It’s cool, it’s hot, and everyone is doing it. People talk about it often, and friends tell other friends how good they look. Sound like a fashion? In fact, it’s another trend (流行趋势): “blog”. What’s a blog? A blog is a personal online diary. The word “blogger” means a person who writes diaries online.
Many bloggers are teenagers who log (进入) onto websites to discuss anything in their lives. Many of today’s teenagers are not afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives. Teenagers complain about parents and homework. They share diaries, post songs from the latest bands (乐队) and show pictures of theirs. They write their own poems, say something about their girlfriends or boyfriends and complain to each other or offer support. But mostly they just write down what they do every day.
However, many parents are worried about these young bloggers. Parents see the kids talking about how they got drunk last weekend and how they don’t like studying. They are using language that is surprising to their parents. Besides hearing from their friends, teen bloggers also get messages from strangers. Most of the time, it’s older men asking to meet teenage girls. “These strange men are dangerous for my kids. They sometimes teach my kids bad words,” said Cara Cabral, a mother of two.
Many teenagers and young adults know it’s not safe to use blogs on the Internet. They know they are putting information about themselves in a place they can be seen by anyone. But teenagers are unwilling to give up these new communication tools that have become a way of life for many of them.
【小题1】The word “it” means ________ in the sentence “People talk about it”.

A．the Internet

B．the blog

C．the website

D．talking online

【小题2】Parents think it’s dangerous for their kids to use blogs because _______.

A．their kids use a surprising language

B．their kids talk about how they don’t like studying

C．teen bloggers get messages from strangers

D．their kids talk about their girlfriends or boyfriends

【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true according to (依据) the passage?  

A．It’s easy for teenagers to give up blogging.

B．Many teenagers know it’s not safe to use the blog on the Internet.

C．A blogger’s information about himself can be seen by anyone on the Internet.

D．Most of today’s teenagers aren’t afraid to openly discuss everything in their lives.

---Can you say something about Wenchuan earthquake (汶川地震)?

---___________ people lost their lives in it.

A．Thousand

B．Thousands of

C．Three thousands

D．Three thousands of

 

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(忠诚)”. 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(牡丹) but others liked the plum blossom(梅花). 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 after 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.
【小题1】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

【小题2】People usually choose their own “national flower” according to (根据) the flower’s ______.

A．smell

B．shape

C．color

D．meaning

【小题3】The Chinese national flower has not been decided yet, because ______.

A．no flower can show China’s spirit

B．China hasn’t talked to choose the national flower

C．nobody agrees to choose the national flower

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

【小题4】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

【小题5】Sand drying is everything here in the following but ______.

A．easy

B．clean

C．old

D．cheap

1人人都有朋友 初中三年同学之间结下深厚的友谊。假设你叫张华，你的笔友李敏在下面这封信中介绍了他的学友，请你写一封70 词左右的回信，说说你好友的基本情况和兴趣爱好。

注意：1、回信的开头和结尾已给出.但不计入总词数：

      2、信中请勿使用朋友的真实校名和姓名

Dear Zhang Hua.

How are you? In this letter I’d like to say something about my best friend.

My best friend is Gao Jun. He is fifteen. He is tall with short hair. We are in the same class.

Gao Jun is smart and friendly in class, he listens to the teachers carefully At home, he often helps his mother with housework He does well in all his lessons. And he is always ready to help others. So, everyone in our class likes him

Gao Jun seems to have a special interest in writing. He wants to be a writer in the future.

Both of us like playing basketball .We usually play it after class. We feel happy when we are together. I think we will be good friends forever.

What about your best friend? Can you tell me something about him( her)?

                                                     Yours.

                                                      Li Min.

Dear Li Min.

Thank you for telling me so much about your best friend Gao Jun.

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

                                                                 Yours.

                                                        Zhang Hua

 

人人都有朋友 初中三年同学之间结下深厚的友谊。假设你叫张华，你的笔友李敏在下面这封信中介绍了他的学友，请你写一封70 词左右的回信，说说你好友的基本情况和兴趣爱好。

注意：1、回信的开头和结尾已给出.但不计入总词教：

      2、信中请勿使用朋友的真实校名和姓名

Dear Zhang Hua.

    How are you? In this letter I’d like to say something about my best friend.

    My best friend is Gao Jun. He is fifteen. He is tall with short hair. We are in the same class.

    Gao Jun is smart and friendly in class, he listens to the teachers carefully At home, he often helps his mother with housework He does well in all his lessons. And he is always ready to help others. So, everyone in our class likes him

    Gao Jun seems to have a special interest in writing. He wants to be a writer in the future.

    Both of us like playing basketball .We usually play it after class. We feel happy when we are together. I think we will be good friends forever.

    What about your best friend? Can you tell me something about him( her)?

                                                     Yours.

                                                      Li Min.

Dear Li Min.

Thank you for telling me so much about your best friend Gao Jun.

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

                                                                 Yours.

                                                        Zhang Hua