Mum        my suggestion while Dad spoke      my idea.

       A．turned off, in favour of   B．turned down, in favour of

       C． down, in need of    D．turned on, in hope of

In the factory women _______  44% of the workforce , and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work.

A. build up   B. set up   C. make up   D. take up

With more people ____ the traffic rules, our city is becoming better organized．

       A．respect                 B．being respected  

       C．respected              D．respecting

I don’t like the people who try to _____ you with how much money they’ve got．

       A．impress         B．show      C．press    D．strengthen

It was ________ was a waste land ten years ago _______ a modern city has been set up on.

      A. which; where    B. where; that    C. what; that               D. that; which

I won’t call you, ________ something unexpected happens.

   A. unless       B. whether         C. because         D. while

A proposal came up at the meeting _____the protection of giant pandas in Sichuan.

A．was concerned with       B．concerned about

C．concerning              D．to concern

The flowers his friend gave him will die unless ______ every day.

A. watered         B. watering           C. water               D. to water

Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history.

The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes "the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don't seem to learn from history." Perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this.

A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context. We can- not even understand why we are and where we are without history, much less (更不必说) try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be.

I teach my children history, for one more reason. I purchased a set of historical audio (录音机) tapes for our children. My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over. It was my hope that he would become inspired by the accomplishments of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself. I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. if, in doing so, young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he accomplishe    D．I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler, people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for.

What message can we get from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 ?

     A．Many people fail to make good use of history and make the same mistakes.

     B．Many people aren't clever enough to learn well from the past.

     C．Many people feel it hard to understand history.

     D．Many people have no interest in studying history.

Some historical figures are mentioned in the last paragraph to show ______________.

     A．people can be inspired to do good, while also learning to fight against evil

     B．people may also learn from bad historical figures

     C．more celebrations should be held to honor their achievements

     D．today’s people can also achieve what they achieved

What would be talked about in the following paragraph?

     A．How to teach history effectively.

     B．How to get more people to study history.

     C．Some negative reasons for studying history.

     D．Some bad historical figures.

The main purpose of this passage is to ____________.

     A．inspire the parents to teach their children history

     B．show the importance of history in politics

     C．explain the reasons why children study history

     D．introduce the writer' s own way of teaching history

Late in April, a photo show was held in our school．

It lasted a week and was a great success! All the photos were t______                           

by the students themselves ．They were ______（大多数）color photos, but     

some are black-and -white o_____, presenting our school life, the beauty         

of nature, festival activities and so on．All the _____（作品）of art were              

______show in the reading-room on the second floor．Every day a large        

______ of students went to enjoy them, and they were surprised to    　　             

find the photos were so wonderful ______ some teachers also were                       

present．Those whose photos were chosen the best were g____ different          

prizes．In short, this photo show really made our life more _____（多彩）．        

We hope we will h      more activities like this in our school．