二、完型填空。1.5*10=15分

The famous Italian traveler ,Marco Polo , travelled a long way to China in  1 century . He saw many interesting things in China. One of  2  things he found was that the Chinese people used paper money .In  3  countries, people didn’t use paper money  4  the seventeenth century .But people in China began to use paper money in the eleventh century.

A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago .He made it from wood .He took the wood from trees and made it  5  paper .He then put them together ,and made them into a  6  .

Now we know  7  comes from trees ,and we must save paper .We use a lot of paper every day .If we always waste paper ,there will be no paper ,because there are not so many trees  8  us to make paper from .Everyone must help to  9  paper .If we all think carefully ,we can help to grow  10  trees. And we should do it now ,before it is too late.

(   )1.A.thirteenth       B. the thirteenth       C. thirteen      D. the thirteen

(   )2.A.great            B. greater              C. greatest      D. the greatest

(   )3.A.western          B. west                C. eastern       D. east

(   )4.A. in              B. until               C. from          D. when

(   )5.A. in              B. of                  C. from          D. into

(   )6.A. book            B. paper               C. wood         D. tree

(   )7.A. wood           B. book                C. paper         D. magazine

(   )8.A. of              B. for                 C. to            D. with

(   )9.A. waste           B. use                 C. make         D. save

(   )10.A.more           B. much                C. a lot         D. too