先阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框给的词中选出最恰当的10个，并用其适当形式填空，每个词只限用一次。（10分）

leaf,  then,  large,  learn,  ones,  grow,  thick,  has,  mean,  first,  easy,  begin

  Everybody likes oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections, so it is   【小题1】 to eat them. Some oranges do not have any seeds(种子). Some have a   【小题2】 skin, and some have a thin skin.
The orange tree is beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green   【小题3】 . The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree   【小题4】 flowers and fruit at the same time.
There were orange trees twenty million years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the  【小题5】  
today. The orange tree probably came from China. Many different kinds of wild oranges  【小题6】  in China today. The Chinese started to raise(栽培) orange trees about 4,400 years ago.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East   【小题7】  to raise oranges from the Chinese.  【小题8】 
they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the new world (North and South America). They took them to Florida   【小题9】. Oranges are a very important crop in Florida today.
In English, orange   【小题10】 both a fruit and a color. We use the name of the fruit for the color.

请阅读一篇短文, 然后从所给选项中选出正确信息。（共5分，每小题1分）
People love oranges. They are sweet and juicy. They are in sections so it’s easy to eat them. Some oranges don’t have any seeds. Some have a thick skin and some have a thin skin.
The orange tree is very beautiful. It has a lot of shiny green leaves. The small white flowers smell very sweet. An orange tree has flowers and fruits at the same time.
There were orange trees forty hundred years ago. The oranges were very small, not like the ones today. The earliest orange trees probably came from China. Many different kinds of oranges are raised there today.
Farmers in other parts of Asia and the Middle East learned to raise oranges from the Chinese. Then they taught Europeans. The Spanish planted orange trees in the New World (North and South America) and took them to Florida first.
“Orange” is both a fruit and a color. The color of orangesis so beautiful that in English we use the name of the fruit for its color
【小题1】 Why do people like eating oranges?
A. No seed.    B. Its color.   C. Sweet and juicy.
【小题2】What’s the reason that people eat oranges easily ?
A. Thin skin    B. Thick skin  C. In sections
【小题3】What color are orange flowers?
A. White.      B. Orange.    C. Green.
【小题4】Where did the earliest orange trees probably come from?
A. China.      B. The Middle East.    C. North and South America.
【小题5】Who took orange trees to Florida first?
A. The Chinese.    B. The Spanish.     C. The American.

Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.
　　Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.
　　“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(电影艺术) and best visual(视觉) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.
　　Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.
In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.
【小题1】What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?

A．Comedies.	B．Tragedies.
C．Detective films.	D．Adventure films.

【小题2】So far, how many Oscar directing awards has Ang Lee won?

A．One.	B．Two.
C．Three.	D．Four.

【小题3】How do Chinese people celebrate the Lantern Festival?

A．Families get together and have rice dumplings.

B．Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins.

C．People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan.

D．Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets.

【小题4】What can we know from the passage?

A．The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year.

B．Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India.

C．Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi.

D．Asian films have come to the main stage of the world.

【小题5】Which of the following about Life of Pi is true?

A．It was a great success as it won four Oscars.

B．It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China.

C．It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake.

D．It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made.

The hottest place in the world is the Sahara Desert in Africa. But there are deserts in many other places: in America, in Asia and in Australia. In 1917 the temperature in Death Valley, in the United States, was over 48°C every day for six weeks. That's very hot!
But deserts are not always hot. After dark, deserts are very cold.
Not many animals and plants can live in a desert, because it doesn't rain very often. But one animal likes the desert — the camel. It has big feet to walk on the sand. It can live for a long time without water. Sometimes it doesn't drink anything for weeks — so it gets very thirsty! When it finds water it can drink 100 liters(升) at a time.
【小题1】What’s the weather like in a desert?

A．Always hot.

B．Always cold

C．Warm and wind

D．Hot in the daytime, cold in the night

【小题2】How many days is the temperature over 48°C in Death Valley?

A．6 days

B．30 days

C．42 days

D．48 days

【小题3】Which animal can live in the desert?

A．Camels

B．Horses

C．Tigers

D．Dogs

【小题4】The hottest place in the world is ______________.

A．Sahara Desert

B．Death Valley

C．Australia

D．We don’t know

【小题5】How is a camel like?

A．It has big nose

B．It can drink much water.

C．It can’t live for 7 days without water.

D．It can live for 100 years.

China lies ____ the east of Asia and ____ the north of Australia.

A．to; to             B．in; to             C．to; in             D．in; on