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　　In America many children act in TV shows. They work several hours every day, so they cannot go to a regular school. How do they get an education?

　　In Hollywood(好莱坞) where many TV shows are made, about forty teachers give lessons for the children in the shows. They teach wherever their pupils are working.

　　The teacher’s job is very important. She is responsible for(对……负责)making sure that the child works only in the permitted hours each week. She is also responsible for making sure that the child learns the required subjects. She makes sure, too, that the child gets enough rest and play, along with his education.

　　Child actors(儿童演员)are required to attend classes twenty hours each week. California law says that they must be taught from September to the middle of June. If they do not get good marks, they are not permitted to continue working in TV shows.

　　TV children are usually good pupils, and most of their teachers like this special kind of work. Their classes are held in many interesting places. Sometimes the “classroom” is a Mississippi riverboat. Something it is the inside of a spaceship. Often the pupils become famous stars.

1．What does “TV children” means here?

They are children ________.

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A．who like watching TV very much

B．who watch TV a lot every day

C．who are taught by TV

D．who play the children in TV shows

2．In America TV children ________.

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A．are too busy to go to school

B．have no chance to receive an education

C．can’t go to a regular school

D．can’t have enough time to be taught

3．TV children are taught ________.

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A．on the evening and Sunday,

B．on a Mississippi riverboat or in a spaceship

C．only in the permitted hours every week

D．wherever they are working

4．”If they do not get good marks, they are not permitted to continue working in TV shows”.

________

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A．which shows great attention has been paid to TV children’s education

B．which shows child actors are very good students

C．which is because they will have to become famous stars

D．which is because their teachers have played an important part

5．Which shouldn’t the teachers do? The teachers in Hollywood must make sure ________.

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A．their students must be good at working in TV shows

B．the children there work only in permitted hours

C．the child actors must finish the required subjects

D．the TV children must get enough rest and play

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　　Some countries have a large number of earthquakes. Japan is one of them. Others do not have many; for example, there are few earthquakes in Britain. There is often a great noise during an earthquake. The ground shakes and houses fall down. Railway lines are broken. Trains run off the lines. Sometimes thousands of people are killed in different ways. Abut 60,000 were killed in 1783 in South Italy. A terrible earthquake in 1883 killed 35,000 people in Indonesia．

　　Another terrible earthquake happened in India in 1896. The ground suddenly moved 0.45m to one side. Then it moved back again. It moved like this 200 times a minute. Nearly all the buildings and trees fell down when that was happening.

1．________ has few earthquakes.

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2．It isn’t true that ________ during an earthquake.

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A．the ground shakes

B．materials become hot

C．some people die

D．a great noise can be heard

3．There were many fires after the Tokyo earthquake because ________ .

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A．people were using fires

B．the earthquake shook the fires

C．the houses were made of wood

D．A, B and C

4．How did the ground move when the earthquake of 1896 happened in India?

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A．It moved to one side and than back 200 times a minute.

B．It moved 0.45m to one side and then to the other side in a minute.

C．It moved 0.45m a minute

D．It moved 20 times in a minute

6．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．Trains run off the lines because railway lines are broken during an earthquake.

B．The earthquake of 1923hit Tokyo late in the day .

C．People threw hot materials onto different parts of the houses.

D．There were few buildings in the area after the earthquake of 1896 in India．

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　　Do you remember the big flood(洪水)in 1999? Our country suffered a lot and some people lost their lives in that flood．

　　There are many floods here and there each year in our country. In summer it rains a lot, the rain water runs everywhere because there are not enough reservoirs(水库)to hold water and the drainage(排水系统)is bad．In cities, streets flood．Water goes into houses fall down because they are badly made. In a word, people and property(财产)are in great danger when the flood comes.

　　We met the biggest flood in 1999 in the latest one hundred years. Many villages, towns and cities were flooded A large number of soldiers were sent to help stop flood from spilling out of the banks of big rivers. They carried many bags of sand onto the banks and even stood in the water to stop the water when they were short of bags.

