Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　At midnight on New Year's Eve, people in Rome and Italy, throw out all the things. They don't want to use them any longer. The streets are filled with old chairs, beds, clothes, and dishes. In Madrid, Spain, the new year comes in more quietly. People come together to the main square. Each holds a bag of grapes. As the clock strikes twelve, the people eat the grapes one for each strike (敲击). In Tokyo, people eat noodles on New Year's Eve. This food is said to bring long life. Early the next morning, some Japanese families climb Mount Fuji (富士山). There they watch the first sunrise of the new year.

Choose the best answer. 选择最恰当的答案, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

(1) This story is about New Year's Eve in ________.

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(2) People in Madrid welcome the New Year by eating at least ________ grapes.

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(3) People in both Spain and Japan ________ to bring in the new year.

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A．throw things away

B．eat some kind of food

C．get together in the main square

D．climb a mountain

(4) People climb Mount Fuji to ________.

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A．look at the stars

B．look for New Year's flowers

C．see the sun come up

D．have some exercise

(5) The people who hope to get a long life from their New Year's food are the ________.

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Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　It is a fine Sunday morning. Li Wei and Zhang Tao want to go to the Great Wall. At about 7:00, they are getting on a bus. There are a few people in the bus. Li Wei and Zhang Tao are very happy to see the Green family are in the bus, too. They both say hello to the English couple (夫妇) and their daughter. There are two other Chinese in the bus. One is a woman. She is driving the bus. The other is a young man. He speaks good English. He is talking about the Great Wall to the Greens. And the Greens are listening to him very carefully. All the people want to see the Great Wall very much. At about 8:00 they get there.

Choose the best answer. 选择最恰当的答案, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

(1) A: What day is it today?

B: It's ________.

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(2) There are ________ Chinese in the bus.

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(3) The driver is a ________.

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(4) The young man is ________.

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A．listening to the Greens

B．talking to the Greens

C．driving the bus

D．selling some maps

(5) The Great Wall is in ________.

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Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　People all over the world like to eat in fast food restaurants. The food there is delicious and it comes very quickly. Also, it is not expensive and the restaurants are always clean and bright. People can eat in or take their food away.

　　Chinese families love to eat in fast food restaurants, too. There are two kinds of fast food restaurants in China. There are Western food restaurants, and there are Chinese ones.

　　Western fast food restaurants sell hamburgers, French fries, fried chicken wings, pizza, drinks and so on. The Chinese fast food restaurants sell noodles and other Chinese snacks.

Choose the best answer. 选择最恰当的答案, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

(1) People all over the world like to eat in ________.

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(2) The food in fast food restaurants comes ________.

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(3) The food in fast food restaurants is ________.

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(4) Chinese people ________ to eat in fast food restaurants.

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(5) We can buy ________ in a Chinese fast food restaurant.

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Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant (仆人) loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.

　　But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. It was afraid to be punished, so it drank the poison to kill itself.

Choose the best answer. 选择最恰当的答案, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

(1) In the story, ________ liked wine and good food very much.

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(2) The rich man knew that it was ________ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

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(3) The rich man told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________.

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A．there was in fact poison in the bottles

B．did not want the servant to drink his wine

C．he wanted to kill the cat

D．he wanted to kill the servant

(4) In fact, ________ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

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(5) From the story, we know that the servant is very ________.

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Reading comprehension. 阅读理解.

　　Scientists are trying to make the deserts (沙漠) into good land again. They are learning a lot about them, but more and more land is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts in time.

　　Why is more and more land becoming deserts? People make deserts. They are doing bad things to the earth.

　　There isn't much rain in some places on the earth, but still they don't become deserts. Why? Because some green plants and grass are growing there and they are very important to dry places. Plants can let the hot sun not make the land even drier and let the wind not blow the land away. When a little rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become a desert more easily.

Choose the best answer. 选择最恰当的答案, 用A, B, C或D表示, 填入括号内.

(1) Deserts ________.

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A．can get very little rain

B．never have any plants or animals in them

C．can all be turned into good land soon

D．are good places for people to live in

(2) Green plants are very important to dry places because ________.

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A．they don't let the sun make the land even drier

B．they make the deserts beautiful

C．they let the wind blow the land away

D．they can keep the water

(3) Land is becoming desert all the time because ________.

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A．plants can't grow there

B．there is not enough rain

C．people are doing something wrong to it

D．both B and C

(4) Which is the main idea of the first paragraph?

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A．Scientists know nothing about the deserts.

B．Land is becoming desert faster than people can stop it.

C．Scientists have changed all the deserts into good land.

D．It's easy to change desert into land.

(5) After reading the passage we will know that ________.

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A．plants can stop dry land from becoming desert

B．it is good to cut down all the plants in the desert

C．all places without much rain will become desert

D．it is better to grow crops on dry land than to grow grass