Hello, everyone. Because of the high rate of school violence(暴力) in some areas, teenagers’ safety becomes a serious problem. We are planning to set up an organization named School Watch to make sure that students have a safe school environment. Please be part of our plan!
What is School Watch?
School Watch is a volunteer project in our school. It helps us stop violence and improve the quality of school life. It will keep yourself and your schoolmates safe. The other members of School Watch care for you and your classroom, and you do the same for them.
Is it for everyone?
Anybody can become a member of School Watch because everyone has something to offer.
What else can it do?
School Watch makes it possible for us not only to help each other but also to make friends with each other. Some members may offer to help the schoolmates who have problems with their homework.
Who is the School Watch?
Our school will look for the School Watcher and give him or her lots of prizes. You could be the one!
How do you start?
To be part of this plan, the only thing you need to do is to talk to the director of the plan in your grade. You can check the official website at www.schoolwatch.com if you want to get more information. School Watch can help its members_______.
| A．save the environment | B．go to school on time |
| C．improve the quality of school life | D．organize the sports activities |
The members of School Watch are probably______.
| A．teenagers | B．doctors | C．parents | D．policemen |
Anyone can become a member of School Watch because ______.
| A．everyone may have problems | B．everyone can give help to others |
| C．everyone doesn’t go to school | D．everyone isn’t busy |
The best School Watcher will get a lot of prizes from_____ every year.
| A．the website | B．the school | C．the parents | D．the director |
If you want to become a member of School Watch, you should ______.
| A．check the website |
| B．talk to the director of the plan in your grade |
| C．be good at school work |
| D．go to the police |
Time flies. Your time in junior high school will come to an end in a few months. Let’s look back over the last three years. What were the highs and lows?
For Zhang Xiaomeng, a senior high school girl from Jiangsu, meeting her best friend Hua Xuan was the best part of her time at junior high school. They went to class together, had lunch together, and even went to the washroom together. Having one or two best friends is important, said Xu Zheng, a teacher from Jiangsu. “Students have secrets. They don’t want to tell their parents,”Xu added. However, being too rebellious (叛逆的) in junior high is the biggest regret for Liu Anqing, a senior high school student from Fujian. “I didn’t listen to my parents. I quarreled with my mother every week,” said Liu. “I wish I could go back to that time and get on well with them.” Time also needs to be taken care of. Zhang Zihua, 15, from Shanxi, thought he had plenty of time to prepare for the big exam at the end of Junior 3. Then one day, he was told: “The exam is in 100 days.” “We need a strong knowledge base to pass the exam. But I didn’t care about it,” said Zhang. Gu Xiaoli, a teacher from Jiangsu, said that it’s never too late to catch up. “No matter your regrets about wasted time, you can always pick things up from now,” said Gu. How many students shared their ideas in the passage?
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
The underlined word “regret” in Paragraph 2 most probably means a feeling of __________.
| A．happiness | B．surprise | C．anger | D．sadness |
Which of the following is true about Liu Anqing?
| A．She quarreled with her parents every day when she was a little girl. |
| B．Her parents didn’t like her at all. |
| C．She didn’t do well in her study at junior high school. |
| D．She didn’t get on well with her parents when she was in junior high school. |
What’s wrong with Zhang Zihua?
| A．He didn’t pass the exam. |
| B．He had no good friends. |
| C．He didn’t get ready for the exam. |
| D．He didn’t get on well with his parents and teachers. |
| Ye Shuhang: In some ways, reference books (参考书) are useful. They help us understand textbooks better. For example, if we can’t learn a language point well in English class, a reference book can help us to review the point. So I think it’s better to have such books. |
| Jiang Yixing: Reference books have some disadvantages. Some reference books show answers to the exercises in textbooks. This isn’t very good. Students will just copy the answers directly instead of thinking for themselves. Day after day, students will begin to rely on (依赖) reference books and won’t listen carefully in class. |
| Jin Yourong: Sometimes, reference books are useful. Some reference books show something a little bit more difficult than the textbooks. They challenge us and let us reach a higher level in our studies. So if you want to learn more, reference books are needed. |
| Yang Haoyu: I don’t think reference books are helpful. If we listen to our teachers carefully and solve the questions at school, this is enough to grasp (掌握) all the knowledge. Besides, the school has given us too much homework. More reference books will only make us sick of studying. And for some subjects like English, if you want to learn well, the best way is to speak, not just do exercises. |
__________ think reference books are useful in our study.
| A．Ye Shuhang and Jiang Yixing |
| B．Jiang Yixing and Jin Yourong |
| C．Ye Shuhang and Jin Yourong |
| D．Jin Yourong and Yang Haoyu |
In Ye Shuhang’s opinion, reference books can ________________.
| A．show answers to the exercises in textbooks |
| B．help us review the point |
| C．let us reach a higher level in our studies |
| D．make us tired of studying |
From the four students’ opinions, we can guess that_____________.
| A．Reference books are too expensive |
| B．Some students buy reference books for their study |
| C．No one will buy reference books any more |
| D．Reference books are useful for everyone |
Do you know of anyone who uses the truth to cheat? When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out (略去) important information that should be inside, he can give you a false picture.
