1 . The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, D. C., in the United States. It was a small coffee shop that roasted its own coffee beans. The coffee shop's business did well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks shops in Seattle.

Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers and he was curious about the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did, and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original （原先的）Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company's head of marketing.

In 1983, Schultz travelled to Italy. The unique atmosphere of the coffee bars there caught his eye. To Schultz it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places: home, workplace, and coffee bar. His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle.

Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new shops—and that was only the beginning. In fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks shops opened somewhere around the world every day!

Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty-six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United States is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gets an understanding of customers in the city. This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right locations for their customers.

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A．How Starbucks has grown.	B．What Starbucks makes.
C．Starbucks' customers.	D．How Starbucks makes its coffee.

2. Which is TRUE about Starbucks' first ten years of business?

A．It grew very quickly.	B．It was run by Howard Schultz.
C．It made special coffee makers.	D．It was a small company.

3. What helps Starbucks succeed in places outside the United States?

A．Opening restaurants in just a few locations each year.

B．Only selling locally produced coffee beans.

C．Working with other major coffee-making companies.

D．Learning about local customers.

4. Which shows the right order according to the passage?
a. One hundred and fifty new shops opened.
b. Howard met three owners of Starbucks.
c. Howard got a new idea for Starbucks.
d. Starbucks is popular all over the world.
e. Howard was a member of a company which made kitchen equipment

A．b-e-a-d-c

B．e-b-c-a-d

C．e-c-a-b-d

D．b-e-c-a-d

2 . 任务型阅读
阅读下面短文,根据短文内容, 在每小题句子空白处填入适当词语,使其意思与短文内容一致(每空词数不限)。

The Silk Road is the man of different roads that long ago linked Europe, Africa and Asia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists and archaeologists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3,000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road had covered almost 6,500 kilometers. It stretched from Rome to China, which is from the west the Far East.

Merchants traveling along the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They also carried and traded spices, cloth, rare jewels, slaves and gold.

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 precious goods and new ideas. These included people and trading goods from 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 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.

The Silk Road
In the past	When	People began to travel the Silk Road    1
	What	Along the Silk Road, merchants       2     and so on. People     3    met each other and mixed.
	How	People used to     4     to cross the Silk Road routes.
At present	China protects the history of many countries and peoples     5    in Jiuquan.

3 . Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their life changed. They did not have to look for food any longer. They could stay in one place and grow it.
People began to live near one another, so the first village was established (建立). Many people came to live in the villages, and these villages became even larger.
When machines appeared, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities began.
Today, it’s strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?
根据短文内容，判断正(A)误(B)。
1. People moved from place to place to hunt animals.
2. The story says,“No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their life changed.” In this sentence, the word “they” means people.
3. When machines appeared, life in the cities changed again.
4. All people like to live only in big cities.
5. People built factories after the cities grew big.