There are a lot pubic libraries in Britain. These libraries have one   1   and fifteen million books,not
including (包括) those libraries of public schools.
     Pubic libraries   2   only lend books,music record (唱片)   3   a1so help children,patients in hospitals
and   4   to get special play readings,film shows and so on.
     The first public libraries   5   founded in about the year1850.Today's public libraries usually have a
reading-room a lending room and a reference room.
     The greatest and famous library in Britain is that of the British Museum in London.it was founded in
1753 and has the   6   collection of antiquities (古董收藏) and over 6 000 000 books,Every magazine,
newspaper,book,   7   it is published (出版),one copy of it must be   8   to the British Museum.The
Reading Room of the Museum is famous for   9   of famous and great persons who have studied there.The British Museum is not,   10   the way,a lending library.
1. __________  2. __________  3. __________  4. __________   5. __________
6. __________  7. __________  8. __________  9. __________ 10. __________

    The most common unlucky number is thirteen. People don't like to live in a house that is number
thirteen. People don't like to have parties with thirteen people. People don't like to do important things
on the thirteenth of the month. Also, when you add the Japanese unlucky numbers together-nine and
four-they make thirteen.
    One English teacher told his students a story about "thirteen". The classroom was number thirteen.
At the end of the lesson one of the students changed the number of the room to 12A. In the afternoon,
another teacher wanted to find Room 13. He didn't know about the changed numbers. He walked around
the school for half an hour. At last, someone told him about the changed number-that Room 12A was
Room 13.
    There aren't many business meetings on the thirteenth of the month especially when the thirteenth is
on a Friday. Friday is always unlucky. Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden on a Friday. Jesus Christ
died on a Friday. (There were thirteen people at His Last Supper.) In Europe, they killed criminals on
Friday.
     For some people, unlucky numbers do the opposite things. My elder brother was born on the thirteenth.
He passed his exams on the thirteenth. He married on the thirteenth. He became a pilot on the thirteenth.
It was always a lucky day for him.

1. From the text we know that ___.

A．nobody likes the number four or nine
B．people never have business meetings on the thirteenth
C．thirteen is not liked by many people
D．thirteen is unlucky only in Europe

2. In Europe people think Friday is always unlucky possibly because ___.

A．Jesus Christ died on Friday
B．some criminals are killed on Friday
C．more people died on Friday
D．there is a thirteenth on one Friday

3. What's the writer's attitude towards the unlucky numbers?

A．He doesn't mention it.
B．He thinks four and nine are unlucky numbers.
C．He thinks thirteen is lucky for him.
D．He doesn't like thirteen, either.

     Euro Disney was opened in 1992 in Paris . It is one fifth the size of the    1    (城市). It is the world's 
   2    (最好的) theme park . About 50 million visitors come    3    (來自) abroad to see Mickey and Donald 
every    4    (年). So it makes a lot of money and many friends!
     But EuroDisney had a    5    (艱難的) time at its beginning. Some people in Paris    6    (相信) that the
park would influence their culture in a bad way. And about 3.000 French    7    (工人) stopped their jobs
at the park because they felt it    8    (錯(cuò)的) to speak English while working.
      Later people began to    9    (喜歡) it. Many people who have been to the park   10   (返回) with their
friends. Now it is even more popular than the Eiffel Tower.
1._______ 2._______ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______
6._______ 7.________ 8._______ 9._______ 10._______

     The Americans eat three meals a day. They have breakfast in the morning, a light (簡(jiǎn)單的) lunch at
noon, and a big dinner at night. They often eat breakfast in a hurry, but they have more time for dinner.
Americans drink a lot of water (水), a lot of milk (牛奶), and a lot of coffee, but they don't drink much
tea (茶).
     Some Americans like to eat in a cafeteria (自助餐館). They can go there for breakfast, lunch, or
dinner. A person takes a knife, a fork, a spoon, and a napkin (餐巾). Then he walks to a long counter. He
can see all the food there. He chooses (選擇) his meal and puts it on a tray.
     Then he pays (付錢) for it and carries his tray to a table. I like this self-service, and the meals are not
very expensive (昂貴的) in a cafeteria; they are more expensive in a restaurant.

1．This passage is a mainly about American ______.

A．meals
B．food
C．restaurant

2．______ is the most important meal for Americans.

