Many Americans like to have their holidays in other countries. One day an American woman,Mrs. White comes to China. This is her first time to China and she wants to make some friends there. She meets a Chinese. The Chinese wants to speak English with Americans. When he sees her,he comes up and says "hello" to her,then he starts his first talk with this woman from America.

  "How old are you?" the Chinese asks.

  "I'm sorry I can't tell you. It's a secret," answers the woman.

  The Chinese is surprised. He doesn't know why. Can you help him?

(   ) 1. Many Americans like to come to China to         .

   A. have holidays   B. speak English

   C. buy something   D. talk with Chinese

(   ) 2. A Chinese wants to talk with Mrs. White,because         .

   A. he wants to help her   B. he wants to ask some questions

   C. he meets her for the first time   D. he would like to speak English

(   ) 3. Mrs. White doesn't want to answer the man's question because        .

   A. she doesn't like the man   B. she can't understand the man

   C. it is a secret for a woman   D. she doesn't know the answer

(   ) 4. What does the word "surprised" mean?

   A. 认真的   B. 惊讶的   C. 高兴的   D. 轻松的

(   ) 5. Which of the following is NOT true?

   A. Mrs. White is from an Englishspeaking country.

   B. It is OK to ask a woman's age in America.

   C. It is good to speak English with Americans.

   D. We can ask Americans where they come from.

  Do you know there are two kinds of football games in the world? Q 1       is American football,and the other is called soccer. Soccer is very p 2      in Europe and Asia. But Asians and Europeans don't c 3       it soccer,they call it football. There are e 4       players on a team,and the ball is round. Q 5       the goalkeeper can play using the hands and feet,all the other players must use their feet.

  In the USA soccer is not very popular. People like p 6       American football more than soccer. There are a 7       eleven players on a team. The ball isn't round,it's oval shaped. All the players can use t 8       hands and feet to play with the ball. The goal for A 9       football is larger than one for soccer. American football is quite d 10       from soccer.

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  When you want to go shopping,decide (决定) how much money you can spend for new clothes. Think about the kind of clothes you really need. Then look for those clothes on sale. There are labels (标签) inside all new clothes. The labels tell you how to take care of your clothes. The label for a shirt may tell you how to wash it in water. A sweater label may tell you to wash by washing in cold water. The label on a coat may say "dry clean only". Washing may ruin (损坏) this coat. If you do as the directions say on the label,you can keep your clothes looking their best.

  Many clothes today must be dry cleaned. Dry cleaning is expensive. We buy new clothes,check to see if they will need to be dry cleaned. You will save money if you buy clothes that can be washed.  

(   ) 11. If you want to save money,you can buy clothes that         .

   A. don't fit you   B. don't last long

   C. need to be dry cleaned   D. can be washed well

(   ) 12. The labels inside the clothes tell you .

   A. how to keep them looking their best

   B. how to save money

   C. whether they fit you or not

   D. where to get them dry cleaned

(   ) 13. The first thing for you to do before you buy clothes is         .

   A. to look for wellmade clothes

   B. to see how much money you can pay

   C. to know how to wash them

   D. to read the labels inside them

(   ) 14. We learn from the reading that cheaper clothes .

   A. are always worse made   B. must be dry cleaned

   C. can not be washed   D. can sometimes fit you better 

(   ) 15. The best title for the reading should be .

   A. Buying Less Expensive Clothes

   B. Taking Enough Money When Shopping

   C. Being a Clever Clothes Shopper

   D. Choosing the Labels inside New Clothes

  The earth is our home. We must take care of it. This means keeping the land,air and water clean.

  Pollution is a " dirty" word. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many forms. We see it,smell it and drink it. Pollution is beginning to do harm to our health and even to our life.

  Man has been polluting to the health from the time he first made his fire,washed his clothes in river and threw his rubbish on the ground. Many years ago,the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. All the dirty things would soon be covered up. There was plenty of clean air,land and water. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in a place,men moved to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the white world.

  Talking about pollution,we once mean air pollution. It is true that air pollution is still the most dangerous now,but it is only a kind of pollution.

