Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Chinese Moon Festival, takes place at the 15th day of the eighth Chinese lunar month. The reason for celebrating the festival during that time is that it is the time when the moon is at its fullest and brightest.
The Mid-autumn festival is one of the two most important occasions in Chinese calendar (the other being the Spring Festival or the Chinese New Year) and it is an official holiday. It is a time for families to be together, so people far from home will gaze longingly at the moon and think about their families.
The traditional food for mid-autumn festival is the moon cake which is round and symbolizes reunion.
The other name of Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is ( ).
| A．Chinese Mid Festival | B．Chinese Moon Festival |
| C．Chinese Festival | D．Spring Festival |
Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival takes place at ( ).
| A．the 15th day of the eighth Chinese lunar month. |
| B．the 16th day of the eighth Chinese lunar month. |
| C．the 15th day of the ninth Chinese lunar month |
| D．the 15th day of the eighth Chinese month. |
Why do people celebrate the festival during that time? ( )
| A．Because the moon is at its fullest and brightest. |
| B．Because it is a time for families to be together. |
| C．Because it is an official holiday. |
| D．Because it is one of the most important occasions. |
The two most important occasions in China are ( ).
| A．Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. |
| B．Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. |
| C．Spring Festival and Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. |
| D．Spring Festival and New Year. |
The traditional food for mid-autumn festival is ( ).
| A．sweet dumplings. | B．rice dumplings. |
| C．chicken | D．moon cake |
In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice. Today, it is possible to get advice from radio show, TV programmer and telephone hot lines, too. Most telephone hot lines are completely anonymous-callers, they do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usual free（免费的）too, even if the calls are long distance（距离）.Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are professional with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot lines. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems. Today when people have problems, ____________________.
| A．they can only ask their families for help |
| B．they can only get help from their friends |
| C．they can get help from telephone hot lines |
| D．they go to the advisers to get help |
The word “anonymous” probably means _____________________.
| A．telling a name | B．without telling a name |
| C．free of charge | D．interesting |
Callers _____________ the hot line for the advice or the phone calls.
| A．pay much | B．have to pay |
| C．don’t have to pay | D．get money from |
The advisers working at the hot line _______________.
| A．are usually professionals |
| B．have all taken a short class |
| C．can solve any problem |
| D．are not all paid |
How do the hot line advisers work?
| A．They do what the callers tell them to do |
| B．They go to the callers to help them |
| C．They give advice to the callers by phone. |
| D．They ask people to come to see him |
Mary didn’t understand such sentences as “She is blue today”, “You are yellow”, “He has a green thumb”, “He has told a white lie” and so on. And she went to the teacher Mrs. James for help.
Mary: Mrs. James, there is a colour in each of the sentences. What do they mean?
Mrs. James: In everyday English, Mary, blue sometimes means sad, yellow afraid. A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one.”
Mary: I’m afraid I don’t understand them all. Would you give me an example for “a white
lie”?
Mrs. James: Certainly. Now I just give you some cakes. In fact you don’t like it, but you don’t want to let me know it. Instead you say, “No, thanks. I’m not hungry.” That’s a white lie.
Mary: It sounds very interesting. Thanks very much.
Mrs. James: You are welcome. Colours are meaningful. I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future. Please come to me if you have any questions. Blue sometimes means sad in _______________ English.
| A．good | B．spoken | C．usual | D．poor |
I don’t have a green thumb, so all my plants ________________.
| A．die off | B．grow well | C．look nice | D．are good |
David is yellow and he is ___________ to climb the tall tree!
| A．happy | B．clever | C．brave | D．afraid |
He didn’t like me to know ___________ of the accident. He told me a white lie at last.
| A．the reason | B．the true story | C．the meaning | D．the answer |
He is ______________today. He is told that his father is seriously ill.
| A．blue | B．yellow | C．green | D．white |
A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed his eyes, a man came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It’s 8 a.m.,” he said. Then he went to sleep again.
