Readers’ favorite landmarks
Arizona’s Grand Canyon Skywalk(人行天桥)is the best new bridge, New York by Gehry(盖里设计的纽约大厦) is the top new skyscraper and the National September11Memorial(911纪念馆)is the favorite new public space, according to Travel+ Leisure magazine (《悦乐》杂志).
What do the three architectures have in common? They were all opened in the last fifteen years and are this year’s new best landmarks. It shows that some architectures could become classics in a very short time.
How were these top new landmarks voted(投票)?The New York-based travel magazine carried out an online survey to discover the world’s top new landmarks in2012.They asked readers to vote their favorite ones in different categories(类别)—skyscrapers, parks and public spaces, museums, bridges, sports and performance places.
The architectures having the most votes in each category are crowned as the best new landmarks. Each category has a top new landmark.Arizona’s Grand Canyon Skywalk is ________.
| A．the best new bridge | B．a high building |
| C．a new walkway | D．a street. |
In the passage , ______ famous architectures are mentioned.
| A．1 | B．2 | C．3 | D．4 |
How long have the architectures been open ? ________.
| A．5 years | B．10 years | C．15 years | D．150 years |
The architectures are crowned as the best new landmarks according to having the most votes on_________ .
| A．skyscrapers, parks and public spaces, museums, bridges, sports and performance places. |
| B．skyscrapers, parks and public spaces, museums, bridges and performance places |
| C．parks and public spaces, museums, bridges, sports and performance places. |
| D．skyscrapers, parks and public spaces and performance places. |
Once an old man was walking in a street with his horse. It was raining hard. The old man was cold because he was walking in the rain. He wanted to stay in a restaurant.
It was a quarter past three in the afternoon. The old man got to a small restaurant. A lot of people crowded in it. The old man couldn't come near the fireplace. He thought and thought.At last he said to the waiters, “ Take some fish to my horse.” The waiter and the other people were very surprised. The waitered said, “A horse doesn't eat fish.” The old man told the waiter, “ The horse is versatile. It can sing, dance and does all kinds of things. It can eat fish, too.” So the waiter took some fish to the horse.
All the people in the restaurant rushed out to see the horse eat fish except（除了……之外） the old man. Now the old man sat beside the fire. After a while the waiter returned and said. “Your horse didn't eat any fish.” The old man said, “All right, take the fish back and put it on the table. I’ll eat it.”The old man felt very cold because_______.
| A．it was a cloudy and windy day. |
| B．it snowed heavily for a long time |
| C．he was travelling in a heavy rain |
| D．he was hungry and thirsty |
The people in the restaurant all ran out because_________
| A．They want to see the old man |
| B．they wanted the horse eat fish |
| C．the old man told them the horse came |
| D．There was no fire over the stove |
The underlined word “versatile” means:
| A．笨的 | B．滑稽的 | C．兴奋的 | D．多才多艺的 |
All the people in the restaurant rushed out _____ except the old man.
| A．to see the horse sing |
| B．to watch the horse play games |
| C．to look for the horse |
| D．to see the horse eat fish |
Why did the old man ask the waiter to take some fish to his horse? Because ________
| A．his horse like eating fish |
| B．he had a special fish |
| C．he wanted to sit near the fire, but wasn’t able to do so at first. |
| D．he himself also liked to eat fish |
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You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know who wrote this song and for whom it was written?
Let me tell you a story.
About one hundred years ago, there was a girl in the USA. She loved children very much and wrote many songs for children. One of them was the song Good Morning To You. The song was very popular at that time among children, but not all grown-ups ( 成年人 ) knew it.
The girl was very poor. Once her friends invited her to a little child’s birthday party. She felt happy but sad because she had no money to buy a present for him. Finally she decided to sing the song Happy Birthday in the melody( 曲调 ) of Good Morning to You for the little boy.
When her friends heard the song at the party, they were very happy. “How wonderfully she is singing! We have not heard this song before. It’s a special present,” said someone. And they learned to sing it together.
Later, the song became very popular throughout the world. People like it because it’s simple and friendly.The song Happy Birthday is a song from America.
Happy Birthday is an old song. Nobody knows who wrote the song Happy Birthday.
The girl knew the song would be popular before she came to the party.
Discount(折扣)85% for students, It is useful between November 30,2010 and December 1, 2011 and only in China.Please come with the ticket and your student card. How long is the ticket useful?.
A.One month B. Two months
C. one year D two yearsWhat do you have to take for a discount pizza?
| A．The ticket | B．Your student ID card |
| C．Both ticket and student ID card | D．Nothing |
These days, cars are designed using computers. Let’s look at how a new car is created.
First, several designers talk about the new car and any good ideas that they have. Then they sit down at their computers and draw many sketches. The best two or three drawings are chosen and then more detailed(细节的，详情的) drawings of cars are developed on the computer. You can change the size, shape or color of any part on the computer to see how the car would look and then (73 ) you can choose the best design.
Both the inside and the (71) ________of the car have to be designed. Part of the inside of the car is built so that the designers can sit in it. They can feel if there is enough room inside and if they can reach everything. Then some cars are built—there are more than 15 000 parts of a car to test.
(74) When everything is safe, the cars are made in the factory. Again, computers are used to make sure that all the parts are ready as they are needed. （72）The factory usually stays open all through the night so that the car production never stops.Fill in the missing word:
“Both the inside and the _____________of the car have to be designed.” The underlined phrase “stays open” means______________________. (Only in English）
“You can choose the best design.” means:
The best design can __________ __________. Please translate the following sentence into Chinese:
“When everything is safe, the cars are made in the factory.”
__________________________________________________________________________The main idea of the passage is
____________________________________________________________________.
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 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 how 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 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 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 passage 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 meant 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 trees |
Which can be the best title of the passage?
| A．Watering trees |
| B．Growing roots |
| C．Doctor and his neighbor |
| D．Father and his children |
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