Japan is ____________island country and fishing is ____________big part of its culture.
A.a; an B.an; the C.an; a D.the; the
Write an e-mail to your pen-friend Sam for Liukai in less than 60 words according to the information given below.（根据所给情景写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格）
假如你是Tony，你的美国笔友Sam要来你的家乡，恰巧你不在，你想介绍与Sam志趣相投的同学Arthur接待他。请参考下表中的相关信息，用英语写一封电子邮件，向Sam说明刘凯的情况。短文的开头和结尾已经给出。
Age | as old as you |
Hobbies | Sports, music, traveling |
Personality (性格) | Honest, friendly, helpful |
Other information | Help you learn Chinese, learn about Chinese culture |
Dear Sam:
I’m glad you’re coming to my hometown. But…… _______________________________________________
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Yours,
Tony
阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
A 108-year-old Message in a Bottle
On November 30, 1906, George Bidder dropped a bottle from a boat into the North Sea. The weighted glass bottle sank almost to the sea floor, and then it move slowly for 108 years and 138 days.
Its journey ended when Marianne Winkler found the bottle in 2015. Winkler was then on vacation on Amrum Island. She picked up the bottle when it was washed up onto the beach. She saw a piece of paper inside, but didn’t break it open. She could tell that the bottle was old. So she didn’t want to damage it.
Finally she got the piece of paper out of the bottle. She found that the paper was actually a postcard. On the back of the card there was this message: The Marine Biological Association（海洋生物学协会） would pay a shilling（先令） for the bottle. A shilling was a unit of money that was used in Great Britain before the early 1970s.
Winkler filled out the card and posted it. The association was surprised to get a postcard addressed to George Bidder, the president of the association from 1939 to 1945. The workers of the association searched on the Internet to find a shilling. They found one and sent it to Winkler as a reward.
The message in the bottle was the oldest ever re-discovered. For this reason Marianne Winkler got a place in “Guinness World Records”（吉尼斯世界纪录）. She broke the record for the oldest message in a bottle.
Winkler’s bottle was not the only one Bidder sent to sea. Between 1904 and 1906, he spent away more than one thousand bottles. He placed postcards inside them. The bottles were part of a research project to map currents（洋流） in the North Sea. This was the best method at that time. But whether the association could get the bottles back depended on the people who found them. The association reported that about 55 percent of the bottles were returned. They added that the experiment was a success as it showed the east-to-west flow of the North Sea’s currents.
1.How long did the weighted glass bottle move in the sea?
2.Did Marianne Winkler find the bottle in 2015?
3.What was in the bottle?
4.Who was George Bidder?
5.Why did Bidder drop bottles into the sea?
Fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的单词）
We think of chocolate as something sweet. However, long time ago, people thought of chocolate as something very bitter. For us, chocolate is a candy, but o1. it was a medicine. Today, chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen, dessert, or just a snack. Sometimes it’s an ingredient in the main course of a meal. Mexicans make a hot chocolate sauce c2. mole and pour it over chicken. The Mexicans also eat chocolate with spices like chili peppers.
Chocolate is a p3. of the tropical cacao tree. Cacao beans taste so bitter that even monkeys say “ugh!” and run away. The word chocolate comes from a Mayan: word. The Mayas were an a4. people who once lived in Mexico. They valued the cacao tree. Some of the Mayas used cacao beans. f5. money, while others ground them to make a bitter drink.
When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the 16th century, they started drinking cacao, too. Because the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was a medicine. When the Spaniards took the drink back to Europe, people discovered that sugar removed the bitter t6. of cacao. Wealthy Spaniards heated the sweet drink and thought that it was good for their health. In the 19th century, an English company made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. Now people could both drink and eat chocolate. Later, a Swiss company mixed milk and chocolate together. People liked the taste of milk chocolate even better. (248 words)
Choose the best answer and complete the passage (选择最恰当的选项完成短文)
The earliest maps were probably drawn in the Middle East. Some of these maps have _______ and they show us the people at that time thought the earth flat (平的) . As time went by, the pictures became more detailed and maps were more correctly made. Later on, ancient Greeks used their _______ of math and science to make maps . Greek maps tell us the Greeks knew the world was round.
From simple pictures, mapmaking has turned into a science. Maps are made by surveying land. In the 1900s, people around the world started to share information to make better maps. With the help of the photographs taken from the sky and space, maps are now more ________ made than ever. Since the world is always changing, we will always need new maps.
There are many types of maps, but almost all use ______ and pictures to________ what a place is like when the map is made. A map usually tells what the pictures__________ . Some maps may show the whole world. A road map will help you know the distance from one place to another. Other maps may use pictures to show the temperature and population in different places.
1.A. explained B. apologized C. survived D. complained
2.A. knowledge B. energy C. challenge D. technology
3.A. quickly B. carelessly C. simply D. exactly
4.A. sounds B. methods C. words D. ideas
5.A. process B. describe C. pretend D. translate
6.A. stand for B. after all C. used to D. search for
Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）
There are stock (股票) markets in large cities. Stock markets in Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and New York are the largest and most well-known. The stock market also called Stock Exchange, is a place where people can buy or sell shares of a factory or company. And each share means certain owner-ship (股份) of a factory or company.
Different people go to stock markets. Some are rich, who want to get more: money than they already have. Others are not very rich, who buy stocks to try to become rich. Still others buy stocks as part of their plans to save money.
Of course, investing (投资) money in the stock market is not the safest way to make money. No one can tell exactly whether the shares will be doing well. The factory or company may do badly. Then stocks will go down, and investors (投资者) will lose money. The stock may go up, but sometimes even if a factory or company does a good job, the stock may still go down.
No wonder going to the stock market is compared to gambling (赌博). All are eager to make money by ‘gambling’ in the stock market. Factories and companies that need money are pleased that so many people willing to ‘gamble’. Indeed, the stock market is an attractive and complex part of the business world.
1.Stock markets in ________ are the largest and most well-known.
A.Pairs, London, Washington, Shanghai and New York
B.New York, London, Tokyo, Pairs and Shanghai
C.Pairs, London, Los Angeles, Shanghai and New York
D.Pairs, London, Sydney, Shanghai and New York
2.If you are an investor, you ________.
A.can tell exactly when the stock goes up and down B.may sometimes lose money
C.are sure to gain or lose money D.can always make money
3.Which of the following statements is NOT right?
A.Going to the stock market is like gambling.
B.The stock will always go up if a factory or a company does a good job.
C.People buy or sell stocks in the hope of making money.
D.Some of the people who are not rich will probably become rich by buying or selling stocks.
4.Factories and companies are pleased that so many people “gamble” because ________.
A.they need their money to do business B.they need more people to work for them
C.they can make them rich D.some people win and some lose
5.The underlined word “complex” in the last sentence probably means ________.
A.complete B.worthy C.modem D.difficult to control
6.The passage mainly wants to tell us ________.
A.how to buy and sell shares B.the stock market is a gambling house
C.the common knowledge of stock markets D.investing money in the stock market is not the safest way
