1 . By December of 1914, Britain and Germany had been fighting against each other in World War I for five months. On Christmas Day, something amazing happened. Soldiers of both sides temporarily(临时的) stopped fighting and enjoyed a day of peace.
It all started on the morning of December 25th when the German soldiers climbed out of their deep trenches and crossed the battlefield. “Merry Christmas!” they shouted towards the British. Although the British soldiers did not trust the Germans at first, they did not shoot. Slowly, the British understood that the Germans wanted a short truce(停战) to celebrate Christmas in peace. After a short talk, the British soldiers agreed to it and put down their guns.
Both sides exchanged small presents and cigarettes with their enemies. The Germans and British agreed to let each other collect their dead from the area. A German soldier who was a barber(理发师) before the war gave a British soldier a trim(理发). One of the British soldiers took out a soccer ball and both sides kicked it around.
The Germans and British stopped fighting for most of the day. Some people got very unhappy about this. The leaders of both sides were especially furious. They wanted the men to keep fighting, even on Christmas. Newspapers did not report on the truce until a week later. The Christmas Truce of 1914 is still remembered today. It is an example of how people can stop fighting and come together in peace.
1. According to the article, what happened on Christmas Day in 1914?A.The British and Germans fought a war. |
B.World War I began. |
C.The British and Germans stopped fighting. |
D.The British and Germans went back home. |
A.attacked the Germans |
B.followed their leaders |
C.didn’t agree with the Germans |
D.exchanged small presents with them |
A.Buy cigarettes. | B.Post presents. | C.Shoot their guns. | D.Collect their dead. |
A.dangerous | B.angry | C.energetic | D.excited |
A.British and German soldiers had fought with each other for 5 months in World War I. |
B.British soldiers shouted “Merry Christmas” to the Germans. |
C.The newspapers reported the truce the next day. |
D.People with the same value might come together in peace, though they might have disagreement. |
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3 . Who “discovered” America? And who managed the first successful sail around the world in history?
Well, our textbooks have the answers: they are Italian sailor Christopher Columbus and Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
However, China’s great explorer, Zheng He(1371-1435), may well have beaten the European explorers and sailed around the world first. The life and achievements of the great sailor are shown in a 59-episode TV drama.
Zheng was an officer of the Ming Dynasty’s Yongle Emperor. In 1405, the emperor asked Zheng to visit the “Western Seas”, which referred to the seas and lands west of the South China Sea.
Zheng traveled with 62 ships filled with silk, porcelain and 27, 800 men. The biggest ship was 126 meters long and could take the weight of 7. 000 tons. In the following 28 years, Zheng made another six successful journeys. He visited over 30 countries.
Since most of the records of Zheng’s voyages have been lost many historians(历史学家)believe Zheng’s achievements have been underestimated(低估). British writer Gavin Menzies, who spent 14 researching the movements of the Chinese fleet, explained it was Zheng who first sailed around the world, in his book, 1421, The Year China Discovered America.
While Menzies was doing the research, he said he was shown a map, dated 1459, which included southern Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. Yet the Cape was not “discovered” by da Gama until 1497. On the map was a note about a voyage round the Cape in 1420——and a picture of a Chinese ship.
“What nobody has explained is why the European explorers had maps. Who drew the maps?” he asks in his book. “There are millions of square miles of ocean. It required huge fleets to chart them. If you say it wasn’t the Chinese, then who was it?”
1. What did Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and Zheng He have in common?A.They were all great explorers. |
B.They were born in the same period. |
C.They were all the officers of the Ming Dynasty. |
D.Their life and achievement were featured on CCTV 8. |
①He saw a map with southern Africa and the Cape of Good Hope.
②Records of Zheng’s voyage have been lost.
③The European explorers had maps before exploration.
④The map was dated in 1459.
⑤A picture of a Chinese ship on the map.
A.①②③⑤ | B.①③④⑤ | C.①②③④ | D.②③④⑤ |
A.the European explorers drew the map |
B.the European explorers gave their maps to the Chinese |
C.the huge European fleets charted the map |
D.the Chinese are most likely to discover America |
A.Great European Explorers | B.Successful Journey |
C.Who Discovered America | D.A Research on Western Seas |
4 . Early in the 16th century, it was difficult for people to live without enough food. So lots of people tried hard
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The adventure of Magellan’s expedition told us that when facing difficulties, we should not give up easily. Instead, we need to be confident of
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5 . These days, girls of all ages wear miniskirts. Miniskirts make female feel free, young, and beautiful. But they were thought to be horrible and in bad taste only about fifty years ago.
Miniskirts were made popular by English maker Mary Quant in the 1960s, and soon became an important part of most girls’ wardrobes.
But it wasn’t an easy process for miniskirts. In the 1970s, before women’s liberation movement(女权运动) became popular, some high schools had rules about the 1eogth of the skirt. If it did not touch the floor when the girl kneeled on the ground, the skirt was not long enough. Miniskirts were so short that people at that time didn’t see them as ladies’ clothes. They were thought to be the fashion choice of bad girls and not allowed in business places.
