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1     When the Beijing Olympics begin this August，the world will be watching．The games have become a huge international event．People will come from around the world to watch 10,500 athletes from 205 countries and districts compete（竞争）to take home the gold．

2     The first recorded Olympics，in 776 B．C．，were an important religious（宗教的）festival．Olympic sports have changed a lot in the last few thousand years．The ancient games began with just one 192-meter race．In later years，the games grew to include a total of six sports．Most of the ancient Olympic sports tested skills soldiers needed．

3    Even the modern Olympics were once far smaller than they are today．The first of the modern games，in 1896，only had 241 athletes from 14 countries．Moreover（此外），the early modern Olympics were not an independent（独立的）event．Until l 908 the Olympics were part of the world’s fair!

4     At the first modern Olympics，there were 43 events from ten sports．Many of the sports from the early modern games are no longer part of the Olympics，such as golf and tug of war（拔河）．There has always been a lot of disagreement over changing Olympic sports．

5     The number of Olympic sports has constantly increased throughout history．At the Beijing games，athletes will compete in 302 events from 28 sports．Despite（尽管）all the changes over the years，some ancient sports are still part of the modern games．These include running，boxing and wrestling．

1．How many countries and districts will take part in the Beijing Olympics?

2．What did the ancient Olympics begin with?

3．What do Paragraph 3 and 4 mainly tell us about?

4．At least how many gold medals will the athletes compete for in the coming Olympics?

5．What ancient sports are still parts of the modern games?

完形填空（共15小题，每题1分，计15分）
China is a great country with 5,000 years of history. There are many places of interest __36
__ attract millions of tourists form all over the world every year. Some of them are fantastic lakes, beautiful mountains and long rivers.
Many mountains, such as Mount Tai, Mount Emei, Mount Hua are very famous. People go to Mount Tai __37__ the sun rise. __38__ the rivers the Yangtze River is the longest one and the second __39__ one is the Yellow River. They are the birthplaces of __40__ Have you __41__ the love story about Xu Xian and White Snake? It is said that the story __42__ on West Lake. West Lake is the most fantastic place that I have every visited. It __43__ in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. It is surrounded on three sides by mountains. Many tourist attractions there are well worth __44__, such as Sudi Causeway, the Broken Bridge and Leifeng Pagoda. The scenery is so attractive that visitors often lose __45__ in it.
West Lake has become __46__ its special scenery __47__ some beautiful poems. These poems ___48__ by Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo. __49__, the surrounding area of West Lake is the home of the famous Dragon Well Tea. Have you ever __50__ West Lake? If not, look for a chance to go to the fantastic place!

Do you carry too much on the way to school or home? Don’t worry．Try e-readers（电子阅读器）and say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag．

      An e-reader has the memory space to hold hundreds of books．So people want to（A）扔掉沉书包 and read with small, light e-readers．For example，Cushing Academy，a high school in Massachusetts，USA，replaced（替换）most of the 20，000 books in （B） its library last summer．Teachers and students will use e-readers instead．

     Most e-readers are thin and weigh less than 500g．They can download（下载）an e-book in 60 seconds．“It's （C） so easy．You can have a lot of books right at your fingers!” said Meghan Chensusky．16．

      Chinese schoolchildren are also trying e-readers．At the Shanghai World Expo （世博会），an e-schoolbag is now on show．It is a special e-reader．Students can use it to download textbooks from the school servers（服务器）．（D）It can also send and receive homework．Some Schools in Beijing and Shanghai have tried this e-schoolbag for a few years．“It’s excellent．I （E）don't have to carry a heavy schoolbag anymore，”said Xiao Qi，15，Beijing．

       New e-readers are not just for reading．They have Wi-Fi and multimedia（无线电视和多媒体）．Parents worry that these may hurt their children's study habits． “I think Wi-Fi is not necessary for kids，”said Zeng Wenwen，43，Beijing．

1．将文中划线部分（A）译成英语：________________

2．文中划线部分（B）指代的是：________________

3．写出文中划线部分（C）和（E）的同义词或近义词：________ ________

4．将文中划线部分（D）改写为：Homework can also_______ _______and received through it．

5．从文中找出两个修饰或描写e-reader的形容词：________ ________

    A lady has a problem with her daughter.

    My daughter Maria is a girl of nine years old, She is in Year Four. Every evening we get into homework battles（争执）． Three afternoons a week, she has activities (net-ball, singing) after school and by the time we get home, homework is the last thing she feels like doing. The other two days, she gets home early and we argue（争论）about whether she should do her homework right after school, or if she should have some time to rest and play first. When Maria at last sits down to do her homework, she seems to want me there helping all the time. I do want to help her, but I'm sure that she is going to need to be able to do it on her own. And in fact, most of the time, I have other things I need to be doing. It seems that children these days have much more homework than we did, and some of it is really beyond（超越） their abilities（能力）． As you can see, I'm really worried about homework and I really don't know what I should do. Any ideas?

39. The woman's daughter is_______.

    A. four years old        B. six years old     C. eight years old   D. nine years old

40. Maria doesn't have any activities after school for _______ afternoons.

      A. two                      B. three              C. five                D. seven

41. Maria wants to_______ first when she gets home early.

    A. do her homework                               B. play netball and sing

    C. have supper                                              D. have a rest and play.

42. The woman thinks that her daughter should do her homework_______.

    A. by herself                                          B. with the mother

    C. with the father                                   D. with the classmates

43. Can you guess where this passage is from?

    A. A diary.                    B. A newspaper.     C. A novel（小说）．    D. A story.