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China is a country with a long history. It has great traditional culture, especially Chinese characters. Chinese characters usually have more than one meaning and some of them are very interesting. Here are six ones. We use “pinyin” here because “pinyin” is the Chinese spelling way for the characters. For example, “fu” is the “pinyin” for good luck in Chinese. “pinyin” “fu” is only the phonic part of the character and if you want to know the meaning of good luck “fu”, you must read Chinese character 福 because “fu” also represents(代表) other Chinese characters that sound the same.
“fu” means blessing, good fortune, good luck. Chinese character “fu” is one of the most popular ones used during Chinese New Year. Chinese people often put up “fu” upside down on the front door of a house or an apartment. The upside down “fu” means good luck comes since the character for upside down in Chinese sounds the same as the character for “come”.
“lu” is used to mean official’s a pay in old China. “shou” means long life, age or birthday. “xi” is happiness, The doubled character “xi” means double happiness. It is usually put up everywhere at Chinese weddings. “cai” is weath or money. Chinese often say “ money can make a ghost turn a millstone”. It is to say money really can do a lot of things. But, money can’t buy everything. “he” is an important part of Chinese culture. It means good relations with other people, when you have “he”, things will be a lot easier for you.
The top six lucky Chinese charaters. “fu” “lu” “shou” “xi” “cai” “he”,are particularly loved by Chinese people.
We use ______ to show how to read the Chinese characters.

A．“pinyin”	B．letters
C．words	D．spelling

The upside down 福 “fu” means .

A．coming	B．good luck comes
C．good fortune	D．“fu” is upside down

People in China most probably put up the Chinese Characters _______ on the front door at their wedding.

A．upside down “cai”	B．upside down “fu”
C．doubled “xi”	D．doubled “he”

Which of the following in Not true according to the passage?

A．“Cai” is wealth or money

B．“lu” is used to mean offical’s pay in old China

C．“shou” means keeping thin

D．Things will be a lot easier if you have “he”

The underlined word “character” means _____ in this passage.

A．角色

B．特征

C．性格

D．汉字

It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words， they have more chances to choose a good job， while people with little or no education don't. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn't accepted by all people.
Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life getting education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact， if education is just a way of making a living， people don't need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and math need not be taught in detail(详细)， either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.
Education is wellrounded(全面的) and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak， read and write， but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that， it is to make him a wise man. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music， read good books， watch good plays and most of them take an interest in the world.
I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education， but certainly not the most important or the main reason.
People with little or no education have chances to choose a good job.

A．more

B．fewer

C．many

D．much

One of the earliest reasons of education was probably .

A．making a man lead a better life

B．teaching a man to write and think

C．making people get a way of living

D．teaching people to read good books

From the passage， we know that the writer thinks making a good living is for education.

A．an important reason

B．the main reason

C．the most important reason

D．the least important reason

According to the passage， which of the following is TRUE?

A．All people think the purpose of education is to make people get jobs.

B．People don't need to learn language or math at all.

C．Education is to make a man lead a better life.

D．Only education can make all people take an interest in the world.

Once there was a man and a woman. They had been married for more than 60 years. They kept no secrets from each other except that the old woman had a shoe box under her bed. She told her husband never to open or ask about it.
For all these years， he had never thought about the box. But one day the old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would never get better.
The woman said it was time that he should know what was in the box. The old man took the shoe box to his wife's bedside.
When he opened it， he found two beautiful doilies(装饰小垫) and some money. The money was $25,000.
“When we got married， ”she said， “my grandmother told me that the secret of a happy family was never to fight. She told me if every time I got angry with you， I should just keep quiet and crochet(编织) one doily.”
The old man was so moved because only two doilies were in the box. He thought she had only been angry with him twice in all those years.
“My dear，” he said， “but what about all the money? Where did it all come from?”
“Oh，” she said， “that's the money I made from selling the doilies. So far， I have sold 2,500 doilies.”
The old woman let her husband open her shoe box because .

A．she was badly ill	B．she was 60 years old
C．she believed in her husband	D．her husband made her angry

From the story， we can infer(推断) the old woman had been angry with her husband times before she told him the secret.

A．25,000

B．2,500

C．2,502

D．250

From the story we know .

A．the old woman enjoyed crocheting doilies

B．the old man only made his wife angry twice

C．the old woman didn't follow her grandmother's advice

D．the old man was moved when he saw only two doilies in the box

Ma Yun was born on October 15,1964 in Hangzhou， Zhejiang Province. He is the founder (创始人)of Alibaba Group.
At the age of 10， Ma Yun took an interest in English. Each morning， he rode his bike to Hangzhou Hotel to talk with foreigners. In 1988， he became an English teacher. Then Ma Yun met Bill Aho， an American businessman， in Hangzhou. In 1995， he visited the United States for the first time. He stayed with Mr. Aho's family. There， he was introduced to the World Wide Web. Then he returned home and set up one of China's first web companies(公司)， China Yellowpages in the same year. On February 21,1999， he founded Alibaba. He chose Alibaba as the name because everyone knew the story of Alibaba.
Ma Yun had problems along the way. But his hard work made Alibaba an online success.
Ma Yun became an English teacher at the age of .

A．10

B．24

C．31

D．35

In 1995， Ma Yun set up a company named .

A．Alibaba	B．China Yellowpages
C．Hangzhou Hotel	D．World Wide Web

The underlined word founded in the passage means .

A．发现

B．离开

C．创建

D．加入

According to the passage， which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A．Ma Yun was born on the 15th of October， 1964.

B．He set up Alibaba Group.

C．In 1995， he was introduced to the World Wide Web.

D．Ma Yun chose Alibaba as the name because he liked the story of Alibaba.

A Calendar as a Schedule（计划表）
Some schedules are actually calendars. The schedule below shows all the important things that are happening on each day at Fairview High School during the month of May. The days on this schedule are listed across the top, and each day of the month has a number.

Which month is the schedule for?
What event do the students have on the second day of the month?
What time does the Drama Club meet?
When will the students leave school on the third Monday of the month?
How many days will the tests last?

A．water in the sea	B．water from soil
C．water in the river	D．O₂ into air