根据所掌握的文化或背景知识，选择正确答案。

1.The      is the fastest animal on earth.

2.In     , people are supposed to kiss when they meet for the first time.

3.Many fast food restaurant      to serve more people.

4.It’s not polite to use e-mail English       .

5.______ will hold the 30^th Olympic Games.

6._____ was born in Qufu. He is a great Chinese educator whose sayings has much influence on our life.

Passage 4
From the world’s heaviest apple, the oldest lady to the world’s smallest dog, these are all parts of a group of the world’s strangest people and things. And they are all in the Guinness Book of Records(《吉尼斯记录》).
The book is going to celebrate its birthday this August. It began exactly half a century ago. And it’s always one of the best selling books in the world.
People now can break over 1000 records every week! Why do so many people want to break the records? Do they want their names in the book or meet more people around the world? “It gives people a chance to show they’re the best in the world.” said one of the record keepers Stewart Newport.
The book was started by Hugh Beaver from Britain. In 1951, he went shooting birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe. Three years later, they were still talking about it. So Beaver believed that people must have different ideas. So, he decided to start a book to record the world’s truly greatest people and things in it!
The newest book came out last Tuesday. This book has a lot of interesting records. Here are two:
☆ A British dog, Whitney, is the world’s smallest dog. It’s only 76mm tall.
☆ An American woman Lee Redmond has the longest fingernails(指甲).They grew as long as 600 mm! She made the record in 1971.
【小题1】We can see everything in the Guinness Book of Records except         .

 Have you ever complained (抱怨) why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes   36  dark to you? Are your lessons sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and   37   all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiling to you.

On a sunny morning, you plan to have a walk to relax yourself. Just before you go out, it   38 starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why   39  sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature brings you? And with the timely rain, crops(庄稼) in the fields will grow better and farmers will have a good harvest (收成).

  40   everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, life isn’t a bed of roses. It’s very common to meet difficulties on the way to success.   41   difficulty isn't terrible. The real terrible thing is that we are afraid of it. Difficulty is  42   a spring (弹簧). If you are   43   , it will be strong. So when you meet difficulties, don't give up. Instead, you should face them with a smile.

Attitude   44   everything. With an optimistic (乐观的) attitude, life is easy and  45 _. If you want to be happy, try to remember these five easy rules. Free your heart from hate; Free your mind from worries; Live an easy life; Give more; Expect less. The quickest way to receive happiness is to smile, the fastest way to lose it is to complain.

1.A. seem   B. seems  C. seemed

2.A. cry      B. smile   C. complain

3.A. suddenly   B. finally   C. hardly

4.A. don't   B. not   C. didn’t

5.A. But    B. For    C. Although

6. A. In fact   B. From early on   C. For example

7. A. unlike    B. likes    C. like

8. A. powerful  B. weak   C. confident

9. A. decides  B. deciding   C. to decide

10.A. please    B. pleased     C. pleasant

In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

“My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame(名誉)or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius, who has since then composed(作曲)lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜).

“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.

Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album, he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.

Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.

Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事业). He has flown to the UK to attend month-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.

“So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate could help me learn and grow with them.”

1.. Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?

a. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.

b. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

c. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.

d. Few people bought his records.

A. abcd B. dbca C. acbd D. dacb

2. Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?

A. Because he wants to live in the UK.

B. Because his record company asks him to.

C. Because he wants to sell his album in the UK.

D. Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career.

3.. Which of the following statements is right?

A. Steve Chou loves music and he sings for fame.

B. The human relationships in the Internet age he explores is that Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it.

C. Steve Chou lives with local families in Canada and practices daily conversations.

D.Steve grows up with some Americans.

4.Steve Chou may agree with the following except that .

taking trips gives him some ideas of music

what we really want to follow is the most important.

music is a thing that can bring him fame and money.

in International age,technology itself is not a bad thing

5.What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?

A.Kind and helpful. B.Proud and confident.

C.Active and hard-working D.Calm and disappointed