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　　　 Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Nanjing Sunshine Secondary School.The table below is his mid?term self?assessment (自我评价).He draws faces to show his progress：

Read the table and find out how well Li Ping is doing.

(　　)1.Li Ping thinks he did best in ________ in Unit 1.

A.opposites B.using a dictionary

C.a report　　　 D.present perfect tense

(　　)2.What does Li Ping need to improve in Unit 1?

A.Present perfect tense. B.Using a dictionary.

C.A report. D.Opposites.

(　　)3.Which do you think Li Ping does well in?

A.Present perfect tense. B.Passive voice.

C.Linking words. D.Favourite educational computer game.

(　　)4.What is Li Ping NOT very good at in Unit 2?

A.Suffixes ‘ful’ and ‘less’. B.Past continuous tense.

C.Linking words. D.My best holiday.

(　　)5.From the table we know Li Ping is weak in ________ .

A.vocabulary B.main task

C.study skills/pronunciation　 D.grammar

It's the end of class. When the bell rings, students of Luohu Foreign Languages School in Shenzhen quickly take out their cell phones. They want to log on* to their micro blogs to check the interesting things that have happened in the last hour.

　　Since last year, the trend* of micro blogging has swept the country. Recent surveys shows that most students in middle schools have a micro blog and some even update* their blogs over five times per day.

　　"We learn many fresh and interesting things on micro blogs and they have become popular topics in class," said Andy Liang, 14. "If you do not know about them, you are out of the loop."

　　It is also a great place for students to let out stress. "My parents always ask me to study all the time, and encourage me before exams, but it really adds pressure," said Simon Zhang, 15. "When I share these feelings on my micro blog, I get many replies from friends in the same situation, which makes me feel better."

　　But parents are worried that micro blogging could be a waste of time. Some misleading messages may even cause danger to kids, they said.

　　Mr. Shen, a professor at the China Education Association, suggests parents not worry too much as long as kids are not crazy about micro blogging. Maybe it can become a window for parents to understand their children. "If parents can read their children's micro blogs, they'll know their thoughts, thus leading to better communication and solutions to problems," he said. He also gives some tips for kids.

　　---Don't micro blog for more than one hour a day.

　　---Never micro blog in class.

　　---Try to talk face to face with people from time to time.

　　---Be critical*. Don't trust all the messages on a micro blog.

1.The underlined part "out of the loop" in the passage probably means                 .

　　A. not popular    B. not excited    C. unhealthy        D. unlucky

2.Micro blog made Simon       when he shared his feelings and got replies on his micro biog.

　　A. feel sad       B. let out stress   C. add pressure      D. make friends

3.We can know from Mr. Shen that micro blogging can                  .

　　A. make kids crazy while logging on to it        

 B. bring a lot of misleading messages

　　C. become a window to understand young kids      

D.lead to worse communication

4.Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A. It's good for kids to micro blog for more than one hour a day.

　　B.Kids should trust all the messages on a micro blog because they are useful.

　　C.The trend of micro blogging has swept the country since five years ago.

　　D. Kids should try to talk face to face with people, not just micro blogging.

A

    Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the United States often spend many hours as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages (孤儿院) or homes for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems.

  Other young people volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up, or repair their houses, do their shopping or mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and help them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.

  Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, museums or other places of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls

  Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

(  ) 1. Where can you often find volunteers in the United States?

A. At a bus-stop.　　B. In a park.　　C. In a hospital.　　D. In a shop.

(  ) 2. How do volunteers usually help those who are sick or old?

A. They mow their lawns, do their shopping and clean up their house.

B. They cook, sew or wash their clothes.

C. They tell them stories and sing and dance for them.

D. They clean, wax and repair their cars.

(  ) 3. What is Big Brothers?

A. It’s the name of a club.　　           

B. It’s a home for children who have no brothers.

C. It’s the name of a film.               

D. It’s an organization for boys who no longer have fathers.

(  ) 4. Why so most of the boys’ and girls’ clubs use many high school and college students as volunteers?

A. Because they have a lot of free time.

B. Because they can still remember what they felt when they were younger.

C. Because they know how to do the work.

D. Because they like younger boys and girls.

(  ) 5. What do volunteers believe?

A. To make others happy, they have got to be unhappy.

B. The happiest people in the world are those who make themselves happy

C. the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others.

D. when they are happy, the others will be happy.                            

Years ago，if a teenager had some problems in his life，he might write them in his diary. Now he might get on the Internet and write them in his blog(博客). In many ways，a diary and a blog are almost the same. Then，what makes a blog different from a diary?

The biggest difference is that a blog is much more public than a diary. Anyone can read what you write in your blog. Usually，a teenager likes hiding his diary book and treats it as secret. If you are not satisfied with a friend and write something bad about him in your diary，he will never know it. However，if you do this on the Internet，that friend may read your blog and get angry. So we have to be careful of what we write.

A blog has good points，of course. People choose to write in blogs，they know that their friends will read what they write. If you feel sad one day and write in your diary，no one will know about it. If you write the same words in your blog，your friends may quickly writer back to comfort you and offer their help. Blogs help people know what their friends are doing.

Though it's a good way to write blogs about everday life，I still prefer my old diary.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

46. Now when a teenager has some problems in his life，he might ________.

A. talk to his friends　

B. keep them in his diary　

C. write them in his blog

47. ________ is NOT mentioned in the passage.

A. Chatting on QQ B. Getting on the Internet C. Writing blogs

48. The underlined word “comfort” means ________ in Chinese.

A. 责怪 B. 安慰 C. 嘲笑

49. From the passage we know that ________.

A. the writer thinks a blog is more helpful than a diary

B. the writer thinks a blog and a diary are the same

C. the writer likes a diary better than a blog

50. The passage mainly talks about ________.

A. the teenagers' problems in their lives 　　　　　　

B. the difference between a diary and a blog

C. the good points of writing blogs