Do you know about Deng Yaping, Wang Nan, Ma Lin well? Yes, they are famous Chinese Ping-Pong players. Ping-Pong is a very popular sport game in China. People of different ages like playing it. Li Bo is my best friend, his favorite sport is Ping-Pong, But I like baseball best. He knows about many famous Ping-Pong players, but he doesn’t know about any famous baseball stars.

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the USA．Children like playing it very much. They often play baseball in fields or parks. Each team has nine players. The baseball season usually goes from April to September. During that time, there are many baseball matches on TV. Many people will watch them. At the end of the game season, the two top teams play against each other. The winner comes from the greatest team.

So many people love sports in different ways now. They play sports themselves, they watch the games on TV, or they may have sports collections. Sports are an important part of our life. Doing sports is good for our health. Playing ball games can also bring us great pleasure.

Do you like sport? Do you like playing sports? If not, come on, choose one to do from now on. You’ll be happier than before.

1．What sport is very popular in China?

A．Tennis.                                 B．Baseball.                        C．Ping-Pong.

2．Who likes baseball best?

A．Wang Nan.                            B．The writer.                     C．Ma Lin.

3．Where do the children often play baseball?

A．On playgrounds.                    B．In school.                      C．In fields or parks.

4．How many players are there in each baseball team?

A．Nine.                                    B．Two.                             C．Eleven.

5．Playing ball games can       .

A．give us pain                           B．make us happy               C．make us sad

Are you angry when your classmates sing loudly while you are trying to study or your best friend does not wait for you after school ?

If your answer is “Yes”, you need to learn how to control your feelings . Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends .

Gary Egeberg , an American high school teacher , has written My Feelings Are like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings . It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen . The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse . It can never make them better .

“Getting angry is not a natural way to act ,” the book says . It is just a bad habit , like smoking .

The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry .

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily . Here are the top three:

※Keep a record . Every time you get angry , write down why you are angry . Look at it later when you are calm and you will see you get angry too easily .

※Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry . This will teach you not to be angry .

※Do something different . When you get angry , walk away from the problem and go somewhere else . Try to laugh .

6. If you often get angry , _________________ .

A. you will do worse in your study　　　 B. you will have fewer friends

C. smoking can be a good help　　　　 D. nobody will wait for you after school

7. Gary Egeberg is someone who ___________ .

A. knows how to control your feeling　　 B. gets angry easily with his students

C. likes to keeping wild animals　　　　 D. teaches in a secondary school

8. According to Gary’s book , you can control your anger by _________ .

A. never talking with friends　　 B. singing loudly to calm down

C. staying away from others　　 D. reminding yourself not to get angry

9. From the first tip we can draw the conclusion(得出结论) that __________ .

A. Writing helps to control one’s feelings B. one’s anger is built upon one’s experience

C. people think better when they are calm　 D. a good habit helps to take away a bad one

10. From this passage we know that ___________ .

A. there are more than three tips in Gary’s book　

B. Gary never gets angry in his life

C. getting angry easily can’t be changed easily　　

D. school kids often get angry with each other

    A friend of mine likes drawing the horses．He draws the horse very well, but he always begins at the tail．Now it is the western rule to begin at the head of the horse．That is why I am surprised. It strikes(给某人以…印象)me that it cannot really make any difference whether the artist begins at the head or the tail or the belly(肚子)or the foot of the horse，if he really knows his business．And most great artists who really know their business do not follow other people’s rules．They make their own rules．Every one of them does his work in a special way．This means that he finds it easier to work in that way．

    Now the very same thing is true to literature(文学)．And the question” How shall I begin?” only means that you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail or somewhere else. That is you are not yet experienced enough to trust your own power．When you become more experienced you will never ask the question，and I think that you will often begin at the tail that is to say, you will write the end of the story before you have even thought of the beginning．

1．A friend of the writer’s draws the horse      ．

A．badly

B．in the way of the western rule

C．in the way of his own rule

D．all of the above

2．The writer is surprised because        ．

A．the artist begins to draw at the head of the horse

B．the artist begins to draw at the tail of the horse

C．the artist follows other people’s rules

D．the artist doesn't follow other people’s rules

3．You are not yet experienced because

A．you don’t know where to begin

B．you want to begin at the head instead of beginning at the tail

C．you always ask questions

D．you don’t trust your own power

4．When you become more experienced you will     

A．ask many questions

B．often beginning at tail

C．write the beginning of the story

D．ask others to help

5．Which is the best title for the passage?

A．How to draw a horse

B．How to write a story

C．How to make your own rules

D．Trust your own power．