July 4 is the birthday of the United States of America. Since 1776, people have   36   the Independence Day holiday every year.
What do people   37 on Independence Day? Many colorful and interesting things. They have fireworks shows in the evenings and sing songs. Some families organize picnics with barbecues (烧烤). Kids can   38  much delicious food like hotdogs.
And these parties are a good time to dress up. Some kids make July 4 hats   39   the stars and stripes(星条) of the country’s flag on them. And Independence Day is in summer. Many kids use stars and stripes fans to keep themselves   40  .
It’s a great day, but no one forgets that it’s   41  too. US people are proud of their   42  and proud of what the founders did for it. On Independence Day everyone gets the chance to show it.
【小题1】 A. spent       B. celebrated        C. decorated
【小题2】A. do           B. make               C. give
【小题3】 A. smell       B. sell               C. eat
【小题4】 A. for         B. with               C. at
【小题5】 A. hot         B. warm               C. cool
【小题6】 A. funny       B. serious               C. boring
【小题7】 A. country     B. school                 C. home

On 5 July 1996, a lamb was born in a shed in Scotland．It was called Dolly and it was an exact copy, or clone of another sheep．A clone is a method of copy a living thing．Scientists have been able to clone plants and bacteria(细菌)for a long time．Now that Dolly has been born, we can clone adult animals and probably even humans as well! In July 1998, scientists cloned twenty-one mice using the same method that was used to make Dolly．These proved that this way of cloning really works．

Making a copy of a living thing is much more difficult than making a copy of something that isn’t living(1ike a mountain bike)．For many years, people have tried to make robots that look and behave like humans．But in real life, scientists haven’t been very successful．Some countries are passing laws to stop scientists cloning humans, because it is such a terrifying thing to do．Robots still look like hunks of metal．They don’t move like we do, and they don’t think like we do．

1 What is clone?

A. A clone is Dolly．             B. A clone is an exact copy of a living thing．

C. Clone is the name of a sheep．   D. A clone is some plants and bacteria．

2. he underlined word“copy”in the passage means         ．

A. 印刷    B. 复印    C. 复制   D. 抄袭

3. What did scientists clone two years later after Dolly was born?

A. Mice     B. Plants     C. Robots   D. Humans

4. Which of the following is true?

A. Making a copy of something that is living is difficult．

B. It is breaking the laws to clone humans all over the world．

C. Scientists have been very successful in cloning humans．

D. People have made robots that look and behave like humans．

5. The main idea of the passage is“       ”．

A. Dolly is a Cloned Sheep

B. All Living Things can be Cloned

C. What is Clone

D. The Difference between Cloned Things and Robots

A.　I don't think so.

B.　Oh,I see!

　　C.　No,it din't.

D.　Yes,she is.

　　E.　No,she isn't.

F.　So am I

　　G.　To Sydney,Australia?

　　L：What are you doing here?

　　F：I'm writing a letter to my penfriend Mabel．

　　L：1 ndline　 Isn't Mabel American?

　　F：2 ndline　 But her parents took her there for their holiday．

　　L：I hear it's very cold in Australia in July．Why do they take their holiday there?

　　F：It's very hot in America now．They like to live in a cold place and hate the hot weather．And they like to skate on the ice．

　　L：It took them a long time to get to Sydney by sea，didn't it?

　　F：3 ndline　 They spent only five hours on their travel．

L：Oh? Really?

F：They got there by air．

L：4 ndline　 I'm sure they'll have a good time there．

F：5 ．