A boy and his father were walking in the mountains. Suddenly the boy fell，hurt himself，and cried，"AAAhhhhhhhh！！！” To his surprise，he heard the voice repeating（重复），somewhere in the mountain,“AAAhhhhhhhh!!!＂Then the boy shouted，“Who are you?” He received the answer，"Who are you?" He got angry at the answer，so he shouted，"Foolish！＂ He received the answer，"Foolish！”
He looked at his father and asked，“What’s going on?" The father smiled and said，"My son，listen.”And then he shouted to the mountain，"1 love you！”The voice answered，“I love you!”Again the man cried，"You are the best！”The voice answered，“You are the best！”
The boy was surprised, but did not understand. Then the father explained（解释），"People call this‘Echo’，but really this is Life. It gives you back everything you say or do. Our life is just a reflection（反映）of what we have done. If you want more love in the world，have more love in your heart. If you want to be successful，work hard. This can be used in everything in life. Life will give you back everything you have given to it.” At first the boy cried because _____ .
| A．he hurt himself and felt bad |
| B．he wanted to give himself a surprise |
| C．he felt it was so quiet in the mountain |
| D．he hoped his father would help him |
When the boy heard the voice repeating, he thought ______ .
| A．it was foolish to hear others’ voice |
| B．someone else in the mountain liked his voice |
| C．there were many other people in the mountain |
| D．he was laughed at by someone else in the mountain |
The father shouted to the mountain to ______ .
| A．find out who was repeating his voice |
| B．have fun with other people in the mountain |
| C．show more examples to his son before giving him the answer |
| D．let his son know whose voice was louder |
The word "Echo" means _______.
| A．life itself | B．repeating voice | C．love in the world | D．everything in life |
From the story，we know ______ .
| A．the boy didn’t like others’ voice at all |
| B．the father had his own way to teach his son |
| C．it is not polite to repeat others’ voice |
| D．the boy and his father were rather tired |
Dear Ralph,
I am a student of Grade Nine. I consider myself a beautiful and friendly girl. Male students say I am easy to get along with, so they are always after me. They call me and send messages from time to time. But I am fed up with them. I just want to learn as much as I can in this golden time. The problem is that I do not know how to refuse or say "no" to them. After all, they are my friends. What should I do? Please give me some helpful suggestions.
Aries
Dear Aries,
Don' t answer any call or message. When you want to study, simply turn off your mobile phone. That way you won't be bothered. When boys call, they will get a power-off (关机) message. After you finish studying, turn the phone back on and reply to people who have sent messages while you were studying. Accept calls only if you feel ready for them. A good friend can understand if you miss his too many calls or text messages, limit the number of people to whom you give your phone number. If you're not sure how well you like someone, first leave just your dormitory (宿舍) phone. Then that person can't bother you all the time. You are right that you need friends, so you shouldn't completely escape from them. I believe you can deal with this problem well and be happy every day.
Ralph
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| A．Letters. | B．News. |
| C．Advertisements. | D．Notice. |
| A．She is friendly and beautiful. |
| B．She is easy to get along with. |
| C．She likes studying very much. |
| D．She often has problems with her friends. |
| A．improve her learning |
| B．give her friends suggestions |
| C．refuse her friends |
| D．answer her friends' messages |
| A．满意 | B．厌烦 | C．担心 | D．感激 |
| A．She shouldn't answer every call or message. |
| B．She should turn off her phone while studying. |
| C．She shouldn't tell everybody her phone number. |
| D．She should keep away from her friends completely. |
Long long ago, there was a swan(天鹅) with gold feathers. She lived in a lake. A woman lived in a small house near the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round, but still, they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn’t have enough money to buy food.
The swan was sad to see that. She said to herself, “I’ll give one of my feathers to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers.” That evening, she flew to the poor woman’s house and left a golden feather on the table without saying anything. From then on , the swan came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much better than before.
But day after day, the woman became greedy(贪婪的). She said to her daughters, “The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all her feathers when she comes next time.”
“Oh no, Mom!” cried the daughters. “This will hurt the swan. She helps us a lot!” But the mother wouldn’t listen. When the swan came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers. But suddenly, the golden feathers changed into chicken feathers.
