There are over 800 boarding (寄宿) schools in the United Kingdom with students from home and
foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding
schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now, both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from
the age of 7 to 18.
     What to do
      In the United Kingdom, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, and there are about 13
weeks each term. Students study and live with one another. They need permission to go outside. In some
schools, each student has his or her own schedule. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the
boarding schools have lots of other equipment for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming
pools, cinemas and theaters. Most boarding schools have a"lights out" time. So when it's time to go to bed,
all the lights in the dormitories are turned off. Some senior teaching staff work as housemasters (舍监).
Each of them takes care of 50 students all the time, and especially after school hours.
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     Nearly all students at boarding schools in the United Kingdom wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear
a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse (罩衫), sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older,
the rules become less strict.
     What to eat
     In the United Kingdom, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have
a full English breakfast or simply bread with marmalade (柑橘酱). They can also choose between a vegetarian
meal and another meal at lunch and dinner. And there is always a salad buffet (自助餐), other side-dishes and
a dessert. Many boarding dormitories also have a kitchen so students can make themselves something to eat
at any time, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.

1. Jimmy is five years old now. Can he go to a boarding school in, the United Kingdom?
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2. Tony is a student at a boarding school in the United Kingdom. How long does he need to
    stay at school every year?
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3. "They can't go out without permission." 请在第二段中找出此句的同义句。
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4. What is the best title (题目) for the third paragraph (段落)? 
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5. 请将文中画线句子译成汉语。 
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1. Kitesurfing has a history of about___ years.?

A. 30
B. 50
C. 100
D. 130

2. ___is mentioned in the passage as the power of kitesurfing.

A. Water
B. Wind
C. The sun
D. The kite

3. The underlined word "range" in the third paragraph means"___ " in Chinese.?

A. 在……范围内变动
B. 按……顺序排列
C. 向……方向延伸
D. 根据……归类?

4. The most important reason for the popularity of kitesurfing is that___.? 

A. its price is getting lower and lower?
B. more and more people are enjoying its excitement?
C. its equipment progress makes it easier and safer?
D. all people can learn and take part in it?

5. The main idea of this passage is about___.

A. the way of operating kitesurfing
B. the progress of kitesurfing equipment?
C. the history of kitesurfing in China
D. the development of kitesurfing

      China will remember the great moment. At 9: 00 a.m. on October 15th, 2003, the country sent up its first
manned spacecraft, ShenzhouⅤ, into space at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province.
      Now China has become the third country in the world to send a person into orbit (运行轨道) after the
former Soviet Union (前苏联) and the United States. Yang Liwei, 38, is China's first spaceman.
      Yang sent a message back to the earth, "I'm feeling very good in space, and it looks wonderful here." Yang
then told his wife and son, "I have looked at our beautiful earth and recorded all that I have seen here."
      It was planned that ShenzhouⅤwould circle the earth 14 times in about 20 hours.
      What did the spaceship take with? Flags and seeds (种子): a national flag, a United Nations flag, the Olympic
flag and one kilogram of seeds for experiments.
      Yang, who comes from Liaoning Province, has been an air force pilot since 1987. He was chosen from 14
pilots after many difficult tests. 
1. When did China launch its first manned spacecraft, ShenzhouⅤinto space?
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2. How many countries are there to send a person into orbit?
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3. Who's China's first spaceman?
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4. How many hours did "ShenzhouⅤ" circle the earth?
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5. What did the spaceship take with?
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     Looking for a children's book? Internet users can find hundreds of them. These books are from around
the world. And they are free to readers. The United States has started a project called the International
Children's Digital Library. It is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress and
the institute of Museum and Library Services.
     The goal of the project is to offer more than 10,000 children's electronic books in at least 100 languages.
Some of the books show the similarities and differences in ways of life around the world. They will enable
children to have a better understanding of other people's cultures. People working for this project have tried
to design easy ways to search the collection and read the books. A picture of each page appears on the
computer. Users can also print the pages on paper if they want to.
     The project is for two main groups of users. The first group is children between the ages of three and
thirteen, along with their teachers and parents. The second group is researchers of children's literature (文
学). The books can help children understand more about the world.

