Painting and writing on walls is nothing new. In prehistoric(史前的)times, people in Africa and Europe painted pictures of animals and people in caves. Graffiti has been found at ancient sites in Greece, Italy, Syria and Iraq. In the Roman town of Pompeii in Italy, archaeologists found a lot of graffiti written in Latin, including political and romantic messages, and even some magic spells!

In the 1970s, young people in New York used pens to write their names, or "tags", on walls around the city. One of the first "taggers" was Demetrius, a teenager from a Greek family. He wrote his tag on walls in his neighbourhood and in subway stations on the way to school. Other teenagers saw Demetrius's tag and started writing..their own tags on walls, buses and subway trains all over New York. Then, some teenagers stopped using pens and started using paints. Their tags were bigger and more colourful and appeared on trains, buses and walls around the world. In the 1990s and 2000s, a lot of graffiti artists started to make pictured too.

In many countries, it is a crime to paint on walls and street artists can have problems with the police. In other countries, street art is permitted in certain places. Nowadays, street art is more popular with the public. In some cities, there are street art festivals. In Bristol in the UK, there is a street art festival in August every year. Artists paint all the buildings in a street. Lots of people come to watch the artists and take photos. Street art can be seen in galleries(美术馆)too. There have been exhibitions of street art in galleries in Paris, London and Los Angeles.

Most street artists are young people who paint in their neighbourhood or home city. Many of them use the Internet to communicate and share photos of their pictures with other street artists around the world. Although we don't know what will happen to street art in the future, we can be sure that it is here to stay!

1.Graffiti in ancient times includes different kinds of themes EXCEPT________ .

A.names and tags B.magic spells C.animals and people D.romantic messages

2.Which is the correct order according to the passage?

①Demetrius wrote his tags on walls.

②Many graffiti artists made pictures too.

③Other teenagers wrote their own tags on walls.

④There have been exhibitions of street art in galleries.

⑤More colourful tags appeared on trains, buses and walls.

A.①③⑤②④ B.①③⑤④②

C.④③①②⑤ D.④①③②⑤

3.What does the underlined word "permitted" mean in Paragraph 3?

A.protected B.allowed C.punished D.warned

4.According to the passage, we can learn that________ .

A.Demetrius was the first graffiti artist B.street art can be only seen in the street

C.street artists begin to share their works online D.Bristol holds a street art festival every September

Nobody in the street knew Miss Hilton. While she lived, her front gate was always locked and no one saw her ________ or saw ________ go in. So even if you ________, you couldn’t feel sorry and ________ that you ________ Miss Hilton.

When I think of ________, I see just two colours, grey and green. The green of mango (芒果) tree, the grey of the house and the grey of the high iron fence (铁栅栏) that kept you off the mangoes.

If your football ________ Miss Hilton’s garden, you never ________. It wasn’t the mango season ________ Miss Hilton died. But we got back about ten ________ twelve of our footballs.

________ the end of the week a sign was shone on the mango tree: For sale.

We were ready to dislike ________ even before they came. I think we ________. Already we had one man who kept on complaining (抱怨) about us ________ the police. He complained that we played football near his house and if we weren’t playing football he complained that we were making ________ noise anyway.

1.A.left B.to leave C.leave D.leaving

2.A.anybody B.nobody C.somebody D.everybody

3.A.wanted B.wanted to C.wanted to see D.were wanted

4.A.say B.said C.to say D.saying

5.A.were missing B.were missed C.missing D.missed

6.A.her photo B.her house C.her car D.her houses

7.A.fall in B.felt in C.fell in D.filled in

8.A.could get it B.should get it C.got it back D.got in

9.A.when B.that C.whether D.as

10.A.and B.but C.over D.or

11.A.In B.By C.On D.At

12.A.a new lady B.the new people C.an old person D.the old children

13.A.were no worry B.were not worry C.were a little worried D.were a lot worried

14.A.to B.on C.for D.with

15.A.so little B.too many C.much too D.too much

Orlando Bloom is a famous actor ( 演 员 ), but his life was not always successful.

When he was at the age of seven, the doctor said he was a boy with dyslexia-difficulty in reading. It made his school years very difficult. His mother tried to make him think it was something special and he was going to be great with it, but he often felt stupid and useless. He never let his classmates know how difficult school was for him, but young Orlando was often angry and frustrated, because of his difficulty in reading. His mother helped him a lot at home, and he took many after-school classes and studied hard, but his mind moved faster than the words could come out. He says that he “had to work three times as hard to get 1/3 of the way.” He never read aloud.

Then Bloom found acting and learned it for three years at the acting school. He met a great teacher there. He told Bloom to learn the thoughts ( 思想) and forget the words. Playing different roles (角色) helped him very much. Through acting, Bloom could overcome (战胜) his dyslexia. And he wanted tobe an actor from then on.

Bloom asks kids with dyslexia never to worry about it but to find other ways to get success. “If you can overcome this difficulty, you are going to be much successful than anyone else.” Bloom says.

1.What does Orlando Bloom do?

A.An actor. B.A doctor. C.A teacher. D.A farmer.

2.What made his school years very difficult?

A.His after-school classes.

B.His difficulty in reading.

C.His teacher at the acting school.

D.His acting in some fins.

3.What does frustrated mean in paragraph 2?

A.得意的 B.挫 败的 C.成 功的 D.兴奋的.

4.What's paragraph 3 mainly about?

A.How Bloom overcame his dyslexia.

B.Who helped Bloom learn to read.

C.What roles Bloom has played.

D.Why Bloom became famous.

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