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Travel Study is a new way to spend your holidays. Have you ever heard about it?

When you have a travel study, you can see Big Ben, Sydney Opera House, the Stature of Liberty and many other buildings. You can visit many places of natural beauty. During your travel study, you may go traveling yourself or with your friends.

When you travel to other countries, you can be served with different new food and know more things about different customs(风俗). You read all these from books in the past, but now you have a chance to know them clearly,②You can also make new friends from different countries, they can help you know more about their own countries.

Maybe you already have foreign teachers in your school to teach you English. But he or she won’t speak English with you all the time. During the travel study, you may speak it every day and almost everywhere because English can help you __①__ people from __①__ countries better.

It also gives you a chance to live alone. You should do all the things by yourself. What should you do if you lose your way in a foreign country? How to book a room and how to buy an air ticket? You should pay attention to all these things. You have to do them by yourself.

1.在①处填上适当的词。  _____________  _____________

2.将②句译成汉语。________________________________________________

3.What can people do when they travel to other countries?

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4.在文中找出与下列句子意思相近的句子。How should you do it if you get lost abroad?

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5.在文中找出最能表达该短文主题的句子。_____________________________

What can you see in the ______________ [ ?ɡɑ:dn ]?

When you look up into the sky at night, have you ever felt that your eyes are playing tricks on (捉弄) you? It seems that the stars are moving all the time.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. This twinkling effect is called scintillation (交光). Scintillation happens because of air movements in the earth’s atmosphere (大气). Light is “bent (弯曲的)” when it travels through different parts of the earth’s atmosphere. As the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving all the time, the light from the stars looks as if it is moving too.

The same thing also happens to things on the ground. On a very hot and shiny day, if you look at the road, the image in the distance is not clear and things move slightly. You can also see the same effect if you drop a rock into water. The rock appears a little unclear under the moving water.

This twinkling effect causes a lot of problems for astronomers (天文学家) since they cannot observe the stars clearly. A telescope (望远镜) was sent into space so that the air movements in the atmosphere could be avoided (避免). It took a long time to build the space telescope but finally in 1990, a huge space telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope was successfully sent into space. Since then, astronomers have many important observations that have helped people understand space better.

根据短文内容，选择最佳选项。 （10分）

1.What happens to the light from the stars we see when the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving?

A．It looks even brighter.

B．It looks as if it is bent.

C．It looks as if it is moving.

D．It looks like drops of rain.

2.Scintillation also happens on 　　　　 according to the passage.

A．rainy days                             B．shiny days

C．cloudy days                            D．windy days

3.What can you see when you drop a rock into the water?

A．The rock gets broken.

B．The rock becomes unclear.

C．The water becomes much polluted.

D．The water does not move anymore.

4.The underlined word “observe” means “　　　　”.

A．watch            B．listen             C．draw             D．explain

5.Why is scintillation a problem for astronomers?

A．The stars never stay still.

B．It makes the stars too dark to see.

C．It makes astronomers feel too hot to work.

D．Astronomers cannot observe the stars clearly.

If you travel in the city of Kunming, you can’t miss the Kingdom of Little People. It opened in the summer of 2009 in the mountains in Kunming.

There are tiny(微小的) animals, little beautiful cottages (小屋) and small furniture in the park. The big attraction of the park is the performances by little people. Many little people work in the park. Twice a day, they perform for visitors. They sing, dance and give a magic show. People who want to work in the park should be between eighteen and forty years old from any part of the country. And they should be under 130 cm in height.

The creator of the park is a rich businessman. He wants the park to be like a fairyland. And he wants to do something good for dwarfs in China. This theme park has brought together people of unusual stature (身高). They enjoy being part of the community and impressing tourists with (给……深刻印象) their courage and skills.

Are you interested in this fairyland? How about having a visit in the Kingdom of Little People?

1.What is the big attraction of the park?

A．It is very huge.                         B．It is in the mountains.

C．The performances by little people.          D．It looks like a fairyland.

2.What can we find in the park?

①Some small animals

②Some big animals.

③Some big castles.

④Some giants.

⑤Some small cottages.

⑥. Some small furniture

A．①⑤⑥           B．①②⑤           C．②③④           D．③④⑥

3.The underlined word “dwarfs” means “________” in Chinese.

A．残疾人           B．智力障碍者        C．盲人             D．侏儒

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A．You can watch the performance only once a day.

B．A dwarf think of an idea to create the park.

C．Dwarfs have a chance to show their talent in the park.

D．The Kingdom of Little People is a theme park for children.

任务型阅读理解（10分）

To protect the environment, China has put a ban(禁令) on thin plastic bag (plastic bag thinner than 0.025 mm). From June 1,2008, China stopped the production, sale and use of these plastic bags to the public.

Plastic bags can cause “white pollution”, because they can take 400-1,000 years to break down. They pollute the soil(土壤) and water. Plastic bags also cause a serious danger to animals. Animals often mistake plastic bags for food. Thousands of them die each year after eating plastic bags.

So what kind of bags will be the best to use when we are shopping? Recently some students made their own shopping bags. Most students used old clothes to make their bags. They painted pictures like the Olympic rings on them. But Li Mei had a more traditional way to make her hag. She weaved(编织) a bamboo(竹子) basket. It was not an easy job. With her grandfather’s help, Li Mei spent the whole afternoon making it.

What can we do? Refuse plastic bags and persuade(说服) people to use environmentally friendly(对环境无害的) shopping bags instead of plastic ones. Try to recycle the ones we have.

根据短文内容，按要求完成各题

1.Did Li Mei make her shopping bag by herself?

2.Why do plastic bags cause a serious danger to animals?

3.What kind of material did most students use to make their shopping bags?

4.When did China stop the production, sale and use of these plastic bags?

5.According to the passage, what should we do to protect the environment? (One example is OK.)