Bill and his friends are in a big city. He takes a lot of food. His bag is big and heavy. Soon, Bill gets lost. He walks in the street for a long time and he feels tired (疲惫). It’s eight in the evening, he goes into a restaurant. He asks for some drinks and soon he begins to sleep. When he wakes up (醒来)，he can’t find any people in the restaurant. The door is closed and he can’t go out. He finds a telephone number and begins to call Mr. Jackson, the owner (主人) of the restaurant.
“Hello,” says the boy. “When do you open your restaurant, Mr. Jackson?”
The telephone wakes up the man and he isn’t happy. So he says, “Don’t ask me about that. I can’t let you in.”
“Oh, no! I want to go out.”
Bill’s bag is big because _________.
| A．there’s a lot of clothes in it |
| B．he puts much food in it |
| C．he likes big bags |
| D．he takes many books |
Bill goes to sleep because .
| A．he gets home |
| B．he eats too much in the restaurant |
| C．he doesn’t know where he can go |
| D．he’s very tired |
Mr. Jackson thinks_____________.
| A．Bill wants to sleep in his restaurant |
| B．Bill wants to go into the restaurant |
| C．Bill leaves his bag in the restaurant |
| D．Bill wants to go out of the restaurant |
The red phone box in Britain is a perfect example of the British traditional culture. However, with the fast development of mobile phones, it has lost its place in people’s everyday life. In order to save their loved red phone boxes, people have come up with many ideas, for example, to turn them into toilets or art houses.
In a village in Somerset, a place in South West England, villagers have found a new way to save their red phone box. They turned it into a mini library to deal with the shortage of libraries in their area. The idea was given by a local villager, Janet Fisher, who lives opposite the phone box. Villagers got together to set up the book box. Over 100 books and a lot of movies and music CDs are available at this mini library. The books are of different kinds, including from cooking books to the classics and children’s books. People can put the books that they have read inside the phone box, and take away the books that they’d like to read. The books are always changing. There is a regular check on the books to keep the phone box collection fresh.
Anyone is free to come to read books there. The phone box library is open every day around the clock and is lit (the past form of “light”) at night.“ It’s very pleasing that the red phone box has been saved. More importantly, it can continue providing a service for us,” said one of the villagers.The red phone box has been a symbol of _________.
| A．the British culture |
| B．the European art of building |
| C．the development of mobile phones |
| D．British people’s daily life |
People in Somerset turned the red phone box into a mini library to _________.
| A．make it like the new one |
| B．help solve the shortage of library service |
| C．provide a place to exchange ideas |
| D．make the collection of the local library larger |
Which of the following statements is TRUE about the red phone box?
| A．People can borrow books and enjoy the films and CDs there. |
| B．The library was set up by a local villager living opposite a phone box. |
| C．The library is open to the public day and night. |
| D．Regular check is made to keep the books in good order. |
Doctor Seuss was born in 1904. By the middle 1950s, he had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world. His books are very popular with young readers. They enjoy the invented words and the pictures of unusual funny animals and plants.
In 1954, life magazine published a report about school children who could not read well. The report said many children's books were not interesting. Doctor Seuss strongly hoped to help children and decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read. He used words with the same ending sound, like fish and wish. He did not receive training in art. Yet, he drew the pictures for most of his books.
In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 230 words to write the book and even a six-year-old should be able to read it. It was a fun story and easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today it is still one of the stories they like best. The success of The Cat in the Hat made him want to write more books for children. In 1960, he wrote a book using less than fifty words. The book is called Green Eggs and Ham.
In 1984, Doctor Seuss won a Pulitzer Prize. He was honored for the education and enjoyment his books provided American children and their parents.
He died at the age of 87, but his influence remains. Millions of his books have been sold worldwide. People say his books helped change the way American children learned to read. Yet, his books are loved by people of all ages. Doctor Seuss once said, "I do not write for children. I write for people. Doctor Seuss learned from the magazine that _______.
| A．some school children could not read well |
| B．many children's books were interesting |
| C．children wanted to learn to write |
| D．a writer for children was wanted |
People like his books because the books ______.
| A．are cheap and easy to get |
| B．were written in different languages |
| C．are easy and interesting to read |
| D．were written with invented words |
He wrote the book The Cat in the Hat at the age of _____.
| A．50 | B．53 | C．56 | D．87 |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Doctor Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham with over 230 words. |
| B．Doctor Seuss wrote books only for children in the United States. |
| C．The Cat in the Hat was written only for six-year-old children. |
| D．His books provided education and enjoyment for Americans. |
From the text we know that Doctor Seuss __________.
| A．won a Pulitzer Prize soon after his death |
| B．sold millions of his books himself worldwide |
| C．changed American children's way of reading |
| D．wrote the largest number of books in the world |
Have you ever stayed in a hotel ? Most Chinese hotels often provide guests with things like disposable(一次性的) toothbrushes , toothpaste , shampoo, and slippers. Many guests like the idea because they don’t have to bring their own . But , if you travel to Beijing , remember to bring your own things. Starting from now on , some hotels in Beijing will no longer provide guests with these disposables. They want to ask people to use less disposable things.
