For children with cancer(癌),the facts of life include the facts of death.
There is always the fear that they might not live to grow up．Yet they realize that fighting cancer is the only way of beating it. So they fight．And sometimes, they win.It may take years．It certainly takes support from  parents and doctors.
Unfortunately, many parents can't deal with their child's illness．And doctors, no matter how caring, have other patients to care for. At times like these, the Children's Cancer Foundation can help. We are a group of Hong Kong doctors, nurses, psychologists, parents of children with cancer and concerned persons (有关人士).All of us are volunteers (offer one's help  without payment).We're with the children every day, listening to, and encouraging them.
We also advise parents, educate the public and send doctors overseas to study new cancer treatments. Our funding (providing money) has brought better equipment to the wards (large rooms of a hospital), and paid for special flats  where the children can recover.
We want to do even more．But to do it, we need your help. It will be money well spent．One who looks at our past achievements should prove that．
To the children, your contribution （贡献）will also be a show of support.A sign that you're behind them is just the sort of news that a six-year-old chlid with cancer needs to hear.
【小题1】This passage is likely_________.

A．a story	B．an advertisement
C．a report	D．diary

【小题2】 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．the people who work for the children with cancer are not paid.

B．the Children's Cancer Foundation gets money from the children with cancer

C．every child can get help from the Children's Cancer Foundation.

D．only psychologists and parents of children with cancer are willing to help the children with cancer

【小题3】 The Children's Cancer Foundation _________.

A．has set up many hospitals.

B．is made up of many volunteers including doctors, nurses, psychologists and so on.

C．hasn’t done anything for the the children with cancer.

D．can’t help the children with cancer in many ways.

In China， most people ride bikes to school，or to work，or to places where they want to go．So China is called “kingdom of bicycles”．
But Americans are a people on the wheel．Wherever you go， you will see cars．There are so many cars that there is a traffic jam here and there．Now， more and more Americans would not consider it a healthy way of life．In fact， many Americans are strongly against the advancement of the wheel．We should encourage people to use less cars to save our environment and the energy．
Everyone wants to reduce pollution．But the pollution problem is very serious．People drive cars and the waste gas from them causes air pollution．On the other hand， the need for energy increases every day， and some sources of energy are running out． Oil will last for no more than 40 years， while coal could last another 300 years．The way we’re heading is towards a world where people are going to go cold and hungry．Now in China many rich men live away from downtown．On holidays they go to some big cities and places of interest．Most of them use their own cars．But China is a country with a population of over 1．3 billion．So， if you have enough money in the future，what will you do?
【小题1】According to the passage， most Chinese people go to school or work by_________．

A．bike

B．bus

C．train

D．plane

【小题2】In America， you will see _________ everywhere．

A．bikes

B．cars

C．oil

D．coal

【小题3】The waste gas from cars causes_________．

A．air pollution	B．traffic jams
C．waste of money	D．energy problems

【小题4】The end of the last paragraph suggests that_________．

A．Americans should give up their cars

B．the energy should be saved around the world

C．Chinese shouldn’t become a people on the wheel

D．rich Chinese shouldn’t use their own cars in China

Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch (从头开始 )? Have you been doing internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?
A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so idle they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.
Just over 2000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health charity. The results were surprising.
About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.
More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly, of the 654 respondents (回答者) with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.
This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese (肥胖) before they start school. 
Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said: "People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and obviously their pets too.
"If we don't start to take control of this problem, a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most basic of tasks."
And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the laziest city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.
The results pose (对... 提出) serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.
【小题1】For the interest of country people should         .    

A．continue watching the same channel rather than get up to get the remote control

B．carry out even the most basic of tasks

C．get enough exercise to get fitter

D．admit they do not get enough exercise

【小题2】Which of the following statements agrees with British people?  

A．They are fond of climbing the stairs.

B．They are willing to accompany their children.

C．They like sports and get enough exercise.

D．They are suffering from obesity-related illnesses.

【小题3】What does the word "idle" in paragraph 2 mostly probably mean?   

A．active

B．lazy

C．optimistic

D．pessimistic

【小题4】Which country is the writer most likely to come from?

A．America

B．China

C．U.K

D．France

【小题5】 What's the main idea of the passage?  

A．UK is taking measures to get over laziness.

B．How lazy British people are.

C．British people are suffering from laziness.

D．Challenges for the National Health Service.

