Do you often dream at night? How do you feel when you dream? Is it useful to our health? “Dreams may be more important than sleep, and we all need to dream,” some scientists say.
Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have several dreams each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer. Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.
Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the dream. Dreams can disappear quickly from memory (记忆).
Too much dreaming can be harmful（有害的） . The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is at work when we dream. That is why we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.The first paragraph(段落) tells us that dream is very .
| A．interesting | B．important |
| C．useful | D．harmful |
It takes people about to dream every night.
| A．one quarter of their sleeping time |
| B．a whole night |
| C．half of their sleeping time |
| D．one or two minutes |
When a dream comes to somebody again and again, it shows .
| A．he often does the work about the dream |
| B．somebody misses him very much |
| C．the dream is very important to him |
| D．he is worrying about something |
According to（根据） the passage, we know dreaming can sometimes.
| A．hurt us badly |
| B．let us think over and over |
| C．help us find new ideas |
| D．wake us up early |
The passage mainly tells us .
| A．what a dream is |
| B．dreams are like films |
| C．too much dreaming is harmful |
| D．we can remember our dreams |
Diwali is perhaps the most well—known of the Hindu (印度人) festivals. It is celebrated by Hindus in India and abroad. It is often called the Festival of Lights. For Hindus, Diwli is very important and it is also very exciting time for them. Normally , this holiday is celebrated in October or November and it falls on a different date each year. This year , it will be celebrated on October23.
Diwali is usually celebrated for 5 days. To prepare for Diwali, Hindus spend several weeks cleaning their homes and preparing special food in order to welcome Laskhmi, the goodness of wealth(财富女神) into their lives. They will open the windows of their homes during this time to make sure that she can enter their home.
One of other traditions of Dawali is to light up oil lamp(灯) in the homes. The oil lamps are used to make the goddess of wealth enter the homes. Hindus believe that she will not enter a home that is not lit up.
During Diwali, the children in India do not have to go to school. They share gifts with one another and prepare special holiday meals to celebrate this event. Fireworks(烟火)are also a big part of the Diwali festival. They are used to scare away bad spirits.(神灵)Diwali _________.
| A．is celebrated for a week |
| B．is celebrated in India only |
| C．will fall on November 23 this year |
| D．falls on a different date every year. |
Hindus usually do the following EXCEPT _______ during Diwali to welcome the goddess of wealth.
| A．watching fireworks |
| B．cleaning their homes |
| C．preparing special food |
| D．opening the windows of their homes |
Hindus believe the goddess of wealth will enter a home with ____ during Diwali.
| A．bad spirits | B．young children |
| C．lots of gifts | D．oil lamps on |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
| A．Lakshmi is a kind of oil lamp. |
| B．Diwali is a very exciting time for Hindus. |
| C．Children don’t go to school during Diwali. |
| D．Fireworks are a popular activity during Diwali. |
The passage mainly tells about ____________.
| A．Hindus New Year | B．traditions of Diwali |
| C．the goddess of wealth | D．the history of Diwali |
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(A) The bus started. Now it was getting dark and the bus began to go up a hill. It was very steep（险峻的） and the bus stopped as usual.
(B) “Yellow ticket passengers,” the driver shouted, “Stay in the bus, please. Red ticket passengers, get out and walk. Green ticket passengers, get out, close the door and push the bus!”
(C) Summer vocation began. Jack left New York and went traveling in Africa. He lost his wallet in a hotel and he had little money left. He had to go to a city by bus. One of his friends worked in the city. Jack was going to borrow some money so that he could fly back to his country.
(D) It would take Jack two days to get to the city. He had to stay for a night when he was halfway. Jack had to pay five dollars for the hotel and food. He thought for a while and then said, “Green, please.”
(E) He got on a bus and the conductor showed him a yellow ticket. “You had better buy a yellow ticket,” said the conductor. “It’s ten dollars. I have another two kinds. The red one is five dollars and the green one is three dollars.”
The world’s longest high-speed rail line goes through half of China. It began on December 26, 2012.To celebrate the opening of the 2,298 kilometers line, two trains departed（出发） from stations in Beijing and Guangzhou at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m..
