题目内容

China will be the ________ country for the 2008 Olympic Games.

A.
big
B.
large
C.
beautiful
D.
host

D
解析：
host作名词可表示“主办人(国、地方、机构等)”，此空填host为名词作定语．这句意思是“中国是2008年奥林匹克运动会的主办国”．

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China's Manned Space Program?

The first stage	The second stage	The third stage	Future plans
Time: October 15, 2003 Spaceship:ShenzhouⅤ Main events: Chinese astronaunt Yang Liwei was sent up into space. He went around the earth 14 times in his one_day flight. China became the third country to succeed in manned space flight.	Time: October 12, 2005 Spaceship: Shenzhou Ⅵ Main events: Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng were both sent up into space.On October 17, the two Chinese space heroes safely returned to the earth.	Time: September 25, 2008 Spaceship: Shenzhou VII Main events: Chinese astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng were all sent up into space. China became the third country to succeed in space walk. On Setember 27, the three Chinese space heroes safely returned to the earth.	1. China will send up Tiangong I and Shenzhou VII, IX & X between 2010 and 2012 2. China will make a manned moon landing at a proper(适当的) time around 2017. 2. China plans to set up a permanent (永久的) space lab, and build its engineering system in 2020.

【小题1】Before China, how many countries had already sent their spacemen into space??
A. Only one.           B. Two.                 C. Three.
【小题2】Which spaceship has China succeeded in achieving first space walk?
A. Shengzhou V      B. Shengzhou VI      C. Shengzhou VII
【小题3】So far, how many spacemen has travelled to space in China?
A. 3              B. 5              C. 6
【小题4】Chinese astronauts will possibly walk on the moon around                .?
A. 2010              B. 2017                  C. 2020

What might the future be like? Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go.
The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.
Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital(数字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.
Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel(燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy(能源).
Schools will go electronic(电子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, they will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.
【小题1】 More than 2 billion people have a hard time returning home during .

A．Christmas Day	B．National Day
C．the Spring Festival	D．the Mid-autumn Festival

【小题2】The newspapers will disappear .

【小题3】 is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy.

【小题4】From the passage we can know in the future.

A．the Spring Festival travel may still be a problem

B．90% of the population will live in the city

C．robot teachers will check homework

D．readers can discuss topics with each other through Internet

【小题5】What’s the main idea of the last paragraph? .

A．Schools will go electronic	B．Computers will be important
C．There will be robot teachers	D．School buses will be like spaceships

News 1
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan developed the world’s first popular and widely known hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than regular ones.
News 2
Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Don’t worry, things will get better soon. Last week, China started checking textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books all over the country. The government said the results of the check would come out at the end of June.
News 3
People will see a new “star” in the sky soon. China plants to send a satellite into space by December 2006.It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive, right? That’s for sure; 1.4 billion yuan!
News 4
Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours? One day, maybe you can. Last Saturday, the American X-43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers per hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world.X-43A is only three to four meters long, but it’s very heavy. It weighs 1,270 kilograms.
【小题1】The satellite sent by China will move around ________.

【小题2】The speed of the fastest plane in the world is ______.