The name of Macau comes from the word Magao (A-Ma Temple), which were shrines (圣

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The name of Macau comes from the word Magao (A-Ma Temple), which were shrines (圣地) dedicated to Mazu, a holy sea goddess worshiped by Macau people. It was said that when the Portuguese people first came here in the middle of sixteenth century, one of the officers asked a fisherman the name of the land. The man misunderstood the officer’s question, and answered “Magao” – the name of A-Ma Temple in front them.
Many people wonder how Macau is spelled. Is it “Macao” or “Macau”? Both are actually correct. Macao is Portuguese, and this is the official spelling backed by Macau SAR Government. Macau is English, that’s how they spell it in the U.S. and other parts of the world. However, most publications use “Macau” as the preferred spelling.
Members of the Southern Song Dynasty and some 50,000 followers were the first recorded inhabitants (居民) of the area, seeking shelter in Macau from invading Mongols in 1277. They were able to defend their settlements and establish themselves there.
The Hoklo Boat people were the first to show commercial interest in Macau as a trading center for the southern provinces. During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1643), fishermen migrated to Macau from various parts of Guangdong and Fujian provinces and built the A-Ma Temple in which they prayed for safety on the sea.
Chinese fishermen have been living and working in the Pearl River Delta for more than four thousand years. The small peninsula and islands that came to be called Macau were first settled by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century.
In 1998, Chinese (Cantonese) was given official status and the same legal power as Portuguese, the official language. The Chinese government assumed sovereignty over Macau on December 20, 1999, ending 329 years of Portuguese rule.
68. We can learn from the text that the name “Macau”_________.
A. is named after a sea goddess                   B. is first called by the Portuguese
C. is only used in publications                    D. is given by a fisherman
69. Which is the correct order of the things that happened in Macau?
a. Portuguese people first came to Macau.
b. The fishermen of Guangdong and Fujian migrated to Macau.
c. The first recorded inhabitants established themselves in Macau.
d. the A-Ma Temple was built in Macau.
A. c, b, d, a                  B. d, c, b, a           C. b, c, a, d           D. a, c, b, d
70. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages in Macau.
B. The A-Ma Temple was built in honour of a holy sea goddess.
C. The inhabitants in Macau mainly made their living by fishing before the 16th century.
D. Macau didn’t belong to China until December 20, 1999.
71. Members of the Southern Song Dynasty went to Macau in order to ____.
A. show commercial interest in Macau      B. find a good place for fishing
C. get away from their enemies            D. establish Macau SAR there

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72. The writer is probably ________.
A. an advertiser      B. a lawyer       C. a teacher       D. an adviser
73. If you want to have a talk, you have to _______.
A. wait patiently           B. write to the author in advance
C. be on the line            D. make an appointment
74. Which is NOT true according to the passage?
A. The writer sometimes writes questions into an article.
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C. The talker has to type a “?” mark on the screen.
D. Anyone who asks questions must come to the chat room.
75. The chat with the writer on the screen _______.
A. lasts a long time            B. must be about children’s health questions
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Saturday, May 24
★ Star Wars Ⅱ
Bus leaves N flagpole at 5:45 pm. Return leaves immediately following the movie .Cost $15. Sign up on SWIS by noon on Thursday.
★BLOCK PARTY!
Bands, volleyball. Starts at 6:00 pm
★Grandin Cinema Presents ：Hearts in Atlantis
A single mother and her son change when a nice-looking stranger enters their life. Grandin , 7：00 pm.
★ NMH Theatre
Present a modern play by Don Nigro, Silverthome Theatre, 7:30 pm. Tickets are $2 for NMH students, teachers and staff and $4 f

or all others. Anyone wishing to book tickets should SWIS Jake kavanagh
Sunday, May 25
Trip to Six Flags Amusement Park! This trip includes the following two films and is only for those students not attending the chat. Cost $ 33. Sign up on SWIS or at the ticket office by noon on Thu

