Every day in China, about 200 million children go to school. Many of them take school buses. What should we do to keep these students safe on the road?
On April 5, 2012，the State Council(国务院) published new rules about school bus safety. These new rules are stricter than the old ones.
Under the new rules, local governments must make sure that students go to nearby school or boarding schools to reduce traffic risks . Also, local governments must help kids in the countryside reach their school buses.
From now on, school buses have a speed limit of 80 km/h on highways and 60 km/h on normal roads. While on the road, other cars must let school buses go first.
The new rules also say that school buses must never be overloaded (超载的).
There are many other rules as well. A school bus must have more than seven seats. On each bus, there must be at least one adult to keep an eye on the kids. Each school bus must have a fire extinguisher (灭火器), a first aid kit (急救箱) and a GPS.
A series of school bus accidents happened in China in 2011. To stop such accidents, the Central Government decided to strengthen (加强) the rules for school buses.
The most serious accident happened in Gansu in November,2011. When a nine-seat minibus crashed. There were more than 60 children inside, and 21 of them died.
I hope such terrible things won’t happen again and all of us can pay more attention to the safety of the students.What did the State Council publish on April 5, 2012?
| A．New rules about school bus safety. |
| B．New rules about student safety. |
| C．New rules about student home. |
| D．New rules about class. |
According to the passage, the government made new rules because .
| A．21 students died in school bus accidents in 2011 |
| B．School buses in China were not safe enough before |
| C．200 million children in China go to school by bus every day |
| D．the government encourages all students to take school buses |
What does the underlined “”word mean?
| A．国外的 | B．国内的 | C．寄宿的 | D．较远的 |
What is the best title of this passage?
| A．The most serious accident happened in 2011 in Gansu. |
| B．A school bus must have more than seven seats. |
| C．Local governments must help kids. |
| D．Safety first on the school bus. |
Michael is an English boy. He is a good student. He is twelve years old. Now he is in a red coat. Linda is Michael’s sister. She is a nice girl. She is fourteen years old. Now she is in a green dress. Lucy and Lily are from the USA. They are students, too. They are in yellow coats. They look the same. Michael, Linda, Lucy and Lily are good friends. Michael, Lucy and Lily are in the same school. But Linda is not in the school. They like China.Michael is from ____.
A. the USA. B. England C. China D. JapanLinda is ____.
| A．Lucy’s sister | B．Lily’s sister |
| C．Michael’s sister | D．Michael’s mom |
Linda is in ____.
| A．a red dress | B．a red coat | C．a green dress | D．a green coat |
Lucy and Lily are ____.
| A．in the same school | B．in the same class |
| C．in different schools | D．in different colors |
This is Jim. He is thirteen. He is from the U.S.A. He is a student. He has a good friend. His name is Jack. Jack is fifteen. He is from Australia. Jack is tall but Jim is short. They are in the same class, but they are in different grades. Jim is in Class Two. Jack is in Class Two, too. They go to school(上学) at seven in the morning and go home(回家) at six in the afternoon.Jim and Jack are ____.
| A．sisters | B．friends |
| C．teacher and student | D．brothers |
Jim and Jack are in ____.
| A．the same grade | B．different grades |
| C．the same color | D．the same family(家庭) |
Jack is in ____.
| A．Class 4 | B．Class 3 | C．Class 2 | D．Class 1 |
They go to school at ____ in the morning.
| A．6:00 | B．7:00 | C．7:30 | D．8:00 |
Mike lives in Zhengzhou of China. But he is from Canada. He is 12 years old this year. He speaks English. And he speaks Chinese a little. Mingming is his good friend. He is a Chinese boy. He often goes to the English Corner. He likes to speak English there. It helps him with English. Of course(当然), he often helps Mike with Chinese. Mike has a pet at home. It is a dog. He likes it very much. The name of it is Wangwang. Mingming likes it, too. So he often plays with Wangwang in Mike’s home.Where is Mike from?
| A．China | B．Canada | C．England | D．America |
Who helps Mike with Chinese?
| A．Mingming | B．Wangwang |
| C．Mike’s teacher | D．Mike’s mother |
What’s the name of Mike’s pet?
| A． Mike | B．Mingming | C．Wangwang | D．Mimi |
Where does Mingming play with Wangwang?
| A．in the English Corner | B．in Mike’s home. |
| C．in Mingming’s home. | D．in the school |
____________are from England.
| A．Danny and Amy | B．Jane and Amy |
| C．Yukio and Danny | D．Jane and Danny |
Danny and Amy have ____________ hair.
| A．long | B．short | C．yellow | D．black |
____________ are 12.
| A．Amy and Danny | B．Jane and Yukio |
| C．Amy and Jane | D．Yukio and Danny |
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. |