BEIJING--Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has Visited the "left-behind"(留守) children whose parents are working in cities before Children's Day.

    During a visit to northwest China's Shanansi Province, Wen visited the home of Yang Saike, a primary school boy in a village of Xingping City.

    Yang, whose parents ~were working in Fujian, thousands of kilometers away, was cared for by his grandparents. His parents fail to go home even once a year.

    The premier held Yang in his arms and looked through his exercise book praised him for his hard work.

     Wen talked with many children and asked them many questions about their schooling and 1ife.

     "You are se pretty;" Wen said to Liu Mengqi, a seven-year-old girl living with her grandmother. Liu's parents were also working in the city.

    "Have you been to school yet?" Wen asked two other girls.

    "We are going to the pre-school class,” said one.

    "Morn mad. dad at home?" Wen asked. The children shook their heads.

    "Children cannot see their parents very often, which is a new problem in the countryside. We should give them more care and love," said the premier.

    With fast economic(经济的) development, more people in the country chose to work in. cities and left their children with grandparents or relatives back home, said Wen.

    The premier asked local governments to do something to protect and care for such children at home and freeing(释放，使自由) their parents in cities from worries about their children.

1. Wen says a new problem in the country is that, “left-behind” children_______.

   A. seldom get care from the government

   B. seldom get together with their parents

   C. cannot do well in school like others

   D. cannot get any love from their parents

2. Children whose parents have moved to work in cities are probably looked after by_______.

A. their teachers             B. their neighbors   C. their grandparents     D. their friends

3. According to (根据) Wen, more country people go to work in cities because of______.

   A. great losses of farmland.            B. their hope for city life

   C. economic development                     D. their poor country life

4. Wen Jiabao requires local governments_______.

   A. to do more for "left-behind" children and their parents

   B. to let the parents see their

   C. to stop the local people from going to work in cities

   D. to build more schools for the " left-behind " children

5. The proper title (标题) for the passage is "wen: Give_______ more love."

   A. poor children       B. disabled children C. country children D. "left-behind" children

Today is Friday. Peter has six classes today. He goes to school at 7:30 a.m. At 8:00 a.m., he begins his first class. The first class is English. At 9:00 a.m., he has math. Peter likes math because it’s interesting. At 10:00 a.m. she has a biology class. Peter thinks it’s very boring. Then at 11:00 a.m., he has a history class. That’s his favorite subject. He can learn a lot about the past from history.

Peter has lunch at school at about 12:00. Then he has a short break. At 1:30 p.m., he has a music class. At 2:30 p.m., he has a P.E. class. Peter likes this afternoon, because music and P.E. are easy and interesting. School is over at 4:00 p.m. Peter is happy because he can go home and have a good time on Saturday and Sunday.

阅读短文内容，选择正确答案。

1.The second class is ________ on Friday morning.

A．Chinese           B．English            C．math             D．P.E.

2.Peter likes ________ best in all his subjects.

A．math             B．history            C．music            D．biology

3.The underlined (下画线) word "break" means _________.

A．rest              B．time              C．game             D．class

4.Peter likes this afternoon because _________.

A．he likes art and P.E. classes                B．he has a history class

C．he has no class                         D．the classes are easy and interesting

5.Which is true(正确的)?

A．Peter gets up at 7:30 in the morning.        B．Peter thinks math is difficult and boring.

C．Peter doesn't have lunch at home on weekdays. D．Peter is not happy on Friday afternoon.

 

You can’t see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes．Some of the things you see give off light of their own。The sun，the stars，a lighted lamp are the examples that can be seen by their own light．But most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own．They are just reflecting(反射)light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies．The moon，for example，doesn’t give off any light of its own．It is not 1uminous．You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of the sunlight reflects on the earth．So moonlight is only second—hand sunlight．
When you look at a book，it sends some of the light which fails on it to your eyes，and you see the book．If light could be kept out from where you’re so that there would be no light from the book to reflect．Then you couldn’t see the book even with your eyes wide open．Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you’re reading to your eyes is as short as if there were no time at time．Light reaches us from the moon，which is about 380，000 kilometres away，in only a little more than a second．
【小题1】You can see the book because________．

A．your eyes are close to it	B．it reflects some of the light
C．it has light of its own	D．it is big enough to be seen

【小题2】The Chinese meaning of the world“luminous”is close to_______．

A．闪光的

B．看不见的

C．发光的

D．明亮的

【小题3】________has light of its own．

A．The moon

B．The earth

C．The sun

D．The satellite of Dong Fong Hong

【小题4】Light travels about_________kilometers per second．

A．300，000

B．100，000

C．400，000

D．190，000

【小题5】Which of the following is TRUE?

