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Dear editor( 编辑),       

Can't your newspaper do something about the custom (习惯) of hitchhiking?

A short time ago, on a car travel I counted at least 50 people standing beside the road, asking for rides. Many of them were young women.

Don't they understand how dangerous it is to get into the car driven by a stranger? How much do they know about the driver? Is he a good driver or not? They know nothing!

Many of these young hitchhikers may come from good families. Don't their parents teach them anything about the world? I always taught my children not to talk to strangers. I never let them take rides from people they didn't know.

Isn't there enough crime (犯罪) today without asking for trouble by hitchhiking? On the other hand, hitchhiking may bring some traffic trouble. Don't you think what I said is true?

A Worried Grandfather

1.The word "hitchhiking" means         .

2. The Worried Grandfather            .

3. The Worried Grandfather            .

4. The Worried Grandfather wrote the letter to tell          .

5. What do you think a good editor is going to do after he gets the letter?

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Here is some information about some of the wonders of the world. I am sure you will be interested in them.

The Pyramids of Egypt

There are about eighty pyramids known today. The most well-known was for Pharaoh(法老) Khufu. It is known as the “Great Pyramid”. It’s also the largest one. Workers used about 2.3 million blocks of stone to build it. (A)用了20年的时间才建成。

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The garden sat on a hill. It was a large and wonderful structure(建筑物). Many parts of the garden were high up on large columns(支柱). There were many big and green trees with lovely flowers. Although there are many different ideas about the garden, we are not sure whether this wonder ever existed(存在)!

The Lighthouse of Alexandria

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed about 2,000 years ago. It was in Egypt, too. (B) It was one of the ancient wonders of the world, about 135 metres high. It was once the highest building in the world. Although it doesn’t exist now, many people come to see its relic(遗址) every year.

1. The passage has talked about _____ wonders of the world.

2. “_____” has the same meaning as Sentence A.

A. We built it for twenty years.         B. It spent twelve years building it.

C. It took twenty years to build it.         D. Workers took twelve years to build it.

3. _____ raised high up the parts of the garden.

4. The Chinese meaning of Sentence B is “____”.

5. Which is NOT true?

根据文章意思，首字母填空(8分)

Do you have any hobbies? If students don’t have any interest e___1___ school work, they may become boring people. And that can influence their studies.

Studying without relaxing isn’t good for health. We can’t get good g___2__ if we have bad health. We should do something we like. Some people like singing, taking photos and drawing p__3__. Other people prefer collecting stamps, reading or shopping. I have a few hobbies, but my f___4___ is collecting stamps. I like it best because I can learn a lot from stamps.

Some people collect stamps because they can m__5__ money from the stamps. But I am just i__6__ in collecting them and enjoy looking at them when I am free.

Stamp collecting is becoming more and more p__7__ all over the world. I know an Australian boy and a French girl through the Internet. They both like collecting stamps. We show stamps to each other o__8__. That is cool.

中学生上网一直是备受关注的话题，你班就此组织了一次主题班会，以下是几同学的观点，请仔细阅读并完成信息记录卡,一空一词。

Li Hua: Surfing the Internet is very exciting. We can do lots of things, such as playing games, listening

to music, chatting with our friends and so on, I really enjoy it.

Wang Gang: I like surfing the Internet, too. Because I can learn a lot from it. I can get the latest news

all over the world. I also can find the information I need so that I can spend less time on my

homework.

Zhang Jie: It’s hard to say. I agree that the Internet is helpful to our study. But it’s not right to spend too

much time on the games. And some information on the Internet is bad for our mind. What’s

more, surfing too much does harm to our eyes. In a word, we should use the Internet in a right

way.