Hello! I’m Jim Green. I’m English. This is my mother. Her first name is Mary. This is my father. His name is Steve. My telephone number is seven six o nine one seven six. My friend is Li Lei. His English name is Tony. He is a Chinese boy. His telephone number is 2815248. My English teacher is Jenny Brown. She is a good teacher.What is my first name? _________.
| A．Jim | B．Green |
| C．Jim Green | D．Green Jim |
My father’s last name is ______.
| A．Jim | B．Steven |
| C．Green | D．Tom |
My telephone number is______.
| A．7609176 | B．6879716 |
| C．2815248 | D．7069671 |
What’s Li Lei’s English name? _______.
| A．Mary | B．Jim |
| C．Lei | D．Tony |
Jim’s English teacher is______.
| A．Mr Brown | B．Mr Jenny |
| C．Mrs Jenny | D．Ms Brown. |
Kindergartens may teach you very important things you need to know. Dancy, a 5-year-old boy, saved his father’s life with the skills he learned.
The boy’s father became seriously ill on the way home from a father-son shopping. He couldn’t speak and could hardly move, but he tried hard to stop the car safely. At that point, Dancy used his father’s phone to call his mother for help. The 5-year-old boy tried his best to give her useful information and he was able to tell where they were. Just as he had learned in the kindergarten, Dancy read the letters he saw on a nearby store sign: “F,U,R,N,I,T,U,R,E.” But that wasn’t enough for his mother to find them. Then he added that they were near a bridge. Finally, his mother understood he was talking about a store called Furniture 22 on New Jersey’s Route 22. The mother called 911 and the father was saved in time.
“He just thought his dad needed help,” Dancy’s mother told the reporter. She also pointed out that her husband was a hero, too. “It is surprising for him to get offthe highway and get himself and his child to safety even when he was so sick,” she said.
Shine, head of the kindergarten, felt proud of his pupil. “Dancy’s spelling skills helped him seize（抓住）the moment,” he said. “And that’s the real value of education.”When the father became seriously ill, he and his son were ______.
| A．on the wayhome | B．in the kindergarten |
| C．in a shopping center | D．at a bus station |
Dancy called ______for help when his father couldn’t speak.
| A．911 | B．his mother | C．Shine | D．the reporter |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Dancy drove his father home. |
| B．The reporter was really a hero. |
| C．Shine sent Dancy’s father to hospital. |
| D．Dancy saved his father with his spelling skills. |
News Review
Head-on Train Crash
On May 18, two trains had a head-on crash（相撞）near New York City. Over 250 people were on the trains then. About 60 people were hurt, but no deaths were reported.
Travel Time
Tourists came together to the Taishan Mountain, on May1. Over 180,000 tourists visited the place of great interest from April 29 to May 1, during the three-day holiday.
Brave Volunteer
Liao Zhi, a dance teacher from Chengdu who lost her 1-year-old daughter and her legs in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, arrived in Ya’an 13 hours after the earthquake. The dancer said she had had a terrible time herself and knew what people needed most, so she decided to come and offer help.
Tomato Competition
A tomato competition was held in Huainan, Anhui Province, on April 16. The best tomatoes were chosen according to their shape, color and taste. The competition hoped to encourage the farmers to grow better tomatoes.About ______ people were hurt in the Head-on Train Crash.
| A．18 | B．29 | C．60 | D．250 |
Liao Zhi, the dance teacher from______, came to Ya’an to offer help.
| A．Chengdu | B．Huainan | C．Taishan | D．New York |
The Tomato Competition in Anhui Province was held to______.
| A．help the people in Ya’an |
| B．save the people on the trains |
| C．help grow better tomatoes |
| D．forget the terrible time |
When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be very difficult to let your anger go off. But forgiveness（原谅）is possible – and it can be surprisingly helpful to your physical and mental health. Indeed, research has shown that people who forgive can have more energy, better appetite and better sleep. “People who forgive show less anger and more hopefulness,” says Dr. Frederic Luskin, who wrote the book Forgive for Good. “So it can help save on the damage to our system and allow people to feel more energetic.”
So when someone has hurt you, cool down first. Take a couple of breaths and think of something that gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, someone you love. Don’t wait for an apology（道歉）. “Many times the person who hurt you may never think of apologizing,” says Dr. Luskin. “They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things the same way. So if you wait for people to say sorry, you could be waiting a very long time.”
Next keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean accepting the action of the person who worries you. Mentally going over your hurt gives power to the person who brought you pain. Instead, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.
Finally, try to see things from the other person’s perspective（看法）. You may realize that he or she was acting out of knowledge, fear – even love. To get perspective, you may want to write a letter to yourself from that person’s point of view.What’s the name of Dr. Frederic Luskin’s book?
According to the writer, what should you do first after being hurt?
Why does Dr. Luskin advise us not to wait for an apology after being hurt?
What’s the writer’s idea to get perspective?
What does the writer mainly want to tell us in the passage?
Have you ever received a gift that was so clearly not your taste? Worse, have you ever given a present and watched your friend look as though she had opened the wrong box? __________? And what do your choices tell about your personal qualities（品质）?
__________. It calls for empathy—the ability to put yourself into someone else’s head and heart. We’re all able to do this; in fact, we’re born with a kind of natural empathy.
__________. When it isn’t, we’re not able to understand other people’s feelings sharply.
Think back to the presents you’ve given over the past year, the time and effort you put into your selection, how much you spent, your thoughts while you were shopping, and your feelings when the receiver opened the package. Keep in mind that what you choose shows your inner world.
We live in a society where exchanging presents is an important part of communication. Passing over the tradition won’t make it go away. __________, tell your friends ahead of time.
| A. When do you send a right gift B. However, it needs to be developed C. If you really dislike such a tradition D. Why do presents sometimes go wrong E. Choosing the right gift is an art, I believe |
Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入学注册）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.
| A．show the problems schools are faced with today |
| B．prove that a school without high enrollment can do well |
| C．express the importance of computers in modern education |
| D．tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance |
According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.
| A．enjoy e-mail service in the near future |
| B．make money by selling ads on websites |
| C．all have their own laptops within nine years |
| D．become more interested in their studies with laptops |
The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.
| A．plans | B．projects | C．problems | D．products |
From the passage we learn that ______.
| A．a school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program |
| B．the laptop program also has a good influence on parents |
| C．students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled |
| D．the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders |