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A．take the children to school

B．stay there for a long time

C．go round from place to place

D．take the fathers and the mothers to school

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A．School bus is a real school for children.

B．The bus school has no teacher at all.

C．The bus school has no students.

D．The children and their parents on the farm all come to the bus school to learn.

　　Marco Polo was born in Venice（威尼斯）in 1254. He was the most famous westerner（西方人）to visit Asia during the Middle Ages. He wrote a book about his travels. In his book he wrote all the thing she saw and heard. Many people read the book. But few believed what Marco Polo said. He spoke of strange people and places that nobody knew about at that time.

　　As a young man, Marco Polo decided to travel together with his father. It took them more than three years to travel to China .He became the Chinese Emperor's（皇帝）friend. He learned the Chinese language when he traveled around and talked to many people. Before he reached the age of thirty he was made a Chinese official（官员）. After nearly seventeen years in the east, Marco Polo and his father prepared to return home. When they finally arrived in Venice, their family and friends were surprised to see them again. They had been away for almost twenty-five years.

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A．it was not about Venice but Asia

B．it told them strange people and places

C．it was too difficult for them to understand

D．it was not what they were interested in at that time

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A．From the Chinese Emperor.

B．On the way to China.

C．From many Chinese people.

D．With the help of the Chinese officials.

　　Have you ever seen the man in the moon? If you look closely at the moon on some nights, you can see the face of the man in the moon. Some people say that they can see an old man carrying sticks. Others see a girl reading a book. These pictures are made by the mountains and plains（平原）of the moon.

　　Long ago people in England used to tell their children that the moon was large round rock. It is completely bare（完全光秃）.There are no trees or plants on the moon. There are no rivers and no seas. There are no living things. It never rains on the moon, and everything is covered with dry, white dust. Not even a sound can be heard on the moon. When the sun shines on it, the moon is very hot. In the shade（阴影处）, however, it is much colder than ice.

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A．you will feel very happy

B．the moon is much colder than ice

C．the moon is very hot

D．you will weigh only one sixth that you do on the earth

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　　Peru（秘鲁）is the fifth largest Latin American country with a population of 14430000. Almost half of these people live in the city areas. Around Lima, there was 20％ of the total population in 196The population here grew faster than anywhere else and in another 35 years it reached 1/3 of the total population.

　　About 45％ of the people are Indians and 50％ are white or mixed（混合人种）and the others are Asians, Negroes or people from other countries.

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A．Four countries are larger than Peru in Latin America.

B．Peru is the largest in the five of Latin American countries.

C．Latin is the fifth largest country in North America.

D．Five countries are larger than Peru in Latin America.

(2) How many Peruvians（秘鲁人）live in the country area?

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　　Venus（金星）is our nearest neighbor in space. It is only 42 million kilometers away. We know that in some ways, Venus is like the earth. It is like the earth to go round the sun. It is almost as big as the earth, too.

　　Earth people Can't live without air, but our neighbor doesn't have this kind of air. There is very little water on Venus. Still, some scientists didn't believe there may be lives on it. These scientists think that some microbes（微生物）may be able to live on Venus. They are not sure about this but one thing earth people could not live on Venus.

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A．there is no life on Venus

B．we could live on Venus

C．we Can't find some microbes on Venus

D．there are some animals on Venus

　　Our world is getting smaller and smaller. We can fly around the world in less than 50 hours. The newest planes go 600 miles an hour. You can have breakfast in Beijing and supper in Paris. But before people had to take a lot longer. Magellan's（麦哲伦）men were the first to make that trip. It took them more than two years by ship. On September 20,1519,he left Spain with five ships and 240 men. He was killed on the Philippine Islands. More than two years later, on December 21,1521, one of the five ships with only 31 men returned to Spain.

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A．He told people that the earth was round after he came back to Spain.

B．He died during his trip.

C．The king of Spain made him a high officer when he was back.

D．He returned to Spain after two years.

　　E-mail is a way of sending messages to other people. E-mail is a fast and cheap way to keep in touch with friends and family. It is much quicker than sending a letter. People who use E-mail have an E-mail address. This address must have letters and dots and the symbol“@”meaning at. This is what an address looks like. People can send the messages across the Internet. It is quick, easy and fun.

(1) If you know about computers, you must know the letter“E” in “E-mail”stands for“________”.

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　　Bill Gates was born on October 28,195He grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was a very clever boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and maths. When he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. At that time, computers were very large machines. Once he was very interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program（软件程序）with the old machine. Bill sold it for $ 4 200 when he was only 17.

　　In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. In his third year, he left Harvard to work for a company（公司）called Microsoft. Bill began his company in 1975 with his friend Paul Alien. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. Se they began developing the software for personal computers. They improved（改进）the software to make it easier for people to use computers.

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　　There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different parts to your country on them. Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.

　　Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable, You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like, You can stop wherever you wish where there is something interesting to see, at good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. With a modern airliner you can travel in one day to places which it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.

　　Traveling by train is slower than by plane, but it has its advantages（便利）. You can see the country you are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars. They make even the longest journey enjoyable.

　　Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. Some people usually take a train or plane when they are traveling on business.

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A．make the longest journey enjoyable

B．travel to a very far place in several minutes

C．make our own timetable

D．visit many other countries and different parts of your country on boat

(3)The underlined word“They”in the passage refers to _________.

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