About 4,500 different characters have been counted, and 1,700 of them understood. They show the basic ideas of character construction, sentence structure, and grammar. Anyang is the site of former capital city of the late Shang Dynasty (商朝). It was the first dynasty to leave written historical records containing information on politics, the economy, culture, geography, astronomy (天文学), art and medicine.

Chinese characters which developed from the inscriptions at Anyang are still in use today. The importance of these characters was first recognized in 1899 by Wang Yirong, an official in the Qing Dynasty. Wang fell ill and so a doctor supplied "longgu"(dragon bones) to make him better. The bones turned out to be pieces of tortoise shell (龟壳), each carrying strange carved patterns. Wang, who knew a lot about calligraphy (书法), studied the white pieces of bone. He finally put them together to form one big tortoise shell, on which was several Shang Dynasty characters.

56. What contents did Chinese characters contain?

A. Character construction, sentence structure and grammar.

B. Character construction, tortoise shell and calligraphy.

C. Politics, the economy, culture and geography.

D. Astronomy, art, medicine and sentence structure.

57. When did Chinese characters begin to grow gradually?

A. From Qing Dynasty. B. From Han Dynasty.

C. From Shang Dynasty. D. From Xia Dynasty.

58. The doctor provided dragon bones to make Wang Yirong better and ________ .

A. it shows that the doctor has high medical skills to cure Wang Yirong's illness

B. Wang Yirong recognized Shang Dynasty characters

C. it shows that Wang Yirong's calligraphy was made of the white pieces of bone

D. it shows that dragon bones can be used to cure all kinds of diseases

59. It can be inferred that ________ .

A. the doctor's skill has been passed down since Shang Dynasty

B. Shang Dynasty, the first dynasty, doesn't leave historical records

C. Wang Yirong inscribed several Shang Dynasty characters

D. Chinese ancient characters have been protected

Wang Feng’s _________ our school at the English speech contest proved to be a success.

  A.will represent          B. to represent     C. representing     D. represented

第五节：课文填空（共1篇，10空格；满分10分）

根据课文内容填入恰当的词，使文章完整。

Wang Peng ran a restaurant which was always full of   61   by lunch time. But one day, a strange thing happened that few people came to his restaurant. Soon he found the people went to a newly-opened one called Yong Hui’s   62   restaurant.   63   drove him into Yong Hui’s, where he was given a menu. To his surprise, he found that the food there was simple and the prices were high. But Yong Hui told the customers that they would   64   ______ by eating there. He couldn’t have Yong Hui   65   ______ ______ telling lies, so he threw down the menu and went to a library. After doing some   66  , he realized that Yong Hui’s restaurant didn’t serve people with enough   67   food. But on the other hand, Wang Peng’s menu had little   68   food. Since neither of them was providing a   69   ______, it was clear that they   70   ______ work together to serve healthy food.

请读懂下列句子，用下列方框中所给短语的正确形式填空。

1.Wang Bin's parents __________________ him, demanding that he should only do the reading

instead of surfing the Internet even in summer holidays.

2.I like to _________________ my high-school days, which are the happiest in my life.

3.We should cut our expense ___________________.

4.What's the matter with you? You_____________________ be happy.

5.He ______________________ every opportunity he could get and was successful.