[单项选择]According to the passage, movement occurs when a muscle______.
A. grows
B. shortens
C. relaxes
D. pushed

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Passage Five
When you speak, write a letter or make a telephone call, your words carry a message. People communicate with words. But do you think you can communicate without words A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you put up your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask a question. You shake your head, and people know you are saying "no". You nod and people know you are saying "yea". Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the door tells you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you get messages from them all the time
People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, about the blue sea and many other things. Books are written to tell about all the
A. Books.
B. newspapers.
C. TV and radios.
D. A,B,C and others.

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Passage Five
When a teacher or lecturer recommends a student to read a book, it is usually for a particular purpose. In many eases, the teacher doesn’ t suggest that the whole book should be read. In fact, he may just refer to a few pages which have a direct bearing on the matter being discussed.
Unfortunately, when many students pick up a book to read they tend to have no particular purpose in mind other than simply to "read the book". Often they open the book and start reading, page by page, line by line, word by word; in other words, slowly and in great detail. The result is that students frequently don’ t have an overall view of what they are reading; also, they tend to forget fairly soon what they’ ye been reading.
Students can make their reading much more effective by adopting a strategy (策略) aimed at helping them to understand and to remember what they read. Firstly, they should decide precisely why they’ re
A. the importance of reading
B. the effective ways of reading
C. the difficulties in reading
D. the incorrect habits of reading

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Passage Five When a teacher or lecturer recommends a student to read a book, it is usually for a particular purpose. In many eases, the teacher doesn’ t suggest that the whole book should be read. In fact, he may just refer to a few pages which have a direct bearing on the matter being discussed. Unfortunately, when many students pick up a book to read they tend to have no particular purpose in mind other than simply to "read the book". Often they open the book and start reading, page by page, line by line, word by word; in other words, slowly and in great detail. The result is that students frequently don’ t have an overall view of what they are reading; also, they tend to forget fairly soon what they’ ye been reading. Students can make their reading much more effective by adopting a strategy (策略) aimed at helping them to understand and to remember what they read. Firstly, they should decide precisely why they’ re reading the book: perhap
A. the importance of reading
B. the effective ways of reading
C. the difficulties in reading
D. the incorrect habits of reading

[单项选择]According to the passage, when did archaeologists begin to be able to understand tablets inscribed in Sumerian

[单项选择]According to the passage, when gathering materials to build their nests, sparrowhawks do which of the following
A. ( Hang upside down
B. ( Select only green twigs
C. ( Use objects blowing in the wind
D. ( Collect more branches than necessary

[单项选择]According to the passage, when small children were asked to count a pile of red and blue pencils they ______.


A. counted the number of pencils of each color
B. guessed at the total number of pencils
C. counted only the pencils of their favorite color
D. subtracted the number of red pencils from the number of blue pencils

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Passage Three
When Walt Disney was drawing one night, he suddenly heard a strange sound. The sound came from the waste basket. Walt looked at it and saw a family of mice eating pieces of bread in it. For many nights, they played there. And Walt began to like them.
Walt liked one little mouse better than any of the others. This little animal gave him some new ideas for his drawing. He began to draw it. But in the picture, it did not look like a mouse, but more like a funny man. He showed it to his wife and she liked it very much, too.
Walt named this little mouse "Mickey Mouse". He hoped his Mickey Mouse would be different from the other pictures of his. He wanted to make Mickey talk. He put his fingers on his nose and made a strange sound. Then he recorded the voice this way. Later he sold his sound pictures to a cinema. When the film was shown, many people went to see it. Mickey Mouse in the film sang and danced and did all kinds of fun n
A. Walt Disney and His Mickey Mouse
B. Walt Disney Becoming Famous
C. One of the Most Famous Film Stars
D. Walt Disney Drawing Pictures