Music is different from songs. Songs express feelings with lyrics(歌词）, but music with tones (音调).Unlike songs, music tones in themselves have no specific meanings. Different people may get different things from the same musical performance. Though some music works are difficult to understand, people need music in their daily life because it brings fun to them. Different people like different music: some love classical music, and others take an interest in pop music. Most young people like pop music.

  Pop music began in the USA and became popular around the world during the 1950s and 1960s.The best-known early kind of pop music was “rock and roll”. Pop music has taken the place of （取代）native music in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for “jazz” music to become much smaller than in the 1950s and earlier and it has now begun to become the most popular. Much pop music is without artistic value (艺术价值), but the works of some pop singers such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby are excellent. And there is still great interest in it today. Pop music concerts and festivals are held all over the world.　

1.The biggest difference between music and songs is ________.

A.feelings  B.lyrics and tones   C.languages and countries  D.meanings

2.Which of the following has now become the most popular according to the passage?

A.Native music.    B.Jazz.              C.Pop music.            D.Classical music.

3.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to this passage?

A.People can get different things from the same piece of music. 

B.Pop music began to be popular in the mid­twentieth century.

C.The best-known early form of pop music was “rock and roll”.

D.Much pop music is of great artistic value, so it interests young people greatly.

Who help you most in your everyday life, families, charities, or friends? Don’t forget about your neighbours! Neighbours help you more than anyone else in your daily life. So it is important to have good neighbours.

What does it take to be a good neighbour? Here is some advice.

Good fences (栅栏) make good neighbours. One of the most important things in being a good neighbour is to respect (尊重) a person’ s privacy (隐私). If you go rushing over as soon as new neighbours move in, they may think you are going to come over at all hours of the day, not respecting their privacy.

It is always a good idea to be friendly to everyone in the neighbourhood. This can not only put you on good terms (关系和睦) with them, but will also be a kind of protection for your family and home. If you wave as they drive by or offer a friendly hello while they are out to work, they will think you respect them. If you are friendly to them, they are much more likely to watch out for anything wrong going on around your home while you are out and let you know if anything happens.

Another way of being a good neighbour is to be helpful in their hour of need. If you see that they are in need of a helping hand, it is good to offer your help. They will do the same if you are in trouble.

In a word, if you respect a person’s privacy, treat them kindly and be helpful when you see they are in need, you will be a great neighbour and anyone would be happy to have you next door!

No air means death. There is air around us  36 we can’t see it. Air is everywhere and it gives   37 　to every living thing. We can’t live  38  it. Bad air makes people ill. We must have fresh air to keep us  39 .
In the city there are a lot of people and there are too many  40  running on the road. The gas which the car sends out is made up of(组成) bad gases. Every day we  41  it in and        out. This makes us feel sick. There are many  42 , too. From the chimneys(烟囱) of these factories, we  43  get the smoke in black color. This kind of smoke is  44 to our health. So in order to keep us healthy, we have to go out to the   45  to breathe more fresh air. Or we can go up hills to get more fresh air.
【小题1】A. because            B. though              C. so
【小题2】A. life               B. name     　        C. pleasure
【小题3】A. with               B. without         C. below
【小题4】A. quiet              B. tall      　   C. healthy
【小题5】A. dogs           B. trains     　  C. cars
【小题6】A. breathe            B. draw      　   C. bring
【小题7】A. animals            B. people          C. factories
【小题8】A. usually  　　      B. never    　        C. seldom
【小题9】A. helpful    　　    B. dangerous       C. necessary
【小题10】A. office   　      B. city            C. Countryside

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式，使短文通顺。
There are four people in my family. Every day my parents are very busy trying to make 【小题1】 m  ▲   in order to pay the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They hardly say “I love you” or send flowers to each other. Besides, my father has a bad temper (脾气). It is 【小题2】e  ▲   for him to lose his temper 【小题3】w  ▲   he’s very tired from the hard work. I didn’t know whether there was love between them until one spring. At that time, my father 【小题4】s  ▲   got badly sick. My mother had to stay with him in the【小题5】h  ▲   for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very weak as if both of them had a serious illness.
After they were back, my mother helped my father【小题6】w  ▲   slowly on the country road every day in the morning and dusk. 【小题7】H  ▲   , after two months my father still couldn’t walk by 【小题8】h  ▲   . All of us were worried about him.
　　”Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t【小题9】w  ▲   about me.” he said in a low voice. “I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother very much.
Once I thought love meant【小题10】f  ▲   , presents and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is inside, making life strong and warm.

Three kids have been learning chemistry for only a few months. But they have already begun to challenge (挑战) a world famous scientist!

   Li Weichi, Huang Runling, and Xiao Yan are from Zhongshan Huaqiao Middle School in Guangdong. They have just found a red cabbage that could be a new kind of acid-base indicator (酸碱指示剂). They want it to take the place of litmus (石蕊) paper.

"We've learnt to think of and ask questions about life by ourselves," said Li, "We work well with each other."

   British scientist Robert Boyle discovered the use of litmus paper over 300 years ago. Now it is used widely in experiments all over the world.

   But when the kids did some experiments in class last winter, they saw that the litmus paper didn’t turn very blue with base matter. It's hard to get a clear result.

  Will there be a better indicator than litmus paper? The three kids decided to try and find out!

    How? They went to collect over 40 plants in parks, gardens and markets. Then they ground (研磨) leaves, flowers and stems (茎) to get the pigments (色素) from them.

   The kids mixed pigments with acid and base. They spent months watching carefully to see which paper showed the best colour change. They decided it was the litmus paper!

"It's our first scientific journey, Huang said, "But it makes me want to try harder."

1. Whom did the three kids want to challenge?

A. Their chemistry teacher.     B. Their headmaster.

C. Robert Boyle              D. Thomas Edison

2. From the text, a red cabbage is a kind of ____.

A. plant　　B. animal　　C. paper　　D. liquid

3.What is widely used as the acid-base indicator now?

A. red cabbage              B. litmus paper

C. any plant                D. any flower 

4.The story mainly tells us ____.

A. how to make litmus paper    B. about the three kids' spirit

C. scientists were wrong        D. the kids are heroes