Mickey Mouse’s ears are well known all over the world, and this year will be an especially fun one for Disney. The company is celebrating 60 years since its first theme park, Disneyland, opened in California, US in 1955.
Disney has opened many more parks all over the world since it made history in California, Shanghai Disneyland is expected to open in 2016, bringing Disney’s popular parks here to the Chinese mainland for the first time.
So why has Disneyland been so popular for 60 years? Well, it’s described as “the Happiest Place on Earth” and “a place for the young and young at heart”. Many Americans have grown up with the parks, as ex—Disneyland president Paul Pressler said in 1995: “ There is an emotional relationship that people have with this park.”
Disneyland was one of the first theme parks anywhere in the world that had “lands” and rides with themes. Disney’s storytelling in rides like roller coasters is a big reason for their parks’ success. “We tell a story in everything we do,” Pressler said. Disney rides such as The seven Dwarves Mine Train and Peter Pan’s Flight come from its movies. One ride from its 2013 hit movie Frozen will surely be coming soon, perhaps at the new Shanghai Disneyland.
Disney’s parks haven’t always been popular everywhere, however. When Disneyland Paris opened in 1992, some French people felt that American culture was invading(入侵)France. But still, the park stayed open and today it is a popular place for European visitors.
Whatever you may think of them, you can’t say that on their 60 th birthday, Disney’s parks aren’t still going strong. How many Disney theme parks will you have visited by the time their 70 th birthday comes around?
The firs Disneyland opened in California in ____.
| A．1955 | B．1992 | C．1995 | D．2013 |
This year will be especially fun for Disney because____.
| A．it is going to celebrate its 60 th birthday |
| B．it’s described as “the Happiest Place on Earth” |
| C．Americans have a special relationship with Disneyland |
| D．Mickey Mouse’s ears are well known all over the world |
The underlined expression “Young at heart” in Paragraph 3 refers to ____.
| A．young people | B．people with young hearts |
| C．American people only | D．Disneyland president |
Which of the following is TRUE about Disneyland?
| A．Disneyland has been built in US only. |
| B．Shanghai Disneyland has been opened. |
| C．People still don’t like Disneyland Paris. |
| D．Disney’s storytelling in rides helps it succeed. |
A young man asked Albert Einstein(爱因斯坦)，the great German(德国) scientist, what the secret of success(成功) is. The Scientist told him that the secret of success is hard work. A few days later the young man asked the same question again. Einstein was very unhappy. He didn’t say anything, but wrote a few words on a piece of paper and handed it to the young man. The young man looked at the piece of paper. On it was written: A=X+Y+Z.
“What does this mean?” asked the young man.
“A means success,” explained the old scientist, “X stands for hard work, Y---for good
methods(方法), and Z… Z means stopping talking and getting down to work.”
根据短文内容判断正（T）误（F） Einstein was an Englishman.
The young man asked Einstein the same question three times.
Einstein was unhappy because the young man asked him the same question again.
“A=X+Y+Z” means “成功=勤奋+方法+实干“.
“A=X+Y+Z” is the secret of success.
Tom likes fish very much. He often buys some fish in the shop and takes it home. But when his wife sees the fish, she says to herself, “Good! I can ask my friends to have lunch, and we can eat the fish. They like fish very much.”
So when Tom comes home in the evening, the fish is not there and his wife always says, “Oh, your cat eats it”. And she gives Tom some bread for his supper. Tom is very angry. He takes the cat and his wife to the shop near his house and weigh称重) the cat.
Then he turns to his wife and sa ys, “My fish weighs one kilo. This cat weighs one, too. My fish is here, you see, then where is my cat?”
