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When the lazy days of summer arrive and the schedule is packed with swimming,camp,and family vacations,it can be a challenge to find time for learning. But kids’ reading skills don’t have to grow cold once school’s out. Here are some ways to make reading a natural part of their summer fun.
Explore your library. Visit your local library to check out books and magazines that your kids haven’t seen before. Many libraries have summer reading programs,book clubs,and reading contests for even the youngest borrowers. With a new library card,a child will feel extra grownup checking out books.
Read on the road. Going on a long car trip?Make sure the back seat is stocked with favorite reads. When you’re not at the wheel,read the books aloud. Get some audiobooks (many libraries have large selections)and listen to them together during driving time.
Make your own books. Pick one of your family’s favorite parts of summer—whether it’s baseball,ice cream,or the pool—and have your child draw pictures of it or cut out pictures from magazines. Stick the pictures onto paper to make a booklet and write text for it. When you’re done,read the book together. Reread it whenever you like!
Keep in touch. Kids don’t have to go away to write about summer vacation. Even if your family stays home,they can send postcards to tell friends and relatives about their adventures. Ask a relative to be your child’s pen pal and encourage them to write each week.
Keep up the reading habits. Even if everything else changes during the summer,keep up the reading routines around your house. Read with your kids every day—whether it’s just before bedtime or under a shady tree on a lazy afternoon. And don’t forget to take a book to the beach!Just brush the sand off the pages—it’s no sweat!
The purpose of the passage is to________.

A.encourage parents to read
B.give advice on raising kids
C.raise a good summer reader
D.suggest places for vacations

If you drive on a long trip in summer,you can ________.

A.visit the local library and join book clubs
B.borrow some audiobooks to listen to
C.keep in touch with friends by sending postcards
D.read your own picture books with your son

By saying “Just brush the sand off the pages—it’s no sweat”,the author means ________.

A.taking away the sand on the book is very difficult
B.a special book is needed when you’re reading on the beach
C.one can remove the sand on the book with a brush easily
D.there’s no trouble reading even on the beach

Who are the intended readers of the passage?

A.Parents. B.Students.
C.Teachers. D.Editors.
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Customs are social habits. They have been handed down through generations (代) among groups, social classes, etc. Customs can be described as ways of doing things. They are particularly (特别) strong in social practices on the occasions (场合) of births, marriages and deaths.
In China, these days, some people in cities are learning from Western customs. For example, some brides dress in the long white dress that is usual bridal wear in many Western countries.
Every people (民族) has special customs for New Year. The Han people have many interesting Spring Festival customs. And now, quite a number of people living in the cities have followed the Western customs of sending New Year greeting cards for January 1st.
One interesting custom in China is that mothers wrap (包) up their babies tightly (紧紧的).This is not the custom in Western countries, where babies are usually dressed in loose garments.
It is true that customs .

A.have been formed during a short time
B.have been formed little by little
C.have been quickly formed and changed
D.have never been changed

In this passage, the word “garment” is .

A.a kind of food B.a bed
C.a sort of clothes D.a room

How do the Chinese young people learn from Western countries at their marriages?

A.The brides(新娘)have on the white clothes.
B.Men wear the white coats.
C.Their parents all have attended their marriages.
D.Their marriages are only held in the men’s homes.

From this passage we know .

A.the people all over China spend New Year in the same way
B.people in the villages and cities send New Year greeting cards to each other
C.each people has his special custom for New Year
D.most of Chinese people take Spring Festival seriously

The difference about clothing between Chinese and Western babies is that .

A.Chinese babies are usually dressed in new clothes
B.Chinese mothers are used to dressing their babies in colourful clothes
C.Western babies are dressed in bigger clothes while Chinese babies are usually wrapped
D.Western babies have more clothes than Chinese babies

Thanksgiving Day is special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for their blessing.
Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But one of the first thanksgivings in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.
The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast(盛宴). The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.
In time, other colonies(殖民地)began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed(宣布)the last Thursday of November 1863 as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbors. But the Canadian thanks-giving Day falls on the second Monday in October.
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated .

A.in spring B.summer
C.in autumn D.in winter

The first to celebrate thanksgiving were .

A.some people from England B.the American Indians
C.Sarah Josepha Hale D.Governor Bradford

We can infer from the passage that New England must be .
A. in the U. S. A. B. in Great Britain
C. in Canada D. on some island off the Atlantic
Which of the following is NOT true?

A.Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.
B.Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on thanksgiving celebrations.
C.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to express the American and Indian people’s thanks to God.
D.There’s little difference between the American way and the Canadian way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.

