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They earned their living ________ hunting.

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with
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through
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by
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Runners in a relay（接力） race pass a stick in one direction．However, merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction．They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road．

The Silk Road was not a simple trading network．It passed through thousands of cities and towns．It started from eastern China, across Central Asia and the Middle East, and ended in the Mediterranean Sea．It was used from about 200 B．C．to about 1300 A．D．, when sea travel offered new routes（路线）．It was sometimes called the world’s longest highway．However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path．They passed through what are now 18 countries．The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles．Only experienced traders could return safe．

The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product．Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods．But the traders carried more than just silk．Gold, silver, and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia．Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China．Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods．Chinese merchants traded paper, which produced an immediate effect on the West．Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome．The Chinese had learned to graft（嫁接） different trees together to make new kinds of fruit．They passed this science on to others, including the Romans．The Romans used grafting to grow the apple．Trading along the Silk Road led to world-wide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web．

The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods．They also shared their beliefs．The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy（外交）, and religion （宗教）．

It’s probable that traders along the Silk Road needed ．

A．to remember the entire trade route B．to know the making of products

C．to receive certain special training D．to deal with a lot of difficulties

The Silk Road became less important because ．

A．it was made up of different routes B．silk trading became less popular

C．sea travel provided easier routes D．people needed fewer foreign goods

What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A．Silk． B．A trading network．

C．The world’s longest highway． D．Goods．k.s.5.u

Runners in a relay(接力) race pass a stick in one direction. However, merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction. They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road.

The Silk Road was not a simple trading network. It passed through thousands of citied and towns. It started from eastern China, across Central Asia and the Middle East, and ended in the Mediterranean Sea. It was used from about 200 B, C, to about A, D, 1300, when sea travel offered new routes(路线)　, It was sometimes called the world’s longest highway. However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path. They passed through what are now 18 countries. The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles. Only experienced traders could return safe.

The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product. Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods. But the traders carried more than just silk. Gold, silver, and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia. Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China. Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods. Chinese merchants traded paper, which produced an immediate effect on the West. Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome. The Chinese had learned to graft(嫁接)　different trees together to make new kinds of fruit. They passed this science on to others, including the Romans. The Romans used grafting to grow the apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to world-wide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web.

The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods. They also shared their beliefs. The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy(外交), and religion (宗教)

53. It’s probable that traders along the Silk Road needed .

A. to remember the entire trade route B. to know the making of products

C. to receive certain special training D. to deal with a lot of difficulties

54. The Silk Road became less important because .

A. it was made up of different routes B. silk trading became less popular

C. sea travel provided easier routes D. people needed fewer foreign goods

55. New technologies could travel along the Silk Road because people .

A. learned from one another B. shared each other’s beliefs

C. traded goods along the route D. earned their living by traveling

56. What is the best title for the passage?

A. The Silk Road ; Past and Present B. The Silk Road; East Meets West

C. The Silk Road; Routes Full of Dangers D. The Silk Road; Pathways for Learning

The name “cowboy” conjures up many different images from movies, songs and TV. These imagined cowboys range from white-hat-wearing heroes to gun-shooting hooligans(流氓).But, cowboys are actually real people from US history.
When the US Civil War ended, many soldiers had no place to call home. So, they began to drift to the country’s rural West. Ranchers(农场主) hired these men to take care of the cattle and work around the ranch. When the ranch owner wanted to sell the cattle, the cowboys would round up the herd from the open prairie(牧场) and drive the cattle miles to the market.
With the invention of barbed wire(铁丝网),the cowboy era(1865-1890) began to come to an end. But people in the East had always been curious about their lifestyle. Many country/western songs during this time tried to capture the true cowboy spirit. Newspapers published cowboy tales in serial form and adventure novels followed. The bigger the fiction, the better the sales. These novels often portrayed cowboys as cruel and violent men. Cowboys carried the bad reputation for many years afterwards.
When movies began to be popular in the 1920s, the cowboy image changed again. Now, a cowboy became the great white knight(骑士) that loved his horse more than the beautiful ladies he rescued. As the cowboy of the “Old West” spent more time with his horse than the ladies, this era's image was not entirely false.
Then, in the 50s,Hollywood began producing so-called “spaghetti westerns(意大利西部片)”.They earned the nickname because Italian companies financed the films and TV shows. This started the decade’s “Cowboy Craze”. While this didn’t last long, it made modern country / western music, fashion and dance extremely popular.
In recent years, with the help of musicians, radio stations and bars, cowboy nostalgia(怀旧情绪) has returned. Even though his image is still changing — somewhere between ballad singing country boy and bar room fighter — there’s one thing for sure, you can’t keep the cowboy down.
【小题1】The purpose of this story is to ______.