阅读短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项
| A．cat | B．hiswife |
| C．fish | D．Hisfriends |
| A．SheeatsthefishbeforeTomcomesback. |
| B．Sheasksherfriendstocometoeatthefishwithher. |
| C．Sheputsthefishinthefridge（冰箱）andwaitsforherhusband. |
| D．ShecooksthefishforTom. |
| A．thefish | B．thecat |
| C．hiswife | D．hisfriend |
| A．onekilo | B．twokilos |
| C．threekilos | D．fourkilos |
| A．MrTom | B．MrsTom |
| C．Thecat | D．MrsTom’sfriends |
It’s Sunday morning. My family are all at home. My father is sitting near the window. He’s reading newspapers. He wants to know what h appens all over the world. My mother is watering the flowers in the small garden. My brother is a worker. He’s watching TV. He’s a basketball fanAnd he is good at p laying basketball. Now he is watching NBA on TV. Where are my twin
sisters? Oh, look! Lily is listening to music. She likes popular music very much. Lucy is surfing the Internet in her room. She often writes emails to her friends. What am I doing? I am doing my homework .
阅读短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项
| A．five | B．six |
| C．seven | D．eight |
| A．He’splayingbasketball. | B．He’slisteningtomusic. |
| C．He’ssurfingtheInternet. | D．He’sreadingnewspapers. |
| A．watchingWNBAnow | B．goodatplayingbaseball |
| C．watchingafootballmatch | D．abasketballfan |
| A．LucyissurfingtheInternetandLilyislisteningtotheradio. |
| B．LilyissurfingtheInternetandLucyislisteningtomusic. |
| C．LucyissurfingtheInternetandLilyislisteningtomusic. |
| D．LucyissurfingtheInternetandLilyisdoingmyhomework.. |
| A．Themotheriswateringtheflowersinthegarden. |
| B．Thebrotherisgoodatplayingbaseball. |
| C．Thewriterisdoinghishomework. |
| D．Lucyoftenwritesemailstoherfriends. |
Do you know Weibo? Do you write a Weibo? If you don’t, you are “out”! Weibo means microblog. People may spend much time writing a blog, but it takes a little time to write a microblog. Why?
Microblog started in the USA. It came to China in 2000 and it has developed very fast. In 2011, the number of Chinese microbloggers grew to 300 million. For many microblog users, it is a great way of learning the freshest news, talking with friends and sharing different kinds of information, including news, daily life, pictures, music and so on. Many stars and famous people also write microblogs and share good things with their fans.
It is easy and fast to send a message on a microblog. For example, when the big earthquake and tsunami (海啸) hit Japan in March, 2011, messages like “Salt can protect people from radiation” were hot on microblogs.
Later people realized it was just a rumor (谣言).
In a word, microblog plays a new role in the life of Chinese people.
| A. It soon caused a crazy buying of salt. B. However, this can also lead to problems and even cause panic (恐慌). C. Because every message on a microblog is less than 140 words. D. Now more and more people are interested in writing microblogs. |
Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Writing a microblog needs much time.
B. Microblog appeared in China only one yerar ago but it has developed rapidly.
C. As a popular thing, microblog has its advantages and disadvantages.
D. More and more Chinese show great interest in microblog because it started in the USA.
Started in 1636, Harvard (哈佛) University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the earlier years these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.
Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer all. In the early years, people learned ________ in colleges.
| A．science | B．medicine | C．law | D．Latin and Greek |
Most of college graduates became ________ in the early years.
| A．ministers and teachers | B．lawyers |
| C．doctors | D．workers |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．In the early years, everyone can go to college. |
| B．In 1782, Harvard began to teach Chinese. |
| C．In the early years, different colleges majored in different fields. |
| D．More and more courses were taught in colleges with the improvement of knowledge. |
Which of the following is the right order of the courses taught n Harvard?
a. law
b. French and German
c. Latin and Greek
d. medicine
e. American history
| A．d-b-e-c-a | B．a-d-b-c-e |
| C．c-d-a-b-e | D．c-d-b-e-a |
Nowadays college students ________.
| A．can learn everything they are interested in |
| B．go to different smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning |
| C．learn the same subjects |
| D．must learn Latin and Greek |