B. less than 30 C. more than 45 D. nearly 35 | 2. Scientists set up a new network system to _____ . | A. make the computer cheaper. B. use the computer widely C. make the computer go well D. develop new softwares | 3. The Internet was widely used in the _____ . | A. 1960s B. 1970s C. 1980s D. 1990s | 4. The underlined words "get-on-line" in Chinese means "_____ " | A. 上机 B. 上网 C. 接线 D. 买电脑 | 5. Which of the following is NOT ture? | A. In the 1960s computer networks system went wrong easily. B. Computers are much cheaper than before. C. Today the Internet is used everywhere. D. People had enough softwares to get on-line fifteen years ago | 完形填空。 One of the most famous movie prizes in the world is the Oscar. 1 in the United States, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives Oscars to people who have done 2 the movies. There is an Oscar for the best movies of the year, another for the best actor, and Oscars for doing many other things well in the movies. Oscars are very important 3 people want to see movies that won them. They want to see actors who have won Oscars, 4 . This means that movies that have won Oscars make a lot of 5 . The Academy first gave prizes to movies 6 1927, but they were not called Oscars. That happened 7 four years. Most people think that Oscar was someone famous in the movies, but he 8 . He was no one important. He was someone that a woman called Margaret Herrick knew. She worked for the Academy and one day she saw the 9 on a table. She said, "He 10 my friend, Oscar." From that time on the prizes were called the Oscars. | ( )1. A. Every year ( )2. A. good at ( )3. A. but ( )4. A. too ( )5. A. prizes ( )6. A. at ( )7. A. before ( )8. A. isn"t ( )9. A. prize ( )10. A. looks at | B. Every four years B. well in B. when B. also B. actors B. in B. after B. doesn"t B. woman B. is | C. Every day C. awful at C. if C. either C. money C. on C. later C. wasn"t C. actor C. likes | D. Every month D. badly in D. because D. yet D. movies D. for D. during D. didn"t D. man D. looks like | 阅读理解。 | The idea of what shaking the head means is not always the same in different countries. Maybe some visitors would be surprised when they first came to India. When talked to an Indian, he would often shake his head. The visitors might think that the Indian did not like what they said. But, in fact, they would be completely wrong. Indians always shake their heads when they talk to each other. It does not have the same meaning as our "No". If someone wants to visit India, he should know this, or it will give him some trouble. One day, a foreign officer went to India on business. He hired a car and an Indian to drive it.When he told his driver to send him to his office, the Indian shook his head at once. The office said again, and the driver shook his head again. At last, the office, of course, got angry. "How dare you refuse my order?" he shouted. "Drive me to my office at once!" The driver answered in quite loud voice, too. "Yes, sir! " But to the officer"s surprise, the driver shook his head at the same time. The car started, and the foreign officer was now too surprised to say a word. He thought about it for a while, and then he nodded with a smile, "No mean Yes here!" | 1. An Indian would shake his head when ______. | A. he didn"t want to do anything B. he agreed with others C. he talked to others D. other people were wrong | 2. The foreign officer was surprised that ______. | A. the driver could not understand him B. the driver refused his order C. the driver drove him to another place D. the driver shook his head as he said, "Yes" | 3. The sentence "No mean Yes here!" means ______. | A. in India the words "Yes" and "No" have the same meaning B. Indians don"t say No when they don"t agree with each other C. there is no difference between Yes and No D. We shake our heads to say No, not Yes as Indians do | 4. India is ______. | A. a developed country B. in America C. next to Australia D. to the southwest of China | 5. Which of the following sentences isn"t true? | A. Shaking the head doesn"t always have the same meaning in different countries. B. When an India shakes his head, he really means Yes. C. In India shaking the head means No. D. In China shaking the head means No. | 阅读理解。 | Every country has its favorite food. Italians like to eat pizza. Indians like to eat hot food. Japanese like to eat fish. Often they don"t cook it. In England, one of the most popular kinds of food is fish and chips. People usually buy it in a fish and chip shop. They put it in paper bags, and take it home, or to their workplace. Sometimes they eat it in the park or on the road.The world"s favorite food is American fast food.If you go to some important cities in the world, you can find people eating hamburgers and chips. Fish and chips, and Chinese take-away food are very popular in England .But they are less popular in the USA, they eat take-away food, too, like chicken. But the most popular kind of take-away food is the hamburger. It looks like bread with meat in it. Ham (火 腿) is a kind of pork, but the hamburger does not have any pork in it. The beef is inside a kind of cake hamburgers are delicious. They are also popular in England and Australia. | 1. Italians like to eat __________. | A. dumplings B. pizza C. hot food D. fish | 2. Fish and chips are very popular in ________. | A. England B. Australia C. the USA D. Canada | 3. In different countries people eat ______ food. | A. different B. the same C. the different D. same | 4. The hamburger does not have any _______ in it. | A. beef B. pork C. fish D. chips | 5. Hamburger is a kind of ______. | A. meat B. drink C. food D. vegetable |
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