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　　Tokyo: Three snakes, whose poison could kill a person in ten minutes, are guarding a blue star sapphire (蓝宝石)worth nearly six hundred thousand dollars at a Japanese exhibition of jewels sent from an Indian museum.

　　“Normally it would be forbidden to let these poisonous snakes guard exhibiton objects, but it's different this time because the jewels are being exhibited at a hotel. ”a police official said.

　　Exhibition officials said that a person bitten (咬)by one of these snakes would need at least 80m1 of an anti-poison medicine to be saved. Medicine was being kept ready at a nearby hospital.

　　The star sapphire and other valuable jewels worth a total of one million dollars are on show behind glass. Hundreds of visitors came to see the special blue star sapphire and were surprised when they saw the sixty-centimetre-long brown guards.

1．Using snakes at exhibitions of valuable objects is ________.

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A．quite normal

B．never allowed

C．often necessary

D．usually forbidden

2．The jewels were being shown in ________.

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A．an Indian hotel

B．an Indian museum

C．a Japanese hotel

D．a Japanese museum

3．Why were the snakes and jewels at the same exhibition?

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A．They were both special things from India.

B．The snakes were to keep the jewels safe.

C．The organizers wanted to do something unusual.

D．People liked to visit an exhibition guarded by snakes.

4．Many visitors came to the exhibition because ________.

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A．the snakes were on show

B．so many jewels were being exhibited

C．exhibition officials said it was special

D．they were interested in seeing a famous jewel

5．If the visitors were bitten by one of the poisonous snakes, he ________.

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A．would be saved by anti-poison medicine

B．would be dying soon

C．would feel nothing serious

D．would run away as soon as possible

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　　Today the official language of the United States and most of Canada is English. However, French almost became the official language because of a war.

　　The French and Indian war broke out between 1754 and 1763．The name of this war is not exact because the war was actually between English and French. The Indians fought on the side of the French.

　　France and England were trying to get control of North America. France held Canada and England held part of what is now the United States. However, France tried to expand (扩张)its land by moving southward into New York and Virginia. When the French built a fort(城堡)on the Ohio River, the people in Virginia set George Washington to attack the fort in 1754．However, the French defeated Washington.

　　The French helped by the Indians, won many early battles. Later the British began to do well against the French. In the final battle in Canada, General Wolfe of England faced General Mont-calm from France. Both generals died in the battle but the English outlasted(比……耐久)the French and won. Thus Most of North America today has the English culture and language.

1．The best title for the passage is ________.

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2．We can conclude that George Washington stood for(代表)________.

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3．Which statement is Not true?

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A．The Indian and French are on the same side.

B．French became the official language because of the war.

C．General Wolfe died in Canada.

D．Ohio lies to the south of Canada.

4．Washington lost the battle at the fort on the Ohio River ________.

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　　Car racing is not only for the rich people with racing cars! With an old car, enough courage, and a little luck, you can go stockcar racing.

　　In a stockcar rather than the other cars he wants to hit one another. A stockcar driver doesn't want to be faster than the other cars. He wants to hit them and stop them! Here he needs courage.

　　A race is thirty minutes, with a five-minute break in the middle. Many cars stop working after five or ten minutes; sometimes all of them stop working. Then the drivers have work to do. During the break friends can come and help, but they must repair the car in these minutes. Time is very important.

　　The break ends. How many cars can restart? Here a driver sometimes needs a little luck to help him. But that is stockcar racing: a driver, an old car, courage and a little luck!

1．You win at a stockcar racing if your car ________.

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A．runs faster than all the other cars

B．heavily hits all the other cars

C．passes all the other cars in 30 minutes

D．still runs at the end of the race

2．The purpose of the break in the middle of the race is to let ________.

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A．the audience take a rest

B．friends cheer for the driver

C．the drivers fix their cars

D．the judges examine the cars

3．Stockcar racers need courage because ________.

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A．they have to drive very fast

B．they have to hit other cars

C．their cars might stop working

D．their cars might get damaged

4．The purpose of the stockcar race is ________.

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A．to have fun

B．to sell old cars

C．to see who is the luckiest

D．to give the poor people a chance

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　　Strange things happen to time when you travel, because earth is divided into twenty-four areas, one hour apart. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks more or fewer than seven days.

　　If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship enters a different time area every day. As you enter each area, the time changes one hour: traveling west, you set your clock back, traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.

　　If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you cross the International Date Line. By arrangement (依协议), this is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change your calendar one full day, backward or forward. Traveling east, today becomes yesterday. Traveling west, it is tomorrow.

1．Strange things happen to time when you travel because ________.

A．no day really has twenty-four hours

B．the earth is divided into time areas

C．time areas are not at all the same size

D．no one knows where time areas begin

2．It seems true that the Atlantic Ocean ________.

