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| Best-sellers in Xinhua Bookstore This notice will offer you some information about the best-sellers in our bookstore. You can use this guide to help you to choose. |
| The Thing About Thugs（暴徒） Published on July 23rd. Written by Tabish Khair. Price: $25. When a series of beheadings terrorize Victorian London, it falls on a confessed former member of a bloodthirsty Indian “Thuggee” cult and his friends to find the real killer. |
| The Spark of Life Published on Sept. 17th. Written by Frances Ashcroft. Price: $29. This book explains the meaning of life. Jerry is a young engineer who falls in love with a nurse. Before he can hit on her, he is hit by a lightning. He is thought dead, but recovers. |
| Familiar Published on Sept.24th. Written by J.Robert Lennon. Price: $15. It is a series books of five novels, six collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry（诗歌）, and several children’s books. The books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. |
| Dear Life Published on Nov. 6th. Written by Alice Munro. Price: $26. This book collects short stories. A wealthy young woman had an affair with the married lawyer. She was hired by her father and came up with a surprising way to deal with the blackmailer who finds them out. |
The Thing About Thugs was published______.
| A．on July 23rd | B．on September 17th |
| C．on September 24th | D．on November 6th |
Lin Hua wants to buy Familiar and Dear Life for her mother on Mother’s Day. She should pay _________.
| A．$44. | B．$50 | C．$41 | D．$43 |
According to the above notice, the cheapest book is ________.
| A．The Thing About Thugs | B．The Spark of Life |
| C．Familiar | D．Dear Life |
If Lucy only has 40 dollars, whose book can she buy?
| A．Tabish Khair’s and Frances Ashcroft’s. |
| B．Frances Ashcroft’s and Alice Munro’s |
| C．J. Robert Lennon’s and Alice Munro’s |
| D．Tabish Khair’s and J. Robert Lennon’s. |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．If you want to read poetry you can buy The Thing About Thugs. |
| B．If you want to read love stories you can buy The Spark of Life. |
| C．Familiar has been translated into more than two dozen languages. |
| D．If you want to read short stories you can buy Dear Life. |
Pocket money means that you have money in your pocket(口袋）that you can spend. You may get a regular amount of money from your parents or grandparents , for example , every week or once a month.
How much pocket money should you get ? That depends on what your parents or grandparents can afford, how many kids there are in your family and how old you are . A little primary school kid may get one yuan , but older children would get more . Each family is different.
Many parents or grandparents give kids pocket money so that their kids can :
★use the money to buy things that they want .
★learn to find out how much things cost .
★learn to look after money well .
★learn to shop around for the best price
★ learn to save their pocket money for the future.
★ learn what is worth (值得）buying.
It is difficult to handle money . If you spend all of your money too quickly ,you will not be able to buy the necessary things that you will need in the future life . If you always save money , you will not get many nice things that you really like . Try to use your pocket money in the right way and you will always get something good.Usually kids can get their pocket money from their _____.
| A．parents | B．friends |
| C．parents or grandparents | D．Teachers |
What can not influence how much pocket money kids get ?_____.
| A．The kids' ages | B．The kids' grades |
| C．The salary (薪水） | D．the number of kids in a family . |
The underlined word “ handle ” means _____.
| A．pick up | B．deal with | C．buy | D．save |
Parents hope that their children _____instead of only buying what they want .
| A．learn to handle their pocket money |
| B．save their pocket money |
| C．learn to buy things |
| D．know how to shop |
The writer writes the passage mainly to tell us _____.
| A．what pocket money means |
| B．we should get more pocket money |
| C．to save more and more pocket money. |
| D．handling pocket money is useful. |
A 7-magnitude（震级）earthquake hit Ya'an, Sichuan at 8:02 on April 20, 2013, and it killed at least 196 people and injured more than 11,000.
Together with other students, Yang Xuelan ran out to the playground. She was safe. But all her textbooks and exercise books were buried（埋）in the teaching building.
What can we do when an earthquake happens? In fact, there's little we can do to stop natural disasters (自然灾害) such as earthquakes happening. But, some methods can reduce the harm they cause.
◆ Drop down onto your hands and knees. This way can protect you from falling.
◆ Cover your head under a strong table or desk. You can also stay along a wall, and cover your head with your arms and hands.
◆ Hold on to(守住,抓牢) your shelter(遮蔽物) until the shaking stops. Be prepared to move with your shelter if the shaking continues.
