1 . A jigsaw is a power-driven saw (锯) used to cut sharp curves (急弯曲线) in pieces of wood.

A jigsaw is also a puzzle. It is made up of a large number of small, interlocking pieces. Each piece has a small part of a picture on it. A completed puzzle produces a picture or design.

Jigsaw puzzles were first created by producing a picture on a flat, rectangular (矩形) piece of wood, then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw – that’s where the name comes from!

Pictures found on jigsaw puzzles mainly include scenes from nature, city life and similar designs. Castles, mountains and water scenes are traditional subjects. However, any kind of picture can be used to make a jigsaw puzzle. Cartoon-styles are popular. There are companies that create puzzles from personal photographs. Completed puzzles can also be glued onto a piece of wood to make a wall hanging.

The first jigsaw puzzles were designed as geography teaching tools by John Spilsbury in 1767. His “jigsaw” was a map puzzle. It was a hand-painted map of England on a piece of wood. It was a   successful teaching method. He went on to make over thirty other map puzzles. The pieces were not interlocking.

With the invention of power tools more than a century later, jigsaw puzzles with fully interlocking pieces came into being. The jigsaw machine could cut sharp curves. Then the name jigsaw puzzles came into being. Jigsaw puzzles became very popular in the United States in the early 1930s, when people had difficulty in finding jobs and making money.

Today puzzles of all sizes are a standard item in toy shops and supermarkets. However, they usually come in 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece sizes. The largest one even has 24,000 pieces.

Some jigsaws are quite tricky. Try doing one with all pieces without pictures on it. A few puzzles are made double-sided, so they can be solved from either side. This increases the difficulty, because the puzzle solver cannot be certain which way up each piece goes. Some jigsaws do not have straight edges     (边缘). The edge pieces could be any interlocking piece. Solving these jigsaws requires more effort than doing those straight-edged ones. Others designedly have a piece or two missing. Jigsaws are no longer educational toys but are used for entertainment or a hobby.

1. What can we learn about jigsaw puzzles?

A．Cartoon-style pictures are traditional subjects of jigsaw puzzles.

B．People can choose any photo they like to use in a jigsaw puzzle.

C．The smallest jigsaw puzzle in the world has three hundred pieces.

D．There are many small, interlocking pieces in all the jigsaw puzzles.

2. Which of the following can most probably be made by John Spilsbury?

A．

B．

C．

D．

3. Which of the following jigsaws is the most difficult to solve?

A．A double-sided jigsaw with straight edges.

B．A one-sided jigsaw with straight edges.

C．A double-sided jigsaw with curved edges.

D．A one-sided jigsaw with curved edges.

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

A．Puzzles are cheap entertainment that can be replayed or passed on to others.

B．By 1767, students began to learn geography by putting the puzzles back together.

C．Spilsbury continued to build more puzzles with different area maps and sell them.

D．Early wooden puzzles had pictures printed to the front and lines for cutting on the back.

2 . B）请根据短文内容及首字母填空，填写所缺单词，并将答案填写在答题卡相应位置上。

Many hundreds of years ago, a native (土著的) American chief named Shenandoah lived with his people in what is now the state of Virginia. Very l    1     is known about Shenandoah, but the soft sound of his name was given to a river. The Shenandoah River still runs in a d    2     valley (山谷) between the mountains in West Virginia, just as it did when Chief Shenandoah lived. There is an old story which tells how the river got its name.

A long time ago, many c    3     before Europeans went to live in America, there was a great lake hidden in the mountains of Virginia. For hundreds of years, the native Americans lived near this lake, feeding on the f    4     they caught in its clean waters. They often climbed up the mountains and set up camp there d    5     their long hunts for food. In the evenings they sat near their camps and looked d    6     at the beautiful lake.

On a clear, starry night you could see thousands of stars s    7     and dancing on the water below. The native Americans loved this lake, and because they could see the stars in it they called the lake “Clear Daughter of the Stars.” In their l    8     the word for this was “Shenandoah.”

One day there was a loud crashing sound at one end of the lake. The lake began to disappear. Its water r    9     out of the vallev through a break (裂口) in the mountain side. The waters ran on and on until they j    10     another river, which today is known as the Potomac.

At last, the lake was gone. In its place was only a river. It is this way today. The lake is gone, but the beautiful Shenandoah River runs on.

3 . Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）

Think “rock, paper, scissors(剪刀)”is a children’s game? Think again.

Top players a    1     the world came together in Toronto to compete(竞争) for a 10,000—Canadian-dollar p    2     and the title of World Champion(世界冠军). More than 500 players, including national champions from Australia, Norway and New Zealand, attended.

The game is often used to make decisions and solve some s    3     problems. Players hold their fists(拳头) closed and c    4     to three before making a fist(rock), a flat hand(paper) or two fingers(scissors). Paper covers rock, scissors cut paper and rock breaks scissors.

Players have d    5     opinions about the history of the game, but it is believed to have been played for centuries in Japan. The Paper Scissors Stone Club opened in England in 1842 and players could play together there. In 1918, the n    6     was changed to World RPS Club and its headquarters(总部) moved from London to Toronto.

The world championship started in 2002 and is held o    7     every year.

4 . People have had illnesses and doctors have tried to c    1    them since the beginning of time. In the past, because of people's little knowledge of m    2    theytried some cures which were really strange and h    3     . Take a    4     Egyptians for   example, those with t    5     didn't use to see the dentist. Instead, they put a dead       mouse in their mouth and left it there for s    6     hours. People suffering from       backache often have much p    7     , because a vertebra is not in the right p    8     .     In those days, the patients in Greece were t    9     to a ladder which was p    10     up high and then dropped to the ground. It was expected to help the vertebra go back into place. Unbelievable, isn't it?

