Hong Kong has about forty public beaches. Some of the beaches are among the best in the world. People can go there for a swim. You can go to most of them by bus. But to go to some beaches you must take a boat. There are toilets, dressing rooms and places to buy food and drinks on most of the beaches.
You will swim there without danger if you remember these instructions(说明):
1. Never swim alone.
2. Never swim after a meal or when you feel hungry or tired.
3. Don’t stay in the water too long.
4. Never go out in a boat if you can’t swim.
Remember: A red flag means that it is dangerous for anyone to go into the water. A blue flag means that it is dangerous for children.There are _________public beaches in Hong Kong.
| A．forty | B．a little more or less than forty |
| C．less than forty | D．more than forty |
We can reach __________by bus.
| A．all the public beaches |
| B．no public beach |
| C．only a few public beaches |
| D．most of the public beaches |
When you see a blue flag, you know that _________there.
| A．women should not swim |
| B．children should not swim |
| C．nobody can swim |
| D．men should not swim |
Stress is everywhere in our everyday life. Not only men have it, but also women and young people.
The most important reasons of stress are: death, diseases, exams, making money, getting married, moving houses, changing jobs, ending friendships and so on.
How do you know whether you have stress or not? Could you give your answers to the following questions?
Stress Test
| Do you... |
Yes |
No |
| Easily get angry? |
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| Often sleep badly? |
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| Get headaches a lot? |
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| Take medicine to help sleep? |
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| Find it difficult to relax? |
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| Usually hide your feeling? |
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| Smoke and drink a lot to keep quiet? |
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| Find it difficult to put your heart into something? |
If your answer "Yes" to more than two of these questions, you are one of those people with stress. So what can you do about it?
Doing relaxing exercises, talking with friends and listening to light music are all usual ways of relieving (减轻) stress. However, doctors now say that there are easier ways-people should laugh and smile more often. When you laugh and smile, your body relaxes. They also say that people, especially men, should Xmore often, because crying is a natural way of relieving stress.Which of the following is NOT the reason of the stress?
| A．Taking exams. | B．Changing jobs. |
| C．Taking medicine to help sleep. | D．Making money. |
According to the passage, which of the following is true?
| A．Women and young people never have stress. |
| B．Stress is everywhere in our everyday life. |
| C．People who answer "No" to all of the questions have great stress. |
| D．People who answer "Yes "to more than two of the questions have no stress. |
"X" in the passage should be the word "".
| A．cry | B．laugh | C．smile | D．smoke |
The main idea of the passage is.
| A．about stress and how to relieve your stress |
| B．that there are many reasons for having stress. |
| C．that laughing and smiling more can help relieve your stress. |
| D．that doing the Stress Test is a good way to help you live a better life. |
Being safe in your everyday life needs knowledge. you remember the following information，your life will be much safer.
● Always notice the environment around you. You shouldn’t walk alone outside late at night. Make sure where the public phones are. If anything dangerous happens，you can find them easily.
●Your bag should be carried towards the front of your body instead of putting it on your back。When a bus is full of people，it is easy enough for a thief to take away the things in the bag on your back.
●If you are followed by someone you don’t know, cross the street and go to the other way, let the person understand that you know he or she is after you. Next，don’t go home at once. You are safer in the street than you are alone in your home or in a lift.
●If you have to take a bus to a place far away, try to get to the stop a few minutes earlier before the bus leaves. On the bus，don’t sit alone. Sit behind the driver or other people. Don’t sleep.Which of the following is NOT safe when you are out?
| A．Go home alone late at night. |
| B．Make sure where the public phones are. |
| C．Your bag should be carried towards the front of your body. |
| D．Always notice the environment around you. |
When you are followed by someone on your way home，you should ____ to make yourself safe.
| A．run home |
| B．find a lift and go in |
| C．turn back and walk towards him or her at once |
| D．cross the street and go to the other way. |
When you take a bus alone，it’s safe for you______
| A．to sit behind the driver or with other people，but not to sleep |
| B．to talk with the driver |
| C．to call your friends |
| D．to get off the bus at once |
Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can make water hot and house warm, give light and cook food. But fire can burn (燃烧) things, too. It can make trees, houses, animals and other things catch fire (起火). If some people can't run away from fire, it can kill them. This happens in every country every year.
Sometimes big fire can burn forests. A month ago, a large forest fire broke out in Yunnan Province. It lasted nearly half a month. The forest in Heilongjiang Province and the grassland in Inner Mongolia caught fire in May, 2006. After more than ten days' fight, over 30,000 people and soldiers put out (扑灭) the fire at last.
Nobody knows clearly when people began to make fire, but there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man who went to the sun and brought fire down a long time ago. Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴). Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. The match can burn a piece of paper and then it can burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire, and destroy many things. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with fire.The main idea of the passage is that _________.
| A．fire is dangerous and harmful |
| B．forest fire can be easily put out |
| C．who started a fire the first time |
| D．every month there is a forest fire in Yunnan Province |
Matches can be dangerous because _________.
| A．they always burn a house |
| B．they can make things catch fire |
| C．they can burn a piece of paper |
| D．they kill many animals every year |
The word “destroy” in the passage means ________in Chinese.
| A．破灭 | B．炸毁 | C．毁灭 | D．粉碎 |
The writer of the passage wants to tell us that ________.
| A．we know when man began to make a fire |
| B．people should use fire carefully |
| C．fire can burn down all things in the world |
| D．all children like to play with matches |
As prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself(DIY) trend(趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “And we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decide to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.We can learn from the text that many newly married people .
| A．find it hard to pay for what they need |
| B．have to learn to make their own furniture |
| C．take DIY courses run by the government |
| D．seldom go to a department store to buy things |
When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim .
| A．makes shoes in his home |
| B．does extra work at night |
| C．does his own car and home repairs |
| D．keeps house and looks after his children |
Jim Hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourselfer when .
| A．his car repairs cost too much |
| B．the car repair class was not helpful |
| C．he could not possibly do two jobs |
| D．he had to raise the children all by himself |
What would be the best title for the text?
| A．The Joy of DIY |
| B．You can DO It too! |
| C．Welcome to our DIY Course |
| D．Ross and Hat field; Believe in DIY |
Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana( 加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子) because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.From the passage we know that in Ghana ______________.
| A．the rules for dinner time are not strict |
| B．dinner is always at six in the evening |
| C．a family offers food only at four in the afternoon |
| D．people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening |
People in Ghana usually eat ________.
| A．from one side of a dish to the other |
| B．from the other side of the dish |
| C．with their fingers |
| D．with their spoons |
In fact, most dishes in Ghana _______.
| A．are cooked with the powder of some plants |
| B．have fufu in them |
| C．are too hard to eat |
| D．are not very hard |
When you eat fufu, you’d better _________.
| A．cut it with a saw |
| B．use your right hand only |
| C．chew it well |
| D．all of the above |