But soon he woke up because a second person was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have the time?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30 a.m..
At this rate (照此下去), he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and put it up on the window for all to see. It said, “I don’t have the time.”
Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said, “it’s a quarter to nine.”The driver stopped his car because he ___________.
| A．didn’t know the time | B．lost his watch |
| C．saw his friend | D．was very tired |
He was woken up again by the second person ___________.
| A．a few minutes later |
| B．half an hour later |
| C．forty-five minutes later |
| D．the next morning |
The driver ___________ after he put up the note on the window.
| A．had a very good rest |
| B．was woken up again very soon |
| C．really forgot the time |
| D．made a phone call to the third person |
The third person came to knock at the window to ___________.
| A．ask the time | B．have a sleep | C．tell him the time | D．ask for help |
According to this passage, we know that ___________.
| A．the driver didn’t have his own house |
| B．the first two persons liked the driver’s watch |
| C．the third person was kind and friendly |
| D．the driver had a good sleep last night |
阅读理解
A mother and her young son got on a bus in a small city and sat down. The bus conductor(售票员) came to them for their money. The mother said, “I want one ticket to Oxford,” and gave her a shilling (="12" pence).
The conductor looked at the small boy for a few seconds and then said to him, “How old are you, young man?”
The mother began speaking, but the conductor stopped her, and the boy said, “I’m four years old at home, and two and a half on buses and trains.”
The mother took six pence(便士) out of her bag and gave the money to the conductor. The conductor gave her one and a half tickets.One day the mother took a bus _____.
| A．to a small city | B．to get some money |
| C．with her son | D．to get a ticket |
The mother gave the conductor ______ pence in all(总共) that day.
| A．12 | B．16 | C．10 | D．18 |
The mother was _____.
| A．not honest (诚实的) | B．honest | C．very clever | D．not clever |
The conductor asked _____ how old he was.
| A．the mother | B．the little boy |
| C．the bus driver | D．the mother and the son |
The boy was ______ years old in fact.
| A．four | B．two | C．two and a half | D．six and a half |
阅读理解
Dear editor( 编辑),
Can't your newspaper do something about the custom (习惯) of hitchhiking?
A short time ago, on a car travel I counted at least 50 people standing beside the road, asking for rides. Many of them were young women.
Don't they understand how dangerous it is to get into the car driven by a stranger? How much do they know about the driver? Is he a good driver or not? They know nothing!
Many of these young hitchhikers may come from good families. Don't their parents teach them anything about the world? I always taught my children not to talk to strangers. I never let them take rides from people they didn't know.
Isn't there enough crime (犯罪) today without asking for trouble by hitchhiking? On the other hand, hitchhiking may bring some traffic trouble. Don't you think what I said is true?
A Worried Grandfather The word "hitchhiking" means.
| A．waiting for a bus at the bus stop |
| B．driving in a dangerous way |
| C．going on a long way by getting free rides in other people's car |
| D．asking a stranger the ways in a car |
The Worried Grandfather.
| A．doesn't like young women to drive cars |
| B．thinks it is dangerous for a young woman to get into a stranger's car |
| C．likes drivers to be careful and strict in their work |
| D．never lets his children get into other people's car |
The Worried Grandfather.
| A．was hit by a car when he was standing by the road |
| B．is a good driver and often gives free rides to strangers |
| C．is in trouble now and he wants to get some help from the newspaper |
| D．sees much of the world and he is very careful |
The Worried Grandfather wrote the letter to tell .
| A．the newspaper to let its readers know the danger of hitchhiking |
| B．young women never to go on a long travel alone |
| C．young people to listen to their parents at home |
| D．his children not to talk to strangers on the road |
What do you think a good editor is going to do after he gets the letter?
| A．He will either return the letter to the old man or give it to the police station. |
| B．He will write back to the Worried Grandfather and tell him not to hitchhike |
| C．He will ask someone to write something about it in the newspaper. |
| D．He will hold a meeting to tell the drivers to make the traffic trouble less. |