Good morning, class!
We know that there are too many net bars around us. The Internet is popular and it makes our lives colorful. Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer and get more information from the Internet. We can learn English. We can read some good newspapers and magazines. It can make us clever in playing computer games. We can send E-mails to our friends quickly. We can chat(聊天) freely online with our friends. It can help us get in touch with people from all over the world.
But some students spend too much time in playing computer game and some stay in the net bars all day and all night. Teenagers even get to have boyfriends or girlfriends online. They write too many letters to each other. It takes them to much time to chat online so they do worse and worse in their lessons and they don’t study well any more. I think we mustn’t get online when it is time for us to study. We can do it in summer or winter holidays. We should get online with adults(成人)--our teacher or parents.
At the same time, if we have lots of free time, we can do some out-of-class activities at school. We usually have activities from 4:50 to 5:50 in the afternoon. We have different kinds of activities. If you are interested in sports, you can play basketball or football. We can go to the English Corner. We can practice talking in English there. We hope we can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and less time on the Internet.
Thank you for listening to me. That’s all.The short passage is about __________.
| A．going online | B．how to communicate with others |
| C．how to spend our free time | D．different kinds of activities |
The Internet can make our lives _________.
| A．helpful and important | B．enjoyable and interesting |
| C．enjoyable but expensive | D．different kinds of activities |
________ is not good.
| A．Sending E-mails | B．Reading newspapers and magazines online |
| C．going on line with adults | D．Spending all day in the net bars |
Playing computer games________.
| A．gives us lots of information | B．makes our studies worse |
| C．makes us more clever | D．is harmful to our health |
Which of the following is NOT right?
| A．There are too many net bars in the cities. |
| B．We can learn English from the Internet. |
| C．We mustn’t get online when we are studying at school. |
| D．We cannot do out-of-class activities from 4:50 to 5:50 p.m. |
Information for New Members
Welcome to Banktown Bushwalking (丛林徒步旅行) Club! Here are some things you need to know:
Most walks are in faraway places. You need to take enough food and water for a full day of activity on each walk. This is the most important thing to remember.
Wear good lace-up shoes, because you need to do some climbing sometimes.
Each walk has a grade. If you haven’t been bushwalking before, we suggest that you start with an easy walk- Grade 1 or 2. If you have been bushwalking before, then a Grade 3 walk may be suitable.
All beginners need to call or e-mail the leader of an activity 48 hours before the start of the activity. They need to make sure that you are fit and able to finish the activity as planned.
Membership fees(费用) for a year:
$35 for an adult over 18 years old.
If a family joins the club, fees will be lower. $55 for the parents and $10 for each child between the ages of 5 and 18. Before starting a walk, ________ is the most important thing that walkers must remember.
| A．sunglasses | B．money | C．lace-up shoes | D．food and water |
A person who hasn’t been bushwalking before should choose a ________ walk.
| A．Grade 1 or 2 | B．Grade 3 | C．Grade 4 | D．Grade 5 |
Eric, his wife and their 16-year-old child want to join the club. They should pay ______ for a year.
| A．$35 | B．$55 | C．$65 | D．$75 |
John has a pet dog named Sunlight. He loves him very much. He ever told others that Sunlight was one of his family members.
One midnight, John’s house was on fire suddenly. John was sleeping and didn’t know what was happening. At that time, Sunlight noticed the fire and woke up John. John called the police. Soon the fire was put out by the police.
Now John often says to others, “ The dog is really my good friend. In the thick smoke and big fire, he could have run out of the house first, but he didn’t. No matter how dangerous it is, he first thinks of his owner.”
Today more and more dogs are wandering ( 流浪 ) in the street. Many people don’t want to keep their dogs because they move to another place. Even some people say that they can’t stand the dogs’ dirtiness. Animals are one part of our society. Maybe our pets will give us a hand like Sunlight someday.We knew Sunlight is John’s son from the passage.
The police put out the fire that night.
Sunlight ran away because he was afraid of the fire.
Some people don’t want to keep dogs because they move to another place.
The passage mainly told us when something is on fire, you must call the police first.
When you watch TV programs about wild animals, it is surprising to see how an antelope (羚羊) can run away from a strong lion. In the wilderness, everyone has his own way to protect himself. Even plants have their own ways to fight off enemies.
Over millions of years, plants have developed their own defense system (防卫系统). Chemicals(化学物) are fantastically used by plants to survive . By making their leaves, flowers, roots and fruits poisonous (有毒的) to enemies, plants can fight back.
