Find and keep your friendship
Every one of us, rich or poor, should at least have one or two good friends. Your friends will listen to you when you speak, will take care of you when you are sick, and will be together with you in your journey through life.
Everyone needs friends. Friendship can make us happier. How can we find a good friend and get on well with each other? Here is some advice.
Make friends with a person who is easy to get along with.
You should make friends with a person who has something in common with you.
Give your friend a hand when he or she is in trouble . Friends should always be ready to help each other.
Believe in each other. This is the most important thing in a friendship.
Even the best friends may have quarrel (争吵)sometimes. If this happens ,don’t let your quarrel last too long. Try to make up with（和好） your friends soon.
Friendship is a kind of treasure in our life. It is like a bottle of wine,the longer it is kept,the better it will be.
根据短文内容，判断以下句子的正误。你认为正确的句子请在答题卷相应的空格内写T,错误的写F,(共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)Rich people don’t need friends.
If your friends are in trouble,you should help them.
Make friends with people who are not difficult to get along with.
Don’t believe in your friends.
Best friends don’t have a quarrel.
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don ’t feel hurt.If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship .This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand . Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness tothem if it requires a great deal of time. But in China ,we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off from our work to act as guides to our friends .It is opposite in America , Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes , the welcome will be full , warm and real. For Americans , it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may mean “_______”.
| A．keep out | B．give up | C．pay no attention to | D．continue |
Which of the following is the typical （典型的）way of American hospitality?
| A．Treating friends at home. |
| B．Taking days off to be with friends. |
| C．Meeting friends at the airport at midnight. |
| D．Sharing everything they have. |
Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
| A．Americans are always generous with their time. |
| B．Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon. |
| C．Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear. |
| D．Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships. |
“Who needs a shopping mall (购物中心)if you have Taobao ?” says Wang Lin , 28 , a\ writer in Beijing . Taobao , China’s largest online shopping site （网上购物网站）, has become an important part of Wang Lin’s life . She spends lots of money on Taobao. A growing number of Chinese Internet users like Wang have found the joys of online shopping . Most online shoppers are students or young workers . More women shop on line then men. Clothing and home-use products are the most popular online. It was reported that more than 250 billion yuan was spent on online shopping last year,80% through Taobao . Taobao means “looking for treasure” in Chinese. People can find almost everything they need on Taobao, from clothes to books ,from candies to DVD players .What are the most popular online?
A. Candles and DVD playersB. Clothes and books.
C. Clothing and home-use products. D TreasureTaobao is ____________.
| A．a shopping mall | B．an online shopper |
| C．an online shopping site | D．A kind of treasure |
Most online shoppers are ________.
A. youngB. oldC. babies D Men
假如你是一位导游，请根据下面游客的需求特点给他们从（A-G）中选择合适的旅游景点，其中有两项是多余的。
| Beautiful waterfalls |
Main features |
Tips: Best time to go &Entry |
| (A).Detian Falls in Guangxi |
The largest naturally formed falls in Southeast Asia |
July-November 80 Yuan/person |
| (B).Hukou Waterfall in Shanxi |
The second largest waterfall in China |
April-May; 81yuan/person |
| (C).Jiulong Waterfalls in Yunnan |
During rainy season, it is dyed red by the red earth it carries, |
especially June and July; 10 Yuan/person |
| (D).Black Dragon Pool Waterfall in Tai Mount |
Legend has it that the undersea dragon palace in East China Sea is connected with the pool, where dragons from the Sea can swim freely. |
June-November 125 Yuan/person (Mar. - Oct.) 100 Yuan/person (Nov. - Feb.) |
| (E).Chishui Waterfall in Guizhou |
It’s 76 meters high and 80 meters wide, an AAAA tourist attraction |
July-October 40 Yuan/person |
| (F).Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou |
Was added to the Guinness book of world records as the world’s largest waterfall cluster. |
summer and autumn, the rainy season，90 Yuan/person in peak season and 70 Yuan/person in off season |
| (G).Shiliang Waterfall in Zhejiang |
There is a stone beam about seven meters long and 1/3 meter wide topping the waterfall, and the narrowest place is only 1/6 meter wide. |
60yuan Opening hours 6:00-19:00 |
Anna wants to go somewhere famous in the world.
David is a student in Yunnan Province, he doesn’t have much money.
Mr. Green is a busy businessman, he’s now in Taizhou, the day after tomorrow he will have to go back to his company in Beijing.
Grandpa Li likes travelling in spring.
Aunt Mary lives in Shandong, she hates to go for a long way, she often feels car sick.
Canada is a very large country. It is the second largest country in the world .By contrast it has a very small population. There are only about 29 million people there. Most Canadians are of British or French origin（后裔）, and French is an official language of Canada as well as English .About 45%of the people are of British origin, that is, they or their parents or grandparents, etc, come from British. Nearly 30% are of French origin. Most of the French–Canadians live in province of Quebec.
Over the years, people have come to live in Canada from many countries in the world .They are from many countries in the world .They are from most European countries and also from China, besides other Asian countries.
However, Canada was not an empty country when the Europeans began to arrive. Canadian Indians lived along the coast, by the rivers and lakes and in forests. Today, there are only about 350,000 Indians in the whole country, with their own languages. In the far north live the Inuit. There are only 27,000 Canadian-Inuit. Their life is hard in such a difficult climate. The phrase “By contrast” in the passage means ____.
| A．同时 | B．相比之下 | C．而且 | D．实际上 |
About ____ live in Quebec.
| A．30% of the French –Canadians | B．45% of the Canadians |
| C．27,000 people | D．350,000 French – Canadians |
The official languages of Canada are ____.
| A．English and Chinese | B．French and English |
| C．Indian and French | D．Chinese and Inuit |
About 23% of people in Canada came from _____.
| A．China |
| B．England |
| C．France |
| D．some other countries except France and Britain |
Yesterday my son, daughter and I went to the grocery store. In front of us in line was a little girl with her mother. The little girl was asking her mother for a box of Smarties. The polite way she was asking almost broke the mother’s heart, “I’m sorry, Honey, but we have no money to buy it ”
My son was watching that dialogue. By the way, he had been raking(用耙子耙)leaves our garden to raise himself some money to buy a bike. As he watched the mother and daughter leave the store, he ran to the candy counter(柜台)and bought a box of Smarties with the money .
He turned to look at me and I just nodded. He ran out after the little girl and her mother and he gave them the box. He came back and told me what he told them. “Every kid should have a pack of Smarties because they can make you smart.”
I was so excited that I bought a pack of Smarties for my son. I told him that I was proud of him, and that was for his act of generosity(慷慨)because he gave his own Smarties to others Quickly, he replied, “But you do nice things for people and you never get anything for it .”explained, “when you do something nice for someone, you shouldn’t expect to get anything, when you do get something you should be very thankful.” When the writer and her children went to the grocery store, they saw a little girl asking ____.
| A．her mother for a nice toy |
| B．her mother for a box of Smarties |
| C．where she could find a box of Smarties |
| D．her mother if she could had enough money |
From the passage we know Smarties are ____.
| A．a beautiful doll |
| B．an interesting story book |
| C．a kind of candy |
| D．some leaves of a nice tree |
The writer was____to see her son buy a pack of Smarties for the little girl.
| A．sad | B．excited | C．angry | D．proud |
What can we learn from the story above?
| A．Every kid should have a pack of Smarties.. |
| B．Everyone should have a good mother. |
| C．Everyone should do nice things for others. |
| D．Every mother should often do something for her children. |