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1）

Venice（威尼斯）is in the northeast of Italy. It wasn’t built on land, like Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 islands. Seawater is everywhere around the city.

Even so, travel isn’t that difficult. The waterways have always been the best way to get around. There are 117 waterways and more than 400 bridges that can lead you where you want to go. People in Venice move from place to place by boat. They like to enjoy cool summer nights while taking boat trips. They can talk to other people as they go along. Venice grew out of small islands in saltwater lakes when some Italians escaped (逃跑) from a war more than 1,500 years ago, and built homes there.

选择恰当的短语填空：

Venice is a city of __1__. People built it on more than 110 __2__. Although __3__ is around the city, it is not difficult for people to __4__. Because there are many __5__ and __6__, and people can move by __7__. They enjoy taking boat trips on __8__ and talking to others as they __9__.

The history of Venice is very long. More than 1,500 years ago, some Italians __10__ from a great war and they built homes there.

2)

In our life, we meet quite a lot of people: some just pass by while others can

1.________ our lives. Miss Bella is such a person. She taught me two years only.

2.________，she has taught me a lot in many ways.

Every day she began her classes with a smile and a fresh face. She made me realize that warm 3.________ could change a person. I was shy but I wasn't 4.________ in her classes at all. She gave lessons in a 5.________ way from other teachers. We had many 6.________ to talk about problems in English classes. Miss Bella would thumb up (竖起大

拇指) to encourage us 7.________ someone had great ideas. Now, I 8.________ that I have learned much from her classes. Learning to speak out your ideas is so 9.________ in society. She also made me realiz e that I could be myself by showing opinions 10.________. Her encouragement not only turned me into a confident student, but will also lead me to a successful life.

( )1. A. save B. give C. change D. destroy

( )2. A. Now B. Then C. First D. However

( )3. A. faces B. smiles C. seasons D. wea ther

( )4. A. alone B. active C. nervous D. excited

( )5. A. useful B. helpful C. necessary D. different

( )6. A. lessons B. choices C. chances D. topics

( )7. A. when B. before C. unless D. though

( )8. A. say B. find C. forget D. remember

( )9. A. easy B. hard C. interesting D. important

( )10. A. calmly B. bravely C. politely D. happily

3）Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their everyday life . For example, they can help people to save much time, and they can help people to work out many problems they can't do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers before the twenty first century, except the old people.

Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve(提高) their studies in school. Yet, many of the children use computers to play games, to watch video(影视) or to sing karaoke(卡拉OK), instead of studying. So, many teachers and parents complain(抱怨) that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked by parents in the boxes.

In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers they say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.

Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness ? It will be decided by people themselves !

1. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine ? Because .

A. our country asks us to learn it

B. we can use it to play games

C. it can help us a lot

D. it can help us to find jobs

2. What do many teachers and parents complain about ? They complain that .

A. their students and children use computers to play games

B. computers let them lose their jobs

C. computers make the students and children fall behind.

D. computers bring people a lot of trouble

3. In this passages we know computers .

A. also bring us trouble

B. bring us happiness only

C. are hated by people

D. are bad for people's health

4. Can computers really help children to study ?

A. Yes, they can.

B. It's hard to say.

C. No, they can't.

D. Of course not.

5. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage ? I think it means _____ .

A. computers are used by people

B. people can live well without computers

C. one must decide how to use computers

D. computers are strange machines

4)

Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines（航空公司）offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so

be cause they don’t want to lose customers.

However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude（海拔）we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure（气压）reduces one third of the sensibility（感觉）of our taste buds（味蕾）. So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don’t know it.

All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy（辛辣的）food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

61. In Paragraph 2, “this problem” means ______.

A. passengers stay long in the plane

B. food on the plane tastes bad

C. passengers have no food to eat

D. food on the plane is expensive

62. What do airlines do to solve this problem?

A. Get more customers.

B. Offer more food.

C. Improve their food.

D. Reduce the ticket price.

63. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces of the sensibility of our taste buds.

A. half

B. one third

C. one fourth

D. one fifth

64. Why do scientists feel it hard to made food on the plane taste good?

A. The volunteers don’t know about food taste.

B. The volunteers don’t u nderstand them.

C. They can’t find enough volunteers.

D. They can’t deal with the special environment successfully.

65. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Taste of Airplane Food

B. Airplane Travel

C. Scientific Research on Noses

D. The Change in Air Pressure

5)

I still remember visiting Moscow. It is the capital of Russia, the b _____1 country in the world. I went there w ______2 my parents when I was eight years old. I lived and studied there for one year, I had some happy memories.

One of the most interesting things of that city was that t _____3 were many dogs. Perhaps Russians l ______4 dogs very much. You can see dogs here and there. Almost each of the families had a dog. I made friends with many Russian children w _____5 I was living and studying there. They were all very nice. They had fair hair and fair skin. I played with them h_____ 6 though I could only speak a little Russian at first. They were f _____7 to me. The weather in Moscow was very cold. It snowed almost every in winter. The ground was always c overed with a lot of snow. We often made s ______ together.

Now I am b ______ in China, but I miss them so much. I will never forget my happy memories of this visit to Moscow.

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