Then, the golden swan said, “Poor Mother, I came to help you, but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will never come back. Never be greedy!” With these words, the swan flew away.
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| A．In a lake. | B．In a big house. |
| C．Near a lake. | D．Near a river. |
| A．She gave an gold egg to the family every day. |
| B．She gave a golden feather to them every day. |
| C．She gave the family a chicken feather every day. |
| D．She gave them some food every day. |
| A．Thankful. | B．Greedy. |
| C．Friendly. | D．Loving. |
| A．The swan lived far from the woman. |
| B．The woman was greedy at the beginning. |
| C．The woman and her daughters were all greedy at last. |
| D．The swan would never come back to help the family. |
| A．A beautiful swan. | B．Never be greedy. |
| C．A poor woman. | D．Don’t miss the chance. |
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| A．The City Stadium | B．The City Art Museum |
| C．Grandview Mall | D．The Country Club |
| A．Women. | B．Old men. |
| C．Adults. | D．Children. |
| A．Go shopping. |
| B．Go to see the photo show. |
| C．Go to dance with your friends. |
| D．Go to watch the horse race. |
| A．At 3 p.m this Saturday. | B．At 3 p.m. this Sunday. |
| C．At 3 p.m. this Friday. | D．At 3 p.m. every Saturday. |
| A．￥200. | B．￥150. |
| C．￥100. | D．For free. |
Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people don’t need to carry any currency at all? Is money heavy to carry? Is it safe to carry money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small plastic credit card. We will use it to buy all the things we now buy with money. We will not need money to pay for things.
Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards we now have with money. Sometimes we lose money. Maybe we will lose the cards. Maybe someone will take the card. Someone may even make a card that looks like our card. Since we can’t buy anything without our cards, the credit card may be no better than currency.
Is there something easier to use than credit card? Each of us has a thumbprint(拇指纹). No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people’s thumbprints with a number. When you want to buy something you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store or business will have one. Everyone’s thumbprint will be in the computers. It will be very difficult to lose our thumbprints! It will be difficult for someone to steal it or to make one like it.
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| A．thumbs | B．coins |
| C．plastic card | D．paper money |
| A．each store will have a computer |
| B．each person’s thumbprint is different |
| C．they will help each store |
| D．computers need them |
| A．Each person has a different thumbprint |
| B．There are some problems with the use of credit cards. |
| C．There are no currency problems. |
| D．There are easier things to use than credit cards. |
| A．Credit cards may be no better than currency. |
| B．We use credit cards because money may be stolen. |
| C．We have many problems with money. |
| D．Credit cards are worse than currency. |
| A．we will use credit cards in the future |
| B．we may use our thumbprints to buy something. |
| C．it will be safer to carry money when shopping |
| D．everyone will make lots of money |
There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard(橄榄果园). He was hard-working, but his three sons hated farm work. When the farmer was dying, he called the three sons to him and said, "My sons, there is a pot (罐子) of gold hidden in the olive orchard. Dig for it, if you want it."
The sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden; but he would tell them nothing more.
After the farmer was dead, the sons went to work to find the pot of gold; since they did not know where the hiding-place was, they agreed to begin in a line, at one end of the orchard, and to dig until one of them should find the money.
They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other, round the tree-roots and between them. But no pot of gold was to be found. It seemed as if someone must have stolen it. The three sons were rather disappointed to have all their work for nothing.
The next olive season, the olive trees in the orchard bore more fruit than they had ever given; when it was sold, it gave the sons a whole pot of gold.
And when they saw how much money had come from the orchard, they suddenly understood what the wise father had meant when he said, "There is gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you want it."
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| A．A pot of gold. | B．A large house |
| C．An apple orchard | D．An olive orchard |
| A．Because they liked farm work. |
| B．Because farm work was very exciting. |
| C．Because they wanted to find gold. |
| D．Because someone put a pot of gold in the orchard. |
| A．excited | B．disappointed |
| C．moved | D．interested |
| A．结出 | B．爆发 | C．承受 | D．回报 |
| A．The keys to your wealth(财富) are in your hand |
| B．When in Rome, do as the Romans do. |
| C．One is never too old to learn. |
| D．Two heads are better than one. |