The first chocolate was eaten by people in South America hundreds years ago. In those days, the people didn’t really eat chocolate. They used the coca bean(可可豆) to make a chocolate drink and they enjoyed it very much. Many years later, the coca bean was brought to other countries and people came to love the taste of chocolate.

In 1824, John Cadbury opened a small shop in British. One of the things he sold was chocolate drink. In 1831, he opened a factory to make chocolate drink. He wanted to encourage people to drink chocolate instead of other drinks. A few years later, a man called Joseph Fry found a way to make chocolate bars(条状巧克力), and so for the first time people had the chance to eat chocolate instead of only drinking it. But at that time chocolate was very expensive and only the rich people could buy it. Later, as more and more chocolate bars were produced and sold, it became cheaper.

However, at first only plain chocolate (a kind of chocolate without milk and with very little sugar) was produced and sold. Milk chocolate came later and this was made by adding milk to the chocolate. The first milk chocolate bar was made in Cadbury’s factory in 1897. Their most famous chocolate, Cadbury’s Milk Bar, was made in 1905. It has been the most popular chocolate in Britain and around the world for over 100 years. The Cadbury factory is still in Britain and the chocolate produced there is eaten all over the world. Every year, thousands of visitors visit the factory in order to see how chocolate is made.

1.Hundreds of years ago, people first began to drink chocolate in __________.

A、South America B.South Africa

C.Britain D. Australia

2.John Cadbury opened a factory to make chocolate drink in ________.

A.1824 B.1831 C.1897 D.1905

3.People had the chance to eat chocolate instead of drinking it for the first time _______ .

A、when chocolate was cheaper.

B.when more and more chocolate was produced

C.when John Cadbury started to make chocolate drink

D.when Joseph Fry found a way to make chocolate bars

4.At first, not many people bought chocolate _________ .

A.because it was expensive

B.because people didn’t like the taste

C.because they wanted to have other drinks

D.because there was no chocolate sold in the shops

5.Cadbury’s Milk Bar _________ .

A.was first made in 1897

B.is a kind of plain chocolate

C.is famous neither in British nor in America

D.is popular not only in British but also around the world

My favourite great book is The adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Tom lives with his aunt Polly in a quiet street of St. Petersburg, Missouri. He’s a lively and clever young boy, and he finds himself in many exciting adventures(冒险). He runs away with his friends, Huck Finn and Joe, to an island in the middle of the Mississippi River for several days. With Huck he goes looking for treasure, with Becky he gets lost in a cave and finally they find a box of gold.

My favourite scene in the book is when everyone thinks Tom is dead. He decides to go to his town funeral. He hides and watches for a time and then suddenly he appears. Everyone is surprised to see him but they’re also pleased to see him alive.

Tom is the hero of the story, but there are another important characters. Huck is an outsider and everyone is afraid of him . Becky is pretty with fair hair, Joe is Tom’s best friend and Injun Joe is the bad man of the story.

The theme of the story is about children growing up. It describes how strangers are seen in small towns of America. Finally, it talks about freedom, social rules and how people are punished(惩罚)for bad behavior.

Why do I think The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book? Mark Twain wrote the story in 1876, but it’s still read and loved by people all over the world today. And although it’s only a story. Twain wrote it in the everyday English of the southern states of America in the 19th century, so it sounds very real. Today it’s thought to be one of the greatest books in American literature. Go on--read it! I know you’ll enjoy it, too.

1.Where does Tom run away with his friends?

A.To a quiet street. B.To a small town.

C.To an island. D.To a forest.

2.Who is the bad man in the story?

A.Huck Finn. B.Injun Joe.

C.Becky. D.Polly.

3.How did people feel when Tom appeared at his town funeral?

A.They were surprised and pleased.

B.They were surprised and sad.

C.They were worried and excited.

D.They were frightened and happy

4.The whole book is mainly about __________ .

A.freedom and social rules

B.children’s bad behavior

C.the growth of young children

D.strangers in American small towns

5.The writer writes the article to ___________ .

A.tell us to read the book

B.tell us how popular the book is today

C.tell us when Mark Twain wrote the story

D.tell us why the story sounds very real

综合填空

A city without cars would be very strange, right? But Venice is such a city.

Venice is in the northeast of Italy. It wasn't1.b on land, like Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 islands. Seawater is everywhere around the city.

Even so, travel isn’t difficult. The waterways have always been the2. b way to get around. There are 117 waterways and more than 400 bridges that can guide you where you want to go. People in Venice move from place to place3. b boat. They like to enjoy the scenery and cool summer nights while 4. t boat trips. They can talk to other people as they go along.

Venice grew out of small islands in saltwater lakes when some Italians escaped from a war over 1,500 years ago, and built homes there.

Water makes the city special, 5.b it is also a big problem. Sometimes tourists will have such strange experiences: One moment they walk across the Rialto Bridge, and there’s nothing special. But when they come back to the bridge an hour later, it’s underwater and everyone is wearing rain shoes.

There are two reasons for this phenomenon(现象). Once, people used too much underground water. This6. m the city get lower little by little. Now the city has gone down by 23 centimeters. 7.A problem is the rising seawater. The temperature has risen over the years. This has made the ice of the Arctic Ocean (北冰洋) melt (融化).

Every year, high waters hit the8.c in autumn and winter. When a lot of water comes, more than half of the city is underwater.

Scientists are 9.t different ways to stop the city from getting even lower. The Italian government has 10.a some of Italy’s biggest companies to build the MOST project, which was planned to be build under the seawater to stop the rising water. Anyway, this project is helping solve the problem.

阅读表达

It’s known that the marmots(土拨鼠) are very shy around humans, beating their tails and making loud noise with their teeth to tell other members of their colony to run away.

But when these marmots see Matteo Walch, they run to his side and show him nothing but affection(喜爱).

The eight-year-old Matteo Walch built up a great relationship with the creatures since first being taken to see them by his nature-loving family four years ago.

The family return to visit these marmots in Groslocker in the Austrian Alps(阿尔卑斯山) for two weeks every year.

Matteo loves those animals and they are not at all afraid of Matteo because he has a feeling towards them and they understand that.

Marmots stand at around 18cm tall and can reach up to 50cm in length. Strangely, the animals are heavier in autumn, when they can weigh up to 8kg, but 3kg in the spring months.

Michael, a teacher from Innsbruck, Austria, has taken lots of photos of Matteo and his marmot friends during the past four years.

He said,“I could spend several hours watching animals. It’s great that I have been able to document the marmot’s natural behavior around Matteo without making them afraid of me and my camera, I wanted to capture(用影片文字等记录…的原样) the animals exactly the way I see them ---the way they behave among each other.”

从照片上很清楚地看出,马蒂奥和土拨鼠彼此相处得很好。

1.How many years has Matteo built up a great relationship with marmots?

2.How tall are marmots when they stand?

3.将短文中划线的英文句子译成汉语。

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4.将短文中划线的汉语句子翻译成英文。

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5.给文章拟一个恰当的英文标题。

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