Having friends, and finding new friendships is an important developmental task for preteens and teens. While they have learned to play well with others during their childhood, developing independent friendships is a different thing. Preteens and teens will be allowed to use their own resources to decide whether to be someone’s friend or not, instead of being taught by their parents. Parents must give their teenagers some freedom in choosing who they want to hang out with.
You can help your teens to choose their friends, although it’s your teenagers who make the final decision. You can use teachable moments to talk about what makes a good friend. Here are some points to remember when you talk about friendships with your teenagers:
1) You are allowed to have many friends;
2) Honesty is important in a friendship;
3) Friends sometimes hurt each other, but they can say sorry and forgive(原谅);
4) Friends can influence each other, sometimes they will help you but sometimes they will hurt you, too.
5) Who you choose to be your friend is important, so choose wisely;
6) It takes many learned skills to make and keep a friendship, and it also takes many skills to end a friendship;
7) It is okay and even helpful to make friends with the opposite gender(异性);
8) It takes time to make a good friend, but it is worth the effort;
9) Spending time together will help you get to know your friends well and you will feel comfortable sharing feelings;
10) A good friendship will make you feel good about yourself.What should their parents do when teenagers make friends?
| A．Do nothing but give them all the freedom. |
| B．Talk with them and give some help. |
| C．Decide and choose friends for them. |
| D．Stop them from making friends with opposite gender. |
Which point is about how to end a friendship?
| A．Point 3. | B．Point 4. | C．Point 5. | D．Point 6. |
Which of the following is NOT needed in making friends?
| A．Honesty. | B．Effort. | C．Lies. | D．Skills. |
Who is the passage mainly written for?
| A．Teachers. | B．Parents. | C．Preteens. | D．Teens. |
Which of the following statement is true?
| A．Friends never hurt each other. |
| B．There is no need to forgive friends. |
| C．Teenagers are allowed to have many friends. |
| D．Girls should never make friends with boys. |
Last Monday we did a survey about how often the students do the housework in Shiyan High School. Here are the results.
Most students do the housework twice or three times a week. They often clean their rooms. Some students do the housework five times a week. They often clean the floor. Some students help their parents on the farm. They think their parents are too busy, so they help them.
The results for “wash clothes” are interesting. Some students wash clothes once or twice a week. They often wash clothes on Saturdays or Sundays. Some students wash clothes three or four times a week. They only wash their own clothes. But most students wash their clothes once a week. And they wash clothes on Sundays.
Liu Ying, a girl in Class 4, Grade 8, has lots of housework to do. She washes the dishes and cleans the floor every day. She often cooks, sometimes three times a day. She says, “My mother isn’t healthy. My father works in another city. So I have to do most of the housework at home.”
根据短文内容，选择正确答案From the results we knowstudents do the housework five times a week.
A、all B、most C、someSome students help their parents on the farm because .
A、they think they are old enough
B、they think their parents are too busy
C、they don’t have too much homeworkHow often do most students wash their clothes?
A、Once a week. B、Twice a week. C、Three times a week.From the passage we know that.
A、Liu Ying is an unhealthy student
B、Liu Ying is good at homework
C、Liu Ying has to do much houseworkWhich of the following is NOT true?
A、They did the survery last Monday.
B、Most students don’t do the housework.
C、Liu Ying is a student from Class 4, Grade 8.
Cindy, Jerry and Mary are giving their opinions(意见) about what a good friend should be like.
Cindy：I think a good friend should be honest. That is more important than any other thing and is where a real friendship starts. If a friend isn’t honest, he may lose his friends’trust.
Jerry：I think a good friend should be generous(慷慨的). Here “generous” doesn’t mean he has to give his friends his money or his clothes. It means he should share(分享) his ideas and feelings with his friends. In fact, his friends can know him better in this way.
Mary：In my opinion, a good friend should understand his friends. When there’s something wrong between him and his friends, he must put himself in his friends’place and think more for his friends.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案What does the underlined sentence mean?
A、To be honest is the most important.
B、To be honest is as important as other things.
C、To be honest in not so important.Jerry would like to make friends with people who.
A、give him money
B、know him very well
C、tell him their ideas and feelingsMary thinks friends should.
A、visit each other often
B、understand each other
C、help each other do thingsWhich of the following is NOT true?
A、The three people are talking about what they think a good friend should be.
B、Mary would like to make friends with people who think more for friends.
C、“A man is generous” means he is very clever.What does the underlined word “trust” mean in Chinese?
