1 . Over ______ years ago, people from Northern Asia went to America. Today, we call these people Indians (印第安人).

The Indians went to America ______ the weather began to change. Northern Asia became very cold. Everything froze. They _______ move. How did the first Indians go to America? They walked.

Later, Columbus (哥伦布) found the New World in 1492. At first, only _______ people went there with Columbus. They travelled to America _______. Then more and more Germans and Italians went to America. Most of them took almost no money with them. They went to America to find a better life.

1.

A．thirty thousands

B．thirty thousand

C．thirty thousand of

D．thirty thousands of

2.

A．because

B．so

C．but

D．so that

3.

A．will

B．have to

C．had to

D．needed

4.

A．a little

B．little

C．few

D．a few

5.

A．by boats

B．on boats

C．in boat

D．by boat

3 . Do you know the famous Chinese saying “He _____ does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man.”? The Great Wall has a history of more than two thousand years. It runs from the east to the west in North China. It is about 8,800 kilometers long. It ____ the Ten—Thousand—Li Great Wall in Chinese. In most places, it is ______ enough for five horses or ten men to walk side by side along the top.

The Great Wall is made _____ stones and bricks. There are huge stones on _____ side and on the highest part. But now some sections of it are worn out. It was very _____ to build the Great Wall without our modern machines. All the work had to be done by hand. Many people were made _____ the wall away from their homes, and never came back.

Along the Great Wall, there are tall watch—towers（烽火台）. Once upon ____ time, the soldiers kept watching the enemies in them day and night. They made fire on the towers to tell each other when the enemies came.

Nowadays, we don’t use the Great Wall to keep away the enemies any more. Today the Great Wall is one of   ______ places to all the people in the world. Every year _____ people come to visit it from all over the world.

1.

A．which

B．what

C．who

2.

A．calls

B．is called

C．called

3.

A．wide

B．long

C．tall

4.

A．from

B．of

C．in

5.

A．both

B．every

C．each

6.

A．easy

B．difficult

C．interesting

7.

A．work on

B．to work on

C．worked on

8.

A．a

B．an

C．the

9.

A．famous

B．more famous

C．the most famous

10.

A．thousands

B．thousands of

C．thousand

4 . 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

5 . Walt Disney came from America. When he was very young,his family _____ from the city to a farm._____ Disney was busy most of the time,he could still find _____ to do interesting things. He spent much of his free time _____ pictures of the animals on the farm. He then began _____ stories about them. Later he even began taking art classes on Saturdays.

As he grew older,Disney's art _____ also grew. He began using a new way _____ his stories. To do this,he drew the same picture many _____,changing each one a little. Using the camera,he took a photo of each drawing. Next,he _____ the film(胶卷)through a movie projector(放映机)．As the pictures ran ______ through the projector，the characters looked ______ and moving. Disney soon began to use this way. He made his drawings into cartoons. And the cartoons were just like ______.Walt Disney was ______ after many years of hard work. He ______ one of the world's ______ entertainers(演艺人士).His cartoons still make lots of people happy every day.

1.

A．moved

B．moves

C．to move

D．moving

2.

A．Although

B．So

C．If

D．Whether

3.

A．money

B．places

C．time

D．people

4.

A．reading

B．taking

C．buying

D．drawing

5.

A．dressing up

B．looking for

C．making up

D．caring about

6.

A．talent

B．lesson

C．service

D．show

7.

A．to tell

B．telling

C．told

D．is telling

8.

A．time

B．times

C．more time

D．much time

9.

A．put

B．putted

C．puts

D．putting

10.

A．slowly

B．quickly

C．hardly

D．cheaply

11.

A．necessary

B．rich

C．fresh

D．real

12.

A．pictures

B．movies

C．stories

D．books

13.

A．poor

B．common

C．successful

D．tall

14.

A．became

B．lost

C．won

D．expected

15.

A．great

B．greater

C．the greatest

D．greatest

6 . Thanksgiving Day is a special day for people _______ thanks in the United States. They thank for the good events that have happened and the good   _______ they have got during the year. A harvest is the fruit people take from the trees and the crops people take from the ground.

People _______ the Thanksgiving Day celebration for a long time. _______ first Thanksgiving celebration took place in 1619 in North America. At that time, English people _______ America and built their new home there. They felt _______ to be alive. To thank God for the safe _______ and the great harvest, they decided to have a celebration _______ a big meal. They cooked small animals and _______ else outside their houses on large fires. Many Indians also came to help and enjoy the meal. They ate and played together. The celebration lasted three days.

In 1789, President George Washington named November 26th ________ the Day of Thanksgiving. But in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said that the last Thursday in November ________ be Thanksgiving Day.

Nowadays, Thanksgiving Day ________ in many countries but not always on the same day of the year. People in Canada celebrate it on the second Monday of October. The British who call it Harvest Festival celebrate it ________ in the year, in September. ________ Thanksgiving Day comes, people usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to the churches to show their thanks. These days, as we can see, Thanksgiving Day makes ________ possible for people to get together with their families and have a happy time.

1.

A．giving

B．give

C．to give

D．given

2.

A．things

B．harvest

C．results

D．news

3.

A．have held

B．are holding

C．hold

D．held

4.

A．The

B．A

C．An

D．/

5.

A．arrived at

B．arrived in

C．reached out

D．reached to

6.

A．lucky

B．luck

C．luckily

D．unlucky

7.

A．travels

B．trips

C．tours

D．journeys

8.

A．in

B．for

C．with

D．by

9.

A．nothing

B．everything

C．anything

D．something

10.

A．during

B．as

C．on

D．of

11.

A．should

B．need

C．could

D．must

12.

A．celebrated

B．is celebrated

C．is celebrating

D．celebrates

13.

A．earlier

B．earliest

C．later

D．latest

14.

A．Since

B．Unless

C．When

D．Until

15.

A．this

B．them

C．that

D．it

7 . 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

8 . 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

9 . 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

10 . Beautiful pictures of mountains and forests, clear skies, flying birds, wild animals, silly faces—you can find them all in one place. Where? On a postcard! Have people always ______ postcards? No! Before postcards, people ______ sealed（密封的）letters.

The idea for the first decorated postcard   ______ to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card ______ a border would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, postcards which had pictures on them 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 divided-back（背面隔开的）postcard. Then people could write their ______ on the back left side. And they put the address on the right. During the early 1900s, the golden age of postcards, people around the world were more and more interested in picture postcards. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million postcards.

Today, postcards are the third most popular ______ in the world after stamps and coins. You can always see or get a lot of newly-designed postcards, especially on New Year's Day.

1.

A．sold

B．sent

C．bought

D．made

2.

A．liked

B．hated

C．found

D．lost

3.

A．turned

B．seen

C．given

D．came

4.

A．above

B．with

C．under

D．for

5.

A．note

B．word

C．address

D．letter

6.

A．legend

B．miracle

C．favourite

D．collection