Now QQ coins are popular among Chinese teenagers. People use real money to buy Web money. Then they buy clothes for their online characters (人物形象) or services for their online pets with it. And these fancy things will cost QQ fans more in the future.
The government will put a tax (税) of 3% on online sales. For example, if QQ users pay 100 yuan for 110 QQ coins, they will have to spend 103 yuan in the future. The extra (额外的) three yuan is tax.
Beijing was the first city to carry out the policy. Online games have to pay the tax, too. A number of players make money by spending a lot of time on the games to gain powers (获得能量), and then selling them.
Experts said that online trade grow fast. There is more than 10 billion yuan of real money in online trade a year in China.
However, the government’s new move has become a hot topic (话题) among Internet users around the country. In a survey by sina.com more than 70% of about 3,000 surveyed were against it. They said that the tax is too much.
But supporters (支持者) said the government’s better management (管理) of the Internet would help it become healthier. They believe the new move would help stop online identity theft (账号偷窃).
根据短文内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出正确选项，并将所选答案的字母代号填入题前的括号内。We can learn from the story that QQ coins are ________.
| A．a kind of game software | B．some online pets |
| C．some fancy clothes | D．a special Web money |
The Chinese government will put a tax of ________ on online sales.
| A．10% | B．3% | C．11% | D．15% |
Which city was the first city to carry out the policy?
| A．Shenyang. | B．Beijing. |
| C．Guangzhou. | D．Shanghai. |
We can learn from the passage that________.
| A．all the people support (支持) this policy |
| B．online gamers don’t have to pay the tax |
| C．many people think the tax is too much |
| D．the new move will cause online identity theft |
The new move can help Internet become healthier and ________.
| A．stop online identity theft | B．stop online trade |
| C．stop online shopping | D．stop online spending money |
When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 18th century, people had different ideas about their use.Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause （引起）people to die.
In Sweden（瑞典）, King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether or not this was true.It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time.They were twins and were almost alike in every way.They had both been sentenced to death (判处死刑).The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee.
Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind.At last,the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83,the other died a few years later.
Because of the experiment(实验), tea and coffee got accepted (接受) and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee is drunk today.Tea and coffee were first introducd to Europe in_______.
| A．the eighteenth century | B．the eighteen century |
| C．eighteenth centuries | D．eighteen centuries |
What does the word harmful mean in Chinese?---It means________.
| A．有趣的 | B．苦涩无味的 | C．有害的 | D．可口的 |
The brother who had drunk tea every day lived______.
| A．until he was over 83 |
| B．until he was 83 |
| C．until the other had been dead for several years |
| D．until he had drunk tea for a few years |
Today the Swedish drink_________.
| A．much more coffee than tea | B．much tea and coffee |
| C．little tea and coffee | D．much tea but little coffee |
March 29, 2013 Sunny
Today was the Hungry Luncheon (饥饿午餐日). Every year, at our school, there is a lunch event called the Hungry Luncheon.
If you want to join the event, you must pay two dollars at the door of the dining hall and get a letter. All the money is used for helping those poor people who don’t have enough (足够的) food to eat. My letter was “K”.
After all the students sat down, the teachers called the letters for the meals: 15% of the students got to eat a best dinner. 25% of the students got to eat an Okay meal. But 60% of the students just had a small piece of bread and a small cup of water!
The purpose (目的) of this event is to tell us about the unfairness (不公平) of the world, and that we need to start helping the poor!
I was one of the 60% of the students. I was a little hungry for the rest of the day, but I learned something from this special lesson. Now every time I eat, I think about the poor.
A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase（短语）, “to let the cat out of the bag”. In meaning it is the same as “to tell the secret（秘密）”. And there is an old interesting story about it.
Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth (布) bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man’s secret was out and everyone knew it.
Now when we say someone gives away a secret, we say “he lets the cat out of the bag”. And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.The underlined word “it” in the passage refers to (指的是) .
| A．the useful bag | B．the phrase | C．the cat | D．the chicken |
The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to when they sold chickens.
| A．tell the secret | B．sell the cats |
| C．get more money | D．keep the cats quiet |
Which is the best for the blank (空白处) in the passage?
| A．The woman was angry to see a cat. | B．The man put a cat in the bag. |
| C．The man asked her to see the chicken. | D．The woman wanted to see the chicken. |
The writer wrote the story to tell us .
| A．the woman was smart | B．how farmers sold their cats |
| C．the phrase is useful | D．where the phrase came from |
Look at the picture on the right. What is it? Yeah, it’s a special robot car，ROPITS. Japan made it this year. It’s a new kind of car. The car can drive itself. It is very easy for people to use it.
ROPITS is short for Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (个人智能交通系统机器人). ROPITS has only one seat. The Japanese made it for old and disabled (残疾的) people in Japan.
What makes the ROPITS special? One can ask it to pick him or her up from a computer or a smart-phone. After he or she gets in the car and tells the ROPITS where to go, it will begin to drive itself and let the driver enjoy the ride.
The ROPITS will not have traffic accidents (事故) because it drives very slowly, not more than 7 kilometers an hour. This passage is about a new kind of .
| A．car | B．bicycle | C．smart-phone | D．computer |
The ROPITS is special because .
| A．it is only for people in Japan | B．it can drive itself all the way |
| C．it can drive fast on the road | D．it is for the old and disabled people |
From the passage we know that .
| A．ROPITS is big and smart |
| B．people must learn to drive ROPITS |
| C．only old and disabled people can use ROPITS |
| D．ROPITS is helpful for the old and the disabled people |
We can learn to play ping-pong .
| A．at Mr Cai’s house | B．on Friday afternoon |
| C．in School’s P.E. Building | D．from Monday to Friday |
The Star Rock Band will meet every .
| A．Friday afternoon | B．Monday morning |
| C．Saturday afternoon | D．Sunday morning |
Cathy can sing well and she wants to meet some music lovers. She can .
| A．call 368-5788 | B．call 898-3443 |
| C．meet Mr Cai on Sunday | D．meet Tina on Saturday |