I. 课文理解

1. Oxford in the UK and Grenoble in France are similar.

Choose the WRONG statement about them ：

   A. They both have universities and industries.

   B. They are both medium-sized towns in Europe.

   C. Tourism isn’t important to them.

   D. They are both close to some of the most beautiful countryside.

2. Town twinning is .

   A. a new thought

   B. less popular now

   C. an agreement between towns or cities

   D. an agreement between two countries

(   )3. Where did the visitors of town twinning agreements live when they visited the others of town twinning agreements?

   A. In the hotels. B. In the schools.

   C. In the theatres. D. In the private homes.

4. Town twinning is most useful for .

   A. businessmen   B. students

   C. foreigners   D. teachers

(   )5. Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?

   A. There is usually a party for you when you visit your town twinning agreement friends.

   B. In order to practise your English,you must live with a foreign family for one or two weeks.

   C. The town twinning agreement cities are the same in everything.

   D. In the town twinning agreements,one city must visit the other once a year.

V.完形填空

    The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world,children can 1 from a different kind of poverty—of the spirit. 2,one Western country alone now sees 14 ,000 attempted suicides (自杀 ) every year by children under 15 ,and one child 3 five needs psychiatric advice.

     There are many good things about 4 in the Third World. Take the close and constant relation between children and their parents,relatives and neighbours for example. In the West,the very nature of work puts distance between 5 and children. But in most Third World villages Mother and Father do not go miles away each day to work in offices. 6,the child sees Mother and Father,relations and neighbours working 7 and often shares in that work.

      A child 8 in this way leams his or her role through joining in the community's 9 ：helping to dig or build,look after animals or babies一rather than 10 playing with water and sand in the kindergarten,keeping pets 11 playing with dolls.

     These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the 12 children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world,13 , are provided with a watch as one of the 14 signs of growing up,so that they can 15 along with their parents about being late for school times,meal times,bed times,the times of TV shows …

Children in the Third World do not usually 16 to stay indoors,still less in high-rise apartments (公寓) . Instead of dangerous roads, “keep off the grass” signs and “don't speak to strangers”’there is often a sense of 17 to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them 18 from ten floors up.

19 , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease. But childhood in the Third World is not all 20 .

1. A. come   B. learn   C. suffer   D. survive

2. A. As usual   B. For instance

   C. In fact   D. In other words

3. A. by   B. in   C. to   D. under

4. A. childhood   B. poverty

   C. spirit   D. survival

5. A. adults   B. fathers

   C. neighbours   D. relatives

6. A. Anyhow   B. However

   C. Instead   D. Still

7. A. away   B. alone

   C. along   D. nearby

8. A. growing up   B. living through

   C. playing   D. working

9. A. activity   B. life

   C. study   D. work

10. A. by   B. from

   C. through   D. with

11. A. and   B. but   C. or   D. so

12. A. Eastern   B. good   C. poor   D. Western

13. A. at any moment   B. at the same time   C. on the other hand   D. on the whole

14. A. easiest         B. earliest

  C. happiest   D. quickest

15. A. care   B. fear   C. hurry   D. worry

16. A. dare   B. expect   C. have   D. require

17. A. control   B. danger

  C. disappointment   D. freedom

18. A. anxiously   B. eagerly

   C. impatiently   D. proudly

19. A. Above all   B. In the end

   C. Of course   D. What's more 

20. A. bad   B. good   C. rich   D. poor

10. The students are now making an active to beautify their school.

   A. part   B. effort

   C. plan   D. role

9. A great number of people are going and hundreds of children have died of .

   A. hungrily;hunger   B. hungry;hunger

   C. hunger;hungry   D. hungry;hungrily 

8. It is amazing that the little boy can swim the river 100 metres wide.

   A. across;measuring   B. over;measuring   C. across;measure   D. through;measuring

7. I would like to have this film . Can I pick it up tomorrow?

   A. developed. B. imagined

   C. expanded   D. printed

6. I can't what has happened to the vegetables for they were freshly picked this morning.

   A. look out   B. take out

   C. go out   D. figure out

5. There is only one opening here for a typist,and quite a few people are competing for the .

   A. position   B. situation

   C. condition   D. state

4. When the newspaperman got to a blue door, , which frightened him away as fast as possible.

   A. out a fierce dog rushed

   B. out did a fierce dog rush

   C. out rushed a fierce dog

   D. rushed out a fierce dog

3. Tourism is a major source of ; for the coun- try.

   A. salary   B. wages

   C. money   D. income