1 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式(每空不多于3个单词)。

In Britain you aren't allowed     1    (drive) a car until you are seventeen. You have to get a special driving license     2     you can drive. When you're learning,someone with a full license always has to be in the car     3     you. You aren't allowed to drive the car on the road alone.

You don't have to go to a driving school. A friend can teach you. The person who teaches you isn't allowed to take money     4     the lesson unless he has got a teacher's license.

You have to take a     5     (drive) test to have a full license.If you don't pass the test,you are allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to.In 1970,a woman passed her     6     (forty) test after 212 driving lessons!When you have passed your test,you are allowed to go on driving as long     7     you like,if you are     8     (health).Britain's     9     (old) driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.Before 1904,everyone was allowed to drive,even     10     (child). Then from 1904 car drivers must have license.

2 . Motor cars were first made in England just before 1900.   The parts for the bodies and engines (发动机) were made by   _______， and the cars were built from these, one at a time.   It   _______ a long time and the cars   _______ a lot of money.   Some of these old cars are   _______ running and take part in a race   _______ London to Brighton every year.
Later the car makers had to find a quicker and   _______ way of making cars so that people   _______ buy them.   Instead of   _______ all the parts at their own factory, some car makers   _______ other factories to do this.   Then parts were ________ fitted(组装) together by the car makers.
________ American whose name was Henry Ford found a quick way of making cars.   He had a   ________ of men who fitted together each part of a car.   Other men brought the parts to them.   After one car was fitted, the men moved   ________ to another car.   When the cars were finished, they were driven away and another line of cars was started.
Today the cars are   ________ away by a moving track(输送带).   Modern car­making factories are   ________ large that each one is really a lot of factories close together.   Thousands of men and women work in each factory and make many different parts of cars.1.

A．arm

B．hand

C．machine

D．nature

2.

A．spent

B．kept

C．took

D．gave

3.

A．spent

B．paid

C．used

D．cost

4.

A．even

B．still

C．also

D．only

5.

A．of

B．in

C．from

D．still

6.

A．expensive

B．cheaper

C．stranger

D．important

7.

A．could

B．must

C．should

D．had to

8.

A．buying

B．selling

C．mending

D．making

9.

A．had

B．ordered

C．asked

D．helped

10.

A．not

B．always

C．only

D．hardly

11.

A．An

B．A

C．The

D．/

12.

A．group

B．little

C．few

D．lots

13.

A．away

B．off

C．out

D．on

14.

A．carried

B．brought

C．driven

D．made

15.

A．too

B．such

C．so

D．just

3 . China is the home of ______. It has more than 4,000 years’ history. People throughout China drink tea daily. ____ the three major drinks-tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by the largest ____ of people in the world. Tea from China, along ___ silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export ___.

Tea leaves ___ mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild ____ and rich soil there. Longjing, Oolong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all ____ kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people ____ their unique tea culture. The tea culture includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. Tea is ____ a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.

1.

A．coffee

B．tea

C．silk

D．paper

2.

A．In

B．For

C．Of

D．By

3.

A．hundred

B．million

C．thousand

D．number

4.

A．between

B．with

C．except

D．besides

5.

A．at that time

B．from now on

C．since then

D．since now

6.

A．produce

B．are produced

C．make

D．are made

7.

A．climate

B．weather

C．condition

D．environment

8.

A．interesting

B．important

C．famous

D．normal

9.

A．had developed

B．have developed

C．developed

D．are developing

10.

A．too

B．as well

C．either

D．also

4 . Send a post card!

Beautiful scenes(戏剧) of paradise(乐园), wild animals, silly pictures — you can find them all in one place. Where? On a post card! Have people always sent post cards? No. Before post cards, people liked sealed letters.

