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to live in one place?

A look at the city shows us that New York City has a very good port(商埠).The Dutch (荷兰)settlers(new comers) wanted to use it for business. In 126, the Dutch paid (付钱)the Indians twenty –four dollars for the island of Manhattan. Its Dutch name was New Amsterdam. Then the British took the land in 1664 and changed its name to New York.

The United States became an independent (独立的) country in 1783,

and New York was its capital for a short time. The city became so crowded that some people moved out to other areas(places).But more people from everywhere went on coming into the city every day.

( ) 1. Which of them is the biggest city in the United States?

A. New York B. Washington C. New Amsterdam D. Chicago

( ) 2. More and more people from different countries in the world

come into New York because_______.

A. New York has the largest population in the United States B. New York is as beautiful as a picture C. New York is a developing city

D. they think it is a good place for business ( ) 3. The underlined word ‘took’ means________

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A.花费 B.耕耘 C.占领 D.测量

( ) 4. The United States became an independent country in__________. A. sixteenth century B. the seventeenth

C. the eighteenth century D. the nineteenth century

( ) 5. From the passage, we can know_________.

A. much about Dutch B. how the Dutch took New Amsterdam C. some of the history of New York

D. how the people from different countries come to the USA

(B)

Long, long ago there was no zero. To write the number sixty-three people wrote 63. To write six hundred and three, people wrote 6 3. The space between six and three was there to mean.\not any \Sometimes people did not remember the space. It was hard to see and read.

Later people used a dot to hold the space. Six hundred and three

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looked like this 6.3. But the dot was hard to see. So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3. Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. At last, only the circle around the dot was used. It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used.

Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways of using zero?

( )6. Long, long ago people didn't know how to ____.

A. write B write zero C. write numbers D. sixty-three ( )7. Long, long ago if they wrote two hundred-eight, people wrote_____.

A.28 B.2 8 C.228 D.208 ( )8. Later ______ was used to mean space.

A. \B.letter\C. zero D. a dot ( )9. People used circles _____________.

A. to remember ways B. to remember numbers C. not to forget the space D. to mean nothing ( )10. The story tells us _____. A. how zero came to be used B. how to write zero

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C. what's the use of zero

D. that zero means a dot, a circle or space Ⅲ. 请选择适当的选项完成对话，其中有两项是多余的。 A: Excuse me, sir. I’m new here. (1) ___________ B: Oh, it’s on the left of the cinema. A: (2) ______________

B: You can go there by bus. A: (3)_____________

B: You can take the No. 26 bus. A: (4) _____________

B: Sure, if you like. It’s not far. You can go straight on Hongxing Road, and then go across Zhongshan Road. You can see it on your left. A: (5) ______________ B: About ten minutes. A: Thank you very much.

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