Chen Guangbiao was born in Jiangsu in July,1968. He is the chairperson of a company in Jiangsu. Now he is one of China’s richest men and he has donated a great amount of money to charity projects. He says he will donate everything he has to charity after he dies.

When people are in need of help, he will appear at once. He helped people during the Wenchuan earthquake, the Yunnan earthquake and the Taiwan earthquake. He also gave a helping hand in Japan’s earthquake. He has built many Hope Primary Schools to support the education in poor areas.

He doesn’t do charity for honour. He wants to encourage more people to make contributions to charity. After announcing he would donate everything to charity after his death, many businesses, overseas Chinese people and common people encouraged by him have also promised to do something for charity.

As a philanthropist (慈善家), he is asked for help every day. Sometimes he gets very tired, but he has never stopped caring.

So far, he has received a lot of awards, including Pioneer of the Year, and National May Day Labour Medal. He is considered as one of China’s top philanthropists.

1.The article is probably taken from       .

A. a newspaper      B. a novel   C. a detective story   D. a science book

2.Chen Guangbiao says he will donate        to charity after he dies.

   A. nothing                          B. some schools

   C. everything he has                     D. his whole company

3.What does he do charity for?

   A. He wants to do charity for money.

B. He wants to do charity for pleasure.

C. He wants to ask people to help him.

D. He wants to encourage more people to contribute to charity.

4.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

   A. He is from Jiangsu.                       B. He has got a lot of awards.

   C. He has helped people in need.         D. He has visited many countries.

5.Which do you think is the best title for the passage?

   A. Earthquakes                      B. Hope Primary Schools

   C. Pioneer of the Year                   D. Philanthropist Chen Guangbiao

 

Once a small boy lived on a farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.

    He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would .a break and climb up on the fence(篱笆)along the side of the farm. He could see a house with golden windows. “If they could afford golden windows, then there must be other nice things inside the house.” He imagined how great it would be to live there. Then he promised himself, “Some day 1 will go there and see this wonderful place.”

    One morning, his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was his chance, he took a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.

    As the afternoon went on, he began to know how wrong he was. The house was much farther than he had expected. As he went near the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of a painting. A small girl very close to his age came out of the poor house and stood by the broken fence. He asked her if she had seen the house with the golden windows. The girl said, “Sure, I know.” and invited him to sit on the porch (门廊).As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset turned the windows of his house to gold! Now he understood that everyone had his own house with golden windows.

1.During his break every morning, the small boy would _________.

A. fix the fence                           

B. eat sandwiches

C. climb up on the fence                   

D. walk around the farm

2.One morning, when knowing he would stay alone, the boy thought it was a chance for him to_________.

A. go to the town                          

B. play on the field

C. go to see the house                     

D. make the golden windows

3.What did the boy find when he got there?

A. Nobody lived in the poor house.     

B. No golden windows were in the house.

C. The house was so old as he expected.

D. The house was nearer than he thought.

4.The story tells us that people sometimes may have the thought________ .

 A. Like father, like son                  

B. Love me, love my dog

 C. Every dog has its day                  

D. The grass is greener somewhere else

 

In Chicago, a computerized system has been developed that controls(管理)traffic on the city’s 235 miles of seven expressways. Now one—a controller—can follow the movement of Chicago’s traffic by looking at a set of lights. The system uses electric sensors(感应器) that are built into each expressway, every half a mile. Several times a second, the computer receives information from each sensor and translates it into green, yellow or red lights on a map in the control room. A green light means traffic is moving forty-five miles an hour, yellow means thirty to forty-five miles an hour, and red means heavy traffic—cars standing still or moving less than thirty miles an hour.

  “See that red light near Austin Avenue?”the controller asked a visitor.“That’s a repair truck fixing the road, and the traffic has to go around it.”At the Roosevelt Road entrance to the expressway, the light kept changing from green to red and back to green again.“A lot of trucks get on the expressway there,”the controller explained.“They can’t speed up as fast as cars.”The sensors show immediately where an accident or a stopped car is blocking the traffic, and a truck is sent by radio to clear the road. The system has lowered the number of accidents by 18 percent. There are now 1.4 deaths on Chicago’s expressway for each one hundred million miles traveled, while in other parts of the county there are 2.6.

  Traffic experts say that the Chicago system is the “coming thing”.Systems like Chicago’s are already in use on some expressways in Los Angeles and Houston.“Chicago has taken the lead,”said New York City’s traffic director and he added,“Chicago’s a good example.”

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案,并在答题卡上按要求作答。

1.The passage is mainly about ________ on expressways in Chicago.

  A. the traffic control system                  B. the movement of the traffic

  C. the electric sensors                       D. the traffic lights

2.When the cars move under 30 miles an hour, ________ on the map in the control room.

A. the red light appears                      B. the red light turns yellow

C. the yellow light appears                   D. the green light turns red

3. According to the passage, we may learn __________.

  A. some visitors are traveling on the expressway

  B. there is no heavy traffic on Chicago’s expressways

  C. the traffic on Chicago’s expressways is well managed

  D. the number of accidents in the US has dropped by 18%

4.In Paragraph 2 the underlined word “it” refers to ___________.

  A. the red light                       B. the truck that needs repairing

  C. the traffic                         D. the truck that is fixing the road

5.The writer writes the article mainly by _________.

  A. giving reasons and results           B. giving examples and explaining them

  C. describing what he thinks          D. asking and answering questions

 

In the 13th century, Marco Polo travelled a long way to China. He was a famous Italian 31 During his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things. One of the things he 32 was that the Chinese used paper money. People in 33 coun­tries didn't use paper money until the 17th century. However,people in China began to use paper money in the 10th century. 34     was invented by a Chinese about 2 000 years ago. His name was Cai Lun. He then 35 these pieces of paper together and made them into a 36 .

Now paper mainly comes from trees. We use it every day. 37 we waste a lot of it. If we keep on doing so, people 38 cut down many more trees. Then there will not be any trees left. If there are no 39 , there will be no paper.

So how can we 40 paper? When we mak­ing notes,we can use 41 sides of each piece of paper. We  can  buy  drinks  in bottles instead of 42  in paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs ( 棉手帕) and not the paper ones.

43  we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the salesman gives us a paper bag, we can keep it and 44  it later. We can help to protect trees if we think 45 . We should to it now,before it is too late.

1.

A.traveller

B.actor

C.doctor

D.driver

 

2.

A.disliked

B.disagreed

C.invented

D.discovered

 

3.

A.Eastern

B.Western

C.Southern

D.Northern

 

4.

A.Iron

B.Paper

C.Television

D.Silk

 

5.

A.collected

B.divided

C.moved

D.put

 

6.

A.magazine

B.newspaper

C.book

D.dictionary

 

7.

A.Sometime

B.Some time

C.Sometimes

D.Some times

 

8.

A.have to

B.mustn't

C.used to

D.shouldn't

9. A. books         B. trees          C, leaves        D. factories

10.

A.make

B.use

C.save

D.buy

 

11.

A.all

B.each

C.every

D.both

 

12.

A.them

B.those

C.these

D.ones

 

13.

A.Before

B.After

C.As soon as

D.When

 

14.

A.repair

B.record

C.reuse

D.return

 

15.

A.carefully

B.badly

C.quickly

D.freely

 

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