Malls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called “mall rats（老鼠）”. Mall rats shop until they drop in the hundreds of stores.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest places with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4. 2 million square feet（英尺）. It has 350 stores, eight night clubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are like town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, of course, they also eat in food courts（广场）that have food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. Some people even get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.
In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to the church. In other words, people can do just about everything in malls. Now people can live in their favorite shopping center in fact.
Here “mall” means “ ”.
| A．a large park | B．a big church |
| C．a square | D．a shopping center |
The largest mall in the United States .
| A．was built in 1965 |
| B．has 12,750 cars in it |
| C．has 350 shops in it |
| D．can hold 750,000 people |
The writer .
| A．thinks malls make people’s life easier |
| B．likes to live in his favorite malls |
| C．is called “mall rats” by others |
| D．often goes to the church in malls |
It’s Sunday morning. My family are all at home. My father is sitting near the window. He’s reading newspapers. He wants to know what h appens all over the world. My mother is watering the flowers in the small garden. My brother is a worker. He’s watching TV. He’s a basketball fanAnd he is good at p laying basketball. Now he is watching NBA on TV. Where are my twin
sisters? Oh, look! Lily is listening to music. She likes popular music very much. Lucy is surfing the Internet in her room. She often writes emails to her friends. What am I doing? I am doing my homework .
阅读短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项
| A．five | B．six |
| C．seven | D．eight |
| A．He’splayingbasketball. | B．He’slisteningtomusic. |
| C．He’ssurfingtheInternet. | D．He’sreadingnewspapers. |
| A．watchingWNBAnow | B．goodatplayingbaseball |
| C．watchingafootballmatch | D．abasketballfan |
| A．LucyissurfingtheInternetandLilyislisteningtotheradio. |
| B．LilyissurfingtheInternetandLucyislisteningtomusic. |
| C．LucyissurfingtheInternetandLilyislisteningtomusic. |
| D．LucyissurfingtheInternetandLilyisdoingmyhomework.. |
| A．Themotheriswateringtheflowersinthegarden. |
| B．Thebrotherisgoodatplayingbaseball. |
| C．Thewriterisdoinghishomework. |
| D．Lucyoftenwritesemailstoherfriends. |
Do you know Weibo? Do you write a Weibo? If you don’t, you are “out”! Weibo means microblog. People may spend much time writing a blog, but it takes a little time to write a microblog. Why?
Microblog started in the USA. It came to China in 2000 and it has developed very fast. In 2011, the number of Chinese microbloggers grew to 300 million. For many microblog users, it is a great way of learning the freshest news, talking with friends and sharing different kinds of information, including news, daily life, pictures, music and so on. Many stars and famous people also write microblogs and share good things with their fans.
It is easy and fast to send a message on a microblog. For example, when the big earthquake and tsunami (海啸) hit Japan in March, 2011, messages like “Salt can protect people from radiation” were hot on microblogs.
Later people realized it was just a rumor (谣言).
In a word, microblog plays a new role in the life of Chinese people.
| A. It soon caused a crazy buying of salt. B. However, this can also lead to problems and even cause panic (恐慌). C. Because every message on a microblog is less than 140 words. D. Now more and more people are interested in writing microblogs. |
Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Writing a microblog needs much time.
B. Microblog appeared in China only one yerar ago but it has developed rapidly.
C. As a popular thing, microblog has its advantages and disadvantages.
D. More and more Chinese show great interest in microblog because it started in the USA.
Started in 1636, Harvard (哈佛) University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the earlier years these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.
Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer all. In the early years, people learned ________ in colleges.
| A．science | B．medicine | C．law | D．Latin and Greek |
Most of college graduates became ________ in the early years.
| A．ministers and teachers | B．lawyers |
| C．doctors | D．workers |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．In the early years, everyone can go to college. |
| B．In 1782, Harvard began to teach Chinese. |
| C．In the early years, different colleges majored in different fields. |
| D．More and more courses were taught in colleges with the improvement of knowledge. |
Which of the following is the right order of the courses taught n Harvard?
a. law
b. French and German
c. Latin and Greek
d. medicine
e. American history
| A．d-b-e-c-a | B．a-d-b-c-e |
| C．c-d-a-b-e | D．c-d-b-e-a |
Nowadays college students ________.
| A．can learn everything they are interested in |
| B．go to different smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning |
| C．learn the same subjects |
| D．must learn Latin and Greek |
Feeling left out?
A reader wrote in to say that she was feeling lonely at break because her best friendwasn’t around．Here’s our advice to her—and to all kids who feel lonely sometimes． It’s hard when a best friend isn’t around—maybe because she moved to a differentschool or a different class．You may feel lonely at break or lunchtime．You want to have newfriends．but how do you make them? Maybe it seems like everybody else already has theirfriends．But remember, there’s always room for more friends．
Start by looking around your classroom—think about which kids you’d like to playwith at break．Look for chances to say hi to them，smile，and be friendly．Offer to sharesomething or express your appreciation(欣赏)to them．Invite someone to play with you orsay “Do you want to sit here?” in the lunchroom．When you’re at break，walk over to kidsyou want to play with．act friendly，and say “Hi，can l play, too?” or just join in．
If you have trouble doing this or if you’re feeling shy, ask your teacher to help you makenew friends．Teachers are usually pretty good at matching up friends．The best way to makefriends is to be a friend．Be kind，be friendly，share，say nice things，offer to help—and pretty soon，you’ll have one，or two，or even more new friends.
You might still miss that special best friend．But when you see each other, you can share
something you didn’t have before she left：You can introduce her to your new friends!
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。This text is written for．
| A．teachers | B．parents |
| C．students | D．visitors |
According to the writer, some kids feel lonely at break because they．
| A．have trouble with their studies |
| B．don’t have their best friends around |
| C．need their parents to be with them |
| D．are too young to look after themselves |
The underlined word this in Paragraph 4 refers to(指的是)．
| A．sharing your ideas | B．talking before many people |
| C．studying better at school | D．developing new friendship |
Some kids need help from teachers to make friends because·
| A．they miss their old friends a lot |
| B．they have no time to stay with others |
| C．teachers know who wants a new friend |
| D．they are shy or not good at making friends |
The expression “feeling left out'’ means“”in Chinese．
A．受冷落 8．被调侃 C．挨批评 D．遭攻击
How important is your appearance? Although everyone wants to be good-looking , are beautiful people always happier? For example, it must be a problem to be a really beautiful woman, because some people may be more interested in looking at you than talking to you. They think of you as a picture rather than a person. There are also some people who think that women who are exceptionally（格外地）pretty and men who are particularly handsome must be stupid. They believe that only unattractive people can be intelligent.
On the other hand, no one wants to be really ugly, and have a face that even your mother doesn’t want to look at; and no one wants to be plain, either-that is, to be neither attractive nor unattractive, and have a face that is easily forgotten.
Being attractive is like being rich it can help you find happiness, but it doesn’t always make you happy. So maybe the best thing is not to worry too much about how you look, but simply try to be a interesting person .For interesting people have interesting faces, and interesting faces are almost always attractive.
根据短文内容，判断正（T）、误（F）Everyone wants to be attractive.
No one likes to talk to a very pretty woman.
Some people think that handsome men are unintelligent.
A plain face is easily forgotten.
Not many interesting people are also attractive.