Students these days often have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends. . Some people think the worst thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a teenager from Washington, agrees. “Problems and worries are normal in life,” says Laura. “But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don’t talk to someone, we’ll certainly feel worse.”
Laura once lost her purse, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents about it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn’t have any money. She just kept thinking. “If I tell my parents, they’ll be angry!” But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new purse and asked her to be more careful. “I will always remember to share my problems in the future!” Laura says.
Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He feels the same way as Laura. “It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve them.” He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn’t need to be an expert (专家) like himself. Students often forget that their parents have more experience than them, and are always there to help them.
In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half. So you’re halfway to solving a problem if you talk to someone about it!Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph One?
| A．What can they do about this? |
| B．Where do the problems come from? |
| C．When did they have these problems? |
| D．Why do they have so many problems? |
In Paragraph 2, the writer used the story of Laura to ______.
| A．answer a question | B．give an example |
| C．introduce his friend | D．share his experience |
According to the passage Robert Hunt might be ______.
| A．Laura’s teacher |
| B．the writer of the passage |
| C．a person with a problem |
| D．an expert on students’ problems |
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. |
| ( A ) China news, Beijing, Dec. 28 – High oil prices make more Chinese public feel the pressure it brings on them. It is said that oil prices will continue to hover（徘徊） at a high level next year, the China Economic Times reported. |
( B ) An English Christmas evening party is to be held in the meeting hall of our school from 7:00 to 10:00 p. m. on Christmas Eve. Each group has to give at least two performances, such as singing English songs, giving English plays, telling jokes or stories in English and reading English poems. Please get everything ready and be present at the party on time. Thanks. |
| ( C ) Whether your interest is the language, the food or the culture of China in general, whether you wish to travel, live or study in China, "Travel in Chinese" has something for you. This series has a total of 100 lessons. It was on CCTV, China´s national TV station. Host: Mark Rowswell, also known as "大山" (Da Shan). |
( D ) Students need enough sports and activities to do physical exercises and relax. But in some schools they are not given enough time to do outside activities. It is harmful for students' growth. In fact, teachers should know how to attract the students' attention. It is necessary to do outside activities. When students feel tired and bored, they can't concentrate on studies. Some students are unhealthy because of little activities. |
According to Passage A, oil prices will _____________ next year.
| A．be the same as usual | B．be higher |
| C．be lower | D．have nothing to do with Chinese public |
Passage B may be a/ an piece of _____________.
| A．advice | B．sick leave | C．notice | D．invitation |
From Passage C, we know _________________________.
| A．people can learn Chinese on TV. |
| B．if foreign people want to stay in China, "Travel in Chinese" can help them a lot. |
| C．Da Shan is good at Chinese. |
| D．all of the above. |
Passage D mainly tells us that_________________________.]
| A．some students don’t have enough time to do outside activities. |
| B．students need enough sports and activities |
| C．teachers should know how to attract the students' attention. |
| D．students feel tired and bored, they can't concentrate on studies. |
___________
There is a little story about an insurance(保险) salesman in Tokyo. Even though this man tried very hard to promote the insurance, nobody bought it. One day, he came to a small temple and began to brag about his insurance. After listening to his introduction, the monk said: “Your recommendation of insurance can’t arouse any of my interests! When you are communicating with others, you must have the charm to attract others, or you will be unpromising in the future. Young man, try to change yourself!”
The salesman thought deeply about each word. From then on, he invited all his friends to point out his weakness and kept on improving himself bit by bit for all his life. Thirty years later, he became a millionaire. And this man is the famous Yuan Yi Ping. His experience reflects one attitude: sometimes, we should change ourselves instead of changing the world. The salesman _________________________.
| A．is very lazy. |
| B．is not friendly to the people . |
| C．want to find another job. |
| D．became a famous salesperson in the world. |
The word “millionaire ” in the second passage means _______________________.
| A．a man who has much money. |
| B．a man who is good at attracting others . |
| C．a boss in a big company. |
| D．a famous person in the world. |
The right title for this passage can be “ ____________________”.
| A．A story about a salesman |
| B．Communicate more with others |
| C．Attract others |
| D．Change yourself |
When you see the girl for the first time, you may think she is a boy. She is very outgoing（外向）. Who is she? Wang Meng, the Chinese top skater.
On the evening of February 26th, 2010, Wang Meng first got to the finishing line in 1 minute and 29.213 seconds in the women’s 1000 meters short track speed skating final（短道速滑决赛）at the Vancouer Olympic Winter Games（温哥华冬奥会）. After she succeeded in the 500-meter and 3000-meter races, she won her third gold medal this time. With this one China won four gold medals in the women’s short track speed skating. That helped China first win the team gold medal in Winter Olympics history.
Just before the final race Wang Meng caught a bad cold and coughed terribly. With the words of “You can, you can do!” she won at last. She said, “I really feel these three gold medals belong to my team, to China. It was with the help of my team that I won the prize.”
Though Wang Meng is only twenty-four, she has been the most successful Chinese skater. Chinese are proud of her and her team. We hope she will be faster in Sochi Olympics in 2014.China won ________gold medals in the women’s short track speed skating.
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
It took Wang Meng 1 minutes and 29. 213 seconds to finish the________ short track speed skating final.
| A．women’s 1000 | B．men’s 1000 |
| C．women’s 500 | D．men’s 500 |
In Wang Meng’s opinion, ________made her win the prize at last.
| A．a strong body | B．a bad cold |
| C．her team’s help | D．much exercise |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．Wang Meng is very outgoing like a boy. |
| B．Wang Meng is the most successful Chinese skater. |
| C．Chinese people are proud of Wang Meng and her team. |
| D．China has got the team gold medal twice in Winter Olympics history. |
The panda is one of the animals most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each panda needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers ,whales, turtles and elephant—we need to save the panda, and we need to save them, too.Paragraph 2 is mainly about________.
| A．why pandas are in danger |
| B．why baby pandas often die |
| C．how to protect all animals |
| D．how to plant more bamboo |
The government is trying ________to help the pandas.
| A．to build more zoos |
| B．to send more scientists |
| C．to make bigger nature reserves |
| D．to ask the WWF to work in China. |
________is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.
| A．The tiger | B．The panda | C．The elephant | D．The whale |