The passage mainly tells us .
A. how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the U. S. A.
B. how Thanksgiving Day came into being and the different ways it is celebrated
C. that Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday
D. how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with the time and places

The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people. We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well. I pulled it into a garage and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes. He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine. I was amazed. The sad truth is, great talent is not enough.
I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100, 000 a year. A business consultant who specializes in the medical trade was telling me how many doctors and dentists struggle financially. It was this business consultant who gave me the phrase, “They are one skill away from great wealth.”
There is an old saying that goes, “Job means‘ just over broke (破产)' ”. And unfortunately, I would say that the saying applies to millions of people. Because school does not think financial intelligence is intelligence, most workers“ live within their means”. They work and they pay the bills. Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn.
When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald's is excellent at business systems. The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on bui1ding a better hamburger and know little or nothing about business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.
The author mentions the mechanic in the first paragraph to show that.

A.he is just one of the talented people
B.he is ready to help others
C.he has a sharp sense of hearing
D.he knows little about car repairing

The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best replaced by .

A.spend more than they can afford
B.do in their own way
C.live in their own circle
D.live within what they earn

Why do talented people earn so little according to the author?

A.They don't work hard enough.
B.They lack financial intelligence.
C.They don't make full use of their talents.
D.They have no specialized skills.

The success of McDonald's lies in its .

A.skills at making hamburgers. B.good business systems
C.talented workers D.excellent service

The main purpose of the author is to tell us .

A.how young people can find a satisfactory job
B.what schools should teach students
C.why so many talented people are poor
D.how McDonald's makes much money

“Confidence” is probably one of the most noticeable traits (品质) in the Americans. They show confidence in the way they talk, the way they smile, the way they dress and the way they walk. Living and competing with all these confident American students, I find it extremely important to be confident as an international student and instructor. As a student, being confident means you should never hesitate to raise your hand whenever a question or a point comes to your mind. Don't mind if it sounds simple or silly. Otherwise you will never get a chance to speak in class at all. What's worse, the professors may think you are not prepared for the discussion or you do not have your own opinion on the issue—this is the last comment any graduate would like to receive.
Being confident for me as a foreign instructor means calmly asking the student to repeat what he or she has said if I did not get it. Pretending to understand what you actually did not may just bring yourself embarrassment or even disgrace. But the time I most need to be confident is when my students come to my office and bargain about the grades I have given for their speeches. (The course I'm teaching here is Public speaking). Modesty is a trait highly valued in China, but it won't be of much help here if you want to survive and succeed in a good American graduate program.
To compete with American students it's very important to.

A.be quite confident
B.be polite and friendly
C.have more discussions with them
D.understand what they think about

A professor will have the worst opinion of a student who.

A.gives a silly or simple answer
B.tries to seize any chance to speak in class
C.shows no interest in the course
D.is considered to have no opinion of his own

The author is most likely to feel embarrassed if .

A.he asks a student to repeat what he has said
B.the students bargain with him
C.he pretends to know what he doesn't
D.he has to give a speech

We learn from the second paragraph that .

A.we should also remain modest in America
B.modesty doesn't help you much in America
C.Americans also like modest people
D.modesty can help you through an American graduate program

What can we infer from the passage?

A.American students are ready to accept the grades from the teacher.
B.The writer teaches in Europe for a living.
C.Students are encouraged to present simple questions.
D.One’s ignorance will give away in time.

A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been moved by messages of support from around the world after writing an online “Bucket List” of things she wanted to do before dying.
Alice Pyne, l5, created an Internet blog in which she described her fight against a cancer of the white blood cells. “ I've been fighting cancer for almost four years and now l know that the cancer is gaining on me and it doesn't look like I'm going to win this one,” she wrote.
For her list, the teenager took inspiration from the 2007 film “The Bucket List”, in which two terminally ill (患绝症的) men, played by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, draw up a list of things they wish to do before they die.
On her list, at the site www. alicepyne. blogspot. com, she has included making everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor (骨髓捐赠者), swimming with sharks, meeting boy band Take That and getting a purple iPad computer.
Messages of support and offers of help quickly flooded her webpage and it became one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter.
“Oh dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends!” she wrote after her site attracted huge attention. “Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me.”
Pyne, who lives with her family in the northwest English town of Ulverston, revealed (透露) the management of Take That had arranged for her to see the band after reading her blog. A group of local lawmakers have also joined forces with the Anthony Nolan blood cancer charity to encourage people to join its stem cell register.
What happened after Alice Pyne wrote her“Bucket List”?

A.The media called on people to help her.
B.People sent gifts to her from all over the world.
C.A lot of people offered to donate bone marrow to her.
D.People around the world sent messages to support her.

Alice Pyne wrote her “Bucket List” to.

A.express her last few wishes
B.say goodbye to a few friends
C.give comfort to two terminally ill men
D.catch people's attention

It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Alice Pyne .

A.is unaware of her own conditions
B.is calm to know that death is approaching
C.is very sad to know that she will die
D.is still quite confident in fighting against cancer

Which of the following is NOT on Alice Pyne's “Bucket List”?

A.To meet a boy.
B.To get a cool computer.
C.To swim with sharks.
D.To ask people to donate bone marrow.

Take That will arrange to .

A.invite Pyne to join the band
B.help Pyne in any possible way
C.donate money to Pyne
D.meet Pyne in person

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