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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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3 . 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. |
4 . Many years ago in 1971, the US table tennis team was at the World Championship in Japan. The team from China was also there. This championship took place during the days of Cold War, so the American and the Chinese players didn’t even talk to each other.
Glen Cowan, form the US team, didn’t like this situation. One day, he saw a Chinese player and invited him to play. They played together for 15 minutes, and Cowan missed the US bus back to the hotel.
Then, something surprising happened. One of the Chinese players waved to Cowan from the Chinese bus. He thought for a moment and then he got on the bus. But the Chinese players didn’t talk to him. Suddenly, Zhuang Zedong, three times world champion, came up to Cowan. “What are you doing?” said the other Chinese players. “Don’t talk to him! Don’t make trouble!” Zedong gave Cowan a silk scarf. “I give you this to show the friendship of the Chinese people to the American people,” he said through a translator. Cowan wanted to give something back, but he didn’t have anything with him.
Then the bus arrived at the hotel. There were lots of reporters — it was big news to see an American and a Chinese player together. Later, Cowan bought a T-shirt with a peace flag on it, and he gave it to Zedong. The two men became friends.
In the same year, the US team got an invitation to visit China, and in February 1972, US President Richard Nixon went to China on a historic visit. Mary people say that the two men and their friendship made a better relationship between their countries possible.
1. Why didn’t the American and Chinese players talk to each other?| A．Because they didn’t know each other. |
| B．Because they couldn’t understand each other’s words. |
| C．Because of the Cold War. |
| D．Because they competed for the World Championship. |
| A．He invited Glen Cowan to play table tennis. |
| B．He waved to Cowan from the Chinese bus. |
| C．He followed his team members’ advice and didn’t talk to Glen Cowan. |
| D．He became friends with Glen Cowan. |
| A．Glen Cowan played with a Chinese player for fifteen minutes. |
| B．Glen Cowan gave Zhuang Zedong a silk scarf to show the friendship. |
| C．The reporters were surprised to see an American player and a Chinese player together. |
| D．China invited the US team and the President Richard Nixon visited China in February, 1972. |
| A．Novel | B．Dictionary | C．Science fiction | D．History book |
5 . Two Thanksgivings
“Why are we visiting Uncle Ed now? Thanksgiving is next month,” Curtis said. “In the United States, Thanksgiving is in November,” his dad replied. “In Canada, it’s in October.” “Why?” Curtis asked. “Ask Uncle Ed. He used to teach history. You could learn a lot from him,” his dad said.
When Curtis met Uncle Ed, he asked, “Why is Canada’s Thanksgiving so early?” “Thanksgiving is when we give thanks for the harvest (收获),” Uncle Ed said. “Canada gets colder before the United States, so its harvest and Thanksgiving come earlier.”
The next day, Curtis’s dad helped Uncle Ed cook Thanksgiving dinner. “What are we having?” Curtis asked. “You’ll find out soon,” his dad said. “Why don’t you watch TV?” “We watch football on Thanksgiving, too,” Uncle Ed said. “I’m sure there’s a game on.” On his way out of the kitchen, Curtis saw a cornucopia. It looked like one Mom used for their Thanksgiving. Football...cornucopia... was Canada copying the United States?
At dinner, Curtis sat down to turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. He said suddenly, “Your Thanksgiving is just like ours!” Uncle Ed laughed and said, “We do celebrate in similar ways. In the 1700s, many Americans moved to Canada. They brought their Thanksgiving traditions with them.” “We probably gave you our holiday, too,” Curtis said. “Actually, we celebrated Thanksgiving before you,” Uncle Ed replied. “However, Thanksgiving is much older than both Canada and the United States.’ “Really?” Curtis said, surprised.
“The First Nations people were giving thanks for the harvest long before settlers (殖民者) arrived. Also, Spanish settlers in the southern part of North America celebrated Thanksgiving even before Canada.”
“So when did Thanksgiving start in Canada?” Curtis asked. “An explorer named Martin Frobisher celebrated the first Canadian Thanksgiving in 1578. He gave thanks because he had stayed alive the long trip across the ocean from England to Canada.” Uncle Ed said.
“But now Canada gives thanks for the harvest?” Curtis asked. “Yes. In 1957, Canada made its Thanksgiving official (官方的). Since then, we have always given thanks on the second Monday in October,” Uncle Ed said.
After dinner, Curtis and his dad thanked Uncle Ed. “Come to our house for Thanksgiving next month,” Curtis said. “I’ll teach you about our holiday.” “Sure,” Uncle Ed said. “By then, I’ll ask for more pumpkin pie!”
