Hearst Castle is in California, America. A person called William Randolph Hearst built it between 1922 and 1939, at a cost of more than $30 million. Last year, I had a trip to that castle.
I spent the whole day looking around. But there was much to see, and a day wasn’t enough. Hearst Castle has four houses. The main house, “Casa Grande”, is the biggest one. Visitors can live in the other three ones. Many of them are Hollywood film stars, and they often come to the parties there.
At Hearst Castle, there are also beautiful gardens and two swimming pools, one inside and a larger one outside. I loved the one outside, the “Neptune Pool”. It was a pity that we couldn’t go swimming there!
The guide told us that Mr. Hearst travelled around Europe with his mother at the age of ten and looked at paintings and castles. He never forgot that tour and wanted his house to look like a castle. When Mr Hearst died in 1951, his family gave Hearst Castle to the people of California. Now it’s a museum.

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “Castle” in the first paragraph means _____.

    1. A.
      城堡
    2. B.
      胜地
    3. C.
      城垛
    4. D.
      楼阁
  2. 2.

    “Casa Grande” is _____ the other three ones at Hearst Castle.

    1. A.
      younger than
    2. B.
      bigger than
    3. C.
      older than
    4. D.
      smaller than
  3. 3.

     There are _____ at Hearst Castle.

    1. A.
      beautiful gardens
    2. B.
      one swimming pool inside
    3. C.
      one swimming pool outside
    4. D.
      all the above
  4. 4.

     _____ made Mr. Hearst build this wonderful castle.

    1. A.
      A tour around Europe
    2. B.
      The paintings and castles in Europe
    3. C.
      His mother
    4. D.
      His dream
  5. 5.

     Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

    1. A.
      Hearst Castle in California was cheap to build.
    2. B.
      Hearst Castle is on a mountain near the sea.
    3. C.
      Many Hollywood film stars come to Hearst’s parties.
    4. D.
      After Mr. Hearst died, his family lived at Hearst Castle.

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     I'm Katie from New Zealand and I'm 16 years old.I have two brothers and two sisters and we all live
together with my parents. Everyone gets along quite well but there isn't a lot of communication going on. It seems that everyone has their own world and nobody cares about others. Does anyone know how to
break the ice? I really want everyone to start communicating and spend time together again.    
     My name is Jay. I'm 28 years old. I'm a Filipino. As a kid,I was closer to my mother than my father.
My father had two jobs-one in the day and one at night. So I never really had him around except on family vacations and on his days off. If I had a secret,my mother was the first to know it. When my father quit his evening job,our relationship got better. Later on,my father got into my DJ career (事业) and helped out.
That was so cool.     
     Hi! I'm Ikhlass and I'm 18 years old from Mauritius. My parents divorced (离婚) when I was 3. My
father mamed another woman.I love her like my own mom and she takes care of me as if I am her own
son and she never compares me to her daughter.
1. How many people are there in Katie's family?   
A. Four.      
B. Five.      
C. Six.        
D. Seven. 
2. What does the underlined phrase"break the ice" refer to according to the passage?  
A. Care about others.      
B. Get along well.    
C. Start communicating.    
D. Spend time together.
3. What does Jay do?    
A. A DJ.              
B. A singer.    
C. A dancer.            
D. An actor.
4. Which of the following is Not true?    
A. Katie is from New Zealand.    
B. Jay used to be closer to his mother than his father.    
C. Ikhlass' new mother doesn't treat him well.    
D. Ikhlass' new mother has a daughter of her own.

 

Story 1

  In America in 1940,the twin boys went to live with two different families almost as soon as they were born.The two brothers never saw each other again until1979,when they met by chance at a party.When they started talking to each other,they discovered some amazing similarities(相似处).First,they found out that they both enjoyed making things out of wood.Later on,they discovered that they had both married women called Linda,and that they both had one son whose first and middle names were James and Alan.Besides,both brothers had called their dogs by the same name-Toy.As if that wasn’t enough,they also found out that they both took their family holiday at the same place every year.

Story 2

    In 1996,a Filipino woman called Mrs. Jimena told other people that her three children could breathe underwater like fish.Mrs. Jimena said that her children had three small holes on the sides of their necks below each ear,and that these were like the gills(鱼鳃)on fish.Mrs. Jimena said that she didn’t know how to swim and that her children were just starting to learn. Her family lives in a mountain village far from the sea. According to Mrs. Jimena,the holes in her children’s necks become larger when they are underwater, allowing them to stay underwater for up to six minutes.

Story 3

    On 11th October,1994,a 10-year-old English girl called Vicky Willmore told her mother that she had a headache.Soon afterwards,Vicky began writing in mirror image(镜像).She wrote letters and numbers either upsidedown or back-to-front.Although she could read what she wrote,no one else could.She was examined by different doctors,but none of them could find out what was wrong with her.Vicky became very upset,and soon stopped reading and writing altogether.Instead she started watching TV all the time.On 27th ,September 1995,Vicky was watching her favourite football team,Manchester United,play on television.When the team scored a goal,she became so excited that she jumped out of her seat and fell backwards,hitting her head on a coffee table.The next day,Vicky could read and write properly again.

1.The twin brothers didn’t meet each other until _________.

  A.1940            B.1979             C.1994               D.1996

2.The twin brothers_______.

  A.grew up in two different families

  B.didn’t have any similarities at all

  C.had two sons named James and Alan

  D.didn’t like making things out of wood

3.Mrs Jimena’s children could stay underwater for up to 6 minutes because ________.

  A.their mother was the best swimmer

  B.their village was close to the sea

  C.they had holes like gills below ears

  D.they bad gills like fish in their necks

4.The 10-year-old English girl changed her proper writing habit _______.

  A.soon after she had a headache one clay

  B.while she was watching a football match

  C.when she hit her head on a coffee table

  D.as soon as she stopped reading and writing

5.From the third story we know that ___________.

  A.Vicky wrote backwards for nearly three years

  B.doctors didn’t know what was wrong with Vicky

  C.hitting one’s head can make him write backwards

  D.watching football on television can cause trouble

6.This passage consists of three __________stories.

  A.traditional    B.historical         C.frightening             D.amazing

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