　　They were also busy saving people trapped in the water. Sometimes they faced danger, but they were brave enough to put the interest(利益)of the people before everything, including their own lives. Several soldiers lost their young lives during the fighting against the flood．

　　The cause for the flood is that more trees have been cut down, and earth is washed away with the rainwater. Some people do not realize the importance of keeping the balance of water and earth. When it rains heavily, much rainwater cannot be kept. Something must be done to stop such things from happening.

1．A reservoir is a place where ________ .

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A．water is kept

B．people keep fish

C．people row boats

D．people swim

2．In cities streets flood because ________ .

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A．streets are too low

B．there is much water

C．houses badly built

D．the drainage is not good

3．Why were so many soldiers sent to the places, which were flooded?

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A．They helped to fight against the flood．

B．They wanted to save the houses.

C．They helped to plant trees

D．They wanted to build a reservoir

4．When there is a big flood, ________ .

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A．all the houses fall down

B．many soldiers lose their lives

C．no farmers are killed

D．people suffer a lot

5．_______,there may be big flood．

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A．If so many trees are planted

B．If too many trees are cut down

C．If there are small reservoirs

D．If so many people live in the country

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　　People who travel a lot fly with Bel Air because they know they will get what they want.

　　They want to go quickly, and safely, across the country, across the sea, or right across the world—and they know Bel Air will take them where they want to go, when they want to go. Bel Air flies all the new est. and fastest places, to move towns and cities, in more countries of the world, than any other airlines.

　　Do you want to go to Paris, Washington, or Tokyo? Bel Air will take you there, at all times of the day or night, right through the week. But Bel Air flies not only to the big cities in the rich countries—we fly two or three times a week to towns and cities in the very heart of Asia, Africa and South America.

　　People who travel a lot fly with Bel Air, because they know they will leave on time, and arrive on time. They know the food they will receive and the films they will watch will be of the very best.

　　Bel Air says second to none. When you fly, fly with Bel Air.

1．Bel Air says that experienced travelers choose to fly with it because ________.

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A．It offers the best service a passenger would expect for

B．its planes fly to distant places

C．it has more planes than other airlines

D．its passengers can watch films on its planes

2．Bel Air flies planes to big cities like Paris ________.

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A．every day except Sunday

B．two of three times a week

C．every day of the week

D．any time at weekend

3．“Bel Air is second to none” means ________.

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A．Bel Air is one of the best two airlines

B．Only one airline is better that Bel Air

C．No other airline is better than Bel Air

D．Bel Air is among the best airlines

4．The passage was written ________.

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A．to give people information about airlines

B．to persuade people about airline service

C．to tell people about airline service

D．to show people the fastest way of traveling

5．Choose a title for the passage.

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　　On the evening of June 21,1992,a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles”.

　　Robert Friend Lander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia, which started last December in New Delhi, India.

　　When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road．Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.

　　Robert Friend Lander’s next destinations(目的)were Lanzhou, Unhand, Uremia, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

1．The best headline(标题)for this article would be ________.

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A．The Kingdom of Bicycles

B．A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an

C．Marco Polo and the Silk Road

D．China, Pakistan, and India

2．Friend Lander is visiting the three countries in the following order: ________

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A．China, India, and Pakistan

B．India, China, and Pakistan

C．Pakistan, China, and India

D．China, Pakistan, and India

3．Hat made Friend Lander come to China

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A．The stories about Marco Polo.

B．The famous sights in Ax’s an.

C．His interest in Chinese silk.

D．His childhood dreams about bicycles.

4．Rhinelander can be said to be ________.

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5．Friend Lander was probably born in ________ .

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　　Tom is learning to speak British English. He wonders: Can I talk with Americans? Can they understand me? He often asks: What are the differences between British and American English? How important are these differences?