rsday.
★Dolben Cinema presents: Heroes and Heroines
Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by a hunter with a gun, who takes them along in his search for the world’s largest and deadliest snake. Dolben, 8: 00 pm.
★Grandin Cinema Presents: The Others
A woman who lives in a darkened old house

with her two children becomes sure that there are ghosts in their house. Grandin, 8:00 pm.
45. According to the passage, NMH is a ________.
A company      B church      C school    D travel office
46. How many movies will be on this weekend?
A. One         B. Two      C. Three    D. Four
47. How much would an NMH teacher pay for the modern play by Don Nigro?
A   $ 15         B $ 2        C $ 4        D $ 33
48. What can we learn from the passage?
A. All the weekend activities were organized by Jake Kavanagh.
B. Two of the movies mentioned in the ads are about social problems.
C. Those who go to the amusement park can book tickets on Sunday.
D. An NMH student inviting his parents to watch the play together should pay $10

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American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs. They say reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung diseases later in life. Doctors in Boston studied 1,100 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mother smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.
Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of developing lung

cancer if their mothers smoked. The study also showed that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father’s smoking did not affect a child’s chance of developing lung cancer
49. Whose baby would have breathing diseases?
A.Mother who smokes cigarettes after their baby are born
B.Mother who smokes cigarettes before their baby ar

e born
C.Mother who don’t smoke at all
D.Mother whose mother smokes
50. Suppose John’s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary’ mother. According to this study, _________.
A. John is more likely to develop lung cancer                                                     B. Mary is more likely to develop lung cancer
C. Mary and John have the same chance to develop lung cancer
D. Neither John and Mary has the chance to develop lung cancer
51. This passage is to __________.
A. warn us of the danger of smoking before children.
B. warn people with breathing problems not to smoke.
C. warn us that mothers who smoke may affect their children’s health.
D. warn us that fathers who smoke may affect their children as mothers

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Leaves are nature’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO2 into glucose（葡萄糖）.Glucose is a kind of sugar. Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow. The way plants turn water and CO2 into glucose is called photosynthesis (光合作用).That means “putting together with light .” A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is green. It gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis .The trees will rest, and live on the food they have stored during the summer. They begin to close their food-making factories. The green Chlorophyll disappears from the leaves. Then, we begin to see yellow and orange colours. A few of these colors stay in the leaves all the time. We just can’t see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green Chlorophyll.
Red and purple colors we see in leaves are made mostly in the autumn. In some trees, like maples, glucose is stored in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn this glucose into red. The brown color of trees like oaks is made from wastes left in the leaves.
52 the underlined word“chlorophyll” in the first Para means_________in Chinese.
A 叶绿素 B 氧气 C 胡萝卜素 D 蛋白质
53 The way _________is called photosynthesis.
A Plants get CO2 from the air B plants take water from the ground
C plants turn water and CO2 into glucose. D Plants use glucose as food for energy to grow.
54 The gas called carbon dioxide

is from the_________
A ground B roots C air D sunlight
55 Which of the following is not true?

A．when autumn and winter come, the days get shorter and shorter.

B．During winter trees rest and live on the food they store during the summer.’

C．During winter small amounts of yellow and orange colors are kept in the leaves all the time.

D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer.

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In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice.
Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes

and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers .Most hot lines are completely anonymous ,that is to say , callers do not have to say their names or telephone n

umbers. Most hot lines are usually free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls, even if the calls are long distance ones. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short training before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems
56. A hot line is a telephone line_________
A that is hot                    B through which people get advice
C whose number no one knows      D through which callers take a short training
57. the underlined word“anonymous”in the passage means_________in Chinese.
A   secret      B well-known        C exact        D wonderful
58. When people call the hot line advisers, they_________
A often give their names and telephone numbers
B generally have to pay for the long distance calls
C usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice
D always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers
59. The advisers working at hot lines _________
A have all been trained for a short time
B are all volunteers
C have all received years of education
D are not all paid
60 The writer of the passage seems to think that_________
A hot lines help the callers a lot
B advisers will solve all of the callers’ problems
C people had better pay for the advice
D people will not get advice from their families or friends

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