Mary has a lot of hobbies. She usually gets up early so she can run before work. She doesn't often have time to skate, but she sometimes goes on Saturdays during the winter. Mary often rides a horse near here home. She sometimes goes after work, but she usually goes horseback riding on Sundays. She loves music. She always goes to choir practice(合唱团训练) on Wednesday evenings and sings in church(教堂) on Sundays. She doesn't have much money, so she seldom(很少) goes to concerts（音乐会） in the city. She seldom watches TV because she likes doing things outside. She usually goes to the gym（体育馆） if it's raining outside. She isn't often alone（独自的） because she has a lot of friends. She sometimes does something alone, but she usually does her hobbies with one of her friends. She's a happy woman!
【小题1】Mary often gets up early because she wants to _______.

Do you hope to do a lot of homework every evening? Are you interested in your English classes? Who do you want to teach you? Maybe you have lots of questions in your mind before school starts.

Well, I want to give you some good advice on these problems.

First, keep calm(平静). Don’t worry about all the problems you have. Put your heart into learning, and you can find something you are interested in. Do it actively.

Second, try your best to finish your homework quickly. Don’t spend a lot of time on it. Do more reading or writing in English. Think about the problems you have and solve them at once. Don’t stay up(熬夜) late, or you can’t study well the next day.

Third, invent something instead of copying or repeating. If you can remember the words in your way, you can tell your teachers you don’t like the way of copying them again and again. Be sure, you must pass the test. I think your teachers will agree with you. And they can give you some interesting work to do.

School is really a good place for us to learn. Believe in your teachers and yourself. You are the best one and you can do everything well.

(   )61. The writer writes this article in order to (为了) ______.

A. ask students not to do their homework

B. give students some good ways of learning

C. ask the students not to listen to the teacher carefully

D. tell students what a good teacher and a good school are

(   ) 62. How many pieces of advice does the writer give us?

A. Three          B. Four                 C. Five         D. Six

(   ) 63. What does the writer tell students to do about their homework?

A. They should spend much time on it.         

B. Do the homework quickly.

C. They should do more reading or writing in English.

D. They should stay up late doing their home-work.

(   ) 64. What’s the third piece of advice about?

A. Study in your own way.            B. How to get high marks.

C. How to get on well with the teachers.             

D. What kind of schoolwork is better for students.

(   )65. According to (根据) the passage, students should believe in ______.

A. themselves and their parents              B. their parents and teachers

C. their classmates and their friends              D. themselves and their teachers

We know that there are too many net bars around us．The Internet is popular and it makes our lives colourful．Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer and get more information form the Internet．We can learn English．We can read some good newspapers and magazines．We can also watch some exciting sports matches．It can make us clever in playing computer games．We can send e-mails to our friends quickly．We can chat freely online with our friends．It can help us get in touch with people from all over the world．

       But some students spend too much time in playing computer games and some stay in the net bars all day and all night．Teenagers even get to have boyfriends or girlfriends online．They send e-mail to each other．It takes them too much time to chat online so they do worse and worse in their lessons and they don’t study well any more．I think we mustn’t get online when it is time for us to study．We can do it in summer or winter holidays．We should get online with adults-our teachers or parents．

    At the same time，if we have lots of free time，we can do some out-of-class activities at school．We usually have activities from 4：50 to 5：50 in the afternoon．We have different kinds of activities．If you are interested in sports，you can play basketball or football．We can go to the English Corner．We can practice talking in English there．We hope we can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and spend less time on the Internet．

1．What does the underlined word“It”in Paragraph I refer to?

      A．A net bar．          B．A computer．      C．Going online． D．Watching matches．

2．Because of the Internet，our lives are becoming ________．

      A．richer and richer                                      B．more and more colourful

      C．worse and worse                                       D．more and more boring

3．Which of the following is the best out-of-class activity at school?

      A．Playing computer games．                       B．Sending e-mails to each other．

      C．Chatting on the Internet．                           D．Going to the English Corner．

4．The writer suggests that students shouldn’t _________．

      A．have boyfriends or girlfriends online            B．do different out-of-class activities

      C．get online during their holidays                    D．get online with their parents

5．What is the passage mainly about?

      A．Going online．                                        B．Computers．

      C．How to use computers．                             D．How to play computer games．