It was a very interesting thing that there were many rickshaws (人力车)in Kolkata,whose population was -very large. When I crossed a small road on my first day in Kolkata,I was surprised because I heard a bell-not a horn (喇叭）. It was a tiny man pulling a rickshaw. He stopped and picked up two children from the front door of their house and pulled them to school. For many . people,the rickshaw in Kolkata has many advantages.

  When the traffic is bad,rickshaws find a way through :the traffic. If you miss your bus and there aren’t any :taxis,you can always find a rickshaw in Kolkata.

—Rickshaws are also very popular with local shoppers.

;The driver takes you from your house to the market and  waits for you. Then he loads (装载）all your things, drops you off outside your home and helps you unload,h No other type of public transport offers this kind of service.

  From June to September,Kolkata gets heavy rain. Sometimes it rains for 48 hours without a break. In some parts of the city,the roads flood (水淹），and anything with an engine(发动机）is useless. But the rickshaw drivers never stop working,even with water all around them.

  But not everyone thinks rickshaws are a good thing. The local government wants to ban rickshaws. They believe it is wrong for one man to pull another person when there is modem transport in the city. However,there is a problem with this plan. Many of the rickshaw drivers come from the countryside. The only job they can find in Kolkata is pulling a rickshaw. If the city bans rickshaws,these men won’t have a job. So for the moment,the people of Kolkata still go by rickshaw.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1 . What is the main idea of Paragraph 1 ?

A. Rickshaws are very useful for the people’s daily life in Kolkata.

B. Parents need rickshaws for taking children to school in Kolkata.

C. Rickshaws can find a way through the bad traffic in Kolkata.

D. The rickshaw drivers carry things for local people in Kolkata.

(   ) 2. Which type of transport may you take when

the roads flood in Kolkata?

A. A bus.  B. A taxi.

C. A car.  D. A rickshaw.

(   ) 3. What does the underlined word ban mean?

A. Making.  B. Increasing.

C. Forbidding. D. Collecting,

(   ) 4. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The rickshaws in Kolkata have loud horns.

B. The rickshaw is still a part of public transport in Kolkata.

C. The local government offer many other jobs to the rickshaw drivers.

D. The people in Kolkata are supposed to take rickshaws instead of cars.

 What is the population ofChina? There are about 1. 3 billion people inChina. It is 1     one fifth of the world’s population. How to control the population growth is a big problem. Some people think it is 2     to control the population growth. But I don’t quite agree 3     them,because where there is a will,there is a way.

 The question is how we could 4     it known to everyone how serious the population problem is. Our farmland is becoming less and less. We have already got too many mouths to feed. 5     we control the population growth， many people will die 6     hunger. Too fast population growth has been and will be bad for our nation. Though laws have been passed to control the population growth,in some places 7     is done to carry out (贯彻）the laws. We should make people 8     that it is foolish of them to bring too many children into the world. They shall no longer do what they have been doing for many years.

 We are fighting 9     too fast population growth. Yet the fighting won’t end 10     everyone knows its importance and do something for it.

(   ) 1. A.  most  B. almost

C. highly     D. hardly

(   ) 2. A.  possible  B. necessary

C. impossible     D. unnecessary

(   ) 3. A. to     B. for

C. with     D. on

(   ) 4. A. let     B. make

C. have     D. bring

(   ) 5. A. If not     B. Unless

C. Until     D. If

(   ) 6. A. of     B. about

C. from     D. out of

(   ) 7. A. many     B. little

C. a lot     D. much

(   ) 8. A. to know     B. to learn

C. know     D. learning

(   ) 9. A. for     B. against

C. about     D. without

(   ) 10. A. until     B. after

C. when     D. as

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。 

Do you think that the population may be the greatest problem of the world today? I think so. 2，000 years ago,the world’s population was very 1      There were only 250 million people on earth. For several thousand years,it grew quite slowly. 2     during the last three or four hundred years,it has grown very 3     Today it is growing faster than 4     before. In one minute 5      200 babies will be bom in the world. Just think how many 6     there will be in a year!A UN report said that the population of the 7     countries had been 1,214 million in 1990. It is said that 8     the year 2010,the world’s population may be 7 billion. This means much more food 9     be produced. We must have smaller families with fewer but healthier children. Experts warn that we must take measures to 10     the population’s growing. If we don’t do something like that,there will be not enough space for anybody else to stand on the earth.

1.        2.        3.        4.        5.       

6.        7.        8.        9.        10.       

根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。

A： Hi,May!1 __

B: It says the world has a population of 6. 5 billion.

And it is increasing by 80 million every year.

A： 2.       

B ： China has the largest population，and India is the second. But theUSAhas a population of 296 million.

A： 3.         

B: Yes. The population in developing countries is

growing faster. 4.______

A： So it is. 5.        A  large population causes many difficulties,not only for every family or country,but also for the whole world.

B ： I think so.

 5.所有的学生在周末都能和父母团聚，的确如此。

 All the students can get together with their parents,___.

  4.他们没通过考试，他们的确如此。

They failed the exam,___.

 3.我的父母亲没去过美国许多次，我也一样。

  My parents haven’t been to theUSAmany times,        .

2.简喜欢跳舞，她的确如此。

Jane likes dancing,and___.

1.李卫康喜欢唱歌和玩游戏,迈克尔也一样。

  Li Weikang likes singing and playing games,and     _Michael.

(   ) 5.—Would  you  like to  take the box          there?

—Yes,I’d like to. 

A. for     B. to

C. /     D. on