A large number of women in Western European countries wish that they were born men. The number is said as high as 60% in Germany.
“Women often wish that they had the same chance as men have, and believe it is still men’s world.” Said Dr James Holden, one of the scientists who did the study. Anne Harper has a very good job for an international oil company. She also believes in“Women’s Liberation(解放)”.
“I don’t wish that I were a man,” she says, “and I don’t think many women do .But I do wish that people would stop looking down upon us women. At work, for example, we often do the work that men do but we get less paid. There are still a lot of jobs that are usually the best ones that open only to men. If you’re a man, you have a much better chance of leading an exciting life. How many women pilots are there or engineers or scientists?”
【小题1】What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A．There are more Western European women wishing to be born men.

B．Women in Western European countries wish to deliver boy-babies.

C．60%women in Germany wish that they were born men.

D．60% Western European women wish that they were born men.

【小题2】“it is still men’s world.” means “______.”

A．There’re more men than women in the world

B．There’re more men scientists or engineers in the world

C．Women cannot live on themselves without men

D．Women have not been given the same chance as men

【小题3】 The “believes in” in paragraph 2 can be explained as _______.

A．feels sure of the value of	B．is sure of the existence of
C．has some trust in	D．learns something from

【小题4】 Anne Harper considers that women should ______.

A．be really liberated	B．live a better life than men
C．be well paid	D．get better jobs than men

【小题5】 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Usually the best jobs are open to men not to women.

B．Women are less paid than men for doing the same job.

C．Men pilots, engineers and scientists are more than women ones.

D．Women are looked down upon as the second-class citizens.

A latest national survey has found that over half of China's netizens are suffering from various mental problems although some 62 percent of them claim at the same time that they are happy on the whole anyway.
This is the result of China's first White Paper on Netizens' Health Conditions issued on Wednesday by 39.net, China's largest authoritative website on health sciences. It is the first most comprehensive health survey on netizens' health situation ever conducted in China in ten years' time. The white paper came out after two months of online and offline research that involved over 150 thousand netizens, covering topics and questions on health knowledge, mental situation, sense of health, and living habits.
According to the white paper, more than 70 percent of China's netizens say they are suffering from mental problems such as bad memory, anxiety, depression, and a lack of confidence. And a similar 72 percent of them also say they are often suffering from diseases like insomnia, dizziness, joint degeneration and achings. Meanwhile, another 53 percent of netizens believe that white collar employees who have bigger work pressures are more likely to catch mental problems.
The white paper adds, doing almost no sports and spending long time surfing online lead to the above mentioned health problems among netizens. Only 9 percent of netizens take up sports on weekends while over 40 percent stay home, surfing. And only 16 percent netizens can assure more than eight hours' sleeping daily.
At present, China has a netizen population of 162 million, with a monthly consumption of 186 yuan, or about 25 dollars, on Internet surfing.
【小题1】The national survey on netizens' health situation ________.

A．was conducted by sohu.com	B．is conducted every year
C．was carried out online and offline	D．covered about half a million netizens

【小题2】Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined part "white collar"?

A．White clothes.

B．White offices.

C．Office workers.

D．White people.

【小题3】All the following factors have been mentioned to cause the health problems among netizens EXCEPT ________.

A．doing no sports	B．spending long time online
C．heavy work pressures	D．shopping online

【小题4】

The neglected baby is crying alone. The young man, suffering from a lack of sleep, threatens suicide. The marriage fails because of the husband’s crazy behavior.
Is this just another story of social breakdown in the modern age? Not really. But they are the effects of a real social problem—Internet Addiction(沉溺), or, Internet Addiction Disorder.
The addiction is obvious from the popularity of one game alone: “Halo 2”. It’s a first-person shooter developed by Bungie Studios for the Xbox video game console. By early 2005, 1 million players worldwide had clocked up an amazing 100 million hours on the game, among which are 360, 000 Chinese players.
China has about 94 million regular Internet users. Of these, a survey suggested, 4.4 million are teenagers who are so addicted to it that they neglect anything else.
Video gamers who have gone too far show symptoms similar to those of alcohol and drug abusers. “The real world meant nothing to me when I was fully involved in online games. I lost track of time, space, hunger, pain, and everything,” explained Liu Pinyi, a 19-year-old college dropout. She has had treatment in Beijing for her addiction.
What makes it similar to drugs is that online game addicts also develop a chemical imbalance in their brains. Gaming stimulates the production of a chemical compound that produces delighted or pleasant feelings. When they’re away from the screen, they suffer feelings of anxiety and headaches.
Experts say young people are attracted to video games partly because they are partly because they are pushed right into the center of the action. This allows them to overcome a lack of confidence which people at that age can often suffer from.
【小题1】What’s the writer’s main purpose in writing the first paragraph?

