When you think of Beijing, the beautiful green waters and hills of Beihai Park and the grand and beautiful Forbidden City will come to your mind.

In recent years, groups of modern buildings and specially designed plazas have appeared on Beijing’s streets. Standing in the street, you can feel how Beijing has changed. But foreigners still like to go to the hutongs.

The word hutong comes from the Mongolian language. Hutongs come to Beijing more than 700 years ago. As time passed, the hutongs have remained, and have become an important part of the essence of Beijing.

Many foreigners, when they come to Beijing from their far countries, will go directly to visit the hutongs after setting down. They sit in the courtyards, chatting with the native Beijingers about neighbors and their life. It seems that through their chatting, they can find the true meaning of Chinese family life.

Waving good-bye, they have to leave the hutongs, and say goodbye to the families with whom they have chatted happily. But they don’t feel like leaving. The hutongs have brought great enjoyment to them.

Although every country has it own special cultural background, economic situation and level and feelings are similar. The hutong is a cultural symbol of this city. And the families of the hutongs are also unforgettable.

1.What do we often think of when we talk about Beijing？

2.Where do the foreigners still like to go although Beijing has changed a lot?

3.What do we know from the third paragraph ?

4.将文中划线部分译成汉语

5. The best title for the passage can be_______.

A．How the word hutong comes from

B．Every country has it own special cultural background

C．The foreigners like to go to hutongs directly

D．Hutong and family

 

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B Help Line Volunteers

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以下信息分别符合上述哪个广告，请正确搭配。

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2．Mr. Read has been out of work for weeks, and he feels very upset and don’t know what to do.

3．The 16-year-old girl, Nancy, is a student in Green School. She cares much about the environment on the earth.

4．Miss Hope is always ready to help others. She is a nurse and can speak good English.

5．The Kings have just moved into a new house. They need to buy something to clean the floor and the carpet.

根据短文内容，判断正（T）、误（F）。

6．Dear Mrs. Web receives and answers email questions only from America.

7．If you want to be a Help Line volunteer, you can telephone 0241-85902 or email mrsweb@advice.com.

8．Save the Earth Club can help keep the neighborhood, school and city cleaner.

9．The King Sweeper has an old history and is widely used in homes, offices and so on.

10．If you need two pairs of Sunglasses, you need to pay more than twenty dollars.

从B栏中找出与A栏句子相对应的答语。

A                                                             B

1．Nice to meet you．                                            A．Meat．

2．Where are you from?                                         B．It’s green．

3．Do you like bananas?                                         C．Nice to meet you，too．

4．How are you?                                                D．No，I like apples．

5．What’s your name?                                         E．Fine，thank you．

6．Sit down，please．                                         F．Thank you．

7．What’s your favorite food?                                 G．My name is Kate．

8．How old is Jackie Chan?                                        H．He’s fifty years old．

9．Is Miss Lian an English teacher?                          I．I’m from Shandong．

10．What colour is the tree?                                    J．Yes，she is．

It is December 25th, 2050. The people in the city are all celebrating Christmas. I’m the mayor of our city. My citizens* and I are holding a big party under the sea, though you wouldn’t believe it. But please do not feel excited, you should feel sad because we have to live under the sea. Because of the pollution, the earth has been completely destroyed, from top to bottom. The atmosphere* has no oxygen* and moisture*. As a result, the plants are burned by the strong sunlight with a great number of harmful rays. Of course, none of them are still alive. Not only no green, but also the temperature reaches about 121℃ all day even in winter because there is too much CO2 circling the earth.
On the land, there is no life. Luckily, the sea is not destroyed by human. So, we have to move into the sea. At the bottom of the water, people have built many new cities. There is a lot of advanced* equipment* in each city. Computers are used to control all the machines, even the people’s life. We can also make the seawater into fresh water. There are two machines making oxygen. If they stop working for only one minute, more than 10 million people will die.
The population of our city is over 30 million and, of course, it is quite crowded. We have lots of high buildings and bridges. The roads are wide, too. Our cars are miniature* UFOs, don’t be surprised, it is true. At the bottom of the sea you can’t see anything, because there is no light all day. However, we have advanced lighting equipment so that we can see the “sun” under the sea. Of course, the advanced lighting equipment is very expensive. And if it doesn’t work, we can see nothing under the sea. What should we do then?
【小题1】Where are they holding a big Christmas party?

A．On the land

B．Under the sea

C．In high buildings

D．On the road

【小题2】What controls people’s life under the sea?

A．Machines

B．Computers

C．Advanced equipment

D．Human beings

【小题3】Why do people have to live under the sea in 2050 according to the passage?

A．It is interesting to build cities and live under the sea.

B．We have advanced lighting equipment so that we can see the “sun” under the sea.

C．There is no oxygen and moisture around the earth as it is destroyed.

D．We can make oxygen under the sea with the high technology.

【小题4】What can we learn from this article ?

A．The plants are burned by the strong sunlight with a great number of useful rays.

B．There will be no lives in the world in 2050.

C．People prefer to live under the sea in 2050.

D．We should protect our environment instead of destroying it.

【小题5】What might the best title for this passage be                 .

A．A Christmas In The Future	B．A City Under The Sea
C．The Underwater Life	D．The Future Life Under The Water

Tom: What are we going to do this morning, daddy?

Dad: We're going to meet your mother and her friends from Ottawa.

Tom: Her friends? Who are they?

Dad: They're Miss Smith and Miss Green.

Tom. Where are we going to meet them?

Dad: At the airport（机场）.

Tom: When will they reach Beijing?

Dad: About ten this morning.

Tom: But it's only eight now.

Dad: Don't you know the airport is far from here?

Tom: Yes, I do. Let's go.

Dad: OK. Here is our car.

(1) Tom will go to ________

[　　]

A．meet his grandmother	B．the airport to meet his grandfather
C．meet his mother at the airport

(2) Miss Smith and Miss Green are from ________.

[　　]

A．Canada

B．Australia

C．the U.S.

(3) Miss Green will come to ________.

[　　]

A．the U.K. at about eight	B．Canada at about nine
C．China at about ten

(4) How is Tom going to the airport?

[　　]

A．By taxi.

B．By car

C．By bus.