Have you ever visited Yunnan? I visited it    1    my last summer holiday with my parents．Now let me    2   you something about the beautiful place．

    Yunnan is in the southwest of China．It    3    us  about eight days to travel around Yunnan．    4    ，we visited Kunming．Kunming is the   5    of Yunnan Province．In Kunming，Stone Forest is well — known （著名的）．I enjoyed it a lot    6  didn’t want to leave．

     Then, we went to Dali．Dali is about 350 kilometres away from Kunming．Its pleasant weather made us     7   comfortable．Dali has a very long history of more than 4000 years．It is    8     for Erhai Lake．The water in the lake is very clean．Finally, we took a bus to Lijiang．It is not far     9    Dali．There are many places of interest to visit in Yunnan．We enjoyed     10   there．

1．A．on                     B．a(chǎn)t                       C．in

2．A．give                B．a(chǎn)sk                     C．tell

3．A．made                 B．spent               C．took

4．A．First                  B．Then            C．Finally

5．A．town                B．capital                  C．village

6．A．or                   B．a(chǎn)nd                     C．but

7．A．feel                     B．to feel              C．feeling

8．A．good                    B．famous            C．popular

9．A．to                        B．with                    C．from

10．A．us                    B．our              C．ourselves

Father’s Day has a very short history. It was started because there was a Mother’s Day, and just because some Americans thought that if we had a Mother’s Day, we should also have a Father’s Day. Father’s Day has become important in North America. And businesses found it was a good way to get people to buy a present for their father from their shops.

By the way, very few countries have a Father’s Day, though some have a Children’s Day, or a special day for boys and another for girls. More and more countries are having Mother’s Day, so maybe Father’s Day will also become popular before too long. Now, what do people in North America do on Father’s Day? The newspapers, radios, and TV tell children what they should do — buy, buy, buy, buy, buy a Father’s Day present for your father. They even tell a wife to buy, buy, buy, and buy a Father’s Day present — not for her father but for her husband, even if he is not yet a father. And they tell grandchildren to buy, buy, buy, and buy a Father’s Day present for their grandfathers.

The important thing to remember about Father’s Day is that American children can show their love to their fathers in a more open way.

1.Father’s Day was started just because _______________.

2.The word “special” in the second paragraph means ________________________.

3.In America, people have a Father’s Day to ________________________.

4.On Father’s Day, businesses always want ________________________.

5.It can be learned from the passage that ________________________.

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Wherever travelers go, cameras are sure to follow. It’s great fun to take photos, and even more fun to show slides of the trip to friends and relatives when they come back home.

There’s Aunt Sarah, smiling in front of Buckingham Palace; Aunt Sarah, smiling under the Eiffel Tower; and Aunt Sarah, smiling in a Venetian Canal. Everyone knows what Aunt Sarah looks like; they also know what Europe’s great landmarks (顯著地面景觀) look like.

But a young man named David, just back from a trip to Greece, asked a few friends over to see his slides. The young man had an artist’s eye. His pictures were not of familiar Greek architectures. Instead he took pictures of farmers at work in the field, fishermen repairing their nets, and bearded priests (牧師) bending over their Bibles. He captured (抓住) the color and character of the country. His friends were so interested that they asked for more.

Any amateur (外行) can do the same. All he needs is a simple camera and a little sensitivity. When he learns that a nation lives in its people as well as in its landmarks, he moves from an amateur to an artist.

1.What does the underlined word “slide” mean?

2. People who watch Aunt Sarah’s slides would be _______.

3. David’s pictures were about _______.

4.David is _______.

5. A traveler can become an artist if he _______.

Started in 1636, Harvard (哈佛) University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.

In the early years, these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.

In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history.

As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.

Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer all.

1.In the early years, people learned ________ in colleges.  

A. science          B. medicine     C. law          D. Latin and Greek

2.Most of college graduates became ________ in the early years.

A. ministers or teachers    B. lawyers      C. doctors      D. workers

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. In the early years, everyone can go to colleges.

B. In 1782, Harvard began to teach German.

C. In the early years, different colleges majored in different fields.

D. More and more courses were taught in college with the improvement of knowledge.

4.Which of the following is the right order of the courses taught in Harvard?

a. law

b. French and German

c. Latin and Greek

d. medicine

e. American history

A. d-b-e-c-a            B. a-d-b-c-e        C. c-d-a-b-e        D. c-d-b-e-a

5.Nowadays college students ________.

A. can learn everything they are interested in

B. go to different smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning

C. learn the same subjects

D. must learn Latin and Greek