Today Newtown is a clean place, but many years ago there were millions of rats there. The rats even attacked (攻击 ) the cats and dogs. Sometimes many of them tried to bite men or women at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.

The city office ordered every one to kill rats. However, most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats. The city office could do nothing with the citizens and could do nothing with the rats, either. Some time later, they had to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They at once began to kill rats. They got as many dead rats as they could. And some of them even stopped their own work to kill rats because they could get more pay. Every day a city official(官员 ) put all the dead rats together. He was very busy doing that, because sometimes a man brought hundreds of them in one day. Two weeks later, there were not so many rats in the city as before,  but people still brought many dead rats to the city office. The city officials felt surprised at this but at last they found out people were stealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to order his men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it. Soon there were no more rats and the city did not have to pay any more money for that.

1.The rats in Newtown were once ______

A．as big as cats	B．as dangerous as dogs
C．huge in size	D．run into cars there

2.When the city office first ordered the citizens to kill rats, most people ______.

A．had to pay for each dead rat

B．stole dead rats

C．were too lazy to kill rats

D．killed nearly all the rats very soon

3.A big hole was dug so that ______.

A．the rats could come out to attack people at night

B．people could take many rats

C．the people loved dead rats

D．people could not steal dead rats for money

 

In 1901, the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday items and to seal (封住）them in a special box. The box was marked “To be opened after midnight, December 31^st, AD 2000”，and was kept in the Colorado College Library.
One hundred years later, on the appointed (约定）day, 300 people gathered to watch the opening of the box. Many in the crowd were the descendants (后代）of people who had placed things inside the box.
When the box was opened after midnight, the things inside the box were in very good condition. There were newspapers, photos, diaries, name cards, family trees, books and lots of letters, including one written by Theodore Roosevelt, who became the President of the USA later that year. One of Roosevelt’s friends lived in Colorado Springs at that time.
Many of the letters were written to their descendants. They describe the hopes that the people of 1901 had for the people of the next century. At that time, Colorado Springs had just a few thousand people. Now nearly half a million people live there.
Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a website. Cecil Muller, whose grandfather had placed a collection of postcards in the box, said that the time capsule was a great treasure. “This is a wonderful educational resource(资源）.  We can learn so much about our history,”he said. “I never knew my grandfather, but now I feel very close to him. ”
【小题1】According to the passage, “time capsule” means ______.

A．a collection of clocks and watches

B．a machine for travelling through time

C．a collection of items for people to look at in the future

D．a collection of unwanted items

【小题2】Many of the letters in the time capsule talked about   .

A．the history of the town

B．the people who lived in the town

C．the politics of the USA

D．people’s hopes for the future

【小题3】Cecil Muller says that the time capsule ______.

A．helps him to get to know his grandfather

B．is worth a lot of money

C．brings back his memories of his grandfather

D．helps him to remember his younger day

The citizens in Shanghai _______________ the highest building, Shanghai Tower, in the near future.

A. is going to see       B. will see          C. sees                         D. see

 

Today Newtown is a clean place, but many years ago there were millions of rats there. The rats even attacked (攻击 ) the cats and dogs. Sometimes many of them tried to bite men or women at night. The rats were very large in size and they harmed (伤害 ) many people.
The city office ordered every one to kill rats. However, most people were lazy, so they did not kill many rats. The city office could do nothing with the citizens and could do nothing with the rats, either. Some time later, they had to pay some money for each dead rat. That made the people very happy. They at once began to kill rats. They got as many dead rats as they could. And some of them even stopped their own work to kill rats because they could get more pay. Every day a city official(官员 ) put all the dead rats together. He was very busy doing that, because sometimes a man brought hundreds of them in one day. Two weeks later, there were not so many rats in the city as before,  but people still brought many dead rats to the city office. The city officials felt surprised at this but at last they found out people were stealing the dead rats they had collected. So the city official had to order his men to dig a big hole and put the dead rats in it. Soon there were no more rats and the city did not have to pay any more money for that.
【小题1】The rats in Newtown were once ______

A．as big as cats	B．as dangerous as dogs
C．huge in size	D．run into cars there

【小题2】When the city office first ordered the citizens to kill rats, most people ______.

A．had to pay for each dead rat

B．stole dead rats

C．were too lazy to kill rats

D．killed nearly all the rats very soon

【小题3】A big hole was dug so that ______.

A．the rats could come out to attack people at night

B．people could take many rats

C．the people loved dead rats

D．people could not steal dead rats for money

In 1901, the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday items and to seal (封住）them in a special box. The box was marked “To be opened after midnight, December 31^st, AD 2000”，and was kept in the Colorado College Library.

One hundred years later, on the appointed (约定）day, 300 people gathered to watch the opening of the box. Many in the crowd were the descendants (后代）of people who had placed things inside the box.

When the box was opened after midnight, the things inside the box were in very good condition. There were newspapers, photos, diaries, name cards, family trees, books and lots of letters, including one written by Theodore Roosevelt, who became the President of the USA later that year. One of Roosevelt’s friends lived in Colorado Springs at that time.

Many of the letters were written to their descendants. They describe the hopes that the people of 1901 had for the people of the next century. At that time, Colorado Springs had just a few thousand people. Now nearly half a million people live there.

Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a website. Cecil Muller, whose grandfather had placed a collection of postcards in the box, said that the time capsule was a great treasure. “This is a wonderful educational resource(资源）.  We can learn so much about our history,”he said. “I never knew my grandfather, but now I feel very close to him. ”

1.According to the passage, “time capsule” means ______.

A．a collection of clocks and watches

B．a machine for travelling through time

C．a collection of items for people to look at in the future

D．a collection of unwanted items

2.Many of the letters in the time capsule talked about   .

A．the history of the town

B．the people who lived in the town

C．the politics of the USA

D．people’s hopes for the future

3.Cecil Muller says that the time capsule ______.

A．helps him to get to know his grandfather

B．is worth a lot of money

C．brings back his memories of his grandfather

D．helps him to remember his younger day