Chinatown is the name given to an area in the middle of London. It is just between Leicester Square and Shaftsbury Avenue. Gerrard Street is at the center and is the most important street in the area. There is a large Chinese community(社区) with a lot of Chinese restaurants, Chinese supermarkets and shops in this street.

    In the 1950s, it was a poor area and everything was very cheap. At the same time, the world rice market changed and thousand of farm workers in Hong Kong lost their jobs. They began arriving in London to look for work. They found jobs in the restaurants in this area. Many British people like Chinese food, and the restaurants were popular.

    These restaurant workers often worked 17 hours a day and had no time to learn English. As more Chinese arrived, more shops and businesses grew up. Wives came and joined their husbands and children came and joined their fathers. The community grew, and Chinatown was born.

    In the 1970s and 1980s, British-born Chinese started to have a better education and this brought economic(经济的) success to the area. Many families moved out of Chinatown, and there was more space for businesses. Gerrard Street become a street only for visitors and was soon a popular place for tourists.

    Now everyone knows about London’s Chinatown. During the Chinese New Year, the streets are seen with flags and thousands of Chinese go into the streets. For most of the year, though, Londoners and tourists go there mainly for the food in the Chinese restaurants. The best restaurants are the ones where the Chinese eat.   

根据短文内容,回答问题。(每题2分,共10分)

91. Is this Chinatown in the middle of London?

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     92. Was the area rich or poor in the 1950s?

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93. Why did the restaurant workers have no time to learn English?

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94. When did British-born Chinese start to have a better education?

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95. What are seen in the street during the Chinese New Year?

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  The doctor's Handwriting

Mrs South is excited these days. A sudden terrible disease hardly killed her son two months ago. She and her husband took the poor boy to several hospitals, but few doctors could save him. Watching their helpless son struggling for a bare subsistence(在死亡线上挣扎), the woman’s and her husband’s hearts were broken. At that moment, one of their friends introduced Mr Young who worked in a small hospital to them. Thanks to the doctor, their son was saved and he was all right and came out of hospital last week.

The woman decided to ask the doctor to dinner. The invitation was sent to him yesterday. In reply she received a letter which was impossible to read.

“I must know whether he has accepted or not.” said Mrs South.

“If I were you,” suggested her husband. “I should take it to a chemist(药剂师). He can always read doctors’ letters, however badly written.”

The chemist looked at the notepaper for a while, without waiting for Mrs South’s explanation, and handed her a bottle.

“Here you are, madam,” he said. “That will be two dollars.”

阅读短文,回答以下问题(首字母已给出),每空一词。(每空1分,共5分)

86. Mrs South’s son hardly d________ of the sudden terrible disease two months ago.

87. Mr and Mrs South felt very s_________ when their son was ill.

88. Mrs South asked Mr Young to dinner to express her t__________.

89. It was d_____ for Mrs South to know whether Mr Young agreed to go to the dinner.

90. The chemist thought he u_______ what the doctor had written.

    X—rays were discovered in 1895 by a German Professor, Wilhelm Roentgen. People all over the world were amazed by his invention---- the X-ray machine. This invention was so important that Roentgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize for physics in 1901.

    The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a doctor and a speech teacher for the deal. The first phone call was made by Bell in 1876. He had spilled(溅出) acid(酸) on his pants and wanted his assistant, Thomas Watson, to help him. The first words spoken on the telephone were “Mr Watson, come here! I need you!”

    Television was invented in 1926 by John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor. Baird’s television certainly didn’t look like a television today! It was made of a box, knitting needles, a cake tin, a bicycle lamp, and a cardboard disc. Electronic televisions like the ones we have today were invented by Vladimir Zworykin in the 1920s in the United States.

    The first computer was built in 1946 by two American engineers, J.P.Eckert and John Mauchly. It was developed for the army, and it was so large that it took up an entire room! Later, in 1971, the “microchip” was invented, and small home computers were first produced for personal use. Today computers are involved(包含)in almost everything we do and are found almost everywhere we go.

根据短文内容判断句子正(T)误(F)。(每题1分,共5分)

(   )81. X—rays is an important invention.

(   )82. Wilhelm Roentgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics.

