1 . No one knows when the first kite was made. The first record of a kite was more than 2,000 years ago in China. Han Xin, the leader of an army, wanted to bring down a king. He decided to dig a tunnel (隧道）into the king’s palace. He flew a kite over the wall of the palace to make sure the length (长度）of its string (线).In this way, he coulddeterminehow long the tunnel should be.His men in the tunnel took the kite string with them. When they reached the end of the string, they knew to dig up.

Kites have been flown in Japan for hundreds of years. In the 1700s, kites were flown in autumn to give thanks for a good harvest. They were also flown to send good wishes to couples who had their first son. Today in Japan, kites are often flown as part of a celebration, such as the beginning of a new year. And kite festivals are held each year in many parts of the country.

Kites have been used for scientific purposes in the western world. In 1752，Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it in a storm to find out that lightening was a form of electricity. In the 1890s，Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite to test ideas about flight. From 1898 until 1933，the United States Weather Bureau (气象局）used box kites to collect weather data. The Wright brothers also experimented (试验）with kites. What they learnt helped them make the first airplane flight in 1903.
1. Why did Han Xin want to dig a tunnel?

A．To pull down the palace.	B．To fight against the king.
C．To search for the king’s treasure.	D．To find out the length of the kite string.

2. What does the underlined word “determine” in Paragraph 1 probably mean in Chinese?

A．测定

B．选择

C．了解

D．考察

3. One of the purposes of flying kites in Japan is_.

A．to give thanks for a good harvest in summer

B．to express good wishes to the first-born daughter

C．to celebrate the beginning of a new year

D．to hold kite festivals all over the country

4. When did the United States Weather Bureau begin to use box kites?

A．In 1752.

B．In 1898.

C．In 1903.

D．In 1933.

5. What would be the best title for the text?

A．The History of Kites	B．The Experiments of Kites
C．The Invention of a Kite	D．The First Record of a Kite

2 . The human story began around 65 million years ago, when animals first appeared on Earth. Over thousands of years, their bodies became almost human. Their brains became     1     (big), and they learned how to use language, light fires and make tools. Modern human-people like us-developed     2     these creatures about 100,000 years ago.

Many scientists believe modern humans first appeared in Africa. By 20,000 B.C., they had travelled and settled all over the world. They travelled farthest during     3     Ice Ages, when most seas were frozen, leaving bridges of dry land,     4     people could walk across.

The first farmers on Earth lived in the Middle East. Around 9,000 B.C., people     5     (find) that grains of wheat and barley dropped on the ground grew and produced seeds,     6     they cleared land and planted more seeds. By around 6000 B.C., people in Southeast Asia had discovered how to grow rice. By 5000 B.C., in Central and South America, people were growing     7     (potato) and corn.

Early peoples had to make the big discoveries-how to build homes, farm the land, communicate and protect     8     (they). The world we live in has been built on the work of past generations, and it is still changing today. As each year     9     (pass), it becomes another chapter in our     10     (amaze) history.

3 . Hot Dog is popular. It's not a dog, but a cooked sausage in a long piece of bread. Here are some stories and facts about it from English websites.

HISTORY of Hot Dog The 1600s A German called Johann Georghehner created the "dachshund" sausage. "Dachshund" is a German small long thin dog. The 1860s The very first hot dog - the "dachshund" sausage in a roll - was sold by Germans in New York. It became popular in the US later. 1871 Charles Feltman, a German, started the first Coney Island hot dog stand. It made hot dogs known to more people. 1893 Chris Von Der Ahe started the American tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks, making hot dogs more popular. 1901 A New York cartoonist. Tad Dorgan, saw the red hot "dachshund sausages sold on streets. He wanted to draw a picture of it, but he wasn't sure how to spell "dachshund, so he simply wrote "Hot Dog". It is widely believed how Hot Dog had its name. 1949 The first vegetarian hot dogs came out.

HOT DOG FUN FACTS World record for eating hot dogs: 73 in ten minutes. Hot dogs were one of the first foods eaten on the moon ! About 150 million hot dogs are eaten by Americans each July 4th. About 21 million hot dogs were sold at American baseball parks in 2010. New Yorkers eat more hot dogs than any other city population in the US.

