【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 flowers to make a small garden.55. What’s the main idea of this passage?A. The birds like to sing.B. The birds sing to give information.C. The cocks look for wives by singing.D. The birds sing because they are happy.B Have you ever hoped a toy balloon(氣球)？They are very light. But there are much bigger balloons which can fly very high in the sky. They are big enough to carry people. They are called hotair balloons. To make a hotairballoon go up, turn on the burner (燃燒器). That will make the inside the balloon hotter. Then the balloon will go up. To make the balloon go down, turn off the burner. The air inside the balloon will get cooler. Then the balloon will go down. Underneath (在。下面) the balloon there is a large basket. That is where the pilot and the passengers (乘客) are. The burner is just above the basket. You can stand in the basket and turn the burner on and off. The balloon will go where the wind is blowing the right way! Do you want the balloon to go somewhere special? First make sure the wind is blowing the right way! People have been flying in the hotair balloons for over two hundreds years. Before planes it was the only way of flying. Today people fly in hotair balloon for fun. Some people like to race hotair balloons. The first HotAir Balloon World Championship (錦標賽) was held in 1973.56. A hotair balloon is ______.A. smaller than a toy balloon.B. bigger than a toy balloon.C. the same as a toy balloon.D. lighter than a toy balloon57. Where will you sit if you want to fly in the balloon? the basket.B. On top of the balloon.C. Under the basket.D. Inside the balloon.58. You want the balloon to go up. So you will ______.A. jump out the balloonB. let the out of the balloonC. make the air inside the balloon hotterD. let the air inside the balloon cool down.59. Now everything is all right! The balloon is flying across the sky. Where are you going?A. Towards the sunB. To the seasideC. To the nearest mountainD. The way where the wind blows you60. The best title for this passage is ______.A . Cooler and hotter burnerB. The first HotAir Balloon World ChampionshipC. Flying in the hotair balloonD. Planes and hotair balloonsC There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very important. English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it sa their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a foreign language. Many millions of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different answers. Have you ever noticed ads (廣告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “ Learn English in six weeks, or give you money back…,” “easy and funny…”, “Our records and tapes help you master English in a month.” Of course, it never happened quite like this. The only language that seem easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small children does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. So it is hard to say that learning English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and takes much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be helpful, but they cannot do the student’s work for him.61. How many languages are very important in the world?A. A few B. Few C. About 1,500 D. Many62. If we want to learn English well, what should we do?A. We should study it without any help.B. We must do a lot of practice.C. We need to get much money back.D. We must live in England or America.63. How does the writer like the ads in the newspapers or magazines?A. He thinks the ads very expensive.B. He thinks the ads are true.C. It never happened quite like wha