3．Americans like to eat the food ______.

A．in a restaurant
B．a(chǎn)t home
C．in a cafeteria

4．The food in a restaurant is ______.

A．good
B．expensive
C．cheap

A．Americans like drinking coffee than tea.
B．Americans have more time to have dinner.
C．Americans put their food on the fork.

     If you can speak English, you know a lot of English words.  You can read, speak and understand, But
there is another kind of language you need to know, the language of the body.
     All over the world, people "talk" with their hands, heads and eyes. When Japanese people meet, they
bow. When Indians meet, they put their hands together. What do American and British people do?
     Americans are more informal(非正式的) than the British.They like to be friendly. They use first names, they ask  questions  and  they talk easily about themselves.  When they sit down,  they like to relax in their
chairs and make themselves comfortable.
     British people are more reserved.  They take more time to make friends.  They like to know you before they ask you something of your home. When British and American people meet someone for the first time, they shake hands.  They do not usually shake hands with people they know well.  Women sometimes kiss
their women friends,  and men kiss women friends.   When a man meets a man friend,   he just smiles, and
says "hello". Men do not kiss each other or shake hands.Even father and sons do not often kiss each other.

1. People can communicate with each other using _       .      

A. only words      
B. only body language.
C. only the English language
D. not only words but also body language

2. We can learn from the passage that __________.    

A. handshake and kiss can not be used in greeting
B. people can "talk" with their hands, heads and eyes
C. only a few people use people use body language.
D. body language is more often used by people than words

3. British people take more time to make friends because _________         

A. they are quite conservation
B. they don't like people to go to their homes
C. they are not as friendly as the Americans
D. they find it more interesting to stay alone

4. When Indians meet, they __________.

A. kiss each other
B. bow to each other
C. put their hands together
D. just smile

5. In the U. S. A. and Britain ___________.

A. men always kiss their men friends when they meet
B. people would like to shake whenever they meet their friends
C. women are likely to kiss each while men aren't.
D. father and sons often kiss each other

     J___1_____ 1st is New Year's Day. Women's Day (三八節(jié)) is on March 8th. The f___2_____ day of May is May Day. China's Youth(青年) Day comes a__3______it. It's on the t___4___day after May Day. C____5__ Day is on June 1st. July 1st is our Party's birthday. August 1st is the Army(軍隊(duì)) Day.
T______6__ Day is on the t______7__ of September and O__8______1st is our National Day (國(guó)慶節(jié)). Then we come to C_____9___ Day. It's December 25th. Then we have winter(冬天) h____10____ in February. We have a lot of fun on these days.

     When we think of Hollywood. we think of films and famous film stars. They are parts of Hollywood's
history. Today people make films in other places, too. Not all famous film stars live in Hollywood. But
Hollywood is still a very special city in Los Angeles, California.
      You can easily see where Hollywood is in Los Angeles. There is a big sign on the hills. It says
"Hollywood". The white letters are fifty feet tall. You can see the sign from "far away. The Hollywood'
sign is a famous  Hollywood landmark (標(biāo)記)  in Los Angeles. Many postcards show this famous
Hollywood landmark. In the hills of Hollywood, there is also the Hollywood Bowl. It is one of the
largest open-air theatres in the world. It has seventeen thousand seats and a very different stage(舞臺(tái)) .  The design of the stage was by a great American named Frank Loyd Wright. You can listen to
all kinds of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl.

1. We learn from the passage that______.

A. Hollywood can just be seen from far away
B. Hollywood is now a place only for travelers
C. all the films are made in Hollywood
D. Hollywood is one part in Los Angeles

2. The word " special"  in the passage means"______"

A. new      
B. rich
C. famous    
D. unusual

3. At the Hollywood Bowl______

A. all postcards are made
B. only 17 ,000 people can get together
C. music can be enjoyed
D. you can hardly listen to different kinds of concerts

4. It seems that            .

A.some famous film stars don't choose to live  in Hollywoocl
B. film stars don't think Hollywood is a good place to make films
C. the Hollywood 130wl is larger than any other open-air theatre in the world
D. the Hollywood Bowl is a hill in Hollywood

5. The stage of the open-air theatre was designed by a(n)______.

A. American                
B. European
C. Englishman              
D . Indian