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The Mayan(玛雅的)Indians lived in Mexico for thousands of years before the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. The Mayan achievements were many. They had farms, beautiful palaces, and cities with many buildings. The Mayan people knew a lot about nature and the world around them. This knowledge helped them to live a better life than most people of that time, because they could use it to make their lives more comfortable and rewarding(值得的). Knowledge about tools and farming, for example, made their work easier and more productive.
The Maya believed in many gods, including rain gods, sun gods, and corn gods. The people built large temples to honor the Mayan gods. Skillful workers built cities around these temples. It was difficult for them to build these cities, because they had no horses to carry the heavy stone they used to build with. Workers had to carry all of the building materials themselves. Today, many of these ancient Mayan cities and temples are still standing.
Although the cities that the Maya built were beautiful, and the people worked hard to build them, very few of the people lived in them. Usually, only the priests(牧师)lived in the cities.
The other people lived in small villages in the forests. Their houses were much simpler than the elaborate buildings in the cities. They lived in small huts(小屋)with no windows. The walls were made of poles covered with dried mud, and the roof was made of grass or leaves. Most Maya lived a simple life close to nature.
The Mayan priests studied the Sun, the Moon, stars, and planets. They made a calendar from what they learned. The year was divided into 18 months of 20 days each with five days left over. The Mayan calendar was far more exact than the European calendars of the time.
Around the year 800, the Maya left their villages and beautiful cities, never to return. No one knows why this happened. They may have died from some disease. They may have left because the soil could no longer grow crops. Archaeologists(考古学家)are still trying to find the lost secrets of the Maya.
小题1:What does the underlined word “elaborate’’ mean?
A.easily builtB.carefully made C.slowly fixed D.quickly designed
小题2:From the passage we can infer(推理)that   .
A.most Maya lived in beautiful cities
B.many Mayan cities and temples are still standing
C.the Maya were intelligent and culturally rich people
D.the Mayan calendar was the same as European calendars
小题3:Why it is said that the Mayan people lived a better life than most people of that time?
A.They had better building skills and housing conditions.
B.They believed in many gods, and honored the Mayan gods.
C.They had knowledge about tools and faming.
D.They studied about nature and the world around them.
小题4:What can be the best title for this article?
A.Mayan GodsB.Mayan Buildings
C.Productive MayaD.Mysterious(神秘的)Maya

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:D

小题1:根据单词的意思可知答案为B
小题2:根据文章内容大意可知答案为C
小题3:根据文章内容The Mayan priests studied the Sun, the Moon, stars, and planets. They made a calendar from what they learned. The year was divided into 18 months of 20 days each with five days left over. The Mayan calendar was far more exact than the European calendars of the time.可知答案为D
小题4:根据文章内容可知答案为D
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Two thousand years ago,beside the beautiful and rich Loulan Lake,there lay Loulan ancient city of the Silk Road.Businessmen from every country gathered here and there were lots of dancing parties小题1:
However,two thousand years later,this rich land suddenly disappeared from the map of China 小题2: 
Loulan was first “discovered” by a Swedish man,Sven Hedin,in 1900.People from other countries all began to come here小题3: He visited and studied this area and found many relics (遗迹)that were beautifully and carefully made.
It is recorded that the ancient city of Loulan was the capital of Loulan Kingdom during the Han and Jin Dynasties (朝代),and covered an area of about 100,000m2. 小题4:  Outside the city,there are some dried rivers and much farmland.In the past century,many coins,mirrors and other things from Greek and Roman have been dug out there.小题5:
The Loulan Kingdom is now a lifeless area with endless “forests” of mounds (小丘)which aren’t easily seen in other parts of the world.So people from many countries have been interested in this place.
根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项,使短文意思通 顺、内容完整。
A.All these things show that business between East and West once took place there.
B.People in Loulan lived a rich life then.
C.Inside the city there are government offices and other old buildings.
D.Then it became an area covered with sand and dead trees.
E.Then a Chinese named Huang Wenbi came to Loulan.
根据短文内容,完成文后任务。注意:每个空格只填一个单词。
Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.
The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.
The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.
So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Title: Relationship Between Age and   小题1】          
The elements of the survey
Time: 2008
Place: in the United States
Researcher: Arthur Stone and his 小题2】
Targets: 340,000 adults
The 小题3】of the survey
Generally people become happier and feel小题1:worried after age 50. By the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18.
Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the       小题5】stress.
The kids and those in their early 小题6】feel the happiest.
Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more 小题7】and worried than men do.
Conclusion
Happiness 小题8】with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions 小题9】as they get older. It also      小题2:them less time to think about bad experiences.
 
Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America. One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.
The reporter was talking to them about being important.
“How do we know if someone is really important?” the reporter asked the banker.
The banker thought for a few moments and then said, “I think anybody who is invited to the Whiter House to meet the President of the United States is really important.”
The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. “Do you agree with that?” she asked.
The man shook his head, “No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You’d only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it.”
The reporter turned to the third man. “Do you think so?”
“No, I don’t.” he said. “I don’t think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important.”
“Then what would make the visitor important?” the reporter and the other two men asked.
“Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, ‘it’s for you.’”
小题1:This story happened in _______.
A.England B.America C.Japan D.Australia
小题2:The banker thought _______.
A.He was really important because he was a rich banker
B.The visitor to the White House was really important
C.The visitor who met the President of the United States was really important
D.the reporter was really important
小题3:The owner of many buildings thought _______.
A.He was really important because he owned many buildings in the center of New York
B.The owner of the very large company was really important
C.The visitor was really important if he talking to the President and the President received a telephone call for the visitor
D.The person who worked in the White House was really important
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(咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.
小题1:From the passage we know that in Ghana ______________.
A.the rules for dinner time are not strict
B.dinner is always at six in the evening
C.a family offers food only at four in the afternoon
D.people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening
小题2:People in Ghana usually eat ________.
A.from one side of a dish to the other
B.from the other side of the dish
C.with their fingers
D.with their spoons
小题3:In fact, most dishes in Ghana _______.
A.are cooked with the powder of some plants
B.have fufu in them
C.are too hard to eat
D.are not very hard
小题4:When you eat fufu, you’d better _________.
A.cut it with a saw
B.use your right hand only
C.chew it well
D.all of the above
Beautiful pictures of mountains and forests, clear skies, flying birds, wild animals, silly faces — you can find them all in one place. 46  ? On a postcard! Have people always sent postcards? No! Before postcards, people  47 sealed (密封的) letters.
The 48  for the first decorated (装饰的) postcard came to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card  49 a border would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, postcards which had pictures on them 50  . By law, people had to write their note on the front—on the picture! The back was 51 for the address. Several years later, England allowed a divided-back (背面隔开的) postcard. Then people could write their 52  on the back left side. And they put the address 53 . During the early 1900s, the golden age of postcards, people around the world were more and more 54  picture postcards. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million postcards.
Today, postcards are the 55  most popular collection in the world after stamps and coins. You can always see or get a lot of newly-designed postcards, especially on New Year's Day.
小题1:
A.How B.When C.Why D.Where
小题2:
A.liked B.hated C.found D.lost
小题3:
A.advice B.picture C.idea D.card
小题4:
A.above B.with C.under D.for
小题5:
A.happened B.changed C.ended D.appeared
小题6:
A.even B.only C.still D.ever
小题7:
A.note B.word C.address D.letter
小题8:
A.on the frontB.on the back C.on the left D.on the right
小题9:
A.surprised atB.interested in C.expected by D.worried about
小题10:
A.first B.second C.third D.fourth
My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I never wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would     I had an ugly mother.
One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came.
“Your mom only has one eye?!” asked some of my classmates. I was so     .
I wished my mother would just     from this world. “If you make me teased(嘲笑),why don’t you just die?” I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and left without saying     .
At that time, I felt     to say what I always wanted to say, and I didn’t think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom     in her room, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might     me. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a     : I must study hard and leave my mother.
Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived     . I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother     one day I got a letter, which said, “My son… I’m sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into a(n)     and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn’t     watching you live with only one eye.       I gave you mine. I was never     with you and I never regretted(后悔) what I did because I     you…”
I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!
小题1:
A.run outB.put outC.come outD.find out
小题2:
A.happyB.embarrassedC.coolD.pleased
小题3:
A.disappearB.changeC.comeD.go
小题4:
A.everythingB.somethingC.anythingD.nothing
小题5:
A.worriedB.badC.goodD.annoyed
小题6:
A.cookingB.workingC.readingD.crying
小题7:
A.breakB.wakeC.loseD.see
小题8:
A.decisionB.differenceC.suggestionD.mistake
小题9:
A.luckilyB.healthilyC.busilyD.happily
小题10:
A.if B.unlessC.untilD.though
小题11:
A.accidentB.appointmentC.universityD.habit
小题12:
A.enjoyB.standC.helpD.stop
小题13:
A.SoB.BecauseC.OrD.But
小题14:
A.excitedB.surprisedC.angryD.proud
小题15:
A.dislikeB.loveC.hateD.miss

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