Now more and more people communicate（沟通） by sending messages with mobile phones, sending e-mails or even chatting on line. How about our pen, pencil or paper? Which one do you think is easier and more convenient, handwriting or texting (发短信)?
Today, texting is the most common way of communication, even among young students. People don’t write letters anymore. They usually send e-mails to their friends. From texting to e-mails, it seems like keyboard (键盘) are replacing the good old pencil and paper. As a result, many students are poor in handwriting. Some even don’t know how to write normal words we often use.
In order to improve students handwriting skills, the British government(政府) recently decided to open handwriting lessons in middle schools. The British government hopes the students will be able to learn how to write business and personal letters properly at any length(长度). The students will also be taught different kinds of writings. They will also learn to use correct spelling, punctuations (标点）and grammar. The handwriting lessons will begin in 2014. Why don’t you practice handwriting and write letters to your family and friends to surprise them?Which is the most common way of communication among young students today?
| A．Writing letters | B．Texting | C．Making telephone calls | D．Making appointments |
What does the underline word “ replacing” mean in Chinese?
| A．发生 | B．重装 | C．代替 | D．重复 |
What did the British government decide to do to improve students’ handwriting skills?
| A．To help students write personal letters. |
| B．To open handwriting lessons in middle schools. |
| C．To send the students abroad to learn handwriting skills. |
| D．To ask the students not to send massages with mobile phones. |
Through the handwriting lessons, the British students can’t learn_______.
| A．to write business and personal letters | B．different kinds of writings |
| C．to use correct spelling, punctuations and grammar | D．to draw pictures |
When will the British government begin the handwriting lessons?
| A．In 2004 | B．In 2012 | C．In 2013 | D．In 2014 |
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During the day we work and play，and at night we sleep. Our body rests when we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. Our body grows most when we are asleep. Children who are tired usually need sleep. We can get better at our lessons after having plenty of rest. Boys and girls who are eight or nine years old need ten hours of sleep every night. Our body needs plenty of air when we are asleep. If we do not get enough fresh air, we will feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our head，our lungs need to get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night，we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better than warm air. Our body grows most while we are _______.
| A．eating | B．playing | C．sleeping | D．reading |
Too little sleep makes us _______.
| A．tired | B．hungry | C．happy | D．angry |
—What may cause us to feel tired in the morning?
—_______ during the sleep.
| A．Too much air | B．Not enough fresh air |
| C．Too much cold air | D．Too much warm air |
How many hours of sleep should 9-year-old children have every night?
| A．8 hours. | B．9 hours. | C．10 hours. | D．11 hours. |
What do the lungs need most?
| A．Fresh air. | B．Exercise. | C．Warm air. | D．Cold air. |
Today we can see that many people are cutting down the trees in the forests. A lot of lands have become deserts. If we read newspapers, we’ll learn that the forests on the earth are getting smaller . We are cutting down large numbers of trees we need wood and farmland. Some scientists say that there will not be any great forests 20 or 30 years.
What will happen if the forests disappear? A lot of plants will die and the animals will
their homes. In many places the new farmland will soon look the old desert. Crops will not grow there. There won’t be enough , and the weather will get hot and dry. If the climate of the earth changes, life will be for everyone. Our living environment will become . More and more rich farmland will disappear. We will suffer a lot from both droughts (干旱) and floods.
It’s our duty the forests well. Everyone should try his best to make a contribution (贡献) to taking care of the forests. Stop cutting down the trees and make the world greener!A. rich B. low C. lonely
A. on time B. all the time C. in time
A. or B. so C. because
A. at B. on C. in
A. find B. build C. lose
A. up B. like C. at
A. snow B. rain C. wind
A. easy B. happy C. hard
A. better and better B. worse and worse C. bigger and bigger
A. to protect B. do C. to do
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很多人在谈话中喜欢引用名人的话，恰当地引用名言能使你的表达增色不少。请仔细阅读方框中的名言，然后将它们与题中的话语配对。
A．A friend in need is a friend indeed．
B．If winter comes，can spring be far behind ?
C．Follow your own course（路径），and let people talk．
D．Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day．Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life．
E．Good painting is like good cooking；it can he tasted，but not explained．Sarah：Don’t care too much about what they have said，Tony．
Stephen：Thanks for helping me，Amy．l’m so proud of having a friend like you．
Mr．Lee：Teachers should tell the kids not only what to do，but also how to do that．
Alan：Don’t be upset，Jeff．The great success is just in front of you．
Sally：I don’t want to hear the tour guide introduce the paintings in the gallery．Don’t you think so ?
What do you think of a forest, what do you see? Just trees? Or do you see many other things, such as singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers?
The forest is a whole of its own. It is full of many different living things. But even though they are all different, they have one thing in common: they all need each other in order to live on.
The trees feed the forest "people" by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and minerals from the soil and air. Their deep network of roots joins the soil together and stops it from dying out, making it possible for living things to live in it.
Human beings are like the living things in the forest. We need one another in order to live. We need the farmers to grow our food, railroad and truck drivers to bring it to our shops and clerks (售员)to sell it to us. We need people to prepare our food and cook it and others to take our waste things away. Then, of course, we need doctors, nurses, government leaders, mailmen, telephone operators, and many others.
We also need other human beings in another way. We need people for friendship, to talk over our problems, exchange ideas. Think how lonely and unhappy you would be if you lived all alone.
Life is a matter of giving and taking. We need to help other people as much as we need other people to help us. Think what a good feeling you have when you have done something for someone else. You know, being a volunteer is so great!According to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on______.
| A．the leaves of the trees | B．water and minerals |
| C．the soil and air | D．all of the above |
It is the ________ that make it possible for living things to live in the forest.
| A．birds | B．trees | C．plants | D．farmers |
According to the writer, human beings are_______the forest "people".
| A．like | B．dislike | C．unhappy with | D．different from |
The writer mainly wants to tell us ________.
| A．we need people for friendship |
| B．the forest is a whole world of its own |
| C．we need one another in order to live on |
| D．the forest is full of different living things |
Which one is the relationship (关系) between a forest and your life?
| A．We are trees in the forests. |
| B．We like the living things in the forest. |
| C．We need farmers to grow our food in the forest. |
| D．We are the same as the forest: we need each other to live on. |