Schools can normally take the earthquake drills（演练） to help student stay alive.How many people lost their lives in the earthquake in Ya'an?
| A．At least 196. | B．More than 11,000. |
| C．Less than 196. | D．About 11,196. |
When the earthquake happened in Ya'an, Yang Xuelan was .
| A．at home | B．at school | C．on her way to school | D．playing on the playground |
What does the underlined word "reduce" mean in Chinese?
| A．提高 | B．阻止 | C．增加 | D．减少 |
According to the writer, we can to reduce the harm natural disasters cause.
| A．do nothing | B．stay at home |
| C．take some methods | D．run out of the house |
Which of the following can help you stay alive in an earthquake?
A. Dropping down onto your hands and knees.
B. Covering your head under a strong table or desk.
C. Holding on to your shelter until the shaking stops.
D. A, B and C.
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When people travel abroad(国外), they sometimes stay in the homes of the local people. This is a homestay.
I am living with an old English couple, in the west of London. They have a clean four-bedroom house. This is a new house. It has two bathrooms and a garden with many beautiful flowers. I have a bedroom of my own.
There are some shopping centres and a restaurant next to the house, and the house is close to an underground station. It takes about 30 minutes to take an underground to the centre of London.
I think a homestay may be a good choice for you if it is your first time to visit abroad. The local people are friendly and ready to help. If you want to celebrate the holidays with them, you will get to know more about their culture and customs.
| What a homestay is |
When people travel in another |
| Where my homestay is |
I live with an old couple in the It is a house with four There is a garden with many beautiful The house is new and There are some shopping centres and a restaurant It takes about half an hour to get to the city centre by |
| What the local people are like |
They are friendly and |
| It is a good choice to learn about culture and customs in the west if you go abroad for the first time. |
Every year on April 22, People all over the world celebrate Earth Day. It is a time to work to keep our earth clean. People plan projects to clean up the land, air and water.
U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson first thought of the idea for Earth Day in 1962 when he saw polluted rivers and cities with smoke. He needed to get support from Americans to clean up the earth. Finally, on April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans celebrated the first Earth Day! Now many countries around the world celebrate it, and you can, too.
How can you celebrate Earth Day? Here are a few ideas:
Join a clean-up project------Clean up your street or a favorite beach.
Save energy------Turn off the lights when you leave a room, and use public transportation.
Use less water.
Reduce(减少)/ Reuse/ Recycle ------ Practice the three Rs: First, reduce how much you use. Then reuse or recycle what you can.
You can make a difference on Earth Day and every day!When was the first Earth Day?
| A．On April 22, 1970. | B．On April 22, 1962. |
| C．On April 22, 1971. | D．On April 22 every year. |
People celebrate World Earth Day every year to _____
| A．have great fun | B．keep our earth clean |
| C．get to know each other | D．get support |
How do people around the world celebrate Earth Day?
| A．By using more cars. |
| B．By helping clean up the land, air and water. |
| C．By polluting rivers and cities. |
| D．By taking fewer buses. |
Which of the following sentences is NOT true?
| A．Americans celebrated the first Earth Day. |
| B．Three Rs mean reduce, reuse and recycle. |
| C．Now about 20 million people celebrate the Earth Day. |
| D．People celebrate Earth Day by helping to do some public cleaning. |
When you are in England, you must be very careful in the streets because the traffic drives on the left. Before you cross a street, you must look to the right first and then left. If the traffic lights are red, the traffic must stop. Then the people on foot can cross the road.
If the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go. People on foot mustn’t cross. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from work, the streets are very busy. Traffic is most dangerous then.
When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, too. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. Have a look first or you will go the wrong way.
In many English cities, there are big buses with two floors. You can sit on the second floor. From there you can see the city very clearly. It’s very interesting.When you are in England, you must always remember that_________.
| A．there are many cars and buses on the road. |
| B．the traffic drives on the left. |
| C．there are not any traffic lights. |
| D．the traffic drives on the right. |
You must be careful when you go by bus because __________.
| A．there are too many buses there |
| B．the traffic lights are different from ours |
| C．crossing the street is dangerous |
| D．you may go the wrong way |
In England, it is very interesting to _________.
| A．cross the streets |
| B．look at the traffic lights |
| C．sit on the second floor of a big bus and see the beautiful city |
| D．look at the busy streets in the morning |
Which is the best title?
| A．Buses in England | B．Traffic in England |
| C．Travelling in England | D．Traffic lights in England |