People give gifts on many occasions. At weddings（婚礼），people give gifts such as tea sets and tableware (餐具). When someone has a baby, people express their wishes by giving gifts of baby clothes and food.
In western countries, food and drinks are the most traditional gifts for friends. For example, a bottle of champagne is perfect for Christmas. In some Asian countries like China and Japan, tea and wine are common gifts. Greeting cards are excellent gifts for friends and family around the world.
Here are some popular gifts for Christmas and New Year. Let’s have a look.
A message in a bottle—If you want to send a birthday message or a thank- you note, why not write on a piece of paper and put it inside a glass bottle? The person who receives this special gift will remember the words forever.
A Christmas stocking—People will look forward to seeing it each Christmas. It is a very traditional and useful Christmas gift. Many people hang the stocking up in their rooms as a decoration.
A necklace (项链) with a name—This is a special and popular gift among mothers and young people. For example, a mother can put her child’s name on the necklace. It seems that the necklace can bring her child close to her heart.If your friend Lisa has a new baby, you may sent____.
| A．school things |
| B．tea sets and table ware |
| C．baby clothes and food |
| D．birthday cards |
From the passage we learn champagne is a kind of____.
| A．drink | B．food |
| C．card | D．furniture |
____are common gifts in some Asian countries.
| A．Excellent books | B．Tea and wine |
| C．Greeting cards | D．Thank-you notes |
Mrs. Green likes the necklace with her child’s name because____.
| A．it can bring good luck to her |
| B．it is a traditional and useful gift |
| C．it is a fashionable gift for parents |
| D．it may make her child close to her heart |
Please choose the best title for this passage____.
| A．Choose a perfect present |
| B．How to celebrate New Year |
| C．How to celebrate Christmas |
| D．The festivals in China |
 The British Museum |
One of the greatest museums in the world. There are famous exhibitions from ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and other parts of the world. Open:10 a.m.--5 p.m.(Monday to Saturday) and 2.30 p.m.--6 p.m.(Sunday). Free entrance. |
 Clink Prison |
In this old London prison you can experience prison life. You can also have your birthday party here! Open:10a.m.--6 p.m. (Monday to Friday) Adults: £3.50; children: £2.50 |
 The London Eye |
Take a bird's-eye view of the capital on this amazing big wheel. Spectacular views at night! Open:9:30 a.m.--8:30 p.m. Adults: £11.50; students/over sixties £9.00; children £5.75 under fives free. |
 The Globe Theatre |
Visit the replica (复制品) of the old theatre. Learn about the life and plays of Shakespeare. Open:9 a.m.--12 a.m. (Monday to Friday) Adults: £7.50; children: £4.50 |
 The National Gallery |
This has one of the really great collections of paintings in the world. Don't miss it! Open: 10 a.m.--6 p.m. (Monday to Saturday) and 2 p.m.--6 p.m. (Sunday) Adults: £ 13.50; children: £10:00 |
Ann has just arrived in London, she enjoys plays very much, where should she go first?
| A．The National Gallery | B．The Globe Theatre |
| C．The London Eye | D．The British Mesum |
Alan is a photographer, and he wants some pictures of London at night, ______ is the place for him.
| A．The National Gallery | B．The Globe Theatre |
| C．The London Eye | D．The British Mesum |
Which of the following can you see in the British Museum?
| A．Exhibitions from ancient Egypt. |
| B．A bird's- eye view of London. |
| C．Something about the plays of Shakespeare. |
| D．What prison life was like. |
Hector wants to spend his birthday with his girl friend in Clink Prison, how much does he have to pay?
| A．£3.50. | B．£4.50. | C．£10. | D．£7. |
Joe is going to the National Gallery, which time of the following is OK ?
| A．10:30 a.m., Sunday | B．6:00 a.m., Tuesday |
| C．9:30 a.m., Friday | D．3:00 p.m., Wednesday |
After two weeks, Ling Qinghao finally sent a message to his wife in their hometown in Anhui, and told her her he was safe.
Ling, 44, was a Chinese construction worker who went to Libya. The recent problems in Libya have left the country in disorder. Several Chinese were injured last month.
