You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But do you know there is such a thing a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No, they are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-looking like a Chinese.
Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.
But if ABCs can not speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist, C.N.Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
【小题1】“ABC” in this passage means “     ”.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容完成下列各题。
What will the home of the future look like? A team of architects (建造师) in Hong Kong say that city homes will be tiny, as populations continue to grow and space becomes more expensive. They have designed “space flats”. 83它们只有30 平米大。These flats have three small rooms, a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom, as well as a balcony (阳台),but everything is carefully planned to make good use of the limited space.
The living room is the main room of the flat. It can be used as an office, a kitchen or even a second bedroom. There is a sofa that can be changed into a bed. The dining table can be changed into a computer desk. And, if not needed, both the sofa-bed and the table can be folded away and stored into a small apace in the wall. There is a flat-screen TV, which can also serve as a computer monitor. In one corner of the room, a small cooker, a microwave oven and a miniature refrigerator are hidden out of sight.
The other rooms are small but useful. The bathroom contains a toilet and a shower. The double bed in the bedroom can also be a sofa, if necessary, The balcony has enough room for two people to sit and enjoy the view from the block of flats. All the rooms have high ceiling to provide as much storage space as possible, while the flat has large windows to let in plenty of sunlight.
“Space flats “are now being tested in a building in Hong Kong. “It’s wonderful,” said one resident(居民) “84. The flat is so well designed that you feel that there is plenty of space”
【小题1】Why do the architects think that “Space flats “will be important in the future?
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【小题2】How many rooms can a “space flat ” have in all ?
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【小题3】将划线句子译成英语。
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【小题4】将划线句子译成汉语。
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【小题5】请给短文拟一个合适的题目。
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完形填空。 （共12分，每小题1分）
阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项，将其代号填在答题卡相应的题号后。
Doctors and other scientists study the human mind and now they have proved that stress can have an influence on the health of your body.
Stress is    36   whenever there is a problem or change in your life. Of course, everybody has stress more or less and nobody’s life is    37  . In fact, stress is necessary. Without    38  , we would never learn anything or grow or change. We would    39   be bored to death. But too much stress can    40   you.
Today you have different kinds of stress. Problems like endless homework or troubles with your family are the kinds of things you can’t fight against    41   run away from.
42   can you do about stress? First, you can try to find ways to change things so you aren’t under so much stress. You can    43  a plan to finish homework, go to a doctor or try to work things out with your family or friends. But sometimes you can’t    44   a stressful situation. Sometimes you don’t even want to.
The link between your body and brain    45   in two ways. Your body can help your mind deal with stress. If you are    46   stress, you need to take especially good care of your body. It’s important to get enough sleep and have nutritious meals. Another thing that you can do is daily    47  . Anyone with a continuing physical problem should check with a doctor before starting any exercise programs.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究员) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小题1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.

【小题1】Many people don’t understand the           of learning English well.（重要性）
【小题2】The bag is just for one of the          （旅游者）
【小题3】        ,he didn’t pass the driving test.（幸运）
【小题4】This kind of the tree only grows in the          part of China.（南方）
【小题5】They have       they will take action to reduce the pollution.(意识)
【小题6】Their teacher’s          at the party made them very happy. (arrive)
【小题7】There are eight people in the room,          the two women.(include)
【小题8】It was much         in London in the past.(fog)
【小题9】Sometimes bad weather causes           disasters.(nature)
【小题10】He found it       to watch such a bad match.(bore)