(改写) 梂ho lives farthest in our class? 桳i Lei does. He lives at l_ 20 miles away from our school.

WONDERFUL EVENTS

1.Who can NOT go to the horse race?         

      A. A single person.               B. A couple.

C. Children.                        D. Free parents.

2.What can you do if you only have time between 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday?        

A. Go shopping.

B. Go to see the photo show.

C. Go to the dance with your sweet heart.

D. Go to watch the horse race.

3.How much will Mr. and Mrs. Smith pay if they want to go to the dance party?        

A. 15 dollars.                          B. 25 dollars.

C. 20%~40% off.                     D. For free.

4.Where can you see the advertisements above?         

      A. In a book.                         B. In a magazine.

C. In a newspaper.                  D. On TV.

Mike is a middle school student. He goes to school from Monday to Friday. His home is about 5 miles from school. He usually walks to school. It takes him 30 minutes to walk there. Nancy’s home is a little farther. It’s 20 miles from school. So she often takes the school bus. It takes her 15 minutes to get to school. Bob lives outside the city. It’s a town 30 miles away from his school. He takes the subway. It takes him 8 minutes to get to school by subway. He can have breakfast at home and then leave for the subway station. He studies very hard.

When I was young，my father told me that little acts of kindness may give one great happiness. Since then I have always tried to help people in   16   .

    One hot summer afternoon, I was   17   down the highway to New York when another car suddenly   18   into my lane(车道). My car was in the far right lane，so it ran onto the roadside. As a(n)   19   driver，I moved my car quickly and skillfully back onto the highway without causing any accident.

    I was    20   with that driver，but I thought that he just did not pay attention to the lane change, and he    2l   did not do that on purpose(故意).The car ran away    22   after cutting me off. Very soon it disappeared from sight. After a while，I came around a curve(弯道) and found the   23   car. The driver was walking along the roadside. He was an elderly man and looked   24   . With no telephone nearby and the nearest services twenty miles away. I decided to    25    and see what the problem was.

    The man’s car had a flat tire(瘪胎). Although he had a spare tire，he had nothing to work with. I decided to   26   him. I changed the tire for him and allowed him to sit in my Air-conditioned car while I did it. Fifteen minutes later，I   27   the work. I was hot and tired，but I really felt   28   after an act of kindness to the man who had earlier   29   my car ran off the road.

You can really enjoy great   30   from kindness acts, so always lend your hands to others in trouble.

1. A. need        B. school        C. danger          D. summer

2.A. walking     B. riding         C. running         D. driving

3. A. fell         B. floated        C. came           D. climbed

4.A. active       B. experienced    C. frightened       D. energetic

5. A. unhappy     B. satisfied       C. familiar         D. friendly

6. A. even        B. certainly       C. almost         D. simply

7.A. quickly      B. quietly        C. politely        D. carefully

8. A. new         B. red           C. same          D. other

9.A. excited      B. relaxed        C. surprised       D. worried

10. A. stay         B. research       C. stop           D. hide

11.A. punish       B. train          C. help           D. encourage

12.A. began       B. finished        C. took           D. continued

13.A. good        B. sorry          C. angry          D. shy

14. A. noticed      B. made          C. watched        D. heard

15.A. friendship    B. success        C. excitement      D. happiness

YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.

Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.

The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.

Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.

In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.

Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.

The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.

“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”

The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.

The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.

In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.

“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”

In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.

Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve.

1.When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.

A．Saturday morning                       B．Sunday morning

C．Saturday night                          D．Sunday night

2.Why did many people hurriy home after the earthquake.

A．They wanted to provide rescue to the hit area and give other people a helping hand as volunteers.

B．They wanted to find out the situation of their home.

C．They felt it too dangerous to stay where they had been.

D．There weren’t enough soldiers in the hit-area.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．Xu Yan didn’t make it through the stairs.

B．Xu Yan get out of the dorm quickly.

C．Xu Yan felt the earthquake shaking the stair.

D．Xu Yan was scared that he wouldn’t be able to catch up with the stair.

4.Which of the following is NOT true.

A．Tens of thousands of students were killed in Ya’an.

B．The earthquake also influenced some other cities.

C．The government took very quick actions.

D．Most buildings has collapsed in Longmen.

5.Where would you most probably read this passage?

A．Reader.

B．A History of China’s Earthquakes

C．How to Survive(求生) in an Earthquake

D．China Weekly