There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a foreign language. Many millions of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different answers. Have you ever noticed ads(广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “Learn English in six weeks, or give your money back…” “Easy and funny…” “Our records and tapes help you master English in a month”. Of course, it never happened quite like that.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.

So it is hard to say that learning English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts and takes much time. Good teachers, record, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be helpful, but they cannot do the student’s work for him.

1.How many languages are very important in the world?

2.If we want to learn English well, what shall we do?

3.How does the writer like the ads in the newspapers or magazines?

4.Which language is easy to learn?

5.Which countries use English as the mother tongue?

1. If Jim goes to Disneyland Paris, he can't ___________.

A. see films                                                B. play golf

C. live in a Disney hotel                 D. go boating on the lake

2.There will be ___________lands in Hong Kong Disneyland in 2015.

A. six                                      B. seven

C. eight                                            D. four

3.We can know the ___________about the two parks according to the passsage.

a. telephone numbers                            b. websites

c. addresses                                  d. ticket price

A. a & b                                                                       B. a & d

C. a & c                                                              D. c & d    

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Tokyo Disney has two separate parks.

B. All the Disney parks have two separate parks.

C. Disneyland Paris is the best one in the world.

D. Hong Kong Disneyland has five different lands nowadays.

5.The writer wrote the passage to ___________.

A. tell us the best time to visit Disneyland

B. tell us Hong Kong Disneyland is better than anyone else

C. ask us to visit the Disneyland

D. introduce these two Disneylands

Always forgetting your long passwords(密码)? Worried about being hacked(被攻击)?All these worries will soon become history. Scientists have found that upper-casing(大写)your password can help you reduce the chance being hacked.

Usually passwords are six letters or more.However,50 percent of people choose a common word or simple key combination for their password. The most used passwords are 123456, abcdef and abc123. In fact, if your passwords are in lower-case(小写),it will be easily hacked by a hacker. According to a study, it only takes a hacker ten minutes to hack a six-letter password which is in lower-case, but if you make the letter in upper-case, it can take up to ten hours. So if you want to make your account much safer, you should make your password upper-case. Of course, you can also add numbers or symbols to your password. Most of the time a hacker’s computer has to work for 18 days to break a password, but if you choose a nine-letter password that includes numbers and symbols, it can take a hacher’s  computer 44,530 years to break it.

1.Scientists have found that   your password is much safer for  

your account.

2.According to the passage,______is not one of the most used

passwords.

3.It takes a hacker___to hack a six-letter password which is in

lower—case.

4.The Chinese meaning of the underlined word is       

A.数字     B.符号      C.色彩       调料

5.What is the main idea of the passage?

Jack ___1___in Canada. His father___2___a big shop and his mother is a teacher. He is six years old and ___3___to go to school this year. It’s ___4___far from their home, and his father drives a car to take him to school every day. So he is never late___5___ class and his teachers like him very much. .
It’s Monday today. Miss White is teaching them to count numbers from one ___6___ten. Jack studies very hard. Soon he can count them. Miss White is happy and asks “How ___7___ people are there in your family, Jack?”
Jack___8___ up and says “Two, Miss White.”
“Who are ___9___?”
“My father and my mother.”  Says Jack.
“Oh?” Miss White says “There are three people in your family, not two.”
“But now I’m not at home. I’m at ___10___, you know!”
【小题1】A live      B. lives       C. is live      D. living

It’s a long-awaited day for China. The navy now has its first aircraft carrier(航空母舰), Liaoning.
It’s a unique experience to get to know the life in the carrier. The carrier is just like a small city on the sea. It has all the functions for daily life. There are 4 words to sum up its characters: big, small, much and high. The carrier Liaoning is such a huge one that the total length of the whole corridor（过道）could reach over 20 kilometers. But the living space for the sailors（水手）is quite small. That’s because the carrier is designed for researching purposes, rather than comfortable living. Over 1,000 sailors, both men and women, are living onboard. They are arranged among over 3,000 tiny rooms below the deck. For visitors, it’s so easy to get lost. So the first thing the new sailors have to learn is their way around. The number of female sailors is much less than that of the males, taking about 5 percent of the total. But they play a key role in carrying out some special missions.
Also, you will be surprised by the high level of education of today’s sailors. The captain said that over 90 percent of the sailors are college graduates. Six hold Doctor’s Degrees and 45 have a Master’s. The whole team is young but vigorous（朝气蓬勃的）. The complex work on the carrier requires high management abilities for the commanders onboard(在船上).
【小题1】Why do we visitors get lost easily inside the carrier?