Kites go back（追溯）to the old time. Once people believed kites could carry their thoughts to God（上帝）. Many people flew kites above their houses at night. They thought this kept them safe from all bad things at night.

　　Kites are fun. But they also have been of great help to men. Men have used kites to learn about the weather. Men have used kites in building bridges. Heavy wire（金属线）cable（缆绳）for bridges have been pulled across（被拉过）rivers with the use of kites.

　　Once a great American tied a key（钥匙）to a kite. He wanted to know about lightning（闪电）. Do you know who he was?

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A．Today we fly kites for fun.

B．Today we fly kites to keep bad things away.

C．Today we use kites to carry our thoughts to gods.

D．Today we use kites to know about the wind.

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A．Men have used kites to lean about the space.

B．Men have used kites to learn about the weather.

C．Men have used kites to learn about bad things.

D．Men have used kites to learn about the sky.

(4)The main（主要）idea of the whole story is that________.

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A．people have used kites in many ways

B．it is hard to set up a bridge

C．animals like to fly kites

D．people like to do nothing but fly kites

　　One of Henry's feet is bigger than the other.“I can never find boots and shoes for my feet,”he says to his friend Dick.

　　“Why don't you go to the shoemaker?”Dick says.“A good one can make you the right shoes.”

　　“I have never been to a shoemaker,”Henry says.“Are they expensive?” “No,” Dick says. “Some of them aren't. There is his address.” He writes something on a piece of paper and gives it to Henry.

　　Henry goes to the shop again and looks at the shoes. Then he says to the shoemaker angrily. “You are a silly man!” he says. “Make one shoe bigger than the other, but you have made one smaller than the other!”

(3)Does the shoemaker make shoes for Henry？

(4)The word “silly” means _______.

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A．Between 1,000 and 2,000.

B．Between 10,000 and 20,000.

C．Between 100,000 and 200,000.

D．Between 100 and 200.

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A．walks slowly

B．drivers fast

C．obeys the traffic rules

D．doesn't obey the traffic rules

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A．walk quickly

B．look both ways

C．be sure that the road is clear

D．there is no cars on the road

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A．a little baby

B．old people or blind people

C．traffic policemen

D．teachers and students

　　People often collect things. Stamps and books are very common (普通的). But the collection of my uncle's is something unusual. He has 1,900 clocks. There are clocks in every room of his house. The living-room is full of shelves and he filled（装满）them with clocks. Still there is not enough room for so many clocks. My uncle has to fill many boxes with them and has put them in the toilet（厕所）. Every day my aunt has to clean all the clocks and it's no easy job for her. And she also hates（憎恨）the noise（噪声）of the clocks. Each one keeps its own time. so the sound of the clocks is always there from morning till night. My aunt never knows what time it is!

　　In Britain the weather never gets too hot or too cold. There is not a great difference between summer and winter. Why is this?

　　Britain has a warm winter and a cool summer because it is an island country. In winter the sea is warmer than the land. The winds from the sea bring warm air to Britain. In summer the sea is cooler than the land. The winds from the sea bring cool air to Britain.

　　The winds from the west blow over Britain all the year. They blow from the southwest across the Atlantic Ocean. They are wet winds. They bring rain to Britain all the year, Britain has a lot of rain ail the year. The west of Britain is wetter than the east. The winds must blow across the high land in the west. The east of Britain is drier than the west.

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A．It's either too hot or too cold.

B．It's both too hot and too cold.

C．It's neither too hot nor too cold.

D．We don't know.

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A．There is no difference between summer and winter in Britain.

B．There is sea air around this country.

C．There are winds from the high land.

D．There is much rain in the Atlantic Ocean.

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A．There is more rain in the east than in the west.

B．There is as much rain in the west as in the east.

C．There is less rain in the east than in the west.

D．There isn't so much rain in the west as in the east.

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　　When Mary Smith was a student, she always wanted to become a teacher because she liked children. When she was twenty-one years old, she began teaching in a primary school（小学）. She was a good teacher, and she got on well with the children in her class. They enjoyed her teaching.

　　One day one of the girls in her class asked her, “Miss Smith, why does a man's hair become gray much earlier than his mustache and beard(胡子) do?”

