1 . New York City isn’t the biggest city in the world, but it is the biggest city in the USA. Most Americans live in much smaller cities and towns, but almost 8 million people live in New York. Why did so many people come to live in one place?
New York City has a very good port(商埠). The Dutch(荷兰) settlers (new comers) wanted to use it for business. In 1626, the Dutch paid(付钱) the Indians twenty-four dollars for the island of Manhattan. Its Dutch name was New Amsterdam. Then the British took the land in 1664 and changed its name to New York.
The United States became an independent(独立的) country in 1783, and New York was its capital for a short time. The city became so crowded that some people moved out to other areas (places). But more people from everywhere went on coming into the city every day.
1. More and more people from different countries in the world come into New York because .| A．New York has the largest population in the United States |
| B．New York is as beautiful as a picture |
| C．New York is a developing city |
| D．they think it is a good place for business |
| A．24 thousand dollars. | B．24 dollars. |
| C．8 million dollars. | D．24 million dollars. |
| A．the sixteenth century | B．the seventeenth century |
| C．the eighteenth century | D．the nineteenth century |
| A．much about Dutch | B．how the Dutch took New Amsterdam |
| C．some of the history of New York | D．how the people from different countries come to the USA |
2 . If you love all things about ancient Egypt (埃及), there is good news. Egyptologists (埃及古物学者) have discovered the lost golden city.
A team of archaeologists (考古学家)have discovered a 3000-year-old city under the sands. The city, Aten, is the largest ancient Egyptian city ever found.
Archaeologists first found Aten back in the summer of 2020. It lies near Luxor, which is famous for the Valley of the Kings (帝王谷).
Dr Zahi Hawass is one of the leading Egyptologists. He said, “Many foreign teams searched for this city and never found it.”
When the team uncovered Aten, they were surprised to discover that it was in such good condition. The city had walls that were 3 meters high!
After several months of careful work, the team has found many exciting things.
Betsy Bryan is a professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. She said the city was the “second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun (图坦卡蒙墓).” This is because she believes it will help us learn about what Egyptian life was like during one of its wealthiest periods (时期).
Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun tomb near the Valley of the Kings in 1922, nearly a century ago. The team hopes that in the future they will discover more tombs with treasure.
So, who knows what people could discover next?
1. What does the underlined word “uncovered” mean in Chinese?| A．到达 | B．游览 | C．标注 | D．发现 |
| A．It will help to learn about the history of ancient Egypt. |
| B．It is the most important discovery. |
| C．It will help to discover more treasure. |
| D．It will help to bring more visitors. |
| A．A Huge City | B．Ancient Egyptian City Discovered |
| C．Egyptian History | D．Life in Egypt |
3 . Did you know that chocolate comes from a tree? The cacao tree gets large brown fruits called cocoa pods（荚）, and
The first people to
Wouldn’t you like to have a cacao tree in your
Chocolate is good for you as long as you don’t eat it all day long! It has iron（铁）, which is good for your body! But remember where there is chocolate, there is
| A．outside | B．around | C．besides | D．inside |
| A．first | B．most | C．last | D．though |
| A．clean | B．try | C．dry | D．enjoy |
| A．until | B．unless | C．because | D．whether |
| A．suggest | B．grow | C．train | D．water |
| A．water | B．fruit | C．wealth | D．drink |
| A．served | B．spread | C．lived | D．considered |
| A．garden | B．room | C．kitchen | D．classroom |
| A．cloudy | B．snowy | C．foggy | D．rainy |
| A．salt | B．juice | C．sugar | D．honey |
1. What’s the purpose of this book?
| A．To be used as a history textbook. |
| B．To tell about the Yongle Emperor. |
| C．To teach English to Chinese students. |
| D．To help foreigners learn about China. |
| A．Between Pages 1～2. | B．Between Pages 3～7. |
| C．Between Pages 8～14. | D．Between Pages 15～18. |
| A．The Ming Dynasty had 3 emperors in all. |
| B．Yongle became emperor at the age of 22. |
| C．Nanjing was the capital of Ming Dynasty before Yongle. |
| D．Yongle built the Forbidden City for tourists to visit. |
5 . Beijing Opera appeared in the Qing Dynasty(朝代). In 1790, many opera troupes(戏班)went to Beijing for performances to celebrate the birthday of Qianlong. This kind of unusual performance touched the hearts of the people deeply. While in Beijing, the troupes created a new kind of opera called Beijing Opera. It was on the basis(基础)of Anhui Opera by taking in the advantages of other operas.
