David: My favourite subject is chemistry, because the teacher is really nice and he makes the subject very interesting. I don’t like maths, because it’s really boring and very difficult for me.

James: I like science best because I’m very interested in universe. I have read many books about the solar system, the aircrafts and the astronauts. I wish I could go to the universe and explore there one day.

Sam: Art would be my favourite because we can make lots of art crafts (手工作品). I like making model planes best because my father is a pilot. I want to be a person like him in the future.

Mark: My favourite subject is P.E., because I can play basketball with my friends. It’s really very interesting. I don’t like music practice, not because I don’t like playing the piano, but because we have about 60 students in our class and they often talk loudly. It’s too noisy (吵闹的)!

46. Mark’s favourite subject is ______.

A. chemistry              B. science            C. art                    D. P.E.

47. David doesn’t like maths because ______.

A. it’s noisy in class                         B. it’s boring and difficult

C. he doesn’t think the teacher is nice           D. he isn’t good at it

48. Which kinds of books hasn’t James read?

A. Aircrafts.             B. The solar system.      C. Model planes.       D. Astronauts.

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　　London-life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is set to permanent (不大可能改变的).

　　Their 1 school day and her job as a lawyer's assistant are busy enough. 2 Hagner also has to take the two boys to soccer or hockey or basketball while dropping off her 3 at piano lessons or Girl Scout Club. 4 , the exhausted (精疲力尽的) family doesn't get home until 7 p.m. There is just time for a quick 5 before homework.

　　In today's world, middle-class American and British parents treat their children 6 they were competitors 7 for some finishing line.

　　Parents take their children from activity to activity to make their future 8 . It seems that raising a genius (英才) has become a more 9 goal than raising a happy and well balanced child.

　　“ 10 across the country are reporting a growing number of children 11 from stomachaches and headaches 12 exhaustion and stress,” says child expert William Doherty of the University of Minnesota.

　　Teachers are 13 exhausted kids in the classroom. It's a very serious problem. Many children attend 14 clubs by necessity. But competitive pressures also 15 an explosion of activities. They 16 sports, language, music and maths classes for children as 17 as four.

　　“There is a new parenting trend(趋势) under way which says you have to tap all your child's potential (潜能) at a young age, 18 you will let them down,” says Terry Apter, a Cambridge-based child and adolescent psychiatrist(青少年精神病专家).

　　“It isn't entirely 19 : there have always been pushy parents. But what was seen as strange behaviour before is now well 20 .”

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　　China's panda is famous in the world. In television programs we often see pandas p 1 funny games. Children have panda toys and beautiful cards with pictures of lovely pandas in them. They often visit the pandas in the zoo on their holiday and have a good time there. However, scientists are w 2 about the future of pandas. They know only about one thousand pandas are alive today. About one hundred and fifteen pandas live in zoos in China, but during the past ten years they p 3 only thirty-four young pandas. They are too w 4 to live. In the zoo, people can help the mother c 5 for the young pandas, but those living in the w 6 do not get enough help. It is very difficult for mother pandas to b 7 up their young pandas, things for the pandas have been w 8 in lately years. Sometimes pandas have n 9 to eat and die of hunger in the wild.

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