As people’s mind changed in the 1980s, office ladies were finally able to wear miniskirts at work. So when you are wearing your miniskirts this summer, remember it is not just a fashion sign, but also a part of women’s liberation history.
1. What did people think of miniskirts about fifty years ago?A.Miniskirts could make people young and free. |
B.Miniskirts made people like ladies. |
C.Miniskirts were thought to be in bad taste. |
D.Miniskirts were important in girls’ lives. |
A.most girls had wardrobes for putting their miniskirts. |
B.many girls liked wearing miniskirts. |
C.there were special wardrobes made for miniskirts. |
D.wardrobes were full of miniskirts. |
A.the fashion choice of bad girls | B.ladies clothes |
C.right for business places | D.long enough |
A.In the 1960s. | B.In the 1970s. | C.In the 1980s. | D.In the 1990s. |
A.still not popular among office ladies | B.only for summer |
C.just the women’s liberation history | D.not only a fashion sign |
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Have you ever been to Hawaii? Hawaii has always been a magic name to people who like traveling. People from all over the world dream of seeing the beautiful islands in the middle of the ocean. I always have one of their dreams to watch the sun going down. The sun drops like a ball of fire into the sea, and it drops so quickly that you can even see it moves.
About two thousand years ago, the first people went to Hawaii in a very small boat. They found the beautiful white sand beaches and the waving palm trees(棕桐树). But it was difficult for people to go to Hawaii at that time. And there were no big hotels like the ones today. Now people can get to Hawaii in different ways. More and more people go to Hawaii. So lots of nice big hotels have been built in recent years. However. the scenery in Hawaii hasn’t changed much. The white sand beaches and the waving palm trees are still there.
People often have a peaceful time taking a walk along the water in the morning. At night, they get together to hold parties, chatting with each other, singing and dancing. Children like to play games. So if you’re thinking about relaxing yourself. Hawaii is surely the first place for you to choose.
1. Has Hawaii been a magic name to people who like traveling?2. When did the first people go to Hawaii?
3. How did the first people go to Hawaii?
4. Why have lots of nice big hotels been built in Hawaii in recent years?
5. What do children like to do in Hawaii?
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(1)度假的时间、地点;
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8 . People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years.
The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows exactly why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.
About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet (字母表).
The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary (普通的) people could not understand it.
1. Why were pictures of animals painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain according to the passage?A.Maybe the hunters loved animals. |
B.Maybe the hunters wanted to be artists. |
C.Maybe the pictures could be helpful to the painters. |
D.Maybe the pictures could stop the hunters telling stories. |
A.hear | B.watch | C.symbolize | D.build |
A.Human beings have been painting pictures for less than thirty thousand years. |
B.The earliest pictures can be found in Europe. |
C.People in Far East have used pictures as kind of writing for five thousand years. |
D.The Egyptians invented today’s English alphabet. |
A.Picture writing and numbers together were used to record information and tell stories by the Egyptians. |
B.An important Egyptian could be studied through the walls of the place where he was buried. |
C.Egypt is the home of the modern comic strip books. |
D.Ordinary people can easily understand the Egyptian’s way of writing. |
A.An encyclopedia. | B.A science book. | C.A fashion magazine. | D.A newspaper. |
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10 . It may be hard to believe, but the American Revolution (革命)—the war that freed the American states from British control—began over a cup of tea. Tea was not the only thing that caused the war, of course, but it played a very big part.
The British people’s love of tea is well-known. When the British won control over much of North America in the early 1700s, they brought their tea-drinking habits with them. Tea quickly became the continent’s most popular drink. As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country—mostly from India.
In the early 1700s, the Britain government made a special deal with the East India Company, an English trading company. They agreed that no other company was allowed to bring tea to Britain or any country controlled by Britain, including America. It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products. And it always decided on a high price!
In North America, the local people did not like having to pay such high prices. Instead of overpaying for tea from the British, they turned to Dutch traders, who secretly brought tea to the country that was just as good—and much less expensive. Although this broke the law, the American people didn’t care. They got the same cup of tea at a much lower price.
The East India Company, however, didn’t like this at all. By the 1760s, they were losing millions of pounds each year to Dutch traders—a huge amount of money in a time when £60 a year was considered a good income. Instead of reducing their prices to compete with the Dutch, the company asked the British government for help and the government agreed.
In 1767, the British introduced new laws that increased the prices of all goods which were brought into America. These laws helped make the East India Company even richer and forced local people to pay much more for everything. The American leaders asked the British government not to do so, but the British refused to listen. These unfair laws increased Americans’ anger about British rule and the rest, as they say, is history.
1. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.A.the tea maker | B.the American government |
C.the British government | D.the East India Company |
A.The tea was much cheaper. | B.The tea was a lot healthier. |
C.They could buy it more easily. | D.They didn’t want to support the British. |
A.It reduced the price of its tea. | B.It improved the taste of its tea. |
C.It introduced a new kind of tea. | D.It asked the British government for help. |
A.Tea trade in eighteenth-century America |
B.The relationship between America and Britain. |
C.A reason for the start of the American Revolutionary War. |
D.The introduction of British tea-drinking habits into America. |