题目内容
China ________ many provinces.
- A.is made up of
- B.made up of
- C.is made
- D.are made up
In China, many people are leaving the countryside to find jobs in the cities, because the countryside is much poorer than the city, and often there isn’t much work there. Services such as hospital and transport （交通） are usually much better in the city than in the countryside. They hope that their lives will improve when they move to the city.
But in the big cities of Europe like London or Pads, people are moving out of the city. These rich families want to live a quieter life. They are tired of the noise and the dirt （尘土） of the city, and they are tired of the crowded streets, crowded trains and buses. They don’t want to live in the cities any more. They want a house with a garden in the countryside, and breathe the fresh air there.
So they move out of the cities. Some don’t go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities, other people move to the real countryside with sheep, cows and green fields. There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.
Not all those who move from the city to the countryside are happy. After two or three years, many people who have done this feel that it was a big mistake. They don’t make so much money and there isn’t much work to do. People in the countryside are very different and aren’t always very friendly.
As a result, quite a lot of people who have moved to the countryside move back to the city. "It’s wonderful to see crowds in the streets and cinema lights," they say.
【小题1】Which is NOT the reason for people moving to the cities in China?
| A．The countryside is much poorer than me city. |
| B．People in the countryside have nothing to eat. |
| C．People in the countryside don’t have much work to do there. |
| D．Services in cities are usually much better than those in the countryside. |
| A．Because they will find good jobs. |
| B．Because they are tired of living in the city. |
| C．Because they can make more money there. |
| D．Because they like feeding sheep and cows in the green fields. |
Because ______________
| A．they can’t make much money |
| B．there isn’t much work for them to do in the countryside |
| C．some people in the countryside aren’t always very friendly to them |
| D．all of the above |
| A．they are happy to move back to the city |
| B．they miss their friends in the countryside |
| C．they still want to move to the countryside |
| D．they are tired0f the noise and the crowded streets in the city |
| A．A happy life | B．Living in the city |
| C．Moving out or moving back | D．Living in the countryside |
What is your zodiac（生肖） animal? According to the Chinese lunar calendar（农历）, 12 animals mark 12 different years. It is the basis of the Chinese zodiac. Nowadays, Chinese zodiac animals have worldwide fame and are increasingly popular among western people.
The zodiac is an important part of Chinese culture. People believe that the characteristics of a zodiac animal influence the personality of every person born in that year. For example, people born in the Year of the Tiger are considered powerful and brave.
Zodiac animals also have some social functions. When people think it is not proper to ask: “How old are you”, they may change their question to “What is your zodiac animal?” With this question, you can figure out roughly which year someone was born and the person’s age.
Zodiac animals are not special to China. Many countries share a similar zodiac culture with China. For example, in the Japanese Zodiac, a wild boar（野猪）takes the place of a pig and the Vietnamese（越南的）zodiac has a cat instead of a rabbit.
But have you ever wondered how these 12 animals were chosen to represent each year? According to legend, the Jade Emperor（玉皇大帝）invited all the animals to join him for Chinese New Year. Only 12 animals went to see him. As a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The ox would have been the first to arrive, but the rat sat on his back and jumped off just before they arrived to come in first place.
【小题1】The characteristics of a zodiac animal may influence the _____ of every person
born in that year.
| A．appearance | B．personality | C．hobby | D．education |
| A．age | B．name | C．job | D．weight |
| A．wild boar | B．rabbit | C．dragon | D．pig |
| A．ox | B．rat | C．pig | D．cat |
先阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框给的词中选出最恰当的10个，并用其适当形式填空，每个词只限用一次。（10分）
| leaf, then, large, learn, ones, grow, thick, has, mean, first, easy, begin |
The orange tree is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green 【小题3】 . The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree 【小题4】 flowers and fruit at the same time.
There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the 【小题5】
today. The orange tree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges 【小题6】 in China today. The Chinese started to raise(栽培) orange trees about 4,400 years ago.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East 【小题7】 to raise oranges from the Chinese. 【小题8】 they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the new world (North and South America). They took them to Florida 【小题9】. Oranges are a very important crop in Florida today.
In English, orange 【小题10】 both a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for the color.