1 . All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.     1    They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.

    2    Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy!     3    Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.

Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese Kungfu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet.     4    Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends.     5    One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.

A．And think of people in cold countries.

B．Sports help to train a person’s character.

C．People aren’t inventing new sports or games.

D．Many people like to watch others play games.

E．People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

F．Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.

G．Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.

3 . Many nursing homes all over the world are locked down to protect their residents from the COVID-19. Group-f is a ______ company in Belgium, whose employees wash the outsides of tall buildings, using platforms that are lifted by cranes (起重机). When the COVID-19 hit Belgium, Group-f’s business ______ . The cranes sat ______ . But one day, company manager Bosch saw a man standing on the ______ and shouting up to his mother who was looking down ______ from her window on the third floor of a nursing home. This gave Bosch a perfect______ .

Bosch realized he could put the cranes to good use. Ever since, he has been ______ them to nursing homes. There, a family can ______ a platform that a crane operator will lift up to the window of a loved one.

Eve Putseys came to see her 88-year-old aunt, who lives in La Cambre, a nursing home. Before she______ the platform, Putseys didn’t know what to expect. “It’s been seven long weeks that I haven’t been ______ to see her,” she said. But when Putseys returned to the ground, she was ______. “I finally got to see her. She looked very happy to see me,” she said.

Officials at La Cambre helped organize the crane-operated ______ . “It’s been hard work but quite ______ ,” director Thibaut Chevrier says. Bosch ______ that operating the machines costs his company money. But he has no ______ . “It’s a great honor to help people,” he says.

1.

A．travel

B．design

C．building

D．cleaning

2.

A．slowed down

B．broke out

C．fell back

D．knocked down

3.

A．unpacked

B．unnoticed

C．unused

D．untouched

4.

A．platform

B．ground

C．window

D．crane

5.

A．secretly

B．proudly

C．cautiously

D．tearfully

6.

A．chance

B．idea

C．dream

D．memory

7.

A．hiring

B．sending

C．employing

D．accompanying

8.

A．stand on

B．set up

C．return to

D．head for

9.

A．got

B．selected

C．landed

D．exchanged

10.

A．determined

B．willing

C．amused

D．able

11.

A．smiling

B．moving

C．worrying

D．waiting

12.

A．voyage

B．visit

C．tour

D．adventure

13.

A．unnecessary

B．natural

C．practical

D．skeptical

14.

A．anticipates

B．responds

C．acknowledges

D．realizes

15.

A．anxieties

B．promises

C．excuses

D．regrets

5 . The reason why I didn’t go to shanghai was ______ a new job.

A．because I got	B．because of getting
C．I got	D．that I got

6 . In Canada you can find dogs，cats，horses，etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses，they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections（注射）so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores， though they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s houses，they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal，you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car，people would be very sad about it.
People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be：Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up，they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.
1. The passage mainly talks about ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ .

A．how to keep disease from pets

B．pets in Canada

C．how to take good care of pets

D．life of the old in Canada

2. In Canada，children leave their parents when they grow up because ＿＿＿.

A．they don’t love their parents any more

B．they can only find jobs far from their parents

C．their parents’ houses are too small

D．they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more

3. Which of the following is TRUE？

A．Peoplebuyanimal foodonlyattheanimalfood stores.

B．Pets eat better than people.

C．Almost every family has a birdcage in his house.

D．Any bird can come to the bird feeders to eat.