In a few years, most people will know that a healthy, happy, loving family is a joy and it is a necessary part for building a strong society. But there are still some people who don’t believe family life can be an enjoyable experience.
Some people already accepted the idea of the “me generation” so they fail to understand that there is a time in life when they have to give up their time to something more valuable.
At a time when adults need to think about the needs of their family, they will be doing other important things. Some people will spend too much time working for a more powerful car or a bigger house so that they can proudly say that they have them. Some will be doing dangerous things so that they may tell their stories to their friends, and others will recite things like “ I must become the best I can be.” or “I don’t want to be at the bottom.” The needs of their family will be forgotten and they never seem to have time for the family.
Many people have not experienced a strong helpful perfect family life, so they have never discovered its worth. Many people have always experienced family life as a flight, so they can’t find time and energy for work.
But it is really very important that we all expect good family relations. We need to realize and value the importance of what can be achieved by loving each other in the family. It is also important for our society to encourage family members to create happiness.What does the writer expect family life to be like?
| A．Happy experience. | B．A strong society | C．Too much work | D．A flight |
What is meant by “me generation”?
| A． I will do whatever the family want me to do. | B．Nothing is more important than myself. |
| C．I always agree with people around. | D．The generation is my age group. |
Why haven’t some people discovered the worth of family life?
| A．They are not married. | B．They grow in a happy family. |
| C．They don’t live with the family. | D．They have never enjoyed family life. |
What is the writer’s purpose of writer the passage?
| A．To ask people to study family life. |
| B．To tell people to work hard for the family. |
| C．To advise people to create happy family life. |
| D．To give people some examples of family members. |
Tom was not old, but he did not have much hair. His wife, Grace, had thick, beautiful, black hair. They had one daughter. Her name was Jane, and she was four and a half years old. There was a photo of her father in the living-room, and a few days ago, Jane looked at it for a long time and then said to her mother, “Mummy, why had Dad got very little hair? ”
Grace laughed and said, “He’s got very little hair because he thinks a lot, Jane. He’ s a clever man.”
Jane looked at her mother’s thick, black hair for a few seconds（秒钟）, and then she asked, “Mum, why have you got a lot of hair? ”Tom had ________ hair.
| A．very little | B．a little | C．very few | D．a few |
Grace had ________ hair than Tom.
| A．much | B．more | C．the most | D．many |
There was a photo of ________ in the living-room.
| A．Jane | B．Jane’s parents | C．Jane’s mother | D．Jane’s father |
Jane wanted to know why her mother had ________ hair，too.
| A．black | B．beautiful | C．less | D．lots of |
New York City is a very large city with 8 million people. How do so many people move on their way to work and school?
In New York you can travel by subways, bus, taxi and private (私人的) car. The subway runs on the railroad lines under the city. It crosses the city at different points and goes to all parts of the city. Travelling by subway is the fastest way to get around the city.
The second way to travel is by bus. It is a slower way to travel.
You can also travel by taxi. This is very expensive, but the taxi will take you to every place you want to go to. If traffic is heavy, the taxi will be slow. During the mornings and afternoons, there is the “rush hour”. This is the time when the traffic is very heavy with people going to and from work.
The last way is to use your private car. It’s not good to drive during the “rush hour”. If there is an accident on the road, you will have to wait for a long time.
The best time to travel is from 9 a.m to 4.pm . Traffic will be less crowded during this time because most people are already at school or at work at that time.How many ways of travelling are mentioned (提到) in the passage?
| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
The word “rush hour” in Chinese means _____________.
| A．高峰时间. | B．匆忙时间 | C．冲刺时间 | D．繁忙时间 |
The fastest way to travel in New York City is ________________.
| A．by bus | B．by subway | C．by taxi | D．by private car |
From the last paragraph we know that in New York City ____________.
| A．there is no “rush hour” from 9.am to 4 p.m. |
| B．traffic is heavy at noon. |
| C．most Americans have lunch at home. |
| D．people go to work and school at 9:00. |
Why do so many people go to work or school by subway, taxi, bus and private car?
| A．Because New York City is a modern city. |
| B．Because New York City is a very large city. |
| C．Because New York City is new. |
| D．Because the people in New York City are very busy. |
An old man was going home late one night with his horse and cart after a day’s hard work. When he was not far from his house, the light on the cart went out. He tried but could not mend (修理) it. He was near his home, and so he went along the road without a light. When a policeman saw this, he stopped the old carter.
