When you are in England, you must be very careful in the streets because the traffic drives on the left.

   Before you cross the street, you must look to the right first and then the left.

   If the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go. People on foot mustn’t cross.

   In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come from work, the streets are very busy. The traffic is the most dangerous then.

   When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, too. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. Have a look first or you will go the wrong way.

   In many English cities, there are big buses with two floors. You can sit on the second floor. From there you can see the city very well. It’s very interesting.

1.The traffic in England __________ that in China.

A. is the same with             B. is different from

C. is better than                D. is worse than

2.You can cross the road when _____________.

A. there is little traffic            B. the traffic lights are green

C. you’ve looked to the right      D. the traffic lights are red

3.The visitors to English cities usually like to ______ when they go by bus.

A. ride a bicycle                  B. take a car

C. sit on the second floor           D. sit on the first floor

If you put a buzzard(秃鹰) in a cage without a roof(顶棚), the bird will be a prisoner. Even though it can fly, it can’t fly through the open roof. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 3 or 4 meters. Without space to run, he will not even try to fly, but will stay in his small jail(监牢) for the rest of his life.

The ordinary bat that flies around at night cannot take off from the ground. If it is placed on the ground, all it can do is shuffle(穿梭) about helplessly. If it reaches a higher place, it will be able to throw itself into the air. Then it takes off quickly. But on flat ground, it will never fly.

A bee dropped into a cup will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but keeps trying to find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It will look for away where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.

In many ways, there are lots of people like the buzzard, the bat and the bee. They are struggling with all their problems and frustrations(挫折)，not realizing that the answer is right there above them.

1.A buzzard can’t fly through the open roof of a cage because       .

A．it is too big and heavy to fly up

B．it feels the space is too small to start the flight

C．it gets used to living in the cage without a roof

D．it would like to spend the rest of his life in the jail

2.Paragraph 2 mainly tells us that        .

A．the bat is a kind of smart bird

B．the bat can take off quickly on flat ground

C．the bat flies only at night

D．the bat can only take off from a higher place

3.Which is NOT true about the bee?

A．The bee doesn’t try to find a way to escape.

B．The bee will die if it isn’t taken out of the cup in time.

C．The bee always wants to escape from the cup near the bottom.

D．The bee doesn’t see the way out at the top.

4.What’s the purpose of the story?

A．Many people are like the buzzard, the bat and the bee.

B．Animals will also give up when in trouble.

C．We should try new ways to deal with difficulties.

D．We should solve problems by ourselves.

单词填空（每空一词，每小题1分，满分10分）
1. There aren’t any           (图书馆) in my school.
2. Tomorrow is Ann’s ________（生日）. She will have a party.
3. We always think Chinese people are very           (有礼貌)
4.There are three          (百) students in my school.
5. I always get many beautiful ____ (礼物) from my aunts every year.
6. I want ________（buy）her a new book. What about you?
7. Look at ________（they）. They look very happy.
8. She ________（enjoy）the big dinner with her parents.
9. How many          (baby) are there in the park?
10. Can you see the           (teacher) desk?

Dear Tom,

How are you? I'm at a new school this term. And I'm writing to tell you about my school. My new school is big and nice. There are one thousand and four hundred students and one hundred and forty teachers at my school. I like the teachers. They are very kind to me. My classmates are very friendly too. They teach me Chinese and I teach them English. There are trees, flowers and green grass at my school. They are very beautiful. Behind my school there is a small river. The water in it is quite clean. We can swim in it. We have no classes at weekends. Sometimes I play football or basketball with my classmates. Sometimes I stay at home and watch TV. Sometimes I go shopping with my father and mother. We all like China.

Please write to me soon!

Yours,

Jack

1.Jack is at a/an        school.

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

2.There are        students and        teachers at Jack's school.

A. 1,400; 104        B. 1,040; 104          C. 1,400; 140        D. 1,040; 140

3.Jack's teachers       .

A. teach him English very well                B. only teach him Chinese and English

C. don't like him at all             D. are quite good to him

4.Jack       his new classmates.

A. doesn't get on well with (相处得好)    B. doesn't like

C. makes good friends with                 D. can learn English from

5.Which of the following is true?

A. Jack goes to school every day.                

B. Jack doesn't have classes every day.

C. Jack has classes only from Monday to Friday.  

D. Jack has no classes only on Sundays.

Who wants to carry a bulky bag to school? No children. Nobody wants one shoulder to be lower than the other, and paining(疼痛) too. In India, most of us would look at the reduction(减少) of textbooks as a way out. But in a country like America, there are always more choices. A company called Goreader has created a “school bag” which is the size of a laptop computer, weighing about 2.5kg. The Goreader has a colour screen and can “hold” all the textbooks that a student may need, says a report in “The Asian Age” newspaper.

The company plans to work closely with the publishers of test books so that these books can be supplied on the Internet. All the students will have to download their textbooks. Making notes and marking important parts of a lesson can be done just as lots of students have done on their textbooks before.

At present, the plan is being tested out in a university. Richard Katzmann, the owner of the company is having his creation tested at Chicago’s DePaul University, where he studied. Does that mean it is goodbye to the newspaper, and the smell of the black ink?

1.What does the underlined word “bulky” in the first line mean?

A. light       B. small      C. big and heavy      D. old

2.What would Indians do to solve this problem?

A. They would reduce the textbooks.

B. They would tell the parents to help students.

C. They would tell the teachers to help students.

D. They would take students to school by bus.

3.The writer may think that Americans have a ______ way to solve the problem.

A. more stupid   B. worse    C. better      D. quicker

4.The Goreader may be a machine ________.

A. that can work as a teacher

B. that can be used as textbooks

C. that can cheat(欺骗) students.

D. that can hurt students

5. When the new machine is used, it is possible that ________.

A. students might study harder 

B. students might study at home

C. students might not need teachers 

D. students might study without paper textbooks