阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，共40分）
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There are thousands of different languages in the world .Everyone seems to think his native language is the most important one , as it is their first language. For many people it is even their only language all their lives. But English is the world’s most widely used language.
As a native language, English is spoken by nearly 300 million people in the United States, England, Australia and some other countries.
For people in India and many other countries, English is often necessary for business, education and other activities. So English is the second language there.
As a foreign language, no other language is more widely studied or used than English. We use it to listen to the radio, to read books or to travel. It is also one of the working languages in the United Nations and is more used than the others,
| A．two | B．three |
| C．hundreds of | D．thousands of |
| A．first | B．only | C．one | D．foreign |
| A．England | B．India |
| C．the United States | D．Australia |
| A．first | B．second | C．foreign | D．native |
| A．much | B．more |
| C．the more | D．the most |
Hello. I’m a boy. I’m Tony Smith. I’m thirteen years old. I’m in Class 2, not Class 3. My telephone number is seven five six, six two three one. I like summer best because(因为) I can go swimming in summer. This is my friend, Betty, Betty White. She is American. We are in the same(相同的) class. Her telephone number is two two four, five six one seven. She likes dogs very much. She has 3 white dogs and 2 black dogs. Our English teacher is Miss Li. Her telephone number is six eight one, four five two seven. Her favourite colour is green and she likes drawing.What’s the boy’s name?
| A．Tony White | B．Tony Smith | C．Betty White | D．Betty Smith |
Betty has _________ dogs.
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．five |
What class is Betty in?
| A．Class 1 | B．Class 2 | C．Class 3 | D．Class 4 |
What’s Miss Li’s favourite colour?
| A．red | B．yellow | C．white | D．green |
What’s Miss Li’s number?
| A．756-6213 | B．671-4527 | C．681-4527 | D．224-5617 |
My name is Lily. This is my classroom. There are 40 desks, 40 chairs, a bookcase, a computer and a teacher’s desk in it. It has two green doors and four windows. There’s a clock and a map on the wall(墙壁). Look, that is Kate. She is my friend. A red bag, three black pens and four green pencils are on her desk. My favourite day is Saturday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays.How many pencils are there on the desk?
| A．Three | B．Two. | C．One | D．Four. |
The doors are _____________.
| A．green | B．red | C．white | D．blue |
What’s on the wall’?
A. A clock. B. A map.C. A bookcase. D. A and B.Lily’s favourite day is _____________.
| A．Monday | B．Friday | C．Saturday | D．Sunday |
Which is TRUE? (哪一个是正确的)
| A．Kate’s pencil is yellow. |
| B．There are 4 pens on the desk. |
| C．There are 4 windows in the classroom. |
| D．The bag is yellow. |
On September 19 this year, you will see a full moon (满月). It is the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节).The festival is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar (农历) month. And it is one of the most important festivals in China.
It is a big time for families and friends to get together. In the evening, people sit around a table and look at the bright moon. They eat sweet or salty moon cakes (月饼). People can see a lot of lanterns (灯笼) in the street. Children like guessing (猜) the answers to the lantern riddles (灯谜).
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also a harvest (收获) festival. Farmers begin to harvest fruits and vegetables.
| Name of the festival |
The |
| Date of the festival |
The 15th day of |
| What to eat |
Sweet or salty |
| What children like doing |
Guessing |
| What farmers harvest |
Fruits and _ |
Mary is an American girl. She is now in Beijing with her parents. Mary doesn’t know much Chinese, but she is studying it. She often speaks Chinese with her Chinese friends. Sometimes they can’t understand her, because she can’t speak Chinese very well.
It’s Saturday morning. She goes out. She is walking in the street. She wants to go to the zoo to see the elephants and monkeys, but she doesn’t know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy the way. The boy can’t understand her. Then she takes out a pen and a piece of paper. She draws an elephant on it, and shows the picture to the boy. The boy understands, and shows her the way to the zoo. Mary is________.
| A．Chinese | B．English | C．Japanese | D．American |
Mary is in______ with her parents now.
| A．Shanghai | B．Beijing | C．New York | D．London |
Mary doesn’t know how to get to_______.
| A．the zoo | B．the park | C．her home | D．her school |
Mary can’t speak_______ very well.
| A．English | B．England | C．China | D．Chinese |
At last the boy________.
| A．can understand Mary’s Chinese |
| B．takes her to the zoo |
| C．shows her the way to the zoo |
| D．draws a picture for Mary, too |
The earth moves around the sun, and the moon moves around the earth. When our part of the earth turns to the moon, it is night.
The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth.
The sun is very bright. It gives a very strong light. The moon looks quite bright, too. But it doesn’t give any light at all.
The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually(实际上） the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.____moves around________.
| A．The earth; the moon | B．The moon; the earth |
| C．The moon; the stars | D．The sun; the earth |
Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because_________.
| A．it is much bigger than the sun |
| B．it comes out only at night |
| C．it is much nearer to the earth than the sun |
| D．it doesn’t give a strong light |
The sun_______________.
| A．is very bright, and it gives a very strong light |
| B．isn’t bright, but it gives a very strong light |
| C．is very big, but it doesn’t give any light at all |
| D．is very round, but it can’t move round |
The stars______________.
| A．look much bigger than the moon |
| B．look much bigger than the sun |
| C．are a lot brighter than the moon, but they are not bigger than the moon |
| D．are much farther away from us than the moon |
When ,it is day.
| A．our part of the earth turns to the moon |
| B．our part of the earth turns to the sun |
| C．the sun moves |
| D．the moon moves |