Students these days often have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends.      Some people think the worst thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a teenager from Washington, agrees. “Problems and worries are normal in life,” says Laura. “But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don’t talk to someone, we’ll certainly feel worse.”

Laura once lost her purse, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents about it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn’t have any money. She just kept thinking. “If I tell my parents, they’ll be angry!” But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new purse and asked her to be more careful. “I will always remember to share my problems in the future!” Laura says.

Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He feels the same way as Laura. “It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve (解决) them.” He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn’t need to be an expert (专家) like himself. Students often forget that their parents have more experience than them, and are always there to help them.

In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half. So you’re halfway to solving a problem if you talk to someone about it!

1.Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph One?

A. What can they do about this?

B. Where do the problems come from?

C. When did they have these problems?

D. Why do they have so many problems?

2.In Paragraph 2, the writer used the story of Laura to ______.

A. answer a question          B. give an example

C. introduce his friend         D. share his experience

3.According to the passage Robert Hunt might be ______.

A. Laura’s teacher

B. the writer of the passage

C. a person with a problem

D. an expert on students’ problem

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Few children are careful with their money.

B. Parents are more experienced than children

C. Talking to someone helps to solve problems.

D. Students often have a lot of worries at school

 

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Reporter：Can you introduce something about your latest class activity?

Monitor：Sure. The students from our class planted some lines of trees on March 12^th, 2008.

Reporter：How did you plant trees?

Monitor：First, the students were                   76              into groups of four. Next, each group of   students planted a tree. Then, they poured some water over the trees.

Reported：How do you    77      for the trees?

Monitor： We plan to come back and look after the trees           78              .

Reported：Sounds good. Could you tell me why you choose to do that?

Monitor：As you know, pollution has become one of the most serious    79    . We would like to try our best to improve our environment. 

Reporter：Well, it’s very meaningful. If everyone can do something to protect the environment         80         , our city will become much more beautiful.

 

When students and parents are asked to grade subjects according to their importance, the arts are usually at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is only viewed as entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（优先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is very important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it shows their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity（身份，特性）as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts can express the emotive（情感的）meaning of the same thing. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language through which we express our fears, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
【小题1】What can we learn from Paragraph 1?      

A．Students regard music as a way of entertainment.

B．Students disagree with their parents on education.

C．Students take music as an important subject.

D．Students prefer the arts to science.

【小题2】In Paragraph 2, the writer uses jazz as an example to____________.       

A．compare it with rock music

B．show music identifies a society

C．introduce American musical traditions

D．prove music influences people’s lifestyles

【小题3】According to the passage, the arts and science____________.      .

A．explain the world in different ways

B．explain different facts of the world

C．express people’s feelings in different ways

D．explain what it means to be human differently

【小题4】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Music education is worth more attention.

B．Music should be of top education priority.

C．Music is really a good communication tool.

D．Music education makes students more imaginative.

Hi, everybody!

Welcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!

Now let me introduce some of the new film books in our store to you.

Are you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.

Do you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French films: students and teachers, experts (专家) and fans, and so on.

Maybe you are Indian film fans and star fans. Then here is Encyclopedia (百科全书) of Indian Cinema. The book is a complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.

If you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British films.

In our bookstore, you can also find books about Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.

Well, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!

1.The speaker of the passage is most probably ________.

A．the writer of 25 New Takes                B．a tourist in the cinema bookstore

C．the manager of the cinema bookstore        D．a reader of Encvclopedia of Indian Cinema

2.How many Asian countries does the speaker refer to when he talks about the film books?

A．Two.             B．Three.            C．Four.             D．Nine.

3.Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Indian Cinema is second only to Hollywood.

B．The British Cinema Book includes a complete list of names of stars.

C．Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon is well received in the States.

D．The French Cinema Book covers over a century’s French films.

4.The purpose of the speaker is ________.

A．to make the readers into film makers

B．to let the writers stay in the cinema bookstore

C．to offer the tourists chances to meet the film stars

D．to satisfy(满足) the customers’ different kinds of tastes

 

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British Study Tours

Using the wonderful railway system （铁路） we offer an unusual holiday, sport and study program （计划）. Your hotel is a train: eat and sleep on the train and spend each day in a different part of Britain.

Summer Schools in France

We offer summer schools for students between the ages of 12 and 16. Live with a French family and choose from different activities including horse-riding, football, swimming and skiing.

Summer in Australia

We will arrange （安排）a program for your students. All our courses take place at the college in Sydney. Morning classes are held in Chinese; evening classes on Australian history are in English. We offer an exciting program of evening activities including music. Dance and theatre.

Holiday Programs in Germany

We offer morning classes in German at all levels （水平）from beginner upwards. In the afternoon you are free to join in our mountain walks or to go shopping in the nearby town. In the evening we organize （组织）a full program for fun. All ages welcome.

1. If you like traveling by train, you can go to __________.

A. Summer School in France          B. Summer in Australia

C. Holiday Programs in Germany      D. British Study Tours

2.If you want to make your English better, which programs will you choose?

A. Holiday Programs in Germany and British Study Tours.

B. Summer in Australia and Summer School in France.

C. British Study Tours and Summer in Australia.

D. Summer School in France and holiday Programs in Germany.

3. “Summer School in France” is different from the others in that you can ____.

A. go at any time of the year  B. stay with a local family  C. go at any age   D. do sports

4.This passage was written to _____.

A. ask people to have a holiday

B. attract （吸引）people to take part in their programs

C. introduce some beautiful places

D. ask people to study foreign languages