The happy Prince was blind﹙瞎﹚。The swallow﹙燕子﹚sat on his shoulder and told him many __.

He told him about so many amazing places __ __ Nile River﹙尼罗河﹚，the desert in Africa and so on. The Happy Prince greatly enjoyed his stories. He wanted to know __ was happening in the city, so he asked the swallow to fly over the city to have a look. The Swallow did as the Prince asked. He _ ___ through the sky. Below him, he saw rich people living __ __ in their homes. He saw poor people were in cold and hunger.__ __ one bridge, two boys shook their bodies t stay warm. The Swallow told the Prince everything. The Happy Prince became even __ _ and told the Swallow to take his gold to the cold and hungry people. Heavy snow fell off the sky on the city. Life for the swallow was becoming more difficult._ __ he still didn’t leave the Prince, he flew to the Prince’s shoulder fell dead at his feet. At the same time, there was a loud“Crack”and the Prince _ _ two halves, he might be very sad.The next morning, people in the city found them_ _ and took them out of the square. The angel found them and made them live forever in the city of gold.

1.A.magazines B.stories C.novels D.words

2.A.such as B.at least C.so far D.because of

3.A.how B.what C.why D.when

4.A.walked B.ran C.flew D.rode

5.A.normally B.surprisingly C. comfortably D.personally

6.A.From B.In C.Under D.With

7.A.sadder B.happier C.sad D.happy

8.A.And B.But C.So D.Because

9.A.brought out B.fell down C.made up D.broke into

10.A.both B.all C.each D.none

There are some ___ on the desk.

           A.magazines    B.newspaper     C.news   D.book

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, and others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.

Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines (标题)of the passage。

Newspaper cam be found everywhere in the world, We get many different kinds of the newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.

Some newspapers are published(出版) twice a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many papers, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in .

Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world.. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such ad China Daily or 21^st Century. Also they bring us more and more informing with Internet.

1. People read newspapers in order to ____

A learn the latest news          B meet their own different needs

C read the short stories          D find the different news

2. From the passage we can see that _____ when people get newspapers

A they read them every carefully    B they just read the headlines

C not everyone reads all the pages   D they have no time to read them

3 .Newspapers have so many pages because_____

A more and more people like to read them

B people enjoy reading something different 

C newspapers become cheaper

D more pages mean more many 

4 .Newspapers _____ are the most popular in the world

A in the English     B in Chinese   C in other language   D with many pages

5 .According to the passage, beside newspapers, people also get information from ____

A magazines       B advertisements     C E-mail      D Internet