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Passage 4
From the world’s heaviest apple, the oldest lady to the world’s smallest dog, these are all parts of a group of the world’s strangest people and things. And they are all in the Guinness Book of Records(《吉尼斯记录》).
The book is going to celebrate its birthday this August. It began exactly half a century ago. And it’s always one of the best selling books in the world.
People now can break over 1000 records every week! Why do so many people want to break the records? Do they want their names in the book or meet more people around the world? “It gives people a chance to show they’re the best in the world.” said one of the record keepers Stewart Newport.
The book was started by Hugh Beaver from Britain. In 1951, he went shooting birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe. Three years later, they were still talking about it. So Beaver believed that people must have different ideas. So, he decided to start a book to record the world’s truly greatest people and things in it!
The newest book came out last Tuesday. This book has a lot of interesting records. Here are two:
☆ A British dog, Whitney, is the world’s smallest dog. It’s only 76mm tall.
☆ An American woman Lee Redmond has the longest fingernails(指甲).They grew as long as 600 mm! She made the record in 1971.
【小题1】We can see everything in the Guinness Book of Records except .
| A．the heaviest fruits and vegetables |
| B．the smallest people and animals |
| C．the strangest people and things |
| D．very ordinary people and things |
| A．50 years | B．76 years | C．600 years | D．1000 years |
| A．their names be kept in the world records. |
| B．their names could be seen by the whole world. |
| C．they could meet more people all over the world. |
| D．they could be known as the greatest by the world. |
| A．Newport started the Guinness Book of Records in Britain. |
| B．More than four thousand records are broken each month. |
| C．The Guinness Book of Records started in the year 1954. |
| D．The newest book of Guinness comes out every Tuesday. |
| A．tell us the strangest records in the world |
| B．show us the beginning of the Guinness Book of Records |
| C．give us an introduction to the Guinness Book of Records |
| D．let us know the most interesting things in the world |
When Mr. David retired, he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night there were tourists outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. David’s garden. This was too much for Mr. David. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice on the window. The notice said: “If you want to satisfy your curiosity（好奇心）, come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. “I came here to retire, not to work as a guide” he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.
1. Where did Mr. David live after he retired?
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2. Why do many people want to see Mr. David’s house?
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3. Can Mr. David stand the visitors?
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4. What did Mr. David do to drive the visitors away?
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5. How did Mr. David feel when visitors kept coming to see his house?
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Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station．Each time when Spring Festival comes，buying tickets of train trip would be very hard．And things seem to be getting worse and worse，although we have greatly increased the mileage(总里程) of railway network and speeded up trains．Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family．Many people become angry with the Ministry(部)of Railways．They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station．Instead，they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at much higher price．
The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计) that about 216 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period(高峰期) during the 2010 Spring Festival holiday．The number of travelers will be 8％higher than that of 2009．This problem even attracted the President Hu Jintao’s attention．He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways，asking him to make sure of a “smooth and safe” transportation．Afterwards，officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station．
1. What does the underlined word “scalper” in the first paragraph mean?
A．代售点 B．售票员 C．票贩 D．赌徒
2. Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station，and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers ．
A．expensively B．wrongly C．dangerously D．hardly
3.How many people took the train trip during the peak period during the 2009 Spring Festival holiday?
A．About 216 million． B．About 172 million．
C．About 200 million． D．About 233 million．
4.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival．
B．It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival．
C．President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem．
D．The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem．
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English is very important in the modern world. Many people want to learn it well. Here are some things that I want to say about learning it.
To learn English well, you need two things－passion and good learning methods (方法). Passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you want to learn English. Learning methods only tell you how to learn it better and faster.
If you love learning English, you will learn it regularly (有规律地) and spend much time on it. It will also be easy for you to remember new words and grammar rules. ________ For example, some people like history and know a lot about World War II. If you ask a person who doesn’t like history to memorize all the facts, he probably can’t do it.
When you don’t want to learn English, you can do the following things.
First, imagine that you can talk to native speakers just as you talk in your mother language. Imagine yourself to be a manager in a foreign company. Imagine you’re living in an English-speaking country.
Second, use English as much as possible. This is very important. The more you use English, the better you’ll learn it. English is very popular, so you can use it everywhere. You can watch American cartoons, write English diaries, and read interesting books written in English.
1.The underlined word “passion” means “______” in Chinese.
A. 态度??? B. 热情??? C. 步骤???? D. 情绪
2.The missing part in the Paragraph 3 can be ______.
A. You can’t memorize everything while learning English.
B. You will find it hard to learn English.
C. That’s because you can easily remember what you like.
D. Everyone likes to learn what they like most.
3.What can you do if you don’t want to learn English according to (根据) the passage?
A. Go to English-speaking countries.???
B. Read interesting English books.
C. Stop learning it for some time.??????
D. Listen to music or play sports.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the writer?
A.You need two things if you want to learn English well.
B. It’s difficult for a person to know a lot about World War II if he isn’t interested in history.
C. Learning methods are more important than passion.
D. It’s easy for you to remember new words or grammar rules if you’re an English lover.
5.The main idea of this passage is about ______.
A. the importance of learning English????
B. English in the modern world
C. how to write e-mails to other people???
D. some advice on how to learn English
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先阅读短文,然后根据要求答题。?
The Dragon Boat Festival(端午节) is the day to remember a Chinese national hero, Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river and died over 2,000 years ago. Old story has it that people, in order to save Qu Yuan, beat drums to drive fish away, and threw rice dumplings (zong zi) into the river to keep the fish from eating his body.?
For thousands of years, people have spent the festival by eating zong zi and holding dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar(阴历的) month, especially in the /'s???n/ provinces where there are many rivers and lakes.?
The dragon boat races /???/ that many people want to save Qu?s body. Those races are the most exciting part of the festival, with very large crowds of people watching them. The special boats, more than 10 meters long, have colorful “dragon” heads and tails(尾巴), and /i?t?/ boat carries a team of 20 or 22 players. Every year dragon boat races take place in southeast Asian countries and some western countries, including America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
A) 根据短文内容完成下列语音题:?
1.Write out the word /'s???n/.?
2.Write out the word /???/.?
3.Write out the word /i?t?/.?
4.In the underlined sentence find two words that can be read together(连读).?
5. In the underlined sentence find a word whose last sound can have incomplete plosion(失去爆破).
B) 根据短文内容填入一个适当的词:?
6. The Dragon Boat Festival is the day for people to keep Qu Yuan in their (71).
7.The Dragon Boat Festival has a history of more than two (72) years.?
8.Since the Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, can we call it “The Double (73) Festival”??
9. Dragon boat races are mostly held in South China because there are more (74) areas there.?
10. Dragon boat races are becoming more and more (75) in the world.
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