A．All the things you can see give off light．

B．Light from the book is much faster than that from the moon．

C．The moment you open your eyes，the light from the book travels to your eyes．

D．Light travels so fast that there is no time for you to read．

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar（农历）, which is Wednesday this year, all Chinese celebrate one of their traditional festivals, the Dagon Boat Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival. Their celebrations include eating zongzi, rice wrapped in bamboo leaves in the shape of a pyramid, racing dragon boats and sticking mugwort leaves on their doors.  

In 2007, the central government decided to add the Dragon Boat Festival, together with two other traditional festivals - Tomb Sweeping Day (清明节) and Mid Autumn Festival - to the list of public holidays

According to tradition, our ancestors（长辈） believed the hot weather in midsummer might cause different kinds of diseases (疾病). So, to keep off diseases and drive out evil were the main purposes of the Dragon Boat Festival. Parents used colorful threads to make necklaces and bracelets （手镯） for children, gave them beautiful embroidered bags（荷包）, painted the Chinese character for "king" (wang) on their foreheads to drive away bad luck. The Dragon Boat Festival was also called "kids festival" in some places. Spending such happy hours with parents, young children began to understand the festival as well as the traditions and culture behind it. Repeating the customs year by year makes it possible for kids to learn the traditions, accept it and pass it on when they become adults.

1.How do people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

A．People celebrate this festival by eating eggs.

B．People celebrate this festival by eating zongzi, racing dragon boats.

C．People celebrate this festival by sending cards.

D．People celebrate this festival by singing and dancing.

2.What is the Chinese meaning of “mugwort leaves” in the second paragraph?

A．粽叶             B．红叶             C．艾叶             D．松叶

3.How many public holidays added by the central government in 2007?

A．2                B．3                C．4                D．only one

4.What is the main purpose of the Dragon Boat Festival according to tradition?

A．To keep off diseases and drive out evil and bad luck.

B．To spend happy time with parents.

C．To make necklaces and bracelets for children.

D．To have a long holiday with family members.

 

SPACE is a lonely place. Hundreds of thousands of kilometers from home, astronauts have a hard life. It stands to reason that, once in a while, they need to have a good cry. But this is a lot harder than it sounds.

We still know very little about space, and about living in zero gravity. In fact, we are discovering new things every time astronauts take to the skies (and beyond). As The Atlantic reported in January, crying is not all that simple in space. This is because when a person normally cries,  gravity makes their tears move downwards. But in a spacecraft, this is not the case. Here, there is no gravity, which is why we so often see pictures of astronauts floating around. This means that, strangely, when you cry your tears have nowhere to go. As a result, they just stick to your eyes.

In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel experienced this. “Tears,” as he said, “don’t fall off your eye… they just kind of stay there. ” This can be quite painful. In space, your eyes get very dry, and the added moisture is irritating (气人的). Sometimes, things get even weirder(更怪异的). The astronaut Ron Parise told The Atlantic that when tears get big enough, they “break free of the eye and float around”.

No one can be quite sure why we cry. Why should water in our eyes have anything to do with feeling sad? If you stop to think about it, crying is a very strange thing indeed. And now, thanks to the wonders of space, it just got even stranger.

1.The first paragraph mainly wants to tell us that       .

A．living in space is lonely

B．it’s easy to feel sad in space

C．it’s hard to cry in space

D．nobody wants to live in space

2.If astronauts cry in spacecraft, their tears will       .

A．move downwards                       B．move upwards

C．go out of the window                    D．stick to their eyes

3.Astronauts feel       if tears are always in their eyes.

A．sad              B．comfortable        C．happy            D．uncomfortable

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A．In space our eyes are very wet.

B．Tears will float around if they are big enough in space.

C．People know everything about living in zero gravity.

D．Gravity makes people’s tears move upwards in space.