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Tourism probably started in Roman times. Rich Romans visited friends and family who were working in another part of the Roman Empire. But when the empire broke down, this kind of tourism stopped.

In the early 17th century, the idea of the "Grand Tour" was born. Rich young English people sailed across the English Channel(英吉利海峡).They visited the most beautiful and important European cities of the time, including Paris in France, and Rome and Venice in Italy. Their tours lasted for two to four years, and the tourists stayed a few weeks or months in each city. The "Grand Tour" was an important part of young people's education―but only for the rich.

In the 18th century, tourism began to change. For example, people in the UK started to visit some towns? such as Bath, to "take the water". They be?lieved that the water there was good for their health. So large and expensive hotels were built in these towns.

In the 19th century, travel became much more popular. When the first railways were built in the 1820s ， it was easier for people to travel between towns ， so they started to go for holidays by the sea. And some started to have holidays in the countryside as cities became larger, noisier and dirtier.

Travelling by sea also became faster and safer when the first steamships were built. People began to travel more to faraway countries.

The 20th century saw cars become more and more popular among ordinary people. Planes were made larger, so ticket prices dropped and more people used them.

Thus tourism grew. In 1949, Russian journalist Vladimir Raitz started a company called Horizon Holidays. The company organizes everything―plane tickets, hotel rooms, even food一and tourists pay for it all before they leave home. The package tour and modern tourist industry were born.

The first travel agency in China was set up as early as 1949. But tourism did not take off until 1978. So far, the industry has become an important part of China's social development.

1.In the early times, the travellers ___________.

A. all came from Roman

B. were very young and strong

C. had lots of money

D. travelled by boat

2._______played the most important role in the tourism development.

A.Education            B. Money

C. Transportation         D.  People's ideas

3.Modern tourism industry was born______ .

A. in 1949

B. in Roman times                               

C. in the early 17th century

D. in the 18th century 

4.The underlined phrase "take off" in the last paragraph means ______"

A.(a plane) rises into the air

B.develop very fast

C.remove hats and clothes

D. bring down the prices

Jenny was a pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at a grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl(珍珠)necklace priced at $ 2. 50. Her mother bought the necklace for her on condition that she had to do some housework to pay it off. Jenny agreed. She worked very hard every day, and soon Jenny paid off the necklace. Jenny loved it so much that she wore it everywhere except when she was in the shower. Her mother had told her it would turn her neck green ！

Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would read Jenny her favourite story.

One night when he finished the story, he said, "Jenny, could you give me your necklace?"

"Oh！ Daddy, not my necklace!" Jenny said. "But you can have Rosy, my favourite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. Okay?"

"Oh no, darling, that's okay. " Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. "Good night, little one."

A week later, her father once again asked Jenny for the necklace after her favourite story. "Oh, Daddy, not my necklace! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her? She's my favourite.，，

"No, that's okay," her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. "God bless you, little one. Sweet dreams."

Several days later, when Jenny's father came in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lips were trembling. "Here, Daddy," she said, holding out her hand. She opened it and her beloved pearl neck?lace was inside. She let it slip into her father's hand.

With one hand her father held the plastic pearl necklace and with the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue box.   Inside the box was a real, beautiful pearl necklace. He had had it all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap necklace so he could give her a real one.

1.    What did Jenny have to do to get the plastic pearl necklace?

A.    She had to help her mother do some housework.

B.    She had to listen to her father tell a story every night.

C.    She had to ask her father to pay for the necklace.

D.    She had to give away her favourite toys to the poor children.

2.    From the text we know that .

A.    Jenny's mother paid a lot for the plastic pearl necklace

B.    Jenny wore the necklace everywhere even in the shower

C.    Jenny didn't like Rosy and Ribbons any longer

D.    Jenny got a real pearl necklace from her father

3.    Jenny's father asked for her plastic pearl necklace repeatedly in order to       .

A.    get it for himself

B.    donate it

C.    train her character

D.    put it away

4.    What can be the best title for the text?

A.    A lovely girl

B.    Father and daughter

C.    A pearl necklace

D.    An unforgettable childhood

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    There was a sweet, wonder-filled little girl who was hurt over and over again. She   1  that she was so bad that others just couldn't be 2 to her.

