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　　All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy, happy and help them to live longer.

　　Sports change with the season. People play different games in winter and summer.

　　Games and sports often grow out of people's work and everyday activities. The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday life; they use them in their sports, too.

　　Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.

　　Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

　　People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person's character(性格). One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace(文雅).

1．According to this passage we know that ________.

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A．people began to play about one hundred years ago

B．about 100 years ago people ran or jumped when they played

C．basketball has a longer history than volleyball

D．not all the games have long history

2．According to this passage, which of the following isn't true?

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A．Sports help to train a person's characters.

B．People swim only because there are a lot of rivers in their country.

C．People from different countries may not be able to understand each other before a game.

D．Sports and games can develop the friendship between peoples all over the world.

3．The writer didn't tell us in this passage that ________.

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A．basketball was invented in America

B．sports change with the seasons

C．games and sports often grow out of people's work and everyday activities

D．football is played all over the world

4．A lot of people have more free time from their work to enjoy sports because ________.

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A．they like sports very much

B．they want to live longer

C．they want to make a lot more friends

D．they don't have to go to work on Saturday or Sunday as before

5．From this passage we can see that ________.

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A．sports and games are unimportant things that people do

B．sports and games should be treated(对待) only as amusement(娱乐活动)

C．sports and games are only useful to the old

D．none of the above is true

(用正确形式填空) ?The train station was here in the past, but now we see a beautiful open park instead.

?Yes, things ________ (change) a lot over the years!

We know that trees are useful in our everyday life. They   1   us many things, such as wood, oxygen(氧气), rubber, medicines and many other things. They can   2   tell us a lot about our climate. The following are the reasons. If you cut across a tree, you can   3   that it has many rings. Most trees grow one   4   ring every year. Because of this reason, we know   5   a tree is. A tree over a hundred years old means that it has more than a hundred   6  . When the climate is dry(干燥的) or very cold, the trees do not grow very much and their rings are usually   7  . When it is wet and   8  , the rings are much thicker. If the rings are suddenly very thin or suddenly very thick, this means that the    9   changed suddenly. If we look at the rings on the trees, we can   10   about the climate for a hundred years. We can see how our climate is changing today.

We know that trees are useful in our everyday life. They   1   us many things, such as wood, oxygen(氧气), rubber, medicines and many other things. They can   2   tell us a lot about our climate. The following are the reasons. If you cut across a tree, you can   3   that it has many rings. Most trees grow one   4   ring every year. Because of this reason, we know   5   a tree is. A tree over a hundred years old means that it has more than a hundred   6  . When the climate is dry(干燥的) or very cold, the trees do not grow very much and their rings are usually   7  . When it is wet and   8  , the rings are much thicker. If the rings are suddenly very thin or suddenly very thick, this means that the    9   changed suddenly. If we look at the rings on the trees, we can   10   about the climate for a hundred years. We can see how our climate is changing today.

1.                A．give           B．ask            C．get  D．tell

2.                A．too            B．as well          C．either    D．also

3.                A．hear           B．feel            C．see D．look

4.                A．new           B．old            C．young    D．short

5.                A．how tall        B．how old         C．how long D．how far

6.                A．leaves          B．apples          C．rings D．trees

7.                A．big            B．thin            C．thick(厚的)    D．long

8.                A．cold           B．cool            C．hot D．warm

9.                A．climate         B．things          C．people   D．life

10.               A．think          B．talk            C．learn D．change