These days, more and more young people wish to be more beautiful, So they turn to plastic surgery (整形

手术) for help. They spend thousands of yuan on these painful surgeries to fix (修整) their nose, to fix their eyes  or to be thinner.

In fact, most people are not happy about the way they look. Even the most beautiful actresses often wish they could fix something about their looks.So we should believe that we are as beautiful as others. A smile is beautiful on any face, being kind is much more beautiful than a pretty look.

    So, let's feel happy that we all have beautiful and healthy bodies that do not need surgeries! Today, I wish you to make a small change: believe yourself! smile and be kind to others. If you do these, you will be happy, beautiful, and popular everywhere you go.

1._______ are more and more interested in plastic surgeries.

A. Old people B. Young people  C. Men     D. Women

2.The writer says we should believe we are as ________ as others.

A.kind     B. good      C. beautiful     D. clever

3.How can you feel good according to the writer?

A. Believe yourself  B. Smile   C. Be kind    D. A,BandC

4.What does the underline word “change” means in the passage?

A.改变    B. 计划      C. 担心       D. 说明

5.which is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Young people spend a lot of money on plastic surgeries.

B. Actors never worry about their looks.

C. We only need to make an easy change to feel beautiful enough\

D. Being kind is more important than a good look

 

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【小题1】 The above reading is most probably __________.

A．an advertisement	B．a food report
C．a shopping list	D．a menu

【小题2】It’s clear that the Eatery __________.

A．can hold 150 people at most

B．only provides Chinese food

C．was set up in the year of 1980

D．doesn’t offer many choices

【小题3】At the loch Ness Eatery, visitors can ________

A．book comfortable room

B．have a picnic

C．cook for themselves

D．get a good relaxation

【小题4】The reading also tells us _________.

A．the prices of food and drinks

B．the address of the Eatery

C．the name of the manager

D．the way of getting in touch with the Eatery

【小题5】The Eatery provides almost everything to _________.

A．to serve people for a long time	B．meet the needs of different visitors
C．let people take away	D．help people learn about people

American people like to say ‘Thank you ’or say something kind when others help them．People of many countries do so，too．It is a very good habit．

You should say‘Thank you’when someone passes you the salt on the table，when someone walking ahead of you keeps the door open for you and when someone says you always do your work well or you have a nice thing or your city is very beautiful．‘Thank you’is used not only between friends，but also between parents and children，brothers and sisters．

‘Excuse me’is another short sentence they use．When you hear someone says‘Excuse me’behind you，you know that someone wants to walk past you without touching you．It’s not polite to break(打断)others when they are talking．If you want to speak to one of them。say‘Excuse me’first，and then begin talking．You should also do so when you begin to cough or make any noise before others．

Let’s learn to say‘Thank you’and‘Excuse me’．

1.You should say‘Thank you’when_______．

A．you say something kind to others

B．you help others

C．someone helps you

D．you need others to help you

2.From the passage we know‘Thank you’is_______．

A．used in the world

B．used more often than ‘Excuse me’

C．used only by Americans

D．used only between friends

3.You should say‘Excuse me’if you want to________．

A．cough	B．make some noise
C．go first	D．A，B and C

4.When you are going to ask someone to tell you the way，you should say‘_______’．

A．Thank you	B．That’s very kind of you
C．Excuse me	D．I'm sorry

5.This passage mainly tells us the way_________．

A．to be happy	B．to be polite
C．to help others	D．to learn from Americans

 

　Moreno, Stanley, and 23 other students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico. This was the last night in the hotel. It was 4 am, Moreno and Stanley came back from a party.

　　Just as Stanley went to sleep, he heard loud noise outside. From the balcony (阳台) of their fourth-floor room, Moreno and Stanley saw black smoke out of one window and heard people shouting.

　　Moreno ran out into the corridor and began knocking on doors and shouting, "Fire!" After that, he went upstairs in a hurry to tell other people. At the same time, Stanley was downstairs helping people get through the smoke-filled room. There he joined forces with Nalewanski, a 21-year-old boy who had a room on the second floor.

　　"Let's go," Nalewanski said. He and Stanley wet their shirts in the bathroom and put them around their mouths and noses so they could breathe. Then they ran up the stairs. On the fourth floor they found Moreno feeling terrible (Moreno had made it up to the eighth floor before turning back). But after making sure he could get back down on his own, they continued upstairs, knocking on the doors on every floor.

　　In the end, no one was seriously hurt. Moreno said, "There were hundreds of people in the hotel. It was our duty to help them."

1. 　　　 students from Westfield State College were on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico.

A．Twenty-three	B．Twenty-four
C．Twenty-five	D．Twenty-six

2. Which floor does Stanley live on?

A．The second floor.	B．The fourth floor.
C．The seventh floor.	D．The eighth floor.

3. Nalewanski and Stanley put their wet shirts around their mouths and noses in order to 　　　 .

A．make them cool

B．stop the smoke from going into lungs (肺)

C．let people find them

D．play a joke with other people

4. What is the correct order?

　　　a. Moreno told other people.

　　　b. No one was seriously hurt.

　　　c. Nalewanski joined them to save people.

　　　d. Stanley and Moreno saw the smoke.

A．d-b-c- a	B．d-a-c-b
C．a-d-c-b	D．c-d-b-a

5. From the fourth paragraph, we can know 　　　

A．the three boys are brave

B．Moreno died in the fire

C．the reason of the fire

D．Nalewanski called the police for help

 

Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their everyday life. For example, they can help people save much time, and they can help people work out many problems they can't do easily: Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.

    Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children.

    They hope computers can help them improve(提高) their studies in school. Yet many of the children use computers to play games, to watch video or to sing Karaoke instead of studying. So many teachers and parents complain that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked by parents in the boxes.

    In some other countries, even some scientists hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.

    Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves.

1.Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because _______.

A. our country asks us to learn it

B. it can help us a lot

C. we can use it to play games

D. it can help us to find jobs

2.What do many teachers and parents complain about?

A. Their students and children use computers to study.

B. Computers let them lost their jobs.

C. Computers make the students and children fall behind.

D. Computers bring people a lot of trouble,

3. In this passage we know computers _______.

A. also bring us trouble

B. bring us happiness only

C. are hated by people

D. are bad for people's health

4.Why do some scientists hate computers?

A. Because computers let people lost their jobs.

B. Because computers bring them trouble.

C. Because some sciestists don't know how to use computers.

D. Both A and B.

5.How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means _______.

A. computers are used by people

B. people can live well without computers

C. one must decide how to use computers

D. computers are strange machines