   She asked many wise people to help her 3 why she was so bad that even her mother hurt her, and why she was unable to be 4  so that others wouldn't hurt her. So she was on a  5  that she thought was to help her to be "better", but she carried a big  6 with her everywhere she went.7 was all the hurt she had experienced. During the trip she willingly  8what the wise people said about forgiveness(宽恕).

    After 50 years? she decided to   9  the bag up and just see what had happened. When she looked inside, it was filled with bits of paper. Once they had  10  on them, detailing the hurt. But as time went on, the words11 slowly. She had been carrying this bag that held nothing  12 the image(印象)of something that once was.

The little girl had now become an almost-old woman. She 13 the sil?liness of carrying that bag around. She started 14 and dancing and she felt free!

She was able to see that her 15 loved her child, but was  16that her little girl felt unloved. By throwing away the bag of paper and forgiving those who 17  her, she looked in the mirror and said, "I am clever, inter?esting and kind.  But most  18  ， she was able to say "I am lovable. "19 it took many years, she was finally open to bringing  20  into her life.

She finally saw the sweet, wonder-filled little girl that she had always been.

1.     A. decided          B. considered       C. promised              D. hoped

2.     A. bad              B. sorry           C. thankful               D. nice

3.     A. guess           B. understand       C. expect                 D. invent

4.     A. better            B. worse          C. angrier              D. harder

5.     A. holiday           B. date             C.trip               D. path

6.     A. bowl           B. basket             C. bag                 D. purse

7.     A. Beneath           B. Above           C. Outside             D. Inside

8.     A. agreed with    B. fought against       C. gave up           D. suffered from

9.     A. pick           B. open              C. put             D. break

 10.     A. pictures       B. memories        C. words               D. dreams

11.     A. disappeared        B. appeared          C. showed              D. changed

12.     A. and             B. with            C. among             D. but

13.     A. refused        B. forgot          C. realized             D. preferred

14.     A. crying            B. laughing           C. shouting         D. worrying

15.     A. daughter      B. mother            C. teacher             D. friend

16.     A. sad            B. happy              C. excited          D. hopeful

17.     A. liked           B. hurt              C. educated            D. ignored

18.     A. surprisingly       B. terribly          C. nervously        D. importantly

19.     A. Although          B. If            C. Because             D. So

20.     A. trouble        B. love             C. money               D. future

It is universally known that people cannot succeed or achieve their targets without a strong will. One of the most typical examples is that in the present society, a

growing number of people fail 35.      (quit)smoking just because of their poor willpower during the process. Some factors may explain this phenomenon 36.   follows. For one thing, no one can deny the fact 37.     insistence is the key to accomplishing   one's   task. Therefore, sticking to one's 38.   (origin) aim is significant. 39.     many people will stop smoking a couple of days after they have made their determination, only a few of them can succeed in the end. For 40.    ， many people can't resist various temptations (诱惑)around them. In

41.   case, those who want to quit smoking may be 42.     ( easy) affected by the smoking fellows around them. From what 43.   (discuss) above, we may safely come to the conclusion that only by concentrating on the target and sticking to it 44.    we succeed.

This happened in a third-grade classroom. Jim sat 25.   his desk and all of a sudden, there was a puddle between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He felt his heart was going to stop.  He knew 26.    would happen when his classmates found out. He looked up and there came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he 27.  (discover).

