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The apple is more than just a fruit. People use it for city names and business logos, too.
“The Big Apple”stands for New York City.
The phrase was first used in a 1909 book called
“The Wayfarer in New York”It was used to show how rich New York is.Later, jazz musicians in the 1930s and 1940s made the phrase more popular. At that time, musicians earned money by playing in cities and towns across America.
They said each city in America was an apple on a tree. But New York city, where most fans of their music lived, was
“the big apple”. It was there they got the most pay.In the 1970s, the city wanted to make itself more popular with tourists. It started to use an apple as its symbol.
（象征）Apples are also hot in the computer world. Apple Computer, a big company in America, uses a picture of an apple with a bite taken out of it as its logo. Some say that the bite
（一口）means“learning knowledge”. Also,“bite”sounds similar to“byte（字节）,”a unit（单位）in computer science.阅读短文，选择最佳答案．
(1) Which of the following is NOT true?.
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A
．The apple can be used for city names.B
．“The Wayfarer in New York”came out in 1909.C
．New York people like eating big apples.(2) What became more popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A
．The use of“Big Apple”as another name for New York.B
．The Wayfarer in New York.C
．Jazz musicians.(3) Musicians played in cities and towns across America for ________.
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A ．books |
B ．money |
C ．computers |
(4) When did New York start to use an apple as its symbol?
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A ．In the 1930s |
B ．In the 1940s |
C ．In the 1970s |
(5) The word
“hot”in the last paragraph（段落）means ________.[ ]
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A ．炎热的 |
B ．畅销的 |
C ．流行的 |
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从短文后面每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项。
Tex Clark was the top man at the zoo. He liked to watch the animals in the zoo. He liked to watch the children, too. One day he saw a big boy. Tex ran over and said, “Come with me,”He pulled the big boy over to the elephants' pen.
Tex picked up a stick. He waved it in front of a big elephant. “Up, Jo-Jo ! ”he shouted. Up went the elephant's big head. Up went one big front leg and then the other. The elephant stood on her hind legs. Her trunk was high in the air.
“Lie down ! ”Tex shouted to Jo-Jo. He pointed to the boy, “Pick him up, Jo-Jo ! ”Then he said to the boy,“Don't be afraid. She won't hurt you. ”
The big elephant put her trunk around the boy. She carried him high into the air and put him down on her head.
Of course the boy was afraid. But then he looked around. What a way to see the zoo! He looked down into the monkeys' cage. Down at the tigers. Down at the lions. And everyone was looking at him!
The boy went to the zoo again and again. He didn't go just for an elephant ride. He helped feed the animals. He helped clean the cages. Not many boys did that like him.
Tex stayed at the zoo for the rest of his life.
“I'll tell you why I work here,”he often said. “I love animals. I love children too. Where do you find both animals and children? At the zoo, of course. ”
1．The elephant's name was ________.
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2．Tex asked the elephant to ________.
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A．throw the boy into the air
B．carry the boy out of the zoo
C．put the boy on Tex's head and then on the ground
D．carry the boy high into the air and put him down on her head
3．The boy went to the zoo again and again because ________.
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A．he only wanted to see the elephant
B．he wanted to see Tex Clark
C．he wanted to help feed the animals and go for an elephant ride
D．he wanted to play with the elephant and some other animals
4．Tex Clark liked to work at the zoo because ________.
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A．he could see animals and children every day
B．he could work shorter hours
C．he could play with the elephant
D．he could feed the animals with the boy
查看习题详情和答案>>根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。
Amy goes to school at seven in the morning. Now she is waiting for the bus with her friends.
“The bus is coming,” says Amy.
The big school bus is stopping at the bus stop. The boys and girls are getting on. They go to school by bus. They get off the bus and go into the school.
After school, Amy looks for their bus. But their bus isn't there now. She sees a new bus but not theirs. Her friends are saying to her, “How do you like the new bus, Amy? Come on! We are waiting for you!”
Amy goes to the new bus. She gets on. All her friends are in the bus. They go home in the new bus.
1.．Amy and her friends go to school on foot.
2．The school bus is big and old.
3．Amy doesn't take the new bus to school.
4．They go to school and go home in the same bus.
5．Amy goes to school at six everyday.
6．After school, Amy finds their old school bus.
7．The new bus isn't theirs.
8．Amy knows the new bus is theirs.
9．Amy's friends are waiting for her in the new bus.
10．They go home in the new bus.
查看习题详情和答案>>toward him. he stopped his own car at the side if the road to make room for it to past. The American car went
slowly past, so close that he could see the driver's face quite clearly.
"Where have I seen that face before?" he thought., ''Wait a minute! I remember now. It was in the
newspaper!'"He took out the newspaper from his bag, turned quickly to the middle page. There was a picture
of the face in it. Yes, it bad a large mouth and small ears., and his eyes were behind dark glasses.
"Wanted by the police," read by Jack. "The City Bank will give a lot of money to anyone who helps the
police to catch this man.."
"Call the police at once," he said to himself. But a few minutes later, he was sad. "This man was caught this
morning," answered the police..
B. It happened in Australia.
C. It happened in England.
D. The story didn't tell us.
B. He didn't want to pass by first.
C. The road was too narrow for the two cars to pass at the same time.
D. Because it was good for an Englishman to stop to let other go.
B. The driver in the American car.
C. Either Jack or the driver.
D. Neither Jack nor the American driver.
B. He drove to the police.
C. He made a telephone call.
D. He stopped the American car.
B. Jack.
C. Nobody.
D. The American driver.
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