During most of the Stone Age, people lived by...

During most of the Stone Age, people lived by hunting and gathering their food in Egypt. They traveled1. place to place in the Nile Valley, harvesting wild grasses, digging up roots, and finding bird eggs. They fished in the Nile River and gathered reeds (芦苇杆) from its shores 2. (make) baskets.

By around 10,000 BC, Egypt had gotten so3.(crowd) that people were forced to begin growing their own food. People also began to keep cows, sheep and pigs that they4.. (possible) bought from their West Asian neighbors. This is5.we call the Agricultural Revolution today.

But farming brought many other6. (change) too. Once people started planting crops, they had to defend the land7.their crops were. There was more fighting. Soon people began to band together into larger communities that could fight better. They chose leaders. 8.(see) the advantages that farming brought them, those leaders forced more and more people to start farming and settle down under their leadership.

Around 3,500 BC, donkeys9.(use) to carry ivory and gold north into Egypt, and to carry Egyptian things south to Sudan and Kenya. That made both places 10.(rich) than they were before. Together, the trade and the farming helped to start the Old Kingdom.

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Most people would say the sea is blue and green. But the people who live near the coast of Zhejiang may say it is red. It is not people who caused the colour change, but very small living thing in the sea. They are algae（藻类）and protozoa（原生动物）. They come in many different colours: red, yellow or brown. Red is the easiest of those to see, so when this happens, people call it a “red tide.”

Red tides only happen when conditions in the sea are right. In the past few years, factories and people have been putting more chemicals into the sea. These chemicals help algae and protozoa to grow very quickly. The temperature of the sea is also important. Red tides usually happen at 20 to 30 degrees Celsius（摄氏的）. Red tides often happen in dry, warm areas where there is little wind. Living things grow easily in these places. Sometimes fishermen help red tides by mistake. They put small sea animals into the water for food to help fish grow.

Those living things do more than change the colour of the water--they also put poison and mucus（黏液）into the sea. This is bad for fish. The poison is bad for their brains. And too much mucus in the sea fills up fish’s gills（鳃）, so they can’t breathe. Lots of dead fish and other sea animals are now washed up on Chinese beaches.

Red tides can be bad for people, too. The algae gets inside of fish and it smells bad. It can make your eyes water. If people eat fish with too much algae inside, they could die.

Fishermen in Zhejiang are having a hard time right now. Because of the red tide, they are selling 30% less fresh seafood than usual.

In China, red tides usually happen in May and June around places like Fujian, Guangdong and Hong Kong.

Many other countries sometimes also have red tides. But it seems that we have few ways to stop red tides. They can last as long as 16 months.

1.What can cause the water in the sea to change its colour?

A. Algae.　　 B. Algae and protozoa.

C. Protozoa.　　 D. People and animals.

2.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Fishermen in the area sell less fresh seafood than usual.

B. People could die if they eat fish with too much algae inside.

C. Algae and protozoa can’t give off any poison and mucus into the water.

D. Eating fish with algae in them can make people’s eyes water.

3.Which of the following is not a cause of red tides?

A. People catch too many fish and eat too much seafood.

B. People and factories put more chemicals into the sea.

C. The temperature is at 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.

D. It is dry and warm and there is little wind in the area.

4.What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. Don’t eat any fish with algae and mucus inside.

B. People should do their best to protect the sea.

C. The scientists have found good ways to stop red tides.

D. The forming of red tides and their harmfulness.

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Most British people prefer to live in a house rather than a flat and one of the reasons is that houses usually have gardens. The garden is a place where people can be outside and yet private.

If a house has a front and back garden, the front is likely to be formal(正规的) and decorative(装饰性的), with a lawn (an area of grass) or fancy flower borders. The back garden usually also has a lawn and flower beds, and sometimes a vegetable plot(菜地) fruit trees. There’s often a bird table, on which food is put for birds, and a small simple house in which garden tools are kept.

Many British people spend quite a lot of money on their gardens and even the smallest may contain different kinds of flowers and plants. For them gardening is a hobby and they take pride in their gardens. Some towns and villages have competitions for the best-kept small garden. People with a small garden, or no garden at all, can rent a piece of land, on which most grow vegetables.

There are garden centers near most towns, selling everything a gardener might need, from flower pots to fish ponds as well as many types of plants.

The British interest in gardening affects the appearance of whole towns. Public parks and some roads often have bright displays of flowers in summer and public buildings have windows boxes(窗口花坛) and hanging baskets. Towns and villages enter for the Britain in Bloom competition every year.

1. According to paragraph 2, a back garden _________.

A．is also formal

B．has flower beds

C．doesn’t have a lawn

D．has beautiful flower borders

2.What do we know about garden centers?

A．They are in the centre of the town.

B．Each town has a garden center.

C．Gardeners can buy tools there.

D．They have gardens for rent.

3.From the last paragraph we know that _________.

