Are you looking for something fun and would you like to help other people in your free time? Then join us．
We have jobs for people of all ages；Anyone from twelve-year-old children to 80-year-old people can become one of us．
You can help people in many ways．Schools need help with taking care of children while their parents are working．Hospitals need us to look after children while their parents see a doctor．Animal lovers can help take care of those dogs and cats without homes．There is something to do for everyone．
“As a member of this group，I don’t want to get anything．Seeing the children’s happy faces，I am happy，too．”said Susan，an old woman of 62．  
“I often played computer games in my free time before．Now I help older people learn how to use Computers，”said another one at the age of 18．
If everyone helps out a bit， we’1l all have a better world to live in．
Interested? Call us on 3847613 or visit our website(网站)：http：//www．activol．com．
【小题1】The passage is_______．

A．a story

B．an advertisement

C．a play

D．a song

【小题2】What kind of people can become a member of that group?

A．People from 12 to 18．

B．All young people．

C．People from 12 to 80．

D．People from twenty to eighty．

【小题3】Which of the following is not talked about in the passage?

A．Help people in hospitals．

B．Help children in schools．

C．Help animals．

D．Teach cooking．

【小题4】Who does Susan look after?

A．Children．

B．Old people

C．Animals．

D．People in hospital．

【小题5】What will you do if you want to join the group?

A．Call them or visit them．

B．Call them or visit their website．

C．Visit their website or write to them．

D．Visit them or visit their website．

Most people graduate from school and then get a job. Everyone wants a job that pays well. How much money can you make? Ask yourself these questions: What can I do? What skills do I have? Also ask yourself: How much education do I have? For most jobs, the higher your education, the higher your earning power.
In the United States, high school graduates make about $ 18,600 a year. If you do not finish high school, you make only $10,800 a year. You can make $7,800 more each year by staying in high school!
If you stay in school, then you can make more money. A person with a high school degree makes about $18,600 a year. If that person goes to college and gets a bachelor’s degree（学士学位), he can make S42,000. With a master’s degree (硕士学位), he can make about $53,000. If the person gets a PhD（博士学位), he can make almost $79,000 or more a year.
We can learn a very important, thing from this information. If you want to work and make more money, get a good education.
【小题1】The passage mainly talks about_.

A．how education and pay are connected	B．high paying jobs
C．jobs for high school students	D．good schools

【小题2】According to (根据) the passage, "earning power" means the ability to _____ money.

A．save

B．spend

C．pay

D．make

【小题3】The writer thinks that a high school graduate usually makes more money than_.

A．a university graduate	B．a person who gets a PhD
C．a person who only finishes primary school	D．a person with a master’s degree

【小题4】Each year a person with a PhD can make more than a person who does not finishhigh school.

A．$37,000

B．$68,200

C．$60,400

D．$26,000

【小题5】From the last paragraph(段落) we know that______.

A．a high school degree is not important

B．university is too expensive

C．a person can make more money with a good education

D．people with a degree don’t need to worn about finding jobs

Teachers Wanted
Do you like kids? We need a teacher for our son. He’s six years old. We want you to work from March to November, 3 pm. to 6 pm., but you don’t need to work in July and August. You can get ￥ 30 an hour (小时). Sometimes we want you to work on weekends, and you can get ￥45 an hour.
You need to:
·Help our son with Chinese.
·Read to him.
·Play with him.
·Go to movies with him.
You need to work at my home. We live in (居住在) Taipei Road, next to the Zhongshan Bus Station(公汽站).
Please call (02)2956-4938. Ask Miss Liu.
【小题1】The teacher can work for __________ months at this family.

A．six

B．seven

C．eight

D．nine

【小题2】The teacher must (必须) __________.

A．work every weekend

B．work at the kid’s home

C．help the kid learn English

D．work eight months a year

【小题3】On Monday the teacher __________.

A．can’t work

B．works three hours

C．can have ￥ 135

D．comes in the morning

【小题4】Which is Not True(不对)?

A．The teacher can get ￥30 an hour on weekends.

B．The student is a boy of six.

C．The teacher can call Miss. Liu.

D．The teacher can take a bus to work

Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control(控制) your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!
【小题1】The writer wants to tell us ____.

A．not to get angry easily	B．to work hard at school
C．to do more exercises	D．to help each other

【小题2】The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.

A．get ill very easily	B．lose your friends
C．put on weight easily	D．eat less

【小题3】My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.

A．story

B．book

C．picture

D．film

【小题4】My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.

A．what to read	B．how to read
C．how to stay cool	D．how to learn English well

【小题5】In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to(指的是)____.

A．the book

B．anger

C．habit

D．the baby

Napoga is a 12-year-old girl in Ghana(加纳)，Africa. It is hard for her family to get clean water. Every morning，she leaves home at half past five to get clean water for her family in a village far away. It takes her six hours to get enough clean water for daily cooking and drinking. She has no time to go to school or to play with her friends. Millions of people in the world are like Napoga. They can't get enough clean water to keep healthy.
Earth Day is April 22. But on all other days，we must also remember it. The water we use is the most important natural resource(自然资源) on the earth.
Water covers 70% of the earth's surface. But most of that is sea water. We can't use it for very many things. Fresh water covers only 1% of the earth's surface.
You probably feel lucky that your life isn't as hard as Napoga's. But that doesn't mean you don't have to worry about water. We all face serious water problems. One of them is water pollution. All kinds of things from cars，factories，farms and homes make our rivers，lakes，and oceans dirty. Polluted water is very bad for people to drink. And dirty water is bad for fish，too. Now, 34% of all kinds of fish are dying out.
How do cars and factories make our water dirty？First，they pollute the air. Then，when it rains，the rain water comes down and makes our drinking water dirty. Dirty rain，called acid rain(酸雨)，is also bad for plants，animals and buildings.
Scientists say that in 30 years，more than half of the people in the world won't have enough clean water. We have to learn how to save more water for ourselves and our children. Here is some advice for saving water：
●Turn off the water while you brush your teeth. You can save as much as 450 liters(升) each month.
●Leaky taps(漏水的龙头) waste a lot of water. Fix them right away！
●You can easily cut your 10-minute showers in half----and you'll be just as clean.
●When you wash dishes，don't let the water run.
●Only wash clothes when you have a lot to wash. If your washing machine isn't full，you're  wasting water！
【小题1】On the earth，_______.

A．sea water is more widely(广泛地) used than fresh water

B．there is very little water for our living

C．there is 71% of fresh water

D．we don't need to worry about water

【小题2】Acid rain _______.

A．is only bad for living things

B．can be produced in factories

C．doesn't do harm(伤害) to people，but it's bad for plants，animals and buildings

D．doesn't just do harm to human beings but to animals，plants and buildings

【小题3】Which of the following wastes water？

A．We need ten minutes if we want a clean shower.

B．We should put in enough clothes when we wash them in washing machines.

C．You can keep yourself clean by having a shower for five minutes.

D．Don't let the water run when we brush our teeth and wash dishes.

【小题4】What's the main idea of the passage？

A．Something must be done to prevent water from being polluted.

B．Clean water means much to human beings and living things around us.

C．It's time to take care of the water we use.

D．Water is the most important natural resource on the earth.