The president _____ all people _____ our environment.

A. urge, protect   B. urged, to protect   C. urges, protect  D. urged, protect

Do you ____ a cat ____ a pet at home?

A. have , as    B. keep, for   C. keep, as   D. Both A and C

At last, Lucy make the baby ____ and the baby began to laugh.

A. stop crying   B. to stop crying   C. stop to say  D. to stop to cry

There will not be enough space to _____ the earth in the future.

A. live on    B. live in   C. live on in  D. live in on

 President Bush ____ a visit ____ China last month.

      A. pay, in   B. paid, to    C. gave, in    D. paid, for

 The teacher _____ to Li Lei, “You ____ very good English.”

      A. say, speak   B. talk, say   C. speak, talk   D. said, speak

Wang Mei ____ her mother because she is beautiful and intelligent.

      A. look    B liked    C. is like   D. look like

My jacket has ____ color ____ yours, but mine is bigger than yours.

      A. the same, as   B. same, as   C. different, from   D. the same, to

1. Kangaroos are ______ (play) and chimpanzees are _____ (noise).

2. I was ____ (surprise) to find hardly anyone in the zoo.

3. Visiting zoos are like ____ (live) textbooks for young people.

4. He ____ (use) to be ____ (call) “Little Tiger”.

5. Liu Xiang’s success is an ____（inspire）to us all

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 The Inventions

　 Paper was first made in the year 105. It was made by a Chinese named Cai Lun.

　 For over 500 years paper was made only in China. People in Japan learned of paper around the year 600. As years went by, people in other places began to make paper.

　 The lead（鉛）pencil is not made of lead. It is made of graphite（石墨）. People found graphite in 1564. They thought it was a kind of lead. Today we still call pencils “l(fā)ead pencils”. The first pencils were made by putting strings（線）around sticks of graphite.

　 The first wooden pencils were made by Kasper Faber in Germany in 1761.

　 Erasers（橡皮）like those we use today were first made in France by a man named Magellan in 1752. It was Hyman L. Lipman who first put eraser on the ends of pencils. And that is how the pencils came to be.

1. How many years earlier was paper made in China than in Japan?

　 A. About 100 years.　　　　　　　 B. About 400 years.

　 C. More than 500 years.　　　　　　 D. 495 years

2. Germans made paper _________.

　 A. earlier than Japan　　　　　　　 B. later than Japan

　 C. as early as Japan　　　　　　　　 D. as late as Japan

3. At first pencils were made of ________.

　 A. wood　　　　 B. lead　　　　 C. sticks　　　　 D. string and graphite

4. Kasper Faber was ________.

　 A. an Englishman　　　　　 B. a Frenchman

　 C. a German　　　　　　 D. an American

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　 A. Paper was first made in China.

　 B. Graphite isn’t a kind of lead.

　 C. The first wooden pencils were made in Germany.

D. Hyman L. Lipman made the first erasers.