Ling was one of the thousands of Chinese evacuees (被疏散者) from Libya. The evacuee's first stop was Greece. They are staying there in a five-star hotel that the Chinese government paid for. According to the Foreign Ministry, by March 2, China has evacuated (疏散) a total of 35,860 Chinese from Libya. Among them, 20745 have already returned to China.
To evacuate means to quickly move people away from a disaster or disorder. An evacuation tests how a nation would deal with an emergency (突发事件). From getting flight tickets to dealing with customs services , many parts of the government and companies have to work together.
To protect the safety of overseas Chinese, China took action quickly. Since February 24, the nation has sent out airplanes and ships to evacuate its people from Libya.They even sent a navy ship to help. This is the first time that China has sent the army in an evacuation.
"We have done a great job in no more than 10 days. This shows China's ability to protect its people overseas in emergencies," Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao said.According to the article, where was Ling Qinghao born?
| A．He was born in Libya. | B．He was born in Anhui. |
| C．He was born in Greece. | D．He was born in a hotel. |
Why did China take actions quickly to evacuate the Chinese in Libya?
| A．To make more money. |
| B．To bring them back to China to construct more buildings. |
| C．To protect them from the dangerous situation. |
| D．To show our motherland's great power. |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．Several Chinese were injured last month. |
| B．The Chinese evacuees in Greece live in a five-star hotel. |
| C．A navy ship was sent to help the evacuation. |
| D．Our government often send .the army in evacuations. |
According to the Foreign Ministry,______Chinese have returned to Chinaby March 2 ?
| A．35860. | B．20745 . |
| C．56605. | D．15115. |
What is this article mainly about?
| A．It's mainly about Ling and his life in Libya. |
| B．It's mainly about the Ling family. |
| C．About Chinese living in Libya return to the motherland.. |
| D．It's mainly about the recent situation in Libya. |
There are two families on Earth who want a baby girl, but there is only one girl waiting to be born. She turns herself into two girls, but each of the girls only has half of a heart.Years later, the two girls meet.When they come together, their hearts beat faster, and they feel complete again.
Do you ever feel like you and your best friend were once the same person, but were split（分裂)before birth? Do you want to spend every minute with her? If you have a really good best friend, you might feel like you're incomplete when you are apart. In US middle schools, many girls show their feelings with a best friends necklace (项链).
The best friends necklace can take many forms. Usually, it is a heart split in two. It reads"best friends"and each one of the friends wears half of the necklace. Best friends may live far away and not see each other for a long time. But the two pieces of the heart fit together perfectly when they meet again. If your very best friend is wearing her necklace, she has half of your heart.
Make a best friends necklace and give one half of it to your best friend.Some girls make their own necklaces out of clay (泥土) or pieces of a jigsaw puzzle (拼图). Alone,the necklace doesn't mean a lot. But when your friend is there, and the pieces fit together, everything seems to be complete again.
What is the first paragraph about?
It's about a report of a special family.
B.It's about a true story of two girls.
C.It's about what the necklace used to be.
D.It's about how best friends feel together.According to the passage, if you have a best friend, what will you do?
| A．You will live together in her family. |
| B．You will share one heart together. |
| C．You will want to be with her. |
| D．You will play jigsaw puzzle with her. |
What does the underlined word "apart" mean?
| A．分离. | B．相聚. | C．重逢. | D．团结. |
Which of the following is NOT true about the best friends necklace?
| A．It's very popular around the world now. |
| B．Each one of the friends wears half of it. |
| C．Some girls use clay to make it. |
| D．It can take many shapes. |
What is this article mainly about?
| A．It's mainly about how to make friends. |
| B．It's mainly about how the two girls grow up. |
| C．It's mainly about the best friends necklace in America. |
| D．It's mainly about what American girls are doing at present. |
Edith Cavell was born in a little English village. She was a clever, hard-working girl and did well at school,especially in music and French. After she left school, her first job was to take care of the children of a rich family in Belgium（比利时）. The language they spoke was French, so she found that her school studies were useful. She could understand them easily, at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano.
