From the early days of history people looked for ways of telling the time, but it was not until the thirteenth century that machines for telling the time
were invented.These first clocks were very big. They had no faces or hands
but they did have a bell. It rang every hour.
     In the seventeenth century, people began to use clocks with faces and
hands and to carry small clocks with them.
     For a long time after that, men and women had pocket watches. These
were usually tied (检) to a button (纽扣) on the person's clothes.
     It is strange that wristwatches were not used until about 1914. The man
who made the first popular watch was walking in a park one day. There he
saw a woman with a pocket watch tied to her wrist (手腕) , she was feeding
her baby and she needed to have both hands free to hold the child.
     Now nearly everybody wears a watch all the time. If you have a
"waterproof"  watch, you don't even have to take it off when you go
swimming. Aboul 80 million wat-ches are made every year.

1. The first clock was invented___________.

A. in the seventeenth century
B. in the thirteenth century
C. in the early days of history
D. before the thirteenth century

2. Before the watches came into use,________.

A. the pocket watches were popular
B. people didn't use any watches
C. the clocks they used had no faces and hands
D. people used bells   

3. Which is the correct order of the invention according to the time?

A. Clock without faces and hands, wristwatch, pocket watch
B. Pocket watch , clock without faces and hands , wrist-watch
C. Wristwatch, pocket watch, clock without faces and hands
D. Clock without faces and hands, pocket watch , wristwatch

4. The underlined word "waterproof"means_______.        

A.无水的      
B.含水的      
C.防水的      
D.浸水的

5. Which of the following is the best title?

A. The Invention of Watches
B. How to Tell the Time
C. From Clocks to Watches
D. Watches Are Better Than Clocks

     The Spring Festival, Chinese Lunar New Year, is China's most significant holiday of the year, when families get together to celebrate. In modern times, however, the old ways of spending the New Year no longer meet the needs of young people, who have created various new ways to celebrate the traditional holiday.
    In today's society, people are not as stable as they used to be, changing jobs and moving to another city to work is quite common. Having a big family
reunion dinner is difficult.
    People who have a longer holiday such as Li Qian, a magazine editor,
prefer to go outside the city to celebrate.
   "We are going to walk alongside the Yellow River, chen go to the Shaaxi
countryside to celebrate the New Year,"said Li. "I feel that I can only have a
truly traditional New Year celebration in the countryside. "
     Last year, Li spent the  New Year with his friends in Junxian County ,
central China's Henan Province. Interested in folk craftwork , Li bought two boxes of local products such as a special kind of mud sculpture (混塑) and
New Year paintings, only available during the Spring Festival.
   "Everything in the countryside is very traditional, just like how people
celebrated the New Year in old times, while in the city there isn't much
holiday atmosphere," Li said. "The farmers are very down-to-earth and they
have kept all the traditions. "