An Englishman was showing a foreign visitor around London．“What’s that strange building?” asked the visitor．“That’s the Tower of London．”

“I see． l  did it take to build it?”

“About 500 years．”

“In my country we can build it in five months．” said the visitor．

A short time  2  , they came to St．Paul’s Cathedral(圣保罗大教堂)．

“Very interesting!” said the visitor．

“How long did it take to build it?”

“Nearly forty  3  ” said the Englishman．

“In my country we can finish it  4  forty days, ”said the visitor．

They went on all day．They visited most of the best known buildings in the city．Every time they saw a new one．the visitor asked  5  it was and how long it took to build it．Then he said that they could do the same thing much  6  in his country． 7  the Englishman got angry  8 the visitor though he tried not to show it．A few days later they came to the House of  Parliament(议会大厦)and the visitor asked the  9  question．“What’s that?” The Englishman answered．“I’ve no  10 ．It  wasn’t there last night．”

1．A．How often        B．How soon              C．How long             D．How much

2．A．after             B．before                   C．1ater                      D．as soon as

3．A．dollars                   B．days                    C．yuan                      D．years

4．A．with                      B．in                        C．after                             D．on

5．A．when                    B．what                    C．where                    D．how

6．A．quickly                  B．faster                   C．slowly                   D．more slowly

7．A．At first                  B．At last                  C．At the end              D．By the end

8．A．of                         B．to                        C．about                     D．with

9．A．same                     B．exactly                 C．difficult                  D．easy

10．A．money                 B．knowledge           C．idea                       D．tour

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　　Jacks is the name of a game that is quite popular with children. To play jacks you will need a small rubber ball and ten small metal objects(物体) called jacks.

　　The rules (规则) for this game are not complicated (复杂). To begin, you put the ten jacks on the floor or ground in front of you. Throw the ball up but not too high, pick up one jack, and then catch the ball. Keep the jack in your hand and then go on picking up the other jacks one at a time. You lose your turn if you do not catch the ball, you do not pick up a jack or you drop any jacks from your hand.

　　When you finish all ten jacks, you now try to do the same thing again but with two jacks at one time. This is more difficult, of course. You lose your turn if you make any of the other three mistakes or if you do not pick up exactly(准确的) two jacks each time!

1．The game needs ________.

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A．one ball

B．one jack

C．a small rubber and ten metal objects

D．one ball and ten jacks

2．The jacks are made of ________.

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3．A player picked up all ten jacks one at a time. Then he followed the rules and finished the second part. The total number(总数) of times that he picked up jacks is ________.

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4．After you pick up the first ten jacks, the game becomes more difficult because you may make one of the ________.

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5．A good title (题目) for this passage is ________.

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How would we travel without maps? It would be a bit adventurous (冒险的) to set off from Oxford University to go to London Bridge if there wasn't a map of the London Underground at each station. In fact, a lot of the early map-makers were adventurers and explorers, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries.
So what did people do before there were maps? Well, it was quite easy to use natural signs like mountains and rivers if you were travelling on foot or riding a horse. People took small boats down rivers and followed coastlines. And it was much more logical (合理的) to use time, not distance, to measure (计量) journeys: the next village is a three-hour ride, for example.
In fact, in the earliest maps, people didn't draw landmarks. They drew the stars. It was very easy to see the night sky and use it for navigation (航行). The sky was a lot clearer before the light pollution from cities that we have today. When towns and cities were built, people drew road maps which gave correct distances and directions.
The London Underground was opened in 1863 and it also used a road map style. But a man called Henry Beck realized that travelling by train wasn't the same as driving your car across London. Passengers only needed to know which stations to change at. His new design (设计) for the Underground map wasn't very popular with the train companies at first. But the passengers loved it and in 1933, 700,000 copies were printed.
These days, of course, you can ride a bike, drive a car or go through a forest and know where you are exactly, using a GPS. It's really difficult to get lost!
【小题1】What was drawn in the earliest maps?

Many people catch a cold in the spring time and / or fall.  It makes us wonder .if scientists can send a man to the moon, why they can't find a cure for the common cold. The answer is easy. There are exactly hundreds of kinds of cold viruses there. You never know which one you will get, so there isn't a cure for each one.

When a virus attacks your body, the body works hard to get rid of it. Blood rushes to your nose and brings congestion(充血)with it .You feel terrible because you can't breathe well, but your body is actually "eating" the virus. Your temperature rises and you get a fever, but the heat of your body is killing the virus. You also have a running nose to stop the virus from getting to your cells.  You may feel miserable, but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the cold.

Different people have different remedies（治疗法）for colds. In the United States and sane other countries, for example, people might eat chicken soup to feel better. Some people take hot baths and drink warm liquids.  Other people take medicine to stop the fever, congestion, and running nose.

There is one interesting thing to note - some scientists say taking medicines when you have a cold is actually bad for you. The virus stays in you longer because your body doesn't have a way to fight it and kill it .Bodies can do an amazing job on their own.  There is a joke, however, on taking medicine when you have a cold. It goes like this:

If it takes about one week to get over a cold if you don't take medicine,  but seven days to get over a cold you take medicine.

1.The scientists think   .when someone catches a cold.

2. Why can't you breathe we11 when you catch a cold? Because.

3.The blood is _____for the virus when someone gets a cold.

4.Which sentence is not right according to the passage?

5. What does the underline sentence mean in the last paragraph?