Pingyao is one of China’s three protected ancient cities (the other two are Xi’an and Jingzhou). Lying in the middle of Shanxi Province, 90 kilometers south of Taiyuan, Pingyao ancient city used to be about two hours’ drive from the capital of Shanxi Province, but now the distance is only one hour and ten minutes’ drive after the highway was built. With a history of over 2,700 years, the ancient city stands out as one of the best protected of all the walled cities in China.
On December 3rd, 1997, UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) added Pingyao to the World Heritage (遗产) List as a world’s culture heritage. According to the UNESCO World Heritage Commission(委员会)，the Pingyao ancient city is a wonderful example of the Chinese Han cities during the Ming and Qing dynasties. All the features of the Pingyao ancient city have been protected, and it shows an outstanding Chinese historical development including its culture, society, economy and religion(宗教信仰).
根据短文，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳答案。How many preserved ancient cities are there in China?
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Many. |
Why is Pingyao one of the ancient cities?
| A．Because it is a wonderful example of the Chinese Han cities. |
| B．Because it has a history of over 2,700 years. |
| C．Because all its features have been preserved. |
| D．Because it includes its culture, society, etc. |
It will take you about one hour to get to Pingyao from Taiyuan ______ .
| A．by plane | B．by bike | C．by train | D．by car |
Pingyao is a wonderful example of the Chinese Han cities during the ______ and ______ dynasties.
| A．Yuan; Qing | B．Ming; Qing |
| C．Song; Yuan | D．Song; Ming |
If you go there some day, you shouldn’t ______ .
| A．carve your name on the wall | B．draw a picture on the wall |
| C．litter everywhere | D．destroy the city |
| Name |
The Palace Museum |
British Museum |
New York Museum |
| Country |
China |
The UK |
The USA |
| Address |
Chang’an Street |
New Oxford Street, London |
Chestnut street, New York |
| Feature |
The largest ancient palace buildings with many kinds of collections in China |
One of the largest museums with collections of any time and any area in the world |
America’s largest museum on American history |
| Ticket |
¥60 (Spring & Summer) ¥40 (Autumn & Winter) |
Free |
Monday free |
As one of the largest museums in the world, British museum is in_____.
| A．Beijing | B．London | C．New York | D．the USA |
New York Museum is America’s largest museum on American _____.
| A．area | B．history |
| C．collections | D．buildings |
The Palace Museum lies in_____.
| A．Chang’an Street | B．New Oxford Street |
| C．Beijing Street | D．Chestnut Street |
If you want to see ancient Chinese collections, you can visit _____at most.
| A．one museum | B．two museums |
| C．three museums | D．four museums |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the information above?
| A．Each ticket for the Palace Museum costs the same in the whole year. |
| B．You don’t have to pay for tickets if you visit New York Museum on Monday. |
| C．British Museum lies in Chestnut Street, London. |
| D．New York Museum is the largest in the world. |
Some people have to use public transport, some dislike it and still some love it. If everyone has a car and drives anywhere they want to go, there will be serious traffic problems on the road. Luckily, trains are a good form of public transport.
British people use trains a lot. This is especially so for people who are travelling from London to Paris. Every day about 20 trainsleave London. They travel at a very high speed and people feel glad that the trains take only 2 hours and 30 minutes to reach Paris. It's much faster to travel by train than by bus or by car. This is because people have to drive cars or buses very carefully and slowly for many reasons, such as speed limits and trafficjams. However, when you are travelling by train, the speed is almost the same and there is no traffic jam for a train.
Besides, Londoners think taking a train is one of the safest ways of travelling on the ground. Trains take quite a number of quality tests while they are made. More importantly, they have to take many safety checks before they are used on the rail track.
What's more, trains in Britain are comfortable and provide fine services(服务) for their users. When you are on a London train, you will find that the train has comfortable tables and seats where people can sit. They also provide food services and power plugs(电源插头) for personal computers or mobile phone.The main idea of the passage is that ________.
| A．British people enjoy public transport |
| B．it's fast to travel from London to Paris |
| C．trains in Britain provide fine services for their users |
| D．trains are a good form of public transport for Londoners |
In a traffic jams on the road, ________.
| A．drivers can drive fast |
| B．drivers can drive carelessly |
| C．cars are not moving fast |
| D．cars will stop working |
The 3rd paragraph of the passage mainly talks about the ________ of trains.
| A．speed | B．safety | C．services | D．problems |
Londoners often travel by train because trains are ________.
| A．old and slow |
| B．large, clean and powerful |
| C．fine and important |
| D．fast, safe and comfortable |
What can we know from the passage?
| A．We can travel from London to Paris in less than 2 hours. |
| B．We can do our work with personal computers on the train. |
| C．We have to wait till we get off the train in order to have some food. |
| D．The trains are only checked for quality reasons before they are used. |
Wiki is the Hawaiian(夏威夷语) word for “quick”. Today, it is a very popular word among Internet users. What does it mean? Wiki（维基） is a wedsite where everyone can create（创建） and chage its pages. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia (百科全书) that offers millions of articles. But there are lots of other wikis such as Wikihow, Wikinews and Wiktionary. They all have one thing in common. They are created and managed by a wiki community（社区）.
