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1、Put your car keys away and forget about your travel pass --- it’s time to do a bit of walking.

National Walking Month is organized every May by Living Streets, an organization that campaigns for the rights and the needs of pedestrians, so the organization is previously known as the Pedestrians’ Association. The association’s aim is to make streets safe, attractive and enjoyable spaces for people to live, work, shop and play. By putting people (rather than vehicles) first, Living Streets wants to create streets and spaces where people feel happier, healthier and more sociable.

The annual campaign gives participants a great opportunity to experience the many virtues of walking. These include the physical health benefits of becoming fitter; the environmental advantages of not using vehicles; the delight of local discoveries --- seeing more of your local areas on foot; the enjoyment of walking with other people, whether family, friends or work colleagues and finally the stress relief that comes from walking --- walking can clear your head.

Walk to School Week, 18 to 22 May, is part of the month’s activities and its aim is to encourage parents to send children to school on foot, rather than take them in the car or let them use public transport. The movement was started in 1995 with only five participating schools and now two decades later, more than one million children take part.

Similarly, there is Walk to Work Week, 11 to 15 May, where grown-ups are encouraged to walk. In the morning, getting off the bus a stop early or parking a few streets away is a good way to add more steps to the daily total. And during the working day, after having lunch at the desks or in the canteen, take a walk and get some fresh air. Walk home with your workmates and chat away about everything under the sun but work!

【小题1】What’s the purpose of Living Streets?

A.To let people keep away from vehicles.

B.To build safer walkways for pedestrians.

C.To help people enjoy walking in the street and enjoy life.

D.To make people aware of environmental pollution.

【小题2】Paragraph 3 is intended to show that walking is __________.

A.so interesting B.very relaxing

C.perfectly safe D.highly beneficial

【小题3】What can we learn from Walk to School Week?

A.It is organized by the government.

B.It is held before Walk to Work Week.

C.It has developed rapidly over the last 20 years.

D.It encourages students to walk to school alone.

【小题4】 What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A.An introduction to Walk to Work Week.

B.A nationwide health movement.

C.The influence of working day.

D.National Walking Month’s history.

2、C

In 1932 the warning of the British politician, Stanley Baldwin, that “the bomber will always get through” made a deep impression in Britain, the only state to make serious plans to evacuate civilians from large towns before the war started.

The British Government developed plans for evacuating 1 million children to the United States and Canada and other Commonwealth nations. It established the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) in May 1940. After the fall of France, many people thought the war was lost and some saw this as one way of ensuring that Britain could survive even if invaded.

The Germans eventually began bombing British cities in September. Some children were evacuated by ship to British Dominions, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. The CORB selections were not done on a first-come, first-served basis. CORB classified and prioritized the children. Charges soon appeared in the press that the well-to-do were being given priority. CORB arranged for the transportation. The Government paid the passages. Quite a number of children had already been evacuated. This tended to be children from rich families with money and overseas contacts. The British public eventually demanded the government pay so that less privileged children were also eligible.

World War II occurred before the beginning of trans-Atlantic air travel. Liners were used to transport the children and this proved to be dangerous because the U-boats quickly emerged as the greatest threat. And this put the evacuee children trying to cross the Atlantic to safety in danger. Two ships carrying child evacuees were torpedoed (破坏)in 1940. One was the Dutch liner Volendam with 320 children on August 30. The crew managed to get the life boats off and saved the children. They were returned to Glasgow. The other was the City of Benares, an ocean liner with 200 British and foreign civilian passengers and 93 British children with a guard of nurses, teachers, and a clergyman. It was torpedoed on September 13. The crew attempted to launch the life boats as Benares began to sink. The rough weather made this difficult, so many of the passengers in the life boats died in the extreme conditions. Only 15 children survived. Churchill, when he learned of the disaster, decided to end the overseas evacuation scheme.

【小题1】The whole passage is mainly about _____.

A.bombing Britain

B.children evacuation

C.German U-boats

D.loss of children

【小题2】What can we learn about the British people according to the passage?

A.They were concerned about their children.

B.They were threatened by Stanley Baldwin.

C.They were frightened by German invasion.

D.They longed to go to commonwealth nations.

【小题3】The underlined word “eligible” in the last sentence of Paragraph 3 probably means _____.

A.qualified B.accessible

C.hopeful  D.popular

【小题4】Churchill decided to end the evacuation scheme mainly because _____.

A.so many people needed evacuating

B.the weather in the Atlantic was rough

C.the crew were inexperienced in saving people

D.liners easily became the targets of the German U-boats

3、In the past, if a person wanted to see the national treasures of a country, one had to go there in person.Therefore, very few people were able to enjoy some of history’s most important and interesting artifacts (手工艺品).This has changed with an increase in the number of traveling museum exhibitions.