A．To show his worries about Internet Addiction.

B．To show harm of Internet Addiction

C．To warn couples of the problem.

D．To introduce the topic of the passage.

【小题2】 How much time in total had Chinese game players spent on “Halo 2” by early 2005?

A．1 million hours.	B．94 million hours
C．100 million hours.	D．36 million hours

【小题3】 When video gamers get lost in a game, they do the following EXCEPT that _______.

A．They forget time, space, hunger and everything.

B．They drink a lot of alcohol and use drug.

C．They feel confident in the virtual games

D．Their brains produce a chemical which makes them delighted.

【小题4】 what is the passage mainly about?

A．Internet is bad for teenagers

B．Actions should be taken to deal with Internet Addiction

C．Web produces Internet Addiction Disorder

D．Teenagers should not play video games

Pushy parents and teachers who “hothouse” the under-5s risk causing damage to the children’s long term development, a leading education expert said.
Lilian Katz, Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, said that four-year-olds engaged in reading and writing went on to perform worse academically than those engaged in imaginative learning. They scored higher in tests at the age of 5, but children whose first year at school was stimulating outstripped them four years later.
The findings suggest that the government's structured approach to early years' learning could be storing up problems for children. They also raise serious questions about the plan for all children to be able to read by the age of 6.
In many countries formal teaching does not start until children are 6 or 7 and have improved their social and manual skills. Children start learning to read and write at 6 in the United States, France and Germany, and at 7 in Finland and Sweden.
Professor Katz said that in many schools the courses were "boring children to tears". Much academic teaching required children to learn by memorizing pieces of information out of context, she said. Teaching in reception class should instead allow children to develop their intellect by exploring their environments and asking questions.
"Research suggests the benefits of formal academic instruction for four- and five-year-olds seem to be promising when they are tested early, but considerably less so in the long term. When these children are followed over a period of three or more years, those who had early experience in more intellectually engaging curricula were more likely to do well in school than their peers, who had received early academic instruction." She advocates teaching children through first-hand experience and play, in mixed-aged classes. This can include puppet shows, drawing or running a pretend shop in the classroom.
【小题1】According to the passage, those who “hothouse” the under-5s would probably _________.

A．prefer a lot of interaction and stimulation while teaching

B．teach in a lively way to motivate kids’ interest

C．push the kids to memorize pieces of information

D．care about the kids’ physical development

【小题2】What does the underlined word “ outstripped” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A．did better than	B．looked down upon
C．caught up with	D．performed worse than

【小题3】According to Lilian Katz, the government’s structured approach to early-years learning __.

A．is necessary for improving children’s reading and writing ability

B．needs to be improved to develop children’s academic ability

C．will cause problems to children in their future learning

D．has more advantages than disadvantages

【小题4】The message the author wants to deliver through the passage is that formal teaching _____.

A．can start at different times in different countries.	B．should not be started too early
C．is best carried out in Finland and Sweden
D．should include teaching children social and manual skills

【小题5】Which of the following is NOT the opinion of Lilian Katz?

A．Children should be taught through first-hand experience.

B．Learning in a mixed-age class is good for children.

C．Running a shop can help children get good marks.

D．Puppet shows and drawing are useful in teaching children.

In the West, advertisements are the fuel that makes mass media work. Many TV stations, newspapers, magazines, radio stations are privately owned. The government does not give them money. So where does the money come from? From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not be these private businesses.
Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is? Through the years, people have given different answers to the question. For some time it was felt that advertising was a means of “Keeping your name before the public”. And some people thought that advertising was “truth well told”. Now more and more people consider it in this way: Advertising is the paid, non-personal, and usually persuasive presentation of goods, services and ideas by some certain sponsors (发起人) through various media.
First, advertising is usually paid for. Various sponsors pay for the advertisements we see, read, and hear over the various media. Second, advertising is non-personal. It is not face-to-face communi­cation. Although you may feel that a message in a certain advertisement is aimed directly at you, in reality, it is directed at large groups of people. Third, advertising is usually persuasive. Directly or indirectly it asks people to do something. All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea, or service advertised can benefit them. Fourth, the sponsors of the advertisement must show their names. From the advertisement, we can see if the sponsor is a company, or a single person. Fifth, advertising reaches us through old and modern mass media. Included in the old media are newspapers. magazines, radio, television, and films. Modern media include emails, matchbox covers, and boards on top of buildings.
【小题1】The existence of the privately owned mass media depends on the support of_________.

