70. The sunshine came into the classroom ________ the windows.

69. Hong Kong is in the ________ part of China.

68. What ________ do you speak? I speak Chinese.

67. The sun ________ in the east.

66. December is the ________ month of a year.

C

Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big, and they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap(捕蝇草).

The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.

Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen(氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!

61. The Venus flytrap is a kind of ____.

A. plant　　 B. animal　　 C. food　　 D. meat

62. The Venus flytrap grows in ____.

A. most parts of the world　　　　　　　 B. some parts of Africa

C. dry parts of the United States　　　 D. wet parts of England

63. From the passage, we learn that ____.

A. all plants can eat people　　 B. all plants can eat animals

C. some plants can eat people　 D. some plants an eat animals

64. The underlined word “presses”probably means ____ in Chinese.

A.挤压　　 B.关上　　 C.打开　　 D.松开

65. Why do some plants eat animal meat? Because ____.

A. plants are dangerous to animals　　

B. animals are dangerous to plants

C. plants want to get what they need from animal meat

D. plants want to protect themselves against animals

第II卷　　 (非选择题　 共40分)

Ⅶ. 填写单词 　根据句子意思，在空格中填写适当的单词，使句子完整、正确。(共8小题，每小题1分)

B

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.”Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.”His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(樱桃).

The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰)down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times　 for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.”

56. Who picked up the horseshoe at last?____.

A. The son　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. The father　　

C. Both the father and the son　　 D. Neither the father nor the son

57.The farmer bought ____with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

A. some bread　　 B. some water　　 C. some cherries　　 D. some pennies

58. When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the father ____.

A. beat the son　　　 B. said nothing　

　C. felt very happy　　 D. became very angry

59. The father dropped the cherries one by one, because ____.

A. he wanted to teach his son a lesson

B. he wanted his to do more exercise

C. he wanted his son to eat them all

D. he wanted to laugh at his son

60. From the story, we can learn that ____.

A. cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them

B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money

C. if we want to eat cherries, we must pick up a horseshoe

D. if we don’t worry about the little things, we cannot do the great things

A

People in different countries have different ways of doing things. Something that is polite in one country may be quite impolite in another. In Britain, you mustn’t lift your bowl to your mouth when you are having some liquid(液体)food. But it’s different in China. And in Japan you even needn’t worry about making noises when you have it. It shows that you are enjoying it. But it is regarded as bad manners(礼貌；方式)in Britain. If you are a visitor in Mongolia, what manners do they wish you to have? They wish you to give a loud“burp”(打嗝) after you finish eating. Burping shows that you like the food.

In Britain, you should try not to put your hands on the table when you’re having a meal. In Mexico, however, guests are expected to keep their hands on the table during a meal. But in Arab countries you must be very careful with your hands. You mustn’t eat with your left hand. Arabs consider it very bad manners eating with left hands. So, what should you do if you are on a visit in another country? Well just do in Rome as the Romans do. You can ask the native(本土的)people to help you or just watch carefully and follow them.

51. According to the passage, making noises when you have liquid food isn’t bad manners in ____.

A. China　　 B. Japan　　 C. Britain　　 D. Mongolia

52. ____is bad manners in Britain.

A. Eating food without making noises　　　 B. Putting liquid food in the bowl

C. having soup directly with a bowl　　 D. Keeping hands off the table

53. From the passage, we can infer(推断)that ____.

A. Mongolian people burp when they are eating

B. Japanese people all make noises when drinking

C. Chinese people never make noises at table

D. few Arabs eat with left hands

54.“Do in Rome as the Romans do”means “　　 ”.

A. Do as the native people do　　　　 B. Do as you do at home

C. Ask the native people to do it　　 D. Watch the native people doing it

55.The passage mainly(主要)tells us ____.

A. some table manners in Britain　　　　　　 B. some different table manners

C. different ways of having liquid food　　 D. to have good manners

40. Be careful, ____ you’ll make mistakes in your exams.

　 A. and　　 B. or　　 C. nor　　 D. but