1. Is Thanksgiving in October in Canada?2. Why does Canada’s Thanksgiving come earlier than the United States’ ?
3. What did they have for Thanksgiving dinner?
4. When did Thanksgiving start in Canada?
5. What is the passage mainly about?
People often remember what they were doing when they heard the news of important events in history. In America, for example, many people remember what they were doing on April 4, 1968. This was an important event in American history. On this day, Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. Although some people may not remember who killed him, they remember what they were doing when they heard the news.
Robert Allen is now over 50, but he was a school pupil at that time. “I was at home with my parents,” Robert remembers. “We were eating dinner in the kitchen when we heard the news on the radio. The news reporter said, “Dr. King died just 10 minutes ago”. My parents were completely shocked! My parents did not talk after that, and we finished the rest of our dinner in silence.
More recently, most Americans remember what they were doing when the World Trade Center in New York was taken down by terrorists. Even the date—September 11, 2001—has meaning to most Americans.
This was a day Kate Smith will never forget. She remembers working in her office near the two towers. “My friend shouted that a plane just hit the World Trade Center! I didn’t believe him at first, but then I looked out of the window and realized that it was true. I was so scared that I could hardly think clearly after that.”
1. The event that happened on April 4, 19682. The way that Robert’s family knew the death of Dr. King
3. The way that they finished eating their dinner
4. The reason why Americans specially remember the date—September 11, 2001
5. The place where Kate Smith was working on September 11, 2001
7 . Over 25 thousand years ago people from northern Asia went to America, Today, we call these people Indians.
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Later Columbus found the New World in 1492 and he was k
The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop created (创建) by Jerry, Zev and Gordon, and the shop cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business (生意) did well, and by 1981, there were three more Starbucks stores 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 (设备). He noticed that Starbucks bought a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what the Starbucks did. In 1982, the three Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing．
In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment (环境) of the coffee bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16, 000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world．
However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the “feel the same everywhere” environment offered by Starbucks．
1. From Paragraph1 we know that ________.| A．the first Starbucks coffee shop was very big |
| B．Starbucks’ business grew quickly in the first ten years |
| C．Howard Schultz created the first Starbucks coffee shop |
| D．more coffee shops opened all over the USA in the first ten years |
| A．买 | B．丢弃 | C．经营 | D．参观 |
| A．all of the coffee tasted the same |
| B．the coffee in these places was too expensive |
| C．there were too many coffee shops in one place |
| D．the people in these countries didn’t drink coffee |
| A．what the culture of Starbucks is |
| B．how Starbucks makes its coffee |
| C．why Starbucks is so popular |
| D．how Starbucks has developed |
9 . 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. |
10 . There is a fun fact. Each year, people in all 28 European Union (EU) member countries are asked to change their clocks twice. They move forward by one hour (12 p.m. becomes 1 p.m.) on the last Sunday of March and back by one hour (1 p.m. goes back to 12 p.m.) on the last Sunday in October. This is called “daylight saving time (DST, 夏/冬令时)”.
But in 2019, they will no longer need to do so. On Sept 14, 2018, the EU announced that it will stop practicing DST in October 2019, USA Today reported. The change comes following an online survey conducted in EU countries. Eighty-four percent of the 4.5 million Europeans who took the survey said they oppose (反对) seasonal clock changes.
DST was first introduced in Germany during the World Wars and became law across the continent (大陆) in 1996. It helps people make better use of longer summer days and save energy.
For example, with DST, people get up and go to bed an hour earlier during the summer. By having an extra hour of sunlight, people can save electricity, since they don’t need to turn their lights on.
However, after over 20 years of DST, people believe that the practice is out of date, especially since we now have energy-saving technology like LED light. “We are clearly headed toward smart cities, smart buildings and smart solutions which will bring much more savings than a change of the clock,” European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic told Deutsche Welle.
Others have pointed out that clock changing can lead to imbalance (失衡) in our bodies’ internal (体内的) clocks and cause long-term health problems, Reuters noted.
1. “Daylight saving time” lasts about ________ a year.| A．five months | B．six months | C．seven months | D．eight months |
| A．In France. | B．In Germany. | C．In the US. | D．In the UK. |
| A．Because it helped people save energy. | B．Because it was fashionable and modern. |
| C．Because people wanted to enjoy longer nights. | D．Because people opposed seasonal clock changes. |
| A．What we can use to save energy. | B．Why changing clocks is no longer needed. |
| C．What changes new technology can bring. | D．Why clock changing can harm our health. |
