阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Teaching my first child, Danae, to share her toys was the biggest challenge. To   36   this, we started inviting other children to play, which could help Danae discover that it’s   37   to share with others – a lesson I needed to   38   myself as well, as it   39  .

One evening Danac had   40  a friend, Natalie, to play with her. Their favorite was a children’s   41   game called Go Fish. That evening,   42   Natalie left, Danae came to me and said, “Mommy, I’d like to give these to Natalie tomorrow. They’re her favorites.”

She help up three cards from the Go Fish game. I tried to   43   that I didn’t want her to give them away because then our   44   wouldn’t be complete. “But I really want her to have them!” Danae   45  . I thought perhaps she didn’t understand that when she gave something away, it was gone   46  . So I tried again, saying, “  47   you give the cards to her, you can’t   48  them back tomorrow.”

A look of   49   came over Danae’s face. For a moment I was happy that she seemed to   50  . But then she smiled and said. “Well, that’s okay, I want her to have them anyway.”

    What could I say to that? I sat   51   for a moment and then I realized I had been trying for so long to   52   her to share. Did it   53   that our Go Fish set would be   54  ? What mattered was that my daughter was learning the   55   of giving, that she was thinking about others instead of herself, and that she was trying to make her friends happy. Isn’t that what life is all about?

A．achieve  B．apply C．receive     D．get

A．kind      B．gentle       C．fun    D．merciful

A．design    B．know C．create       D．review

A．turned up      B．turned away     C．turned to   D．turned out

A．begged   B．encouraged      C．invited      D．found

A．box       B．card  C．paper D．show

A．before    B．while C．after  D．until

A．explain  B．suggest     C．respond    D．teach

A．thing     B．card  C．set     D．toy

A．insisted       B．recommended   C．announced       D．cried

A．surely   B．suddenly   C．forever     D．indeed

A．If B．Once C．As     D．Unless

A．ask for B．call for     C．look for    D．care for

A．surprise       B．concern    C．delight      D．satisfaction

A．understandB．accept  C．refuse       D．doubt

A．sadly    B．angrily     C．quietly      D．slowly

A．conduct       B．ask    C．force D．help

A．work    B．mean C．remind     D．matter

A．incompleteB．lost      C．limited     D．gone

A．content B．usefulness C．way   D．joy

During the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to another .Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out, and according to parent educator Diane Loisie ,it’s their school work which suffers the most. “After school, if they’re busy in a number of sporting events, besides they need to do their homework, then the time they’ll feel sleepy is in the classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you’re filling up that after school time, then it’s during the day that they’re going to be taking a break.”

Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there’s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It’s time just to do the things they want to do. A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn’t look like productive time; parents certainly wouldn’t be saying ‘Wow, are they ever learning things now?’ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, but it also helps to understand the learning that’s gone on that day.”

It’s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However, Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to experience everything, then what we’re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.” So choose your children’s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your kids… and for the family drivers!

1.What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?

A．They can get bored easily about everything.

B．They might have no time to do the homework.

C．They might not pay much attention to learning.

D．They cannot easily focus on learning during the day.

2.What should we think of children’s playing around aimlessly?

A．It is productive.

B．It is helpful.

C．It is a bad habit.

D．It is a waste of time.

3.Why should parents limit the activities our children attend?

A．Because children have no time.

B．Because children cannot learn many things.

C．Because children do not have enough sleep.

D．Because children cannot focus on too many activities.

4.What is the main idea of this passage?

A．Don’t be children’s drivers after school.

B．Choose activities for your children wisely.

C．Make your children learn as much as possible.

D．Let children learn something from various subjects.

 

When you cough or sneeze, you’d better turn your head away from others and cover your mouth with the full part of your hand. And then, you should say, “Excuse me.”
This seems so simple, but it is surprising how many kids have never been told to do this. Actually, I notice adults all the time who cough and sneeze in public without placing a hand over the mouth. One important thing I point out to the kids is that after they sneeze or cough on their hands, they should wash their hands as soon as possible. If not, they will be passing those germs (细菌) along to everything and everyone they touch.
If you come to a door and someone is following you, hold the door. If the door opens by pulling, pull it open, stand to the side, and allow the other person to pass through first, then you can walk through. If the door opens by pushing, hold the door after you pass through.
After a few weeks of seeing kids try to get through doors in the school and watching them enter restaurants as the door hit other people, I knew I had to discuss the problem with my students. Teaching them small acts of kindness, such as letting someone else go through a door first as they hold it open, may seem unimportant, but it can go along way toward helping students realize hot to be polite and thank others. Once they’ve been told, they’re halfway there.
When we have to go up moving stairs, we will stand to the right. That will give others who are in a hurry a choice of walking up the left-hand side of the moving stairs. When we are going to enter a lift, the underground, or a doorway, we will wait for others to exit before we enter.
After college when I moved to London, I was surprised at how polite everyone was in the subways. I was even more touched when I traveled to Japan. In both places, people made efforts to make way for others. On moving stairs, everyone stood to the right and walked to the left. On lifts, everyone would stand over to the side and allow others to exit before they would begin to enter.
【小题1】When you cough or sneeze, you should ________.