1. The books in the project can make children better understand _____.

A. other people's cultures
B. their own culture
C. their teachers and parents
D. researchers of children's literature

2. In this project, the electronic books are _____.

A. expensive to readers
B. from the U.S.A.
C. in different languages
D. for children only

3. The underlined word "goal" probably means _____ in the passage.

A. 山羊
B. 煤炭
C. 进球得分
D. 目标

4. The third paragraph is mainly about _____.

A. the purpose of the project
B. the users of the project
C. people working for the project
D. museums and libraries

5. The best title of the passage is _____.

A. The International Children's Digital Library
B. How to Choose Books for Children
C. How to Search Books on the Internet
D. Internet Users

     A rabbit is running into his hole. You may ask, "What happened?"
     Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs.
When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they ran, too. They know there is danger. The
rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
     Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to his home.
It can't tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does dance in the air. This tells
the bees where the food is.
     But animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for examples, when a stranger comes near.
A cat purrs (发出呼噜呼噜的声音) when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with
its own meaning.   
     But human beings have something that no animals have-a large number of words about things, actions,
feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information to tell or inform other people what is in our
mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things that have happened,
or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of
language.
      No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries
went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.
      People in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred
different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for examples, contains four or five
hundred thousand words. But we don't know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We
should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we met a new word,
look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the most useful book.

1. What's the meaning of the underlined word?

A. 标语
B. 信号
C. 唱片
D. 图像

2. A dog can tell something _____.

A. by giving signals
B. by making different sounds
C. by dancing in the air
D. by barking

3. It has been proved that no animals are able to _____.

A. give the others information
B. express their actions and feelings with words
C. tell others how they feel
D. make different sounds, each with its own meaning.

4. Generally speaking, what we mean by "vocabulary" is _____.

A. all the words that we know
B. more and more words we use
C. all the words we need
D. the dictionary which contains thousands of words

5. What must we do in order to make our vocabulary larger?

A. Make more and more new words.
B. look up some new words in a dictionary.
C. learn more language.
D. Try to read as many books as possible.

     When you are reading something in English, you may often meet a new word. What's the best way to know it?
     You may look it up in the English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell you  something about the word :  the pronunciation,
the part of speech (词性) , the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word. But how can you know where the word
is in thousands of English words? How to find it in a dictionary quickly?
     First, all the English words  are in the alphabetical order(宇母顺序 ) .  In the dictionary you can first see the words
beginning with the letter A then B, C, D, E...   That means, if there are two words "do" and "put", "do" will be certainly
before "put". Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may look at the second letter. Then
the third, the fourth... For example, "pat" is before "picture" , "bald" before "balloon".
     Do you understand how to look up a word in a dictionary?
     The dictionary will be your good friend.  I hope you'll use it as often as possible in your English learning.

判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“A”，不符合的用“B”。

(     )l. The best way to know a new English word is to look it up in an English-Chinese dictionary.
(     )2. There's no Chinese in an English-Chinese dictionary.
(     )3.  A word with more letters is after a word with fewer letters in a dictionary.
(     )4. The word "message" is before the word "messenger" in an English dictionary.
(     ) 5. A dictionary will be your good friend if you're learning English.

     Different networks (网络) from all around the world make up the Internet. When you learn to use the
Internet,  you can have lots of fun on the World Wide Web (万维网). The web is like a big electronic
(电子的) book with millions (百万) of pages (页) that are called home pages (主页).
     You can find information about the world on these pages. For example,  you can use the Internet to
find information for your homework. You can also find information about your favourite sports or film
star,  talk to your friends or do some shopping on the pages. Most pages have words,  pictures and
sounds or music.

1. The underlined phrase"make up"means _____. 

A. 制造
B. 来自
C. 组成
D. 连接

2. On the World Wide Web we can _____.

A. have a good time
B. not be happy
C. be unhealthy
D. not read books

3. I can use the Internet to _____.

A. play basketball
B. do my homework
C. travel
D. visit the zoo

4. I _____ find information about my favourite film star on the Internet.

A. am
B. don't
C. can't
D. can

5. We can't find _____ on most of the pages.

A. words
B. music
C. animals
D. pictures

         one        think         this          well          correct
    Maybe everyone has trouble in learning new words. It is not easy to remember and use them   
1.____. The following suggestions will help you a lot. It can be a good idea to divide (划分) the new
words into groups according to the meanings.  2. ____ about the connections (联系) between words
may help you to remember them. The more you practice, the  3.____  you will use them. You can also
write a list of some new words. Express your ideas with them and discuss the uses of   4.____  words
as much as possible. However, there is one more thing you should pay attention to. Don't try to learn
too many words at one time. Choose several important  5.____  to you. Repeat their pronunciations,
spellings as well as their meanings in your mind. Learn a little every day and you will learn a lot in a few
years. It is the skills that can make you learn new words easily. It is the skills that can help you know
more words quickly.