YUAN Longping, the father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan developed the world’s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than the ones people grew before.

51. If the X-43A goes round the Eath, it will take about _______ hours to finish the trip.

A.3 B.5 C.8 D.12

52. The newly-found insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was _______ years older than believed.

A.10 million B.400 million C.20 million D.380 million

53. Which of the following about the new star is NOT true?

A. It will go into space by September 2008.

B. It will stay in space for twelve months.

C. It costs a lot. D. It will go around the moon.

54.Yuan Longping won the World Food Prize because he ______.

A. is the father of his children B. likes to eat hybrid rice

C. developed the world’s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice

D. grows more rice than others

55. The above paragraphs are taken from _______.

A. a story B. an advertisement C. an explaining writing D. a newspaper

B

We,ve Moved!

Please come to the party in our new house.

8:00pm.on November 5

Betty and Jack

Add:31 Station Street

Tel:342-1525

E-mail:betty12@email.net Must Sell $275

Best washing machine

Only 6 months old

Owner going abroad

Call Mike Green

Add:10 Park Street

Tel:342-2691

E-mail:mikegreen@hotmail.com Smith,s Book Club

New and old books

Over 1,000 kinds

Good coffee and tea

Open every day 10:00 to 22:00

Add:15 North Street

Tel:342-7391 or 342-7350

E-mail:smith15@yahoo.com

( )56. If you want to go to Betty and Jack,s party, you can call .

A.342-1525 B.342-7391 C.342-2691 D.342-7350

( ).57 Mike Green has to sell his washing machine because .

A. he wants to buy a new one B. he will go abroad

C. he wants to buy a new house D. There,s something wrong with it
 

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