1. Americans started the tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks in ___________.

A．1871

B．1893

C．1901

D．1949

2. It's believed that the name "Hot Dog" was created by _______________.

A．Tad Dorgan	B．Charles Feltman
C．Chris Von Der Ahe	D．Johann Georghehner

3. What can we know about hot dogs from the passage?

A．New Yorkers like eating hot dogs most in the world.

B．Germans eat about 150 million hot dogs each July 4th.

C．A world record says someone ate 73 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

D．About 21 million hot dogs were sold in America in the 1860s.

4 . 阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题纸的相应位置。

Next time you hold a book in your hands, stop and think. Like most other things in the modern world, it is the result of thousands of years of human invention.

First, came the invention of writing,    1    (probable) about 5, 500 years ago. With writing, people did not have to remember everything in their heads. They could communicate with people that they never    2    (see) and share their knowledge with insure generations.

Later, the Greeks were well-known for their literature (文学) and science, but their "books" looked very different    3    the books of today. They were called scrolls (卷轴). They were difficult to use and took a lot of space in a library. About 2,000 years ago, books with lots of pages    4       (invent).

For more than a thousand years, the pages of books were made from animal skin. That changed in       5    thirteenth century, when Europeans learned about a very    6    (use) Chinese invention: paper.

But the biggest change for books in Europe came in 1439, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that, books in Europe were copied by hand, so they were very expensive. Many more people could afford the books    7    were produced on a printing press.

These days it is difficult    8    (imagine) a world without books. But human invention does not stop. Every year, more    9    (story) are bought as e-books and read on a screen.

Will anyone turn the pages of a traditional book in the future,    10    will books, like scrolls, soon disappear?

5 . 英汉互译   阅读下面短文, 将文中画线的句子译成汉语或英语。

In April, the second Belt and Road Forum (论坛) for International Cooperation（合作）was held in Beijing. Heads of states from 37 foreign countries attended it.1 The main goal of it is to make the countries work together in more areas. It has won the support of 152 countries and international groups.

As a Chinese student, 2 你应该了解一些关于丝绸之路的事。

3 Long ago, traders brought treasures from the East to the West. Trips to the West became more favorable when traders found silks and spices(香料). These treasures were not ordinary goods that were easy to get.

4丝绸之路不是一条真正的路。It was a route (路线) between the East and the West. It went through China, Turkey and Greece. Some traders traveled over land and others sailed across the sea. There was danger along both routes.

Over time, the Silk Road changed people in both the East and the West. Traders shared stories about faraway lands. They brought back drawings of the places and things they had seen, which helped people learn about new cultures. 5 Because of the Silk Road, the world seemed much smaller.

1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3. _________________________
4. _________________________
5. _________________________

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或单词等提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的单词，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route （路线）between China and the Mediterranean（地中海）. It began during the Western Han Dynasty and has been     1     bridge between East and West for over 2,000 years. Some people may think it is    2    [ɪm'pɒsɪb(ə)l] to exist（存在）.Now let me tell you the history.

The ancient road started from Chang’an（now Xi’an) and ended in East Europe, near     3    （today）Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. It was about 6,500    4    (kilometer) long and covered one     5     （four）of the planet. The Silk Road got its name because Chinese silk used to be carried along this road. Silk, jade（翡翠）, ceramics（制陶术）and iron    6     （go）west to Rome. And from the west came glass, gems and food     7    carrots and sesame（芝麻）.The Silk Road was very important to both China and the rest of the world. It was   more than an ancient international trade route. Besides trade, knowledge about     8     [‘səʊʃəl] arts, science , literature, crafts（工艺）and technologies was shared across the Silk Road. In this way, the languages and cultures developed       9    (quick)and influenced each other. Today, along the Silk Road there are     10     [‘sevrəl] places of interest, such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Now a new train line runs from Beijing across the Silk Road.

7 . 根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使短文内容完整正确，并将
答案填写在答题卡标号为51-55的相应横线上。

make films            pictures               jumped through       of all ages        sound

The first cartoons appeared in newspapers. They told stories using     1    . The first photographed cartoon film (in 1906) was about humorous faces. In the film, an artist drew pictures     of two faces on a blackboard. The faces came to life. They smiled and a small dog     2    a ring.

There were a lot of animals in early cartoons. One famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat.

