When people visit the USA, they can see_______.

A. the Eiffel Tower                                      B. the Opera House

C. the Statue of Liberty                              D. the pyramids

If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid. It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones. Each stone weighs about two and a half tons（吨）.The biggest ones even weigh fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Nobody can tell just how the men cut, carried and lifted（举）the huge stones without our modern machines（机器）.

    The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs （坟墓）strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life. But they never thought that about 5,000 years later their bodies would be on show in museums.

1.The Great Pyramid is in ________.

A. China          B. Japan           C. Egypt            D. France

2. A pyramid is ______.

A.a house         B. a huge stone      C. a king’s tomb      D. the name of a museum

3.The Great Pyramid is about _______ and made of _______ huge stones.

A.137 metres high; 100,000             B.137 high metres; 2,300,000

C.137 metres; 2,300,000                D.137 meters high; 2,300,000

4.Pyramids are built for _______.

A. the kings       B. the queens（皇后）  C. the kings' teachers      D. People

5.The kings thought they had the pyramids built to keep their bodies until _________.

A. they came home                    B. they became alive

C. they die                           D. they were on show in museums

阅读理解

Here is some information about some of the wonders of the world. I am sure you will be interested in them.

The Pyramids of Egypt

There are about eighty pyramids known today. The most well-known was for Pharaoh(法老) Khufu. It is known as the “Great Pyramid”. It’s also the largest one. Workers used about 2.3 million blocks of stone to build it. (A)用了20年的时间才建成。

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The garden sat on a hill. It was a large and wonderful structure(建筑物). Many parts of the garden were high up on large columns(支柱). There were many big and green trees with lovely flowers. Although there are many different ideas about the garden, we are not sure whether this wonder ever existed(存在)!

The Lighthouse of Alexandria

The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed about 2,000 years ago. It was in Egypt, too. (B) It was one of the ancient wonders of the world, about 135 metres high. It was once the highest building in the world. Although it doesn’t exist now, many people come to see its relic(遗址) every year.

1. The passage has talked about _____ wonders of the world.

2. “_____” has the same meaning as Sentence A.

A. We built it for twenty years.         B. It spent twelve years building it.

C. It took twenty years to build it.         D. Workers took twelve years to build it.

3. _____ raised high up the parts of the garden.

4. The Chinese meaning of Sentence B is “____”.

5. Which is NOT true?

阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。
Three men were t____【小题1】______ about the world’s greatest wonders.
The first man said, “I think the pyramids are the greatest. Though people b____【小题2】___ them thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And just think: people at that time didn’t have our m___【小题3】__ machines(机器). How could they build them so long ago?”
“ I a__【小题4】__ that the pyramids are wonderful,” the second man said, “ but I think computers are more wonderful. Everyone knows computers have changed the world a lot since people i【小题5】___ them.”
Then the t_____【小题6】____ man said, “ I d___【小题7】_____ with you two. I think the most wonderful thing is the Thermos(真空瓶).”
The other two men were very s_____【小题8】_____. “A Thermos!” they said. “Why? It ‘s a simple (简单) thing.”
“Oh, no,” the man said. “In w_____【小题9】___ you put in hot water and it stays hot. In summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the Thermos know w____【小题10】______ it is winter or summer?”