She made ________her duty to help to deal with all the other people’s affairs in that town.

  A. this      B. that      C. one             D. it

---My god, it’s raining again. What a cold day!

   ---So it is. It’s really too cold _______ May.

   A. to                B. for                    C. with                              D. about

Our shoes are of great variety and quality.________. Quickly buy it!

  A. Opportunity seldom knocks twice     B. Lies have short legs

  C. One false move may lose the game    D. Kings go mad, and the people suffer for it

 That light rail transit line(轻轨), __  _in July 2009 and ___ in 2012, will be China’s longest light rail transit line in history.

    A. starting, completing    B. started, to be completed

C. to start, completed      D. starting, completed

I’d like to think decades from now, a young Chinese person ______ inspired by Expo 2010 to one day visit where I grew up, just as I’ve finally gotten to experience China in person.

  A. will have           B. has had            C. has been          D. will be

Hi, somebody ______ the window, please. It’s too cold in here.

    A. closes                      B. close                 C. will close                        D. is closing

How do you write a story based on a person__________job you are not familiar?

    A．whose    B．with whom    C．with whose   D．to whom

Domestic (驯养的) horses now pull ploughs, race in the Kentucky Derby, and carry police. But early horses weren’t tame (驯服的) enough to perform these kinds of tasks. Scientists think the first interactions humans had with horses were far different from those today.

Thousands of years ago, people killed the wild horses that lived around them for food. Over time, people began to catch the animals and raise them. This was the first step in domestication.

As people began to tame and ride horses, they chose to keep those animals that had more desirable characteristics. For example, people may have chosen to keep horses that had a gentle personality so they could be ridden more easily. People who used horses to pull heavy loads would have chosen to keep stronger animals. Characteristics like strength are partly controlled by the animals’ genes. So as the domesticated horses reproduced, they passed the characteristics on to their young. Each new generation of houses would show more of these chosen characteristics.

Modern day horse breeds come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This variety didn’t exist in the horse population before domestication. The Shetland horse is one of the smallest breeds—typically reaching only one meter tall. With short, strong legs, the animals were bred to pull coal out of mine shafts (矿井) with low ceilings. Huge horses like the Clydesdale came on the scene around 1700. People bred these heavy, tall horses to pull large vehicles used for carrying heavy loads.

The domestication of horses has had great effects on societies. For example, horse were important tools in the advancement of modern agriculture. Using them to pull ploughs and carry heavy loads allowed people to farm more efficiently. Before they were able to ride horses, humans had to cross land on foot. Riding horses allowed people to travel far greater distance in much less time. That encouraged populations living in different areas to interact with one another. The new from of rapid transportation helped cultures spread around the world.

1. Before domestication horses were ______.

A. caught for sports

B. hunted for food

C. made to pull ploughs

D. used to carry people

2. The author uses the Shetland horse as an example to show ______.

A. it is smaller than the Clydesdale horse

B. horse used to have gentle personalities

C. some horses have better shaped than others

D. horses were of less variety before domestication

3. Horses contributed to the spread of culture by ______.

A. carrying heavy loads

B. changing farming methods

C. serving as a means of transport

D. advancing agriculture in different areas

4. The passage is mainly about _______.

A. why humans domesticated horses

B. how humans and horses needed each other

C. why horses came in different shapes and sizes

D. how human societies and horses influenced each other

They travel in groups, noses just inches away form GPS screen. Suddenly a boy shouts “I found it!”, grinning and walking away from the group.

The others focus on their screens. “Me. too!” shouts another a moment later, until all six kids are crowded around a tree, pulling out a plastic bottle painted to look like tree bark. It doesn’t seem like much from the outside, but everyone gathers around, eager to see what’s inside.

This is geocaching, a high-tech game played using coordinates (坐标) and global positioning systems to find hidden “treasures”.

It’s open to anyone—hiders or seekers—with a GPS and access to www.geocaching.com, where more than half a million users download and upload the coordinates of nearly 1 million hidden caches (储藏物) and write about their experiences in this worldwide hunt.

Although some adventures can take hours or even days, the contents inside the actual cache usually aren’t valuable—often just a book or a small trinket (小饰品).

But participants aren’t in it for the treasure. They say it’s a great way to exercise. Or it brings them to remote destinations or historical sites. Some consider it an extreme sport, looking for geocaches hidden in mountains or in other nearly inaccessible locations.

Jeffrey Howe, 41, sees it as an opportunity to take kids on adventures to unfamiliar places. The youths at the shelter mostly come form the city, but geocaching has taken them to parks, the suburbs, and, once, to a 498-meter-high mountain.

“Geocaching is a way to give kids the idea that there’s a whole world out there other than what they know from their home neighborhoods and video games,” he said.

How does it work? Log onto the Website and enter your zip code (邮编), then search for caches near your location. Although posted coordinates will take a GPS within about 4.5 meters of a cache, a good hide will require seekers to do a bit of hunting around. Caches can’t be buried underground, nor can they be hidden on private property (财产), in dangerous locations or in some national parks.

Posts written about the find—whether successful or unsuccessful—are an important part of the game, with users proudly recording the places to which they’ve traveled.

1.    What is the meaning of the underlined word geocaching in paragraph 3?

       A. A computer game played all over the world.

       B. A TV series popular around the world.

       C. An outdoor game of hiding and finding things.

       D. A name of the latest GPS.

2. In geocaching, which of the following statements about players is NOT TRUE?

       A. Players need to have GPS to play the game.

       B. Players need to download the coordinates to find the hidden caches.

       C. Players need to be young and strong to the play the game.

       D. Players are asked to hide things in parks or other places most people can reach.

3.    What is Jeffrey Howe’s attitude toward geocaching?

       A. Negative.   B. Objective.  C. Uncertain.  D. Supportive.

4.    Many people like to play this game because __________.

       A. they take pleasure in the process of the game

       B. they like to visit historical sites

       C. they want to find some treasure

       D. they want to change their lives

       Visitors ________ take an animal or any other item prohibited by the Expo Bureau to the Expo Park.

       A. needn’t      B. may not     C. mustn’t      D. will not