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 |
People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living.
Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her. Please have a good look at her: polluted rivers and lakes, growing deserts, the destruction of the forests and wild life, and the depletion (消耗，用尽) of the ozone layer (臭氧层)...
Can she bear to see her children putting the waste here and there? Can she bear to see her children cutting down the trees and destroying the grassland, to see the acid rain destroying everything? Can we bear to see our mother suffering (受苦) so much? Isn’t it time for us to ask ourselves whether this is the way to treat our mother?
Floods, droughts, acid rain..., these are the punishments (惩罚) from nature. Everyone should know that there is only one earth. If we go on treating her like this, it won’t be fit for us to live in any longer. It’s time for us to love her, take good care of her and cure her. We should save the earth so as to save ourselves. What does the earth look like now?
| A．It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests. |
| B．It is like a beautiful girl. |
| C．It is more beautiful and richer. |
| D．It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. |
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
| A．Know | B．Stand | C．Imagine | D．Hear |
What is the best title of the passage?
| A．The earth—our mother. |
| B．Defenders of the Earth (地球卫士). |
| C．The earth is very beautiful and healthy. |
| D．The water on the earth is very clean. |
Cross Income(总收入)=$26000; Income Tax(收入税)= $6000
Net Income (纯收入) =$20000.
(Net Income =" Gross" Income — Income Tax)
The circle shows how Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their two children spend their family income. Mr. Brown is the only wage earner (靠工资为生的人). Mrs. Brown is a housewife. The children are too young to do any part-time work.How many people earn money for the family? ___________
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
How much of the net income is spent on housing? ______________
| A．$2000 | B．$3000 | C．$4000 | D．$5000 |
$3000 is Tespent on _____________.
| A．telephone Power Rates | B．Food |
| C．Motor Vehicle（交通 ） | D．Clothing and Incidentals |
If the Brown family decided to sell their car, how much extra money wouldn’t they have to spend?_____________
| A．$28000 | B．$2000 | C．$26000 | D．$4000 |
For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people may ask the question, “What clothes are in fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way:
“She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable color.”
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion. From this passage we know that “fashion” means ______.
| A．clothes | B．many things |
| C．most of the popular things | D．everything |
Today fashions change very quickly because _______.
| A．people read newspaper every day |
| B．radios send information from one country to another |
| C．new things that people like are often shown on TV |
| D．people quickly learn what is happening in the world |
“There is money in fashion” means ______.
| A．clothes are expensive | B．money comes from fashion |
| C．people like new things | D．fashions make big money |
The best title for the passage is ______.
| A．Fashions | B．Fashion mean clothes |
| C．Fashion means money | D．A fashionable |
Julie is an active girl. She likes singing very much and she wants to be a singer.
Barry likes going to the movies with his parents on weekends. The Pacific Cineplex（太平洋电影院线）is showing Pirates of the Caribbean IV（《加勒比海盗4》）.
Joe lives in China and he would like to visit other countries next month.
Annie can’t swim at all. She wants to learn to swim to stay healthy.
Emma has many books and she usually reads books after class.
Tanzania （坦桑尼亚）has a lot of animals, like lions, elephants, giraffes, hippos（河马）and so on. Every year, many people in the world travel to this country in Africa to watch the animals. But do you know how they travel?
By boat-We can often see many people in a boat, enjoying the beautiful things along a river or a lake, and they can also enjoy the hippos and other animals.
By hot-air balloon（热气球）–In the early morning, when the sun （太阳）is starting to rise, a large hot-air balloon is also starting its tour. Taking a hot-air balloon is very exciting to most of the tourists. You can watch all the animals there. Elephants are drinking water, giraffes are eating leaves and so on. After some time, the balloon can land（着陆）in a place where the waiters would give people a delicious breakfast. But you need to know that taking a hot-air balloon is very expensive. A person should pay 400 dollars for an hour’s trip.In Tanzania. People travel by to watch the animals.
| A．most; boat | B．most; bus | C．some; boat | D．some; boat |
People can fromwindows.
| A．watch dangerous animals; big | B．play with the animals; big |
| C．watch dangerous animals; small | D．play with the animals; small |
people usually start to tour by hot-air balloon.
| A．in the morning | B．in the afternoon |
| C．in summer | D．in winter |
How much should a person pay for two hour’s trip?
| A．200 dollars | B．400 dollars | C．600 dollars | D．800 dollars |
From this article, we can know.
| A．Tanzania is in North America |
| B．there are four ways for us to breakfast if you travel by bus. |
| C．you can enjoy a delicious breakfast if you travel by bus. |
| D．traveling by hot-air balloon is very expensive. |