1 . 阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框中所给的词中选最恰当的 10 个，并用其适当形 式填空，并将答案填写到答题卡的相应位置。每个词只限用一次。

but, south, house, build, cook, rich, become, money, even, anyone

Why are so many British people interested in historical (历史的) television programs like Downton Abbey ( 《唐顿庄园》) ? Maybe because they want to see how both     1     and poor people lived years ago. Or is it because they like looking at the beautiful buildings people lived in—the country     2    ?

Downton Abbey is not a real place,     3     the house they used for the program is real.

Highclere Castle in the     4     of England was a castle (城堡) 900 years ago, but in the 9th century (世纪), people changed (改变) it into a house.

Why did people     5     country houses? Probably because they wanted other people to see how much money they had. These houses often had lots of furniture(家具) and paintings, as well as servants (佣人)     6    , clean and look after the family and guests (客人).

But as we know from the story of Downton, the     7     of the families who lived in these houses did not last.

Today, many country houses are open to     8    . People pay money to take a look inside.

Some of the houses were sold and     9     hospitals, schools, hotels, and     10     prisons (监狱).

And some are used for making films and TV programs like Downton Abbey.

4 . Today there are policemen everywhere,     1    . A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.

About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there.     2    . There were so many thieves (小偷) who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.

In 1750,     3    . They were like policemen and were called “Bow Street Runners” because they worked near Bow Street.

Fifty years later, there were 120 “Bow Street Runners”,     4    . So in 1829, the first London Police Force was started with 3,000 officers.     5    , but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men.

Today, London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.

A．but London had become very big and needed more policemen

B．The city was very dirty and many people were poor

C．Most of the men worked on foot

D．but in 1700, London had no policemen at all

E．Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves

8 . 根据短文内容和首字母提示，填写所缺单词。

When Women Were “Ladies”

As late as 1800, women’s only place was in the home. The idea of women in the business world was unthinkable. No “nice” woman would d    1     of entering what was strictly a “man’s world”. Even if she could, what would she do? Men were positive that no women could deal with a job outside her home. This was such a w    2     accepted idea that when the famous Brontë sisters began writing books in 1846, they disguised (伪装) themselves by signing their books w    3     men’s names.

Teaching was the first profession (职业) open to women soon after 1800. But even so, that was not an e    4     profession for women to enter because most high schools and colleges were open only to men. Oberlin College in Ohio was the first college in America to a    5     women.

Hospital nursing became respectable work for women only after Florence Nightingale became f    6    . Because she was a wealthy and cultured woman, as well as a nurse, people began to believe it was possible for women to nurse the s    7     and still be “ladies”. Miss Nightingale opened England’s first training school for nurses in 1860.

The i    8     of the typewriter (打字机) in 1867 helped to bring women out of the home and into the business world. Because women had slender (纤细的), quick f    9    , they learned to operate typewriter quickly and well. Businessmen found that they had to hire women for this new kind of work.

By 1900, thousands of women were working at real jobs in schools, hospitals, and offices in both England and America. Some women even m    10     to become doctors or lawyers. The idea that “nice” women could work in the business world had been accepted.

9 . How do we know the time? A clock, a watch or a mobile phone can help us. However, many years ago there were no clocks and knowing the time was not so easy. Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time.

About 5, 500 years ago, the Egyptians invented the sun clock. This was a tall stone building. Its shadow(影子)showed the movement of the sun. So people were able to know midday. The Egyptians made a sundial about 3,500 years ago. It was smaller than the sun clock and could let people know the time for half a day. On cloudy days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial. Water clocks not were the first clocks not to use the sun. The idea is simple. Water flows(流动) from one bottle to another. When the water reaches a certain level, it shows the hours. The Egyptians used water clocks about 3,400 years ago. These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China. But they failed to make people know the exact time.

In the 13th century, the mechanical clock was invented. This was more exact, but it was expensive to make one. Over the next few centuries it was developed. For example springs(发条) were added around 1500. This enabled people to get the correct time and allowed clocks to be smaller. In 1927, the first quartz watch was developed. Clocks became cheaper to make. It’s also cheaper for ordinary people to own a clock. People began depending on them more and more to run businesses, markets and so on. More recently, in 1956, came the digital clock. And nowadays satellites send our mobile phones the time to the exact second.                                        

There has been a lot of progress in timekeeping. Clocks are always changing but some things never change. Many of us sill have trouble getting out of bed on time and not being late for school or work.

1. According to the passage, we can’t use a ________ tell the time on a rainy day.

A．water clock

B．sun clock

C．digital clock

D．mechanical clock

2. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “ordinary” in the third paragraph?

A．现代的

B．特殊的

C．富有的

D．普通的

3. How many kinds of clocks are mentioned in the passage?

A．Four.

B．Five.

C．Six.

D．Seven.

4. Which of the following shows the structure(结构)of the passage?
(①= Paragraph 1 ②= Paragraph 2...)

A．	B．
C．	D．

5. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The importance of time.	B．The development of timekeeping
C．The inventions of clocks.	D．The history of a digital clock.

10 . A road is a path that links two places. The Silk Road is a path that has linked the Eastern and Western worlds for more than 2, 000 years.

But did you know: the Silk Road is not a single route (路线)! It is actually a series of trade and cultural transmission (传送) routes that started in ancient times. It began during the Western Han Dynasty. The trade route started from the city of Xi’an in Shanxi province and ended in Eastern Europe, near today’s Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea (地中海). The Silk Road was about 6, 500 kilometers long. It went across one-fourth of the planet.

The Silk Road got its name because Chinese silk used to be carried along this road. Apart from silk, jade (玉器), ceramics (陶器) and iron went west to Rome. From the west came glass, gems, and food like carrots and sesame (芝麻).

The Silk Road was very important to both China and the rest of the world. In addition to goods, knowledge of science, arts and literature as well as crafts and technology, was shared across the Silk Roads. In this way languages and cultures developed and influenced each other.

Today, places along the Silk Road are known as top travel destinations, such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu. Beginning in August, 2014, a train line, the New Orient Express, started to run from Beijing across the Silk Road. People are able to take the train and see the sights along the ancient route.

1. What do we know about the Silk Road?

A．There is only one route along the Silk Road.

B．It started from Xi’an during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

C．Silk was once carried along the road.

D．It crossed one-fifth of the planet.

2. Which of the following things was taken from China to the West?

A．Glass.

B．Jade.

C．Gems.

D．Carrots.

3. The Silk Road was of great importance mainly because ________.

A．it encouraged many people to become traders

B．it was the oldest and longest road in the world

C．it improved exchanges between China and the West

D．it made China strong and wealthy

4. We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．places along the route are popular among tourists

B．Xi’an and Dunhuang are the road’s most-visited places

C．tourists can’t travel along the Silk Road by train

D．the Silk Road is no longer important to China