A．gardening improves the appearance of British towns

B．British parks are full of flowers all year round

C．the British interest in gardening is decreasing

D．Britain in Bloom is a worldwide competition

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In the early days of human history, people survived by hunting wild animals, or gathering wild grains and plants for food. Then, some people learned to grow crops and raise animals for food. They were the first farmers.

From the sixteenth century on, the word “farm” has meant agricultural land. But a much older meaning of the word “farm” is linked to economics. The word “farm” comes from the Latin word “firma”, which means an unchanging payment. Experts say the earliest meaning of the English word “farm” was a yearly payment made as a tax or rent.

Farmers in early England did not own their land. They paid every year to use agricultural lands. In England, farmers used hawthorn trees along the edges of houses. They called this row of hawthorns a hedge. Hedging fields was how careful farmers marked and protected them. Soon, people began to use the word “hedging” to describe steps that could be taken to protect against financial loss. Hedging is common among gamblers who make large bets. A gambler bets a lot of money on one team. But, to be on the safe side, he also places a smaller bet on the other team, to reduce a possible loss.

You might say that someone is hedging his bet when he invests in several different kinds of business. One business may fail, but likely not all. Farmers know that it is necessary to make hay while the sun shines. Hay has to be cut and gathered when it is dry. So a wise farmer never postpones gathering his hay when the sun is shining. Rain may soon appear. A wise person copies the farmer. He works when conditions are right.

1.We can know from the 3rd paragraph that farmers in early England _________.

A. had land of their own　　 B. paid to use hawthorn trees every year

C. used hedging fields　　 D. often suffered from financial loss

2.Which of the following is wise?

A. A mother tries to sleep as soon as her baby is quiet

B. Hay has to be cut and gathered before it is dry

C. Put off gathering hay when the sun is shining

D. Gather hay as it is rainy

3.If a boy is carefully listening to his teacher in class, he learns to _________.

A. become a wise farmer　　 B. hedge his bet

C. gather his hay　　 D. make hay while the sun shines

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We have most friends at the age of 26 after having spent the first quarter of our lives building up our friendship circle, new research has claimed.

The research into friendship shows that our social circle peaks at 26 years and 7 months, at which we typically have five close friends.Women are most popular at 25 years and 10 months, with men hitting the highest friendship point a little later at 27 years and 3 months.

The research, by Forever Friends, shows that about a third of adults meet their closest friends while at school，with about a fifth saying they meet them at work.

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter now also play a major role in building new friendship.The research points out that 25 to 34­year­olds make 22 friends via Facebook, compared to 18 to 24­year­olds who make 12, and 35 to 44­year­olds who make just four.

Forever Friends' relationship coach Sam Owen says, “It is no coincidence that over a third of us meet our best friends at school. It is a key time in our lives when friendship is growing through sharing notes，giving gifts, seeing each other regularly and laughing a lot. As adults we can often forget how powerful these small things are and how the little things can make a difference.”

Later in life we find ourselves losing friends. Over half of us lose friendship through moving, while 36% say that over time they grow apart from close pals. Having children also causes 19% to drift away from childhood friends.

With growing pressure being put on friendship these days，it's important to make time for our friendship.

1.How many friends can a 20­year­old college student make via Facebook?

A.4. B.12.

C.18. D.22.

2.In Paragraph 5，the author is trying to tell the readers________.

A.how important making friends is

B.that friendship is not easy to keep

C.how much has been done to keep friendship

D.School time is an important period to develop friendship.

3.The underlined phrase “drift away from” in Paragraph 6 means “________”.

A.make sense of B.lose touch with

C.feel sorry for D.make up with

4.This passage is most probably taken from________.

A.Facebook or Twitter B.an advertisement

C.a textbook D.a newspaper

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The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history show, hasn’t meant economic freedom.

Employment became widespread when the enclosures（圈地运动）of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by taking them away from the use of the land, and thus from the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their place of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.

Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm（准则）today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between sexes.

It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were kept out — a problem now, as more teenagers disappointed and annoyed at school and more retired people want to live active lives.

All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the utopian（乌托邦）goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

1. From the passage we can learn that ____.

2.Before the enclosures of the 17^th and 18^th, people lived mainly on ____.

3.Before the industrial age women played ____.

4. From the passage we can infer that ____.

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We live in the “computer age”. People like scientists, teachers, writers  and even students use computers to do 16 work. But more than 40 years ago, 17 couldn’t do much. They were very big and expensive. Very 18 people were interested in them and knew how to use them. Today computers are smaller and 19 . 20  they can do a lot of work, many people like to use them. Some people even have them at home.

Computers become very important because they can work 21  than men and make fewer mistakes. Computers can 22  people do a lot of work. Writers now use computers to write. Teachers use them to help teaching. Students use them to study and children use them to play games. Computers can also remember what you put 23 them. Computers are very 24 and helpful. They are our good friends.

