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 It is the afternoon of the Mid-autumn Day. All Yangyang’s friends from London are in his home. They are going to have a dinner party.

Yangyang is showing them some photos in the sitting room. His parent’s Mr and Mrs Zhang are cooking in the kitchen. His sister is helping them.

Dinner begins at 6:30. All the young people are sitting at the table. Dishes are coming one after another. They all smell (闻起来) wonderful and taste delicious. Everybody enjoys the meal except (除了) Helen. She can not use her chopsticks. She tries again and again and makes the others laugh（笑）. At last she has to use a spoon（勺子）.

Near the end (结束) of the dinner, Yangyang’s parents come and sit between Jack and May. They are happy to be with these young people.

         After the dinner, Yangyang’s father drives the children to the station. They are going to take the night train to Shanghai, for a short visit.

(    )  1.All of Yangyang’s friend’s come from ___________.

A. England    B. America    C. Australia    D. Canada

(    )  2.The Chinese meaning of “chopsticks” is __________.

A.叉子       B盘子        C 筷子       D 铲子

     (    )  3.The Chinese meaning of “enjoy” is _________

             A 观赏      B 品尝        C 狼吞虎咽   D细嚼慢咽

     (    )  4.The children laugh because ___________.

            A. the food is very delicious.

            B. they are happy with Yangyang

            C. Mr and Mrs Zhang are very nice to them

            D. Helen can not use her chopsticks.

     (    )  5.The children are going to the train station ______

            A. on foot     B. by bus    C. by taxi  D. in Mr Zhang’s car

                                B

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

   You should say “Thank you” when someong passes you the salt on the table, when someone walking ahead of you keeps the door open for you, when someone says you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful. “Thankyou” 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 say 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. all of the above

(    )  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

Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入学注册）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.

Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.

Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.

In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.

Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”

1.The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.

A. show the problems schools are faced with today

B. prove that a school without high enrollment can do well

C. express the importance of computers in modern education

D. tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance

2.According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.

A. enjoy e-mail service in the near future

B. make money by selling ads on websites

C. all have their own laptops within nine years

D. become more interested in their studies with laptops

3.The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.

A. plans         B. projects       C. problems      D. products

4.From the passage we learn that ______.

A. a school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program

B. the laptop program also has a good influence on parents

C. students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled

D. the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders

Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入学注册）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
【小题1】The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.