【正文】 49. Who is the first to make the heart — hand gesture popular? A. Justin Bieber B. Blake Liv ely C. Patti Wood D. Taylor Swift 50. A charity show is a show that is put on to . A. help the people in need B .make a gesture popular C. express your love or thanks D. show your special gesture 51. Which of the following statements is true? A. Smart phones and the Inter are improving fast. B. Smart phones and the Inter used to take longer time in use. C. It?s much easier for nonverbal culture to reach more people. D. It takes nonverbal culture a long time to bee popular. D Looking for a children?s book? Inter users can find hundreds of them. These books are from around the world. And they are free to readers. The United States has started a project called the International Children?s Digital Library. It is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress and the institute of Museum and Library Services. The goal of the project is to offer more than 10,000 children?s electronic books in at least 100 languages. Some of the books show the similarities and differences in ways of life around the world. They will enable children to have a better understanding of other people?s cultures. People working for this project have tried to design easy ways to search the collection and read the books. A picture of each page appears on the puter. Users can also print the pages on paper if they want to. The project is for two main groups of users. The first group is children between the ages of three and thirteen, along with their teachers and parents. The second group is researchers of children?s literature（文學） . The books can help children understand more about the world 52. The books in the project can make children better understand ________. A. other people?s cultures B. their own culture C. their teachers and parents D. researchers of children?s literature 53. In this project, the electronic books are ________. A. expensive to readers B. from the . C. in different languages D. for children only 54. The underlined word “goal” probably means ________ in the passage. A. 山羊 B. 煤炭 C. 進球得分 D. 目標 55. The third paragraph is mainly about ________. A. the purpose of the project B. the users of the project C. people working for the project D. museums and libraries 七．詞匯運用 A． 九年級學生 Ann 有許多煩惱 ，寫信告訴她的英國筆友，并希望她能給予幫助。（共 30分，每小題 2分） A Captain Goodfellow Do your children enjoy interesting stories, funny games, and exciting dances? Captain Goodfellow will be ready to teach all these things to children at the City Theatre on Saturday morning at 10:00, free. Films at the Museums Two American films will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre. See Broken Window at 1:30. The Workers will be at 3:45. For further information, call 4987898. International Piic Are you tired of eating the same food every day? Come to Central Park on Saturday and enjoy food from all over the world. Delicious and not expensive. Noon to 5:00 . Take me out to the Ballgame It?s October, and Saturday night (7:009:00) is your last chance to see the Red Birds this year. Get your tickets at the gate. It might be cold. Don?t fet sweaters and Jackets. Do you want to hear ‘The Zoo’ ?The Zoo?, a popular rock group from Australia, will give their first U. S. concert this Saturday night, at eight in Rose Hall, City College. 41. The Red Birds ballgame______. A. is in the afternoon B. is outside C. is at the gate D. might be cold 42. “The Zoo” is _____. A. a U. S concert B. a park with many red birds in it C. a music group D. going to give their last concert 43. Mr. Turner wants to have a nice Saturday and have a good rest at night. Which is not possible for him to do? A. Watching a ball game and having piic. B. Having a piic and seeing a film. C. Listening to a concert and watching a ballgame. D. Seeing a film and listening to a concert. B If a snake bites you, take a photo with your mobile phone! It may save your life. This is the surprising advice of a British cook. One day Henry Jackson was working in a restaurant kitchen. He picked up a dish from the table, and suddenly a snake appeared... and bit him on the hand. A few days earlier, the snake came to the restaurant from Asia in a box of bananas. It climbed out of the box and hid under the dish. I went to