A wiki community is made up of the millions of people who visit a wike site. Many of the visitors are readers looking for information. Some visitors are _____ who creat articles for the site. Other visitors act as editors (编辑) who read the articles and check them for mistakes. Wiki are simple to creat and use, and they are becoming more and more popular.
But is wiki information reliable? If any one can add, delete or change information, can the information be trused? This depends on the wiki community. The community usually tries to make sure that the information on a topic is correct. If someone in the community sees an article with incorrect information, that person can edit or change it.
On a big wiki like Wikipedia, thousands of pages change every day. At certain times of the day there can be 50 or more pages changing every minute! Sometimes the changes may be as simple as spelling mistakes. Other times they are changes, additions or deletions to the content(内容).
A wiki gives the community a way to get information together and change it as things change. Wikis are greatly changing the way we get information. Do you want to find an interesting quote(语录) to use in a writing project or report? Go to Wikiquote. Do you want to learn the most recent information about a place you’re planning to visit? Try Wikitravel.
What do wikis have in common?
| A．They all provide the latest news. |
| B．They all have millions of articles. |
| C．They are all online encyclopedias. |
| D．They are all made by a wiki community. |
Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph 2?
| A．writers | B．readers |
| C．editors | D．users |
What does the underlined word “reliable” in Paragraph 3 mean?
| A．Valuable | B．Believable |
| C．Interesting | D．Enough |
What can we learn from Paragraph 4 ?
| A．Wiki are easy to create and use. |
| B．Wikis change the way we get information. |
| C．Pages on wiki sites are changing all the time. |
| D．Spelling mistakes are very common on Wikis. |
What does the writer think of Wikis?
| A．They are very popular. |
| B．They change too quickly. |
| C．There are no mistakes on them. |
| D．They are not as good as printed books. |
A short Chinese man is one of the biggest men in the world right now. He is Jack Ma ( Ma Yun), the Chairman (董事局主席) of Alibaba Group. On Sept. 19, 2014, Alibaba went public(上市) and raised $25 billion. Ma, a former English teacher, has become the richest man in China.
Born in 1964 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Ma grew up as a happy kid. When he was a teenager, he wanted to learn English. Every morning, he got up at 5 a.m., rode his bike for 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake and talked with foreign tourists in English. He did it for nine years, rain or shine.
The experience made him an excellent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the outside world. In 1994, Ma Yun heard about the Internet for the first time. And on a 1995 trip to the US, Ma was shown the Internet for the first time. He searched the word “beer” on Yahoo, and found that there was nothing there about China. Seeing the chance, Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers.
Four years later, Ma, his wife and his friends set up Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential(潜力) when few other Chinese did. 15 years later, Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce company (电子商务公司), owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall.
The underline word “ it” in the second paragraph refers to _____.
| A．riding a bike |
| B．teaching English |
| C．playing on computers |
| D．practicing English with foreigners |
In 1995, Ma Yun was shown ____ for the first time in the US.
| A．beer on Yahoo | B．Chinese pages |
| C．the Internet | D．e-commerce |
Alibaba was set up in the year______.
| A．1994 | B．1995 | C．1999 | D．2004 |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．The first website Ma Yun set up was Taobao. |
| B．Alibaba raised a lot of money after it went public. |
| C．Ma Yun began to learn English when he was a teenager. |
| D．Ma Yun believed the Internet business would have a bright future. |
What does this passage mainly tell us?
| A．How Ma Yun made history. |
| B．The history of Alibaba Group |
| C．How Ma Yun learned English. |
| D．The development of e-commerce in china. |
It was summer in Russia. My goal there at the Ozernaya River was to take photos of brown bears as they caught fish.
During the first few days, I was mainly watching different bears to see which ones would be the best to take pictures of. I usually saw about 10 to 15 bears at a time, but as many as 600 living near came to this river when the salmon(鲑鱼) were swimming there to lay their eggs. I put my camera underwater and then waited for bears to move near.
I never moved towards them – I let them choose whether to come closer. Over time, the bears were used to my being there. But if a bear started moving its head from side to side. I knew it was time for me to move away.
It’s no easy task for a 1300-pound bear to catch a fish. Bears are clumsy underwater and salmon are fast. But bears are smart enough to catch a sick fish.
Soon I saw a bear doing just that. He was moving slowly towards a fish. After several tries, the hungry bear managed to catch the fish, and he sat down right in the river to eat his meal. This bear didn’t pay attention to my camera as he caught and ate his salmon. That was a good opportunity for me to take photos. Once the meal was over, he stayed in the rover to relax. I relaxed a bit too, knowing I had gotten some fantastic photos of these amazing animals.
When the writer arrived at the Ozernaya River, he mainly _____ at first.
| A．watched brown bears | B．fed brown bears |
| C．looked for fish | D．caught fish |
The writer moved away if he found a brown bear _____.
| A．looked at him | B．shouted at him |
| C．moved towards him | D．shook its head |
The underlined word “clumsy” means “ ”.
| A．机敏的 | B．笨拙的 | C．警惕的 | D．松懈的 |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．Brown bears like eating salmon. |
| B．The brown bears knew the writer was there. |
| C．The brown bear went to the land to eat its meal. |
| D．Hundreds of brown bears live near the Ozernaya River. |
What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Protecting brown bears in Russia.
B. How to get on with brown bears
D. How brown bears catch fish.