In learning English，one should first pay attention to listening and speaking．It is the groundwork of reading and writing．You’d better  31  your best to speak while you do much listening．Don’t be  32  of making mistakes．But be careful not to let them stop you from improving your  33 ．While you are doing this，a good  34  is to write-keep a diary，write notes or letters．Then if you can，ask some others to go through  35  you have written and tell you where it is wrong．Many mistakes in your speaking will be  36  found when you write．Through correcting mistakes，you can do better in learning English．
If you are slow in speaking，don’t  37  about it．One of the helpful ways is reading，either aloud or to yourself．The important thing is to choose  38  interesting to read． It mustn’t be too difficult for you．When you are reading  39  this way，don’t stop to  40  the new words if you can guess their meanings when they have nothing to do with the sentences．You can do that some other time．

【小题1】

A．have B．send C．make D．try

【小题2】

A．sure B．afraid C．proud D．tired

【小题3】

A．English B．Chinese C．Japanese D．French

【小题4】

A．start B．idea C．way D．manner

【小题5】

A．how B．when C．why D．what

【小题6】

A．happily B．easily C．really D．slowly

【小题7】

A．talk B．fear C．worry D．hurry

【小题8】

A．something B．everything C．anything D．nothing

【小题9】

A．by B．on C．at D．in

【小题10】

A．look at B．look for C．look up D．look over

Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And they can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is the Venus flytrap.
The Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly(蚊子) touches one of the hairs, the leaf close quickly. The fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses(挤压) the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly. Slowly, the plant eats the fly.
How can that happen? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn’t have all these important things, especially nitrogen(氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let’s hope that some of the bigger plants don’t get the same idea!
【小题1】What kind of plant is the Venus flytrap?

A．It is the plant that can be eaten as vegetables

B．It is the plant that can eat people

C．It is the plant that can eat meat.

D．It is the plant that is poisonous(有毒的)

【小题2】What are inside its leaves?

A．some small leaves	B．some pages of books
C．some flowers	D．some hairs

【小题3】The Venus flytrap eats flies because__________.

A．It grows in dry parts	B．It hates flies
C．It’ll be eaten by flies	D．It needs air and water

More and more Chinese people care for their own health. I come from England. I came to China five years ago. I began to learn cooking Chinese food from my father. When I was fifteen, I began to help my mother in the kitchen. My father is a very famous cook in Beijing. So he taught me many things about cooking. In the past three years, I never stopped learning cooking. When I saw a book called The disease eating out can be gone back again by eating (《把吃出来的病再吃回去》), I began studying the book. .The writer of the book is Zhang Wuben. He said he was a famous nutritionist (营养师)and well-known traditional Chinese doctor. He asked the people to eat eggplant (茄子)and gram (绿豆). In China, Zhang Wuben's book has been popular in the past few years.

My father was invited to talk about the book in May, 2010. A large number of Chinese people believe they should eat eggplant and gram to be healthy. I have visited a lot of Chinese restaurants in Beijing and studied hundreds of restaurant menus.  I talked to lots of doctors about eating and nutrition (营养). They thought that Zhang Wuben's words violated the science. He told a lie. The fact is that it's important for us to eat a balanced diet and not just to eat eggplant and gram.

1.Why did most of Chinese people believe to eat eggplant and gram to be healthy?

A．Because the people think Zhang Wuben is a famous nutritionist and doctor.

B．Because the people like eggplant and gram best.

C．Because the people don't believe doctors.

D．Because hundreds of restaurants are closed.

2.If you want to keep healthy, you should ____________________.

A．believe Zhang Wuben's words

B．eat a balanced diet

C．eat more eggplant and gram

D．eat in Chinese restaurants

3.What does the writer's father do?

A．A doctor.

B．A waiter.

C．A nutritionist.

D．A cook.

4.What do you think of Zhang Wuben's book?

A．It is a book about health. Now it is the most popular science writing.

B．It can keep a balance of yin and yang.

C．It is a trashy (垃圾的) book.

D．It's a book on medicine.

5.The underlined word "violated" in the passage means “       ” in Chinese.

A．有教育意义的

B．违反

C．符合

D．误解