Great changes have taken place in Chinese family in the past a few years. 1

  The number of the private(私人的)cars is becoming larger and larger from year to year. In the year of 1990,2but there are 1.4 million cars used by people in 2014. How did this happen?

  3First, China has developed rapidly since the reform and opening-up. People's income(收人)has been improved，4 Second, different types of cars can satisfy different people's needs. At the same time, the price of cars has been brought down sharply. Last， but not the least， our government is carrying out many policies to encourage(鼓励) to do so. So many families spend their money on walking, traveling, shopping and so on. 5

In a word，with the further development of our country, more and more families will have their own cars.

把A-E五个选项填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整、通顺。

A.  There are three reasons for the change.

B.   Chinese people have had more money to spend on their walking.

C.   All these are changing the number of private cars and people's life.

D.  so more and more families can afford cars.

E.   there were only two cars among 100 families，

1._________ 2.__________ 3._______

4._________ 5. _________

Dear Joe,

  Last week, I received your letter and you wanted to know what the world used to be like when I was young. Now let me tell you. Life used to be very different then. When we wanted to keep in touch with our friends far away,we had to write letters. Because we didn't have cellphones or e-mails. When we traveled from town to town，we used to walk，ride horses or take a cart(马车).Later，we had buses but very few people had cars. Air travel was a luxury(奢侈品)and we used to dream of traveling on an airplane，but now people do. It's so common.

Food is another big difference. There wasn't any supermarket so we used to grow our own food. We would sell our things and buy the things we didn't have. We didn't have a fridge so we kept things cool in a special room downstairs.

  But the biggest difference is electricity (电).We didn't have any in our town！At night, we used to light candles when we wanted light and we burned coal(煤)or wood to keep warm. We didn't have televisions. In summer, we used to go swimming in the river.

  Life used to be very difficult, but we were happy at that time.

                                     Love， Grandpa

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1. When the writer was young, ______________ .

A.    cars were not common

B.     there were no horses or trains

C.    cellphones were quite common

D.    air travel was so common
(   ) 2. The writer no longer      

A.   hates carrots

B.    has to grow his own food

C.    buys food from the supermarket

D.   has a fridge

(   ) 3. As there wasn't any electricity when the writer was young, .

A.   he couldn't keep warm

B.    he went swimming

C.    he went to his friend's house to watch television

D.   he used to light candles

(   ) 4. The writer used to swim .

A.   in the city swimming pool

B.    in the ocean

C.    in the river

D.   in his own swimming pool

(   ) 5. Hie letter talks mostly about what ,

A.  the world used to be like

B.    the writer wants to do in the future

C.    the boy should do differently

D.   the boy has not done recently

  Shanghai is a modern city. It likes new things. However, Shanghai is also a city with a hundred years' 1 So there is a question* if Shanghai likes new things，what should it do with 2 things?

The government thinks a modern city should have both old and new things. The Waibaidu Bridge is an example. People built it over one hundred years ago. When it 3 , the government decided to spend a lot of money rebuilding(重建)it. The government did this 4            it believed that the city needed to remember its history.

There are also some people working to 5         historical (历史性的)things. Jeffrey Wong is one of them. When he retired (退休) from Canada ， he 6 to Shanghai ， his hometown ， and started to collect old houses. He believed that old houses were a( n) 7 part of Chinese history so he tried his best to save them. He took the materials of the old houses to other places and 8 them.

You can also help to remember the past. Get a 9 and take photos of old things. Ask old people to tell you stories about Shanghai's 10  . It is really an interesting thing.

(   ) 1. A. skills    B. progress

      C. history    D. time

(   ) 2. A. poor    B. old

        C. dirty    D. bad

(   ) 3. A. fell down    B. made up

      C. set up    D. fell off

(   ) 4. A. if    B. though

      C. because    D. so

(   ) 5. A. find    B. hide

      C. save    D. hold

(   ) 6. A. walked    B. returned

       C. wrote    D. traveled

(   ) 7.A. important    B. simple

      C. difficult    D. small

(   ) 8. A. dropped    B. bought

      C. cleaned    D. sold

(   ) 9. A. bell    B. present

      C. camera    D. radio

(   ) 10. A. past    B. pictures

       C. plans    D. future

5. 尽你最大的努力，你会成功做到一切事情。

Try your best, and you'll             everything.

4. 我很高兴有这次出国学习的机会。

I'm glad I   ____ _____________  _____       go abroad to study.

3. 如果你不努力学习，你就不会进步。

You won't              if you don't study hard.

2. 奥运会每四年举行一次。

The Olympic Games _____ ________________every four years.

1. 我到过昆明两次。

I         to Kunming twice.

(   ) 10.——Guess what? I took part in some volunteer activities during the summer
holidays.
       ——______ It must be fun.

A.    Have a good time！

B.     What a wonderful experience！

C.    Is that so?

D.    Are you kidding?

(  ) 9―Hurry up!Here      the bus.

      —OK,I will.

A. coming    B. comes

C. hiding    D. hides