FilmsinWestcityCinemathisweekA-优题课

To write a great news story, you have to make sure it is correct, relevant and fresh.
For a start, all the information in a story must be correct. Not only the spelling and grammar, but also the facts.
Any mistakes that appear in a story can get a newspaper into big trouble. For example, if a newspaper said that Yang Liwei was the first man to go into space, it would be wrong. He wasn’t the first. The newspaper would probably lose lots of readers because of that mistake.
A news story is not only correct, but also relevant to its readers. People are mostly interested in news that happens near to them. That is why you care more about what happens at your school than at American schools. It is also why newspapers in Beijing don’t talk about much news in Shanghai or Hong Kong.
Finally, news must always be fresh. When you pick up your evening newspaper, you want to read about news that happens that day. You don’t want to read about news from last week!
So, now you know what makes a good news story. Have a good look at our newspaper and see if it is full of good news. You can try writing a news story for our newspaper like a real reporter.
What is the meaning of the underlined word “relevant”.

A．相关的

B．有趣的

C．最新的

D．正确的

According to the writer, newspapers in Wuxi should talk about news in ________.

A．Hong Kong

B．Wuxi

C．Shanghai

D．Beijing

Which of the following is true?

A．A small mistake can’t get a newspaper into trouble.

B．A lot of people like reading about news from last week.

C．The passage doesn’t tell us who was the first man to go into space.

D．People are mostly interested in news that happens far away from them.

阅读填空先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词在题后横线上必须完整写出。
Do students in your country go directly to university or college after school or do they have a break first? Taking a gap year (空档年)between high school and university is quite common in the UK, and there are lots of different ways to spend your time.
A gap year is a period of time, usually a year, when a student takes a break before going on to study in university. It is often spent traveling or working.
People used to think that taking a gap year was not acceptable. In the past you took a gap year if you had to retake exams or had problems with your study. But now, universities encourage a gap, and it is more possible for a student who takes a gap year to be offered jobs when they graduate. A gap year can give young people useful learning experiences, help them pick up new skills.
A student often takes a gap year at about eighteen years old, before going to university. It can also be taken at a different time.
Many gap year students choose to do voluntary work. Others want to travel around the world for more experiences. Lots of gap year students just want to see more of the world.
Most students who are planning a gap year take on a part-time job to save up for the trip. Some students travel for three or six months and then work for the rest of the year.

A gap year in the UK
What is a gap year?	It is the time when a student takes a break from formal .
Advantages（优势）	Though people didn’t a gap year in the past, now a gap year is thought to be helpful for young people to get useful learning experiences, new skills.
to take it?	A student take a gap year at about eighteen years old, before going to university or at a different time.
What to do?	The gap year is usually to doing voluntary work or traveling around the world and so on.
How to make money?	They save up for the trip doing a part-time job to make money.

One day I went to a store with a list. “Excuse me,” I said. A lady with glasses looked up, saying, “I’m Miss Bee. Come closer and let me look at you. I want to be able to describe you to the police if something is missing from the store.”
“I’m only a little girl, not a thief (小偷)!” I was surprised.
“But I think you’re potential (有可能的) ,” she said.
“I need these,” I said, holding up my list.
“So what? I am not a person who works for you. Go to get them.” she said.
The store was a puzzle to me. It took me two hours to find everything on the list. “That packet of beans is only 29 cents, but you asked me for 35 cents. ” I corrected her. She didn’t seem unhappy, just looked at me over her glasses.
The following summer I visited Miss Bee some times a week. She always found ways to fool me. Or shortly after I remembered the places of something on the shelf, she arranged (重排) the shelves again and made me hunt for them again. By the end of the summer the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes.
One morning I was to get a packet of chocolate. “Miss Potential, what did you learn this summer?” she said. “That you’re a meanie (刻薄鬼)!” I answered angrily. But she laughed, “Well, I believe my job is to teach every child I meet life lessons to help them. When you get older, you’ll be glad our paths crossed!” Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! It was absurd.
Until one day my daughter said, “ Could you finish my math problems for me?” “How will you ever learn to do it yourself if I do it for you?” I said. Suddenly, I was back at that store where I had learned the hard way to check my bill. Now I have known what Miss Bee did for me. She is my good teacher.
Why did Miss Bee arrange the shelves again and again?