The idea for the first decorated(装饰) post card came to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card with decorations would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, post cards with pictures appeared. By law, people had to write their note on the front —on the picture! The back was only for the address. Several years later, England allowed a divided-back post card. Then people could write their note on the back left side and put the address on the right. During the early 1900s, the golden age of post cards, picture post cards became a craze of the world. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million post cards. Today, post cards are the third most popular collection in the world after stamps and coins.

根据短文内容判断正(A)误(B)：
1. We can see some silly pictures on the post cards.
2. Post cards were produced before sealed letters.
3. In 1861, the first decorated post card appeared.
4. Post cards were most popular during the early 1900s.
5. Stamps, coins and post cards are the most popular collections in the world.

5 . Pizza is a kind of popular food. It _______ from Italy. The pizza capital of the world is Naples. The world’s first pizza restaurant is still there. It opened in 1830.

The best pizza of today also has a(n) _______ history. It was first made in the 1880s. This pizza has the same _______ as the Italian flag. The Italian flag is red, white and green. The pizza has red tomatoes, white cheese and green herbs (香草).

Today we can _______ different kinds of pizza in the restaurant. Some pizza has tomatoes, and some pizza doesn’t have tomatoes. Most pizza is round, _______ some isn’t. You can choose any kind you want.

1.

A．makes

B．comes

C．buys

D．takes

2.

A．long

B．short

C．different

D．boring

3.

A．colours

B．shape

C．length

D．size

4.

A．order

B．bring

C．build

D．sell

5.

A．or

B．so

C．but

D．because

6 .

Children’s Games in Ancient China During ancient times, children didn’t have much to enjoy themselves. However, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood.
Playing Hide-and-Seek Hide-and-seek is a traditional game for children, popular around the nation. There are two ways to play: covering a child’s eyes while other kids run around to tease (戏弄) him or, more commonly, others hide and one child must try to find them.	Flying kites Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood, instead of paper. The three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite. Each has its own feature. For example, the bird-shaped kite with long wings is a special kind of the Beijing kite.	Watching Shadow Plays (皮影戏) The closest thing to watching a film during ancient times was going to see a shadow play. The artists control puppets(木偶) behind the screen and tell stories to the music.

1. There are ________ ways to play hide-and-seek.

A．one

B．two

C．three

D．many

2. This passage is mainly about games in ________ China.

A．ancient

B．modern

C．traditional

D．big

3. Probably most of the kites are made of ________ nowadays.

A．metal

B．wood

C．paper

D．wool

4. ________ kinds of kites are mentioned in the passage.

A．Four

B．Three

C．Two

D．One

5. In ancient China, watching a shadow play is like watching a ________.

A．film

B．game

C．picture

D．match

7 . Today, most countries use coins（硬币）and paper money to buy things. But before the metal coins and paper money, people used a lot of unusual things for money. In one part of the world, for example, people used shark’s teeth for money. On the Pacific island of Santa Cruz, people used feathers（羽毛）as their money, and they were the lightest money ever used. Stones were the money of the people from the Pacific island of Yap, and they were the heaviest money ever had. In addition, people in one area even used the hairs from elephants’ tails for money.

Although the oldest coins are over 2500 years old, no one knows when people started using metal coins for money. People first used very valuable metals, such as gold and silver, to make coins. They stamped （压印上）the shape（形状）of a person or an animal on each coin to show its value. But in China people used iron coins as money. Because these coins weren’t worth very much, people had to use many of them to buy things. It was not convenient to make them everywhere, so the government started making paper receipts. People took these receipts to banks and changed them for coins. This was the first example of paper money.

1. According to the passage, people used __________ before they had coins and paper money.

A．shark’s teeth, feathers and hairs from people

B．shark’s teeth, seashells and hairs from people

C．shark’s teeth, stones and hairs from people

D．shark’s teeth, feathers, stones and hairs from elephants

2. The underlined word "they" in paragraph 1 refer to?

A．shark’s teeth	B．hairs from elephants
C．stones	D．feathers

3. Paper became a form of money because __________.

A．it was cheap	B．it was easy to carry
C．it was heavier than metal	D．the government didn’t have any metal

4. People changed paper money for coins __________.

A．at banks	B．at watch houses
C．at teahouses	D．at government offices

5. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．The history of money	B．The use of money
C．The importance of money	D．Different countries’ people use different money.

