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阅读理解。                                               How Americans Began to Eat Tomatoes
     People have strange ideas about food. For example, the tomato is a kind of very delicious vegetable. It is
one of useful plants that can be prepared in many ways. It has rich nutrition and vitamin in it. But in the 18th
century, Americans never ate tomatoes. They grew them in their gardens because tomato plants are so pretty.
But they thought the vegetable was poisonous (有毒的). They called tomatoes "poison apples." President
Thomas Jefferson, however, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learned man. He had been to
Paris, where he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in his garden. The
President taught his cook a way for a cream of tomato soup. This beautiful pink soup was served at the
President"s party. The guests thought the soup tasted really good. They never thought their president would
serve his honored guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke to his honored (忠实的) guests about the fact. 1. After you read the passage, which of the following do you think is true? [     ]
A. Americans never ate tomatoes after they began to plant them.
B. Americans didn"t eat tomatoes before 19th century.
C. Even now Americans don"t eat tomatoes.
D. In the 18th century Americans ate a lot of tomatoes. 2. The passage tells us that Jefferson was a President who learned to love the taste of tomatoes ______. [     ]
A. while he was in Paris
B. when he was a little boy
C. because his parents told him so
D. from books 3. According to the text, ______ made the beautiful pink soup served at the President"s party? [     ]
A. the President himself
B. a French cook 　
C. the President"s cook
D. the President"s wife 4. From the passage we know all the honored guests invited by Jefferson were ______. [     ]
A. people from other countries　　　
B. from France
C. people of his own country　　　　
D. men only 5. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? [     ]
A. All of the guests knew the soup that was served at the President"s party was made of tomatoes. 　
B. All of the guests thought the soup which was prepared by the President"s cook was nice. 　
C. All of the guests thought the taste of the beautiful pink soup was nice. 　
D. None of the guests knew that their president would serve his honored guests poison apples.

1-5 BACCA

完形填空。     Do you often climb the mountain? What"s your feeling about mountains? Let me tell you something
about mountains.
    It was only in the eighteenth century   1   people in Europe began to   2   that mountains were beautiful.
  3   that time, mountains were feared by the people   4   on the plain (平原), especially by the city people,
  5   the mountains were wild and   6   places   7   one was easily   8   or killed by terrible animals.
     Slowly,   9 , many people who were living  10  in the towns began to grow  11  city life. They began
to feel  12  looking for wild excitement, as their attention turned from the man-made town to the untouched
13 , and to places  14  dangerous and wild. So high mountains became  15  for a holiday.
     Then mountain-climbing started to grow  16 . To some people, there is something  17  about getting to
the  18  of a high mountain: a struggle against nature is finer than a battle  19  other human beings. And after
a difficult climb, what a reward it is to  20  everything within sight!

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(     )1. A. when
(     )2. A. regret
(     )3. A. After
(     )4. A. lived
(     )5. A. whom
(     )6. A. tidy
(     )7. A. that
(     )8. A. lost
(     )9. A. however
(     )10. A. comfortably
(     )11. A. tiring from
(     )12. A. interesting
(     )13. A. country
(     )14. A. where was
(     )15. A. excited
(     )16. A. for sport
(     )17. A. pleasure
(     )18. A. top
(     )19. A. about
(     )20. A. look up to

B. which
B. seem
B. Before
B. living
B. which
B. dangerous
B. which
B. missed
B. but
B. comfort
B. tiring of
B. interest in
B. ocean
B. that were
B. expensive
B. as a sport
B. pleased
B. middle
B. for
B. look after

C. that
C. hope
C. During
C. to live
C. with whom
C. safe
C. where
C. found
C. therefore
C. comfortable
C. tired with
C. interested
C. sky
C. that was
C. popular
C. with a sport
C. pleasant
C. bottom
C. without
C. look down on

D. and
D. think
D. At
D. who living
D. to whom
D. dusty
D. in where
D. searched
D. because
D. uncomfortable
D. tired of
D. interested in
D. city
D. which it was
D. terrible
D. of a sport
D. unpleasant
D. foot
D. against
D. look forward to

阅读理解。

     Canada is a very large country. It is the second largest country in the world. By contrast it has a very small
population. There are only about 29 million people there. Most Canadians are of British or French origin, and
French is an official language of Canada as well as English. About 45%of the people are of British origin, that
is, they or their parents or grandparents, etc, come from British. Nearly 30%are of French origin. Most of the
French-Canadians live in province of Quebec.
     Over the years, people have come to live in Canada from many countries in the world. They are from many
countries in the world. They are from most European countries and also from China, besides other Asian
countries.
     However, Canada was not an empty country when the Europeans began to arrive. Canadian Indians lived
along the coast, by the rivers and lakes and in forests. Today, there are only about 350 000 Indians in the
whole country, with their own languages. In the far north live the Inuit. There are only 27 000 Canadian-Inuit.
Their life is hard in such a difficult climate.

