1 . 课文填空

The bodies of people who had died in Pompei let impressions     1    . As you walk, you will pass people     2     in their last hours of life. One person, sitting alone, looks like he is praying Another man, lying on his side, as if he is trying to get up.     3     for these once living statues.

2 . 课文填空

In a way, Pompeii is like a “time capsule”     1     . Before the eruption occurred,     2     with temples, markets, restaurants, and theatres. Now as you walk along the streets of the city, time rewinds. You can admire the ancient architecture, statues, decorated walls and     3     However, much more than buildings and objects, it is the forms of the people who were caught in the disaster that have     4    .

3 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内所给词的正确形式。

In Western art there are several main    1    （风格）from the 5th century to the modern times. The time between the 5th    2    the 15th century AD was the Middle Ages, during    3    painters showed respect and love for God in their paintings. Then in the Renaissance, people    4    （concentrate）more on human and less on religion. Massaccio was the first person    5    （use）perspective, without which people would not have been able to paint such realistic pictures. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the Impressionists began to pain outdoors. At first, their paintings were    6    （有争议的）, and people said they were ridiculous. But today they are accepted as the beginning of    7    we call “modern art”.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What can we learn about the United Nations Day?

A．It was set up in 1955.

B．It falls on October 24th.

C．It is celebrated by all the nations.

2. What activity will the school library organize?

A．A food festival.

B．A singing party.

C．A display of art works.

3. What’s the school’s purpose of the celebration?

A．To celebrate the victory of the Second World War.

B．To promote cultural respect and understanding.

C．To organize various activities for the students.

5 . Zoos have been around for centuries — and they’ve changed a lot over the years. In the Middle Ages, wealthy people kept animals in their gardens. Public animal parks appeared in European cities in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Philadelphia Zoo, the first in the United States, opened in 1874.

Until a few decades (十年) ago, most zoos were organized by creatures — monkeys in one area, cats in another, birds somewhere else, just like museum collections. In recent years, zoos have instead begun grouping animals that would normally interact (互相作用) in the wild. Moreover, instead of closing animals behind bars, designers are creating landscapes like the environments in which these creatures would naturally be found. Nearby signs provide information about the animals and their habitats in parts of the world where they normally live.

The Denver Zoo’s new Predator Ridge exhibit, for example, aims to teach visitors about Africa. Eight acres of land provide homes for 14 animal species, including lions, porcupines, cranes, and wild dogs. Plants from the region grow alongside African-like landform. Ten-foot-tall mounds (土墩) give lions a place from which to survey their surroundings, just as they would do in the wild.

Landscape design makes visitors to the Denver Zoo’s Predator Ridge exhibit feel like they’re really in Africa.

Animals in Predator Ridge can’t actually be mixed with one another, for safety reasons. But hidden deep channels and other smart features allow visitors to see all the animals at once. Different species can see each other too.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The safety problem of zoos.

B．The living habits of zoo animals.

C．Changes of zoos over the time.

D．Protection of zoo animals.

2. Give the correct order of the following things according to time.
a. Different species were kept in a group.
b. Zoos were organized by species.
c. Natural environments were created in zoos.
d. Animals were kept in people’s gardens.

A．b; d; c; a

B．d; a; c; b

C．b; d; a; c

D．d; b; a; c

3. In the Denver Zoo ten-foot-tall mounds(土墩) are built to _____.

A．protect the safety of visitors

B．create a natural environment for lions

C．separate lions from other animals

D．offer visitors a better view of lions

4. The underlined part “the region” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to _____.

A．the Denver Zoo	B．the Predator Ridge exhibit
C．Africa	D．the ten-foot-tall mounds

5. We can learn from the passage that _____.

A．the earliest zoos were probably rich people’s gardens

B．the Philadelphia Zoo is the first zoo in the world

C．the new Predator Ridge exhibit is held in Africa

D．more animals will be kept in zoos in the future

6 . 语法填空

If you get stuck in a heavy rain, what would you do? You may be worried and want to find shelter immediately. But Song Dynasty poet Su Shi behaves     1    (different) in Tune: Calming the Waves.

Tune: Calming the Waves is one of Su’s ci (词),     2     type of poetry that was popular during the Song Dynasty. The ci begins by telling the reader that     3    (catch) in the sudden rain, Su has nothing but sandals and a cane. This shows that his journey is     4    (challenge). Su     5    (he) was no stranger to facing challenges. At that time, Su was charged     6     going against the emperor through his literary     7    (work) and therefore was banished (贬谪) to Hangzhou. But even so, he always stayed positive. Just     8     he described in the ci, instead of being upset, Su chose to “slowly walk and chant at     9    (easy)”. After the rain, he looked at “the dreary beaten track” again, and found everything was the same as it     10    (be) before. A small rain shower is just a brief part of the day, just as his political setbacks are but a small part of his life.

7 . I visited Elba last June, joining Mary and John on a cycling vacation. They made the arrangements for the car, hotel and bicycles. I studied the history of the island, which of course particularly features Napoleon.

Napoleon picked Elba as a place for peace when he was forced to give up the throne as Emperor of France in 1814. Far from being a prison island, Elba is beautiful with towering mountains, thick forests and sweeping bays and beaches.

It is also an island filled with treasures. Very early on this island, the locals discovered rich deposits of iron. Soon outsiders, too, discovered the iron and 150 other valuable minerals on this little piece of land. Long before Etruscans and other Greeks set foot on it, Dorians had moved in by the tenth century B.C. and were mining the island. The Romans ruled next, obtaining the minerals and building grand houses overlooking the sea. From the twelfth century until the nineteenth, the island was traded back and forth and was passed to France in 1802. Then came Napoleon, the new ruler of Elba.

