Concorde’s Birthday

CONCORDE, the world’s fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first __51__ on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a _52__ of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to __53__ together on the project. The plane __54_ over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of _55__. This means that it _56_ only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7—8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is _57__ to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30a.m. _58__ from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour _59_! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway _60_ the most. They each have seven planes.

1.A. invented    B. produced    C. flew      D. took off

2.A. talk        B. dream      C. meeting   D. fight

3.A. work       B. do         C. carry      D. finish

4.A. paid        B. wanted     C. needed     D. cost

5.A. voice       B. sound      C. noise      D. shout

6.A. spends      B. takes       C. covers     D. travels

7.A. possible     B. impossible   C. real       D. unreal

8.A. plane       B. passenger    C. flight      D. airline

9.A. later        B. late         C. earlier      D. early

10.A. build       B. make      C. sell        D. own

Do you know who invented tea? In fact, tea, the most popular drink in the world （after water）, was invented by accident （偶然）. According to an ancient Chinese legend （传说）, the emperor Shen Nong   1   tea when he was boiling drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby bush （灌木丛） fell into the water and remained there for   2  . The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a   3  smell. Later he decided   4   the hot mixture （混合物）. It was quite delicious. And   5  , one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.

       China is the home of tea,   6  has more than 4,000 years history. People throughout China drink tea daily.   7   the three major drinks—tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by   8   people in the world. Tea from China, along   9   silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export   10  .

       Tea leaves   11  mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild   12   and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all   13   kinds of tea.

       Over the past centuries, Chinese people   14  their unique tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. Tea is   15   a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.

1. A. invented               B. found out                 C. discovered         D. tried out

2. A. sometimes            B. some time                 C. some times        D. some days

3. A. pleasant                B. pleased                     C. bad                   D. terrible

4. A. not to taste           B. to taste                     C. tasting               D. taste

5. A. by the way           B. on the way               C. on its way         D. in this way

6. A. who                            B. which                      C. where               D. when

7. A. In                        B. For                          C. Of                    D. By

8. A. the number of       B. a number of                 C. a large number of D. the largest number of

9. A. between               B. with                         C. except               D. besides

10. A. At that time         B. from now on            C. since then          D. since now

11. A. produce                     B. are produced             C. make                D. are made

12. A. climate               B. weather                    C. condition           D. environment

13. A. interesting           B. important                  C. famous             D. normal

14. A. had developed     B. have developed          C. developed          D. are developing

15. A. too                  B. as well                            C. either                D. also

完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

 Paper was first     about2,000 years ago, it has been made     silk, cotton, bamboo, and wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. And because there weren’t many books,      people learned to read. Then printing was invented in China. The first printed books were made by      ink on a wooden block and holding the paper against it. When printing was developed greatly      the beginning of the11th century, books could be produced more quickly and     .

___       , more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread quickly,        a way that can be compared       the       of the Internet in the20th century.

1.A.  create     B.  created      C.  creating       D.  creates

2.A.  in        B.  of          C.  from          D.  by

3.A.  little      B.  a little       C.  few          D.  a few

4.A.  put       B.  putting       C.  puts         D.  puting

5.A.  at         B.  in          C.  by           D.  on

6.A.  cheap      B.  cheaply      C.  cheaper       D.  cheapest

7.A.  Because    B.  so that       C.  As a result     D.  because of

8.A.  on         B.  in           C. by            D.  at

9.A.  at          B.  with         C.  by           D.  about

10.A.  introduction  B.  introduce   C.  introduced   D.  introducing

The hippo(河马) is the most dangerous animal in Africa, but that hasn’t stopped a South African animal lover from making friends with one.

   Marius Els is 40 years old. He ______ around 20 different kinds of animals on his ranch(饲养场),in South Africa. He has a real soft spot for Humphrey, a 6-year-old hippo that’s like a son to him. While all of his friends are too ____ to go near the animal, and his wife told him not to get too close, Marius climbs on Humphrey’s back as he swims ______ the lake.

   Marius has kept the hippo_______ he was just five months old. And over the years, the two have________ a special relationship that people just don’t understand. Marius looks on Humphrey as a son, although the 1,200 ton animal could ________ a person with ease. Only sometimes the hippo can throw Marius off his _______ in the water. Humphrey is very friendly to his owner, especially after Marius offers him a dinner of his favorite ________, apples.

Humphrey feels very       in his life. He had another good friend, a goat, but she got eaten by a jackal(豺), so now he’s all by      . Marius says he’s been trying to get a female friend for Humphrey, but there’s no such thing in Africa right now.

1.A. kept       B. swept      C. bought     D. stayed

2.A. worried    B. tired       C. scared      D. excited

3.A. under      B. across      C. along      D. into

4.A. since      B. when        C. after      D. before

5.A. invented    B. found      C. appeared    D. developed

6.A. come up      B. get up     C. eat up       D. look up

7.A. head         B. back      C. front        D. tail

8.A. juice         B. fish       C. bread        D. food

9.A. lonely        B. angry      C. happy       D. funny

10.A. her          B. them       C. himself      D. us

 Norman Bethune is one of China’s most famous heroes, but he wasn’t Chinese—he was Canadian. He gave his life to helping Chinese people.

Norman Bethune         born in 1890. He became a         in 1916, and he went to the front to look after injured soldiers in the First World War. He saw many soldiers die in the war. Later he invented new treatments to         soldiers, and medical tools to use outside hospitals.

In 1938 he came to China to treat the Chinese soldiers in the mountains north of Yan’an. There were         doctors, so he had to work very hard. He opened hospitals to give treatment to local people and soldiers, and to train doctors and nurses. He also wrote books so that doctors can learn about new treatments.

Dr Bethune worked very hard without stopping to         . Once, he performed operations        69 hours without stopping, and saved 112 people. He         working in spite of cutting his hand during an operation. In the end, he died because he did not take care of his         .

Dr Bethune’s work with the Chinese soldiers made         a hero in China. There are books and films about him, and he is         remembered in both Canada and China.

1.A. is             B. was            C. has been            D. be

2. A. doctor      B. nurse             C. teacher              D. worker

3. A. understand       B. believed          C. help            D. count

4.A. little            B. few           C. much              D. many

5.A. rest          B. act               C. with              D. for

6. A. from             B. since          C. with                D. for

7. A. allowed           B. continued     C. forgot            D. stopped

8.A. face              B. leg           C. foot              D. hand

9. A. his               B. he            C. him              D. one

10. A. still              B. never          C. hardly            D. regularly