People have been showing great interest in lost cities and mythical ones. In the summer of 1848 in Guatemala, Ambrosio Tut and the l    11     governor found a        Mayan city in the j    12     , where temples, pyramids, squares and houses were built     and kings had lived when the Mayans r    13     the region. When the lost city was       found again, people went there to see it at once. Some people have been looking for Atlantis, which was said to be a l    14     island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.     Thanks to the natural r    15     on the island, people there were very rich. They lived     s    16     lives for hundreds of years. But slowly they became g    17     and wanted p    18     . So the gods decided to d    19     Atlantis. All of a sudden, the island and its people were s    20     by the sea and were never seen again.

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6 . Mona Island is an amazing place to take a vacation. Some of the animals living there can’t be found anywhere else in the world. There are beautiful beaches and caves to explore. The sea around the island has colorful fishes. Why is Mona Island unusual? Mona Island is very small. The government of Puerto Rico takes care of the island and has made it a natural reserve. That means the island’s animals and plants are protected from being harmed by people. Mona Island is different from most places because people are not allowed to live there. Only a few park rangers（公园管理员）are able to stay. The park rangers’ job is to keep Mona Island safe and beautiful. They insist that rules are followed. One rule is that only 100 people at a time can visit the island. That way, the park rangers can make sure the land and animals remain safe. What is there to See on Mona Island? One thing that most people enjoy is getting to see the Mona Island iguana(美洲热带大蜥蜴). This type of reptile(爬行动物) lives only on Mona Island. Almost 2,000 of these iguanas live on Mona Island. People also come to the island to get a close-up view of many kinds of fish and other sea life. They can swim far below the surface. They use special equipment to be able to breathe underwater. The water is almost transparent. Through the clear water, divers can see the bright colors of the fish. Visitors can also explore caves. Some of the caves even have paintings and drawings on the walls. This artwork was made by the Arawak and Taíno Indians who lived on the island hundreds of years ago. After a full day of fun activities, visitors can settle in, listen to the night sounds, and view the stars in the huge sky. Because the island is far away from other places, it is surrounded by darkness, and the stars are easier to see. Visitors say that watching the stars is amazing. It’s the perfect end to a perfect day.
1. What do park rangers on Mona Island do?

A．Protect the land and animals.

B．Offer some help to visitors.

C．Feed animals on Mona Island.

D．Drive a boat between Puerto Rico and Mona Island.

2. Which of the following best explains the word “transparent”?

A．so difficult that you can’t finish

B．so clear that you can see through

C．too deep to be reached

D．too bright to be seen

3. Where can artwork be seen on Mona Island?

A．On the beaches.	B．In a museum.
C．In the caves.	D．On the wall of the hotel.

4. Which sentence can be filled in the first blank?

A．Mona Island is very small.

B．Watching the stars on Mona Island is amazing.

C．Visitors can settle in after a full day on Mona Island.

D．Mona Island is far from other places and darkness is all around it.

5. What is the most possible reason the author wrote this article?

A．To explain why animals live on the island.

B．To show readers where the island is located.

C．To tell about a place that some people might enjoy.

D．To give facts about people who work on the island.

7 . 任务型阅读

Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago， there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people moved from place to place. They moved over the land， hunting（打猎）animals for food.

A long time passed. These people began growing crops. No one knows how or when those people learned about growing food. But when they did， their lives changed， they did not have to move houses any more.

They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near each other. And so the first villages grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew bigger and bigger. Then people had machines， and lives in the villages changed again. They built factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.

Today， some people are moving back to small towns.

1. How many people were there in the world long long ago?
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2. When didn’t people have to move houses any more ?
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3. What did the villages grow into after people built factories?
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4. Why did people move from place to place long long ago?
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5. Who knows when people learned about growing food?
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8 . People often say that an Englishman’s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than in flats, and many people own their homes. They can paint and change them in any way they like. In a crowded city everyone knows that he or she has private space that is only for himself or herself and for invited friends.
People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting on a beach or a train or in a library? If you are on the beach you may have spread your sands around you; on the train you may have put your coat or a small bag on the seat beside you; in a library you may have one corner or chair which is your own.
Once I was traveling on a train to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us. The man sitting opposite me had his bag on the table. There was no space on my side of the table at all. I was made rather angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table! I took some newspapers out of my bag and put them on his. When I did this he sat up straight at once, opening his eyes wide. I had invaded（侵占）his space! A few minutes later, I took my newspapers off his bag in order to read them. He at once moved his bag to his side of the table.
1. The English call their homes “castles” because ____________.

A．they don’t make friend with others

B．they are very important persons

C．they don’t want to stay with others

D．homes provide them with their own space

2. The word “private” in the first paragraph means _____________.

A．私人的

B．公共的

C．相邻的

D．隐蔽的

3. According to the passage, if an Englishman is on the beach, he will probably ________ to show his own space to others.

A．cover himself with sands

B．sit in another person’s chair

C．spread sands around him

D．talk loudly with his friends

4. Why did the writer get angry ? Because ____________

A．the man’s bag fell on the writer’s foot.

B．the man’s bag was on the writer’s seat.

C．the man didn’t leave space for the writer on the table.

D．the man’s bag prevented the writer looking out of the window.

5. The writer put his newspapers on the man’s bag in order to ___________.

A．invade the man’s space

B．let the man move his bag to his side

C．take the man’s seat

D．let the man read the newspaper