A、夸奖 B、理解 C、信任
In a small village in England about 150 years ago, a mail coach (邮车) was standing on the street. Around the coach many people were talking to one another about it. Mail coach did not come to that village so often in those days. People had to pay a lot of money to get a letter. The person who sent the letter did not have to pay. The person who got the letter had to pay the postage (邮资). “Here?s a letter for Miss Alice Brown,” said the mailman. Everyone turned to a girl of about eighteen who was standing by the coach. “I?m Alice Brown,” she said in a low voice. The mailman gave her the letter. Alice looked at the envelope for a minute, and then handed it back to the mailman. “I’m sorry I can?t take it,” she said. “I don?t have enough money to pay the postage. ” The people standing around were very sorry for the girl. They were silent for a while. Then a gentleman came up to the mailman and paid the postage for Alice’s letter. When the gentleman gave her the letter, she said with a smile, “Oh, thank you very much, sir. This letter is from the young man I’m going to marry. His name is Tom. He went to London to look for work. He has to get enough money for our marriage (结婚). I’ve waited a long time for this letter, but now don’t need it. I don’t have to open the envelope because there is nothing inside. ” “Really?” the gentleman said in surprise. “How do you know that?” “He told me that he would put some signs on the envelope. Look, sir, this cross in the corner means that he is well, and this circle means he has found work. That’s very good news. ” The gentleman was Sir Rowland Hill. He did not forget Alice and her letter. “The postage to be paid by the receiver has to be changed,” he said to himself. He thought and thought for many years. At last he had a good plan. “The postage has to be much lower,” he said. “What about a penny (便士) for a letter? And the person who sends the letter pays the postage. He has to buy a stamp and put it on the envelope. ” “A good idea!” people said when they heard of his plan. The Government decided to adopt (采纳) the plan. The first postage stamp was put out in 1840. It was called the “Penny Black”. It had a picture of the Queen on it. The first postage stamp was made ________.
| A．in England | B．in America | C．by Alice | D．in 1910 |
The girl handed the letter back to the mailman because ______.
| A．she did not know whose letter it was |
| B．the letter had already told her what she wanted to know |
| C．she could not pay the postage |
| D．the gentleman promised to pay the postage for her |
When the girl returned the letter to the mailman _____.
| A．the people around her felt sorry for her |
| B．the people thought that the girl was too poor |
| C．none of them wanted to pay the postage for her |
| D．the people was angry with the girl |
Alice knew how Tom was getting from the signs on the envelope because ______.
| A．Tom had told her what the signs meant before leaving for London |
| B．Alice was clever and could guess the meaning of the signs |
| C．Alice had put the signs on the envelope herself |
| D．Tom had put the signs as Alice had told him to |
The idea of using stamps was found by ______.
| A．the government | B．Sir Rowland Hill | C．Alice Brown | D．Tom |
Now satellites are helping to forecast（预报）the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The satellites take pictures of the atmosphere（大气）, because this is where the weather forms（形成）. They send these pictures to the weather stations. So meteorologists（气象学家）can see the weather of any part of the world. From the pictures, the scientists can often say how the weather will change. Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries receive satellite pictures. When they receive new pictures, the meteorologists compare（比较）them with earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, the meteorologists can say this.
So the weather satellites are a great help to the meteorologists. Before satellites were invented, the scientists could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecasts for three or five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or more ahead（提前）.Satellites travel _____________.
| A．in space | B．in the atmosphere | C．above the ground | D．above space |
Why do we use the weather satellites to take pictures of the atmosphere? Because __________.
| A．the weather satellites can do it easily |
| B．clouds form there |
| C．the weather forms there |
| D．the pictures can forecast the weather |
Meteorologists forecast the weather __________.
| A．when they have received satellite pictures |
| B．after they have compared new satellite pictures with earlier ones |
| C．before they received satellite pictures |
| D．during they study satellite pictures |
Maybe we’ll soon be able to forecast the weather for ________.
| A．one day | B．two days | C．five days | D．seven days or even longer |
The main（主要的）idea of this passage is that satellites are now used in _________.
| A．taking pictures of the atmosphere |
| B．receiving pictures of the atmosphere |
| C．doing other work in many ways |
| D．weather forecasting |
Alex Rawlings, from Oxford University, Has been named the UK’s most multilingual(说多种语言的)person. The 21-year-old British student can speak 11 language and is learning a 12th, He knows English, Greek, German, French, Dutch, Afrikaans, Spanish,Catalan,ltalian, Russian and Hebrew.Rawlings’ mother, who is half Greek, spoke to him in English, Greek and some French when he was growing up. Rawlings is studying German and Russian at university now. He taught himself other languages like Dutch because he wanted to talk to people on his travels or simply because he thought the language was interesting or beautiful.“When I was a kid, I always wanted to speak different languages,” Rawlings said. “My parents often took me to my mom’s family in Greece. My dad worked in Japan for four years. I was always frustrated that I couldn’t talk to other kids in those countries because of the language. ”
Thanks to his talent for languages, Rawliings has made many friends. He also thinks that picking up new languages getseasier over time.Rawlings plans to perfect his Russian while studying in the small Russian city of Yaroslavi and the next language he plans to learn is Arabic.“No matter how many languages I Iearn, my favorite language is always Greek because I have spoken it since childhood,” he said.Where does Alex Rawlings come from?
A. The UK. B. The USA. C. Germany. D. Italy.Alex Rwlings’ mother spoke to him in the following languages EXCEPT when he was young.
| A．Greek | B．Dutch | C．French | D．English |
How is Alex Rawlings going to improve his Russian?
| A．By getting a Russian tutor. |
| B．By reading Russian books. |
| C．By watching Russian movies. |
| D．By studying in a Russian city. |
Alex Rawlings likes Greek best because .
| A．his parents speak it |
| B．he thinks it’s interesting |
| C．he thinks it’s easy to learn |
| D．he has spoken it since childhood |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Alex Rawlings’ father’s family is in Japan. |
| B．Chinese is the next language Alex Rawlings plans to learn. |
| C．Alex Rawlings showed great interest in learning languages from a young age. |
| D．Learning new languages becomes more and more difficult for Alex Rawlings. |