King Tutankhamen Artifacts

A traveling exhibition of artifacts from the tomb of King Tutankhamen, popularly known as “King Tut”, toured the United States from November 1976 to April 1979.The 55 objects were shown in six cities and were seen by around eight million museum-goers.The second touring exhibit was started in 2007, this s antime with 130 artifactd stops in London and three different American cities.However some objects, like the king’s golden face mask, are too valuable or too delicate to be transported long distances, so “replicas” (exact copies of something) are on show.

Japanese Color Woodblock Prints

The Art Museum at University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, has an extraordinary collection of Japanese color woodblock prints (木刻版画).These prints document the period from about 1850 to 1900, a time when Japan was opening itself to Western influences.Before this point, Japan was a closed society that had little communication with the world outside of its borders.These works of art beautifully show the feeling of change and the trend toward modernization.The museum has put together a traveling exhibition of 60 of these prints, which can be borrowed and exhibited worldwide for periods of eight weeks or more.

Face-to-face with “Lucy”

One of the world’s most famous archaeological (考古学的) finds in history are the 3.2 million-year-old bones of a 106-centimeter-tall female found in the Ethiopian desert in 1974.Lucy, a name given to her by the discovery team, is a “hominid”, or a creature that scientists believe is the earliest ancestor of modern human beings.Rarely is an artifact this valuable allowed to travel widely, but Lucy has been taken to several museums in the U.S.while a detailed replica remains at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum.

【小题1】What do we learn about King Tutankhamen’s artifacts?

A.The artifacts were shown in London first.

B.The artifacts were on show in the United States once.

C.The second touring exhibit showed more artifacts than the first one.

D.The king’s golden face mask was also shown in the traveling exhibitions.

【小题2】What do the Japanese woodblock prints show about the society from 1850 to 1900?

A.Japan had little communication with other countries.

B.The whole country refused changes in the society.

C.Japan was opening itself up to Western ideas.

D.Japan achieved modernization.

【小题3】Who is Lucy according to the passage?

A.An archaeologist.

B.The ancestor of modern human beings.

C.A 106-centimeter-tall female who died in 1974.

D.The first woman who visited the Ethiopian desert.

4、In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.

It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Button, Dame Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras(交响乐团). It became fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly.

At the Same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.

Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.

Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.

A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold.

【小题1】What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?

A.To bring Europe together again.

B.To honor heroes of World War II.

C.To introduce young theatre groups.

D.To attract great artists from Europe.

【小题2】Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?

A.They owned a public house there.

B.They came to take up a challenge.

C.They thought they were also famous.

D.They wanted to take part in the festival.

【小题3】Who joined the “Fringe” after it appeared?

A.Popular writers.

B.University students.

C.Artists from around the world.

D.Performers of music and dance.

【小题4】We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival        .

A.has become a non-official event

B.has gone beyond an art festival

C.gives shows all year round

D.keeps growing rapidly

5、Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place. Around 1870, it was experiencing an economic(经济的)boom, and the capital, Buenos Aires, attracted many people. Farmers, as well as a flood of foreigners from Spain and Italy, came to Buenos Aires seeking jobs. These jobs didn’t pay well, and the people felt lonely and disappointed with their new life in the city. As the unhappy newcomers mixed together in the poor parts of the city, the dance known as the tango(探戈舞)came into being.

At the beginning the tango was a dance of the lower classes. It was danced in the bars and streets . At that time there many fewer women than men, so if a man didn’t want to be left out, his only choice was to dance with another man so that he could attract the attention of the few available women .Gradually, the dance spread into the upper classes of Argentinean society and became more respectable.

In Europe at this time, strong interest in dance from around the world was beginning .The interest in international dance was especially evident in Paris. Every kind of dance from ballet(芭蕾舞) to belly dancing could be found on the stages of the Paris theaters of the Paris theaters .After tango dances from Argentina arrive in Europe, they began to draw the interest of the public and they performed their exiting dance in cafes. Though not everyone approved of the new dance ,saying it was a little too shocking, the dance did find enough supporters to make it popular.

The popularity(流行)of the tango continued to grow in many other parts of the world. Soldiers who returned to the United States from World War I brought the tango to North America. It reached Japan in 1926,and in 2003 the Argentinean embassy in Seoul hired a local tango dancer to act as a kind of dance ambassador, and promote tango dancing throughout South Korea.

【小题1】The origin of the tango is associated with         .

A.Belly dances B.American soldiers

C.Spanish city D.the capital of Argentina

【小题2】Which of the following is true about the tango?

A.It was created by foreigners from Spain and Italy.

B.People of the upper classes loved the tango most

C.It was often danced by two male in the beginning

D.A dancer in Seoul became the Argentinean ambassador.

【小题3】Before World War I, the tango spread to       .

