Wang Bing is a 12-year-old boy. He likes sports very much and does well in sports.
One afternoon, he comes out of the classroom and sees his father waiting for him at the school gate. He is very glad and he runs to his father. "Dad, please don't wait for me after school next time. I can go home by myself(我自己). I have grown up." says Wang Bing.
"Let's go," says the father, "I'll cook supper and you can do your homework at home: Mum is still at work."On their way home, Wang Bing sees some boys skating in a park. "Can I go and learn skating. Dad?" asks Wang Bing. "I'm sorry, my boy. You must go home and do your homework," answers his father, "but I can buy you an ice-cream." Then his father buys an ice-cream for him. When Wang Bing wants to eat it, a fly(苍蝇) flies to the ice-cream.
"Drive off(赶走) the fly,' says his father, "it's very dirty (脏)."But Wang Bing says with a smile. "You don't let me skate, but can you let him skate for a while(一会儿)?"There are_____ people in Wang Bing's family.
| A．8 | B．5 | C．3 | D．2 |
Wang Bing is good at ____.
| A．telling jokes | B．skating |
| C．skiing | D．sports |
What's the meaning of the sentence "I have grown up."?
| A．我已经长高了。 | B．我已经种了一棵树。 |
| C．我已经长大了。 | D．我认识路。 |
On the way home, Wang Bing wants to_______.
| A．eat an ice-cream | B．play basketball |
| C．go swimming | D．learn skating |
Which one is RIGHT?
| A．Wang Bing wants the fly to go away. |
| B．Wang Bing is not very happy. |
| C．Wang Bing likes the fly on the ice-cream. |
| D．Wang Bing is very happy. |
Ken and Anthony were childhood friends. They went to elementary and high school together. They went to college in different states, and then they lost touch. That was twenty years ago.
One morning Ken was reading the newspaper with his morning coffee. Inside he saw an announcement for a poetry reading at a nearby bookstore. He was surprised to find that the featured poet was none other than his friend Anthony. Ken decided to see what his old pal was up to.
Ken sat in the last row of the area set up inside the bookstore. When Anthony was introduced and came up the podium, Ken hardly recognized him. Anthony was almost completely bald and had a little potbelly (大肚子). When Anthony was in high school, he was very handsome. What Anthony had lost in looks was made up for in talent. Anthony’s poetry was quite good.
Anthony recognized Ken sitting in the back row. When the reading was over, Ken stood in line with the others waiting for Anthony to sign a copy of his book. When it was Ken’s turn, Anthony stood up and hugged his long lost friend. Anthony invited Ken to stay until he had finished signing books. Ken did, and the two men grabbed a cup of coffee at a nearby café.
Even though so many years had passed since the two had seen each other, both men had a lot in common. Both graduated from college with degrees in comparative literature (比较文学). Both went to graduate school. Anthony got his Master’s of Fine Art in writing. Ken went to law school. Both men married Mexican women. Both men also had sons that were only a year apart. Ken and Anthony decided not to lose touch again. They planned to meet once a month for breakfast on Saturdays.Ken found his long lost friend from the .
| A．radio | B．TV | C．magazine | D．newspaper |
How did Ken probably feel while seeing Anthony at the bookstore?
| A．Worried. | B．Amazed. | C．Frightened. | D．Relaxed. |
What Anthony had lost in looks was made up for in talent. What is the meaning of the sentence in Paragraph 3?
| A．Although Anthony was out of shape, he became wise and talented. |
| B．Anthony had changed a lot, for writing poetry needed lots of energy. |
| C．Although Anthony was bald and a little fat, he was still very handsome. |
| D．Anthony looked wise because he was completely bald and had a little potbelly. |
What can be the best title for the passage?
| A．Childhood friends | B．Childhood memories |
| C．Changes of friends | D．Ways to get friends back |
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The Quest Centre: St Davids, Wales Telephone: (0800)34655Kate and her family want to choose an activity during the May Day holiday, they can choose .
| A．climbing | B．survival techniques |
| C．mountain biking | D．abseiling and rope climbing |
If a group of 20 students go to the centre, ten of them want to take part in abseiling and rope climbing and the rest choose survival techniques, they have to pay .
| A．£3000 | B．£1500 | C．£2400 | D．£1200 |
“If you’ve been dying to learn about ….” Here “dying” perhaps means “ ”.
| A．冒险 | B．避免 | C．渴望 | D．同意 |
People like to tell me rubbish. Not just friends, but strangers ,too.
Once, at the airport, my husband stepped off an escalator(自动扶梯) before me. When he realized I wasn’t with him, he looked back and saw me hugging ( 拥抱) a stranger.
I’d asked the man behind me: “Did you have fun in Vegas?”
His answer broke me heart. After 50 years away, I’d come to say goodbye to the lover of his life, who was dying of cancer.
“I should have married her 50 years ago,” he said. I hugged him, and then he was gone.
Moments later, my husband said: “He told you all that on the escalator?” I nodded.
“Maybe he just needed to tell somebody, And I happened to ask.”
