"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son's room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted.

     "Oh, Tom! You're still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It's half past eleven. If you don't go to bed soon, you'll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White.

     "But I've nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son's face. She sat down beside him.

     "You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What's special about it? Show me what it can do!"

     "I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware (硬件) is good. There's so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, 'Dragon Player', is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don't have to worry about any infected（感染） disks because I have a virus（病毒） detector (探测器) which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders.

    "Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I'm sure it's a wonderful computer, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."

1.When Mrs White was calling Tom, he was ______.

    A. playing computer games in' his bedroom      B. playing with a dragon in his bedroom

    C. playing "Dragon Player" in the study         D. lying in bed reading a book

2. Tom was excited because ______.

    A. the computer has a good memory            B. the hardware is good

    C. he had nearly won the game                 D. his mother came to see him

3. What do we know about Mrs White?

    A. She loves her son too much.

    B. She loves computer games too.

    C. She is very hard on his son.

    D. She is as wonderful as the computer game.

 

"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son's room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted.

     "Oh, Tom! You're still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It's half past eleven. If you don't go to bed soon, you'll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White.

     "But I've nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son's face. She sat down beside him.

     "You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What's special about it? Show me what it can do!"

     "I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware (硬件) is good. There's so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, 'Dragon Player', is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don't have to worry about any infected（感染） disks because I have a virus（病毒） detector (探测器) which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders.

    "Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I'm sure it's a wonderful computer, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."

1.When Mrs White was calling Tom, he was ______.

    A. playing computer games in' his bedroom      B. playing with a dragon in his bedroom

    C. playing "Dragon Player" in the study         D. lying in bed reading a book

2. Tom was excited because ______.

    A. the computer has a good memory            B. the hardware is good

    C. he had nearly won the game                 D. his mother came to see him

3. What do we know about Mrs White?

    A. She loves her son too much.

    B. She loves computer games too.

    C. She is very hard on his son.

    D. She is as wonderful as the computer game.

 

Harry is eight years old. He goes to school near his home. He always goes there and comes home on foot. One day he came home from school late. His mother saw him and asked him, "Why were you late, Harry?"

"My teacher was very angry and asked you to go to her office tomorrow."

"To her office? Why?" his mother asked. "Because she asked a question in the class." said Harry. "Nobody could answer it, but I could. "

"You are so clever, my son. " his mother said with a smile." What is her question?".

Her question is "Who put the tomato on my chair and made my trousers dirty?" said Harry.

1.Harry was late because _______.

        A. he did his homework at school 

 B. he played football at school

        C. his teacher asked him to stay at school

D. his teacher asked him to give a talk at school     

2._______can answer the teacher's question in class.

     A. Nobody  B. Harry  C. Many students  D. Some students

3.There is a _______on the teacher's chair.

A. book      B. tomato       C. bag       D. pen 

4.The teacher asked Harry's mother to school because _______

        A. Harry is eight    

B. Harry goes to school an foot

        C. Harry's home is near   

D. Harry made her angry

5.The teacher's trousers were dirty because _______.

       A. she sat on the ground     

B. it was raining hard .

       C. she sat on the tomato     

D. she had it for a long time

 

Peter Qwen has been making wigs (假发)since the 1980s . He has made wigs for the stars of more than seventy movies ,including Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow and Nicole Kidman in The Others. One of his biggest jobs so far has designed the hair and makeup for the three Lord o f the Ring movies . He had just six weeks to design and make more than a hundred wigs, each one a different style, color, shape and length.

    The hair and makeup in a movie are just as important as the costumes or the sets. Over the years, Peter has made actors look older, younger, healthy and sick. For one movie he even made a female actor look like a man! "What people don't realize about wigs is that we are not always making people more beautiful," he says. "Often we are covering up beauty and making them look ordinary."

    All Peter's wigs are handmade using human hair, so they look as real as possible. This also makes them very expensive -between US $ 4,500 and US $12,500 each! He knows he's done a good job when people don't realize the star of the movie is wearing a wig. So he was pleased when one newspaper said that Nicole Kidman had dyed her hair dark brown for a movie. "It was a wig and no one knew that9" he said.

1.What's the best title for this article?

A. How Peter Qwen's wigs change people

B. Peter Qwen: A wigmaker to the stars

C. Peter Qwen: Making real and expensive wigs

D. Peter Qwen's wigs are important in a movie

2.What special feature about wigs does Peter mention?

A. They can make people more beautiful.

B. They can change people's hair styles.

C. They can cover up beauty and make people look ordinary.

D. They can make people look younger.

3.Why are Peter's wigs so expensive?

A. They are made in foreign countries.

B. Peter makes the best wigs.

C. They are only made for rich film makers.

D. They are handmade using human hair.

4.Which statement is NOT true about Peter?

A. Peter Owen has made wigs for lots of movies.

B. Designing and making the wigs for The Lord of the Rings was a huge job.

C. Peter can make actors look quite different from their real looks.

D. lf people know the star is wearing a wig, Peter will be happy.

 

On a snowy evening, a rich lady was standing by the road. She was worried. Her   36   had broken down. Just then a poor man named Robert came. He was on his way back home from work as usual.

　　The lady wondered, "Is the man going to __37___ me? He looks very cold and hungry." But to her surprise, he stopped and said with a smile. "What's wrong, madam?" The lady told him what was happening.

　　After a while, the car was at last fixed by Robert. The lady wanted to pay him. "No, that is ___38___, madam." he said, "I was just helping someone in __39___. If you really want to pay me back, I hope whenever you see someone in trouble, you should give him a hand." A few minutes later, the lady __40___ a shabby(破旧的)house by the road. She remembered Robert's words, so she stopped. The hostess(女主人)warmly asked her    41  . The lady could see that was a __42___ family and that they needed help. When the hostess was making tea in the kitchen, the lady ___43___ 500 dollars on a table and went away quietly. Robert came home later than before, thinking how __44___ their life was. Their baby was to be born the next month but there was not _45__ money. His wife went up to him, gave him a kiss and said softly, "Don't worry, dear! A stranger has helped us out!"

　　Let's always be ready to help others because helping others is helping ourselves.

　　(36) A. bike        B. motorbike       C. bus         D. car

　　(37) A. help        B. save            C. kill         D. find

　　(38) A. nothing      B. something      C. everything     D. anything

　　(39) A. picture       B. rain           C. need          D. danger

　　(40) A. saw         B. heard          C. smelt          D. felt

　　(41) A. out          B. in             C. away          D. along

　　(42) A. terrible       B. sad            C. rich          D. poor

　　(43) A. dropped      B. forgot          C. left         D. lay

　　(44) A. exciting      B. hard            C. happy       D. interesting

　　(45) A. many        B. some           C. enough       D. few