A．the government	B．advertisements
C．their owners’ families	D．the TV stations

【小题2】The passage seems to say that different ideas of advertising are given due to __________.

A．the subject of the advertisements	B．the change of time
C．people's age difference	D．peoples’ different opinions

【小题3】Which of the following is considered modern mass media?

A．Emails.

B． Newspapers

C．Magazines.

D．Films.

【小题4】 According to the passage, which of the following statements about advertisements is NOT true?

A．The sponsors are always mentioned.

B．Advertising is meant for large groups of people.

C．There is the description of things advertised

D．Advertising must be honest and humorous

Scholars and researchers have tried to discover what personality characteristics go along with success in intercultural experiences. Their findings have often been unclear or incomplete. But three characteristics stand out in their reports: patience, a sense of humor, and the awareness of being unclear.
Patience, of course, is the ability to keep calm even when things do not go as one wants them to, or hopes they will, or has even been sure they will. Impatience sometimes brings improvements in relations with other people, but usually it does not.
A person with a sense of humor is less likely to take things too seriously and more ready to see the humor in his own reactions than a humorless person. The value of a sense of humor really needs to be paid more attention to.
The awareness of being unclear is a more difficult concept than patience or a sense of humor. Foreigners often find themselves in situations that are unclear to the newcomers. That is, they do not know what is happening in the situation. Perhaps they do not understand the local language well enough, or they do not know how some system or organization works, or they can’t be sure of different people’s roles in what is going on. “It’s like I just got here from the moon,” a Chinese graduate student who newly arrived in the United States said, “things are just so different here.”
【小题1】The passage mainly tells us             .

A．that it’s not easy to travel abroad

B．that humor is very important in communication

C．of some characteristics in dealing with foreigners

D．of three main ways useful for communicating with foreigners

【小题2】According to the passage, what characteristic should be most focused on?

A．Patience.	B．The awareness of being unclear.
C．The sense of humor.	D．Understanding each other.

【小题3】“The awareness of being unclear” refers to           .

A．knowing the meaning of an exact situation

B．not stating clearly what happens

C．realizing the possible misunderstanding in a situation

D．being aware of the unclear situation

【小题4】According to the writer, the Chinese students is           .

A．a hard-working student	B．recently back from the moon
C．interested in the study of moon	D．not used to the culture in America

【小题5】Which of the following can best sum up the passage?

A．It is necessary to learn the language before you go to the country.

B．Americans are used to the culture of other countries.

C．One needs many characteristics to live in a foreign country.

D．To live in a foreign land one should get fully prepared.[

People bury treasure to stop other people from taking it. They choose a quiet place, dig a deep hole and bury the treasure in it. Then they make a map of where the treasure is or write down other clues（线索）that will help them or someone else to find it again.
In Britain a few years ago, a writer wrote about some treasure that he had buried. He put clues in the story to help readers find it. Thousands of people hunted for the treasure. They dug holes all over Britain, hoping to find it.
One of the most popular adventure stories ever written is Robert Louis Stephenson's “Treasured Island”, an exciting story about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who is captured by pirates (海盗) and later finds some buried treasure.
Then there is the true story about a man who had to travel overseas for a year. He did not trust banks, so he buried his life savings in a park. Then he went away. On his return, he went straight to the park. But the park was no longer there. In its place there was a huge building.
And then there was the man who buried his savings, all in bank notes, in a waterproof（防水的）bag. When he dug it up years later, there was nothing left. Worms and insects had eaten the bag and everything in it.
And of course, these are stories about people who bury things and either forget where they have buried them or lose the map.
Although it is true that people sometimes lose their money because a bank fails, banks are still the safest place to keep our savings and treasures.
【小题1】
People who bury treasure usually       .

A．do not trust banks

B．have a little money .

C．want to live in a quiet place.

D．expect to lose it

【小题2】
The writer in Britain       .

A．really had buried something.

B．started a nationwide treasure hunt.

C．had lost his treasure and wanted people to help him find it.

D．caused trouble because people dug holes everywhere.

【小题3】
. “Treasure Island”       .

A．is a story about pirates.

B．is about the adventures of Jim Hawkins.

C．is the most popular story ever written.

D．is a well-known fairy tale.

【小题4】
The man who buried his money in a park       .

A．thought his money was safer there than in a bank.

B．travelled on the sea for a year.

C．got his life savings back again.

D．stayed away longer than he expected.

【小题5】
From these stories we understand that       .

A．we cannot trust banks.

B．we should not trust anyone.

C．a waterproof bag is not proof against worms and insects.

D．insects eat anything.