1. About ____ live in Quebec.

[ ]

A. 30% of the French-Canadians
B. 45% of the Canadians
C. 29 000 000 people
D. 8 700 000 French -Canadians

2. The official languages of Canada are ____.

[ ]

A. English and Chinese
B. French and English
C. Indian and French
D. Chinese and Inuit

3. The word "origin" in the passage means ____.

[ ]

A. 血统
B. 后裔
C. 先驱
D. 猿人

4. About 23% of people came from ____.

[ ]

A. China
B. England
C. France
D. some other countries except France and Britain

5. Which of the following is true according to this passage?

[ ]

A. There are 27 000 Canadian-Indians in Canada.
B. More than 13 million people have come from Britain and France recent years.
C. There are 30% of the population whose parents or grandparents come from France.
D. There are no people when the Europeans began to arrive in Canada.

阅读理解。

     The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September, 1666. In four days it destroyed
more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together. Over
one hundred people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.
     The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King"s baker (面包师) in Pudding Lane. The baker,
with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window into the roof. A strong wind blew the fire
from the bakery (面包房) into a small hotel next door. Then it spread quickly into Thames Street. That was
the beginning.
     By eight o"clock three hundred houses were on fire. On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning
along the River Thames. Tuesday was the worst day. The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St
Paul"s and the Guildhall among them.
     Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire, "People threw their things into the river. Many
poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment. Birds fell out of the air because of the heat."
     The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path
of the fire. With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.
     After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect (建筑师), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new
houses of stone. In fact, the streets are still narrow, but he did build more than fifty churches, among them
the mew St Paul"s.
     The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not
just of the past.

1. From the passage, we can learn that the fire began in _____.

[ ]

A. a hotel　　　
B. the palace　　
C. Pudding Lane　　
D. Thames Street

2. The underlined word "family" in the second paragraph means _____.

[ ]

A. wife and husband　　
B. wife and children　
C. home
D. children

3. It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that _____.

[ ]

A. many famous buildings were destroyed
B. some people lost their lives
C. the birds in the sky were killed by the fire
D. the King"s bakery was burned down

4. Why did the writer cite (引用) Samuel Pepys?

[ ]

A. Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.
B. Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.
C. Because he wanted to give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.
D. Because he wanted to show that poor people suffered most.

5. How was the fire put out according to the text?

[ ]

A. The King and his soldiers came to help.
B. Houses standing in the direction of the fire were pulled down.
C. All the wooden houses in the city were destroyed.
D. People managed to get enough water from the river.

阅读理解。

     Crossing Texas and Mexico, the Big Bend region is high in biodiversity (生物的多样性). It"s a place so
untamed that if something doesn"t bite, stick, or sting, it"s probably a rock.
     You know you have arrived in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert when it feels as if you have fallen off
the edge of the earth and into the rabbit hole. Nothing is as it appears. Moths (蛀虫) are the size of birds.
Are those twin pillars (柱) of black rock (a landmark known as Mule Ear Peaks) ten miles (16 kilometers)
away or fifty (80 kilometers)? Visibility (能见度) reaches more than a hundred miles on a clear day, and
since there are few roads or buildings to use as milestones, distance is difficult to judge.
    This is a place where water runs uphill, where rainbows have to wait for rain. The line between myth (虚
构的故事) and reality is unclear. Stare long enough at the Chisos Mountains or the Sierra del Carmen, the
two mountain ranges, known as sky islands, which lie on the land, and they rise and float above the plain.
    The vast Chihuahuan Desert is a land of no people. There is always the chance you"ll die of thirst. The
"You Can Die" possibilities are endless, and keep some visitors-350,000 a year to Big Bend National Park,
built in 1944-from coming back. Those who do return are left to think of the remarkable courage of the
brave few who have managed to survive in this terrible environment.

1. The underlined word "untamed" in Paragraph 1 means "_____".

[ ]

A. untouched
B. wild
C. unchanged
D. fresh

2. Why do the twin pillars of black rock seem ten or fifty miles away?

[ ]

A. They were put so far away.
B. They lie across the Chihuahuan Desert.
C. It is difficult to judge the distance, with few milestones.
D. One lies in the Chisos Mountains, the other in the Sierra del Carmen.

3. How many years are there since the Big Bend National Park was built?

[ ]

A. 350,000 years.
B. 350 years.
C. 66 years.
D. 44 years.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

[ ]

A. The natural wonders of the Chihuahuan Desert.
B. Everything you see is not what it seems in the Chihuahuan Desert.
C. The terrible environment of deserts in Texas and Mexico.
D. A special place where none who go can return.

5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

[ ]

A. There are all kinds of living things in the Chihuahuan Desert.
B. No people live in the Big Bend region.
C. Nothing is as it appears in the Big Bend region.
D. Traveling in the Big Bend region is dangerous.

完型填空。

     All hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150"000   1 to Tangshan to help the rescue
workers. Hundreds of thousands of people were   2 . The army organized teams to dig out those who were
trapped and to bury the   3 . To the north of the city, most of the 10"000 miners were   4   from the coal
mines there. Workers built shelters for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.   5 water was taken to
the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

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