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What is your favorite cartoon? It may be    1. (困难的)for you to decide. But for the pianist Lang Lang, Tomand Jerry is the best one.

Lang Lang was born in 1982.When he was two      2. （岁）old, he saw Tom playing the piano. This was his      3.     （一）time to enjoy foreign music and it encouraged （鼓励）him to learn to play piano.

Lang   4.        （成为）a good piano student at there. Ever since, the boy has been doing better and better. His talent at the keyboard took him from Shengyang to the world. In 1997,the 15-year-old boy    5.      （学习）at a first-class American music college. Lang worked   6.    （努力）There and now is   7.       （著名的）for making facial expressions （面部表情）and moving around while playing the piano.

The road to success has never been easy. Lang’s father     8.   (停止)his job to look after him, while his mother stayed in Shengyang to make money.    9.  （然而）Lang thinks himself lucky and    10. （相信）he should give something back. He has helped the children in poor schools a lot.

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   Mike was a little boy. One day he went with his father to a small town to  1  his grandparents. 2 the train, Mike put his head out of the window every minute. His father said “Mike,be careful!    3  put your head out of the window!” But Mike didn’t hear his father and went on putting his head out of the window. His father could do  4  .

   Then Mike’s father wanted to play a joke on his son. He took Mike’s cap quickly, hid it  5  his back and  6  “You see, your cap has flown away.” Mike touched his head and it was really gone. The boy looked  7  and then began to cry. He wanted to get his cap back.

 “Don’t worry, son.”said his father. “I have a good way to get your cap back.”

 “  8  can you get it back?” asked Mike in surprise.

His father said,“Close your eyes and whistle(吹口哨)once, and maybe your cap will come back.” Mike came up to the window, close his eyes and whistled. Just at that moment, his father quickly put the cap on his son’s head.

   “Oh! It was  9   !” Mike laughed. He was pleased, then he quickly took his father’s cap and   10  it out of the window. “Now it is your turn to whistle ,Dad!” He said happily.

1.A. look  B. see       C. watch  D. read

2.A. At      B. To         C. For        D. On

3.A. Don’t     B. Not       C. No        D. why

4.A. something         Banything         C nothing D. everything

5.A. before       B. behind C. after    D. in front of

6.A. spoken      B. talked  C. said      D. say

7..A. worried   B. interesting  C. happy  D. excited

8.A. Why  B. How     C. What   D. When

9.A. lovely         B. bad       C. wonderful    D. easy

10.A.threw       B. brought        C. got       D. sent

Mobile phone has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.

Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts，and more students will want them.

Mary Bluett，an official said mobile phone use is a distraction（分心的事） to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams. She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with their children.

Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school：they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.

Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones， but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.

1.Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones __________

A．because they are students                B．when they are free

C．when they are at school                  D．because they are children

2.We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from _________

A．the makers and sellers                   B．the passers-by and strangers

C．their parents and friends                  D．some mobile phone users

3.What does the underlined word ‘cheat’ mean in the passage？

A．聊天             B．核对             C．查询             D．作弊

4.Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn‘t ___________during school hours.

A．use their mobile phones

B．leave their mobile phones at school office

C．help the teachers with their work

D．get in touch with their children

5.The passage tells us that ___________

A．students shouldn’t have mobile phones at school except for some special reasons

B．it is impossible to ban students from using mobile phones at school

C．some parents felt unhappy because they couldn‘t use their phones at school

D．parents should teach their children how to use mobile phones during school hours

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The quickest way to make friends with others is to smile (微笑). When you smile, people think you are friendly and easy to talk to. It may not be easy to smile at first, but you can practice it in front of a mirror (镜子). When you look at yourself in the mirror, think about the difference between a smiling face and a sad or an angry face. Most people will stay away from(躲避) a sad or an angry face.

The easiest way to start a conversation with someone is to say something nice about him or her. For example, you can comment on someone’s great answer to a teacher’s question, a great prize, a nice shirt, etc. Think about how great you feel when someone says something nice to you. Doesn’t it make you want to keep talking with that person? Also, ask your new friends questions about themselves. For example, who are their favorite singers and what do they do after school are all good questions to start a conversation.

1.__________ is the quickest way to make friends with others.

A．Smiling                               B．Practicing

C．Asking questions                        D．Saying nice words

2.When you start a conversation with a new friend, you’d better NOT talk about his or her __________.

A．nice shoes         B．great answer       C．good prize         D．bad grade

3.The underlined words “comment on” mean “__________” according to the passage.

A．信赖             B．推测             C．评论             D．批评

4.The following questions are good to start a conversation EXCEPT (除……之外)        “__________”.

A．How do you go to school?                 B．What do you think of my new hat?

C．What is your favorite instrument?           D．How do you spend your holiday?

5.According to the passage, we can learn that __________.

A．it is always easy to smile with others

B．a smiling face helps people to be more healthy

C．a smiling face and a sad or an angry face aren’t different

D．people usually feel great when hearing nice words about them

We are all busy talking about using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

Many people are ___36___ when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers ___37___ large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network ___38___ down, the whole network stopped. ___39___ a new network system（系统）had to be set up. It should be ___40___ to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, ___41___ could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on ___42___ all the time.

At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and ___43___ to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing”（浏览）the Internet more convenient.

Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. ___44___ e-mail is more and more popular among students. The Internet has now become one of ___45___ parts of people’s life.