　　Mary smiled and said, “I'm sorry 1 don't know. Is it true that a man's hair becomes gray before his mustache and beard do?”

　　“Yes, Miss Smith,” answered Helen, “it has happened to my father.” Hearing this, the other children in the class laughed aloud.

　　Then one of the boys stood and said, “I know, men's hair becomes grey first because it's sixteen years older than their mustache and beard.”

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A．Mary liked children very much when she was still a student

B．The children in Mary's class enjoyed her teaching.

C．The hair of Helen's father became gray before his mustache and beard did

D．The boy was very clever and his answer was right.

　　When we were children, my nine-year-old brother Tom used to take me along on his bike. His favourite outdoor sport was to go racing down a mountain road at top speed. I was so frightened that 1 would close my eyes but never say a word, for I was afraid that I would lose the chance to be taken along again. Twenty years later, when we drove down the same road in a car. I asked, “Do you still remember how we used to ride down the road here on your bike? I was so scared (害怕) that I always closed my eyes.”

　　“What!” he said in surprise. “You too?”

A．to swim

B．to take a walk along tHe mountain road at top speed

C．to drive a car down a mountain road as fast as possible

D．to drive on his bike along a mountain road as fast as possible

A．very proud

B．very excited

C．very much frightened

D．afraid that Tom would never again take him along on his bike

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A．He was frightened and closed his eyes.

B．He was happy and excited with his eyes open.

C．He was so frightened that he covered his face with both his hands.

D．He wasn't frightened at all.

　　Once there was a king. He liked to write stories. He thought his stories were good, so he liked to show them to people. As people were afraid of the king, they all said that his stories were very good.

　　One day, the king showed some of his best stories to a famous writer. He wanted the writer to say some good words for his stories. But the writer said that his stories were so bad that he should throw them into the fire. The king got very angry and set him to prison（监狱）.

　　After some time the king felt sorry for the writer. He set the writer free. When the writer returned home from prison, the king ordered his men to take the writer to his palace. Again he showed the writer some of his new stories and asked what he thought of them.

　　The writer read the stories and then be turned to the king and said, “Take me back to prison, please.”

A．the king was a famous writer

B．the king's stories were really interesting

C．they were afraid of being in trouble

D．they liked these stories very much

　　Many people go to church on Sunday, but others don't. Many sleep late on Sunday morning, but others don't. Some people work on Sunday, but most don't. However, almost everyone reads the Sunday Paper.

　　Often the Paper is waiting outside the door when the family gets up. The newspaper boy has delivered it.

　　The Sunday Paper is usually very thick. It has many pages, such as the world news pages, the sports pages and the financial（金融的）pages.

　　Most men don't read the women's pages, but the mother of the family usually does. The women's pages have news about parties and marriages, and advice about food, health and clothes.

　　Most Sunday Papers have comics（喜剧）which children enjoy. Older people read the death notices, which tell about people who have died during the week.

　　There is something for everyone in the Sunday Paper.

A．goes to church 

B．Sleeps late

C．reads the Sunday Paper

D．doesn't work

　　A businessman had worked too much. He found that he couldn't sleep at night, but often fell asleep during the day. He became very worried, so he went to see his doctor.“Can you help me, doctor?” he asked.“ I sleep so well, but now I sleep less than two hours at night.”

　　But the businessman grew worse instead of better. He slept even less than before at night and was still falling asleep in his office. He visited the doctor again and again and it took the doctor a long time to find out the reason:the businessman's wife was giving him the sleeping medicine in the morning and the ones to keep him awake at night.

A．he was seriously ill

B．he worked too much and he was too tired to fall asleep

C．he was worried about his business

A．slept less than two hours at night

B．slept more than two hours at night

C．worked at night and slept during the day

A．told the man not to work at night and do some exercise in the morning

B．told the man he wasn't seriously ill and would soon be well

C．looked over the man carefully but didn't give him any medicine

A．he wanted some more medicine

B．he felt better and went to thank the doctor

C．he still couldn't sleep at night

A．he didn't take any medicine at all

B．the doctor gave him the wrong medicine

C．his wife gave him the wrong medicine