根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
36. ____________ would be the best choice if you want to give a present to your friend who loves reading.
A. A sun bottle B. A solar book light C. A modem bird house D. A cool stationery set
37. Which is not true about the modern bird house?
A. It has wooden walls. B. Its roof can be moved away.
C. Its door has a bird shape. D. It makes the sound of bird singing.
38. From the passage, we can learn that ____________.
A. the solar book light is very convenient to use
B. the modem bird house is designed to attract birds
C. the sun bottle needs to be put in the sun for 5 hours
D. the cool stationary set is too complicated(复杂的) to use
39. The author wrote this passage to ____________.
A. talk about the latest cool inventions B. ask people to use cool things in daily life
C. introduce several cool and useful presents D. talk about the gifts he used to surprise his friends
40. Where can we buy the cool things according to the passage?
A. Online. B. At school. C. In the supermarket. D. In the drugstore.
D
Most students in America like popular music. They carry small radios and MP3 with earphones and listen to music. 41 Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly when they drive on the street.
Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio when drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of the American people. 42
43 They make CDs or tapes which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. 44 Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. 45 This was started by cowboys who should sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整。
A. Most of the radio programmers are music.
B. Another is called western or country music.
C. They often play music before class, after class, and at lunch time.
D. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer.
E. Pop or popular singers make much money.
四、词语运用(10小题，每小题1分，共10分)
阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。
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real noisy clean after dirty work be area traffic also live sound |
Many people have cars in the city. But pollution is a problem because of the 46 . Nowadays some downtown(市中心) areas around the world don’t have cars. These car-free zones(无车区) are 47 for people, bicycles, and public transportation only.
Eight million people 48 in the center of London and anther two million go to work there every day. The downtown area is very 49 with hundreds of cars, buses, and taxis, but there are 50 a lot of beautiful parks with free music concerts. At lunchtime, many people go there for a rest 51 they get off work.
Parts of Tokyo are always crowded with hundreds of people — but no cars! These modern car-free zones are 52 popular and people like shopping there.
In the past, Bogota was polluted because there 53 lots of cars and traffic. Now the downtown area is car-free zone and the air is 54 ! Many people don’t have a car and half a million people take the bus 55 . There are lots of stores. It’s not expensive.
五、补全对话(5小题，每小题2分，共10分)
根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。
A: Hello, House of Noodles.
B: Hello, I want to order some food.
A: 56 ?
B: I’d like a bowl of beef noodles.
，我们将会及时处理。