Many disposable things are made of plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. It is a waste of natural resources and is very bad for the environment . Do you know , one Chinese person makes as much as 400Kg of waste a year! Most of that waste comes from disposable things. In Beijing , people throw away about 19,000 tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of plastic lunch bowls every year! Plastic can take between 100 and 400 years to break down. So the less plastic we throw out, the better. So, wherever you travel , bring your own things and use them again and again .
Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place .Try to do these things in your daily life: Use cloth shopping bags , not plastic ones. After using a plastic bag , wash it out and let it dry. Then you can use it over and over again. Do not use paper cups. At your school canteen(食堂), use your own bowl and chopsticks instead of disposable ones. Why do many hotels provide guests with some disposable things ?
| A．Let their guests be convenient during their travelling . |
| B．Hope their guests use less disposable things. |
| C．Wish their guests to save money. |
| D．Want their guests to use more disposable things . |
From the passage we learn that some Beijing hotels will no longer provide guests with __________________.
| A．cheap food and drink | B．disposable things | C．good service | D．free TV programs |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage ?
| A．Many disposable things are made of plastic. |
| B．Throwing disposable things away is a waste of natural resources . |
| C．Plastic is very bad for the environment . |
| D．Plastic can be broken down easily. |
What can we do to make our world a better place at home and school ?
| A．Use shopping bags made of plastic |
| B．Use disposable plates , bowls and chopsticks . |
| C．Do not throw away paper cups. |
| D．Do not forget to reuse daily necessities (必需品). |
We can learn from the passage that _________________________________.
| A．people don't like disposable things at all. |
| B．we can't use paper or plastic bowls at school |
| C．We should use less plastic things and protect our environment |
| D．hotels won’t provide disposable things because they want to save money |
On very cold winter days , a group of Japanese children travelled a long way and arrived at a small island where nobody lived. After setting up a camp, they caught fish in the sea, and walked on the snow to find firewood , wild fruit and fresh water. Then they made a fire to do some cooking. They were not homeless children or modern Robinson. They were all pupils from a primary school and campers of special “ hardship (艰苦) camp”.
Every year primary and middle schools in Japan organize such camps to train the children’s spirit of bearing (忍受) hardship. Such places as thick forests and far-off mountains are chosen as camp places.
The Japanese education circles usually think it necessary to give children chances of suffering hardships. Children in Japan now may hardly find times of hardships, because of the rapid growth of national economy and improvement in the people’s living conditions. The experts think that such hardship camps can help children learn to live and develop in the struggle against nature in modern society.
It’s said that such hardship camps are warmly accepted by both Japanese school children and their parents. Many Japanese children set up camps in far-off mountains or forests to ____________.
| A．be modern Robinson | B．experience hardships |
| C．stay away from the troubles at home | D．enjoy travelling |
Children in Japan now hardly find times of hardships because _________________.
| A．they have too much homework to do every day. |
| B．their parents do most of the things for them |
| C．their living conditions are greatly improved |
| D．they don’t get out often |
It seems that hardship camps are _________ in Japan.
| A．getting fewer and fewer | B．very popular |
| C．not necessary among the children | D．good to those who are homeless |
What one group of children did on a small island would help them to learn __________.
| A．how to travel in places where nobody lived |
| B．about islands and seas |
| C．what to do at home or school |
| D．to live in the struggle against nature |
What does the underlined word “ spirit ” mean in Chinese in the second passage ?
态度 B. 精神 C. 状态 D. 条件
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will notice the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always change according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts(天赋) of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(预先). What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience, which is in his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because they could not keep strictly to what another had written.The word “audience” in the third paragraph means ________.
| A．students |
| B．people who watch a play |
| C．people who are not on the stage |
| D．people who listen to something |
Students in a good teacher’s class are always ________.
| A．active | B．quiet | C．noisy | D．sad |
In what way is a teacher’s work different from an actor’s?
| A．The teacher must learn everything by heart. |
| B．He knows how to control his voice better than an actor. |
| C．He has to deal with unexpected（未预料到）situations. |
| D．He has to use more facial expression. |
From the passage, we can infer(推断) ________________.
| A．Teachers have to learn by heart what they are going to say in class. |
| B．A teacher cannot decide beforehand what exactly he is going to say in class. |
| C．A teacher must speak louder than an actor. |
| D．A teacher must have a better memory than an actor. |