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

2. How much did the Dutch pay the Indians for the island of Manhattan?

A．24 thousand dollars.	B．24 dollars.
C．8 million dollars.	D．24 million dollars.

3. The United States became an independent country in          .

A．the sixteenth century	B．the seventeenth century
C．the eighteenth century	D．the nineteenth century

4. From the passage we can know          .

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

4 .
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.

2. Where can you find the page on the right?

A．Between Pages 1～2.	B．Between Pages 3～7.
C．Between Pages 8～14.	D．Between Pages 15～18.

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

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

2. Beijing Opera was created by ________.

A．performing in Beijing	B．touching the hearts of the people
C．celebrating Qialong’s birthday	D．taking in the advantages of other operas

3. There are four important kinds of ________in Beijing Opera.

A．roles

B．styles

C．shapes

D．signs

4. In Beijing Opera, _________means dance movements.

A．nian

B．zuo

C．da

D．chang

5. Which of the following is RIGHT?

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 . 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.

2. How did scientists name the newly found dinosaur?

A．By its size.	B．By the place it was found.
C．By chance.	D．By its appearance.

3. What does the new type of dinosaur look like?

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.

4. Scientists think the insland sea________ .

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

5. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A．A new discovery	B．A new member of the dinosaur family
C．some skeletons of the dinosaur	D．One of the oldest dinosaurs

7 . 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

2. Mac and Dick managed all of the following businesses except ________.

A．a drive-in

B．a theater

C．a cinema

D．a barbecue restaurant

3. We may infer(推断) from this passage that ________.

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

4. The passage suggests that ________.

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

8 . What time is it？There are many ways you can find out the time. You may have a watch on your wrist(手腕)．You can look at a clock on the wall. You can listen to the radio，watch TV or ring a number on the telephone to get the time. But do you know the history of how people tell the time?

It has not always been easy to know the time. A long time ago people looked at the sun to tell the time. They could tell the time of the day by looking at the sun in the sky：morning，noon and afternoon.

Around the year 1400，people began to use the hourglass(沙漏)．It was made of glass with some sand in it. It was wide at both ends，but narrow in the middle. The sand ran from one end to the other in one hour. At the end of every hour，people turned the glass over and began again. Hundreds of years later，a machine called clock was invented.

After that people made small clocks，so that they could carry them in their pockets. Then during World WarⅠ,men started wearing their watches on their wrists. It was easier to tell the time. Now almost everyone wears a wrist watch.
1. How could people know the time a long time ago？(不超过10个词)
________________________________________________________
2. What was the hourglass made of？(不超过15个词)
________________________________________________________
3. What does the writer mainly want to tell us？(不超过10个词)
________________________________________________________

9 . Every school day, we use schoolbags to carry all of our things to school. They are a big part of our lives. But have you ever thought about the history of the schoolbag?
In the Han Dynasty (汉朝), students in old-style private schools used bamboo boxes to carry books to school. People consider the bamboo boxes to be the earliest schoolbags. They were usually two or three layers (层) in the box. Kids put different things like books, brushes, ink stones (砚) and paper in the boxes.
Hundreds of years later, people developed a new kind of schoolbag called the budai, or the "hip-pocket". The budai was lighter than the bamboo box. With the founding (成立) of the People's Republic of China, military rucksacks (军用帆布包) became popular. Many people carried them when they were in school. Ask your grandparents or parents about these bags. Maybe they can tell you about their experiences of carrying them when they were in school.
A new style of schoolbags has appeared in recent years. Many of them have colorful and fashionable designs (时尚的设计) on them, such as pictures of cartoons or pop stars. And they are more comfortable to use. Some students pull wheeled bags filled with heavy textbooks and others carry backpacks.
Schoolbags are still changing. Can you imagine what future schoolbags will be like?
1. Schoolbags in the Han Dynasty were made of _______.

A．cloth

B．paper

C．plastic

D．bamboo

2. Which is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Military rucksacks were popular in the 1950s.

B．The budai was heavier than the bamboo box.

C．There are some pictures on the new style of schoolbags.

D．Schoolbags have changed a lot.

3. To carry heavy textbooks, students would like to use _______.

A．wheeled bags

B．military rucksacks

C．bamboo boxes

D．the budai

4. We can usually read the article in ________.

A．a letter

B．a guidebook

C．a newspaper

D．a notice

5. The purpose of the article is ______.

A．to tell us how to use schoolbags

B．to explain why we use schoolbags

C．to introduce the importance of schoolbags

D．to introduce the development of schoolbags

10 . The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers. It spread from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.

Traders travelling along the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They also carried and traded spices（香料）,cloth, valuable stones and gold.

There is a famous old story along the old road. It is said that Roman soldiers（士兵）travelled through central Asia. They started to live somewhere near the ancient Chinese village of Liqian. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and the story of blue-eyed villages of China was started.

During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable goods and new ideas. These included people and trading goods from the Mediterranean, Persian, Magyar, Armenian, Bactrian, Indian and Chinese areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road, and they shared goods, stories, languages, and cultures.

In modern times, the old Silk Road routes（路线）are still used, but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even a Silk Route Museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.

1. How many kilometers did the Silk Road cover?

A．About 3000.

B．Nearly 6500.

C．Almost 2000

D．Over 35,000

2. Traders carried all kinds of goods along the Silk Road. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

A．Silk

B．Cloth.

C．Gold.

D．Tea.

3. Who married ancient Chinese women in the story of blue-eyed villages of China?

A．Asian soldiers.

B．African soldiers.

C．European soldiers.

D．American soldiers.

4. What can we infer（推断）from the passage?

A．Valuable things could not be sold along the Silk Road.

B．The Silk Road allowed people from different countries to mix.

C．Ancient Chinese along the Slik Road may be able to speak different languages.

D．The objects in the museum in Jiuquan in China are from all along the Silk Road.

5. Which part of a magazine can this passage come from?

A．History and Geography.

B．Sports World.

C．Man and Animals.

D．Popular Science.