19、News 1：

TWO conjoined（结合的）twin sisters were separated（分离）at a hospital in Hebei on Saturday．The two 40-day-old Chinese girls had been joined at the chest and abdomen（腹部）．Doctors still worry about the younger one，who has heart disease．They say she will have another operation after she fully gets well．

News 2：

FIRE broke out on the second floor of the busy four-story Zhongbai Shopping Centre in Jilin city，Jilin，Sunday．As from Wednesday，more than 50 people were killed and over 70 were injured Officials said that the fire started in one of the shopping center’s storehouse．

News 3：

THE Chinese Embassy（大使馆）in Iraq’s capital Baghdad reopened on Monday．The embassy had been closed since the US-Iraq war began in March，2003．The last Chinese officer left Baghdad just three days before the war broke out．

News 4：

HOW old can an insect be? 400 million years! Last Wednesday，scientists found the world’s oldest insect fossil（化石）in Britain．The fossil shows that the body of the insect was as big as a grain of rice and had wings In the past，people thought the earliest insect was 380 million years old．

（    ）1．Which of the following is fight to match the titles with the correct news story．

A．New 3 China’s back in Iraq．

B．New 4 Shopping center fire

C．New 1 That’s an old bug（昆虫）

D．New 2 It was a success

（    ）2．The operation on the two Chinese girls was______．

A．pleasant               B．successful            C．strange                  D．private

（    ）3．The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad reopened______．

A．when the US-Iraq war began

B．before the US-Iraq war ended

C．three days before the war broke out

D．on a Monday

（    ）4．The fire in the shopping center started______．

A．on the fourth floor                                   B．in a storehouse

C．on the third floor                                        D．outside the center