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Wanting: I want nothing but music
Wanting Qu,born and raised in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, has become one of the most popular singers in China this year. During the past few months, her name and songs have spread quickly on the Internet, over the radio, and in almost every corner of China. You would be considered totally “out” if you have never heard of her song “Stay in My Song”.
She is a girl full of courage. At only 16, Wanting left home and entered a Canadian school to study business, starting her life in a foreign country alone. Soon，she found that her true passion was music. She went on to get her degree(学位), but also tried her hand at songwriting. She did part-time jobs to keep on her study like many Chinese students who study in foreign countries, but never gave up her dream of being a musician. When the chance came, she bravely introduced herself to the CEO of Nettwerk and became the first Chinese singer-songwriter the company signed in 26 years.
Wanting’s music career started to take off in 2009 when she worked in Nettwerk. In 2011, after hearing the songs she wrote and recorded, the famous Chinese composer Zhang Yadong called her and would like to work with her.
With all the successes she has achieved in China, Wanting is recording her first English album. She is ready to conquer the world.
From the passage,we know that________.

A．Wanting Qu didn’t get used to her school life in China

B．Wanting Qudreamed of being a musician before going abroad

C．Wanting Qu was taken to Canada because her parents found her a part-time job there

D．The song “Stay in My Song” made Wanting Qu popular around China.

What is the meaning of “ take off” in this passage?

A．腾飞

B．脱衣

C．下滑

D．关掉

What is Wanting going to do next? She is going to_________

A．write songs by herself.

B．make people in the world know her music and love it.

C．work together with Zhang Yadong.

D．start her own business company,dreaming of becoming a CEO.

Do you want to know how and why a fall leaf changes color? We first have to understand what leaves are and what they do.
Leaves are the world’s food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots and take CO2 from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO₂ into glucose(葡萄糖), a kind of sugar. Plants use it as food for energy and growing.
A chemical called “chlorophyll” in the leaves gives plants their green colour. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter, and trees “know” to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough sunlight or water. Trees rest during this time and live on the food they store during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. As the green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves, we begin to see yellow and orange leaves.
The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in autumn. In some trees, like maples, sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn the glucose in the leaves into a red colour. And we can enjoy the beautiful red leaves during autumn.

Which should be in the box?

A．air

B．sugar

C．water

D．wind

The underlined word “chlorophyll” means __________.

A．叶绿素

B．脂肪

C．蛋白质

D．淀粉

The leaves turn yellow because they are short of(缺少) __________.

A．water and CO2

B．glucose and energy

C．sunlight and water

D．sunlight and CO2

Which of the following is NOT true?

A．When autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter.

B．During winter trees live on the food they store in summer.

C．During winter some of yellow and orange colors are still in the leaves.

D．Trees begin to stop making food in summer.

This passage tells us_____________.

A．the plants can grow well only with the sunlight

B．there are all kinds of plants on the earth

C．not all the colors of the leaves are from chlorophyll

D．maple leaves change the color as other trees

Gabriel Garcia Marquez , who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, passed away at the age of 86 on April 17, 2014. The world paused (停顿) to remember the cultural giant.
Garcia Marquez was born in Colombia, but he spent most of his adult life in Mexico City. As one of the most famous writers, he was widely regarded as “a giant of 20^th- century literature.” Garcia Marquez wrote in a style called “ magical realism(魔幻现实主义).” In such works, people live a daily life in a certain period of time in history. But meanwhile , magical things happen to them.
Garcia Marquez is best known for his 1967 novel, One hundred years of Solitude （《百年孤独》）, which has sold about 50 million copies. It tells the tale of the small and isolated town of Macondo which was separated from the outside world- of its founding and its troubled history over a hundred years. The story is a metaphor(暗喻)for the development of Colombia since the 19 century. As Colombian President Juan Manuel Santons said, Garcia Marquez wrote about “the essence(本质) of the Latin American beings.”

Garcia Marquez was born in _________.

A．1914

B．1928

C．1967

D．1982

We can know from paragraph 2 that Garcia Marquez __________.

A．was born in Mexico City.

B．spent most of his adult life in Colombia.

C．had a writing style called “magical realism.”

D．was famous but lived a simple daily life.

The underlined word “ isolated “ means _________.

A．隔绝的

B．安逸的

C．喧嚣的

D．繁华的

Which of the following is NOT true about Garcia Marquez？

A．He was the writer of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

B．His novel One Hundred years of Solitude was a great success.

C．He was widely known as “ a giant of 20^th- century literature.”

D．Magical things happened to him during his stay in Mexico City.

The writer quotes （引用）from the President to __________.

A．Praise Garcia Marquez for his achievement.

B．show the deep sadness of the President.

C．explain the writing style of Garcia Marquez.

D．describe the character of Garcia Marquez.

Famous Museums

Name	The Palace Museum	British Museum	New York Museum
Country	China	The UK	The USA
Address	Chang’an Street	New Oxford Street, London	Chestnut Street, New York
Feature	The largest ancient palace buildings with many kinds of collections in China	One of the largest museums with collections of any time and any area in the world	America’s largest museum on American history
Ticket	￥60 ( Spring＆ Summer) ￥40 (Autumn ＆Winter)	Free	Monday free

As one of the largest museums in the world, British museum is in _______ .

A．Beijing	B．London
C．New York	D．The USA

According to the form, if you want to see ancient Chinese collections, you can visit ____ at most.

A．one museum

B．two museums

C．three museums

D．fore museums

Which of the following is TRUE according to the information above?

A．Each ticket for the Palace Museum costs the same in the whole year.

B．You don’t have to pay for tickets if you visit New York Museum on Monday.

C．British Museum lies in Chestnut Street, London.

D．New York Museum is the largest in the world.

Scientists are trying to make the deserts(沙漠) into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts，so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don't get much rain. But they still don't become desert. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very helpful to dry places. Plants don't let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don't let the wind blow the earth(泥土) away.When a little bit of rain falls，the plants hold the water.Without the plants，the land can become a desert much more easily.
Why can the land become a desert?

A．Some places don't get much rain.

B．Plants don't let the hot sun make the earth even drier.

C．People are doing bad things to the earth.

D．Scientists haven't learnt enough about the deserts.

Scientists ______to make the deserts into good land again.

A．carry water	B．grow food
C．do nothing	D．study a lot

Which is NOT true?

A．The land never stops becoming desert.

B．Scientists ask the people to live in the deserts and grow food there.

C．People do bad things to the earth.

D．Scientists may not be able to change the deserts.

Why are green plants and grass helpful?

A．They can hold the water.

B．They can stop the wind from blowing the earth away.

C．They can keep the earth wet.

D．All the above are right.

Which is the best title(题目) for the passage?

A．The Desert Problem.

B．People Make Deserts.

C．Green Plants and Grass.

D．The Desert，the Tree and theWater.

A．Some ice.	B．Some water.
C．Some ice and water.	D．A cloud and some water.

A．It will be bigger.	B．It will be broken.
C．It won’t change.	D．It will be in the bottle.