【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 nside the passport is the traveller’s picture. Children travelling with their parents are included in one parent’s book. Thousands of people from the United States visit other countries every year. An American traveller might carry plane tickets, money, clothing and many other things. But the most important that he carries in another country is his passport.56. A passport is not needed when an American goes to __________. A. foreign countries　B. dangerous areas C. Canada or Mexico D. countries overseas57. From the passage we can see that __________. A. children can’t travel to foreign countries B. Americans like to travel C. a traveller is not safe in most countries D. Americans like to travel to close countries58. Why does a traveler need a passport? A. He needs something more to carry when he travels. B. It helps the country to protect the people. C. He needs to have his picture taken more often. D. It helps the traveler to know where he will go.59. Which statement does the passage lead you to believe? A. People should take care of their passports. B. It is not important to have a passport to travel. C. Children are never included in a passport. D. When you are in another country, money is more important than a passport.（B） Some countries have a large number of earthquakes. Japan is one of them, while others do not have many, for example, there are few earthquakes in Britain. There is often a great noise during an earthquake. The ground vibrates（顫動）. Houses fall down. Railways are broken, which causes trains to run off. Sometimes thousands of people are killed in different ways. About 60,000 were killed in 1783 in the south of Italy. Some people say that earthquakes often happen near volcanoes（火山）, but this is not true. The centres of some earthquakes are under the sea. The bottom of the sea suddenly moves. The powerful forces inside the earth break the rocks. The coast is shaken and great waves appear. These waves travel long distances and rush over the land when they reach it, breaking down houses and other buildings. Sometimes they break more buildings than the earthquake itself. A terrible earthquake happened in Assam, India, in 1986. The land near Shillong suddenly moved feet to one side, and then back again. It continued to act like this 20 times a minute. Few buildings could stand what was happening and the great stones flew four feet up into the air. What kind of building stays up best in an earthquake? The Americans carefully studied the results of the earthquake at San Francisco（1906）and believed it best for buildings to be made with concrete（水泥）walls together by steel frames. Such are the buildings that can’t burn or fall easily. 60. Which of the following is NOT true? A. Trains’ turning over is directly caused by the earthquakes. B. Some earthquakes have their centres under the sea. C. It isn’t certain that earthquakes happen near a volcano. D. Buildings with concrete walls are better against earthquakes. 61. Earthquakes often happen ___________. A. near volcanoes B. in Japan C. in Britain D. Both A and B 62. _________ makes more loss than the earthquake itself. A. Nothing B. Volcanoes C. Forces inside the earth D. Terrible waves by the earthquake（C） John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident time when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks. Fortunately he had a strongwilled（意志堅強的）caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son，you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others，including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.” These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15，to Chicago. Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words — as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High