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A．is in one time area

B．is divided into twenty-four areas

C．is divided into five time areas

D．can not be crossed in five days

3．If you cross the ocean going east, you set your clock ________.

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A．one hour ahead in each new time area

B．one hour ahead for the whole trip

C．one full day back for each time area

D．ahead by twenty-three hours

4．The International Date Line is the name for ________.

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A．the beginning of any new time area

B．any point where time changes by one hour

C．the point where a new day begins

D．any time area in the Pacific Ocean

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　　Newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly in their ways of carrying the news. There are serious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both at home and abroad. There are popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment (娱乐) to information.

　　The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probably THE TIMES. It began in 1785, and has a high reputation(名声) for believable news and serious opinions on the news. It calls itself an independent paper, which means that it does not give its support to a particular political party. Leading articles give the opinions of the editors(编辑), not those of the owners of the paper.

　　Letters to the editors are printed in parts of the newspaper. These parts of THE TIMES are always interesting. Most of the letters are on serious subjects, but from time to time there will be long letters on the subject which is not at all serious, perhaps on a new fashion of dress, or the bad manners of the young people, compared with the manners of thirty years ago.

1．THE TIMES is very famous, partly because ________.

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A．news carried in the paper can be accepted as true

B．it receives plenty of reader's letters

C．you can get entertainment from it

D．the editors are all learned

2．THE TIMES is an independent paper, for ________.

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A．it gives special support to all the political parties

B．it supports no political parties

C．the editors' opinions are not examined by the owners of the paper

D．it is not controlled by the Britain Government

3．The word“vary”in the passage probably means ________.

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A．improve

B．compete with each other

C．be different

D．keep in touch with each other

4．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Sometimes pieces of writing on the latest fashion in clothes can satisfy your interest.

B．The amusing parts of the paper are letters to the editors.

C．The manners of the young people thirty yeas ago were often polite.

D．The subjects of the letters to the editors are serious at all times.

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　　The 42 503 Chinese students studying in the US are enrolled in 994 different universities. The university of Howton in Texas, with 474 students or more than ten per cent of the total, has the largest number of Chinese students of an US university. One hundred and eighteen universities and colleges have more than 100 Chinese, and the average number of students per university is around 40.

　　Twenty three per cent of Chinese students are concentrated at the 20 most popular universities. Compared with other Asian countries and regions, Chinese students are quite well dispersed(分布). Only Japan has a lower percentage of students in the top 20 universities.

　　New York State is the most popular with 3 524 Chinese students. (10 per cent) States following in order of popularity with Chinese are: California, Texas, Ohio, and Ilineis. Thirty-eight per cent of the Chinese students enrolled in US institutions are concentrated in these fine states.

　　Seventy-seven percent of all Chinese are studying at the graduate level. Eleven per cent are enrolled in undergraduate programmes while 4 per cent are listed as non-degree of ESL(English as a Second language)students.

1．From the first paragraph, we get to know what ________.

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A．the University of Houston is the best University in the US

B．the University of Houston is the biggest university in the US

C．there are about 4500 students in the university of Houston

D．the University of Houston only receive Chinese students

2．The second paragraph means that ________.

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A．only students from China study at the top university

B．no other students but Japanese and Chinese students study at the top university

C．Chinese students often fight against students

D．famous universities in the US attract students

3．The main idea of the third paragraph is that ________.

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A．New York State is the biggest state in the US

B．New York State has the most beautiful buildings

C．not every State of the US attracts Chinese students

D．there are 35 states in the US

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　　Over the past 10 years, technologies that have combined computers with telephone have developed. Technologies such as PC fax programs and LAN fax severs(局域网传真服务器) have been used to improve fax communications. The latest computer-based technologies are new mechanisms(机制) which use IP( Internet Protocol, 因特网协议) to send faxes, that is, IP fax.

　　Traditional fax has a fairly simple usage model. First, the user inserts a document into the fax machine, enters the destination fax number and presses the start button on the machine. The sending machine dials the receiving fax machine. If it connects, the sending machine scans the documents and sends it over the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ,公共电话交换网) to the receiving machine . At the same time, the receiving machine receives the document and then prints it. In 1P fax system there are two basic transmission modes: store-and-forward mode and real-time mode. Store-and-forward mode has been widely used. In this mode, the entire document is sent to a network-based server that stores it and then sends it to the destination. Real-time IP faxing is similar to traditional fax. Real-time mode allows two fax machines to directly communicate through some standard.

　　IP fax enables a fax document to be sent from one person to another. A fax machine or a computer can be used to send or receive the fax. IP fax also allows e-mail to be used to receive faxes. This would enable users to receive faxes anywhere, anytime with an Internet fax address.

1．The passage deals mainly with ________.

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A．PC fax

B．IP fax

C．information technology

D．new machines

2．In traditional fax, ________ can be used.

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A．even computers

B．LAN fax servers

C．e-mail

D．only fax machines

3．IP fax can use all of the following to send and receive a fax except ________.