8 . One of the oldest known toys in the world is the yo—yo. Historians believe that it came from China. In the 1700s, the yo—yo first came to the west. In the 1800s, the toy was very much liked by children in Victorian,England. In the Philippines（菲律宾群岛）, the yo—yo was a national toy, and the people became experts at making and using the toy. In the 1920s, Pedro Flores brought the first Philipine yo—yo to the USA and he set up a yo—yo company in California. He wanted to show people how to use the toy because he thought this would help him to sell more yo—yos. Donald Duncan,who was a clever businessman,bought the idea and Pedro Flores's company. Soon the Duncan Company traveled all over the USA. They taught and explained yo—yo tricks, and they held contests to sell more yo—yos.

In 1946, the Duncan Company moved to Luck, Wisconsin, and the town became known as the"Yo—yo Capital of the world". The company produced 3,6000yo—yos per hour. In 1962, the Duncan Company alone sold 45million yo—yos in the USA. At times,the yo—yo isn't as popular as before, but then it came back———well,like a yo—yo. In 1992,astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman took a yo—yo with him on the spacecraft Atlantis.

Time	Events
In the 1700s	The yo—yo first came to（1）    1     countries.
In the 1800s	It became     2     with children in England. People in the Philippines were especially     3     at playing and using it.
In the 1920s	Pedro Flores     4     a yo—yo company in USA and later Donald Duncan bought     5     Pedro Flores's idea and the company. He sold more yo—yos    6     teaching and explaining yo—yo tricks and holding contests.
In    7	Luck,Wisconsin was famous for the"Yo—yo Capital of the world. "
In 1962	8    times it is    9     popular than before.
In 1992	Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman took a yo—yo into    10    .

9 . 听对话，回答下列两个问题。
1. What is the book about?

A．It’s about Chinese history.

B．It’s about the history of the Earth.

C．It’s about dinosaurs.

2. What happened to the dinosaurs on Earth?

A．They got sick.

B．They were in danger.

C．They died out.

10 . Early in the 16th century, it was difficult for people to live without enough food. So lots of people tried hard_______ Asia to gain wealth. In order to find Asia, they had to find a way to pass South Africa based on their knowledge about all the routes. The man___________   finally found the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was Ferdinand Magellan.

Magellan sailed from Seville in August, 1519,_________ five ships and   about 280 men. Fourteen months later, after the cold winter on the coast of Patagonia, he discovered the channel which is now called Magellan Straits. In November, 1520, after many months of dangers from rocks and storms, the three remaining ships seemed to come close to the success. They sailed into the ocean from the other side of South America_________ .

They then continued, hoping to reach Asia. But they couldn't see any land__________ they reached the island off the coast of Asia. What's worse, before they arrived at________ islands, which were later known as the Philippines, most of them had already died of starvation. While they were staying in the Philippines, Magellan__________in a battle.

The remaining officers then had to get back to Spain. They decided to sail around Africa. After___________ difficulties, one ship with eighteen men sailed into Seville three years after leaving. They were all that remained of Magellan's expedition, which was one of___________ expeditions in the world.

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__________ and tried our best to fight against them.

1.

A．reach

B．reached

C．to reach

D．reaches

2.

A．who

B．whom

C．whose

D．which

3.

A．for

B．with

C．without

D．by

4.

A．success

B．successful

C．successfully

D．succeed

5.

A．while

B．after

C．since

D．until

6.

A．a

B．an

C．the

D．/

7.

A．killed

B．was killed

C．killing

D．had killed

8.

A．many

B．any

C．few

D．little

9.

A．great

B．greater

C．greatly

D．the greatest

10.

A．our

B．us

C．ourselves

D．we