For example, someone might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery(彩票). It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!”
This guy is a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought $ 200 worth of tickets, and only one was a winner. He’s really a big loser!
He didn’t say anything that was false, but he left out important information on purpose. That’s called a half-truth. Half truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest.
Some politicians (政客) often use this trick. Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and got three million jobs. Then she tries to get another term. One of her opponents (竞争对手) says, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!” That’s true. However, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had increased two million jobs.’’
Advertisers will sometimes use half–truths. It’s against the law to make false statements so they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might say, “Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache.” It fails to say that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company.
This kind of cheating happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well. We may infer that the author believes people should ________.
| A．buy lottery tickets if possible |
| B．make use of half–truths |
| C．be careful about what they are told |
| D．not trust the Yucky Company |
How many examples does the writer give to show how the truth is used to cheat?
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Using half truths is against the law. |
| B．Technically, half truths are in fact lies. |
| C．Yucky Pills is a very good medicine for toothache. |
| D．Governor Smith did a good job during her last term. |
Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?
| A．He’s really a big loser! |
| B．Sometimes the truth can lie as well. |
| C．Advertisers will sometimes use half truths. |
| D．It’s against the law to make false statements. |
“AN Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue (队伍) of one,” wrote famous British author George Mikes. While this sounds funny, it’s a popular English stereotype (刻板印象). From the supermarket to the subway, queues are a common sight on the streets of Britain. 
Here in China, queues are normal, too. It is a part of everyday life. People queue most of the time, from buying tickets in the cinema to waiting for seats at a restaurant.But in certain situations, you’ll find yourself in the middle of a rushing crowd, such as getting onto the subway. Even away from the busy subway platform (站台), queues are different. One day I was standing in line at the supermarket.I left a small space in front of me. Within seconds, a girl walked by and took her place in that small space.I was surprised at first, but later I found these experiences very interesting. It is with these small, everyday differences that I get to live and learn within a new culture.
Back in Britain, the average person spends six months of their life waiting in a queue, according to the auction site MadBid. To pass the time, maybe they tell themselves the famous proverb: good things come to those who wait. The English are well known for _____.经过时间，
| A．forming an orderly queue | B．being rude and loud |
| C．traveling on subways | D．spending more time waiting in a queue |
When the girl jumped the queue, how did the writer feel?
| A．annoyed → calm | B．calm → angry |
| C．surprised → interested | D．shocked → angry |
The purpose of the article is to _____.
| A．call on people in China to queue more |
| B．compare queuing in two different countries |
| C．praise the English for following good manners |
| D．explain why people rush in some situations |
In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read this article?
| A．Sports. | B．News. | C．Culture. | D．Business. |
I work in a nursing home and my job is to take care of the elderly.
This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for, Alice, had gone through a difficult time. She got dementia and so she had been in the hospital twice. In November I was finally able to get her back to her “home”.
Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen, she was very sad. Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy, I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday!
On Christmas Eve, I gave her a surprise by asking if she would like to go to a candlelight service at church that night.
Instead of taking her to my church, I took her to her old neighborhood church where all her friends were. We got there early and I got her a seat where her friends could see her as they came in. Then soon some of her friends came to the church and they rushed over to greet her and sit with her.
The candlelight service was beautiful and Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there.
The truth of the story is that I am the one who got the best gift: the smile on Alice’s face. The underlined word “dementia” in Paragraph 2 probably is _____.
| A．an illness | B．a letter | C．a house | D．a plan |
What was the best gift that the author got on Christmas Eve?
| A．The candlelight service. | B．Praise from Alice’s friends. |
| C．Thanks from Alice’s daughter. | D．Alice’s happiness. |
Which of the statement is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Alice’s daughter came to visit her on Christmas Eve. |
| B．None of Alice’s friends came to the church. |
| C．The candlelight Christmas Eve made Alice really happy. |
| D．Alice’s family never got together on Christmas Day in the old days. |
What is the best title for this passage?
| A．A special candlelight Christmas Eve | B．The dream of an old lonely lady |
| C．My special job | D．The true love |