When someone wants to talk, you just need to ask a question. The words don’t matter. It’s the tone (语调) in your voice and the look in your eyes and the caring in your heart that count.
Sometimes I think the whole world is crying out to be heard.
And yet, we don’t ask the question or say the things we need to say to those who matter most to us while there is still time, and a chance, to do so.
Recently I heard from a reader who shared with me the eulogy(悼词) she’d written after losing her mother.
I wish her mother could have read it. I can only hope her mother knew all the things her daughter wrote about her—that she was known so well and loved so much.
I like to think people will say a few nice things about me when I’m gone. But given a choice, I would rather hear those things before I go. Wouldn’t we all?
That started me thinking. I need to tell my children I am proud of them. They know it, but it can’t hurt to say it again.
I need to tell my sister I will forever in her debt(欠她的情). I was the one who left. She was the one who stayed, who’s “been there” for our family—for our mother, our dad, our brothers and me.
And to my husband, I need to say, well, he puts up with a lot.
In fact, I need to say a lot of things to whole lot of people. Maybe you do, too. You can tell me, if you want. But maybe you should tell them first.What happened to the writer at the airport in Los Vegas?
| A．She developed a friendship with a stranger. |
| B．She helped a stranger with cancer on the escalator. |
| C．She listened to a stranger’s story and hugged him. |
| D．She told a stranger the story of her stay in Los Vegas |
According to the writer, what matters least when someone wants to talk?
| A．The question you ask. |
| B．The way you speak. |
| C．The way you look at someone. |
| D．the caring in your heart. |
What does the underlined word “who” stand for in the article?
| A．A woman the stranger loved very much but failed to marry. |
| B．A woman the stranger married 50 years ago and left for some reason. |
| C．A woman the stranger loved very much and succeeded in marrying. |
| D．The writer’s sister whose debt the writer will be forever in. |
What does the writer want to tell us with the article?
| A．It’s never too late to express your love. |
| B．It’s better to say what you need to say before it’s too late. |
| C．We should care about strangers to make the world better. |
| D．We should be careful about what we say to our beloved ones. |
FOOD, football, and fashion – Milan has it all. The city is perhaps most famous for its annual (一年一度的) Milan Fashion Week and its world-class soccer teams AC Milan and Inter Milan. And May will see it host the six-month Milan Expo(米兰世博会), the theme of which is food and nutrition（营养）.
Milan may not be the first place tourists think of when they think of Italy. Rome is the most famous city in Italian history, Venice draws visitors who want to travel along its canals(运河) and Florence is popular with the art lovers. Yet Milan can often be let off tourists’ lists. But although some see Milan as the “Ugly Sister” of these cities, in 2015, the city is “Suddenly back in fashion in a big way”.
The delicious Milan Expo will look at the future of food, trying to answer the question of how Earth’s fast-growing population can be fed in the future. According to the Lonely Planet website, “144 countries will set up shops in northwest of central Milan, forming a mini city-within-a-city”.
Milan’s famous opera house, La Scala, normally(通常地) closed in the summer, will also host daily performances during the Expo, reported Fox News.
Not interested in opera? Don’t worry. Visitors who prefer sports may want to visit the San Siro Stadium(体育馆), home of the soccer teams AC Milan and Inter Milan. The stadium is one of the most famous in Europe and has seen many important games over the years, both in Series A (甲级联赛) and the European Champions league（欧比赛）.
So even if all of its fashion and beautiful people can make Milan seem “Soulless(缺乏灵魂的)” as Lonely Planet said, it still has “a serious sense of history and place”. Many people will be discovering it this year, and eating great food from all over the world to help solve world problems. Will you?Which of the following statements is TRUE about the city of Milan?
| A．It is the largest city in Italy and has the longest history. |
| B．It is hosting the world’s largest Fashion Week in 2015. |
| C．Football, fashion and ancient canals are three features of the city. |
| D．The city’s La Scala opera house will offer additional performances in 2015. |
Which of the following features of Milan are mentioned in the article?
a. economy
b. sports
c. cultural performances and activities
d. geography and population
e. fashion
| A．acd | B．bce | C．bde | D．bcd |
The author’s purpose in writing this article is to ______.
| A．give an introduction to Milan as a good choice for traveling |
| B．tell readers about the theme and activities of the 2015 Milan Expo |
| C．give an proper review of the food culture in Milan |
| D．explain why Milan will be holding the world Expo in 2015 |
Education is not an end, but a means（手段） to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.
In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all whether rich or poor, clever or stupid-one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees(学历) refuse to do what they think to be "low" work, and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful(害羞) these days. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we will die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns.
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of one's work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.The writer wants to prove that _____.
| A．our society needs all kinds of jobs |
| B．our society needs free education for all |
| C．a farmer is more important than a professor |
| D．people with university degrees earn more money |
According to the passage _____.
| A．work with hands is dirty and shameful |
| B．work with hands is low work |
| C．work with hands is the most important |
| D．we can't regard work with hands as low work |
The purpose of education is _____.
| A．to choose a system of education |
| B．to let everyone receive education |
| C．to prepare children for their future work |
| D．to build a perfect world |