We know that trees are useful in our everyday life. They   1  us many things, such as wood, oxygen, rubber, medicines and many other things. They can  2  tell us a lot about our climate. The following are the reasons. If you   3  a tree, you can see that it has many rings. Most trees grow one new ring   4  year. Because of the 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 or very cold, the trees do not grow very much and their rings are usually   7 . When it is wet and warm, the rings are much thicker. If the rings are suddenly very thin or suddenly very thick, this means that the   8  changed suddenly. If we look at the rings on this tree, we can learn about the   9  for a hundred years. We can see  10  our climate is changing today.

I couldn’t follow what he said _______, but at last I understand.

A. for the first????????????? B. at first????????????? C. the first????????????? D. at the first

This is _____ lesson.

What day is __61___ day of the week? We Chinese may say Monday, because Monday is the first working day in the week. But__62___people have different ideas. They say__ 63___ is the first day of the week. Also, they work only five days a week and have a long __64___: Saturday and Sunday. People are different __65___ many other ways, too. We Chinese put our last names first and our first name last .British and American people put them in the other way. Chinese people speak Chinese, but British and American people speak English. Chinese eat a lot of__ 66___ . British and American people have a lot of bread and potatoes. Most Chinese ride bicycles, but most British and American people drive __67___. People write __68___ in different ways, too. We Chinese write “November 10, 2005” as “05 / 11 / 10”, in big -to - small order. But British put it as “___6 9__”, in small - to - big order, and the Americans even write it as “10/ 11 / 05”. What a difference!

Do you know any other __70___ between us Chinese speaking people and English speaking people.

1.                A．one            B．first            C．the first   D．a first

2.                A．speaking English  B．English speaking  C．English spoken D．spoken English

3.                A．Sunday         B．Saturday        C．Monday  D．Tuesday

4.                A．holiday         B．time           C．weekday  D．weekend

5.                A．to             B．by             C．in   D．from

6.                A．bread          B．crops          C．rice  D．corn

7.                A．buses          B．cars            C．taxis D．bikes

8.                A．dates          B．days           C．months   D．years

9.                A．05 / 10 / 11     B．10 / 11 / 05      C．05 / 11 / 10   D．11 / 10 / 05

10.               A．different        B．more different   C．differences     D．difference

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Today is Sunday. It’s the first d 1. of the week. Uncle Li goes to buy some v 2. and meat in the market. He has a s 3. basket in his hand. He buys some potatoes. They are very

c 4. . He wants to buy some beef, but they are too expensive. He doesn’t have e 5. money. So he c 6. his plan. He goes to the bookshop nearby and r 7. books for an hour. T 8. he goes back home w 9. the potatoes and the books. He looks very h 10. . What a fine day!