4. How do the hot line advisers work?

A.　 They do what the calls tell them to do

B.　　 They listen to the callers and take their advice

C.　　 They give the callers advice.

D.　 They go to the callers’ houses to help them.

C

“I don’t like my parents. They always tell me I should do this, and should not do that. It sometimes makes me angry,” said Li Ping, a middle school student in Hunan. Do you have the same problem? Perhaps your parents had the same problem when they were your age long ago. Why does it seem that some parents are not so friendly in their children’s eyes?

One of the biggest things is when someone becomes a parent, he/she likes worrying things. They worry about everything about you, from the time you were born. They do a lot for you, though something would make you angry, because they care about you and worry about you. They worry about your choice of friends, the food you eat, your work at school, how much sleep you get, etc. All these things are part of your life. They want you to grow up healthily and happily.

So how can you make things easier on yourself? It’s easier than you think. Just make sure your parents know what you’re doing. Get them to know your friends. Phone if you stay somewhere else so that your parents don’t call every hospital in the phone book looking for your body. Say sorry to them when you make mistakes. Take responsibility(责任)for what you have done. Talk about your ideas with them. They may talk about theirs with you.

Most of all, try to think about why your parents do this or do that. They are still practicing being parents and need help you can give them. Someday, when you become a parent, they may be able to help you know how to get on with your children.

3. The advisers working at hot lines_____

A.　 are not all paid

B.　　 are all volunteers

C.　　 all have years of education and experience

D.　 have all been trained for a short time

2. When people call the hot line advisers, they_____

A.　 often give their names and telephone numbers

B.　　 generally have to pay for the long distance calls

C.　　 usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice

D.　 always try to get in touch with the volunteer advisers

1. A hot line is a telephone line_____

A.　 that is hot

B.　　 through which people get advice

C.　　 whose number no one knows

D.　 through which callers take a short class

4. In the end, the poor man found it _____to sleep in the hotel.

A. sorry　　 B. nice　　 C. sad　　　 D. terrible

B

In the past, when people had problems, they went to their families or friends to get advice. Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes and telephone hot lines, too. A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers. Most hot lines are completely anonymous-callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are usually free, too. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls-even if the calls are long distance(距离). At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers(志愿者). Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-job people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve(解决)their problems.

3. The poor man moved out of the hotel because_______

A. he didn’t want to live in such a fine room

B. he didn’t like the rich man

C. he couldn’t pay for the room

D. he couldn’t get any sleep at all there

2. Every morning, the poor man sat on the bench and _____

A. waited for the rich man　　　 B. looked at the rich man’s hotel

C. looked at the rich man’s car　　 D. enjoyed the clean air

1. The poor man lived in_____ before he met the rich man.

A. the hotel　　 B. his home　　 C. the park　　 D. the car

15. A. if　　　　　　　　 B. when 　　　　　　　　　　 C. that　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. what

Reading

A

Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench(长凳). The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning.” “Sir,” said the poor man, “I am a failure(失败者). I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel. ” The rich man said, “That is not so hard. Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month. ”

A few days later, the rich man went by the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “you see, when I am down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I’m up there, in that big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all. ”

14. A. friends　　　　 B. classmates　　　　　　　 C. workers　　　　　　　　　　 D. daughters