Yao Ming, the center of the Chinese National Men's Basketball Team, served the Houston Rockets in the 2002 NBA. The 2.26m, 120kg center becomes the first one to come from a foreign team.

  Yao Ming was born in Shanghai in September, 1980. His mother was a center and captain of the Chinese National Women's Team. His father played basketball, too.

  Yao Ming is widely known in China. He came to be a very important basketball player in China Basketball Association(联赛). It's short for CBA. During the 2000-2001 season, he got 27.1 scores for the Shanghai Oriental(东方)Sharks in every match.

  Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in November, 2002. He said this was a new start in his basketball life. He would do his best to learn from the NBA and improve himself.

  Sport analyst(分析家)Bill Walton said,“Yao Ming has the potential(潜力),the capability(能图)of changing the future of basketball .”

(1) The Houston Rockets is the name of a ________ team.

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A.table tennis

B.volleyball

C.basketball

D.golf

(2) Both Yao Ming's father and mother were ________.

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A.football players

B.basketball players

C.the centers of the Chinese National Team

D.the captains of the Chinese National Team

(3) Yao Ming ________ in CBA during the 2000-2001 season.

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A.does well

B.is good

C.was good

D.did well

(4) Yao Ming ________ the Houston Rockets in November, 2002.

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A.did his best to join

B.was well-known in

C.became a member of

D.took part in

(5) Sport analyst Bill Walton thought Yao Ming was able to

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A.learn from the NBA

B.change the future of basketball

C.improve himself

D.become the captain of the Houston Rockets

  Killer bees started in Brazil(巴西)in 195A scientist in St. Paulo(圣保罗)wanted bees to make more honey(蜂蜜).So he put forty-six African bees with some Brazilian bees. The bees bred(繁殖)and made a new kind of bees. But the new bees were a mistake. They didn't want to make more honey. They wanted to attack. Then, by accident(偶然的), twenty-six African bees escaped and bred with the Brazilian bees outside.

  Scientists could not control(控制)the problem. The bees increased fast. They went from Brazil to Venezuela(委内瑞拉). Then they went to Central America. Now they are in North America. They travel about 390 miles a year. Each group of bees grows four times a year. This means one million new groups every five years.

  Why are people afraid of killer bees? People are afraid for two reasons. First, the bees sting(叮)many more times than usual bees. Killer bees can sting sixty times a minute nonstop(中途不停地)for two hours. Second, killer bees attack in groups. Four hundred bee stings can kill a person.

  Already several hundred people are dead. Now killer bees are in Texas(德克萨斯). In a few years they will reach all over the United States. People can do nothing but wait.

(1) After the African bees lived together with the Brazilian bees, they ________.

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A.made more honey

B.made a new kind of bees

C.made a mistake

D.wanted to attack

(2) Why are people afraid of killer bees?

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A.They increase fast.

B.Several hundred people are dead.

C.They sting more and attack in groups.

D.They're big and strong.

(3) Where have killer bees reached now?

[  ]

A.North America.

B.Brazil.

C.Venezuela.

D.All over the US.

(4) The best title of the passage is ________.

[  ]

A.How to make more honey

B.Killer bees

C.A foolish scientist

D.How to feed killer bees

  Plants are very important. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals can get their food by eating plants and animals. Man gets his food by eating plants and animals, too. So animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why there are so many plants around us.

  There are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Almost all the trees around us are flowering plants. You can know some trees from their flowers and fruits. Non-flowering plants do not grow flowers. You can not see many non-flowering plants around you.

  If you look carefully at the plants around us, you will find that there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are large and some are small. Most of them are green. Thanks to the plants around us we can live on the earth.

(1) Which of the following is the most important according to the passage?

[  ]

A.Flower

B.Man.

C.Animals

D.Air, water and sunlight.

(2) We need many plants around us because________.

[  ]

A.we can get what we need from pl ants

B.plants are green

C.plants can grow easily

D.we like all kinds of plants

(3) There are ________ non-flowering plants than flowering plants around us

[  ]

A.much better

B.much fewer

C.much more

D.much larger

(4) Which of the following does not come from a plant?

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A.Forest.

B.Basket.

C.Bread.

D.Cabbage.

(5) The best title(标题)for this passage is_______.

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A.Plants Around Us

B.Food From Plants

C.Plants Make Food

D.Man and Animals

  Forests are large pieces of land covered with big trees. They are found all over the world, especially in places where there is enough sunshine and much rainfall. Many kinds of materials(材料)come from forests. To build a house, we need wood for doors and windows. Beautiful chairs and tables are also made of wood.

  Teak(柚木)wood is very useful for ship-building. It is used for all parts of a ship where wood and metal come in contact(接触), for it has a kind of oil to keep metal away from rust(铁锈). It can also stop the attack of white ants and other insects. For this, teak wood is an important railway building material.

  Forests are no less important than useful. They are the home of wild animals. Without them, those animals would run among the places where we live and work. There would be no peace for man.

  Forests are helpful to weather, too. When it is very hot, they can be a good place for people to stay away from the sun. In winter, they can keep us from the cold. Forests can also stop the land from being washed away by heavy rain for the trees hold the soil together. So it would be foolish to cut down trees freely.

(1) From the first paragraph(段落), we know it's NOT true that ________.

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A.forests are everywhere in the world

B.there must be big trees in a forest

C.wood is useful in building houses

D.forests need sunshine and rainfall

(2) Teak wood is very useful for ship-building because ________.

[  ]

A.most ships are made of wood

B.it can come in contact with metal

C.it can stop white ants' or other insects' attack

D.a kind of oil in it can protect metal from rust

(3) The expression“no less important than useful”in Paragraph 3 means ________.

[  ]

A.more important than useful

B.not so important as useful

C.as important as useful

D.neither important nor useful

(4) The text mainly tells us that_________.

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A.forests are large pieces of land covered with big trees

B.wood is good material to build ships, railways and some other things

C.without forests, we have to live together with wild animals

D.forests are useful to us in many ways

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