阅读短文，然后根据其内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项（有一项为多余选项）。
Shopping is popular with many people around the world. They seem to find new ways to buy things every day. They visit shopping centers, order things through the mail, or buy things on the Internet. 【小题1】 
For young people, one of the most popular ways to shop is to use a vending machine (自动售货机). These machines offer all kinds of things and you can find them everywhere. In the USA, there are vending machines which sell CDs. 【小题2】  The strangest product on sale from a vending machine is in Japan. Just put your coins in the vending machine Tokyo, press the button, and out comes a “kabutomushi”，that is, a black beetle（甲壳虫). You keep it as a pet!
Japan now has “Robosho”—a shop with no shop assistants, only robots. A robot reads your credit card(信用卡)and then gives you what you what. 【小题3】  People are very surprised that the robots can serve them as well as shop assistants do.
Some shops in the UK are like social clubs for teenagers. Many of them have a café inside. The Youth Station has a large nightclub for teenagers under 18, with a DJ playing music in a room that hangs the ceiling. Sports Town has a big screen, where you can see live sports from around the world. 【小题4】 

A. And some robots can even talk. B. Many American people usually go shopping. C. You won’t miss any exciting ball games even when you go shopping. D. People’s shopping habits are always changing. E. New CDs are put in the machine every week.

Japanese people work very hard at studying English. They start studying English at the age of 12. Most young Japanese people spend a lot of time and work hard at studying English, but Japanese people are not good at English. Here are the reasons:
There are few people from English-speaking countries in Japan. They don’t have enough chances to speak with them.
Japan is an island(岛)country and they feel that other countries are far away. So they don’t use English very often. And the Japanese feel that it is strange(奇怪的) to talk to each other in English.
The Japanese education doesn’t always follow the educational trends(趋势) in the world. It puts a lot of importance on grammar and vocabulary, and less on speaking, listening and reading skills.
Many Japanese students’ English becomes worse(更糟糕的) after they go to university(大学).They have to learn English again if they work in English-speaking countries.
Sometimes the Japanese feel shy about speaking wrong or broken English.
【小题1】Most young Japanese people        English.

A．are good at

B．work hard at

C．don’t like

D．spend little time on

【小题2】How is the university students’ English in Japan?

A．Very good

B．Worse than before

C．Very bad

D．As good as before

【小题3】In fact,        .

A．the Japanese education needs to put a lot of importance on speaking

B．all the Japanese people hate English

C．Japanese people use English very often

D．the Japanese like to talk with others in English

【小题4】What’s the best title foe the passage?

A．The Japanese Like English

B．When Do the Japanese Being to Learn English

C．Why Are the Japanese Weak in English

D．How to Study English Well for the Japanese

In the West, some people believe that personality can be predicted according to the time of the year the person was bor. From China comes the belief that the year of birth influences one’s personality. In the past century, a new belief ahs arisen: the idea that personality is related to one’s ABO blood type. People with blood type A, for example, are considered more likely to be serious, hard-working, and quiet, while people with blood type O are likely to be popular and outgoing, yet often unable to finish what they start. Though this belief continues to be strong, some people question whether it is true.
The blood-type personality theory(理论) started in Japan in 1927 when Furukawa Takehi noticed personality similarities and differences among his workers. This idea soon went out of fashion, but was brought back by a Japanese television host named Toshitaka Nomi in the 1970s. The belief is still strong in Japan and is increasingly popular in neighboring countries. Some young Koreans have taken to the theory. A recent study showed 76 percent of Koreans aged between13 and 64 believing in the blood-type personality connection. Though most Asians might believe in the blood-type theory, for many it seems harmless and not something to be taken too seriously.
Is the belief true? The scientists in Asia largely think the belief as a modern-day superstition(迷信). Most studies have failed to find any strong connection between blood and personality. Generally, scientists are against making predictions or important decisions based on this questionable theory.
【小题1】The writer uses blood type A and O as an example to explain ________.

A．the difference between the two blood types

B．the relationship between the two blood types

C．the influence of blood type on one’s behavior

D．the connection between personality and blood type

【小题2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．They don’t believe it.

B．It was brought back by them.

C．They liked and accepted it.

D．They stole the idea from others

【小题3】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Most scientists in Asia don’t believe in the theory.

B．The blood-type theory began in Japan in the 1970s.

C．The blood-type personality theory is about blood type.

D．People don’t change their personality to match the theory.

【小题4】What is the best title for the passage?

A．Is the blood-type theory changeable ?

B．Is the personality changeable?

C．Is it in your blood?

D．Is it in you mind?

The famous Chinese mathematician(数学家) Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan County, Jiangsu province in 1910. When he was young, life was very difficult for his family. Still, the boy took great interest in math.
In the summer of 1931, he was fortunate(幸运的) enough to become an assistant in the Math Department(系) of Qinghua University, where he spent every moment he could find working and studying, and he finished his compulsory(必修的) math course all by himself in only 13 months!
Between the years of 1936 and 1938, he was further studying in Cambridge University in the U.K. In 1950, together with his family, he returned to China from the USA. He said, “I’m Chinese, and I’ll do my best for my motherland.”
So he did. He devoted(贡献) all his life to the math study and won the great fame(荣誉) for our country.
He died for heart trouble in 1985 while lecturing in Japan. People will always remember him as a great scientist.
【小题1】 Which of the following is not true?

A．Hua Luogeng is a famous Chinese mathematician.

B．Hua Luogeng died in China.

C．Hua Luogeng was born in Jingtan County.

D．Hua Luogeng comes from Jiangsu.

【小题2】 The word “assistant”in this passage means “____” in Chinese.

A．帮手

B．服务员

C．助教

D．教授

【小题3】Hua Luogeng was ____ in 1937. Which of the following cannot be chosen?

A．in China

B．abroad

C．in Cambridge

D．in England

【小题4】 From the story we can guess that Hua Luogeng was born in ____.

A．a rich family	B．a poor family
C．a mathematician family	D．a fortunate family

I used to live in Kobe in Japan. On my way home on the bus every evening I used to look for an old man who often played his saxophone (萨克斯管) near the river. I couldn’t hear his music because the windows were closed on the bus but I imagined it to be loud and clear. I wanted to be like that man.

One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a statue. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap (皮带) and in his hands was a saxophone. He was lifting the saxophone to his lips and he was just about to play. I stayed there for a long time by the statue dreaming of playing a saxophone on TV.

Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my joy when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a saxophone! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the instruction book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I raised it slowly to my lips as my family watched. But still there was no sound. I blew and blew but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost crying when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound—loud and clear like I imagined the music of the man by the river in Kobe. I blew again, I moved my fingers on the saxophone and I made more sounds. I was happy because I was playing very interesting sounds. But I wasn’t playing music yet.

Then came the lessons. Night after night, week after week my teacher made me practice. Slowly I started to improve and at last there came the magic day when I started to play music. Now I’m in the TV studio with my saxophone strapped to my neck and my cap on my head. I’m always thinking of the man by the river in Kobe and the statue smiling at me in Himeiji. I’m a happy man.

1.On the bus, the writer couldn’t ________.

A．find an old man with a saxophone           B．see a river

C．hear the old man’s music                D．imagine the sound

2.The statue along the river made the writer think of ________.

A．having a saxophone

B．the old man near the river

C．having a cap and a saxophone as the boy

D．playing the saxophone on TV

3.The writer could get the saxophone to play ________.

A．as soon as he got it

B．after he read the instruction

C．after he tried many times

D．after his father taught him

4.What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The magic day.                         B．My birthday present.

C．The old man and the statue.               D．My dream of playing saxophone.