【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 mountains B. the countryside C. the seaside D. William Farm spent _________ at William Farm. A. four days B. three months C. a month D. a few weeks had roast _______ for dinner on the third day. A. mutton B. pork C. beef D. fish (B) News 1 Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan developed the world’s first popular and widely known hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than regular ones. News 2 Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Don’t worry, things will get better soon. Last week, China started checking textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books all over the country. The government said the results of the check would e out at the end of June. News 3 People will see a new “star” in the sky soon. China plants to send a sa tellite into space by December will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive, right? That’s for sure。 billion yuan! News 4 Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours? One day, maybe you can. Last Saturday, the American X43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers per hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the is only three to four meters long, but it’s very heavy. It weighs 1,270 kilograms. satellite sent by China will move around ________. A. the moon B. the earth C. the sun D. the mars speed of the fastest plane in the world is ______. kilometers per second kilometers per minute ,270 kilometers per hour ,000 kilometers per hour checking of textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books will __________. A. make a lot of money B. make the children sad C. make sure there are no mistakes in them D. make sure the books are not too expensive Longping won the World Food Prize because ___________. A. he likes to eat hybrid rice B. he is a successful father C. he grows more rice than others D. he developed the world’s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice (C) Paper is one of the most important products ever invented by man. The invention of paper meant that more people could be educated because more books could be printed. Paper provided an important way to municate with knowledge. Paper was first made in China about 2,000 years ago. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very monly used before the year 1400. Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. After that, the foresty countries of Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States because the most important in papermaking. Today Finland makes the best paper in the world. And it has the biggest paper industry in the world. When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes, and writing paper. So paper plays an important role in our lives. Paper is very good for keeping you warm. Houses are often insulated(隔熱 )with paper. You perhaps seen homeless men sleep on a large number of newspapers. They are insulating themselves from the cold. In Finland, in winter it is sometimes 40 degrees below zero. The farmers wear paper boots in the snow. Nothing could be warmer. 64. When was paper made in southern Europe? A. Before 1100. B. After 1400. C. After 1100. D. Before 1400 65. Which country makes the best paper? A. Norway. B. Canada C. The United States. D. Finland. 66. What’s the meaning of the sentence “Nothing could be warmer.”? A. Books are warmer. B. Newspapers are warmer. C. Paper is the warmest. D. Houses are the warmest. 67. What’s the ma in idea of the passage? invention of paper. best paper papermaking uses of paper. (D) The puters changed our lives in the 1980s, the Inter changed our lives in the 1990s, and the robots will change our lives in the new century. Do you think there will be robots in people39。 s homes? It39。 s not a dream that every home will have a robot. Now, robots are not only able to help people do the housework, they can also help the doctors do the difficult operations, play chess with people, play the piano and so on. A new cooking robot is used in Beijing. It can cook all the dishes on the menu, you only need to wait two to