1、阅读理解A“Make new friends, but keep the old ones. One is silver and the other is gold” is a famous saying about friendship. Friendship is so important that the United States made the first Sunday in August National Friendship Day in 1935.Paper cards were popular years ago, but nowadays, more and more p
2、eople use e-cards to express their friendship. We can write something on the e-cards,like some beautiful centences,some poems or just some words you want to say to your friends.sending cards to each other represent a development of friendship.In 1916, an elderly man suggested to Hallmark cards found
3、er, J.C. Hall, that the words of a poem about friendship be used on a card. That card, using the words of poet Edgar A. Guest, became a best-seller quickly and sold well for 70 years. The poem began, “Id like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me”In 1919, Hall introduced the custom of se
4、nding cards to express frindship; he knew that people needed to remmeber friends with a visit, a letter to a card. The year-round exchange of friendship cards picked up in the late 1950s and became popular during the 1960s and 1970s until today.( )1. Which country made the National Friendship Day in
5、 1935? A. Britain.B. America.C. China.D. French.( )2. From the passage, more people use _ to show their friendship nowadays. A. e-cards B. letters C. paper cards D some money( )3. _ created the Hallmark cards. A. Scott Bauer B. The writer C. Edgar D. J.C. Hall( )4. What did the elderly man suggest i
6、n 1916? A. A friendship documentary was on. B. People should exchange friendship card. C. A poem about friendship could be used on a card. D. National Friendship Day should be revoke.( )5. How can people remember friends in Halls opinion in 1919? A. Only through a letter. B. Through phone message. C
7、. Through a visit, a letter or a card. D. Through meeting each other.参考答案：1-5 CDBBCBWhen I was a little girl, my family lived in a small village. There was a very beautiful river near my home. The water was clean and cool. I liked to go fishing there with my mom. We would catch fish, look for clams
8、and play in the water. There were also a lot of birds near the river. We would spend all day watching the birds. Life was beautiful and wonderful in the old days. Now my family lives in the city. Last Sunday my daughter asked me to take her to see the beautiful river I was always talking about. I wa
9、nt so much to go fishing there with you and grandma, she said. When we went to the river, we only saw a factory and a mountain of garbage. My mom was surprised, my daughter was disappointed(失望), and I was sad - the river was my best friend; I grew up with it. Now there are no fish in it; the birds a
10、re gone, too. I hear it crying for help. But what can I do?( )1. What did the writer often do to the river when she was young? A. Go fishing.B. Go skating.C. Go swimming.D. Go boating.( )2. When the writer went back to see the river, what did she find? A. The river was a good place for children to p
11、lay. B. The pollution in the river was very serious. C. Bird-watching was more and more popular along the river. D. There were no fish in the river because too many people went fishing.( )3. Who is the Grandma in the reading? A. The writer. B. The writers daughter. C. The writers mom. D. The writers
12、 grandmother.( )4. What did the writer mean when she said, I grew up with it? A. She helped clean the garbage out of the river. B. She had many friends who lived near the river. C. She grew well by eating fish and clams from the river. D. She spent much time playing around the river.( )5. This story
13、 mainly tells us _. A. the pollution of the river near her village B. the beautiful river near her village C. the things the writer often did in the river of her village D. the things the best friend of the writer often do参考答案：1-5 ABCDACComets (彗星) are parts of our solar system. Like the planets, th
14、ey go around the sun. A comet is a ball of dust（灰尘）, stones, and ice. Many people call comets dirty snowballs.The “snowball” may be only a few kilometers across. But when the sun heats the “snowball,” much of it is changed to gases. The gases grow bigger and become the comets head. A comet moves fas
15、t in its trip around the sun. But when we see it, the comet stays at the same place. Thats because it is so far away. But if you look night after night, you can see that a comet changes places among the stars. Each year astronomers discover new comets. We can see some of them only once. They make on
16、e trip around the sun and then go out into space. Other comets keep returning. But every time a comet goes near the sun, it loses part of itself. Finally we cant see it.( )1. What does the underlined phrases “solar system” mean?A. 地月系B. 太阳系C. 银河系D. 河外星系( )2. What does a comet travel around?A. The su
17、n B. The moon. C. The Earth. D. Other stars.( )3. Why cant we see comets move?A. They are very small. B. They are very far away.C. They move very slowly. D. They move only at night.( )4. Which of the following about comets is not true? A. All the comets move around the sun many times. B. All the com
18、ets are far away from us. C. Some comets move near to the sun only once. D. A comets is a ball of dust, stones and ice. ( )5. What is this passage mostly about? A. Comets and the sun B. Why comets are like snowballsC. Who discovered the first comet D. Facts about comets参考答案：1-5 BABADDRosa, Matt, Joe
19、l, Lita, and Kate had gone to school together since first grade. Next year, though, they would all be going to different schools.The five friends sat in Rosas living room, talking and listening to music. On the floor was a metal trunk. They were making it into a time capsule. They had painted it blu
20、e and gold, their school colors. Then they had written their names on the top. Now it was time to fill the trunk with treasures. They planned to keep the trunk closed for five years and then open it together.Rosa went first. She took a pouch out of her pocket and loosened the top. Inside the bag was
21、 a noodle necklace she had made in the third grade. She placed the necklace in the trunk. “Do you all remember how much I loved this necklace?” she asked. “I miss it already.”Matt added his second-grade picture to the trunk. In the photo he had a huge smile but no front teeth. “I hated losing my tee
22、th,” he remembered. “I couldnt blow bubbles.” Now he blew a big one and popped it loudly. Joel put in a ticket from the first movie the friends had seen together. Then Lita dropped in a bag of peanuts, their favorite snack. When it was Kates turn, she showed the group a painting she had made. It sho
23、wed the five of them at the beach.“Oh, Kate,” said Rosa, “its beautiful.” Kate smiled. “When we get together to open the trunk in five years, you can have itbut only if I can have your noodle necklace!”( )1. Which of these happens first in the story?A. Lita puts a bag of peanuts into the trunk.B. Ro
24、sa puts a necklace into the trunk.C. Joel puts a movie ticket into the trunk.D. Matt added his second-grade picture to the trunk.( )2. In this story, the word capsule means a _A. 图画B. 小船C. 玩具D. 容器( )3. Which of the following is NOT true? A. The five students would be in different schools next year.
25、B. They painted the time capsule into their school colors. C. Thy all liked eating snaks. D. They hoped to open the trunk six years later. ( )4 The friends are filling the trunk with treasures because_A. they hope to sell it and make moneyB. they want to remember the times they sharedC. they need a place to store some of their thingsD. they think they are very expensive( )5. This story is mostly about_A. five friendsB. a painting C. a necklace D. a ticket参考答案：1-5 BDDBC