Walt Disney started to     3     in the 1920s. Some of his earliest films were about a famous     story, Alice in Wonderland, but in Disney's films it was called Alice in Cartoon Land. Walt Disney's most famous cartoon character was Mickey Mouse. He appeared in 1928, first in a black-and-white film without     4    , then very soon after that in a talking film and later in colour. A Mickey Mouse film was the first cartoon film with sound to become really popular.

Today, over a hundred years later, cartoons are still popular with people     5    . They will probably be popular for many more years in the future.

8 . Sandwich was an Englishman. He lived in the 18^th century. Sandwich was rich, but he liked to play cards for money. He often played for 24 hours, and didn't even stop to have his meals. He ordered his servants (仆人) to bring him some meat and bread. He put the meat between the two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he played cards with his right hand. People liked Sandwich’s idea, and from then on they ate bread and meat as Sandwich did.

From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food “sandwich” today.

1. Sandwich was the _________.

A．name of a servant

B．name of a man with a lot of money

C．poor man who lived on playing cards

D．name of food which was liked by the rich

2. People liked Sandwich’s idea because _________.

A．bread, together with meat was cheap

B．he always won when he played cards

C．they liked Sandwich himself

D．when they ate with one of their hands they could do something with the other

3. Today, “sandwich” is __________.

A．also a name of a rich man

B．two pieces of bread with meat in between

C．not interested in playing cards

D．not liked by most of the people

9 . How did people stay cool during the summer in ancient times? The days are getting hotter now. In modern times, we can enjoy cold drinks in an air-conditioned (有空调的) room to stay cool. In ancient times, however, people had their own ways.

As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was a special department(部门) called the "ice administration". People who worked there would collect ice blocks(冰块) in winter and store them in an ice house. When summer came, people could take the ice blocks home and use them to make their rooms cooler.

The ice could also be used to make cold drinks. The "binghan"(冰鉴) was a type of ancient fridge. It was a big box made of ceramic (陶),wood or metal (金属)filled with ice. People would put drinks inside, close the lid(盖子),and the drinks would become cold after a while.

When it's too hot, you might find it difficult to fall asleep. In ancient times, there was a kind of pillow made of porcelain(瓷器).It felt pleasantly cool. It is said that Emperor Qianlong(1711-99) of the Qing Dynasty liked these pillows. Ancient people also wove(编织) reeds(芦苇) or bamboo into bed mats (垫子)to sleep on. Some people still use these mats today.

1. How do people keep away from heat nowadays according to the first paragraph?
____________________
2. How did people have the special department "ice administration"?
____________________
3. Was "binghan" a big box made of ice to make cold drinks?
____________________
4. Why did Emperor Qianlong like the pillow made of porcelain?
____________________
5. What did ancient people wove into bed mats to have a better sleep in summer?
____________________

10 . Do you often wear jeans? Do you have a pair of Levi’s jeans? Levi’s is the most famous brand (品牌) of jeans and denim(粗斜棉布) clothing. They have been popular for about one hundred and fifty years. Let’s learn about its history.

Levi Strauss was born in Germany in the mid-1800s and moved to the United States as a young man. He lived in New York City and learned the dry goods (纺织品) business for several years. In 1853 he took his knowledge and dreams to San Francisco to help with his brothers’ dry goods business.

The company began making denim in the 1870s, but it did not start making jeans until the 1920s.

Levi Strauss and his partner Jacob Davis patented(取得专利) the copper rivet(铜铆钉) to make their clothing strong and hard in 1873. It was to become a key part of their jeans design.

During the World War II, their jeans sold very well. Before the war, they only had 15 salesmen(推销员). After the war, they had 22,000 salesmen in 35 countries.

Levi’s jeans became popular with young people in the 1950s and 1960s. Levi’s 501 jeans were their biggest-selling product(产品). Today Levi’s jeans are more popular than ever, and Levi’s name continues to live in different countries.

1. Levi Strauss went to San Francisco to help his brothers with________.

A．jeans business

B．clothing business

C．dry goods business

2. When did Levi Strauss and his partner patent the copper rivet?

A．In 1853

B．In 1873

C．In 1870

3. The underlined word “design” probably means “______” in Chinese.

A．传统

B．设计

C．标志

4. Why does the writer mention the number of the salesmen in the fifth paragraph?

A．To show how well their jeans sold.

B．To show how cheap their jeans are.

C．To show how much their salesmen loved their jobs.

5. We can read the passage from a magazine called_________.

A．Funny Stories

B．American History

C．The Fashion Industry(工业)