　　Certainly, there are some differences in grammar. For example, speakers of British English say “in hospital” and “Have you a pen”? while Americans say “in the hospital” and “Do you have a pen”? Pronunciation(语音)is something different. Americans usually sound the “r” in words like “bird” and “hurt”. Some speakers of British English do not. There are some differences between British and American English in spelling and vocabulary. For example, “color” and “honors” are British. “Color” and “Honor” are American.

　　These differences in grammar, pronunciation, spelling and vocabulary are not important, however, for the most part, British and American English are the same language.

1．In the article Tom doesn’t  ask: “ ________ ”?

[　　]

A．Can I talk with Americans

B．Can they understand me

C．What’re the differences between British and American English

D．How to talk with Americans

2．American English speakers often use ________ .

[　　]

A．more letters than British English speakers do

B．less letters than British English speakers do

C．the same number letters are British English speakers do

D．as many letters as British speakers do

3．________ says “in the hospital” and ________ says “in hospital”.

[　　]

A．English… American

B．American…Englishman

C．English…Americans

D．Americans…Englishmen

4．British English is ________ American English.

[　　]

A．completely same as

B．great different from

C．no differences

D．nearly the same as

5．The title of this article should be ________.

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A．British American English seem to be the same language

B．British and American English are different language

C．British and American English are to the same language

D．British and American English are two kinds of language

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　　There are thousands of different languages in the world. Everyone seems to think that his native(本族的)language is the most important one, as it is their first language. For many people it is even their own language all their life. Beet English is the world’s most widely used language.

　　As a native language, nearly three hundred million people speak English: in the USA, England, Australia and some other countries.

　　For people in India and many other countries, English is of necessary for business, education(教育),information and other activities. So English is the second language there.

　　As a foreign language, no other language is more widely studied or used that English. We use it to listen to the radio, to read books or to travel. It is also one of the working languages in the United Nations and is more used than the others.

1．The native language is a person’s ________ language.

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2．People in ________ use English as their second language.

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3．English is mainly used in ________ ways by people in many non-English-speaking

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4．English is the world’s most widely used language because ________.

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A．it has the largest number of speakers in the world

B．it is the first important language

C．it is one of the working languages in the UN

D．it is used as the native language in many countries

5．What is the main idea about this passage?

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A．people are learning English as their native languages.

B．English is widely used throughout the world．

C．English is the most important working language in the world．

D．English is quite necessary in business, education, information and other activities.

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　　Mr. and Mrs. Smith has always spent their summer holidays in New Jersey in the past, staying in a small inn at the foot of a hill. One year, however, Mr. Smith made a lot of money in his business, so they decided to go to London and stay at a really good hotel while they went touring around that famous city.

　　They flew to London and arrived at their hotel late one evening. They expected that they would have to go to bed hungry, because in that small inn in New Jersey, no meals were served after seven. They were therefore surprised when the man who received them in the hall asked whether they would take dinner there that night.

　　“Are you still serving dinner?” asked Mr. Smith.

　　“Yes, certainly, sir,” answered the man. “we serve it until half past nine.”

　　“ What are the times of meals then?” asker Mr. Smith.

　　“Well, sir,” answered the man. “We serve breakfast from seven to half past eleven in the morning, lunch from twelve to three in the afternoon, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to half past nine.”

　　“But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the sights of London!” said Mrs. Smith.

1．Mr. and Mrs. Smith ________ in the past.

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A．had often stayed in a big hotel in New Jersey

B．had traveled to many places

C．had often stayed in a small inn

D．had made a lot of money

2．They decided to go to a really good hotel because ________ .

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A．it was famous

B．it was difficult to find a cheap hotel

C．it was near many interesting places

D．they now had enough money

3．When they arrived at the hotel, they found ________

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A．no meals were served after seven

B．dinner was still being served

C．their plane had arrived too late

D．they had to go to bed hungry

4．When the man told them the times of meals at the hotel, Mrs. Smith felt___.