As the teacher was walking towards 28.    ， a classmate named Susie was carrying 29.      goldfish bowl full of water to her desk.  Suddenly, Susie tripped(绊倒)and, 30.   (strange) , dumped the whole bowl of water in Jim's lap. He pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying deep in his heart, "Thank you！" Jim became the object of sympathy instead of ridicule (嘲 笑). The teacher brought him gym shorts to put on. All the others crawled (爬)on their hands and

knees, 31 .  (clean) up around his desk. But 32.  life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred(转移)to Susie. She tried to help, 33.     they told her to leave the room.  34.     school was over, Jim walked over to Susie and whispered, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"

Susie whispered back, "I wet my trousers once, too ！

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I didn't get that   in exchange for   how do you find it   as a result   find out

1.一I hear you saw the film Taijiong last night.____________ ？ 

 ―It's totally fascinating.

2. We are considering using a questionnaire to ____________________________  about people's attitudes to shopping online.

3.My friend Martin was very sick with a strange fever; _________________________ ，he could neither eat nor sleep.

4.―Sorry,___________________ . Could you explain it to me?

―OK, I mean expensive gifts aren't necessarily better gifts.

5. Tom gave Helen an apple______________________ a piece of cake.

Michael and I hardly noticed when the waitress came and placed the plate on our table. Our exchange was lively. As our sweet 5 continued, my eyes glanced 6 the restaurant, stopping at a(n) 7 cou-ple sitting at the small corner table. 8 drew my thoughts to them was their undisturbed silence. It seemed that a sad emptiness 9 their little corner. As the conversation between Michael and I varied from 10     to whispers,and much to my surprise,this couple's  11 even caught my attention. How sad, I thought, not to have anything to   12  What if that happened to us?

Michael and I 13 our bill and got up to leave the restaurant. As we 14 by the corner where the old couple sat,I dropped my wallet 15 ！ Bending over to pick it up, I 16 that under the table, each of their 17 hands was gently placed in the other's. They had been  18  hands all the time!

I stood up and felt ashamed by the 19 act of connection I had witnessed. The man's gentle caress(爱抚)of his wife's tired fingers filled not only what I had20  recognized as an emotionally empty corner, but also my heart. Theirs was not the uncomfortable silence on first date.

No,theirs was a comfortable, relaxed ease, a gentle 21  that did not always need words to express 22  They had probably 23 this hour of morning with each other for a long time,and maybe today wasn't that different from yesterday, 24 they were at peace

with that,and with each other.

Maybe, I thought,it wouldn't be so bad if someday that was us. Maybe, it would be kind of nice.

5.    A.  introduction    B. conversation

C.  association      D. presentation

6.    A,  at     B. over

C.    across      D.    through

7.    A.    young     B.    friendly

C.    elderly    D.    anxious

8.    A.    What       B.    That

C.    Who       D.    Which

9.    A.    covered   B.    filled

C.  limited    D. controlled

10.   A.  laughs     B. cries

C.  arguments       D. screams

11.   A.   stillness B. patience

C.  personality      D. movement

12.   A.  do    B. discuss

C.  explain    D. say

13.   A.  took B. gave

C.  paid D. ordered

14.   A.   waited   B. rushed

C.  slipped    D. walked

15.   A.   by accident   B.  at will

C.  in surprise       D.   on purpose

16.   A.  realized   B. felt

C.  noticed    D. heard

17.   A.   small     B. free

C.   special       D. right

18.   A.  raising     B. shaking

C.  moving    D, holding

19.   A.   funny    B. strange

C.  simple     D. common

20.   A.   normally       B. previously

C.  eventually       D. frequently

21.   A.  worry      B. idea

C.   doubt           D. love

22.   A.  himself    B. herself

C.  themselves      D. itself

23.   A.  spread     B. shared

C.   wasted   D. saved

24.   A.  but   B. so

C.  and  D. or

5. Don't be too particular_____________   what you eat and wear; pay more attention to your study and work.

4. From space ,the earth looks blue. This is________________ _ about seventy-one percent of its surface is covered by water.

3.He was caught in the rain. That's _______ he is absent from school to?day.