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Howard Carter was a famous explorer(探险家).He loved to visit new places. During his life, he discovered many important and exciting things.Howard Carter did not go to school. But he was smart and wanted to learn the world outside his hometown. In 1891,at the age of 17,he went to Egypt(埃及) by ship. By the 1920s,he had become an explorer, looking for the tombs(坟墓) of the Egyptian kings.
He found several important ones. Inside the tombs, he found jewels, gold and 10 bodies of dead kings. These bodies are known as mummies(木乃伊).In 1922,Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter’s team was working at a place near a city called Luxor, they found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
Not long after the tomb was opened, people in Carter’s team began to get ill and die strangely.
Within seven years,21 people who had something to do with the opening of the tomb died However, Howard Carter lived on and died at the age of 65.
【小题1】 Howard Carter liked to visit new places.
【小题2】Howard Carter was born in 1877.
【小题3】Carter’s team found the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.
【小题4】The passage tells us Carter’s school life. 查看习题详情和答案>>
Railway Shopping Center(116 -2 , Lianhua Road ,Beijing )
WE ARE OPEN !
Opening Hours: 10: 00 a.m. to 8: 00p.m. daily Celebrate with us !
Free balloons or nice door gifts for the first 1,000 customers .
A 20℅ discount (折扣)on all the clothes.
Come and join us in the new Railway Shopping Center .
Don’t miss:Live Magic Show : 12:10 p.m. to 2: 40 p.m.
Kids’ Fashion Show : 5:00p.m. to 6: 00p.m.
1.The opening hours of the Railway shopping Center is10:00a.m.8:00p.m.
2.If you see a pair of shoes that ＄15 in the Railway Shopping Center ,
you’ll ＄12 on them at the discount .
3.If you’re one of the first 1,000 people, you may get a or a door .
4.You can enjoyShow if you come to the new Railway Shopping Center in the evening.
5.Live Magic Show will fortwo hours.
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The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will take place in Vancouver and Whistler(惠斯勒) from February 12 to 28. As the world’s 1._____ athletes will compete there, Canada is preparing for it well.
It will be broadcasted(播出) in Canada’s two 2._____languages——English and French. Billions of television viewers worldwide will 3.______ the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Athletes from more than 80 4.______ will compete in 86 medal events over 17 days. Then the Paralympics(残奥会) will 5._____ from March 12 to 21. Canada has 6._____ millions of dollars preparing. Thousands of spectators will visit the country. Canada will be 7._____ it all.
The building of Olympic gyms began in 2005. Opening and closing ceremonies will be held indoors, at BC Place Stadium. It’ll 8.______55,000 seats. Some competitions, 9.______ ski, and bobsled, will take place in Whistler. It’s a ski village. During the Games, roads will be closed. More than 15,000 policemen will work to 10.______ the peace throughout the Games.
The United States is the only country to host the Winter Games four times. Team USA hopes 2010 will be a golden year.
11. A. worst B. best C. cleverest D. tallest
12. A. special B. unusual C. official D. ordinary
13.A. watch B. notice C. look D. hear
14. A. cities B. towns C. villages D. countries
15. A. run B. begin C. stop D. end
16. A. paid B. took C. cost D. spent
17. A. full of B. ready for C. worried about D. afraid of
18. A. give B. serve C. hold D. host
19. A. with B. including C. as D. so
20. A. keep B. make C. let D. protect
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You and Me is the theme song(主题歌) of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman sang the song in the Opening Ceremony(开幕式) of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Sarah is a famous British singer. The song lasts four minutes and ten seconds. It is a very simple song, but it is also a great challenge(挑战) to me. “The easiest is the most difficult,” said Liu Huan. “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I got the invitation to sing the song. It is a great honor(荣誉) for me and I am very lucky,” said Sarah Brightman.
You and me is quite different from all the other theme songs of the Olympic Games in the past. It is slow and full of love, care and friendship. And it sounds beautiful and keeps to the game’s theme of “One World, One Dream”. It shows that there’s no difference in language or race(种族). All the people in the world are just one big family.
【小题1】The theme song for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics is __________.
【小题2】Sarah Brightman thinks that it is ______ for her to sing the song.
【小题3】The song lasts ________________________.
【小题4】The song is and it is quite different from the other Olympic songs.
【小题5】The theme of the Olympic is “_________________________”.
The London Eye
The London Eye was opened on New Year’s Eve in 1999 to celebrate the Millennium (千禧年). It is 135 meters high, and from the top you can see the whote London. On a clear day you can even see Windsor Castle, which is 40 kilometers away. The London Eye has 32 capsules (密封舱), each with room for 25 people. Each “trip” lasts 30 minutes. It moves quite slowly, at a speed of about 15 meters a minute, but it never stops. Passengers have to get on when it’s moving.
OPENING TIME: Daily from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in summer and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in winter.
TICKETS: Online or by phone. A limited number of tickets are available (可获得的) in the day.From the Ticket Office in County Hall (the building next to the Eye), but go early because you often have to wait in a queue.
HOW TO GET THERE: 5 minutes’ walk from Waterloo underground station.
Choose the best answers:
1.The London Eye was built for celebrating __
A. New Year’s Eve B. 1999
C. foreign visitors D. the Millennium
2.On sunny day from the top of the London Eye you can see __--
A. all of England
B. Windsor Castle
C. all the buildings which are 40 kilometers away
D. the building that is 135 meters high
3.There are_____ passengers in the London Eye when it’s full.
A. 32 B. 800 C. 25 D. 72
4.The opening time of the London Eye in summer is _that in the winter.
A. shorter than B. the same as
C. as many as D. longer than
5.People_____ get tickets from the Ticket Office because tickets there are limited.
A. can usually
B. can never
C. can’t always
D. walk from Waterloo underground station to
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