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A．disappointed

B．excited

C．delighted

D．satisfied

5．Mires. Smith ________ .

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A．thought she would have plenty of time to see the smiths

B．was afraid they would have no time to tour around London

C．thought the hotel was not as good as the small inn

D．thought the hotel was much better than the small in

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　　Two friends want to England for a holiday one year, and beautiful spring morning they want for a walk in the country. They walked along a small road for a few miles, and then they climbed over a gate and walked across the green fields. There are cows everywhere, but they were eating grass and did not look at the men.

　　They were crossing a big field of beautiful grass when an angry bull came out from behind some small trees and ran towards them. One of the men saw it first and said to his friend, “George, there’s an angry bull behind us. Let's  run to that tree and climb it.” Then he ran and quickly climbed the tree.

　　But his friend was slower than him and did not get to the tree quickly enough, so he run to a big hole in the ground and jumped into that instead.

　　The bull was running very fast, and it passed the hole. Then the man got out of it quickly and began to run towards the fence round the field, but the bull stopped, turned round, saw the man run at him angrily again. The man looked round, saw it coming, ran back to the hole and jumped into it once more before the bull reached it.

　　As soon as the bull passed the hole, the man  got of it again and run towards the other side of the field, but the bull saw him, turned round and run after him once more.

　　This happened several times, and at last the man in the tree shouted to his friend while he was in the hole, “Why don’t you stay in that hole until the bull gets tired of running after you and goes away, George? It won’t go on forever. I’m going to stay in this tree until it’s safe to come down again.”

　　“It’s all right for you in that tree, Peter,” his friend answered angrily, “but this isn’t empty. There’s bear at the bottom of it!”

1．When the two men came to a grass field, ________

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A．they came in through the gate

B．they found the gate was closed

C．they got in over the fence

D．they saw a bull running from some small trees

2．Peter ________

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A．didn’t know the bull was coming until George told him

B．saw the bull first and then pulled George towards the tree

C．told George to get into the tree at once when he saw the bull

D．found the bull coming towards them and left George without a word

3．George had to jump into the whole for ________ .

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A．he was far away from the tree

B．he didn’t run fast enough

C．he was too frightened to see the tree

D．he thought the hole was safer

4．Why did George not stay in the hole while the bull was running around?

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A．He had to run away from the bear in the hole.

B．He thought the bull had got tired．

C．He was angry with Peter.

D．He found the danger was over.

5．Peter ________ George that there was a bull behind them.

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　　Native Americans from the southeastern pert of what is now the USA believe that the universe in which they live was made up of three separate, but related worlds: the Upper World, the Lower World, and This World. In the last there lived humans, most animals and all plant .

　　This World, a round island resting on the surface of water, was supported(支撑)by four cords(弦)tied to the island at the four points. Lines drawn to connect the opposite points of the compass, from north to south and from east to west, got This World to divide it into wedge shaped segments. Thus, a symbolic representing of the human world was a cross within a circle, the cross representing the linking line(区域)and the circle the shape of This World.

　　East segment of This World wag marked by its own color. According to the belief, the east was associated with the color of red because it was the direction of the Sun. Red was also the color of fire, believed directly connected with the Sun, with blood, and therefore with life. Finally, red was the color of success. The west was the Moon segment, it provided (提供)no warmth and was not life-giving as the Sun was. So it was blue(sometimes purple), and it represented(代表)trouble and defeat. South was the direction of warmth, its color, white, was associated with pace and happiness.

1．According to the passage, southeastern Native Americans compared This World to ________.

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2．The author implies (暗示)that This World was located ________.

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A．inside the Lower World

B．inside the Upper World

C．between the Upper World and Lower World

D．above the Upper World

3．Which can he the best title?

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A．World.

B．Three Worlds.

C．A View of the Universe.

D．The Story of Worlds.

4．The lined phrase “the last” refers to ________.

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5．According to the passage, lines divided This world into ________ segments.

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