Beijing Opera is quite unique(唯一的)in role shaping because it divides the roles into different kinds. They are sheng, dan, jing and chou which are quite different in many ways.
A popular song goes like this, “Foreigners call Jingxi Beijing Opera.” In fact, Beijing Opera is different from opera. Opera tells the story and expresses the thoughts by singing instead of speaking. But Beijjing Opera stresses(强调)chang, nian, zuo and da. Chang means singing; nian means musical spoken parts; zuo means dance movements and da means martial(武打)skills.
Mei Lanfang is an excellent performing artist of Beijing Opera in China. In 1930, he led an opera troupe to America and presented Beijing Opera before western people. Today, Beijing Opera has become the sign of Chinese culture. It is changing with the development of different musical styles.
1. Beijing Opera appeared in the ________Dynasty.| A．Song | B．Yuan | C．Ming | D．Qing |
| A．performing in Beijing | B．touching the hearts of the people |
| C．celebrating Qialong’s birthday | D．taking in the advantages of other operas |
| A．roles | B．styles | C．shapes | D．signs |
| A．nian | B．zuo | C．da | D．chang |
| A．Beijing Opera is the same as opera. |
| B．Opera expresses the thoughts by speaking. |
| C．Beijing Opera has never changed until now. |
| D．Mei Lanfang thought Beijing Opera to the world. |
6 . Sandwich was an Englishman. He lived in the 18th century. Sandwich was rich, but he liked to play cards for money. He often played for 24 hours, and didn't even stop to have his meals. He ordered his servants (仆人) to bring him some meat and bread. He put the meat between the two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he played cards with his right hand. People liked Sandwich’s idea, and from then on they ate bread and meat as Sandwich did.
From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food “sandwich” today.
1. Sandwich was the _________.| A．name of a servant |
| B．name of a man with a lot of money |
| C．poor man who lived on playing cards |
| D．name of food which was liked by the rich |
| A．bread, together with meat was cheap |
| B．he always won when he played cards |
| C．they liked Sandwich himself |
| D．when they ate with one of their hands they could do something with the other |
| A．also a name of a rich man |
| B．two pieces of bread with meat in between |
| C．not interested in playing cards |
| D．not liked by most of the people |
7 . It is reported that fossils( 化 石 )found in China are from an totally new type of dinosaur( 恐龙)that belonged to the same family as the giants diplodocus(梁龙)which have died out and only can be seen in pictures.
The fossils were first discovered in 2004 by a farmer in Lingwu, a small town in the west of China. Since then, a group of people led by Xu Xing, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have dug up the whole or parts of skeletons(骷髅)from between seven and 10 dinosaurs.
Xu and researchers from two English universities have published the first study of the 174-million-year-old fossils in the journal Nature. The animal that died out long ago belonged to the diplodocus family, which are a group of ancient animals including the huge 25- meter-long diplodocus.
Xu named the dinosaur Lingwulong Shenqi(meaning Lingwu amazing dragon)after the town where the fossils were discovered. Lingwulong was a bit smaller than others with a short neck. It was about 11 to 17 meters and had a long tail and strong legs.
Lingwulong is the first diplodocus discovered in East Asia. Before the discovery,scientist thought those animals never got into Aisa because of an inland sea.Philip Mannion,the writer of the study,said “The inland sea may have seen less of barrier ( 障 碍 )than we once thought,or it could have been seasonal.”
