It is said that ____ young people may lose the abilities to hear after five years if they listen to MP4 players which are too loud for more than five hours a week.

A. thousand of    B. six thousands   C. thousands of   D. six thousands of

 

If you’re into sports, you’ve seen it happen—tennis players jump over the net to shake hands after a hard match; football players exchange clothes after 90 minutes of knocking each other around; even boxers touch gloves at the beginning of each round. Players in every event, from spelling bees  to golf, act in this way. It’s all part of sportsmanship, a great tradition in sport and competition. It means playing and being calm all through the match.

Everyone feels great when they win. In the last few years, you might see some players celebrate a goal with a long victory dance or talk big about their ability. However, it’s always hard for people to say in public that they made a bad play. Good sportsmanship is what they really need. It’s the golden rule of sports.

Good sportsmanship means that you play by the rules, talk politely to everyone during games and stay cool even when you lose the game. At the school sports meeting, for example, it’s more important for you to know how to work as part of a team and cheer your teammates on. That may help you enjoy more success at your future work. In competition—as in life—you may not always win, but believe me, sportsmanship will help you get through, and there is always the next match.

根据短文内容，选择正确的答案。

1.What match do you know will last 90 minutes?

A．Tennis

B．Football

C．Golf

D．Spelling bees

2.The underlined word “bees” in the passage means__________.

A．fly

B．competition

C．guess

D．research

3.When people need good sportsmanship?

A．When they win the competition	B．When they made a bad play
C．When they are in public places	D．When they want to have a long victory

4.Why does the author think good sportsmanship is really important?

A．It’s all part of sports .	B．It’s all part of celebration
C．It’s the golden rule of sports	D．It’s know to stay cool

5.The passage mainly tells us that sportsmanship gets you through no matter whether _______.

A．you win or lost	B．you play or learn
C．you are happy or not	D．you feel hard or not

 

E–book is short for electronic(电子) book. It is usually read on personal computers. Some mobile phones can also be used to read e–books.
Earlier e–books were written for a certain group of readers and were about only a few subjects. With the development of the Internet, knowledge and answers to a lot of questions mainly come from e–books. This is why the e–book business is increasing quickly.
E–books have many advantages. First, they save time. We don’t need to go a bookstore to buy books. Besides, we can find the topic we want to know about on the Internet, and then we can quickly get many e–books on similar topics. Second, e–books save money. Some e–books cost us little money, and there are millions of e–books on the Internet that we can get for free. Third, more trees are saved because e–books don’t need to be printed on paper. Fourth, e–books make reading more convenient. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you in a small computer or any e–book reader(阅读器), without worrying about their weight.
But e–books have certain disadvantages. They need a personal computer or an e–book reader, and the information can be lost if its file format(文件格式) is not supported(支持) or changed in the reader’s computer.
However, e–books provide us with a new way of reading. That is good.
【小题1】Why is the e–book business increasing quickly? Because______________.

A．earlier e–books are about only a few subjects.

B．people don’t like to read any paper books any more.

C．the development of the Internet makes e–books more useful.

D．most e–books have been written for a certain group of readers.

【小题2】How many advantages do e–books have according to this article?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five

D．Six

【小题3】Which of the following is TRUE according to this article?

A．All the e–books on the Internet cost lots of money.

B．E–books can’t be read on mobile phones.

C．You can’t read e–books without a personal computer.

D．E–books can make reading more convenient.

【小题4】What is the disadvantage of the e–books?

A．You’ll lose the information if its file format is not supported.

B．You can read e–books any time.

C．You can buy cheap e–books anywhere.

D．You can carry hundreds of books in an e–book reader.

【小题5】The writer mainly tells us _________.

A．the information can be lost if its file format is changed.

B．you don’t need to buy paper books in a bookstore if you read e–books.

C．the development of e–books can help save the environment.

D．e–books affor（提供） us a new good way of reading.

New Library Rules
1. Open time: 8:30am.-4:30pm. From Monday to Friday.	6. No taking books out if you don’t ask the people here.
2. No talking.	7. Keep the library books for only one week.
3. No eating any food.	8. Give the books back on time.
4. No listening to music.	9. Renew (续借)books on time.
5. No taking photos.	10. Pay for the lost books.

【小题1】What can’t we do in the library?

A．Borrow books.	B．Renew books.
C．Keep the library book for a week.	D．Take books out anytime

【小题2】What do you have to do if we lose the library books?

A．Buy them	B．Pay for them
C．Renew them	D．Ask the people there.

【小题3】When can you go to the library?

A．8:30am. on Saturday.	B．2:30pm. on Sunday.
C．10:30pm. on Friday.	D．3:30pm. on Tuesday.

You might have noticed that the cost of food has gone up.In fact the price of wheat and rice has nearly doubled in the past few years.It’s thought that right now，850 million people—that’s more than 10 times the population of the UK—are short of food because it’s too expensive or there’s not enough of it.
The price of basic food such as wheat and corn has stayed the same for quite a long time，about 30 years.But as the world’s population is getting bigger，there’s more pressure to feed more people，plus there’s less land and water to go round.
Another reason is climate（气候）change.Droughts and floods make it hard to grow crops like rice and grain.The price of oil has gone up and that makes it more expensive for farmers to run their tractors and to transport the food they make.And lots of fields are being used to grow crops to make other things that can’t be eaten—which is bad news for hungry people.
The main losers are poor people who live in cities in poor countries，who are facing higher prices for food.Some people are doing well out of the food crisis（危机） though.Farmers in rich countries like the US，Canada and Australia are getting record prices for their harvests.
World leaders are meeting in the Italian capital Rome to talk about the problem of rising food prices.Some countries are helping out with the cost of foods and international aid agencies have called for more money for food production in poor countries.
【小题1】The price of food goes up because all of the following EXCEPT _____.

A．there are more and more people in the world.

B．American farmers are getting richer and richer.

C．many farm lands are used to make other things rather than food.

D．climate change makes it harder to grow food.

【小题2】Who lose the most because of the food crisis?

A．Farmers in rich countries.

B．Farmers in developed countries.

C．Poor people in cities in poor countries.

D．Poor people in cities in developed countries.

【小题3】What does the food crisis mean to farmers in Canada?

A．They can get a lot of money from the government.

B．They have to save a lot of money.

C．They can make more money from the high price.

D．They are losing a lot of money.

【小题4】What is the best title for this passage?

A．Why is the Price of Food Going Up？

B．How Many People are Short of Food?

C．What Can We Learn from the Food Crisis?

D．Who Can Benefit（受益） from the Food Crisis?