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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

Dogs are friends of man. They work for us. They hunt with us. They also play with us. But a long time ago, all over the world, dogs were wild. Dogs can go back to the Stone Age. All dogs had the same ancestor (祖先). It is believed that this ancestor was much like a wolf. Other animals, like fox, also came from this ancestor. Thousands of years ago, man began to tame (使驯服) the wild dogs. When the dogs were tamed, they were trained well. The strong dogs then became working animals. They were trained to pull heavy loads (担子). They learned to keep watching over sheep and other animals. Working dogs could do other things, too. Some dogs were not strong. But they could help man hunt. Other dogs were best at pets. At first, there were only a few kinds of dogs. Today, there are more than 100 kinds.

1.The word “wild” in the first paragraph means ___.

A. 温顺的       B. 野生的       C. 凶残的       D. 善良的

2.Dogs can go back to the Stone Age. Here “go back” means ___.

A. 追溯到       B. 回来         C. 违背         D. 返回去

3.From this passage, we know that ___.

A. all the animals have the same ancestor  

B. all dogs are as wild as they were many years ago

C. man has helped change dogs

D. animals never change

4.What jobs can dogs do?

A. Keep watching over sheep.    B. Hunt with man.

C. Pull heavy loads.            D. All the above.

5.The main idea of the whole story is that ___.

A. man and dogs have the same ancestor

B. all animals are too wild to be man’s friends

C. dogs and man have been friends for a long time

D. people like to keep foxes as pets because they are tamer

Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today．People didn’t have modern machines．There was no modern medicine, either．

Life today has brought new problems．One of the biggest is pollution． Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty． It kills our fish and polluted our drinking water． Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily．Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution．It’s bad for all the living things in the world．

Cars, planes and factories all polluted air so thick that it is like a quilt （被子）over a city．This kind of quilt is called smog（烟雾）．

Many countries are making rules to fight against pollution．Factories must now clean their water before it flows（流走）away, they mustn’t put dirty smoke into the air．

We need to do many other things．We can put waste things in the dustbin（垃圾桶）and not throw（扔） it on the ground．We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car．If there are fewer people driving, there will be less pollution．

Rules are not enough．Every person must help to fight against pollution．

（   ）1． Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because

A． there weren’t any modern machines          B． there was no modern medicine

C． there were not many people                      D． both A and B

（   ）2． What’s the biggest problem in today’s life?

A． Water pollution   B．Air pollution         C．Noise                 D．Pollution

（   ）3． The most serious kind of pollution is     ．

A． noise pollution      B． air pollution   C． water pollution     D．all of the above

（   ）4． Factories must clean their water     away．

A． before they flow  B． when they flow    C． after it flows      D．before it flows

（   ）5． From the passage we know that ．

A． a few years ago, there was no smog at all

B． today people don’t have to talk to each other in a loud voice

C． we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes

D． people are making rules in order to fight against pollution