36. 那家工厂两年前倒闭了。

The factory             two years ago.

35. You shouldn't smoke in p       places.

34. My little sister is 10 years old and she is in Grade 5. She is a p       .

33. Some of the r        ，such as paper and iron, rots away (烂掉) over a long time.

32. The price of oil i       last week.

31. One tenth of the p       live in the countryside.

Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working,they usually have two cars. When the family is large,one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van (住房汽车) . A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded

(拥挤的) .

A van can hold seven persons easily,so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all travel together.

Mr Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell their second car and buy a van. Their children are usually asked to sit in the back seats behind them. The sixth and the seventh seats are used to put other things,for a family of five must carry many suitcases (箱子) when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents' home,the suitcases are brought into the home and the two seats can then carry the grandparents.

Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are travelling to the mountains or to the seaside,they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of the big family can enjoy a happier life when they are travelling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. InAmerica, there are many parks for motor homes.

(   ) 26. From the passage* a van is also called

   A. a motor car   B. a motor home   C. a motorbike   D. a big truck

(   ) 27. Before Mr Hagen and his wife bought a van,they .

   A. sold their old house

   B. moved to the grandparents' house

   C. built a new place for a van

   D. sold their second car

(   ) 28. A motor home is usually owned by a family with .

   A. a baby

   B. much money

   C. more than two children

   D. interest in van

(   ) 29. Americans usually use motor homes

   A. to travel with all the family members on holiday

   B. to do some shopping with all the family members

   C. to visit their grandparents at weekends

   D. to drive their children to school every day

(   ) 30. Motor homes have become popular be?cause .

   A. they can take people to another city when people are free

   B. they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their hol?days

   C. some people think that motor homes are cheap

   D. big families can put more things in motor homes

The population problem may be the 16        one of the world today. The world's population is grow- ing 17        , Two thousand years ago,there were only 250 million people 18        the earth. Four hun- dred years ago,the number was 19       500 million. But at the beginning of the 20        century,the world's population was about 1,700 million. In 1970,this number was 3,600 million. In 1990,the number was five billion. A UN report 21        that the world's population has 22        six billion by the end of the 20th century. This is just ten 23        after it 24        five billion. People say that by the year 2050,25        may be eight billion.

(   ) 16. A. great   B. greater

   C. greatest   D. most great

(   ) 17. A. faster and faster   B. fast and fast

   C. fastest and fastest   D. faster and fast

(   ) 18. A. in   B. on

   C. at   D. for

(   ) 19. A. less   B. more

   C. to   D. over

(   ) 20. A. twenty   B. twelve

   C. twentieth   D. twelfth

(   ) 21. A. asks   B. says

   C. tells   D. speaks

(   ) 22. A. past   B. pass

   C. passed   D. passes

(   ) 23. A. weeks   B. months

   C. seasons   D. years

(   ) 24. A. get   B. gets

   C. reached   D. reach

(   ) 25,A. this   B. its

   C. one   D. it

(   ) 15. The girl       yellow hair is my sister.

   A. with   B. in

   C. have   D. on

(   ) 14. Mo Yan won        Nobel Prize in literature in 2012.

   A. a   B. an

   C. the   D. I