A.America B.Japan C.France D.South Korea

【小题4】What can be the best title for the text?

A.How to Dance the Tango

B.The History of the Tango

C.How to Promote the Tango

D.The Modern Tango Boom

6、D

Many thousands of Chinese are studying at schools in the United States. And writer Liel Leibovitz says the students are following an example that began in the eighteen seventies.

Mr. Leibovitz and writer Matthew Miller joined forces to tell the story of the students in their book, “Fortunate Sons.” The book says China sent one hundred twenty boys from 1872 to 1875 to America to learn about developments that could help modernize their country.

Mr. Leibovitz got the idea for the book about the boys a few years ago when he was traveling with his wife in China.

Mr. Leibovitz learned that Qing government sent a whole delegation(代表团) of boys to learn the ways of the West. The goal was for them to return to China and help their country.

The book says the boys received their American training in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. It must have been a very good education. Mr. Leibovitz says the first prime minister of the Chinese Republic completed this program. And so did the first engineer to build a large-scale railroad without foreign help. The same was true of the fathers of Chinese education, diplomacy and the Navy.

The book-writers had only to open some boxes containing the writings of these men to learn about them. Their notebooks, journals, letters and postcards were in English. Mr. Leibovitz said he was lucky to have so much information from events that took place long ago.

The students returned to China after about nine years. They no longer spoke Mandarin(国语) well enough to answer questions. Police welcomed them home by putting them in jail. The young men were released after about a week. But they were given low-level jobs.

Mr Leibovitz says it took about ten years for them to rise to higher positions. He said their story continues today with large numbers of Chinese studying in the United States.

【小题1】How many exchange children did Qing government send to America?

A.1872. B.1875.

C.120. D.210.

【小题2】The Qing government send the boys to America because it       .

A.wanted them to help their country

B.lost the war

C.expected them to destroy the culture of the West

D.wanted the Western to help the boys

【小题3】Which of the following is Not true according to the passage?

A.Many thousands of Chinese are studying at schools in America.

B.Some of the boys received their American training in California.

C.Police welcomed the boys home by putting them in jail.

D.One of the boys became the father of Chinese education.

7、Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.

In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. Henry IV, King of France, was famously dirty. Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath, the king ordered that, to avoid the attack of disease, the nobleman should not go out.

Though the belief in the merit of dirt was long-lived, dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century. Scientifically speaking, cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet, it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War Ⅱ. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea: clothes need to be whiter than white, cloths ever softer, surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt, however, gone too far?

Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays. Many first-time parents nervously try to warn their children off touching dirt, which might be responsible for the spread of disease.On the contrary, Mary Ruebush, an American immunologist(免疫学家)，encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground.

【小题1】 The kings of France and England in the 16th century closed bath houses because    .

A.they lived healthily in a dirty environment.

B.they believed disease could be spread in public baths

C.they thought bath houses were too dirty to stay in

D.they considered bathing as the cause of skin disease

【小题2】 Which of the following best describes Henry IV’s attitude to bathing?

A.Approving. B.Afraid.

C.Curious D.Uninterested.

【小题3】 How does the passage mainly develop?

A.By providing examples.

B.By making comparisons.

C.By following the order of time.

D.By following the order of importance.

【小题4】 What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A.To stress the role of dirt.

B.To introduce the history of dirt.

C.To call attention to the danger of dirt.

D.To present the change of views on dirt.

8、Elizabeth Mitchell’s new “Liberty’s Torch” is the fascinating story of how the Statue of Liberty came to be. The Statue of Liberty’s rough history is explored in “Liberty’s Torch”.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is an all-but-forgotten figure in American history. He was, however, responsible for one of the most enduring symbols of the United States: the Statue of Liberty. A Frenchman from Alsace, he designed and built the Statue of Liberty which stood on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor. How this statue came to be is the fascinating subject of Elizabeth Michell’s new book “Liberty’s Torch”.

The power of Mitchell’s narrative is convincing(令人信服的). We recognize the Statue of Liberty now as a symbol of hope and opportunity for a nation of immigrants. At the time, though, people could not see that-nor did they even imagine that. Instead, the construction of the statue was born of one man’s desire to set up a great monument.

For this reason, perhaps, “Liberty’s Torch” relies on Bartholdi as the connecting thread. Bartholdi went to Egypt to make photographic copies of the main monuments. On the boat, Bartholdi met and began a lifelong relationship with Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who would build the Suez Canal. Maybe it was this friendship, or maybe it was seeing Egypt’s huge monuments, but finally the trip inspired Bartholdi’s dream to create the largest statue ever built. Failure to bring this to completion in Egypt, followed by his exile (流放) from Paris, led Bartholdi to sail to America.

By explaining the Statue of Liberty’s hard history and showing Bartholdi’s brave spirit, Mitchell has done a great service.