Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers .Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they do something helpful for the environment.
Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’ m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted (污染), the coral dies. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”
“I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize—and myself!
When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America.”
Some young people from England _______ after they finish school.
| A．go to university abroad |
| B．spend one year abroad as volunteers |
| C．go to work for money |
| D．start work in schools or hospitals |
Pauline Jones, an eighteen-year-old girl, is living in _______ now.
| A．England | B．China | C．Belize | D．Cardiff |
Pauline Jones is _______ with other people.
| A．studying Chinese in a university |
| B．working to save the coral reefs |
| C．helping do some housework |
| D．doing some research in Wales |
From the passage, we know that the coral reefs ______.
| A．will die because of the pollution |
| B．are not as beautiful as before |
| C．cannot live without fish in the sea |
| D．will probably be sold for money |
Pauline Jones wants to after she finishes her work as a volunteer.
| A．stay there for another year |
| B．go back home to start work |
| C．learn about the people home |
| D．travel around Central America |
| Is this your dictionary? Call John at 597-4393. |
Alan Is that your computer game in the lost and found case? Robert |
| Found: Gold ring. Is this your ring? Please call Mary. Phone# 235-0285. |
Lost: My school ID card. My name is Steve. Please call 685-6034. |
______lost his school ID card.
| A．John | B．Robert | C．Mary | D．Steve |
If you lost your dictionary, you will call John at ______.
| A．597-4393 | B．235-0285 | C．685-6034 | D．597-0285 |
You can find a ______in the lost and found case.
| A．dictionary | B．computer game |
| C．gold ring | D．school ID card |
235-0285 is ______ telephone number.
| A．John’s | B．Francisco’s |
| C．Mary’s | D．Steve’s |
“Lost and found” means ______ in Chinese.
| A．失物 | B．拾物 | C．失物招领 | D．拾金不昧 |
This is a photo of Mr Black’s family. The man with glasses（眼镜）is Mr Black, the father. The woman is the mother. They have a son and a daughter. The son is behind（在……后面）Mr Black. His name is Jack. He’s 14. Kate is Jack’s sister. She is 12. Jack and kate are in the same school, but they are in different（不同的）grades. Jack is in Grade Three and Kate’s in Grade One. They are good students.
根据短文内容选择正确答案。Mr and Mrs Black have .
| A．a son and a daughter |
| B．Jack and Kate’s sister |
| C．three children（孩子） |
| D．a family of five |
The woman is mother.
| A．Kate’s | B．Jack’s |
| C．Kate’s and Jack’s | D．Kate and Jack’s |
Jack and Kate are in the same .
| A．class | B．grade | C．school | D．year |
Black is the name.
| A．man’s | B．woman’s |
| C．boy’s | D．family |
Jack and Kate are .
| A．good children | B．good students |
| C．in different schools | D．in the same grade |
You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABCs? Do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside. So, when a person is a “banana”, he or she is white inside—thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are overseas（海外的）Chinese. These people may be citizens（公民）of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang（杨振宁）. He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.“ABCs” in this passage means_____________.
| A．three English letters | B．a kind of banana |
| C．Chinese born in America | D．Americans born in China |
Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because_____.
| A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside |
| B．they think like Westerners but look like Chinese |
| C．they were born in China but go to study in America |
| D．they like to eat bananas |
The underlined word “blood” may probably mean ________.
| A．洪水 | B．祖先 | C．身份 | D．血统 |
Which of the sentences is WRONG about ABCs?
| A．They are Chinese citizens. |
| B．They are overseas Chinese. |
| C．They may speak little Chinese. |
| D．ABCs may know little about China. |
This passage mainly talks about________.
A. different kinds of bananas
B. overseas Chinese
C. the Nobel Prize
D. the story of C.N. Yang
With the development of science and technology, our life is becoming more colorful and more convenient.
An Underwater Hotel
It looks like a spaceship but it is actually a picture of an underwater hotel. A company plans to build the hotel in the sea which is about 15 metres below the surface(表面).The whole building is underwater and you can get to it by swimming and diving.
Google Glass
Google Glass is a pair of glasses with a battery(电池) hidden inside the frame(边框). It can perform many of the same tasks as smart phones. The glass has hidden camera and a tiny screen. It is designed to take hands-free photos or videos of anything people are doing.
A New Kind of shirt
Hate washing clothes? You’re going to love this kind of shirt made by an American clothing company, Wool Prince. This shirt can be worn for 100 straight days without washing! The Wool Prince shirt never needs ironing(熨烫).
The Digital(数字) Library
Can you imagine walking into a library and finding all books have turned into companies? The first bookless public library is planned to open in San Antonio, Texas, America. Computers will take the place of books soon.The underwater hotel is about _______meters below the surface.
| A．10 | B．15 | C．100 | D．150 |
You needn’t use ______ when you take photos or video with Google Glass.
| A．camera | B．a screen |
| C．a battery | D．your hand |
You can wear the Wool Prince shirt for about ______ without washing.
| A．a month | B．two months | C．three months | D．a year |
The digital Library tells us something about a library without ______.
| A．books | B．computers | C．bookshelves | D．reader |
Which one of the following can reduce(减少)our housework in daily life?
| A．The underwater hotel | B．Google Glass |
| C．The Wool Prince shirt | D．The Digital Library |
Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there was the end of year exams. All the students worked hard for some time. If they didn't pass, they would have to take the exams in September again. Some students failed, but Kate decided not to be one of them. She worked hard all day, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister was worried about her. She was staying up too late（熬夜）. The night before the first exam, Barbala insisted（坚持）that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised（许诺）to wake her in the morning.
As she was falling asleep, Kate was worried in case（万一）she over-slept. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the pill, she fell asleep. she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper. She couldn't answer any of the questions. Everyone round her was writing pages and pages. However hard she thought, she couldn't find anything to write about. She kept looking at her watch. Time was running out. There was only one hour left. She started one question, wrote two sentences, gave up and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started crying. Her whole body shook（摇晃，震颤）. It shook so much that it woke her up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible dream. A minute later, Barbala called her name.Which of the following is true?
| A．All the students were usually successful in their exams. |
| B．Not all students passed the year exams. |
| C．Every one of the students could pass the end of year exams. |
| D．None of the students would take the exams again in September. |
When you prepare for an exam,________.
| A．you go over（复习）your lessons. |
| B．you read new books. |
| C．you take the exam again and again. |
| D．you look through the exam. |
Kate worked very hard before the exams for ______.
| A．she was very poor at her lessons. |
| B．she decided to be the best one in her class. |
| C．she didn't work hard all year. |
| D．she didn't want to fail in them. |
Why did Barbala insist that Kate should take a sleeping pill?
| A．Because she thought Kate should oversleep before the first exam. |
| B．Because Kate was so worried about her exams that she couldn't go to sleep at all. |
| C．Because Barbala hoped her sister would have a good sleep before the first exam. |
| D．Because she had promised to wake her up the next morning. |
Kate dreamed a terrible dream simply because ______.
| A．she had taken a sleeping pill. |
| B．she was too worried about her exams. |
| C．her sister had forgotten to wake her up. |
| D．she did not pass the exams. |