  We are glad to say that the public has been warned of the dangers of pollution and a large number of people are working hard to get rid of it.

(   ) 6. To take care of the earth means         .

   A. keeping the land clean   B. keeping the air clean

   C. keeping the water clean   D. A.B and C

(   ) 7. Pollution         .

   A. only harms to our health   B. harms our health and life

   C. only harms to our life   D. doesn't any harm

(   ) 8. Why does man move from one place to another?

   A. Because the land is used up.

   B. Because they need to find more food.

   C. Because the water is polluted.

   D. A and C.

(   ) 9. Now if we talk about pollution,we mean         .

   A. only air pollution   B. water pollution

   C. all kinds of pollution   D. land pollution

(   ) 10. Which of the following is NOT right?

   A. Now no one takes any efforts in getting rid of pollution.

   B. Man had being polluting ever since he has being here.

   C. Pollution harms to our health and life.

   D. Once we talked about pollution,we only mean air pollution.

 A good night's sleep is very important for us. But a new survey shows that over 7. 7% of students do not have enough sleeping time.

  Mary,a student in Beijing,is one of those teens. She gets up at six in the morning and gets to school before seven. She has seven classes a day. After school,she does homework,learns math,English,Chinese and.. . Then she goes to bed,but nearly at 24:00. "I only get about six hours of sleep every night. Many of us feel sleepy in class," she said. "And we don't have any time to exercise at all."Teens are too sleepy to be happy. Many people say if students have less homework,then they can get more sleep.

(   ) 1. There are two hundred students,and how many students may have sleeping problem?

   A. Ten. B. Fifteen. C. Twenty. D. Twentyfive.

(   ) 2. It is        for students to sleep for six hours every day.

   A. enough   B. good   C. bad   D. important

(   ) 3. Mary usually gets to school        seven o'clock from Monday to Friday.

   A. after   B. before   C. when   D. while

(   ) 4. If students don't get enough sleep,they may get        in class.

   A. relaxed   B. happy   C. sleepy   D. boring

(   ) 5. Why can't students get much sleep at night?

   A. They have too much homework to do in the evening.

   B. They get up late in the morning.

   C. They watch TV at night.

   D. They do too much housework.

  When you are learning English,you find it not clever to put an English sentence,word for word,into your own language. Take the sentence "How do you do?" as an example. If you look up each word in the d 1       one at a time,what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your o 2       language.

  Language do not just have different s 3       they are different in many ways. It's i 4       to master (掌握) the rules (规则) for word order in the s 5       of English,too. If the sentences put words in a wrong o 6       the listeners can't understand the speakers' sentences e 7       . Sometimes when the order is changed,the m 8       of the sentence doesrft change. Let's see the difference b 9       the two pairs of sentences.

"She only likes apples." " Only she likes apples."

  "I've seen the film already. " "I have already seen the film."

When you are learning English,you must do your best to g 10       the spirit (精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speakers do.

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  Many thousands of children have serious (严重的) accidents (事故;) in their homes. Some children are so badly hurt that they die.

  The most common (普通的) accidents are with fire and hot water. Small children often touch pots of boiling. The pots fall over and the hot water falls on the children and burns them. Some children like to play with fire. They enjoy striking matches (点火柴) or throwing things on a fire to make it burn. If a fire gets too big,it gets out of control (4空制) .Then the house catches fire. It is very dangerous to play with matches.

  Some kinds of clothing burn very easily. Many children have been badly burned because they have stood too near a fire and their clothing has suddenly burst into fire. Although fire and hot water cause most accidents in the home,many children cut themselves with knives. Some are made very ill from taking their parents' medicine.

  There is only one good way to prevent accidents in the home：Do not touch anything that is dangerous.

(   ) 11. Where do the accidents happen?

   A. At school. B. In the cinema.

   C. At home. D. In the office.

(   ) 12. Why have some children been badly burned? Because they .

   A. can't run away from the fire

   B. don't stand far away enough from the fire

   C. stand too close to the hot water

   D. lie in bed for too long a time

(   ) 13. Why does the fire get out of control? Because         ― .

