综合填空（每小题1分，共10分）

Long, long ago there was a bad king. All of his people h  1.   him.

One hot day he was taking a walk along a river when he decided to have a swim in it. He was a good s  2.   . But while he was in the river, he s  3. fell ill, and was nearly drowned(淹死). At that time two f  4. were working in the field n  5.They came over, jumped into the river, and he was s  6.   . They didn’t know who he was until they p  7.   him out of the water.

The king was happy. He said to the two farmers, “Ask for a  8.  , I’ll give it to you. I’m the r  9.   in the world. And today you have saved my life.”

One of them answered, “You can do one thing for us.” “What is it?” asked the king. He thought that they would ask for a lot of money.

“Don’t tell a  10.  that we have saved you.”

根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。(每空一词)

Books bring us k____1.____ which enriches (丰富)our lives and b___2.___ us happiness.

All great men in the history of mankind(人类) l____3.____ books. There is no genius(天才) without books. We know that books are treasure of knowledge, and knowledge is power. Without it, we can achieve(取得) n___4.___. A man is blind and does not even know w____5.___he is doing if he is unable to read.

Books bring us h____6.___ as well as knowledge. They enable us not only to see through the past, but also to see into the f___7._____.

Macaulay, a famous historian of England, once wrote to a little girl, “ If anyone would make me the greatest king that ever lived with palaces, fine dinners , wines, b____8.____ clothes and hundreds of servants, on condition that I should not read books, I would not be the king. I would rather be a p____9.____ man with a lot of books than a king w____10.___ any books in his splendid palace.

完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。 (本大题共10分，每小题1分)
Once there was a king who told some of his people to dig a pond (池子).The king then told his people that one person   1   each family had to bring a glass of milk during the night and put it into the pond. So, by the morning, the pond should be   2  of milk.
After   3  the order, everyone went home. As one man prepared his milk, he thought that since everyone was bringing milk, he would just   4  a glass of water and put that into the pond instead.   5  it was dark at night, no one would notice it, so he quickly went and put the water into the pond and  6  home.
In the morning, the king went to visit the pond. To his surprise, the pond was only filled with water! What happened? Yes! Everyone had the same idea   7  that man. They all thought, “I don’t have to waste my milk. Someone else will do it.”
Dear friends, when you plan to help poor people or people in trouble, do not think that   8   will take care of it.   9 , it starts with you. If you don’t do it, no one else will, so change yourself and make a   10  .   

When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18th century, people had different ideas about their use.Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause （引起）people to die.

      In Sweden（瑞典）, King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether or not this was true.It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time.They were twins and were almost alike in every way.They had both been sentenced to death (判处死刑).The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee.

     Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind.At last,the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83,the other died a few years later.

    Because of the experiment(实验), tea and coffee got accepted (接受) and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee is drunk today.

1.Tea and coffee were first introducd to Europe in_______.

A. the eighteenth century             B. the eighteen century

C. eighteenth centuries               D. eighteen centuries

2.What does the word harmful mean in Chinese?---It means________.

A. 有趣的  B.苦涩无味的  C.有害的   D. 可口的

3.The brother who had drunk tea every day lived______.

A. until he was over 83

B. until he was 83

C. until the other had been dead for several years

D. until he had drunk tea for a few years

4.Today the Swedish drink_________.

A. much more coffee than tea         B. much tea and coffee

C. little tea and coffee               D. much tea but little coffee

阅读理解

　　We sometimes say the lion is “the king of the jungle(丛林)” because it is stronger and more dangerous than the other animals. It can run faster than most other animals and it can hunt(捕猎) the best. The lion is the highest animal in the land food chain. In the sea, the shark is at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than most other sea animals. It can also use its big teeth to catch other sea animals and eat them.

　　What is at the top of the world's food chain? People are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the cleverest. We could not run faster than most animals, so we invented cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than a lion, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the best.

　　People's inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, many years ago in Inner Mongolia, people used guns to kill a lot of wild wolves. The wild wolves usually eat wild rabbits. But in recent(近来的) years, the number of wild rabbits is becoming bigger and bigger because the number of wild wolves is getting smaller and smaller. The wild rabbits competed(竞争) for the grass with the sheep and cows. Much of the grassland became desert because it was seriously destroyed(毁坏) by the rabbits.

　　Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger, too! If we protect animals, we are protecting ourselves.

1．How many kinds of food chains are mentioned in this passage?

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2．Why are people at the top of the world's food chain?

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A．Because they can use guns.

B．Because they are the biggest.

C．Because they are the cleverest.

D．Because they can drive cars.

3．Which order of the pictures best describes the third paragraph?

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4．In what way do we say people's inventions can be sometimes dangerous?

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A．They can kill a lot of wild wolves.

B．They can destroy the food chain.

C．They can destroy the grassland.

D．They can make wild rabbits grow bigger and bigger.

5．What is the best title(标题) of the passage?

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