Want to say "hello" from Disneyland? Send a post card!
Beautiful scenes of paradise (乐园), wild animals, silly pictures — you can find them all in one place. Where? On a post card! Have people always sent post cards? No. Before post cards, people liked sealed letters.
The idea for the first decorated (装饰) post card came to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card with decorations would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, post cards with pictures appeared. By law, people had to write their note on the front ——on the picture! The back was only for the address. Several years later, England allowed a divided-back post card. Then people could write their note on the back left side and put the address on the right. During the early 1900s, the golden age of post cards, picture post cards became a craze of the world. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million post cards. Today, post cards are the third most popular collection in the world after stamps and coins.
1.We can see some silly pictures on the post cards.
2. Post cards were produced before sealed letters.
3.In 1861, the first decorated post card appeared.
4.Post cards were most popular during the early 1900s.
5.Stamps, coins and post cards are the most popular collections in the world.
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，则在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误）。则按下列情况改正：
该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，并在该行右边横线上写出该词，且也用斜线划掉。
该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
该行错一个词：在错的词下面划一个横线（___），并在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：该行若无错, 不要改。
It was sunny this afternoon. Mum and I go to 1.________________
the park where is near my home for a walk. 2.________________
When we were walking, I saw the little girl. She 3.________________
was eating a banana. After she finished eating them, 4.________________
she threw the banana skin on the ground into the 5.________________
park. I walked over to pick it and told her it 6.
was wrong to do so. If all of us do like that,
the park has become dirty. Then we can’t 7.________________
enjoy by ourselves in it. All of us must 8.________________
improve our environment and then we can 9.________________
make our environment clean but beautiful. 10.________________
用所给动词的正确形式完成短文，并将答案依次填在短文后面相应的横线上。
Once upon a time, there was a rich man. Each morning, the rich man found a poor man 76 (sit) on a bench in the park. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day, the rich man 77 (get)out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me. I want 78 (know) why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir ,” said the poor man, “I am a failure. I 79 (have) no money, no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I will sleep in that hotel.” The rich man said, “Tonight your dream 80 (come) true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month.”
A few days later, the rich man went into the poor man’s room to ask him how he 81 (feel) in it. To his surprise, he found that the man 82 (move) out of the hotel back to his bench. When the rich man asked why, he said, “You see, while I 83 （sleep）on my bench, I dream I am there in the big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But while I 84 (be) there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream , and I 85 （can not）get any sleep at all.”
1.__________ 2.___________ 3.____________ 4.___________ 5.____________
6.__________ 7.___________ 8.____________ 9.___________ 10.____________
阅读下列短文，完成短文后面的表格内容。（各小题不超过5个词）
George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.
He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson.
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What do people do with their old, out-of-date but still useful computers? Most people don’t know what to do with them. Many old computers are put away in homes. Many more are simply thrown out with the rubbish.
Some companies are thinking of ways to bring down the number of old computers. Sony has agreed to help recycle old Sony products. Dell, Hewlett-Packard and other companies now also take back some old computers.
In some countries, laws are being passed, too. Computer companies will have to collect and recycle their used products. And 70% of computer waste must be recycled. The idea behind the laws is that computer companies themselves should pay the cost. That will encourage them to make computers that are easier and cheaper to repair and upgrade（升级）.
Yet while many people are throwing away good computers, others cannot afford them at all. Hundreds of organizations are working to solve this problem. They collect and repair old computers. Some also teach others how to repair computers.
The computers then go to schools, charities and people who need them. Giving a used computer to one of these organizations can turn one person’s rubbish into someone else’s useful things—and cut down on waste, too.
1. How do people usually deal with their old computers?
A. They stop using them. B. They give them to others. C. They fix them up.
2. What do some computer companies do to bring down the number of old computers?
A. They don’t do anything about them.
B. They take back some old ones.
C. They donate them to some charities.
3.According to some countries’ laws, what must computer companies do?
A. Collect and recycle most of computer waste.
B. Repair and upgrade old computers.
C. Make much cheaper computers.
4. What may people who can’t afford computers think of the used computers?
A. Expensive. B. Useful. C. Out-of -date.
5. What is the passage about?
A. Repairing old computers.
B. Selling old computers.
C. Recycling old computers.
What’s a blog? A blog is a personal online diary(日记). It’s cool, it’s hot, and everyone is doing it. People talk about it often. Sound like a fashion? In fact, It’s another trend (流行趋势). And the word “blogger” means a person who writes diaries online. Are you a blogger?
Many bloggers are teenagers who log (进入) onto websites to discuss anything in their lives. Many of today’s teenagers are not afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives. Teenagers complain about their parents and homework. They share diaries, post(发布) songs from the latest bands and show pictures of theirs. They write their own poems, say something about their girlfriends or boyfriends and complain to each other or offer support. But mostly they just write down what they do every day.
However, many parents are worried about these young bloggers. Parents see the kids talking about how they got drunk last weekend and how they don’t like studying. They are using the language that is surprising to their parents. Besides hearing from their friends, teen bloggers also get messages from strangers. Most of the time, it’s older men asking to meet teenage girls. “These strange men are dangerous for my kids. They sometimes teach my kids bad words.” said Cara Cabral, a mother of two children.
Many teenagers and young adults know it’s not safe to use blogs on the Internet. They know they are putting information about themselves in a place where it can be seen by anyone. But teenagers are unwilling to give up these new communication tools that have become a way of life for many of them.
1. The underlined word “it” in the first paragraph means ________.
A. the fashion B. the Internet C. the blog
2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE？
A. Teenagers don’t tell about their personal life in their blogs.
B. Teenagers mostly write down what they do every day in their blogs.
C. Teenagers complain about their parents and homework in their blogs.
3. What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. Many parents don’t understand kids’ language in their blogs.
B. Many parents are worried about these young bloggers.
C. Many parents can understand why their kids don’t like studying.
4. Many parents think it’s for their children to get messages from strangers.
A. dangerous B. interesting C. surprising
5. We can learn from the last paragraph that .
A. It’s easy for many teenagers to give up blogging on the Internet
B. It’s safe for many teenagers to put their personal information on the Internet
C. It’s popular for many teenagers to use blogs on the Internet