(   )83. The telephone was invented by a Thomas Waston.

(   )84. Electronic televisions like the ones we have today were invented in the United States in the 1920s.

(   )85. The first computer was invented by Americans in 1971.

Mr Baker worked in a big factory. He was busy all the time and had little time to rest. One summer, he decided to go to the sea to spend his holidays.

One afternoon, it was very hot. Mr Baker came into a restaurant, sat a table and wanted to drink. Just then, an old man came up to him and said, “How do you do, sir?” “How do you do?” Mr Baker asked the old man to sit next to him. “Could you drink something with me?” “Thank you,” said the old man. “Have you been here before?” “No, I haven’t.” “You look lonely, don’t you?” said the old man. “Let’s have a bet, shall we?”

It interested Mr Baker. “But what shall we bet on?” “I can bite(咬) my left eyeball,” said the old man. “I can bet you five dollars.”

Mr Baker didn’t believe and put $5 on the table.

The old man took out his glass eyeball, put it into his mouth and bite it. Mr Baker had to give his money.

“It doesn’t matter, young man,” the old man said, “I’ll give you a chance to win the money back… I can also bite my right eye. I’ll bet you $10.”

“I’m sure he’s able to see. And I must win his money.” He thought. So he took out ten dollars from his wallet.

But he was very surprised: the old man took out his false teeth and bit his right eye with it. Then he put the money into his pocket and went away quickly.

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。(每题1分,共5分)

(  )76. Mr Baker went to the sea ___________.

A. to swim  B. to have a rest  C. to drink something  D. to make a bet

(  )77. After the old man had known _______, he began to make a bet with the young man.

A. Mr Baker had been there for the first time.  B. Mr Baker was a polite man

C. Mr Baker had plenty of money      D. Mr Baker wasn’t clever enough

(  )78. As the young man bet the old man ten dollars_________.

A. Mr Baker didn’t think him blind in both eyes

B. Mr Baker knew he had false teeth

C. Mr Baker wanted to win the five dollars back

D. Mr Baker wanted to help him in another way

(  )79. The old man was blind in __________.

A. both eyes   B. neither eye   C. the right eye  D. the left eye

(  )80. Mr Baker lost _______ dollars that afternoon.

A. 5     B. 10     C.15    D.20

     A grown—up person has ten or eleven pints(品脱) of blood inside his or her body. We can lose a pint of blood without feeling anything, but if we lose too much blood, we feel weak and cold. Our faces become pale. We may die. This is what often happens when somebody is hurt in an accident, or a soldier is hurt in a war. Many people used to die in this way. But today they can be taken to a hospital and given more blood. Almost at once they feel better. Their faces are no longer pale. They can’t die.

     Where does this blood come from? People who are healthy may donate(捐赠) blood to a blood bank so that it can be used to save people’s lives. When they go to donate blood, a special kind of needle(针) is put into the arm. It does not hurt. The blood runs through the needle and through a rubber tube into a bottle or a bag. A pint of blood is taken this way. The person who has given blood drinks a cup of tea or coffee and rests for a few minutes. Then he feels quite well. And he may give his blood this way three months later.

     A person who gives blood feels happy, because he knows that his blood will be used to save someone’s life. Perhaps one day he himself will need blood.

     When you are older, you may give blood, too. But you can’t do this until you are eighteen.

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。(每题1分,共5分)

(   ) 71. There are _________ pints of blood in grown—up body.

     A. three      B. a lot of    C. more than eleven   D. ten to eleven

(   )72. A person who loses a lot of blood may die. But if he is given some blood, he___________.

     A. may die                   B. may feel better slowly  

C. feels weak and ill           D. feels better very quickly

(   )73. A person who has given blood can give blood again after_________.

A. a few minutes                 B. three months    

C. drinking a cup of tea or coffee     D. eighteen months

(   )74. A person cannot give blood if he is ___________.

A. healthy       B. unhappy      C. under eighteen    D. too fat

(   )75. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. People who are not healthy enough can’t donate blood.     

B. The person who has given blood mustn’t drink tea.

C. If a person loses a pint of blood, he’ll feel weak and cold.

D. People give blood so that they can be healthier.

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