Running at an average（平均） speed of 300 kilometers an hour, the new route cuts travel time between Beijing and Guangzhou from over 20 hours to about eight . 155 pairs of trains run on the new line every day. And there will still be 183 pairs of trains running daily on the old Beijing—Guangzhou line. We know that the new line will increase passengers’(乘客) travel costs. If you go from Beijing to Guangzhou, a first-class seat on the new high-speed line will cost 1,383 yuan, and a second-class seat will cost 865 yuan.
Chen Yabing is one of the architects(设计师). He said that the new line is one of the four north-south lines, and it is important for the country’s high-speed railway network, which also features(起主要作用)four east-west lines. With the opening of the Beijing—Guangzhou high-speed line, China now has more than 9,300 kilometers of high-speed rails .
The new line is the world’s longest operation mileage(营运里程)high-speed railway. It is also one of the great wonders of China.
| A．December 26, 2012 | B．December 25, 2012 |
| C．November 26, 2012 | D．November 25, 2012 |
| A．2,595 | B．3,113 | C．3,631 | D．4,149 |
| A．8 | B．10 | C．12 | D．14 |
| A．To tell people the longest High-Speed Railway began operating. |
| B．To give us something about the ticket price of the longest High-Speed Railway. |
| C．To describe some rail lines. |
| D．To tell how the architect builds the new line. |
There was once a young mouse that lived in a hole of a wall. One day, the young mouse woke up (醒来) and looked out of the hole. As he looked out, a fantastic smell came to his nose. “Cheese!” the mouse said happily to himself. “I’ll go and get it now and have it for breakfast.”
But then he remembered his parents’ words. His parents were clever mice and often said to their son. “Always wait before you go for a piece of cheese.”
So the young mouse waited quietly. Then he heard a quiet “Miaow” and he knew the cat was there. He stayed in the hole and said to himself, “I’m glad I listened to my parents and learned to wait.”
The next day, he looked out again. He put his nose out of the hole, and got the beautiful smell of cheese. It was only a few centimeters (厘米) away. But he sat still and waited quietly. This time he did not hear any cat noises. Instead he heard a very quiet “woof, woof.”
“ It’s a dog!” he thought. “If the dog is there, the cat won’t be there. I expect (料想) the dog has chased (追赶) the cat away, so I’m safe.” The mouse ran out of the hole and saw the cat. The cat caught him and ate him.
When the cat finished her meal, she said to herself, “I’m glad I listened to my parents and learned a second language.”
| A．He smelt cheese. | B．He went out of the hole. |
| C．He had cheese. | D．He saw a cat. |
| A．leave quietly | B．learn to wait |
| C．stay in the hole | D．wait for a dog |
| A．The young mouse had the cheese. |
| B．The young mouse lived in a hole of a wall. |
| C．The cheese smelt fantastic. |
| D．The cat ate the mouse. |
| A．caught the mouse |
| B．listened to her parents |
| C．learned a second language |
| D．all of the abovewww-2-1-cnjy-com |
This is a song. Millions of Americans will hear this song on New Year’s Eve. It is called Auld Lang Syne (《友谊天长地久》). It is the traditional music played during the New Year’s celebration.
Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember old friends. The words “Auld Lang Syne” means “old long since”. No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version (版本) by Scottish poet Robert Burns came out in 1796. The words and music we know today first appeared (出现) in a songbook three years later.
The song is played in the United States mainly on New Year’s Eve. The version you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. As we end our programme with Auld Lang Syne, I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas. Thanks for listening.
| A．A storybook. | B．A magazine. |
| C．A TV programme. | D．A radio programme. |
| A．Robert Burns. |
| B．The Washington Saxophone Quartet. |
| C．Buddy Thomas. |
| D．We don’t know. |
| A．On New Year’s Eve. | B．On Christmas Eve. |
| C．On weekend. | D．On holidays. |
| A．It’s about the history of Scotland. |
| B．It’s about an Scottish writer. |
| C．It’s about the need to remember old friends. |
| D．It’s about the radio friends. |