1、 8 characters in the worldIt looks like our oracle bone inscriptions in ancient ChinaTheir characters 9 many others，including the Latin alphabet（字母表）we use today When it came to 10 science，Egyptians left us mummies，which we try to see how they kept a 11 body for such a long timeEgyptians covered bod
2、ies with a special saltThis makes the 12 dry, which keeps it looking lifelikeSome mummies are more than 2,000 years old Today，many people are 13 interested in this crazy landScientists have found more than 130 pyramids in Egypt， 14 a research in National GeographicThe biggest is the Great Pyramid of
3、 Khufu in GizaIt is about 138.8 metres 15 ， which is almost as tall as a 40 story buildingThe Great Pyramid of Khufu is the most famous ancient wonder of the world that still stands today 1. A. onB. insideC. behindD. in front of2. A. mountainsB. canyonsC. waterfallsD. pyramids3. A. riverB. roadC. co
4、astD. mountain4. A. atB. inC. nearD. around5. A. coinsB. messagesC. forestsD. treasures6. A. got toB. came fromC. returned toD. looked for7. A. 28B. 29C. 30D. 318. A. oldestB. funniestC. ugliestD. longest9. A. recordedB. attractedC. influencedD. described10. A. musicalB. medicalC. physicalD. educati
5、onal11. A. deadB. sillyC. weakD. smooth12. A. headB. faceC. bodyD. stomach13. A. yetB. stillC. everD. never14. A. such asB. thanks forC. all overD. according to15. A. tallB. wideC. longD. deep二、阅读理解阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。A There was once a poor woman with the only sonThe boy said he wanted
6、a new coatThe mother left for the market，feeling very sad，because she didnt have enough money to buy a coat On the way home，she found a piece of wood and gave it to her son to play withLater that day, the boy went outside to playAlong the road，he saw an old woman cryingThe old woman was trying to st
7、art a fire to cook some food，but she didnt have any woodHearing that，the boy gave her his piece of woodThe old woman gave him a piece of the bread she had made Then，further down the road，the boy met a pot makers wife and her crying childThe boy asked her what was wrongThe woman said she had no food
8、to give to her hungry childThe boy gave the woman the piece of bread，and she gave him a potThe boy walked on Before long，he saw a husband angry with his wifeHe asked the couple what was wrong with themThey said，“We have broken our pot and have nothing to cook food inThe boy gave his pot to them，and
9、they gave the boy a new coat The boy ran home to tell his mother how he had at last got the thing he had wanted（1）The right order of the things the boy got from others is . A、wood-a pot-a coat-bread B、wood-bread-a pot-a coatC、a coat-wood-breada pot D、bread-wood-a pot-a coat（2）The boy got what he wan
10、ted because A、his mother loved him very much B、he got help from the old womanC、the couple bought a coat for him D、he was always ready to help othersB I cant help thinking about the face of that little beggar girl all the timeI can see the glad light filling her eyes when I laid the dime（一角硬币）in her
11、little dirty hand How much I had thought of that dime，too! Grandpa gave it to me a whole month ago，and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs；but those sugar apples looked so beautiful，and were so cheaponly a dime apiece（每个）一that I made up my mind to have one I can see herthe beggar girl，I
12、meanas she stood there in front of the store，in her old dress，looking at the chocolates laid all in a rowI wonder what made me say, “Little girl，what do you want? How she stared at me，just as if nobody had spoken kindly to her beforeI guess she thought l was sorry for her, for she said“l was thinkin
13、g how good one of those gingerbread rolls would taste，I havent had anything to eat today Now，I thought to myself, “Mary Williams，you have had a good breakfast and a good dinner this day，and this poor girl has not had a mouthfulYou can give her your dime；she needs it a great deal more than you do I c
14、ould not resist（抗拒）that little girls hungry lookso I dropped the dime right into her hand，without waiting for her to speak，walked straight away （1）The writer would like to buy at first A、a good dinner B、a sugar apple C、some chocolates D、some gingerbread rolls（2）The writer talked to the girl in aan w
15、ay A、rude B、kind C、exciting D、humorousC Turns out，youre not just what you eatyoure also where you eat Researchers found out that people had double the number of calories（卡路里）when standing in a messy kitchen compared to when they stood in an orderly one The researchers had 98 women spend to minutes i
16、n kitchens，under the guise of （以为幌子）asking them to wait for someoneHalf of the women stood in a messy kitchen，with piles of newspapers，dirty dishes and a ringing phoneThe other half of the women waited in a clean kitchen Both kitchens had bowls of biscuits and carrotsEach woman in the messy kitchen
17、ate twice as many cookies compared to those in the clean kitchen Why did this happen? “Being in a messy environment and feeling out of control is bad for diets，Lenny Vartanian，one of the researchers，said“It seems to lead people to think，Everything else is out of control,so why shouldnt I be? The stu
18、dys size was small，but the findings prove something we know all too well：Stress（压力）is bad for youStress often causes people to overeatBeyond weight gain，too much stress can also increase a persons heart rate，and lead to painful conditions like headaches While there are many ways to manage stressincl
19、uding listening to music and exercising，this study shows that there are easy and quick things you can do to find calmThe next time you dont want to tidy up the kitchen，remember that the exercise will help you a lot in so many ways （1）What can you find in both of the kitchens? A、Bowls of biscuits B、D
20、irty dishesC、A ringing phone D、Piles of newspaper（2）Which of the following is not mentioned as a result of too much stress?A、Overeating B、HeadacheC、Sleeplessness D、Faster heart rate（3）The research showed that A、people would eat more in a messy kitchenB、people could control themselves easily in a dir
21、ty kitchenC、after the women tidied up the kitchen，they sat down and began to eatD、the women waiting in the kitchen would listen to music and take exerciseD Considered one of the greatest English writers，Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30，1865，in Bombay, IndiaYoung Kipling was especially close t
22、o his motherFor Kipling，India was a wonderful placeHe learned the language and connected with the country and its culture However, at the age of six，Kiplings life changed when his mother, wanting her son to receive a good education in British schools，sent him to Southsea，England，where he attended sc
23、hool and lived with a family named the Holloways These were hard years for KiplingMrsHolloway was a strict womanShe beat and laughed at the young man，who also tried to be good at schoolKiplings solace（安慰）came in books and storiesWith few friends，he made himself busy in reading，but Mrs. Holloway alwa
24、ys took away his books Kiplings mother finally knew about her sons hard lifeShe rushed back to England and placed him in a new school in DevonThere，Kipling discovered his interest in writing，later becoming editor（编辑）of the school newspaper In 1882，Kipling returned to India and worked for a magazine，
25、writing poetry and stories in his spare timeIn 1892，he married Caroline BalestierThen，the couple lived in AmericaKipling seemed to love his new life，which soon saw the Kiplings welcome their first and second childrenAs a writer,too，Kipling wrote The Jungle Book（1894），The Naulahka：A Story of West and
26、 East（1892）and The Second Jungle Book（1895）Kipling was delighted to be around childrenHis books enchanted（使着魔）girls and boys all over the Englishspeaking worldIn 1907，he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature（文学）and became the first English author in the Nobel historys The Jungle Book was adapte
27、d（改编）to a Disney film in 1967A new liveaction version（改编本）of the movie came out early this year ,which has proved to be a success （1）Rudyard Kipling was sent to England becauseA、his mother always beat himB、he loved the language of EnglishC、he wanted to live with the HollowaysD、his mother wanted him to receive good British education（2）When he stayed with the Holloways，KiplingA、fell in love with reading B、had a good time at schoolC、enjoyed a happy childhood D、received many books from the Holloways（3）It can be learned from the passage that A、tw
