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Why do we take school trips? School trips are a great chance to learn outside the classroom      41      new and interesting ways. For example, on a trip to a farm, we can see   42          of the things we        43     about so far in biology lessons. While   44       science
museums, we can see science in action.
Where can we go on a school trip? In Japan, cherry (樱花) trees are blossoming (开花) by the beginning of the year for students to take school trips. School children have picnic lunches, sing songs and dance under the trees. They       45    go boating and hiking around the lakes and hills. Some kids even take baths in hot springs. If there is     46     , don’t worry. They will go to a museum     47     .
In China, students often take school   48     to parks, museums or to visit a mountain. But nowadays it’s very popular to take an outward bound(野外拓展) trip.  Students can learn about survival skills.(生存技能)
In the UK, students go to many interesting places. They     49     shells(贝壳) on the seaside . Kids may also learn about      50        when they go to a castle(城堡) or a famous old home.
【小题1】.

Like schools in China, American schools begin in September after a long summer vacation. The first term is from September to January and the second is from February to June. Usually American children begin to go to school when they are five years old. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they finish high school.
But unlike middle school students in China, high school students in America take only four or five subjects each term. They usually go to the same classes every day and have homework for every class. After class they do all kinds of interesting things.
After high school, many students go to college. They may go to a small or a large one. They usually have to pay a lot for their higher education. So lots of students work after school to make money for their studies.
【小题1】In America, summer vacation lasts（持续）___________________.

Betty is an American school girl. She is very happy because her parents will take her to China for a visit. They are going to fly from New York on June 30 and get to Beijing on July 1. They will stay at Lido Holiday Inn. Their Chinese friends will show them around Beijing. They are going to visit the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall. They will also visit some Chinese homes and try some Chinese food. They will spend a week in Beijing and then go to Xi’an, Guilin and some other places for sightseeing. The whole trip will take three weeks and she is sure she will have a great time in China.
【小题1】Betty is very happy because she will _______ with her parents.
A. visit China 　B. go home 　C. watch TV
【小题2】Their _______ friends will show them around Beijing.
A. Australian   B. Chinese  　C. American
【小题3】From the text we can know that they will _______ in Beijing.
A. cook Chinese food
B. Learn to speak Chinese
C. try some Chinese food
【小题4】After they visit Beijing , they will go to _______.
A. Xi’an and Guilin
B. The Summer Palace
C. Shanghai
【小题5】How long will the whole trip take?
A. one week 　B. two weeks 　C. three weeks

I usually get up at 5:00. I make coffee, go to my desk and work. When my boys get up, I’m theirs. I follow the min to the kitchen and make them breakfast. While they’re eating, I make their lunch, pick out their school clothes and get the little one dressed.

    My wife takes them to school. I bring them home. I am not the only father at the school gate. The boys and I walk the 12 blocks home unless the weather is terrible. Then we take the subway. I remind them of looking out, like an animal looking after their babies.

    At home, they play on the computer and the little one will draw, sometimes for hours. When their mother comes home, they run to her. She has been in the official day and tired, but her attention is all on them.

    I have made dinner. We sit down and eat together. After they do their homework, Karen takes them to bed. I listen to the noise of the boys’ and their mother’s voice.

    One afternoon when we were on the way home from school, the boys and I stopped at the clothing store. The saleswoman looked at the boys and said to me in a low voice, “You’re Mr. Mom, aren’t you?” I felt very angry. I’m not Mr. Mom. That’s not how I look at myself. The boys have a mother, a wonderful mother. She works outside the home, I work in the home. We are parents together. I’m a father!

    1.The first paragraph talks about_____________.

    A. what the children have for breakfast    B. how busy the man is in the morning

    C. why the man cooks lunch    D. when the children go to school

    2.We know from the second paragraph that_____________.

    A. they take the subway to school when the weather is bad

    B. the man drives a car and his wife walks to work

    C. the man goes to meet the boys before school is over

    D. it doesn’t take them long to arrive home

   3.Paragraph 3 tells us that __________.

    A. the children’s mother is very strict with them

    B. the man’s wife works in an office very near the school

    C. the children’s mother used to be back hours later than them.

    D. the man has three or more children and the youngest loves drawing

   4.We learn from the last two paragraphs________________.

    A. what the saleswoman said has hurt the man a lot

    B. before the children get to sleep, the man’s wife tells stories

    C. what the man hast o do from morning to night everyday

    D. the man’s wife is Karen and she talks a lot

   5.This passage tells us_____________.

    A. never to call a man Mr. Mom

    B. the man doesn’t enjoy working at home

    C. something about the children’s school life

    D. what kind of people the man and his wife are

The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.
　　A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars , and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.