I live with my grandmother in a Beijing yard house. One day last year, I was surprised to see a big foreigner coming out of the house next door to ours. He was very tall with short brown hair and a pair of glasses.

The first time I saw him, I was too shy to speak to him. “My English is too poor!” I thought. My grandmother told me that he had just moved into our yard. “I don’t like it!” she said. “Foreigners aren’t like us. Maybe he’ll play loud music and parties every night! I’m sure he’s going to cause trouble.”

Several days later, I met the foreigner as I was walking home after work. “Hello!” he said (in Chinese！). “My name’s Tony. I’ve just moved into the house next door to yours.” While I was wondering what to say, he continued, “There’s a nice bar down the road. Why don’t you and your family come and have dinner with me?” “Bars are bad places,” said my grandmother when I told her, but we decided to go.

The bar was not at all what I had expected. It was in a beautiful little yard house, with several large bookshelves and pictures of Tibet on the walls. Several Chinese people and foreigners were sitting drinking or reading books. I noticed that some of the foreigners were speaking Chinese in a low voice to each other! “Oh, what a civilized place!” my grandmother exclaimed.

The bar served special “hutong pizzas”. As we ate, Tony told us about himself-he is an English expert in environment. He always likes to be quiet. My grandmother said to me, “He really seems like a very nice young man.”

1.When the writer first saw the foreigners, she______.

2.From the sentence “Bar are bad places”, we can know that the grandmother______.

3.What’s the meaning of the word “civilized” in the passage?

4.Which of the following sentence is Not true?

5.The best title for this story is______.

I’ll remember the first carnival（狂欢节）. 【小题1】. My parents came from Jamaica and they helped to start carnival. We had very little money, but we made costumers from old bits of material and feathers, and colourful masks. We decorated old lorries, so that we could ride on them through the streets. It took us six months to get ready.
But on the big day, all our hard work had been worth it. People of all ages, from babies to grandparents, black and white, danced together in the street. 【小题2】. The music was played on anything made of metal: it was very noisy.
There were people watching from the windows of every house. We ate all our favourite Jamaican food, washed down with beer.【小题3】– but carnival helps you forget the weather!
When the carnival got too big, those old streets became too narrow for such big crowds（人群）. Some people said they felt frightened by the large crowds and the noise. We were worried that carnival would be banned（禁止）. Then we found an answer – everything was moved to a wider and safer street. 【小题4】.

When someone says, “Well, I guess I’ll have to face the music”, it doesn’t mean that he is going to hear a singer. It is something far less happy, as you are called in by your leader to explain why you did this and did that or why you did not do this or that.
At some time or another, every one of us has to “face the music”, especially as children. We can all remember father’s angry words “I want to talk to you.” And only because we did not listen to him. What a bad thing it was!
In the middle or at the end of every term, we students have to “face the music”. The result of the exam will decide whether we will face the music or not. If you got a “D” in the exam, that means parents’ cold faces and the contempt(轻视) of the classmates.
“To face the music” is well-known to every American, young or old. It is at least 100 years old. It really means that you have to do something, no matter how terrible the whole thing might be, because you have no choice.
【小题1】“To face the music” means “to         ”.

缺词填空（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

Most children today go to a school where each class has its o 1.  room. It was d 2.  many years ago. Most children w  3. to a one-room schoolhouse. In a one-room schoolhouse all the children learned in one room from the s  4.  teacher. A fourth grader might have sat next to a n  5.  grader. Possibly you have seen a one-room schoolhouse o  6.  a television program.

    There w  7.  a good reason for many of the one-room schoolhouse. They were often in the countryside, where there were o 8. ten to twenty children going to school. Then one room was big e  9. for everyone! Today there are many m  10.  children going to school. The one-room schoolhouse has just about disappeared.

Spider-Man 3 (《蜘蛛侠3》)got $29.15 million on the very first day in 16 overseas markets and beat the first two Spider-Man movies.

“The movie had the best opening day ever in some countries on Tuesday, including France, Italy and South Korea.” a man from Sony Pictures said.

“Spider-Man 3 will open during the next few days in many other countries, including the United States on Friday. We certainly hope the same thing will happen in North America,” said Jeff Blake, Sony vice chairman, on Wednesday. 

2002’s Spider-Man opened with $114.8 million in its first weekend, a debut record that stood until Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest broke it last year with $135.6 million a weekend.

Spider-Man 2 opened on a Wednesday before the fourth weekend of July in 2004, and set a record of $180.1 million in its first six days.

In France, Spider-Man 3 took in $6.8 million on the opening day, more than the first days for Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 combined.

It earned $4.6 million in Germany, $4 million in Italy, $3.7 million in Japan, $3.4 million in South Korea, $1.1 million in the Philippines and $1 million each in Hong Kong and Thailand.

1.Spider-Man 3 ____________when it was shown on the first day.

A．was not very popular

B．was enjoyed by the people in Canada

C．earned more money than Spider-man 2

D．got $29.15 million in America

2.Jeff Blake hopes that ________.

A．more and more people can see the movie

B．Spider-man 3 will be enjoyed by children

C．Spider-man 3 will make as much money as the first two movies

D．Spider-man 3 will be as popular in North America as it was in other places

3.In which country did Spider-man 3 earn the most money?

A．Germany.                             B．Italy.

C．South Korea.                           D．America.

4.The main idea of the passage is that ______.

A．people expect to see Spider-Man 4 soon

B．Spider-man 3 is more popular in South Korea than in Germany

C．Spider-man 3 cost lots of money

D．Spider-man 3 is very popular all over the world

5.You would probably read this passage from ______.

A．a talk show                            B．a movie magazine

C．an ad                                 D．a notice