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Perhaps the most famous clothing brand name(服装品牌名称)in the world is Levi’s．Levi Strauss & Co．is the producer of blue denim jeans．Here’s how it happened．
In the mid 1800s many people went to California to look for gold．A young German named Levi Strauss traveled to San Francisco to help his brother on business．He sold canvas(帆布)to the workers for tents．But the workers said they needed pants more，because their pants were easy to wear out．Instead of selling his canvas for tent-making，he turned it into pants．These kinds of pants were very popular with workers．He was very happy and named the kind of pants“denims”．And in 1853 he founded Levi Strauss ＆ Co．
Twenty years later the company began using a design with pockets．During the working，Strauss developed the process for putting metal rivets(铆钉)in the eans for strength．
On May 20，1873，they received the U．S．Patent No.139，121 for the process and that date is now considered the official birthday of“blue jeans”．
Today the company still has its factories in San Francisco，California．Over 11，000 people work in them and bring in over $4 billion a year．Levi Strauss went to San Francisco________．
| A．to look for gold |
| B．to sell canvas |
| C．to visit his brother |
| D．to help his brother on business |
The workers often complained________．
| A．the canvas was not good |
| B．the work was too hard |
| C．they couldn’t get enough food |
| D．their pants were not strong enough |
The underlined word“developed”may mean“________”in Chinese．
| A．研制 |
| B．想象 |
| C．了解 |
| D．确定 |
The blue denim jeans have about________years of history．
| A．100 |
| B．130 |
| C．140 |
| D．200 |
The passage mainly tells us________．
| A．who invented jeans |
| B．how jeans were invented |
| C．when jeans were invented |
| D．why jeans are so popular |
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Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the U.S.A. Children play baseball in sports field or in parks.
At summer picnics, there is often an informal baseball game. Boys and girls, the young and the old, take turns to beat. Each team has 9 players.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are on TV and members of the important baseball teams become America’s heroes. At the end of season, the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go along to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the radio and watch television. People seem to talk only about the result and the players.
American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the U.S.A. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball when there is an important game. Thousands of people sit beside the radio or in front of the television set to hear or watch the result. According to the passage, ____ may be the most popular sport in the U.S.A.
A. baseball B. soccer
C. American football D. volleyball There will be ____ players in a baseball game match.
| A．9 | B．18 | C．10 | D．16 |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Americans always become heroes in September. |
| B．Some baseball players become famous during the match time. |
| C．Americans enjoy baseball the best. |
| D．It seems that people have no interest in sports. |
The baseball fans can enjoy game by ____.
| A．watching game |
| B．listening to the radio |
| C．watching TV |
| D．all above |
The football season begins ____.
| A．in spring | B．in summer |
| C．in autumn | D．in winter |
I can’t remember the date when I started collecting litter. But it was when I got tired of seeing litter near my home and realized that nobody else was going to pick it up.
I live close to a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there within three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was so much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest.
I made my first trip to clean the forest one afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes later, my bag was full of cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers.
Since that first trip three years ago, I’ve been to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I’m often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment.
After each trip, I look at all the litter I’ve found. If any of it is recyclable(可回收的)，I’ll keep it. I can’t understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it.
I know I can only do a small bit to help the earth, but I still think it is important.When did the writer begin to collect litter?
A. When he was very young.
B. After his home moved to a new place.
C. When he got tired of seeing litter near his home.Where does the writer live?
A. He lives in a forest.
B. He lives in a place with much litter.
C. He lives near a forest.The writer collects litter________.
A. in order to make the place clean
B. in order to make fun
C. in order to make moneyWhere does the writer collect litter?
A. In the forest B. In the street C. In the park.From the passage we infer(推断) __________
A．the writer always collects a lot of litter
B .the environment will be more beautiful if everyone tries to protect it.
C. the writer will go on collecting litter.
A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing(爆炸) destroyed her home and killed her mother.
Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad(巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they leave their homes in Baghdad.
“Dad, why are the Americans fighting us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.
He tries to comfort him by saying ,“The bombs（炸弹） are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed.
“All we do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu, “We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear(恐惧). We feel hopeless and helpless. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”During the war, children are ______________.
A.studying at school B.safer than their parents C.in great dangerThe children have to flee(逃离) their homes because_________.
A.it’s dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing.
B.their parents are not at home
C.they want to get food and water.Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because___________.
A.he doesn’t want to tell him the real reason
B.he doesn’t want to tell a lie.
C.he doesn’t know how to explain it clearly.“sleeping pills” are __________.
A. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war.
B.a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep
C.a kind of food to make them strongAccording to the passage we know that__________.
A. all the children in Iraqi are looking for something to eat.
B. all the children in Iraqi are thinking about something to solve the war problem
C. the children in Iraqi are feeling fearful, helpless and hopeless during the war.
Most people in Britain live in small family groups. More than a quarter of homes in Britain have only one person living in them. Some of these persons are old but some are of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone. 35% of homes have two people living in them, and another 17% have three people. 15% have four people living in them, and the other homes have five or more.
The families in Britain are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are about eighteen or nineteen, they leave their parents’ home, and they often go to other cities. Sometimes they only visit their parents two or three times a year.
根据短文内容，判断正(A)误( B)。The passage is a report.
35% of homes in Britain have 3 people living in them.
The families in Britain are large.
Some are people of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone.
The passage mainly tells us the population in American.
“Mr. Mott often forgets important meetings. The robot will go after him all the time. It listens to everything he says. It sees everything he does. At night, it watches him sleep. It knows everything about Mr. Mott…”
It sounds like a wonderful idea, doesn’t it? But I’m afraid that Mr. Mott will not get on well with the robot, because everyone has something he doesn’t want others know. It is privacy. Just imagine that there is a video camera around you all day. How do you feel? When you are taking an exam, a teacher sits in front of you and watches you all the time. How do you feel?
Mr. Mott doesn’t lose all his memory. At least he remembers that he always forgets. So why can’t he do something for this HIMSELF? He can keep a notebook with him, like most people do. In the notebook he can write down the things he should do, the persons he should meet and the places he should go. Isn’t the notebook much cheaper and safer than the robot?“It” in the first paragraph(段落) refers to______________.
| A．Mr. Mott | B．Mrs. Mott | C．the robot | D．a video camera |
Why does the writer think Mr. Mott will not always get on well with the robot?
| A．Because it is invented by others. | B．Because it can talk with Mr. Mott. |
| C．Because it can remind(提示；提醒) Mr. Mott of something he forgets. | |
| D．Because it knows something Mr. Mott doesn’t want others know. |
The underlined word “privacy” means _______________in Chinese.
| A．提供 | B．丧失 | C．特权 | D．隐私 |
Mr. Mott is_____________.
| A．handsome | B．forgetful | C．a scientist | D．kind and friendly |
From this passage we know that the writer__________________.
| A．doesn’t like the robot to follow Mr.Mott all day. |
| B．thinks it is a good idea to have a robot like Mr Mott’s. |
| C．If we always forget something important,we should have a robot. |
| D．A notebook is cheaper than a robot but a robot is better than a notebook. |
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