People at home keep asking me, "Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?" Well, there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language. Today it's also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn't be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.
The really good place to look for them is QQ. QQ has the same status(地位) in China as AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 9,000,000 people are using QQ. They're at work, or in a web café(网吧), or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign on with your address set to "abroad", you'll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it's a very interesting way of cultural contact(文化交流), too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact. In the first paragraph(段落), the writer tells us ___________.
| A．why his family members want to learn Chinese |
| B．where you can find people to talk to for language learning |
| C．the easiest thing to do is learning Chinese |
| D．Chinese isn’t so hard to learn as his friends think |
From the second paragraph we know that QQ and AIM are __________.
| A．addresses for the Internet users | B．documents you need to get online |
| C．tools for people to talk online | D．programs of a computer |
Offices, web cafes and homes ____________.
| A．attract the most people to learn Chinese |
| B．provide both QQ and AIM in China |
| C．are the best places for English learners |
| D．have the most people online |
The writer wrote this passage mainly to __________.
| A．tell a way of learning Chinese |
| B．show what the Chinese people are doing |
| C．tell the important of learning Chinese |
| D．show the difference between AIM and QQ |
The writer of this passage is probably ___________.
| A．a Chinese who works abroad | B．an expert who works at home |
| C．an American who works in China | D．a salesman who sells soft wares |
It’s 9:00 in the evening. The family are at home. Jim’s father sits in a chair. He’s watching TV(看电视). His mother stands near the window. She feeds(喂) the birds—Polly. Polly says, “Thanks! Thanks!” Where is Jim? Oh, he’s behind the door. Kate is looking for(找) him. They play games in Kate’s room.
( )１．There are ________people in the family.
A. three B. four C. five D. six
( )２．Who sits in a chair?
A. Jim B. It’s Jim C. Jim’s father D. It’s Jim’s mother
( )３．Where is Jim?
A. He’s is watching TV. B. Behind the door.
C. He’s looking for Kate. D. Near the door.
( )４．Jim and Kate are ___________.
A. good friends B. two girls
C. two boys D. brothers and sisters
( )５．Where’s Kate?
A. She’s behind the door. B. She’s near the window.
C. She’s in her room. D. She plays games.
请仔细阅读下面小题中的个人说明，从A 到F的六个选项中，选出符合个人要求的最佳选项，其中一项为多余选项。Jeff likes sports and travel. He would like something that can help him
spend boring time on his journey. Mrs. Green doesn’t like to exercise, but she likes cooking and reading
books about foreign places.Mr. Dean wants to improve his garden during summer. So he would like something that could help him to do that.
Lisa , a 22-year-old girl, worries about her weight. She is wondering how to lose weight.
Sophia likes to look smart. When she is free, she enjoys listening to the music. Now she plans to learn something about music.
| A．Learn how to play the guitar. This popular video helps the beginner to become a guitar player in just 200 hours. |
| B．Road trips. A program loved by young people, especially those fat girls. Join in it and make yourself become thin. |
| C．The new pocket MP4. This kind of MP4 fits right into your pocket. It lets you listen to your favorite artist, even when you are on a journey. |
| D．Singapore. The story of a city. This book is about the history. the culture and the favorite dishes of this small country. |
E. Spanish in 10 Minutes a Day. A fun, 132-page complete language learning work book. Includes 150 sticky labels: flash cards, a crossword puzzle and more. It is one of the best-selling language series in print.
F. Special scissors(剪刀). This kind of tools will make it easy to deal with flowers and trees. Anyone can learn to use it quickly.
Walter owns three Italian restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers（顾客） all over the world.
He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics(道德准则) of his father came into play . It made him a person who studied and explored （探索）the secrets in the food business.
Walter’s learning never stops. He says “ The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind.” So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work.
Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says “Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I’m a happy man.”The underlined phrase “came into play” means
| A．played a joke on him | B．needed to be used |
| C．gave him much help | D．began to be studied |
The secret of Walter’s success is .
| A．building a bridge to the country |
| B．keeping on learning without any stops |
| C．getting new cooking ideas from his family |
| D．bringing the Italian cooking culture into America |
From the last sentence of the passage, we can know that it is .
| A．happy to make a lot of money |
| B．exciting to have more and more customers |
| C．important to make the customers pleased |
| D．impossible to make 15 or 20 customers happy every day |
We can learn from the passage that .
| A．the lifetime education is important |
| B．creative spirit always comes first |
| C．exploring the food business is difficult |
| D．new ideas are necessary in running a restaurant |
The best title of this passage may be “”
| A．Culture is Important for Cooks |
| B．A Cook and His Customers |
| C．The Story of Three Restaurants |
| D．A Winner is Made, not Born |
One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign which said,“I am blind. Please help me.”
There were only a few coins（硬币） in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat .He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure(珍惜)what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way. From the passage we know that______.
| A．the boy is the man’s son. | B．the man is one of his neighbors. |
| C．the boy is blind and needs help. | D．the boy works for the man. |
On the sign what the man wrote was,“_______.”
| A．Treasure what we have already had. |
| B．Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it. |
| C．We are so lucky that we are not blind. |
| D．Try your best to help those who need your help. |
According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
| A．The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign. |
| B．The man took away all the few coins from the hat. |
| C．The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school. |
| D．Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy. |
The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.
| A．承认 | B．接受 |
| C．表扬 | D．认出 |
“____”is the best title for this story.
| A．Be careful. |
| B．Be creative. There is always a better way! |
| C．Be kind to the blind! |
| D．Do not always get, but offer! |
“Millions of young people will lose their hearing in five years if they listen to MP3 or MP4 players at a too high voice every day,” scientists say recently.
Do you often listen to MP3 players at a too high voice? Are you frightened to hear this?
The sizes of MP3 players are very small, but small MP3 players make it easy to take hundreds of songs with you. So many young people carry them and listen to music every day. MP3 players are very popular among students.
The scientists say teenagers should be far from high volume (音量), including mobile phones’ noise. A study says, “High volume and long listening time can cause hearing problems.” They think if young people listen at more than 89 decibels (分贝) every day, they will lose their hearing in five years. A scientist said, “So many young people often use personal music players and mobile phones at a high voice. I am afraid that they may be losing their hearing.
So let’s turn our MP3 players down!According to the passage, which of the following is true?
| A．Scientists tell young people to turn off their MP3 players. |
| B．Teenagers will lose their hearing if they listen to hundreds of songs in MP3 players. |
| C．A person will lose hearing in 5 years if he or she listens to an MP3 player every day. |
| D．The mobile phone can also cause hearing problems if we don’t use it correctly. |
The underlined word “they” (Paragraph 4) most probably refers to ______.
| A．scientists | B．MP3 players | C．mobile phones | D．teenagers |
Which might be the best title for this passage?
| A．Turn your MP3 players down! | B．Never use MP3! |
| C．How to protect your hearing. | D．Young people’s hearing. |