Question

News 1:

TWO conjoined（连体）twin sisters were separated（分离）at a hospital in Hebei Saturday. The two 40-day-old Chinese girls had been joined at the chest and abdomen(腹部). Doctors still worry about the younger one, who also has heart disease. They say she will have another operation after she fully gets well.

News 2:

FIRE broke out on the second floor of the busy four-story Zhongbai Shopping Centre in Jilin city, Jilin, Sunday. As of Wednesday, more than 50 people were killed and over 70 injured (受伤). Officials said the fire started in one of the shopping centre’s storehouses.

News 3:

THE Chinese Embassy(大使馆) in Iraq’s capital Baghdad（巴格达）reopened Monday. The embassy had been closed since the US-Iraq war(战争) began in March 2003. The last Chinese officer left Baghdad just three days before the war broke out.

News 4:

HOW old can an insect be?  400 million years! Last Wednesday, scientists found the world’s oldest insect fossil in Britain. The fossil shows that the body of the insect was as big as a grain (粒)of rice and had wings(翅膀). In the past, people thought the earliest insect was 380 million years old.

1. What does News3 talk about?

A. China’s back in Iraq                    B. Shopping center fire

C. That’s an old bug                      D. It was a success

2. The operation done on the two Chinese girls was _______.

A. unsuccessful        B. cruel        C. successful      D. strange

3. The fire in the shopping center started __________.

A. on the fourth floor                       B. in a storehouse

C. on the third floor                       D. outside the centre

4. The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad reopened _________.

A. when the US-Iraq war began            B. before the US-Iraq war ended

C. three days before the war broke out       D. on a Monday

5. The new find of the insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was _______ years older than

believed.

A. 10 million      B. 20 million         C. 400 million       D. 380 million

Answer 1

1A  2C  3B  4D  5B