Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will notice the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always change according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts(天赋) of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(预先). What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is in his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written. The word “audience” in the third paragraph means ________.
| A．students |
| B．people who watch a play |
| C．people who are not on the stage |
| D．people who listen to something |
Students in a good teacher’s class are always ________.
| A．active | B．quiet | C．noisy | D．sad |
In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?
| A．The teacher must learn everything by heart. |
| B．He knows how to control his voice better than an actor. |
| C．He has to deal with unexpected（未预料到）situations. |
| D．He has to use more facial expression. |
From the passage, we can infer(推断) ________________.
| A．Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to say in class. |
| B．A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to say in class. |
| C．A teacher must speak louder than an actor. |
| D．A teacher must have a better memory than an actor. |
Hello! I'm Bill Smith. I'm twelve. This is my sister, Jenny. She's ten. We are from the USA. But now we are in China. My father is an English teacher in a school. My mother is a doctor. They work hard.
At school I have a friend. His name is Ben Jones. He's twelve, too. He's from England. We all like China.What's his friend's name? ________.
A. Bill. B. Ben. C. Jenny. Where is Ben now? _______.
A. In China. B. In England. C. In the USA. What's Jenny's last name? _________.
A. Jones. B. Smith. C. Bill. What's the last name of Ben's mother? _________.
A. Jones. B. Smith. C. Bill. Where's Jenny from? ___________.
A. China. B. England . C. The USA.
What do you call a school with no tests, no grades, no classes, and no teachers? Students of the Met School and their parents think it to be the best school in the world.
The school is in Rhode Island, USA. Dennis Littky opened it in 1996. He was fired（解雇） from two other schools, because many parents of the school students were happy with his unusual ideas. The school takes poor kids who are failing(失败) at schools. Nearly(几乎) everybody has already given up （放弃）these students and their parents want to try anything. The Met School gives Littky a great place to try out his new ideas.
“The word that most kids use when they talk about high school is ‘boring’,” says Littky. “But no one would say the Met was boring.” Advisors(指导老师) (not teachers) work with small groups of students for four years. Students spend almost half of their school time learning real-life skills（技能）, such as working for business（生意）, spending time with government(政府) people, and helping teach younger children. Instead of（代替） tests, the students give shows about their work outside school.
In fact, students work harder here than in other schools. All the students from the Met graduate and can choose to go to a good university （大学）. Now, Bill Gates is starting schools like this one around the USA.______ think(s) that the Met School is the best.
| A．The headmaster of the Met School. |
| B．The student outside the Met School. |
| C．All the students and their parents from the Met School. |
| D．The teachers at the Met School. |
What do most high school students think of normal（普通的） school?
| A．Interesting. | B．Relax. | C．Boring. | D．Exciting |
What does the underlined word “graduate” in the last paragraph mean in Chinese?
| A．毕业 | B．离开 | C．结束 | D．搬离 |
What do the students do at the Met School?
| A．They spend all their school time playing. |
| B．They keep giving shows about their school. |
| C．They only learn from working for business. |
| D．Almost half of the time, they learn real-life skills. |
According to the passage, which of the following if TRUE?
| A．Life at the Met School is very easy because there are no tests. |
| B．Teachers at the Met School give students much more homework than at normal school. |
| C．Students can choose to go to a good university. |
| D．Students at the Met School spend all their time working outside school. |
Friends are very important in our everyday life. Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel close to someone. It is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh and do things with. Certainly, sometimes we need to be alone（独自）. We don’t always want people around. But we would feel lonely （孤独的）if we never had a friend.
No two people are just the same. Friends sometimes don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make it up and become friends again.
Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very sad. We miss them very much but we can call them or write to them. We can also make new friends. It is encouraging（鼓励） to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.
There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don’t. Why? Friends can make us feel happy. Being happy helps you stay well. If someone cares about you, you will take better care of yourself.People often feels _________ if they have no good friends.
| A．happy | B．sad | C．lonely | D．unpopular |
All people need friends because they _________.
| A．often feel lonely. |
| B．like to feel close to each other. |
| C．often move away. |
| D．want to live longer. |
People make new friends when their old friends________.
| A．stay alone. | B．are angry with them. |
| C．move away. | D．have new friends. |
If we can’t see our friends for a long time, we ________.
| A．no longer love them. |
| B．don’t get on well. |
| C．can call them or write to them. |
| D．will take better care of ourselves. |
From the passage, we learn that if people have many friends, they ____.
| A．will be important. | B．will have more good news |
| C．needn’t make new friends | D．will live happily. |
IV．阅读理解（共45分，Passage A-C每小题1分; Passage D、E,F每小题2分）
Passage A
We can see this advertisement _________.
| A．at a cafe | B．at a library |
| C．at school | D．at home |
We can go for lunch at _______on Monday.
| A．10:30 | B．11:45 | C．12:30 | D．14:30 |
Mrs. Zhou will spend ________if(如果) she goes for dinner on Friday.
| A．＄6 | B．＄7 | C．＄11 | D．＄12 |
Mr. Brown and his 8-year-old son had to pay _______for dinner last Sunday.
| A．＄7 | B．＄11 | C．＄12 | D．＄17 |
You can ________according to（根据） the ad.
| A．take away the food in one box for 8 dollars |
| B．enjoy all you can eat and barbecue |
| C．get a free bottle of wine with your friend if you are 16 years old. |
| D．call the Chinese Café at 9651 4655 |
Newspapers are very important in our daily life. Many people begin their day by reading the paper. In this way they learn what is going on in the world. Sometimes, however, they didn't have the time to read the news carefully and must be pleased with a quick look at the front page. At other times they may be in such a hurry that they have time only to have a quick look at the headlines(标题).
There are newspapers to please every reader. In big cities there are many types with several different editions every day. In some towns there are fewer newspapers and perhaps only one edition each day. In some places the paper is printed weekly.
Most papers have several editions（版本）, especially on Sundays when the edition is larger than usual. There are, besides the front page with the most important news, the sports news, the amusement（娱乐）page, a business page and so on.People read newspaper to ____.
| A．learn about the most important news |
| B．be pleased |
| C．learn about what is going on in the world |
| D．get some information |
Reading the headlines, people can know ____.
| A．what the passages are about | B．what is going on |
| C．learn about the most important news | D．about sports |
In big cities newspapers are usually printed ____.
| A．daily | B．weekly |
| C．monthly | D．yearly |
Most papers have ____ on Sundays than usual.
| A．more types | B．more pages |
| C．less types | D．less pages |
If you want to see a film, you’d better read ____ in a newspaper.
| A．the business page | B．the front page |
| C．the sports page | D．the amusement（娱乐） page |