Do you want to 25 a computer?

1. A. many of           B. all kinds of     C. a lot            D. very much

2. A. scientists        B. teachers         C. students     D. computers

3. A. few          B. little         C. a few     D. a little

4.A. cheap      B. cheaper          C. expensive       D. more expensive

5.A. But                B. And              C. Since        D. If

6.A. slow           B. slower           C. fast         D. faster

7.A. help               B. make         C. use          D. stop

8.A. in             B. into             C. on           D. up

9.A. beautiful      B. careful          C. useful       D. heavy

10.A. pay               B. sell             C. lend         D. have

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Most Chinese people expect to relax and enjoy themselves during the Golden Week. But for those trying to go someplace, it may seem more disappointment than pleasure. This year, the traffic jam resulted in a roadside wedding(婚礼).

The suffering of being stuck in traffic was probably most strongly felt by Lv Kangzhou and his bride(新娘) Yan Mengxia. By tradition, the groom（新郎） drove early in the morning to the bride's home in Zhejiang Province in East China to pick her up along with her family and take them to his family's hometown for the wedding. By 4 pm, Lv's wedding was 90 minutes away, but his car had not moved an inch for a long time. Lv got in touch with the local radio to explain his difficult situation and ask for a traffic forecast. The radio host told Lv there was no way to hold his wedding on time and offered to hold their wedding on the air. At 5：30 pm, Lv and his bride said their vows(发誓) on the side of the road, and Lv's family and friends witnessed the ceremony by listening to the radio.

Lv wasn't the only person stuck in the Golden Week crowds. According to the state news agency Xinhua, 11.7 million people traveled by train on Wednesday. About 120，000 people gathered at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to watch the flag­raising ceremony. Last year, the Forbidden City in Beijing hosted 175，000 tourists on one day during the Golden Week, and the number is expecting to be even bigger this year.

Chinese Internet users complain about the Golden Week holiday every year. An Internet user Tuzhi said on Sina Weibo: “On the Great Wall, I'm holding your hand, but I cannot see your face.”

1.By tradition, the wedding should take place in ________．

A.Zhejiang Province B.a hotel

C.the bride's hometown D.the groom's hometown

2.Lv, the groom, called the local radio because he wanted to ________．

A.ask for help

B.hold their wedding on the air

C.complain about the traffic conditions

D.find someone to pick them up

3.What does the text mainly intend to tell us?

A.A successful roadside wedding during the Golden Week.

B.The popularity of traveling around during the Golden Week.

C.The crowded situation in China during the Golden Week.

D.The cause of the heavy traffic in China during the Golden Week.

4.Where does this text probably come from?

A.A newspaper. B.A textbook.

C.A travel brochure. D.A TV interview.

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_________as one of the most important inventions of the time, the computer helps people living in different countries to do a lot of things.

A. Knowing　　　　　 B. Known　　　　　

C. To know　　　　　     D. Know

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Tsai Chin Chung is one of Taiwan’s most famous cartoonists, and his cartoons are enjoyed by people in many different countries in Asia. His books of cartoons have now become best sellers in Singapore, Malaysia, and even Japan.

As soon as he could hold a pencil, Tsai Chin Chung lived only for drawing. Every day he practised drawing people and things around him and from his favorite stories.

When he was only 15 years old, he left home to work for a publisher in Taipei. He worked hard to draw pictures for books. Two years later, he left his job and started to work on drawing cartoon series, which he liked better. He made up his mind to succeed as a cartoonist.

Now Tsai Chin Chung has achieved something unusual for a modern cartoonist. He has become extremely successful at changing Chinese literature and philosophy into humorous comic stories. In this way, he has made the Chinese classics known to thousands of people.

Because of his great achievement, several years ago Tsai Chin Chung was given a prize as one of the 10 Outstanding Young People of Taiwan. Since then, he has won many prizes, and his cartoons have become popular throughout Asia, America and Europe. So far, he has published more than 20 comic books. Ten of these are about ancient Chinese philosophers based on Chinese historical and literary classics.

Many of Tsai Chin Chung’s books of cartoons and comics have now been published in English in countries like Singapore. His books have also been translated into several other languages, including Japanese, Korean and Thai. Even publishers in France and Indonesia have recently signed agreements for permission to publish his cartoon series.

1.Tsai Chin Chung left his first job because he ________.

A. preferred drawing cartoons              B. wanted to go back to school

C. enjoyed drawing pictures for books      D. wanted to be famous

2. Half of the books he has published are related to _______.

A. Chinese and foreign comics          B. countries in Asia, America and Europe

C. foreign languages learning          D. Chinese history and literature

3.Because of his great achievements, Tsai Chin Chung _______.

A. travelled a lot in Asia and Europe          B. went to live in Singapore

C. won an important prize in Taiwan       D. has become famous in Africa.

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