People live in different houses. You may know a wooden house or a paper house. But do you know a(n)    1   house?

In 2008, the first ice house in North America opens its    2   to welcome some visitors. The floors, windows and walls are all made of ice. It has ten bedrooms    3   twenty people can stay there each night. Visitors to the house    4   in ice beds, sit on ice chairs and eat from ice plates. Well, the toilets are not made of ice, of course.

It’s usually below zero so it is very    5   inside the house. However, do the visitors just sit there to    6   warm? No, visitors have to    7   special clothes. These can make    8  feel warm until morning.

Workers    9   about four weeks designing the ice house. Visitors can only stay in this ice house in winter. It isn’t    10   in hot summer. Because this house is so special, it is becoming popular with young people.

Why not open the window? It’s too          in the room.

A．cold             B．hot              C．dirty             D．clean

It’s________ in Australia when it’s winter in China.

A．cold             B．hot              C．winter            D．snowing

------What’s the weather like in summer in Hangzhou?

-------It’s __________.

A．cold             B．hot              C．cool              D．warm

Do you know Intuits (因纽特人)？Let me tell you something about their   16     .

The Intuits live near the North Pole（北极）. There are only two seasons 17      : winter and summer. There are no spring   18    autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can’t 19      the sun for more than two months, even at noon. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never 20   and there is no light.

The Intuits have    21     clothes. They made their clothes from the skins（皮） of animals. From skins they make coats, caps and 22     .

Near the North Pole trees can’t grow, for it is   23      there. The Intuits have to make their houses from skins, stones or snow. When they    24   in a storm（风暴） and can’t get back home, they make houses of snow. They     25    these snow houses when the storm is over.

Life is hard for the Intuits, but they still like to live there.

(    ) 16.A. lives B. life C. living D. live

(    ) 17. A. there B. here C. warm D. cold

(    ) 18. A. not B. or C. and D. neither

(    ) 19. A. see B. watch C. look D. look at

(    ) 20. A. rises B. goes up C. rises up D. goes down

(    ) 21. A. cotton B. solid C. warm D. cold

(    ) 22. A. food B. drinks C. medicine D. shoes

(    ) 23. A. too cold B. too hot C. either cold or hot D. neither cold or hot

(    ) 24. A. go on B. go over C. go out D. go up

(    ) 25. A. left B. leave C. leave for D. left for