A．touch everything	B．cover your mouth
C．point out to the kids	D．pass the germs to others

【小题2】If you come to a door and someone is following you, you’d better _______.

A．hold the door

B．pass through

C．close the door

D．stand to the side

【小题3】From the passage we ca know the writer is a ________.

A． doctor

B．traveler

C．parent

D．teacher

【小题4】A. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. the rules of behavior in public         B. the easy of communication
C. the acts of kindness among people      D. the knowledge of social life

“Hey, Jenna, do you think we’ ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two?” I asked my friend.

    Losing Jenna would be like losing a very close sister.

 “Of course, we’ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two,” Jenna announced loudly

The next year, in Grade Four, we met Jamie. The three of us soon became close friends. We played together almost every day. I thought even time couldn’t pull us apart, but I was sadly mistaken.

The three of us started fighting a lot. Before Christmas, We had a really big fight, and Jamie and Jenna were against me, both saying I was bossy (专横的). I felt helpless and lonely. I thought Christmas would be horrible!

I was surprised when Jenna came to my house and gave me a terrible Christmas card she had made for me. I was so sure that she was still disappointed with me.

 “Wow,” I said, breaking the silence as we stood on either side of my front door. “Thanks.”

 “Okay…well… I have to go,” she said softly.

 “Okay. See you later then…” and I closed the door.

 “Who was that at the door?” my mom asked.

“It was Jenna, my classmate.” I said.

The card started off with “Merry Christmas”, but then it said, “I am so glad we’re friends. I am sorry about what I said when we were fighting. A fight won’t stop us from being friends. Besides, we said we were going to be friends even when we’re eighty-two.”

I stopped reading and started laughing. I couldn’t believe I had forgotten what she said that day in the backyard. I couldn’t believe I had been so selfish in trying to make my friends feel sorry for me.

The best title for this passage would be______________.

A. Jenna and I

B. Friends Forever

C. Friendship is very important.

D. Friendship is very necessary.

How would the author and Jenna get along with each other after Christmas?

A. They would be close friends again.

B. They would not speak to each other.

C. They would lose touch with each other.

D. They would go on fighting with each other.

What can we learn from the underlined sentences?

A. The author was sure Jenna felt sorry for her.

B. The author didn’t think Jenna was still angry with her.

C. The author hadn’t thought Jenna would send her a Christmas card.

D. The author knew Jenna would come to see her and said sorry to her.

Which of the following is the right time order according to the passage?

a. Jamie became the author’s friend.

b. The author felt lonely and unhappy.

c. Jenna, Jamie and the author fought.

d. Jenna brought the author a Christmas card.

e. The author was sorry for what she did.

f. Jenna and the author promised to be lifelong friends.

A. f-a-b-c-e-d                      B. a-c-f-b-d-e

C. a-b-c-f-e-d                      D. f-a-c-b-d-e

I know what you're thinking: pizza? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night's leftovers in the a. m. if you want to.

I know lots of women who skip breakfast, and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. Some say they don't have time, others think they're “saving” calories, still others just don't like breakfast food.

But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight. “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking, R, D, who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it's loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.

Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.

So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers－it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow,” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it... you may save yourself some pre­bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat­burning effects.

1.The underlined word "leftovers" in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.

A．food remaining after a meal	B．things left undone
C．meals made of vegetables	D．pizza topped with fruit

2.What can we infer from the text?

A．Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.

B．Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.

C．There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.

D．Eating vegetables helps save energy.

3.According to the last paragraph, it is important to ______.

A．eat something for breakfast	B．be careful about what you eat
C．heat up food before eating it	D．eat calorie- controlled food

4.The text is written mainly for those _______.

A．who go to work early	B．who eat before sleep
C．who stay up late	D．who want to lose weight