After hearing that her father was seriously ill, Edith returned home to look after him. She then decided to become a nurse. Afterwards for five years she worked in an English hospital where she proved to be highly professional（专业的）at her job. A Belgian doctor was so impressed（印象深的）that he invited her to his country to organize a training school for nurses. The First World War (第一次世界大战) broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell’s school of nursing became a hospital. She stayed there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers (伤员). Edith treated them with kindness. Between November 1914 and August 1915 she secretly helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners (囚犯) escape from the Germans. Later the German army found out what Edith had done and they arrested her. Finally, the Germans killed her, but they could not kill her memory. A tall statue（雕塑）has been built in Trafalgar Square, London, in honor（纪念）of the brave English nurse.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案, 并将其标号填入题前括号内。Edith Cavell was from __________.
| A．France | B．England |
| C．Belgium | D．Germany |
Edith Cavell’s first job was to __________.
| A．teach French |
| B．look after the children of a rich family |
| C．teach English |
| D．look after the sick and wounded soldiers |
Why did Edith return home from Belgium?
| A．Because she found work in an English hospital. |
| B．Because she organized a training school for nurses. |
| C．Because the First World War broke out. |
| D．Because her father was seriously ill. |
What’s the Chinese meaning of “kill her memory” in this passage?
| A．杀死她 | B．使她失去记忆 |
| C．抹去对她的记忆 | D．摧残她 |
According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Edith was good at music and German at school. |
| B．Edith was a highly professional doctor. |
| C．Edith was invited to her country to organize a training school for nurses. |
| D．People have built a tall statue in honor of Edith. |
Once a tiger was in a cage. Soon a good man went by. As soon as the tiger saw the man, the tiger began to cry. “Please! Please!” the tiger called. “Please, let me out.” “No,” said the good man. “If I do, you will eat me.” “I will not eat you,” the tiger said. “Please let me out.”
The good man believed the tiger. He opened the door of the cage. The tiger jumped out. “How silly you are,” the tiger laughed. “Now I am going to eat you.” “Wait!” the man cried. “You ought not to eat me. Let us ask others what they think.” “You may ask three others. ” the tiger said.
The good man asked a tree. The tree said, “I give shade (树荫). And yet I am cut down. Let the tiger eat you.”
Next, the good man asked a bird. The bird said, “I hurt no one. Yet people hunt and kill me. Let the tiger eat you.”
The last one that the good man asked was a road. The road said, “I don’t care if the tiger eats you. People could not get along too well without me. Yet all day and all night people step on me without even a ‘thank you’.”
The tiger was ready to eat the good man. Just then a dog came by. “What is happening?” asked the dog. The man told the dog the whole story.
“I don’t understand,” said the dog. “The tiger wants to eat you because you put him in a cage?”
“No, no,” said the man. “Some other men put him in a cage.”
“Oh,” the dog said. “He is going to eat you because you do not have a cage.”
“Silly dog!” the tiger cried. “Don’t you understand? I was in the cage. This man let me out.”
“Oh, I see,” the dog said. “When the man was in the cage, you let him out.”
“I was in the cage!” the tiger cried. “In this way!” with that, he jumped back into the cage.
At once, the dog closed the door of the cage. “Oh,” the dog laughed. “At last I understand!”
The good man and the dog walked off. The tiger looked sad in the cage. If he waited long enough, perhaps another good man would come by.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案, 并将其标号填入题前括号内。When the tiger saw the man, he began to cry, because _____________.
| A．he wanted the man to help him out of the cage |
| B．he wanted to eat the man |
| C．he wanted to eat the dog |
| D．he wanted to eat the bird |
After the tiger jumped out of the cage, he wanted _____________.
| A．to thank the man | B．to eat the man |
| C．to ask the others | D．to run away |
The tree ____________ with the tiger because _______ to the tree.
| A．agreed; humans were kind |
| B．agreed; humans were not kind |
| C．disagreed; humans were kind |
| D．disagreed; humans were not kind |
The bird let the tiger eat the man because __________.
| A．people helped birds |
| B．it liked tigers |
| C．it liked the man |
| D．people hunted and killed him |
What happened to the tiger at last?
| A．The dog agreed that the tiger could eat the good man. |
| B．The tiger jumped back into the cage and was closed in the cage again. |
| C．The tiger ate the good man and the dog. |
| D．The tiger made friends with the good man and the dog. |
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