39.(　　 ) Why can’t the students break the school rules?

A. School should be in good order.

B. If they students break the school rules, they may become bad.

C. The teachers want the students to grow healthily.

D. All the above.

38.(　　 ) Which of the following may be NOT a school rule?

A. Students can’t wear necklaces (项链).　 B. School girls can’t dye their hair.

C. School boys can’t wear long hair.　 D. Women teachers can’t dye their hair.

37.(　　 )What does the word “dye” probably mean?

　　　　 A. 死　　　　　 B.染　　　　 C. 剪　　　　　 D.扎　　

36.(　　 ) What is the passage mainly about?

A. Schoolboys and Schoolgirls.　　　　　 B. School rules.

C. Students and famous stars.　　　　　 D. Hairstyle and clothes.

35．(　　 )Sand drying is everything here in the following but 　　　　　.

A．easy　　　　 B．clean　　　　　　 C．old　　　　 D．cheap

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A middle school student was forced to have his long hair cut off in a middle school in Foshan City, Guangdong Province. It was being talked a lot among teachers and students in Foshan city.

All schools have their own rules. In most schools, boy students are not allowed to wear long hair while girls are not allowed to dye their hair. And most school rules say that students should wear their school uniforms at school. No students can disobey these rules so that students can grow healthily at school.

Most students are for these rules. But some students disagree them strongly. They think that boy students wear long hair doesn’t mean that they are not good students. Teenagers want to show of their own personality. They like fashion. They admire famous stars, even the stars’ hairstyle and clothes.

A girl student thinks that she looks much more beautiful when she wears brown hair. So she had her dark hair dyed brown one day. When she went back to school the next day, the teacher of her class got very angry with her. When she was asked why she had her hair dyed, she just answered, “I like it.” She says that she works hard at her lessons and does well in every subject. She just doesn’t know why the teacher doesn’t allow her to dye her hair while women teachers can dye their long hair. Some boys think that their stars often wear long hair, so they think that they will look cool too if they wear long hair and wear the hairstyle like their favorite stars.

It is not wrong for teenagers to admire stars, wear their favorite clothes or hairstyle. However, a school has its own rules for all the students to follow so that the school can be in good order. Students should not break the rules at school. But if they are outside school, they have their right to wear what they like.

34．(　　 )You’d better keep your flowers for a long time, because　　　　　 .

A．the flowers are easy to dry 　　　

B．the farmer will also ask you to pay

C．the flowers are expensive to buy　

D．the shopkeeper has made them more beautiful

33．( 　　)The Chinese national flower has not been decided yet, because　　　 　.

A．no flower can show China’s spirit　

B．China hasn’t talked about choosing one

C．nobody agrees to choose the national flower

D．people can’t agree to choose the same flower

32．(　　 )People usually choose their own “national flower” according to(根据)the flower’s 　　　.

A．smell　　　　 B．shape　　　　 C．color 　　　　D．meaning

31.(　　 )The underlined words “national flowers” most probably means 　　　.

A．the flowers of the country　　　 B．the flowers of the season

C．the most beautiful flowers　　　 D．the strongest flowers

30.(　　 )At the end of the story the result is _______.

A. untrue　　　　 B. sad　　　 C. not clear D. enjoyable

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Almost all people like flowers. Some people like flowers because of their smells, shapes, colors and so on. Others like flowers because they think different flowers mean different things. Flowers have their own language. For example, red roses mean “love” and sunflowers mean “loyalty”. So people in more than 100 countries have chosen their own national flowers which say something about their countries’ spirit. In 1994, China talked about choosing a national flower. Some people liked the peony but others liked the plum blossom. They couldn’t agree with each other. So it has not been decided yet.

People like to buy different flowers in different seasons. Where do all the beautiful flowers in shops come from? They may come from far away, so their price is higher.

a. Farmers grow flowers in their fields.

b. Planes or trains or buses take the flowers to different places.

c. Flower shopkeepers buy flowers from the flower markets. They look at the flowers and throw away the broken or bad ones. They cut the flowers to make them more beautiful.

d. You go to buy the flowers in the shops. When you buy a flower, you’re paying lots of people: the farmer, the driver of the plane or train or bus. The seller in the flower market and the flower shopkeeper.

So you’d better keep your flowers from far away for a long time. But how? Why not dry them? It’s easy! Sand drying is a way. Dry, clean sand is one of the oldest things for drying flowers. And it’s one of the cheapest.

·Fill a box half-way with sand.

·Put the flowers on top of the sand.

·Put the box in a warm, dry place.

·Leave the flowers there for one to three weeks.

·Take them out and they will be dry.