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【小题1】In_____, people are supposed to kiss when they meet for the first time.

For thousands of years, people have used plants to make medicines. They used different parts of the plants —the roots, the leaves, the flowers, and the bark (树皮). Today, doctors have rediscovered more medicinal (药用) values of some plants. Let’s look at some examples.

Foxglove is a common plant. People have used it to make the heart slow down. Recently scientists have developed another drug from it. This new drug helps prevent other heart problems.

In some areas, malaria has been a problem. Scientists have learned that the bark of a South American tree, the cinchona, can be made into a drug to prevent malaria. For a long time, the Chinese have known that a special plant, wormwood, can also fight malaria. Scientists have been working with it to develop new drugs against malaria.

In Germany, some scientists studied garlic (大蒜) for four years. They found that it helps prevent the build-up of plaque (血小板) because too much plaque is bad for health. This very common plant continues to be studied.

As we know, there are about 250,000 kinds of flowering plants in the world. Scientists have only studied little more than one percent of plants for their medicinal value. Maybe medicines for AIDS and cancer will be made from the other 99 percent.

1.What can foxglove be used for?

A．Studying plants.

B．Building up the plaque.

C．Treating AIDS and cancer.

D．Preventing heart problems.

2.What does the underlined word “malaria” in Paragraph 3 refer to (指的是)?

A．A drug.                               B．A plant.

C．An illness.                             D．An animal.

3.How many plants are mentioned in the passage?

A．3.               B．4.                C．5.               D．6

4.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Past and future

B．Plants and medicine

C．Health and illness

D．Scientists and doctors

Name            Personal Information

Norman  Bethune   Born in 1890 in Canada.

A doctor

Came to China in 1938

Died in 1939 in China

Celine Dion        Born in Montreal, Canada

A singing star

In 1997, sang My Heart Will Go On for the film Titanic

Thomas Edison     Born in 1847, Kentucky, USA

Made over 1,000 inventions

Died in 1931

Bill

Gates            Born in 1955 in the USA

Wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought

Owns Microsoft Company

Mark   Twain       Born in 1835 in the USA

A writer

Wrote The Adventures of Tome Sawyer

Died in 1910

1.________  is  from  Canada.

A．Bill Gates          B．Mark Twain        C．Thomas Edison      D．Celine Dion

2.The _______ was born in 1835.

A．inventor          B．singer            C．doctor            D．writer

3.My Heart Will Go On is the name of a ______.

A．book             B．film              C．song             D．story

4.Dr. Bethune worked in China for about _______ years.  

A．4                B．8                C．2                D．6

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Mark Twain wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought.

B．Bill Gates started working for Microsoft Company in 1955.

C．Thomas Edison made over 1,000 inventions.

D．Celine Dion stopped singing in 1997

Maybe you can not imagine what a hotel made of trash looks like. But in Rome, Italy, there is a campaign called Save the Beach that has created a hotel out of 12 tons of trash in order to raise awareness (意识) of our waste.
Save the Beach is an environmental awareness campaign set up by the makers of Corona Beer. They collected all the trash from all the beaches all across Europe. Then they built the special hotel.
It was reported that the hotel was fully booked (预约). And it was open only for four days there in early June, the same time as World Environment Day. Next to the “trash hotel” was the slogan of Save the Beach. It said, we have built the first hotel made of trash in the world. This will be the future of our holidays if we do nothing to protect our beaches.
The hotel was built just to show the damage we were causing to the sea and the coastline (海岸线). We live in the time of trash and we are running the risk of becoming trash ourselves. Do we really want such a world?
The trash hotel in Rome was just the beginning to support healthy, clean and trash-free beaches all across Europe by Save the Beach. Maybe there will be more surprising ideas in the future. Let’s wait and see.
【小题1】 Where was the trash hotel built?

1.________  is  from  Canada.

    A. Bill Gates         B. Mark Twain      C. Thomas Edison      D. Celine Dion

2.The _______ was born in 1835.

 A. inventor          B. singer            C. doctor              D. writer

3.My Heart Will Go On is the name of a ______.

A. book       B. film        C. song     D. story

4.Dr. Bethune worked in China for about _______ years. 

 A. 4        B. 8      C.2     D. 6

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

    A. Mark Twain wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought.

    B. Bill Gates started working for Microsoft Company in 1955.

    C. Thomas Edison made over 1,000 inventions.

D. Celine Dion stopped singing in 1997