I am 15. Now I’m studying English in London. My dream is to invent a language machine that can help me understand as many languages as possible. Marie, France May 15, 2011	I am 13. I dream of going to a top university after I graduate. I want to be a reporter in the future.] Michiko, Japan June 11, 2011
	I am a 12-year-old girl. I like traveling very much. How I wish to visit Egypt some day! Masha, Russia April 15, 2011
I am a 16-year-old in Shanghai. The Jinghu High-speed Railway has been built. I’ll be able to reach Beijing by train in about 5 hour. My dream is to go to Beijing for a visit after I graduate next year. Wang Min, China May 20, 2011	I am 14 year old. I dream of inventing a machine that can send things or people from one place to another in a machine. Andrew the USA June 5, 2011

【小题1】 What is Michiko’s dream?

A．Visiting Egypt.

B．Going to a top university.

C．Inviting a language machine.

D．Going from one place to another in a minute.

【小题2】How will Wang Min be when she graduates?

A．Fourteen

B．Fifteen

C．Sixteen

D．Seventeen.

【小题3】Which sentence is RIGHT according to the passage?

A．Marie is now studying English in England.

B．Masha wants to be a reporter when she groups up.

C．The Jinghu High-speed Railway hasn’t been built yet.

D．People in Shanghai can reach Beijing by train in about two hours.

【小题4】From the passage we know that______want to invent something.

A．Marie and Wang Min	B．Marie and Andrew.
C．Wang Min and Michiko	D．Masha and Andrew.

【小题5】The best title (题目) from this passage would be______

A．I have a dream	B．Five friends.
C．We like English	D．Our inventions.

For more than four hundred years, people all over the world have been reading ,watching and listening to the plays and poetry of the British writer William Shakespeare.
Most people think of Shakespeare as a writer. But he was also a theater producer, a part owner of an acting company and an actor. For most of his career, he was a producer and main writer for an acting company called the King’s Men. Shakespeare is best known for the thirty—nine plays that he wrote, although only thirty—eight exist today. His plays are usually divided into three groups: comedies, histories and tragedies. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet ,Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and so on.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of 14.He married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18.The couple had three children, two daughters and a son who died very young. In 1585,Shakespeare left his hometown. No one knows why he left or moved to London and joined a theater company which opened the Globe Theater in 1599.He made much money from it.He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He died in 1616. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. Now you can still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.
【小题1】What was Shakespeare?

A．A writer	B．An actor
C．A theater producer	D．A,B and C

【小题2】Shakespeare made much money from_______.

A．writing	B．acting
C．opening the Globe Theater	D．selling his books

【小题3】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “genius” in the passage?

A．房子

B．遗憾

C．悔恨

D．天赋

【小题4】Which sentence is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Shakespeare died when he was 52 years old.

B．Shakespeare married in 1582,and he had two daughters and a son.

C．Shakespeare’s plays are usually divided into three groups: comedies, histories and science fictions.

D．No one knows why Shakespeare left his hometown at he age of 21.

 

I am 15. Now I’m studying English in London. I want to invent a language machine that can help me understand as many languages as possible. Marie, France Aug. 15, 2009	I am 13. I dream of going to a top university after I finish middle school. I want to be a reporter in the future. Michiko, Japan Sep.21, 2009
I am a 12-year-old girl. I like traveling very much. How I wish to visit Egypt some day! Masha, Russia Oct. 15, 2009
I am a 16-year-old girl in Tibet. The Qinghai Tibet Railway has been built. I’ll be able to reach Shanghai by train in about 50 hours. My dream is to go to Shanghai to visit Expo 2010. Joma, China June 10, 2008
I am 14 years old. I dream of inventing a machine that can send things or people from one place to another in a minute. Andrew, the USA Nov. 30, 2009

 

1. What is Michiko’s dream?

A．Visiting Egypt.	B．Going from one place to another in a minute.
C．Going to a top university	D．Inventing a language machine.

2.How old is Joma when Expo 2010 Shanghai are held?

A．Fifteen.

B．Sixteen

C．Seventeen.

D．Eighteen.

3.The best title for this passage would be ____________.

A．I Have a Dream	B．Different Students From Different Countries
C．Five Middle School Students	D．Our Inventions

 

When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, " No! You are going to college. " He took me by surprise when he said, "OK. We'll go to the brick factory. "
Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. ' I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.
When we arrived at the factory gates, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, "Take your time. Look around." I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my. father and said, "I want to go home. "
He asked me, "What do you think of the factory?"
"It's terrible," I replied.
"And marriage is even worse!" he said.
I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!
【小题1】 The writer lived in_________ when she was a teenager.
A. Russia B. Japan C. China
【小题2】At first she thought life in the factory would be _       _ than in school.
A. more careful B. more colorful C. more beautiful
【小题3】When she told her father that she wanted to leave school, he expressed his disagreement________.
A. by doing nothing    B. in a special way C. by saying nothing
【小题4】 After they visited the factory, the girl________.
A. decided to work there        B. decided to get married        C. changed her mind
【小题5】The underlined word "horrible" means "_     _" in Chinese.
A. 糟糕的    B. 紧张的   C. 浪漫的

In the past ten years, many scientists have studied the differences between men and women. And they all got the same answer: The sexes(性别) are different, because their brains are different. And this, the scientists say, makes men and women see the world in different ways.

Boys, for example, generally are better than girls at mathematical(数学的) ideas. Boys also generally are better than girls at the kind of hand and eye movements necessary for ball sports. Girls, on the other hand generally start speaking earlier than boys. And they generally(通常) see better in the dark than boys and are better at learning foreign languages.

What makes men and women better at one thing or another? The answer is the brain. The brain has two sides connected by nerve(神经) tracks. The left side generally is used for mathematics, speech and writing. The right side is used for artistic creation(创造) and the expression for emotions(情感). In men and women, different areas in each side of the brain develop differently. In boys, for example, it’s the area used for mathematics. In girls, it is the area used for language skills. Another interesting difference is that the two sides of a man’s brain are connected by a smaller nerves than the two sides of a woman’s brain are.

1.Which of the following is best to outline(概括) the article?

A．Research on the Brain

B．Differences Between Men and Women

C．People’s Different Brains

D．Who Are Better, Boys or Girls

2.___________ men and women think differently.

A．sex makes

B．The different brains make

C．The different experiences make

D．The influences(影响) of society make

3.According to the article, girls are generally better than boys at ________ in your school.

A．mathematics       B．physics           C．English            D．Chemistry

4.Which of the following is true?

A．The left side of brain in boys generally develops better than that in girls.

B．The left side of brain in girls generally develops better than that in boys.

C．Men are better than women in all things.

D．The area in girls used for language skills develops better.

5.In men and women the number of nerves connecting the halves of brain________ .

A．is the same        B．is different         C．is zero            D．can’t be found out