I’m planning to visit Xi’an for my vacation this summer. I’ll fly there on July 28 and stay there until August 6. First I want to see the old city wall. There are many old city walls in Xi’an in the past. But now there are only a few left. They are more than 700 years old. Lots of them were pulled down in the 1960s. People thought they were not useful and they made the traffic heavy and the streets crowded. Some of them were even dangerous. Today, our country is trying to build some of the old city walls again, because they can help us to remember our history.

   Second, I’m visiting Emperor Qin’s Terra Cotta Warriors (秦始皇兵马俑). It’s very famous in China. And I will take the camera with me. I’m taking photos there.

   I think my trip will be very interesting and I can’t wait for it.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

1  Where is the writer going to visit?

              A. Dalian.                     B. Shanghai.          C. Xi’an.               D. Xuzhou.

2  How many places is the writer going to visit in Xi’an?

       A. One.                          B. Two.                       C. Three.               D. Four.

3  How long is the writer staying in Xi’an?

              A. For a month.            B. Less than a week.

              C. Only three days.       D. For about 10 days

4  Which is NOT the reason for people to pull down the old city walls?
          A. They made streets crowded.                  B. They made traffic heavy.

C. They were dangerous.                           D. They were too high.

5  Which of the following is TRUE?

A.      There were a few walls in Xi’an in the past.

B.      Today our country is building the old walls again.

C.      The writer isn’t taking any photos during his vacations.

D.     The writer is going to Xi’an by train.

　　　 We take most of our photos when we travel, but teens from Massachusetts, US, took photos of every corner of their own communities. And they found things they didn’t know before.

Gang graffiti（青少年团伙涂鸦）on public walls, a mother hugging her son, and abandoned（废弃的）buildings—these are photos teenagers took in Smerville, a city in Massachusetts.

It’s part of program to ask teenagers to care about the safety of their communities. They took photos and found problems.

“I found I was a photographer and I wanted to show people what I saw.” said Faith Blass, 15. Blass found some leaves with holes burned by cigarettes on a street, which expresses a possible smoking problem among teenagers.

“Even though I’ve lived in Somerville my whole life, from this program I got to see a new side of the town,” said Judcine Felix, 16. “I saw it more carefully and saw things I hadn’t seen before.

Felix took pictures of broken benches and a broken light bulb in the area where she used to live. She said she was shocked to see how bad the condition of the area is, compared with where she lives now.

More than 400 photos are on display in a city hall. One police officer said the photos were wonderful and caught people’s attention.

“This project taught us to read between the lines. Everything is not simply what it seems. Blass said. She said that the project is more than just adults getting children to do things instead it gave them a voice and taught them responsibility.

53. What did the teenagers from Massachusetts really do?

A. They draw pictures on public walls.　

B. They helped clear the abandoned buildings.

C. They worked for their communities as volunteers.　

D. They took photos of their communities and found problems.

54. When Blass found some leaves were burned with holes, she suggested that ____.

A. the area might not safe because there have been a fire.

B. it was done by some teenagers and they might smoke.

C. no other photographer had ever found this problem.

D. the cleaners on this street didn’t work hard.

55. From the story, we know that Felix _____________.

A. took pictures of the communities where she lives now.

B. doesn’t like the area where she lives now.

C. once moved from one community to another.

D. couldn’t believe the bad condition of her living area is.

56. What does the phrase “read between the lines” mean?

A. To learn how to read and memorize the lines.

B. To watch the blanks carefully between the lines.

C. To try to understand one’s real feelings from what they say or write.

D. To learn what responsDoes working out a math problem give you a headache?