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A．a fax machine

B．a receiving machine

C．a computer

D．e-mail

4．In real-time II' fax mode ________.

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A．two fax machines communicate directly

B．a network-based server is used

C．users can receive faxes anywhere

D．the PSTN has to be used

5．In paragraph 2 , the word “inserts” can be replaced by ________.

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　　Halloween is a festival celebrated on October 31st. The name of the holiday means “hallowed” or “holy evening” because it happens the day before All Saints Day(万圣节) .

　　It is said that Halloween is the children's New Year's Eve. they dress up with special costumes(服装) , they eat too much, and stay up too late celebrating.

　　Children go around the neighbourhood wearing make-up, and dressed masks and colorful costumes. The most common costumes are witches, ghosts, skeletons, and popular TV, movie and storybook characters. Sane costumes are homemade, others are bought in stores. The children go door to door saying “trick or treat” . People give them candy, cookies, fruit or money. Sometimes money is to help UNICEF ( United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) .

　　Homes, stores and classrooms are decorated in the traditional Halloween colors, orange and black. Usual decorations are witches, black cats, ghosts, skeletons, and jack-o-lanterns (灯笼) . Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins that are carved to look like faces. They ace placed on doorway entrances and in windows. Horror movies and ghost stories are shown on TV on this day.

　　Adults and older children also celebrate Halloween with parades, festivals and costume parties. Some people create their costumes, other people rent them. Contests are held where the beat costume receives a prize. One of the party events popular with children is dunking(浸泡) for apples. Apples are put in tubs filled with water. People try to get the apples using only their , hands cannot be used.

1．Why is it said that Halloween is the children's New Year's Eve?

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A．Because Halloween comes the day before All Saints Day.

B．Because only on that day can children go around the neighbourhood.

C．Because children can get money from their parents on Halloween.

D．Because children dress up with special costumes, eat a lot, and stay up late celebrating.

2．Which of the following is NOT true about the common costumes according to the passage?

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A．They are colorful.

B．Some of the costumes are homemade.

C．They are witches, skeletons, ghosts and popular TV characters, and so on.

D．All of the costumes are homemade.

3．What are the traditional Halloween colors?

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A．Red and green.

B．Orange and black.

C．Black and white.

D．Orange and brown.

4．Which of the following about Halloween is WRONG?

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A．Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins that are carved to look like faces.

B．Adults also celebrate Halloween together with children.

C．Horror movies are shown on 1'V on 31st October.

D．Apples are the favourite fruit people eat on Halloween.

　　In some part of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been difficult in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.

　　New England has many trees and thin, rocky soil.

　　Anyone who has wanted to start a new farm  had to work very hard. The first job has been cutting down trees. The next job has been digging the stumps(树桩) of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has the difficult job of removing stones from his land.

　　This work of removing stones never really ends, because every winter more stones appear. They come up through the thin soil from the rocks below. Farmers have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep producing more stones.

　　That is why stone walls are used instead of fences around New England fields. The stone walls are not high; a man can easily climb over them. But they keep the farmer's cow from joining his neighbour's cows.

1．New England lies ________.

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A．in England

B．in the U.S.

C．to the northeast of England

D．to the northeast of the U.S.

2．The passage compares(比较) farming ________.

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A．in England and in New England

B．in different parts of the U.S.

C．in England and in the U.S.

D．in different parts of England

3．What is the greatest difficulty New England farmers have in their farming?

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4．“Remove”means ________.

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5．From this passage, you know at least one thing New England farmers produce on their farms. What is this?

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   Insects have a great many different ways to protect their eggs after laying them. Some insects just lay their eggs anywhere and forget all about them. Many other set their eggs near food material and then go off. Butterflies, for example, lay their eggs on a plant which the young, when hatched, will feed on. The ants and the bees, on the other hand, give their young the greatest protection. The young have nurses to feed them and soldiers to protect them while they are carefully tended in the beehive or antnest.

1．An insect generally ________ of defending its eggs from harm.

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2．Decide the true statement according to the article ________.

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A．All the insects tend their newly -laid eggs carefully

B．A butterfly produces its eggs where the young can easily find food material when hatched

C．Many insects lay their eggs where they stay and care for them no longer

D．A plant is no place for an insect to set its eggs on

3．Unlike the little butterflies, the young ants ________.

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A．have to search for food themselves

B．are offered food back at home

C．are guarded against enemies

D．both B and C

4．A beehive here means ________.

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A．a crowded busy place where bees store their food

B．a place, like a small box, where bees live

C．a safe hiding - place for bees to feed the young

D．a kind of feed material the young will feed on

5．The article does not say, but we know ________.

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A．biologists took no observations, but thought hard and drew a conclusion

B．the ant's way of living is quite different from that of the bees

C．the eggs laid by insects are likely to be damaged in some way

D．the eggs need no protection