Do you know something about tree rings（年輪）? Do you know they can tell us what the weather was like, sometimes even hundreds of years ago?

　　A tree will grow well in a climate（氣候）with lots of sun shines and rainfall（雨量）. And little sunshine or rain fall will limit（限制）the growth of a tree. We can see the change of climate by studying the tree rings. For example, to find out the weather of ten years ago, count the rings of a tree from the outside to the inside, if the tenth ring is far from the eleventh ring, then we're sure that it was sunny and rainy most of that year. If it is near to the eleventh ring, then the climate that year was bad.

A．Tree rings grow far from each other.

B．Tree rings become thinner.

C．Trees don't need sunshine or rainfall.

A．whether a tree was strong or not

B．whether people took good care of the trees or not

C．whether the climate was good or not.

A．Trees could tell the change of the weather.

B．Trees could be used for burning and for building houses.

C．Trees could make weather not too hot or too cold.

A．Because bad weather stopped the growth of trees

B．Because they no longer had water and the land became sand

C．Because they didn't have enough trees for burning

A．listen to music

B．go to movies

C．study in the same class

A．at 21∶55 on Channel 1

B．at 21∶00 on Channel 2

C．at 21∶15 on Channel 1

(5) “Modem English”is a program that ________.

A．teaches you English

B．tells you something about English classroom

C．lets you know English news

　　Many people like to watch TV. Watching TV is one of the most important activities（活動）of the day. TV brings the outside closer to people's homes. Some people say the world is smaller than before- because of TV. What's going on in the other countries? How do people live in places far away? Is there good sports game somewhere（某個地方）? What's life in the deepest part of the sea?

　　If you want to answer these and other kinds of questions, just turn on the TV. Turn it on and watch. You can see a lot and learn a lot. Of course, people can also learn through reading or listening to the radio. But with TV they can learn better and more easily. Why? Because they can hear and watch, too. TV helps to open our eyes. TV also helps to open our minds（思想）. TV often gives us new ideas. We learn newer and better ways of doing something.

A．TV makes the earth smaller and smaller

B．all people like to watch TV

C．TV brings the outside world closer to people

A．go to live in the other countries

B．answer TV many questions

C．get a lot of information（信息）

A．without TV people can't open their eyes

B．people can not only hear but also watch

C．TV sets are bigger than radios

(4) The sentence“TV also helps to open our minds”means ________.

A．our minds can only be opened by TV

B．something is wrong with our minds

C．it can help us to increase our knowledge（增長知識）

(5) This article（文章）has told us ________.

A．it's good to watch TV

B．not to watch TV any more

C．students shouldn't watch TV at any time

　　Now satellites are helping to forecast（預(yù)報）the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere（大氣）, because this is where the weather forms（形成）. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists（氣象學(xué)家）can see the weather of any part of the world from the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change.

　　Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare（比較）them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.

　　So the weather satellites are a real help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more a-head.（提前）.

A．the weather satellites can do it easily

B．clouds form there

C．the weather forms there

A．when they have received satellite pictures

B．after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones

C．before they receive satellite pictures

A．taking pictures of the atmosphere

B．weather forecasting

C．doing other work in many ways

(3) Of the four kinds of materials（材料）collected for recycling _______ was the molt.

(4) The amount of plastics collected during 1993-94 was the same as the amount of aluminum cans（鋁罐）collected in________.

(5) The total amount（總數(shù)）of plastics collected in 2000-01 was________.

A．1200 tons（噸）

B．1300 tons

C．the same as that collected in 1998-99

　　A Frenchman was once travelling in England. He could not speak English at all. One day he went into a restaurant（飯店）and sat down at a table. When the waiter came, he opened his month, put his fingers in it and took them out again, He wanted to say:“Bring me something to eat.”

　　The waiter soon brought him a cup of tea. The man moved his head from side to side. The waiter understood him and took the tea away. In a moment he came with a cup of coffee. But the man again refused（拒絕）it. He shook（搖）his head whenever the waiter brought him something to drink, for drinks are not food.

　　When the man was going away, another man came in. This man saw the waiter, and he put his hand on his stomach（胃）. That was enough. In a few minutes there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table in front of him. So, you see, we can understand the language of signs as well as we can understand the language of words.

(1) According to the passage（根據(jù)短文）, when people-do not understand each other's language, they can talk with the help of ________.

A．a waiter

B．a teacher

C．their hands, heads, and other parts of their bodies

A．to give him some medicine

B．to bring him a cup of coffee

C．to ask him for food

A．a cup of tea, a cup of coffee and a lot of other drinks

B．a lot of food and drinks

C．a large plate of meat and vegetables

A．he had a stomach – ache

B．he was hungry

C．he was very thirsty

A．people can only understand the language of words

B．people know the language of signs, as well as the language of words

C．people can make a waiter understand what they want

  　Different people have different colour skin. Some have black skin, some have yellow skin, others have white skin. Once there was a woman in Alaska. Her skin was orange. It was almost the colour of orange juice.

　　The woman didn't want to be orange. She went to the doctor. The doctor said,“Stop eating orange things. Try some green things.”The woman did so, and she isn't orange any more.

A．only oranges

B．orange skin

C．orange eyes and hair

D．too much green things

A．ate too much orange food

B．fell in orange juice

C．chose that colour

D．ate nothing but orange

A．a famous doctor

B．a woman in Alaska

C．tomatoes; carrots and squash

D．different people with the same colour skin

A．she needed more sun

B．oranges made her sick

C．she didn't like her colour

D．she couldn't eat sunny things

A．to eat orange things

B．to drink orange juice

C．to have some green food

D．not to take any green vegetables

A．find different kinds of restaurants

B．see all kinds of films

C．buy things from all over the world

D．A, B and C

A．Large cities are not safe and clean enough.

B．In large cities people can easily find a good place to live in.

C．Living in large cities doesn't cost a lot.

D．All people like to live in large cities.

A．Some people do not like to live in large cities.

B．Large cities are better than small cities.

C．Large cities are good places to live in.

D．Large cities have a lot of problems.

A．to move to a large city

B．not to move to a large city

C．not to move to a large city without thinking about the problems there

D．not to think too much about the problem before they move to a large city

A．Large Cities

B．Not to move to big cities

C．Big city's problem

D．Large cities are good places to live in