（选择型）C

Tea, coffee and cocoa are three major drinks all over the world. Tea is drunk by the largest number of people in the world. Tea, as well as silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export since then.

Tea has a history of over 4 , 000 years and China is the home of tea. In ancient China, tea was used as a kind of medicine, while nowadays people drink tea daily.

Longjing, Pu'er, Wulong and Tieguanyin are all famous tea. Thanks to the mild climate and rich soil in Fujian, Zhejiang and Yunnan, tea is produced mainly in these provinces.

The word for tea in different languages came from Chinese, like "cha'i" in Russian. And the Japanese character for tea is written exactly the same as it is in Chinese.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people have developed their unique tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making, tea drinking and so on. Tea is also popular in some sayings, like "A friendship between gentlemen is like a cup of tea." In dances, songs, poems and novels, tea is often mentioned. loo.

根据短文内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳答案。(10分)

(       ) 63. How many drinks are mentioned in this passage?

A. Three.   B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.

(       ) 64. Tea is produced mainly in Fujian, Zhejiang and Yunnan because__________.

A. they are all big provinces

B. they are all close to the sea

C. there are quite a lot of mountains there

D. the climate ia mild and the soil is rich there

(       ) .65. The underlined sentence “ A friendship between gentlemen is like a cup of tea. " in the last paragraph means_________.

A. 一个朋友就是一杯茶

B. 君子之交淡如水

C. 看到朋友就会想起茶

D. 绅士才能够喝茶

(       ) 66. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Tea, cocoa and silk are important Chinese exports.

B. Tea has more than 1, 000 years of history.

C. Japan is the home of tea.

D. In ancient China, people used t ea as a kind of medicine.

(       ) 67. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. China's Tea Culture B. A Saying of Tea

C. Drinks in the World D. Tea and Coffee

文章大意：中国作为茶的故乡，茶在中国已经有4000多年的历史了，龙井，普洱，乌龙和铁观音都是中国的名茶，在过去的几个世纪以来，中国人民有着自己独特的茶文化，包括种茶，采摘，生产，茶道等等都有了很大的发展。中国有句古话“君子之交淡如水”也说明了茶很受欢迎。

63. A【解析】细节理解题。根据文章中第一段第一句话可知。

64. D【解析】细节理解题。根据文章中第三段可知。

65. B【解析】推理判断题。根据文章大意可知。

66. D【解析】细节理解题。根据文章中第二段可知。

67. A【解析】主旨大意题。根据文章大意可知。

D

March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.

The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. But now it has a serious problem.    68    In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.

The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world.      69       Now it is down to 2 billion m' or so.  Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year.  One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either.     70        Mostly it's damming (筑坝) and global warming that make rivers dry.___71     Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world's rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fres h water from running to the sea.

Global warming is making things worse. Warmer weather takes water away.  The glacier (冰川) are becoming smaller.     72    Global warming has had certain effects on water sources (源头). Droughts (干旱) happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.

A. Dams hold water to irrigate (灌溉) fields and make power.

B. The source of the Yellow River is drying up because of it.

C. It used to carry 32 billion m' of water a year.

D. How does it happen?

E. Factories pour waste water into rivers directly.

F. Its source on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is drying up.

从方框中所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，补全短文，其中有一项为多余选项。（10分）

68. __________ 69. __________ 70. __________ 71. __________ 72. __________

文章大意：每年的3月20日是世界水日。根据美国的一个报道，世界上有一半多的主要河流严重缺水或被污染。黄河，世界上第五大河，在过去的35年里，就没有流到大海里。同意，埃及的尼罗河，世界上最长的河流，由原来每年的32000000000平方米的流量降低到2000000000.等等。是说明原因造成这样的现象？主要是由于筑坝和全球变暖导致河流干涸。

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