Basketball is still a young game. It is not yet a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having trouble with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had to stay indoors
(室内). Since they could not enjoy their sports outside as usual, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into fights from time to time.Finally, one of the teachers at the college, J. E. Naismith, was asked to invent a new game for the students. It was not an easy job because such a game had to be played indoors, and the court
(场地)was not very large.Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score
(得分), the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet high above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Naismith had planned(计划)to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.(1) Basketball is __________ some of the other ball games.
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A .as old as |
B .not as old as |
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C .older than |
D .the oldest in |
(2) In fact, it has just a history of a little _____________.
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A .less than two hundred years |
B .more than a hundred years |
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C .less than a century |
D .not any more than a century |
(3) ____________ today, basketball was invented as an indoor game at first.
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.Though it's often played outsideB
.Because it's often played outsideC
.Since it's always played outsideD
.Although it's never played inside(4) Naismith had thought of using a box in the game, yet he gave up the idea before long and fixed something different---- ____________ ----on the wall.
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A .the wall |
B .a kind of ball game |
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C .a fruit basket |
D .the basketball team |
(5) Indeed the name of the new game ____________ what the ball should be thrown into in a match.
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.had nothing to do withB
.had something not much to do withC
.had a few things to doD
.had something to do withThere are not only land--birds but also seabirds. The most ordinary
(普通的)seabird is the seagull(海欧). It has a white body, a white head and a yellow beak(喙). There is a very, very small spot(斑点)of red at the very end of the beak underneath(在下面). All gulls have very strong wings(翅膀)so that they can fly far out to sea. The gull flies out too far, so, that it is too tired to fly back to the shore(岸). It does not get frightened(恐慌), for it can sit and rest upon the waves(浪). A seagull's wings do not get wet because all its feathers(羽毛)have a kind of oil(油)over there, so that when the water gets on to the feathers it just runs off again. Gulls can even sleep on the waves.Sailors
(水手)know a lot about seagulls and they never kill them. When the gulls fly a long way out to sea, sailors say that it means fine weather is coming. When the gulls stay near the shore, sailors say that there will be much wind and rain and perhaps a storm, for the gulls know more about the weather than sailors do.(1) The seagull is a kind of______.
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A .fish |
B .land bird |
C .seabird |
D .animal |
(2) Every gull is able to fly far out to sea because it ______
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A .is very light |
B .has very strong wings |
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C .always flies high |
D .is strong enough |
(3) A seagull does not get frightened even when it is far away from the shore and it is too tired to fly back because it can ______
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A .swim under the sea |
B .stay under the sea |
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C .rest and sleep upon the waves |
D .jump into the sea |
(4) The water can't make the seagull's feathers wet because the feathers are______.
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A .thick |
B .long |
C .light |
D .oily |
(5) If seagulls stay near the shore, it will be ______
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A .windy, rainy or stormy |
B .sunny and hot |
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C .fine and warm |
D .freezing cold |
My friend has a big police dog called Jack. Police dogs are often clever. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Jack for a walk in the park. Jack likes these walks in the park very much.
One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed for a long time. He talked and talked. Soon it was time for his walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack got worried about his walk in the park. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor paid no attention
(没有注意)to him. He went on talking. At last Jack couldn't stand(忍受)it. He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down in front of the visitor, but this time he held the visitor's hat in his mouth.(1) Jack is______.
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A .my friend |
B .the visitor |
C .a dog |
D .a policeman |
(2) My friend takes his dog to the park______
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A .once a day |
B .once a week |
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C .every afternoon |
D .once a month |
(3) The dog sat in front of the visitor and wanted______
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A .to listen to him |
B .to say hello to him |
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C .to show he was not happy |
D .to be his friend |
(4) How many people are mentioned
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A .Five |
B .Two |
C .Four |
D .Three |
(5) Which of the following is not true?
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.I have a friend called Jack.B
.Jack likes the walks in the park very much.C
.The visitor talked for a long time.D
.At last the dog got the visitor's hat in its mouth.My mother speaks very good English, but she knows little Japanese. She went to Tokyo on November 1lth for a meeting. The meeting was over on November 15th.
The next morning she went to a park and then did, some shopping. At noon she was hungry. She went to the nearest restaurant and sat down at a table. A man came up to her and asked what she needed. She said she wanted noodles, chicken and vegetables. She spoke to him in English, but the man didn't know English. My mother looked around. No one was eating noodles.
When she saw a piece of paper on her table, she had an idea. She took a pen out of her handbag and wrote the Chinese words for the food on the paper.
She showed the paper to the man. The man smiled and said, “OK!” Very soon he brought her a bowl of delicious hot noodles with chicken and some vegetables.
(1) My mother wanted to eat _________.
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A .cakes |
B .noodles |
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C .apples |
D .mooncakes |
(2) After she went to a park, she bought _____________.
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A .vegetable |
B .chicken |
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C .something |
D .nothing |
(3) The man knew ___________, but he didn't know
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A .Japanese, English |
B .Japanese, Chinese |
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C .English, Japanese |
D .English, Chinese |
(4) My mother wrote the Chinese words for ___________ on the paper.
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.chicken, noodles and eggsB
.nothingC
.noodles, oranges and some vegetablesD
.some vegetables, noodles and chicken(5) The man give my mother a bowl of __________ noodles.
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A .cold |
B .long |
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C .hot |
D .fat |
An old man went to the hospital. Mr Brown, the doctor, came to see him and said,
“Well, Mr Jones, you'd better get some injections(针剂), and then you'll feel much better. A nurse will come and give yot the first one this evening, and then you'll get another one tomorrow, ”In the evening a young nurse came to Mr Jones' bed and said to him,
“I'm going to give youP your first injection now, Mr Jones. Where do you want it?”At first, the old man was surprised
(感到奇怪). He looked at the nurse for a moment, and then he said, “Nobody' sever let me choose(选择)that before.Are you going to let me choose now?”“Yes, Mr Jones,” the nurse said, “Where do you want it?”
“Well, then” the old man answered with asmile, “I want it in your left arm, please.”
(1) ________ was not well and went to the hospital.
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A .Mr Brown |
B .Mr Jones |
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C .A rich man |
D .A young nurse |
(2) When the doctor came to see Mr Jones, he________.
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.gave Mr Jones some medicineB
.gave Mr Jones an injectionC
.took Mr Jones'temperatureD
.told Mr Jones that he would have some injections(3) How many injections did Jones need to have?
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A .One |
B .Two |
C .Three |
D .Four |
(4) Mr Jones said,“I want to have in your left arm, please.
”This means that Mr Jones__________[ ]
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.didn't want that injeetion at allB
.was making a joke (开玩笑) with the nurseC
.was afraid to have an injectionD
.like her left arm(5) At last the nurse_______.
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.gave the injection in her own left armB
.didn't give Mr Jones the injectionC
.gave Mr Jones the injection in either his armD
.said nothing and left angrily