One such plant is the Golden Wattle tree. The British scientist David Cameron has found when an animal eats the tree's leaves, the amount (数量) of poison increases in the other leaves. "It's like the injured leaves telephoning the others to fight together against the enemy", he said.
The tree also sends defense messages to neighboring plants by giving out a special smell. Golden Wattle trees in the nearby 45 meters will get the message and produce more poison within 10 minutes. Now, if an enemy eats too many of the trees' leaves, he will die.
Every kind of plant or tree is good at producing a special set of chemicals. Herbivores, like rabbits, can safely eat the leaves of one tree, but they may be poisoned by its neighbor.
In this way, plants have not only developed their own defense system, but also shared it with others. This makes it impossible for a single animal to destroy even a small area of forest.From the first 2 paragraphs, we can learn that_______.
| A．plants can do nothing against their enemies |
| B．chemicals are quite useful for plants to survive |
| C．an antelope can always run away from a strong lion |
| D．leaves, roots, flowers and fruits of plants are poisonous |
The underlined word "herbivores" in the 5th paragraph probably means animals which_______.
| A．produce poison | B．live on small animals |
| C．like to eat rabbits | D．feed on plants or grass |
The last paragraph of the passage suggests that this kind of defense system is_______.
| A．bad for animals | B．good for forests |
| C．helpful to some animals | D．harmful to forests |
The passage is mainly about_____________________.
| A．the examples of protecting forests |
| B．the balance between animals and plants |
| C．the ways of plants fighting against enemies |
| D．the relationship between lions and antelopes |
Students these days often have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends.Some people think the worst thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a teenager from Washington, agrees. "Problems and worries are normal in life," says Laura. "But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don't talk to someone, we'll certainly feel worse. "
Laura once lost her purse, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents about it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn't have any money. She just kept thinking. "If I tell my parents, they'll be angry! But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new purse and asked her to be more careful. "I will always remember to share my problems in the future!" Laura says.
Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He feels the same way as Laura. "It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve them. He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn't need to be an expert (专家) like himself. Students often forget that their parents have more experience than them, and are always there to help them.
In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half. So you're halfway to solving a problem if you talk to someone about it!Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph One?
| A．What can they do about this? |
| B．Where do the problems come from? |
| C．When did they have these problems? |
| D．Why do they have so many problems? |
In Paragraph 2,the writer used the story of Laura to _______.
| A．answer a question | B．give an example |
| C．introduce his friend | D．share his experience |
According to the passage Robert Hunt might be_______.
| A．Laura's teacher | B．the writer of the passage |
| C．a person with a problem | D．an expert on students' problems |
What is the main idea of this passage?
| A．Few children are careful with their money. |
| B．Parents are more experienced than children. |
| C．Talking to someone helps to solve problems. |
| D．Students often have a lot of worries at school. |
Peter Qwen has been making wigs (假发)since the 1980s . He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies ,including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has designed the hair and makeup for the three Lord o f the Ring movies . He had just six weeks to design and make more than a hundred wigs, each one a different style, color, shape and length.
The hair and makeup in a movie are just as important as the costumes or the sets. Over the years, Peter has made actors look older, younger, healthy and sick. For one movie he even made a female actor look like a man! "What people don't realize about wigs is that we are not always making people more beautiful," he says. "Often we are covering up beauty and making them look ordinary."
All Peter's wigs are handmade using human hair, so they look as real as possible. This also makes them very expensive -between US $ 4,500 and US $12,500 each! He knows he's done a good job when people don't realize the star of the movie is wearing a wig. So he was pleased when one newspaper said that Nicole Kidman had dyed her hair dark brown for a movie. "It was a wig and no one knew that9" he said.What's the best title for this article?
| A．How Peter Qwen's wigs change people |
| B．Peter Qwen: A wigmaker to the stars |
| C．Peter Qwen: Making real and expensive wigs |
| D．Peter Qwen's wigs are important in a movie |
What special feature about wigs does Peter mention?
| A．They can make people more beautiful. |
| B．They can change people's hair styles. |
| C．They can cover up beauty and make people look ordinary. |
| D．They can make people look younger. |
Why are Peter's wigs so expensive?
| A．They are made in foreign countries. |
| B．Peter makes the best wigs. |
| C．They are only made for rich film makers. |
| D．They are handmade using human hair. |
Which statement is NOT true about Peter?
| A．Peter Owen has made wigs for lots of movies. |
| B．Designing and making the wigs for The Lord of the Rings was a huge job. |
| C．Peter can make actors look quite different from their real looks. |
| D．lf people know the star is wearing a wig, Peter will be happy. |