1 . Every school day, we use schoolbags to carry all of our things to school. They are a big part of our lives. But have you ever thought about the_________of the schoolbag?

In the Han Dynasty, when old -style private schools were opened, students used bamboo boxes to carry books to school. People consider the bamboo box to be the_________schoolbag. There were usually two or three layers in the________. Kids put different things, like books, brushes, ink stones and paper in the boxes. You can see the bamboo box in many TV shows. ______, in the Legend of White Snake, Xu Shilin carries a bamboo box to the capital to take an exam.

Hundreds of years________ , people developed a new kind of schoolbag called the budai, or “hip-pocket”. The budai was lighter than the bamboo box. With the founding of the people’s Republic of China, military rucksacks(军用帆布包）became popular. Ask your grandparents or parents about these bags. Maybe they can tell you about their ______ of carrying them when they were in school.

A new style of schoolbag has   _______ in recent years. Many of them have colorful and fashionable______, such as pictures of cartoons or pop stars. And they are more comfortable to use. Some students pull wheeled bags ______ with heavy textbooks and others carry backpacks.

Schoolbags are still changing.Can you imagine ______ future schoolbags will be like?

1.

A．material

B．history

C．shape

2.

A．ugliest

B．finest

C．earliest

3.

A．bag

B．pocket

C．box

4.

A．However

B．Such as

C．For exmple

5.

A．before

B．later

C．ago

6.

A．experiences

B．pictures

C．dreams

7.

A．produced

B．came

C．appeared

8.

A．designs

B．wheels

C．clothes

9.

A．full

B．filled

C．poured

10.

A．how

B．what

C．which

2 . The Great Wall in China is known to people all over the world. It__Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wall in Chinese. Do you know the famous Chinese saying “He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a ___man.”?

The Great Wall is __ wall in the world. It is more than 6,000 kilometres long, and __four and five metres wide. In most places it is wide enough for five horses or ten men __side by side(并排) along the top. It was very __to build such a great wall without our modern machines. All the work had to __by hand. Many people were made__ the wall away from their homes. Thousands of them __and were buried(埋葬) under the wall. The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but also of the flesh and blood(血肉) of ___ men.

1.

A．calls

B．is calling

C．is called

D．called

2.

A．good

B．true

C．important

D．clever

3.

A．longer

B．higher

C．the longest

D．the highest

4.

A．between

B．among

C．at

D．with

5.

A．walk

B．walked

C．walking

D．to walk

6.

A．easy

B．difficult

C．interesting

D．quick

7.

A．do

B．done

C．be done

D．was doing

8.

A．work on

B．to work on

C．worked on

D．working on

9.

A．die

B．dead

C．death

D．died

10.

A．millions

B．millions of

C．three million of

D．three millions

3 . Yoga（瑜伽） is a kind of sport. It is very ____ around the world now. Everyone can do yoga. It’s good ____ both men and women.
Why do more and more people ____ yoga? It’s hard to say. The short answer is that yoga helps you ____ fit. For many people, this answer is enough, ____ there’s more if you have an interest in it.
Yoga ____ in India about 5000 years ago. At that time, people wanted to be free, ____ and live a long life, so this kind of exercise was born. Yoga is a Sanskrit（梵语） word and it ____ “to join together”. There are ____ parts in yoga: exercise, breathing and thinking. If you do ____ in yoga, it can give you peace（平静） and help you feel less stressed（更少的压力）.1.

A．easy

B．important

C．popular

D．interesting

2.

A．in

B．for

C．with

D．at

3.

A．join in

B．join

C．takes part in

D．be in

4.

A．take

B．make

C．turn

D．keep

5.

A．so

B．but

C．or

D．because

6.

A．begin

B．begins

C．began

D．beginning

7.

A．healthy

B．warm

C．busy

D．useful

8.

A．shows

B．means

C．plans

D．brings

9.

A．many

B．two

C．few

D．three

10.

A．good

B．well

C．badly

D．bad

4 . 完形填空。
Long long ago, man had only the sun and the moon for light. After they learned to____fire, they carried burning sticks to____ their way. Later they learned to ____sticks into fat. The burning fat had a bright light and_____longer. After man learned to use a wick(灯芯), they_____ candles, _____ were improved as time went by. People still use_____ today.
Later man made many kinds of oil lamps. These lamps burned coal oil(煤油) and had glass chimneys(灯罩). Later the gas light which needed____________ wick nor chimneys was developed. All these lights had one thing in common—they had to be lighted ____ a fire.
In 1879, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. It can be__________ without a fire.1.

A．make

B．do

C．take

D．find

2.

A．do

B．have

C．light

D．make

3.

A．come

B．put

C．go

D．take

4.

A．stayed

B．worked

C．made

D．lasted

5.

A．made

B．invented

C．used

D．did

6.

A．what

B．who

C．which

D．why

7.

A．fire

B．sticks

C．candles

D．fat

8.

A．neither

B．either

C．both

D．all

9.

A．as

B．like

C．with

D．without

10.

A．lighting

B．lighted

C．lights

D．light

5 . 完形填空：从A、B、C三个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。
Before 1800, many people spent one day a week at church. In England, people called it a “____day”. On that day, they rested and ________.
In the early 1800s, Sunday was the “holy day”.________, many workers played games and had fun____that day. And then they felt too _________to work on Monday mornings. In the USA, workers called them “____Mondays”
To solve the problem of “blue Mondays” the English made Saturday afternoon a _________in 1874. At one o’clock. Everyone stopped ______.This was the beginning of the idea of the weekend in England. By1930, most American offices were ________ on Saturday afternoons. By 1940, offices and factories in the USA were closed all day on Saturdays, and the ________weekend began.1.

A．. happy

B．holy

C．heavy

2.

A．prayed

B．played

C．planted

3.

A．And

B．But

C．However

4.

A．of

B．in

C．on

5.

A．tired

B．bored

C．interested

6.

A．green

B．red

C．blue

7.

A．hobby

B．holiday

C．habit

8.

A．resting

B．working

C．worrying

9.

A．close

B．closed

C．closing

10.

A．two-day

B．two day

C．two days