Neighborhood yentas are well—known women. They spend most of their time watching people around them. The yentas have this title for this. “Yenta” is a Yiddish word. It means a trouble maker or a talkative person. Nobody in the street is safe from their eyes or tongue.
Yentas certainly are not bad people. They pass on messages and advice. They give up-to-the-minute weather reports. They know who is doing what. They see，hear，and know all and usually repeat it. They have called themselves reporters.
Some of the yentas’ neighbors think them so interested in others’ things that they forget their own. Sometimes, however ,a child has to be found，or a robbery has to be reported. Then what yentas do are helpful. Every neighborhood appreciates its yentas very much. It doesn’t matter what their color，belief or accent is. From the passage we know that a yenta___________ .
| A．is famous for watching people walking |
| B．1ikes talking about others |
| C．can be either a man or a woman |
| D．is not a help at all |
If you live near a yenta，you_________.
| A．will not be safe |
| B．can’t stop yourself from being watched |
| C．will be stopped when you pass by |
| D．have to pay for their help |
When you are in trouble，yentas_____________ .
| A．will make a joke on you |
| B．will watch you all the time |
| C．can sometimes give you a hand |
| D．will report that to the police |
The word “up-to-the-minute” means________ .
| A．oldest | B．best |
| C．latest | D．worst |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．We can get weather reports from yentas. |
| B．You can learn things about neighbors from yentas. |
| C．Yentas are sometimes a help to others. |
| D．Yentas care more about themselves than about others. |
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Studying abroad is an amazing experience, especially when you come to Australia as an overseas high school student. You can have a lot of fun here, especially on holidays.
There are many festivals in Australia. The most important one is obviously Christmas. Each year, the summer holidays at every high school last about two months from the beginning of December to February, which covers the Christmas time. Since it is a long holiday, most overseas students love to fly back to their home countries to spend the time with their families and friends, but a few students still stay in Australia during the holiday to get part-time jobs. It is quite easy to find a part-time job at Christmas. Students often take part in another major social activity. They go to the beach to have fun in the sunshine. The summer in Australia is from December to February, so going to the beach in December is very popular among Australians.
Easter in March is another important holiday in the year. It actually combines(使结合) “Good Friday” and “Easter Monday”. Almost every shop closes on Good Friday. And people usually go to see Easter Show.
The Chinese New year is not a public holiday in Australia, so every Chinese student still has to go to school to study and do his or her normal duties.
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Everybody wants it, and everybody works for it. Nobody can live without it. What is it? Money, of course. How often people ask us, "Will you go on holiday this summer? Will you buy this? Will you do that?" And very often the answer is, "It all depends." It all depends on what? "It all depends" always means "If I have enough money, I shall..." Some people think money is the root of all evil.
Others think it will solve all the world's problems. Both sides agree there is never enough of it. Of course it isn't the answer to everything. You can't buy love or happiness, for example.
| A．whether you have money | B．how much you'll be paid |
| C．what you have | D．if you are asked |
| A．you can't buy love |
| B．you can't buy happiness |
| C．people try every effort to get more money |
| D．you can be unhappy all the time |
| A．people can't live without money |
| B．money brings everything wonderful to all of us |
| C．money is not important in our life |
| D．some people want money but some don't |
| A．money can never take us to happiness |
| B．money is the root of all evil |
| C．money must be thrown away |
| D．we should stop making more money |
| A． Money Is Everything |
| B．The Root of All Evil |
| C．The Answer to Everything |
| D．The Question of Money |
It's eight in the morning. Mr Robert is free from work. He is now looking through a list of TV programs with his little son Tony.
| A．Channel 2. | B．Channel 8. |
| C．Channel 9. | D．Channel 2 and Channel 9. |
may choose ______.
| A．Channel 2, women's tennis single final |
| B．Channel 2, men's table tennis double final |
| C．Channel 8 , men's high jump final |
| D．Channel 9, Special Report |
He has to finish his homework first. So which program can he choose?
| A．Crayon Shin-chan. | B．Sunrise. |
| C．Spiderman . | D．The Lion King. |
| A．Surprised. | B．Disappointed. |
| C．Interested. | D．Excited. |
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five |
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Now students’ English handwriting gets worse and worse. That makes their teachers feel worried. Is your English handwriting beautiful? If not, here are four steps that really work!
Use paper with lines
Using paper with lines can keep you writing straight instead of up or down when you write English words or sentences. Those lines on the paper can help you to write words in the right size. Be sure to fill the lined space completely. And remember that those capital letters are written properly.
Slow down
If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little. For some kids, going slower makes the handwriting clear. If you write too fast, it’s hard for you to stop where you should, and even worse, you may make more mistakes.
Hold your pencil correctly
When you hold your pencil correctly, writing is much easier. Some kids press down really hard when they write. That makes the handwriting not nice. Try to be relaxed and don’t hold the pencil so hard. Let your writing appear nice and clean. If you do so, people will guess you are a student with a good habit.
Draw more pictures
Drawing can improve your handwriting. You need to use the skills to control your pencil better when you are drawing pictures. Even though you have no chance to draw at school, you can practice by yourself at home.
Handwriting is very important. Imagine you are a world-famous movie star or a well-known sports player, what do you do when your fans run up to you? Give them your autographs, of course!
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The baby elephant, Sheila, was moved out of Belfast Zoo because of fears she might be hit by bombers during the Belfast Blitz (闪电战) of 1941.
She was one of the lucky ones. A lot of the animals were killed because of fears they might escape during the bombing and attack people. They included a tiger, a black bear, a wolf, a penguin, and two polar bears.
But Sheila was walked down the road by zoo-keepers to a nearby house where a woman took her in and kept her in her backyard for several months until the bombing was over.
The woman has never been identified (确认) and the zoo knows her only as “the elephant angel”. As the zoo celebrates its 75th birthday, people have decided to try to find the elephant’s saver. Mark Challis is the manager of Belfast Zoo. He explained a bit more about Sheila’s story.
“Well, we know that Sheila, the elephant that was in the zoo at that time spent some time living with a lady relatively near to the zoo and we have one sweet photo, you can see it on our zoo website.”
“In the photo you can see the elephant with the lady in her back garden and that’s almost all we know. So we’re just trying to find a little bit more information and we are not even sure if the lady is alive today, but maybe her relatives or somebody will recognize the back of that house and we can fill in some detail on this story.”
Once the bombing was over, Sheila went back to the zoo and lived for another quarter of a century. She died of a skin disease in 1966. How many years has the zoo been open?
| A．For 25 years. | B．For 75 years. |
| C．For half a century. | D．For several months. |
Which of the following is right according to Paragraph Three?
| A．The zoo-keepers walked her there. |
| B．The zoo-keepers used a big truck to get her there. |
| C．The elephant escaped and ran to the garden herself. |
| D．The zoo-keepers used bombers to frighten her away from the zoo. |
What happened to the unlucky animals in the zoo before the bombing?
| A．They were taken to a safe place. |
| B．They started to attack people. |
| C．They were killed. |
| D．They all escaped from the zoo. |
What information do people have about “the elephant angel”?
| A．She owned a zoo website. |
| B．She used to live close to the zoo. |
| C．She is still alive. |
| D．Her relatives live in her old house. |
Why was the photo posted on the website?
| A．To attract more visitors to the zoo. |
| B．To celebrate the zoo‘s birthday. |
| C．To find the elephant angel. |
| D．To explain the war to the public. |