1. Who plays the leading role in the digging up of the fossils?| A．A farmer in Ningxia Hui autonomous region. | B．Philip Mannion. |
| C．An expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. | D．Some British researchers. |
| A．By its size. | B．By the place it was found. |
| C．By chance. | D．By its appearance. |
| A．Very small with a long neck. | B．The largest with long legs. |
| C．About 25meters long with a long tail. | D．About 15meters long with strong legs. |
| A．stops animals from going into East Asia | B．might have been in some seasons |
| C．might have been all year round | D．has never been on the earth |
| A．A new discovery | B．A new member of the dinosaur family |
| C．some skeletons of the dinosaur | D．One of the oldest dinosaurs |
8 . In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue(烤肉) restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new idea: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.
Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity(一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine(程序) for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks’ sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became surprisingly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were satisfied with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the special attraction of the brothers’ fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise(特许经营) other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to duplicate(复制) the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches(拱门).
Today McDonald’s is really a household name. In 1976, McDonald’s had over $1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years in one of the most surprising success stories in modern American business history.
1. This passage mainly talks about ________.| A．the development of fast food services |
| B．how McDonald’s became a billion-dollar business |
| C．the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald |
| D．Ray Kroc’s business talent |
| A．a drive-in | B．a theater | C．a cinema | D．a barbecue restaurant |
| A．Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc |
| B．the place the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in |
| C．forty years ago there were lots of fast-food restaurants |
| D．Ray Kroc was a good businessman |
| A．creativity is an important element of business success |
| B．Ray Kroc was the close partner of the McDonald brothers |
| C．Mac and Dick McDonald became broken after they sold their ideas to Ray Kroc |
| D．California is the best place to go into business |
9 . Do you know when and where ice cream was created? It has a long and interesting history.
The earliest ice cream was eaten in China many centuries ago. People at that time would put orange juice on the ice or get something cool to drink. Later,this idea traveled to Italy. Around 1660, it was popular to serve ice cream in coffee shops in Paris.Most of the shops were owned by Italians.Among them, the first successful one belonged to a man named Francesco Procopius.
Ice cream was brought to America in the early 1700s, and it quickly became the favorite of Americans. President George Washington had ice cream pots（罐）and machines in his kitchen.Dolly Madison, the wife of President Madison,was the first one to serve it in the White House. She made her guests very happy when she served such desserts.
Before ice cream was sold in stores, it was made and kept at a very low temperature first. It took a lot of work to mix cream, eggs, fruit and ice. Nancy Johnson, an American woman who was good at machines, invented the ice cream freezer in 1846. Five years later. Jacob Flu sell opened the first ice cream factory in Baltimore, Maryland.Her business quickly came to other states.
Today in the United States, ice cream is not only a kind of food, but also a way of life.
1. The earliest ice cream was the ice with ________on or something cool to drink.| A．orange juice | B．apple juice |
| C．watermelon juice | D．tea |
| A．Frenchman | B．American |
| C．Italian | D．Chinese |
| A．In 1700, ice cream came to the White House. |
| B．In 1846, many ice cream factories opened |
| C．President Madison was the first one to serve ice cream in the White House |
| D．Today ice cream means a lot to Americans |
| A．the History of Ice Cream | B．Ice Cream in America |
| C．Business on Ice Cream | D．Ice cream in Italia. |
10 . Chewing gum (口香糖) may be one of your favorite sweets. But did you know how it was
The sweet was invented by American scientist Thomas Adams. However, he invented it completely
It was 1869. Earlier that year, one of Adams' friends showed him an interesting kind of sap (树汁). His friend told him
Adams, however,
In 1888, Adams gave a
| A．eaten | B．polluted | C．sold | D．invented |
| A．in public | B．by mistake | C．in person | D．by hand |
| A．ancient | B．single | C．famous | D．sick |
| A．products | B．records | C．crops | D．fruits |
| A．agreed | B．preferred | C．failed | D．afforded |
| A．angry | B．nervous | C．lucky | D．satisfied |
| A．Usually | B．Surprisingly | C．Slowly | D．Clearly |
| A．dish | B．meal | C．drink | D．treat |
| A．method | B．name | C．prize | D．menu |
| A．divided | B．stored | C．developed | D．repeated |