A．To laugh at the writer.

B．To teach the writer some skills.

C．To think about other customers’ need.

D．To avoid her things being stolen.

What does the underlined word “absurd” mean?

A．开心的	B．令人兴奋的
C．令人费解的	D．荒谬的

Which word can best describe the writer’s feelings for Miss Bee in the last paragraph?

A．Thankful.	B．Hateful.
C．Uncomfortable.	D．Unkind.

The purpose of writing the text is to tell us _________.

A．the facts about a kind person－Miss Bee

B．how to teach your children life lessons

C．people should check everything carefully

D．the good teacher isn’t only in the school

I travel a lot, and I find out different “style” of directions every time I ask “How can I get to the post office?”
Foreign tourists are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don’t have names; in Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For examples, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop.”
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.”
People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure (估量) distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it’s about five minutes from here.” You say, “Yes, but how many miles away is it?” They don’t know.
It’s true that a person doesn’t know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, “Sorry, I have no idea.” but in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don’t know.” people in Yucatan believe that “I don’t know” is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a place, they usually _________.

A．tell him the names of the streets

B．show him a map of the place

C．describe the place carefully

D．refer to (意指)clear buildings and places

What is the place where people show distance in time?

A．New York.

B．Los Angeles.

C．Kansas.

D．Iowa.

Usually, People in Yucatan give a tourist a wrong answer _________ instead of saying “I don’t know”.

A．to save time	B．as a test
C．to be polite	D．for fun

What can we learn from the text?

A．It’s important for travelers to understand cultural differences.

B．It’s useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.

C．People have similar understandings of politeness.

D．New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.

An excerpt (节选) from The Card
Edward Henry Machin first saw daylight on the 27^th of May, 1867, in Brougham Street in Bursley, the oldest of the Five Towns. Brougham Street goes down a hill to the canal (运河).The rent (租金) for one of these houses was not high — only about twenty-two pence (便士) a week.
Edward Henry’s mother (his father was dead) lived by making and washing clothes for fine ladies. She did not often laugh. She was a woman of few words, and saved time every day by calling her son Denry, instead of Edward Henry.
Denry did not work hard at school, and boys who were lazy and not very clever usually just found jobs in the potbanks. Luckily, at the age of twelve, he won a place at the best school in Bursley. It happened like this. On the second day of the examination, Denry arrived a little early. As he walked around the examination room, he came to the teacher’s desk, where he saw a list of names with marks for the first day of the examination. The highest possible mark was 30, but next to his name he saw the number 7. The numbers were written in pencil, and the pencil was on the desk. He picked it up, looked around the empty room, and at the door, and them wrote a 2 in front of the 7. Of course, this was not honest, but how many truly honest schoolboys are there? Denry was no worse than most of them.
What was Edward Henry’s mother like?

A．Patient.	B．Dishonest.
C．Hard-working.	D．Kind.

What was the mark Edward Henry got in the end?

A．30.

B．7

C．2

D．27

Films in West-city Cinema this week
A WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES ? Chinese film (2004) ? Dircected (导演) by Feng Xiaogang ? Mainly acted by Liu Dehua, Liu Ruoying, Ge You, Li Bingbing ? From Monday to Wednesday, at 8:00 p. m. ? Ticket Price: RMB¥35	KUNGFU　HUSTLE ? Chinese Hong Kong film (2004) ? Directed by Zhou Xingchi ? Mainly acted by Zhou Xingchi,Yuan Hua, Liang Xiaolong ? From Wednesday to Friday, at 8:00 p. m. ? Ticket price: RMB¥40
HARRY POTTER (III) ? American film (2004) ? Directed by Alfonso Cuaron ? Mainly acted by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint. Emma Waston ? From Friday to Sunday, at 7:30 p. m. ?Ticket Price: RMB¥30 (Half on Sunday for children)	TROY ? American film (2004) ? Directed by Wolfgang Petersen ? Mainly acted by Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Nathan Jones, Adoni Maropis ? From Tuesday to Thursday, at 8:00 p. m. ? Ticket Price_: RMB¥45