1 . 阅读下面短文,根据上下文连贯要求和句子结构,在空格处填入一个适当的词或括号中词语的正确形式。

As a famous productive poet, Lu You from the Song Dynasty wrote more than 20,000 poems in his lifetime. The reason     1     Lu You could write so much poetry was that he was talented,but more     2    (important), he also lived a long life. According to historical records,he lived to be 85 years old, the     3    (long) living poet in the Song Dynasty. 

However, Lu You was weak when he was a child. Lu You joined the military as     4     adviser in his middle ages and     5    (start) to exercise his body and learnt martial arts. After training for two years, Lu You could shoot down a flying eagle     6    (use) a bow and arrow,and he even killed a tiger. 

During his later years, Lu You started the body building     7    (call) chosho, or shouts,a long and loud cry. Chosho was quite popular in ancient     8    (time), which was not roaring or whistling, but a     9    (skill) health method. When ancient people did chosho,they opened their body,breathed in deep and then breathed out in rhyme. 

Chosho can relax your body and put you in a good mood.     10     Lu You, chosho helped him get rid of diseases and medicine.

2 . That the Leaning Tower of Pisa no longer leans quite so much after a ￡20 million project to save it has proved to be a great success.The tower,which was on the edge of collapse,has been straightened by 18 inches,returning it to its 1838 position.

“It has straightened a little bit more than we expected,but very little helps,”said Prof.John Burland,the only British member of the rescue committee.“The tower is still very slightly moving towards being upright.”

The tower,which has been leaning almost since building work first began in 1173,was closed to the public in 1990 because of safety fears.The 183-foot tower was nearly 15 feet off vertical and its structure was found to have been weakened by centuries of strain(作用力).

Prof.Burland said it could have collapsed “at any moment”.However,it took nine years of quarrelling before any work was done.The last attempt at straightening the tower was carried out.Concrete(混凝土) was poured into the foundations,but the result was that the tower sank further into the soil.

The straightening work involved digging out around 70 tonnes of earth from the northern side of the tower,causing it to sink on that side.Before the digging started,the tower was fixed with steel ropes and 600 tonnes of lead weights.

However,halfway through the project,concerns at the ugliness of the lead weights led to their removal and the tower leaned greatly.The weights were hurriedly reattached.One night,the tower moved more than it had averaged in an entire year.The tower’s stonework has also been restored.

The Italian government stepped in after a tower collapsed in Pavia in 1989,killing four people.Experts suddenly realized that the tower at Pisa,which was similarly built and on the same sort of earth,could do the same.

1. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．The Building of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

B．Saving the Leaning Tower of Pisa

C．The Collapse of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

D．The History of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

2. According to the passage,the Leaning Tower of Pisa 　　　.

A．closed for the straightening work in 1990

B．began to lean more than 800 years ago

C．has a history of more than 1,000 years

D．has become vertical

3. What drove the Italian government to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

A．The development of new technology.	B．The advice of Prof.John Burland.
C．The expectation of the rescue committee.	D．The collapse of a tower in Pavia.

4. What most probably played the most important part in straightening the tower?

A．The lead weights fixed to the tower.

B．Restoring the stonework.

C．Pouring concrete into the foundations.

D．Digging earth from the southern side of the tower.

5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．The position of the tower has been restored to what it was 182 years ago.

B．Hundreds of years of strain has weakened the tower’s structure.

C．The tower doesn’t lean any more after the straightening work finished.

D．People spent nine years in discussing about the straightening work.

3 . The Silk Road is a special name for a route(路线） that is not a road.     1     In fact, the Silk Road is a series of different trading routes that began in ancient times.

Recently,people have found some burnt grains, which were East Asia, at four ancient sites in Middle Asian countries.     2     the grains might have been carried by the people from a long distance.

This means that

The Silk Road affects the way we eat in different countries today,China received seeds of rice and grapes in the early days, Chinese people learnt how to make wine from rice and then also used grapes for this. At the same time, other new seeds of vegetables also came to China.     3    

Seeds were also taken from one area to another all over the world.     4     And then,they used the new crops to make food they could enjoy.     5       When wheat reached China, it was used to make noodles and dumplings. In the same way,millet(粟）was used to make noodles in China,while it was used to make bread in the West.

A．It is not made from silk,either.

B．They speak different languages.

C．In the West,wheat was used to make bread.

D．People had to learn how to grow new crops.

E．Cucumbers, onions and carrots were a few of them.

F．These countries are believed to be in the middle of the routes.