“Visitors to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai will be able to go sightseeing in super cool cars with no drivers,” Shanghai city government speaker said recently.
When the six-seat car was shown to the public, it interested many people. “The car will help visitors feel what high technology（技术）is and help them enjoy the tour of the World Expo site,” said a teacher from Tongji University. The car, 4.5 meters long, 1.7 meters wide（宽）, and 1.6 meters tall, runs along a white line. The car costs around 300,000 yuan to build and can reach a top speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
According to the researchers, visitors will be able to driver the car anywhere in the World Expo site by pressing a button（按按钮）. If they want to get off or stop the car, all they need to do is just to press the button again.
“People can rent one of these cars for a whole day or just take a ride in it from one place to another,” the teacher said. About 400 to 500 of these cars will be made for the Expo in 2010. the cars will have radar（雷达）to help them get around. They will mainly use solar（太阳能）batteries. And they have no need of drivers and oil（汽油）, these cars will help save energy and human work, and cause no pollution to the environment.
【小题1】The new type of car has _____ seats.
A. seven                      B. six                          C. five
【小题2】According to this passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. The car can reach a top speed of 50 kph.
B. The car costs about 30,000 yuan to build.
C. The car is 4.5 meters long and 1.7 meters tall.
【小题3】Which of the following is not mentioned in this passage?
A. People can buy this type of car and drive it in the World Expo site.
B. This type of car can save energy and human work, and cause no pollution.
C. People can press the button themselves when they want to get off or stop the car.
【小题4】The title（标题）of the passage is probably “_____”.
A. Radar First Used in Cars 
B. Cool Cars with No Driver
C. Tour the 2010 World Expo

In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(经济萧条), many have learnt to live  16 . Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She  17  a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned  18  $30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be  19 , but Anna was able to live on her money and still  20  $5000 in the first year. How could she do so in  21  expensive city?
Cheap living always starts with keeping the  22  cost small. For people, that  23  housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was  24 . When she ate  25 , she went to cheap restaurants.  26  she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often  27  a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the  28  for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even  29  to take two trips, one to the Netherlands,  30  to Portland.
“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.

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Over 30 000 years ago,people from northern Asia went to America.Today we can tell these people Indians.

The Indians went to America because the weather began to change.Northern Asia became very cold.Everything froze.They had to move or they would die.How did the first Indians go to America? They walked!

Later Columbus found the New World in 1492.At first,only a few Europeans followed.They traveled to America in boats.For the next 300 years,about 500 000 people went there.Then the number grew very quickly.From 1815 to 1915,over 32 000 000 Europeans left their countries for the United States.The biggest groups went from Germany and Italy.These Europeans spoke many different languages.Most of them took almost no money.They went to America to find a better life.

1.________ went to America first.

2.Why did the Indians go to America? Because ________.

3.The New world was ________.

4.The first Europeans went to America ________.

5.These Europeans ________.

6.The Europeans went to America in order to ________.

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There are many animals in Weihai Zoo．11 The elephants are from Africa．African elephants are big and kind animals，12 ________there are only about 30.000 in Africa．Some people kill the elephants 13 ________money．

African elephants are tall． They need（需要）to eat a lot of leaves and grass and they eat for hours a day．They can also drink 40 gallons（加仑）of water at one time．

Elephants have four teeth and two 14 tusks．These tusks grow about seven inches（英寸）a year．They can be up to twenty feet（英尺）long! African elephants live all over Africa The ears of a full-grown African elephants are about five to six feet long and four feet wide．

My friend gives me two tickets．15You，Would，with，to，the，to，zoo，go，like，me？

1.写同义句：The elephants ________   ________Africa．

2.选择恰当的连词：________

A．and              B．or               C．but              D．so

3.选择恰当的介词：        

A．in               B．for               C．at               D．with

4.猜汉语意思________

A．象牙             B．象鼻             C．象腿             D．象耳

5.连词成句：________________________________________________？