2．What does the underlined word"legendary"in the first paragraph mean?

　　A．Strange.　　　　　　 B．Powerful.

　　C．Imaginary. D．Scary.

　　C　[词义猜测题。根据这句话中的定语从句"它在现实世界中根本不存在"可推测，legendary意为"传说的；传奇的"。]

　　3．Ancient Chinese offered sacrifices to the dragon to beg for ．

　　A．its magic power

　　B．more rainfalls

　　C．good weather and harvest

　　D．wealth and good luck

　　C　[细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句可知，人们祭拜龙神是为了祈求风调雨顺和庄稼大丰收。]

　　4．We can learn from the passage that ．

　　A．people in ancient China regarded a dragon as an evil creature

　　B．people used to differ on what a dragon came of

　　C．Chinese dragons can only fly in the sky

　　D．dragons came into being 5，000 years ago

　　B　[推理判断题。根据最后一段"关于龙的起源有很多不同的答案......但是现在很多专家一致认为龙起源于一种由蛇组成的图腾"可推断，以前人们对于龙的起源各执一词。]

IV.完形填空

　　Mickey Mouse recently celebrated his 85th birthday.Now it's time for another mouse to party.The computer mouse will 1 its 45th birthday this week.

It was the 2 of Douglas Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California.They needed a simple way of 3 their computers.The result was a wooden block with 4 ．There was a long cable trailing 5 the back.One researcher nicknamed it a mouse, and the name 6 ．"We thought that when it 7 out to the world it would