Kayah（克扬族）women in Myanmar（缅甸）think long 　　1　　 are beautiful, so they 　　2　　 brass（铜）neck rings to make their necks grow 3　　. A Kayah girl 　　4　　 to wear neck rings 　　5　　 the age of five. Then she gets more rings every year 　　6　　 she is 25 years old. These heavy 7　　 make her neck grow longer and longer. The 　　 8 neck can be 40 centimetres（厘米）long. This is not 　　9　　 at all. If the rings are taken off the 　　10　　, the woman may soon die（死去）.

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阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从每题所给的(A)、(B)、(C)、(D)四个选项中选出最佳答案。

　　Along with the Great Pyramid(金字塔) of Giza in Egypt, the Great Sphinx is one of the greatest and most studied monuments(纪念碑) of human history.

　　Carved(雕刻) from a single piece of stone of hundreds of tons, the Sphinx is the head of a man resting on the body of a lion.

　　The nose, eyes and ears have all been carved in the terrific proportions(比例). That's not easy for an object 180 metres long, 64 metres high and 35 metres wide.

　　No one knows what tools were used to carve the stone, when this was done, or by whom. The Egyptians wrote very little about the building of the Sphinx.

　　There are basically two schools of thought about how it was built.

　　No one knows what the Sphinx looked like when it was first finished because both natural erosion(侵蚀) and damage(破坏) done by man have changed its shape.

　　Many earlier pictures of the Sphinx show it with wings(翅膀), the body of a lion and ox(公牛), and the face of a man. Today only the man and the lion can be seen.

　　To this day, people can't agree with each other on the true role(作用) of the Sphinx.

1．The writer wrote this text to ________.

[　　]

A．tell us some information about the Sphinx

B．talk about the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt

C．tell us what the Sphinx looks like today

D．tell us to visit the Sphinx

2．Which of the following about the Sphinx is known to people?

[　　]

A．The date of building it.

B．The size of it.

C．The way of building it.

D．The role of it.

3．We may learn from the text that ________.

[　　]

A．two schools now are studying the Sphinx

B．the Sphinx was made of a lot of very big stones

C．the Sphinx today looks different from what it used to be

D．the Sphinx is the greatest monument

4．Which of the following used to be a part of the Sphinx?

[　　]

A．Wings.

B．The head of an ox.

C．The face of a man.

D．The body of the lion.

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　Do you know Eskimos（爱斯基摩人）? Let me tell you something about their 　1　 ．

　The Eskimos live near the North Pole（北极）． There are only two seasons there：winter and summer． There are no spring 　2 　autumn there． The winter nights are long． You can't see the sun for more than two months, even at noon． The summer days are long． For more than two months, the sun never 　3 　and there is no night．

　The Eskimos have warm clothes． They make their clothes from the skins（皮）of animals． From skins they make coats, caps and shoes．

　Near the North Pole trees can't grow, for it is 　4 　there． The Eskimos have to make their houses from skins, stone（石头）or snow． When they 　5　 in a storm（风暴）and can't 　6 　home, they make houses of snow． They 　7 　these snow houses when the storm is 　8 　．

　Life is 　9　 for the Eskimos, but they still 　10 　to live there．

　　从前，英国有个小镇，镇上有位理发师。为了招徕顾客，他在店旁贴了一张通知，通知上是这样写的：

　　What do you think I shave you for nothing and give you a drink?(我给你免费刮脸，还奉送一杯饮料，你以为如何？)

　　通知贴出后，很多人拥到店铺里来要求免费刮脸，还要白喝一杯饮料。理发师不慌不忙地在通知上加了三个标点符号，并调整字母的大、小写，顿时，所有拥进店铺的人都感到愕然。