Zhang Li lies in bed sadly. The 24-year-old young man lost his right leg because of a blood disease. The doctor said that his 10 years of smoking had caused the disease. “I began to smoke when I was in Junior 3. It made me feel like a man and I thought it looked cool. Now I know I was really wrong.” said Zhang.

It is a mistake many teenagers make. It is said that about 40 million of the country’s young people between 13 and 18 have tried smoking. Nearly 68 percent of teenager smokers smoked their first one before the age of 13. Those who live in big cities started even earlier. Many teenagers see people smoking in the movies. But in real life, stars like Jackie Chan think smoking is a bad thing. In fact, smoking is one of the top killers in China. Each year one million people die from smoking-related(与吸烟有关的)diseases. Smoking causes illnesses like lung cancer and heart disease.

Doctors say that the younger a person starts smoking, the worse it will be. If a person starts smoking as a teenager, he or she may live twenty-two years less than non-smokers.

1.What kind of disease did smoking cause for Zhang Li?

A. Lung cancer. B. Blood disease.   C. Heart disease.

2.From the passage, we know Zhang Li started to smoke when he was      years old.

A. 13   B. 14   C. 18

3.The city’s young people .

A. knew that smoking was a bad thing

B. tried smoking when they were in Junior 3

C. started smoking earlier than those in the country

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Zhang Li had a disease and lost his left leg.

B. Smoking may cause many kinds of diseases.

C. Smoking may make you have a shorter life.

5.What does the underlined word “non-smokers ” mean in English?

A. People who like smoking.

B. People who smoke.

C. People who don’t smoke.

Bill and Simon were good friends. One summer they were on (1) h   ____    . They wanted to sail around the Caribbean Sea in their boat for two weeks.
During their trip, they saw many whales. Bill and Simon were very (2) e__________ because they had wanted to see them very much. Unluckily, (3) w   __   ___  they were watching them, the whales began to hit the side of the boat.
Suddenly, (4) w ______       started coming in, and they realized that they were in trouble. They (5) q_ _____       jumped into the lifeboat before the sank(沉没), and watched it disappear under the sea.
Luckily, they had enough food and water for about twenty (6) d     __ ___. They also had a fishing line and a machine which could change sea water () i             
drinking water. These two things helped them to survive(存活) during their terrible experience.
For the next fifty days they caught about ten fish a day and (8) a  _____      them. They saw about twenty ships, but although they waved and shouted when the ships were passing, (9) n _________       saw them. They were becoming weaker and weaker. Then, just as they were beginning to (10) l _______________  hope, a fishing boat saved them.  

Zhang Li lies in bed sadly. The 24-year-old young man lost his right leg because of a blood disease. The doctor said that his 10 years of smoking had caused the disease. “I began to smoke when I was in Junior 3. It made me feel like a man and I thought it looked cool. Now I know I was really wrong.” said Zhang.

It is a mistake many teenagers make. It is said that about 40 million of the country’s young people between 13 and 18 have tried smoking. Nearly 68 percent of teenager smokers smoked their first one before the age of 13. Those who live in big cities started even earlier. Many teenagers see people smoking in the movies. But in real life, stars like Jackie Chan think smoking is a bad thing. In fact, smoking is one of the top killers in China. Each year one million people die from smoking-related(与吸烟有关的)diseases. Smoking causes illnesses like lung cancer and heart disease.

Doctors say that the younger a person starts smoking, the worse it will be. If a person starts smoking as a teenager, he or she may live twenty-two years less than non-smokers.

1.What kind of disease did smoking cause for Zhang Li?

   A. Lung cancer.          B. Blood disease.           C. Heart disease.

2.From the passage, we know Zhang Li started to smoke when he was      years old.

   A. 13                    B. 14                       C. 18

3. The city’s young people          .

   A. knew that smoking was a bad thing

   B. tried smoking when they were in Junior 3

   C. started smoking earlier than those in the country

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

   A. Zhang Li had a disease and lost his left leg.

   B. Smoking may cause many kinds of diseases.

   C. Smoking may make you have a shorter life.

5. What does the underlined word “non-smokers ” mean in English?

   A. People who like smoking.

   B. People who smoke.

    C. People who don’t smoke.

Most students think my reasons for this rule include negative experiences in the past when students made wrong use of technology. There’s a bit of truth to that. I’ve seldom had students make wrong use of technology in my classes; however, I have been e-mailed by students while they were in other teachers’ classrooms.

Some students think that I am anti-technology. There’s no truth in that at all. As I noted above, I love technology and try to keep up with it.

The real reason why I ask students to leave technology at the door is I think there are very few places in which we can have deep conversations. Interruptions (中断) by technology often break students’ thoughts and make them depend too much on outside information for ideas. I want students to dig deep in themselves for ideas. I want them to push each other to think differently and to make connections between the course material and the class discussion.

I have been teaching my history class in this way for many years and the evaluations (评价) show student satisfaction with the environment that I create. Students realize with deep conversation and difficult tasks, they learn at a deeper level – a level that helps them keep the course material beyond the classroom.

I am not saying that I won’t ever change my mind about technology use in my history class, but until I hear a really good reason for the change, I will continue my plan. A few hours of technology-free dialogue is just too sweet to give up.

1.The writer’s rule for his History Matters class is ____.

A. discussing historical ideas deeply         

B. studying and discussing the materials

C. leaving technology out of the classroom  

D. making right use of technology in class

2.The word “negative” in Paragraph 3 means ____.

A. similar            B. unforgettable         C. special         D. unpleasant

3.What can we know from the passage?

A. Students make right use of technology in other teachers’ classes.

B. The classroom is one of the good places to have deep conversations.

C. The writer encourages students to agree with others after discussion.

D. Students are unhappy with the writer’s way of teaching history.

4.The writer wants to tell us that ____.

A. technology has different influences in different classes in college

B. technology makes it difficult to have true communication in class

C. history classes can help students to develop their deep thinking

D. it is time for him to give up his teaching method in history class