The British Museum is the biggest museum in the world. Inside, you feel smaller than usual. There are about a hundred things to see.

    The story of the British Museum goes back three hundred years to one unusual man, Sir Hans Sloane, doctor to King George II. The doctor collected books, drawings, clothes, money, animals, flowers, things from all over the world. The doctor wanted everything to stay together when he died, so that people could come and have a look. The British Museum began. King George II gave his library, and the museum started to grow.

    The British Museum opened in 1759, six years after Sir Hans Sloane died. At first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter in an hour. There wasn’t much time to see things. Visitors had to run though the rooms.

    By about 1800, things began to get better. Wonderful statues, three thousand years old, arrived from Egypt.

    King George IV sold all his books to the museum secretly. A hundred years ago not only old books but also new ones arrived at the museum, and more people came to read them. Since them many famous men have written and studied there. And the library is growing faster and faster. There are four kilometers of new shelves every year and there are about two million visitors every year.

(  ) 1. Sir Hans Sloane was interested in _______________.

A. collecting all kinds of books   B. collecting all kinds of drawings

C. collecting all kinds of money   D. collecting all kinds of things

(  ) 2. When you go inside the British Museum, you feel smaller than usual because __________.

A. the museum is empty       B. the museum is very big

C. there are too many things in it    D. you are too small

(  ) 3. Sir Hans Sloane died ____________.

A. in 1753   B. in 1975    C. in 1765   D. in 1800

(  ) 4. At first, the visitors had to run through the museum because ____________.

A. there are only several things to see             

B. the museum was the biggest one in the world

C. they were not interested in the things in it       

D. they had only one hour to see all the things in it

(  ) 5. The passage is mainly about ______________.

A. Sir Hans Sloane               B. George II   

C. the history of British Museum    D. the books in the museum

  Strange things happen when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones (分区). The time difference between two zones is one hour. You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty-four hours. You can have weeks with seven days and weeks with fewer than seven.

  If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean (大西洋), your ship comes into a different time zone every day. As you come into each zone, the time changes one hour. If you travel west, you set your watch back. If you travel east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.

  If you make a trip by ship across the Pacific Ocean (太平洋), you across the International Date Line (国际日期变更线). This is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change one full day. If you travel east, today becomes yesterday; if you travel west, it is tomorrow.

(  ) 1. The time difference between two time zones is ___________.

A. twenty-four hours          B. one hour           

C. two hours                D. twenty-three hours

(  ) 2. If we cross the Atlantic Ocean, we _____________.

A. change one full day      B. set our watch back

C. set our watch ahead      D. set our watch back or ahead

(  ) 3. If we travel east across the International Date Line on July 5th, the date becomes July _________________.

A. 3rd   B. 4th   C. 5th   D. 6th

(  ) 4. The Atlantic Ocean ____________.

A. is in one time zone       B. is divided into twenty-four zones

C. is divided into five time zones   D. can not be crossed in five days

(  ) 5. Which of the following sentences is true?

A. If we travel around the world, we will get into trouble in telling the time.

B. If we travel west across the Atlantic Ocean, we will have twenty-three hours.

C. If we travel by ship across the Atlantic Ocean, we will cross the International Date Line.

D. If we travel across the Pacific Ocean, today becomes tomorrow.

    American people have the habit of saying “Thank you”when something kind is done for them or something polite is said to them, no matter how easy the thing is. This habit is learned by people of many   1   countries.

    You should say “Thank you”when someone   2   you the salt on the table, when someone steps aside to let you   3   in a corridor (走廊), when someone   4   ahead of you keeps the door open   5   you, when someone says your work is well   6   or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful.

    “Thank you”is   7   not only between strangers or new friends, but also between old friends, parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. Parents often tell    8   children that they should say “Thank you”in answer to a kind word or act when they are only four   9   five years old. Perhaps that’s   10   almost everyone has got this habit.

(    )1. A. others          B. another              C. other          D. else

(    )2. A. puts            B. passes               C. carries        D. borrows

(    )3. A. pass            B. jump                 C. sing           D. dance

(    )4. A. jumps           B. walks                C. sits           D. walking

(    )5. A. to              B. with                 C. for            D. on

(    )6. A. made            B. done                 C. built          D. doing

(    )7. A. tell            B. said                 C. to say         D. told

(    )8. A. his             B. theirs               C. their’s       D. their

(    )9. A. but             B. and                  C. or             D. so

(    )10. A. why            B. because              C. when           D. reason

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