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深圳宝安区七年级下英语期末阅读专项练习 A It is known that New York is one of the biggest cities in the US. It has a nickname (别名), the Big Apple. Where does the nickname come from? One hundred years ago, there was a musical band. The band went to towns for making money. They considered towns as apples on the trees. They went to a town as if they picked an apple from the tree. The band made the most money in New York, so they thought of New York as a big apple. Later, in order to attract more and more visitors to come to go sightseeing in New York, the people in New York claimed (宣称) the Big Apple as the symbol of New York. Therefore, its nickname the Big Apple got around (传开来). ( ) 1. What is the nickname of New York? A. The Big Apple. B. The Big Band. C. The Big Music. D. The Big Tree. ( ) 2. What did the band think of towns as? A. Money. B. Apples. C. Apple trees. D. Cities. ( ) 3. Why did the band go to towns? A. Because they wanted to pick apples. B. Because they wanted to make money. C. Because they took a trip there. D. Because they wanted to plant apple trees. ( ) 4. Which of the following is NOT true about New York? A. New York is one of the biggest cities in the US. B. The band made the most money in New York. C. The band went to New York to sell apples. D. People know well about the nickname of New York. ( ) 5. The passage mainly talks about ________. A. where the nickname of New York comes from B. how the band made money in the town C. why the band went to New York D. why visitors went sightseeing in New York B Violet went to live in an old, blue house on a hill in her summer holiday. She had a small suitcase and a new violin. A family of mice lived in the old, blue house too. Merlin and Mina lived downstairs in the dining room, The door of their house was next