题型：阅读选择 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
江西省抚州市2015—2016学年七年级上学期英语期末考试试卷
Mr. King goes to a dinner party. He is wearing(穿)old clothes. He comes into the room. But people in the room don't look at him. They don't ask him to sit at the table.
Mr. King goes home and puts on(穿)his good clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles(微笑)at him. They give(给)him very good food to eat.
Mr. King takes off(脱下)his coat, and puts it in the food and says, “Eat, coat!”
The other people ask, “What are you doing?”
He answers, “I'm asking my coat to eat food. I am wearing my old clothes. You don't look at me. You don't ask me to sit down. Now I'm in these clothes. And you give me very good food. Now I see, you give the food to my clothes, not to me!”
“Reading makes a full man,” novels written by famous writers help us to know more about our history, culture and many other things.
Jane Austen was one of the most well-known women writers of the world. She was born in England in 1775. Jane liked reading and writing. She wrote a number of famous novels in her life. Among them, Pride and Prejudice written in 1779 was the most popular.
Ernest Hemingway, an outstanding American writer and reporter, was born in 1899. His life experience had a great influence on his writing style. Hemingway lived in France and Italy between the 1920s and 1950s. Most of his books such as The Sun Also Rises were written at that time. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954 mainly because of the novel The Old Man and the Sea.
Writer | Jane Austen | Ernest Hemingway |
{#blank#}1{#/blank#} | English | American |
Fame | One of the most well-known women writers of the world | An outstanding American writer, reporter and the Nobel Prize{#blank#}2{#/blank#}in 1954 |
Other facts | Be{#blank#}3{#/blank#}of reading and writing | Be full of rich life{#blank#}4{#/blank#}which had a great influence on his writing style |
Achievement in common | Help us to know more about our history,{#blank#}5{#/blank#}and many other things | |
Long ago, people did not need money. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
As time passed, people learned to raise animals and crops. Sometimes, families produced more than they needed, so they started to trade (交易) with other families. Later, people began to use money as a means of exchange. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}They used shells, rice, salt, large stones, etc.
During the 600s BC, people began using coins as money. They soon found that coins were easier to carry than goods (货物) and lasted a long time. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
The Chinese were the first to use paper money, probably as early as the eleventh century. The Italian traveller Marco Polo saw the Chinese using paper money when he visited China in the 1200s. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}
Today, we have many ways to pay for things. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Often, people prefer to pay for things by card. Paying with a card is easier and safer than carrying around a lot of "real" money.
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A. Later, countries began to make their own coins. B. However, it was not the kind of money we use today. C. They lived on wild animals, fruits and other plants. D. However, European countries did not start using paper money until the 1600s. E. We do not use only coins or paper money. |
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