I was eager to visit his house in Portoferraio. The Emperor lived with his court and his mother, but his wife, Marie Louise had ensconced herself in the splendid Viennese palace of her father, Emperor of Austria. She lived safely there and showed little interest in visiting her husband in his mini-kingdom. Apparently, Napoleon wasn't troubled much by this. He was too busy riding everywhere on horseback, building roads, modernizing agriculture and, above all, sharpening his tiny army and navy into readiness for his escape.

In the formal gardens behind the house, it seemed to me that I could imagine the exiled (流亡的) conqueror's anxious thoughts. He might gaze over where I stood now, toward the lighthouse of the Stella fort, the sandy bay, and across it, the green mountains of the Tuscan coast. Napoleon spent only ten months here before making his victorious return to France and the throne.

1. Who might be the earliest outsiders to Elba according to the text?

A．Napoleon and his army.	B．Etruscans and other Greeks.
C．Dorians.	D．Romans.

2. What does the underlined word “ensconced” probably mean?

A．Settled.

B．Locked.

C．Cured.

D．Controlled.

3. What came to the author's mind during his visit to Napoleon's gardens?

A．Beautiful views on Elba.

B．Terrible living conditions on Elba.

C．Napoleon’s ambition to regain power.

D．Hardship of Napoleon's return to France.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Technological changes brought dramatic new options to Americans living in the 1990s. During this decade new forms of entertainment, commerce, research, and communication     1    (become) commonplace in the U. S. The driving force behind much of this change was an innovation     2    (popular) known as the Internet.

The Internet was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested     3     advantage of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other scientists.

One early problem faced by Internet users was speed. Phone     4    (line) could only transmit information at a limited rate. The development of fiber-optic(光纤) cables allowed billions of bits of information     5    (receive) every minute. Companies like Intel developed faster microprocessors, so personal computers could process the incoming signals     6    (rapidly).

In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web was developed, in large part,     7     commercial purposes. Corporations created home pages     8     they could place text and graphics to sell products. Soon airline tickets, hotel reservations and even cars could be purchased online. Universities posted research data on the Internet, so students could find     9    (value) information without leaving their dormitories. Companies soon discovered that work could be done at home and submitted online, so a whole new class of telecommuters began to earn a living from home offices unshaven and     10    (wear) pajamas(睡衣).

9 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. From whom did the speaker learn about Stonehenge?

A．His teacher.

B．His uncle.

C．His dad.

2. How long did it take to build Stonehenge?

A．3 million hours.

B．13 million hours.

C．30 million hours.

3. In which stage were the stones from South Wales used?

A．The first stage.

B．The second stage.

C．The third stage.

4. What can we know about Stonehenge?

A．There are about 60 stones left today.

B．Every stone involved weighs about 50 tons.

C．The reason for building it is unclear.

10 . The first organized system for sending messages began in Egypt around 1500 B.C. This system developed because the pharaohs frequently needed to send messages up and down the Nile River in order to keep their empire running smoothly. Later, the Persians developed a more efficient system for sending messages using men and horses. Messages carriers rode along the road system stretching from one end of the Persian Empire to the other. Along these roads, fresh men and horses waited at special stations to take and pass along any messages that needed to be sent. The stations where riders passed messages back and forth were built 23 kilometers apart, so the men and horses were able to travel quickly between them. The Romans later took up his idea and improved it by using a more advanced and extensive road system.

In China, however, Kublai Khan had built up his own system for delivering messages. This system worked in the same basic way as the Roman system. The difference was that Kublai Khan kept 300,000 horses along the roads of this delivery lines. There were over 10,000 stations where a message would be passed from one rider to another with a fresh horse. In this way, Kublai Khan could receive messages from anywhere in the country in only a few days.

It was not until the 1500s that a well-organized postal system appeared again in Europe. One family, the von Taxis family, gained the right to deliver mail for the Holy Roman Empire and parts of Spain. This family continued to carry mail, both government and private, throughout Europe for almost 300 years.

In 1653, a Frenchman, Renouard de Velayer, established a system for delivering post in Paris. Postal charges at that time were paid by the recipient , but de Velayer's system was unique by allowing the sender to pre-pay the charges, in a similar way to the modern stamp. Unfortunately, de Velayer's system came to an end when jealous competitors put live mice in his letter boxes, ruining his business. Eventually, government-controlled postal systems took over from private postal businesses, and by the 1700s government ownership of most postal systems in Europe was an accepted fact of life.

The thing that all these early systems had in common was that they were quite expensive for public use, and were intended for use by the government and the wealthy. However, in 1840, a British schoolteacher named Roland Hill suggested introducing postage stamps, and a postal rate based on weight. This resulted in lowering postal rates, encouraging more people to use the system to stay in touch with each other, His idea helped the British postal system begin to earn profits as early as 1850. Soon after that many other countries took up Mr. Hill's idea. And letter writing became accessible to anyone who could write. Today, the Roland Hill awards are given each year to "encourage and reward fresh ideas which help promote philately"     (stamp collecting).

1. What is the main topic of the passage?

A．How international letters travel.	B．A surprising method for delivering mail.
C．The history of postal systems.	D．Changes in the methods of communication.

2. Which of the following statements about Renouard de Velayer is true?

A．His was a government-controlled system.

B．His competitors destroyed his business.

C．His system lasted for hundreds of years.

D．In his system, the person who received the letter paid the postage fees.

3. Which of the systems mentioned in the passage was most like the postal system today?

A．Egyptian.	B．Chinese.
C．de Velayer's.	D．von Taxis's.

4. What was Roland Hill's greatest achievement?

A．He made letter writing accessible to the average person.

B．He made a lot of money for the British postal system.

C．He made stamp collecting a popular hobby.

D．He won an award for letter writing.