阅读理解。
    Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a huge (巨大的) clock in London. London is the capital
of the UK. This clock has four faces, so no matter (无论) where you stand, you can read the time on the face
of Big Ben. Each face is the size of a double-decker (双层的) bus. The hands are about four metres long. It is
about the size of two people standing on top of each other. If you go to London, you may want to visit the
House of Parliament (国会大厦). That is where you will find Big Ben sitting at the top of the clock tower (塔)
in the House of Parliament. You will hear it as well as see it. when it goes every quarter (四分之一) of an hour,
the big clock makes such a loud (声音大的) sound, "Ding Dong, Ding Dong,". The clock was named after a
big man. He was Sir Benjamin Hill. He did much building work in London many years ago.
1. Big Ben is _____.
[     ]
A. a double-decker bus
B. a huge clock
C. the name of Ben
D. a building
2. The clock strikes (敲响) every _____of an hour.
[     ]
A. ten minutes
B. fifteen minutes
C. thirty minutes
D. forty-five minutes
3. Which word means the same as "large"?
[     ]
A. double
B. loud
C. huge
D. small
4. You can read the time of Big Ben _____.
[     ]
A. at the top of the tower
B. in the House of Parliament
C. on the hands of the huge clock
D. on the four faces of the clock
5. The title (标题) of the passage (文章) may be _____.
[     ]
A. Big Ben
B. A clock
C. Sir Benjamin Hill
D. The Capital of the UK
阅读理解。
     Do you know Eskimos? Let me tell you something about their lives.
     Eskimos live near the North Pole (北极). There are only two seasons there, winter and summer.
     There is no spring or autumn there. The winter nights are long. You can't see the sun for more than
two months, even at midday. The summer days are long. For more than two months, the sun never goes
down and there's no night.
     Eskimos have warm clothes. They make their clothes from the skins of animals. From skins (皮毛)
they make coats, caps and shoes.
      Near the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is too cold there. The Eskimos have to make their houses
from skins, snow or stone. When they got out in storms and can't get back home, they make houses of snow.
They leave these houses when the storm is over.
     Life is hard for the Eskimos, but they still like to live there.
1.Near the North Pole there are _____ in a year.
[     ]
A. two seasons - winter and summer
B. two seasons - spring and autumn
C. four seasons
D. two seasons sometimes and four seasons sometimes
2.How long does the longest day or night last (持续) near the North Pole?
[     ]
A. 24 hours
B. Over a week
C. A month
D. Over two months
3.Eskimos use skins to make _____.
[     ]
A. clothes
B. houses
C. trees
D. both A and B
4.There are no _____ near the North Pole.
[     ]
A. days
B. nights
C. trees
D. animals
5.Eskimos make houses of snow to protect (保护) themselves from _____.
[     ]

A. animals
B. storms
C. snow
D. rain

用方框内所给词的填空。
on, holiday, wishes, Sunday, give
     Mother's Day is celebrated in the U.S.A. It's also a 1         in some other countries. It is on the second
2         in May. It's a day to thank mother. 3         that day, people 4         love to their mothers by giving
flowers and cards. On the cards, children will write "Thank mother", "To the best mother in the world",
"Best 5         for Mother's Day" and so on.
1._______ 2._______ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______
阅读理解。
     Years ago, if a person had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary. Now he
might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog (博客).
     Differences between a blog and a diary
     Usually, a person thinks of his diary as a book full of secrets. He does not want to share. But in the blog,
anyone can read what he writes.
     Problems with blogging
     The biggest problem with blogging is that anyone can read what you write.
     It is easy to hurt others'feelings in a blog. Because we do not always think about things carefully before
we write about our days. So we have to be very careful about what we write.
      Keeping in touch with friends
     Blogging has both good and bad points of course. People choose to blog because they know that their
friends will read what they write.
     Blogs are a very good way to write about daily life, if people are careful about what they write. However,
I still prefer (更喜欢) writing in my diary!
1.What's the difference between blogs and diaries according to the passage?
[     ]
A.Blogs can be read by others while diaries only by writers themselves.
B.Blogs are used by young people while diaries are kept by old people.
C.Blogs are always good while diaries are sometimes bad for writers.
D.Blogs are a good way to write about life while diaries about other things.
2.It is easy to hurt others' feelings in blogs, because people _____.
[     ]
A.usually write about their daily life there
B.only write something bad about others there
C.don't always think carefully before writing there
D.play tricks there on each other
3.Blogging can help us _____.
[     ]
A.write better diaries.
B.do well in exams.
C.learn how to use a computer.
D.know more about the people around us
4.We can learn from the passage that _____.
[     ]
A.the writer will choose to blog so that others can keep in touch with him
B.the writer would rather keep diaries than write in a blog
C. the writer has never blogged because he hates blog
D. the writer doesn't like her sister's writing in a blog
完形填空。
     There is something about New Year's Eve. In Scotland the last day of the year is the    1    important holiday
of the winter,    2    important than Christmas. On New Year's Eve friends and neighbours go about from house
to house drinking to each other's health and wishing good luck.    3    New Year's Day all shops and factories are closed and no    4    is done. Families meet together for a big meal and a family    5   , They often sing and dance
all the night. 
     In England New Year's Day is not    6    holiday and people go to work as    7    But on New Year's Eve most people sit up till    8    "to see the new Year in" or they    9    to parties and dances. Most of the London hotels 
   10    a New Year's Eve dance.
(     ) 1. A. more   
(     ) 2. A. more   
(     ) 3. A. In     
(     ) 4. A. study  
(     ) 5. A. party  
(     ) 6. A. a      
(     ) 7. A. always 
(     ) 8. A. midnight
(     ) 9. A. run    
(     ) 10. A. get    
B. most       
B. most       
B. To        
B. exam      
B. work      
B. an        
B. unusual   
B. afternoon 
B. jump      
B. bring   

C. much        
C. much        
C. On         
C. work        
C. clean      
C. the         
C. sometimes  
C. noon      
C. go          
C. have    

D. such     
D. such     
D. For        
D. reading   
D. shopping 
D. a kind of 
D. usual    
D. morning
D. fly        
D. receive
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