“Where is your light?” asked the policeman. “No man may take a cart along the road at night without a light. You know that. You have broken the law (法律).” “I had a light, but it has just gone out,” said the old man.
“I don’t believe that story,” said the policeman. He took out a book and got ready to write. What’s your name and where do you live?” he asked.
“Please don’t take my name,” said the old man. “My home is just there. You can see it from here. I had a light nearly the whole way. I haven’t come far without a light.”
“You came all the way without a light. What’s your name?”
The carter quickly took the policeman’s hand and put it down on top of the light. The light was still hot and burnt the policeman’s hand. The policeman jumped and he was very angry. “Now, what do you think?” said the carter. “Did I come all the way without a light?”In the passage the word “cart” is ____.
| A．something like a car |
| B．something like a light |
| C．something pulled by a horse |
| D．something with a light |
The old man drove home ____.
| A．on the back of his horse |
| B．late one night |
| C．very late every night |
| D．with a policeman |
Where did the policeman stop the old man?
| A．Near the old man’s home. |
| B．At the traffic lights |
| C．Under a road light |
| D．Far from the old man’s home |
The cart was stopped by the policeman because ____.
| A．the old man didn’t have a light |
| B．the policeman didn’t believe the old man’s words |
| C．the old man didn’t want to tell his name |
| D．the light on the old man’s cart was not on |
What made the policeman believe the old man’s words?
| A．He made the policeman touch the light. |
| B．He jumped and shouted angrily. |
| C．He made the policeman angry. |
| D．The light burnt the policeman’s hands. |
When the world was very young, people lived in hot places .They didn’t live in cold places because they could not keep warm there.
At first men didn’t know how to make a fire. Sometimes trees were hit by lightning .Then a fire was started .People took some of the fire near their homes. A fire was very important for three reasons. It kept them warm. Wild animals were frightened when they saw it. And when food was cooked, it tasted much better.
But men didn’t know how to make a fire. When they had a fire, they didn’t let it stop burning. If it went out, they couldn't start it again. They had to wait for lightning to start another fire. Sometimes they had to wait for years.
Later, they learned how to make a fire. But it was not easy to make something burn . Now we have matches. We can carry them in our pockets and make a fire when we want to.Millions of years ago people didn’t live in cold places because________.
| A．they were afraid of cold |
| B．they didn’t know how to keep warm |
| C．they couldn’t make a fire |
| D．they couldn’t find cold places |
People found that _______.
| A．wild animals enjoyed fire very much |
| B．the cooked food tasted better than uncooked food |
| C．the uncooked food tasted much better |
| D．wild animals needed fire to keep them warm |
Now we can make a fire___________.
| A．in cold places | B．in our pockets |
| C．if it is necessary | D．in the forest |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage.
| A．People are much cleverer now than they were long before. |
| B．A fire could be made by lightning. |
| C．We can make a fire with matches |
| D．After man knew how to make a fire, it became very easy to burn something . |
Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do more work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can't do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers before the twenty-first century, except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. However, many of their children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing. The teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness?
It will be decided by today's students themselves!Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because ______.
| A．our country asks us to learn it |
| B．it can help us a lot |
| C．we can use it to play games |
| D．it can help us to find jobs |
What do many teachers and parents complain about? They complain that ______ .
| A．their students and children use computers to study. |
| B．computers let them lose their jobs |
| C．computers make their students and children fall behind |
| D．computers bring people a lot of trouble |
How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means ______.
| A．computers are used by people |
| B．people can live well without computers |
| C．one must decide how to use computer |
| D．computers are strange machines |