Alongwithwheat，riceisoneofthem-优题课

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Which of the following wasn’t invented in China?

A．Papermaking

B．Tea

C．The abacus

D．Potato chips

Which of the following about basketball is wrong?

A．It was invented in 1861.

B．It became an Olympic event in 1936.

C．The first basketball match was held in 1891.

D．It was invented by a Canadian doctor called James Naismith.

The aim of a basketball match is to _____

A．throw the ball to each other.

B．run form one end of the court to the other.

C．get the ball into the basket as many times as possible in a required time.

D．get the ball from other’s control(控制)

Which of the following was invented last?

A．The car

B．The calculator

C．Flying disk

D．The computer.

Tea was brought to the Western world ___
A about three thousand years ago. B. in around 1610
C. before 1610 D. three thousand years before 1610.
Which is the symbol of 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games?

A．

B．

C．

D．

Barack Obama, a black man, is the president of the United States now. He was born in August ,1961, in Hawaii and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya. Obama went to Columbia University in Massachusetts. His wife is Michelle Obama. She also worked as a lawyer and later worked for the University of Chicago. They have two young daughters.
Obama wrote a book Dreams from my father. “ I always live in the dream of my father and American people,” Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And he was taken good care of by his grandparents when he was young. He also lived and worked in Africa. Then he got good education in Harvard University. In 2008, he became the first black president in the history of America.
Where was Barack Obama born?____________

A．In Hawaii

B．In Kansas

C．In massachusetts

D．In Harvard

Barack Obama became president at the age of ____________.

A．37

B．47

C．57

D．51

Which is the best title of this passage?_____________

A．Education of a president	B．Dreams from my father
C．Life of Barack Obama	D．Where is Obama from

Many people go to school for a good education. They learn languages ,history, maths and other subjects. School education is very important and useful, yet no one can learn everything from school. No matter how much a teacher knows, he can’t teach his students everything they want to know. His work is to show his students how to learn.He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself. It is quite easy to learn something in language or formula (公式 )in maths, but it is difficult to use a formula to find the answer to a maths problem. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they can invent many things and change the world a lot. Though Thomas Edison invented many things, he didn’t have much school education. How do they do all this ? A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get knowledge( 知识 ) from books outside school. They work hard all their lives, and the most important thing is that they know how to use their heads.
Why do many people go to school?__________

A．to get a good education	B．to buy some books
C．to make friends	D．to meet different teachers

What should a student try to do since he cannot learn everything from school?____ ____.

A．try to remember more knowledge and formulas

B．try to remember what the teacher teach

C．try to learn how to read and how to think

D．try to read a lot of books

How can an inventor invent things? The most important thing is how to ____.

A．get knowledge	B．use his head well
C．teach everything	D．learn more knowledge from his teacher

Which of the following is TRUE?__________

A．School education is not important for a person

B．A student should learn how to study

C．A student can learn everything from school

D．A good teacher can teach everything.

If someone is lost in a forest( 森林 ), he needs only study the trees around him carefully to find his way. On this half of the earth, he will find that the side of the tree with the most leaves and branches(树枝 ) is the south side. Also, by checking the tops of the trees, he will find that they lean(倾斜 ) to the south too.
Another sign( 标志物) for him to know where he is going is found in the bark.( 树皮) That is brighter on the south side.The remanining(树桩 ) of a cut tree is also a finder, for its rings can give him another sign. The rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side.
One more sign: some very small plants grow at the foot of a tree and they point to the north.
The passage is mainly about __________.
how to find a big tree if one is lost in the forest.
How to cut down trees in the forest
How to find the direction(方向 )in the forest
How to grow trees in the forest .
From a cut tree we can know that ___________.

A．the direction is written on it

B．the rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side

C．the rings will be thinner on the south

D．its rings can send messages to you

The passage tells us __________ ways of finding the direction in the frorest.

A．three

B．four

C．five

D．six

Stop! Listen! What do you hear? You may hear many different sounds. Some of those sounds may be noisy. Noise is loud and unwanted sound.
Noise can be caused by many kinds of machines, such as motorcycles, jet planes, tractors and so on. And, to some people, rock bands are also noise.
What happened to people who live near noisy machines or use them over a period of time? Doctors find that these people have trouble in sleeping, But, most important, constant loud noise can cause a loss of hearing.
Scientists use a unit of measure called a decibel 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 causes the greatest hearing loss.
From the article we know noise is ___________.
wanted soundB. loud and unwanted sound
C. all sounds that you can hear D. comfortable sound
A “decibel” is a _________

A．unit that measures sound	B．kind of noise
C．machine that makes very loud noise	D．person who hates noise

According to the passage, loud noise can ________.
help people sleep better B. stop machine
C. cause a loss of hearing D. kill people
The main idea of this passage is that __________
noise pollution can be a serious problem
rock bands are noisy
noise can cause people to be mad
some people hate noise deeply
Study the chart below, Which room would be the quietest?

Room	Noise Level
A	35 decibels
B	120 decibels
C	130 decibels
D	40 decibels

A. Room A B. Room B
C. Room C D. Room D