A．introduce cowboy movies and novels

B．introduce various productions associated with cowboys

C．show the cowboy's everlasting charm

D．inform us about the cowboy’s spirit

【小题2】Before they became cowboys, they ______.

A．served in the army	B．worked as bar-room fighters
C．owned ranches	D．were adventurous explorers

【小题3】During “the cowboy era” mentioned in the story, ______________.

A．the cowboy often came to the rescue of ladies in newspaper tales

B．the distant Wild West appealed to people in the East

C．cowboys were shown as cruel and violent men on the silver screen

D．country music started the cowboy craze which swept the whole country

【小题4】By saying “you can’t keep the cowboy down”, the writer means that ______.

A．cowboys are real people in history	B．cowboys still fascinate people
C．you can't make cowboys unhappy	D．you can’t grasp the cowboy spirit

【小题5】Which of the following statements would the writer agree to?

A．The cowboy has been presented in different lights in different eras.

B．Cowboys are gun-shooting hooligans, without doubt.

C．Cowboys have always been a passing phenomenon.

D．Cowboys enjoy Italian foods, for example, spaghetti.

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo is being interviewed:

Reporter:How did War Horse become so successful?

Michael:War Horse was published in 1982,and it did not sell very well.But my publishers kept it in print,along with all my books.I am very grateful to Egmont and I’m sure now they are very grateful to themselves.

The book was discovered 21 years later,by accident.I was on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 in 2003 when my work was becoming better known.One of the listeners was the mother of a director called Tom Morris,and after reading War Horse herself she told her son to read it.Two years later the play came out,and it was a huge hit that went to the West End,Broadway and now Canada and Australia,then a nationwide American tour in June this year.

In 2009 kathy kennedy,the producer who worked with Steven Spielberg,walked into the New London Theatre to see the play because her daughter liked it very much.She then phoned Spielberg and told him this would be his next film!The way it all happened is better than any of my stories.War Horse has now sold over 1 million copies.

Reporter:Has War Horse changed your life?

Michael:It has made all the difference in the world.The most important gift it has given us is not to have to worry about money,because there has always been a slight anxiety.It has allowed us to ensure our grandchildren’s education.There is a disadvantage to it as well,which is an assumption that I am super rich.I’m not,actually.It is very nice and completely unexpected but I have got to go on writing.If I were younger,I think,it would go to my head.Now I am too old for anything to go to my head.It is not the same as winning the lottery(彩票)。

1.Why are Michael’s publishers grateful to themselves too?

A．Because they never stopped printing it and it finally proved successful.

B．Because they earned a lot thanks to books of high quality they printed.

C．Because they have the ability to enlarge their company.

D．Because they have the potential to film the story.

2.War Horse got the first huge success thanks to____.

A．Steven Spielberg and his daughter

B．Tom Morris and his listeners

C．Kathy Kennedy’s daughter

D．Tom Morris’ mother

3.Why did Kathy Kennedy watch the play of War Horse?

A．Because she knew that the film was very popular.

B．Because her daughter was mad on the play.

C．Because her friend,Steven Spielberg,advised her to see it.

D．Because she was looking for a story with an animal in her mind.

4.What change made Michael feel most valuable because of War Horse?

A．He could stay at home looking after his grandchildren.

B．He can make friends with famous film directors.

C．He needn’t worry about his financial problems.

D．He needn’t spend time writing another book.

5.What is the attitude of Michael to his great success?

A．Calm.

B．Unbelievable.

C．Confused

D．Excited.

According to researchers．money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else．

Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly bring you happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found．

Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably（适度地） happier when they spent money on others--even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier．

"We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn," said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia．

They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity．

"Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not," Dunn said in a statement．

Dunn's team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus（奖金） of between $3,000 and $8,000．

"Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself," they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science．

They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it．Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it．

"These findings suggest that very minor alterations（改动） in spending allocations（分配） - as little as $5 - may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day," Dunn said．

1.According to the passage,_____________．

A．the more money you spend on others, the happier you are

B．spending money on others can bring you happiness

C．Elizabeth Dunn is a psychologist from Harvest Business School

D．six hundred volunteers took part in the experiment

2.The 16 employees mentioned in the passage _________．

A．were given clear instructions on how to spend the bonus

B．had more happiness than the size of the bonus itself

C．experienced greater happiness after receiving their bonus

D．felt happier after they contributed much of the bonus of charities

3.Dunn’s statement suggested that ______________．

A．those who spent money on others felt happier no matter how much they earned

B．those who spent more money on themselves felt happier

C．people thought spending money could make themselves happier

D．the money spent was as important as the money earned

4.The best title of this passage is ___________．

A．Experiment on Money Spending

B．Spending Money on Others Makes One Happier

C．Devoting Your Money to Charities

D．Bonus and Pro-social Spending

They earned their living ________ hunting.

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