Do you know something about the Akuapem people? They live in eastern Ghana (加纳), where the sunshine hugs all the time. They are very friendly. Now let’s have a look at how the Akuapem people receive a visitor.
A visitor is often welcomed warmly in a family of Akuapem. After the visitor is welcomed into the house, he is offered a seat and water at the very beginning, for the host (主人) thinks that the visitor must have come from a very long trip and is in need of water. Then the host family greet the visitor by saying “Akwaaba.” More interestingly, if there is a group of visitors, the host will greet the visitors from right to left. And the host shakes only with his right hand, because the left hand is regarded dirty according to the Akuapem people.
Next, the visitor is asked how his trip was and why he has come. While the conversation is going on, the wife and children, especially girls, are cooking food for the visitor. The visitor can choose the food. After the visitor has finished eating, the host and the visitor continue their conversation. Usually this is a short one since the visitor is getting ready to say goodbye.
When the visitor is leaving, he is often given some food to take along. He is also accompanied (陪伴) by one of the children to the nearest station. The child who accompanies the visitor will not come back home until the visitor leaves safely.
No matter if he is a close friend or just a passer-by (过路人), this is always the way that the friendly Akuapem people receive a visitor.
B）阅读表达。阅读第I卷第三大题D篇短文，根据短文内容回答下列问题。（共5小题，计10分）What is the visitor offered at first by the family of Akuapem?
______________________________________________________________Why does the host shake only with his right hand?
______________________________________________________________Who are cooking food while the host is chatting with the visitor?
______________________________________________________________When will the child who accompanies the visitor to the station come back home?
______________________________________________________________What does the article mainly talk about？
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Ann likes sports. She often goes cycling on Sundays. She does exercise in the gym for one hour on Wednesday morning. On Friday afternoon, she often goes swimming from 4:00 to 5:30.She goes hiking from 1:00 to 2:30 on Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow morning, she is going to fly a kite in the park. She thinks that it’s good for our health to do much exercise.
根据短文内容，填写正确的答案（每小题2分，共10分）
| Time |
Activity |
| Sundays |
66． |
| 8:30-9:30 Wednesday morning |
67． |
| 4:00-5:30 Friday afternoon |
68． |
| 1:00-2:30 Saturday afternoon |
69． |
| tomorrow morning |
70． |
Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big, and they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap(捕蝇草).
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly(苍蝇) touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.
Why do plants do it? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen(氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!
根据短文内容，选择正确的答案（每小题2分，共10分）The Venus flytrap is a kind of .
| A．plant | B．animal | C．food | D．meat |
The Venus flytrap grows in .
| A．most parts of the world | B．some parts of Africa |
| C．dry parts of the United States | D．wet parts of England |
From the passage, we learn that .
| A．all plants can eat people | B．all plants can eat animals |
| C．some plants can eat people | D．many plants can eat animals |
The underlined word “presses” probably means in Chinese.
| A．挤压 | B．关上 | C．打开 | D．松开 |
Why do some plants eat animal meat? Because .
| A．plants are dangerous to animals |
| B．animals are dangerous to plants |
| C．plants want to get what they need from animal meat |
| D．Plants want to protect themselves against animals |
Stop. Listen! What do you hear? You may hear many different sounds. Some of those sounds may be noise. Noise is a loud or unwanted sound.
Noise can be caused by many kinds of machines, such as motorcycles, jet planes, farm tractors(拖拉机), rock music is also noise.
What happens to people who live near noisy machines or use them over a period of time? Doctors have found that these people have trouble in sleeping. But, most important, constant(不断的) loud noise can cause a loss of hearing.
Scientists use a unit of measure called decibel(分贝) to measure the loudness of a sound. The sound of a quiet room, for example, measures 35 decibels. Talking measures between 40 and 65 decibels. Sounds from traffic and from some rock bands can measure over 120 decibels. Noise at this high level(层次) causes the great hearing loss.
根据短文内容，选择正确的答案（每小题1分，共5分）According to the passage, noise is .
| A．any kind of sound | B．a loud or unwanted sound |
| C．all sounds that you can hear | D．terrible sound |
A decibel is a .
| A．unit that measures sound | B．kind of noise |
| C．machine that makes loud noise | D．person who hates sound |
According to the passage, loud noise can .
| A．help people to sleep better | B．stop machines |
| C．cause a loss of hearing | D．kill people |
We can conclude（推断） from the passage that .
| A．noise is a serious problem | B．rock music isn’t noisy |
| C．noise is only from traffic | D．some people hate any sound |
Study that diagram below. would be the quietest.
| Room Noise Level A 40~65 decibels B 35 decibels C 120 decibels D 130 decibels |
A. Room A B. Room B C. Room C D. Room D
阅读理解
Tom , an 11-year-old boy, was ill. He had got a cough. His mother was worried and took him to see a doctor. The doctor looked over Tom carefully and said," Tom, nothing serious." Then he gave him some medicine. These are the words on the instruction(说明）of the cough medicine.
Instruction
Take three times a day after meals.
Dose(剂量）：Grown-ups: 2 spoons each time.
Children: 8-14yrs. one spoon, 4-7yrs. 1/2 spoon
Not fit for children below the age of 4 years
Notes: 1.Store in a cold place 2.Using before Oct.2006
根据短文内容，判断正误，正确的写“T”，错的写“F”（每小题1分，共5分）Tom should take three spoons in a day.
Tom had better have his meals before he takes the medicine.
The medicine can be kept in a fridge.
Children aged five can't take this medicine.
From this instruction we know Tom can go on using the left
medicine after Oct.2006
D
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person.
When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled (宠坏)them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.
He talked about how watering trees made for shallow(浅的) roots, and the trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important.
So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now.
I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray(祈祷) that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down. We know from the reading the doctor _________.
| A．didn’t know how to plant trees at all |
| B．wasn’t good at his own medical job |
| C．had his own ways of planting trees |
| D．had nothing to do but plant trees |
When Dr. Gibbs said, “...pick out the weaker trees early on.” he means that ______.
| A．some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning |
| B．he would choose the weak trees to water earlier |
| C．the weak trees would be sent to his patients later |
| D．he would not plant weak trees so early anymore |
The passage tells us that the writer _______.
| A．should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper |
| B．didn’t often water his trees |
| C．didn’t have a large field |
| D．took too much care of his tree |
The writer wants to change his prayer, hoping that ________.
| A．his trees will be stronger than Dr. Gibbs |
| B．his trees will not be beaten down |
| C．his sons will be better at planting trees |
| D．his sons will be able to face difficulties |
Which can be the best title of the reading?
| A．Watering Trees | B．Growing Roots |
| C．Doctors and his Neighbor | D．Father and his Children |