   A. the firefighters don't come   B. the children run away

   C. the fire is too big   D. the firefighters come too late

(   ) 14. The passage is mainly about advice on         .

   A. how to teach children

   B. how to control the fire in our homes

   C. how to prevent the accidents at home

   D. how to control the children in our homes

(   ) 15. The word "pot" is         .

   A. 药瓶   B. 火盆   C. 热水器   D. 水壶

  Angela Chen, 26. is a nurse. She works in a hospital in London,but she comes from Wuhan,China. Her parents and he brother are now in China. Angela lives by herself and she doesn't go out very often in London.

  She works in the hospital in the daytime,and in the evening she comes back home and stays indoors. She lives in a onebedroom flat. She often cooks in her small kitchen,because she likes Chinese food best. Sometimes Angela telephones her family and tell them she misses them very much. She says she is going to visit them next August.

  Angela is very tall and slim. She has black eyes and long black hair. She is vey careful,and people in the hospital often say Angela is a good nurse.

(   ) 6. Where was Angela Chen born？

   A. In Wuhan,China. B. In London,Britain.

   C. In Beijing. D. We don't know.

(  ) 7. What does she usually do in the daytime?

   A. She is at work in the daytime. B. She usually cooks in the kitchen.

   C. She usually misses her family. D. She usually telephones her friends.

(   ) 8. What does "flat" here mean?

   A. 公寓   B. 旅社   C. 病房   D. 平面

(   ) 9. Why will she visit her family next August?

   A. Because she will be on a vacation then.

   B. Because she misses her parents.

   C. Because she thinks it's time to turn back to her motherland.

   D. Because she has some business to do in China.

(   ) 10. Which of the following is WRONG?

   A. Angela lives alone.

   B. Angela is very tall and thin.

   C. Angela often dines out (外出吃饭) for some tasty Chinese food.

   D. She has black eyes and long dark hair.

 One day a boy was walking along the street. Suddenly he stopped and looked up into the sky. A young man passed by him. When he saw the boy,he felt curious and looked up,too. Just then a girl came up and saw them. "Is there anything interesting in the sky?" She thought and looked up,too.

  After a while there were quite some people. They were interested in the clear blue sky. Suddenly the boy asked, "Hey,what are all of you looking up at?" "That's what we are going to ask you," said the young man.

  "You want to ask me? But I wasn't looking at anything," said the boy. "I raised my head upward (向上) because my nose bled (流血) "

(   ) 1. What was the boy doing one day?

   A. He was looking for something in the street.

   B. He was going down the street on foot.

   C. He was going to see his friend.

   D. He was looking up at the plane in the sky.

(   ) 2. What does the word "curious" in the passage mean in Chinese?

   A. 好奇的   B. 着急的   C. 烦恼的   D. 高兴的

(   ) 3. The girl thought         ，so she looked up.

   A. there was something wrong with the boy

   B. none of the people were interested in the blue sky

   C. the young man could see nothing in the sky

   D. there was something interesting in the sky

(   ) 4. The boy looked up into sky only because .

   A. he liked doing so very much

   B. the other people also did so

   C. something was wrong with his nose

   D. his mother told him to do so

(   ) 5. From the passage we can see         .

   A. many people were looking up

   B. there must be something in the sky

   C. there was an accident in the street

   D. the boy did not know why the other people were looking up into the sky as he did

  Mr. Jones and Mr. Brown worked in the same office. One day Mr. Jones said to Mr. Brown, "We are going to have a small party at our house n 1 Wednesday evening. Would you and your wife like to j 2       us？"

  Mr. Brown said, "Thank you very much. That is very k 3       of you. We are f 4       that evening. I think,but I will t 5       my wife and ask her.  Maybe she wants to go somewhere e 6       that evening."So Mr. Brown went to the other room and telephoned. When he came back,he looked very s 7      

  "What is the m 8      ？" said Mr. Jones. "Did you s 9       to your wife?"

  "No," answered Mr.  Brown, "She wasn't there,my s 10       son answered the telephone. I said to him, Is your mother there,David?' and he answered, 'No,she is not in the house,  Where is she then?' I asked. ' She is somewhere outside. What is she doing? She is looking for me."，

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