At Beijing’s Beihai Park, there is a good place for visitors. Right now, there’s a lotus(莲花) scene on the park’s lake. ★Enjoying the lotus by boat is a great thing that tourists in Beijing don’t want to miss.
　　Beihai Park’s lotus festival is in its 13th year. The festival came to a stop in 1998 because of a conflict(冲突) between the flower and the fish. It started again in 2006. The park was once a place where the royals(王室) came to enjoy the lotus.
　　The Beihai Park lotus festival runs until August the 10th. A lotus festival is also featured at the Lian Hua Chi, or the Lotus Pond Park in the west of Beijing.
　　Telephone: 86010-64033225
　　Address: No.1, Wenjin Street, Beijing, China
　　Bus: 5, 101, 103, 107, 109, 111, 701, 814, 823, 846
　　Opening Hours: 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
51. When can we come to Beihai Park to see the lotus festival? ____.
　A. In August　　 B. In September　 C. In October　 D. In November
52. From which year did the festival stop for some time? ____.
　A. 2008　　　　 B. 2006　　　　　 C. 2003　　　 D. 1998
53. How many buses can take us to Beihai Park? ____.
　A. Eight　　　 B. Nine　　 　　　C. Ten　　　　 D. Eleven
54. Where can we see lotus in Beijing? ____.
　A. In Beihai Park　 B. In Lian Hua Chi　　 C. In Lotus Pond Park　 D. All the above
55. According to the passage, we can know that ____.
　 A. the tourists don’t like the lotus at all

　　 B. Beihai Park’s lotus festival has a 13-year history
　 C. the Lotus Pond Park is in the east of Beijing
　 D. the lotus festival lasts until August 12th

Last month the manager of a jewelry shop (珠宝店) received a letter. As he was very busy then, the letter lay on his desk till tea-time. He opened it and a 10-pound note(票) fell out onto the desk. Within the note was a letter which said:

Dear sir:

In 1935 I got engaged(订婚). But unfortunately I lost my job. At the time a lot of people were out of work. Six months later I got a job again, but of course I was very short of money. I came to your shop to buy a wedding ring(婚戒). The assistant took out some rings for me to look at, but she was called away for a moment, and I put one of the rings in my pocket. When she came back, I said I didn’t know the size of my girl’s finger. So I left the shop without buying a ring. My wife died a short while ago and the fact that I never paid for the ring has been heavy in my heart all these years. At that time, the ring cost 2 pounds so I think it is 10 pounds at today’s price and I’m sending 10 pounds.

Yours truly,

A customer (顾客)

1.When did the manager open the letter?

2.The customer didn’t write the letter until_____.

3.What happened in 1935?

4.Which of the following is Not true?

5.What do you think of the customer?

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Once thirty thousand years ago, people from northern Asia went to America. Today, we call these people Indians.

The Indians went to America because the weather began to change. Northern Asia became very cold. Everything froze. They had to move or die. How did the first Indians go to America?  They walked!

Later Columbus found the New World in 1492. At first, only a few Europeans followed. They traveled to America in boats. For the next three hundred years, about 500, 000 people went there. Then the number grew very quickly. From 1815 to 1915, over thirty-two million Europeans left their countries and went to the United States. The biggest groups were from Germany and Italy. These Europeans spoke many different languages. Most of them took almost no money. They went to America so that they could find a better life.