阅读理解。 People living in different countries made different kinds of words. To

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阅读理解。

     People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred
languages in the world. Each contains many thousands of words A very large dictionary, for example,
contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. To read short stories you
need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only one thousand
or more.
     The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger.
Read as many books as you can. There are a lot of books written in easy English for you to read. You will
enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful
book.

1. The number of different languages spoken is about _____.    A. 150
    B. 15 000
    C. 500
    D. 1500 2. Before you leave your school, you"ll learn _____.    A. only two thousand words
   B. five hundred thousand words
    C. more than one thousand words
    D. three or four thousand words3. To make you vacabulary bigger, you must _____.      A. get as many dictionaries as you can
    B. read as many books as you can
    C. buy a lot of books
    D. have a very large English dictionary4. You will enjoy_____.            A. the books written in easy English
    B. your dictionary
    C. your new words
    D. finding new words in a dictionary5. From the passage we know that one_____ if he knows abut two thousand words   A. can read long difficult stories
    B. can read easy short stories
    C. can read as many books as he likes
    D. will find the dictionary not useful

答案

1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B

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完形填空     Macau is only forty miles from Hong Kong and it is easy to    1   . It is an interesting place and it has
a long history. Macau is a part of China and most people    2    there are Chinese .
     The first Europeans to reach Macau came from Portugal (葡萄牙). More than four    3    years ago
the Portuguese(葡萄牙人) went there to trade with China. Some settled(定居) and    4    their homes
there. They    5    strong forts(要塞) to guard(保卫) the city on the island . They also built churches,
schools , hospitals and other places. Slowly the city    6   . People from many countries came to live
and work in Macau.
     Today , many people visit Macau . Some only go there to    7    dog-racing or motor-racing or to
gamble(赌博). But Macau is quiet and peaceful place. It is pleasant just to walk around and look at
the old buildings and forts. You    8    you are back in the old days. Of course , some of the buildings
are now in ruins(废墟). The church of St Paul has only the front wall    9    steps leading up to it. But
it is still interesting to see.
     When you are hot and tired, there are small cool gardens to rest    10   . When you are hungry,
there are good restaurants with many    11    food. Nearby are some islands, which are also nice to
visit and are easy to get to. There is certainly    12    to see and to do in Macau.(     )1. A. reach
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阅读理解。     Basketball is a young game.  In the year of 1891, a famous college was having some trouble with its
boy students.  The weather was bad. They couldn"t play outside. So they were unhappy.  Sometimes
they even got into fights.
    Finally, some teachers asked Dr Naisimth to invent a game so that the students might have something
to play indoors.
    Dr Naisimth thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game.  It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams.  In order to make a score, the
ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet above the floor on the wall.
    At first, Dr Naisimth had planned to have the ball thrown into a box.  As" he couldn"t find boxes of the
right size,  he had to use fruit basket instead.  That is how the game got its name basketball. The history
of this game is over 100 years.   根据短文内容，选择正确的答案。1. Basketball is _____ game.A. a difficult
B. an easy
C. a young2. Who invented the basketball game?A. Dr Brown.
B. Dr Naisimth.
C. Mr Black.3. Basketball was invented for the students   ___ in bad weather.    A. to play happily indoors
B. to play outside
C. to fight indoors4. Basketball game was played        _.    A. between two teams
B. among three teams
C. by a team5. Basketball has its history of  __   years now.A.10
B. more than 100
C. less than 100

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阅读理解。     Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana (加纳), this information
will help you a lot.
    In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules
about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who
receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to
the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
    In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else. But you eat
from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish.  After dinner,
you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
    Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder (粉末) of
some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw (锯子) because it is very hard.  You must chew
fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.根据短文内容,  判断句子的正（T）误（F）。
(     )1. From the passage we know that in Ghana the rules for dinner time are not strict.
(     )2. If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host always takes you to the dining room first.
(     )3. People in Ghana usually eat with their fingers.
(     )4. In fact, most dishes in Ghana are not very hard.
(     )5. When you eat fufu, you"d better cut it with a saw and use your right hand and chew it well.

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阅读理解。     People use money to buy food, books, bicycles and hundreds of other things which they need.  When
they work, they usually get paid in money.
     Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But in ancient times people used all kinds
of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells.
     In China, cloth and knives were used as money. Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used in
some parts of Africa. Rice was also a kind of money used by the ancient in some islands.  Cows and
other animals were used as money, too.
     The first copper coins were made in china.  They were round and had a square hole in the center.
Different countries have used different metals (金属 ) as their money. Later, some countries began to
make coins of gold (金) and silver (银).
     But both gold and silver were heavy to carry when people needed a lot of coins to buy something
expensive. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a
note than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money till today.1. People use money to buy______ .
A. food
B. bicycles
C. all the things they need
2. they usually get paid in money______ .
A. When people buy things
B. When people have holidays
C. When people work
3. In ancient times, people use as money______ .
A. cloth and knives
B. shells
C. all kinds of things
4. The first coins were made of______ .
A. gold
B. copper
C. paper
5. The first paper notes were used in ______ .
A. China
B. Africa
C. some islands

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阅读理解,根据短文内容,填词完成句子.每空只填写一个单词.

    Xi"an is famous all over the world for the terracotta warriors and horses.   In 1974, when some
farmers were digging a well, they found some brown pottery fragments(陶器碎片),  then we discovered
the greatterracotta warriors and horses.
    Some historical books wrote that Emperor Qin Shihuang built a big tomb for himself.  He also buried a
lot of terracotta warriors and horses. However, for technical reasons, the major part of the tomb couldn"t
open today.  It is still standing 76 meters high against the Mt. I.ishan and facing the Huishui River.
     After 20 years of careful excavation<挖掘)three underground vaults opened to the public in 1979,
1989, and 1994, displaying thousands of terracotta warriors, horses and chariots,  all arrang ed in battle
formations.
    Vault l, built with earth and wood, is about 210 meters long, 60 meters wide and 4.6 to 6.5 meters
high.  In this area of 12,600 square meters,  six thousand life-sized warriors and horses of terracotta were
found in different lines.  The troops were of a fairly uniform height of l.8 meters.  They helmets and armor
and carry real bows and arrows.

1. The great terracotta warriors and horses were discovered by some_     ___.
2. The major part of the tomb couldn"t open today___     _ technical reasons.
3. The___      _ excavation lasted for about 20 years.
4. The No.1 Vault was__     __ with earth and wood.
5. We can see about six        of warriors and horses of terracotta in lines.

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