Earthquakes happen without warning（前兆）．They can happen any time of a day，at any point during the year．When an earthquake is happening， you should know what you should do or not do．
Do NOT go outside．You could get injured from falling glass or parts of buildings．If you are outside，stay away from buildings and power lines（输电线）．
Stay under a desk，table，or other strong furniture．Hold on to it．Or stay in a corner of the building．Cover your face and head with your arms and cover your mouth with a towel or clothing．Stay inside until shaking stops and it is safe to go outside．
Keep away from windows，pictures or advertisements on the wall or the building，and anything else that could fall and hurt you．Most people get injured by falling things during an earthquake，not by the shaking itself．
Also keep away from a fire．You could fall down and burn yourself on the fire．
If you are driving when an earthquake happens，stop the car if it’s safe．Stay inside your car until the earthquake stops，and don’t drive near bridges．Try not to stop by power lines or trees．These could fall and hurt you．
小题1:It isn’t safe for you to ______ while the earthquake is happening．

A．run out of the building	B．stay in a corner of the building
C．cover your head with your arms	D．cover your mouth with a towel

小题2:From this passage，we know ______ .

A．many people fear earthquakes

B．earthquakes may happen at any time

C．we can’t save ourselves in an earthquake

D．people never get injured in earthquakes

小题3:The best title for this passage should be “ _____________ ”

A．How Earthquakes Happen	B．How to Drive a Car
C．What We Should Do in Earthquakes	D．Why Earthquakes Happen

To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades, and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, school is very different.
Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want. There are no teachers, only “staff members (职员)”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old. ‘Go explore your environment.’ You can’t stop them!” says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all taste for learning.”
At Sudbury Valley School, you will allow children to talk, read, paint, cook, work on computers, study French, play the piano, climb trees, or just run around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!
The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each — even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school budget（预算）, and even which staff they want and do not want any more.
When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.
小题1:What does the school believe?

A．Teachers cannot teach children well.

B．Children learn best when they do what they want to do.

C．Learning is for adults — children should only play.

D．Children should only learn about one thing at a time.

小题2:What does Daniel Greenberg say about three-year-olds?

A．They love learning.

B．They are very naughty.

C．They want to be outside all the time.

D．They are too young to learn anything.

小题3:What happens to the children after they leave this school?

A．They do the same things as children from other schools.

B．They have problems getting into college or getting a job.

C．They usually do very unusual jobs.

D．They are not successful in their business.

小题4:What is the main topic of the article?

A．Children’s hobbies	B．Education in the US
C．A school without rules	D．An unusual school

Children can spend hours a day looking at computer screens and other digital devices(数码设备). Some eye doctors say this leads to an increase in “computer vision syndrome(电脑视力综合症).”
Nathan Bonilla-Warford is an optometrist（验光师）in Tampa, Florida. He has seen an increase in problems in children. “A lot more children come into the office either because their parents have noticed that they have headaches or red or watery eyes or discomfort, or because their nearsightedness appears to be increasing and they’re worried,” he says.
Dr. Bonilla-Warford says part of the problem is that children may be more likely to pay no attention to early warning signs than adults. “Even if their eyes start to feel uncomfortable or they start to get a headache, they’re less likely to tell their parents, because they don’t want to have the game or the computer or whatever taken away,” he explains.
He says another part of the problem is that people blink（眨眼）less often when they use digital devices. He says, “A person who uses an electronic device blinks about one third as much as we normally do in everyday life. And so that can result in the front part of the eye drying and not staying protected like normal.”
Eye doctors offer suggestions like following which is known as the 20/20/20 rule. That means every twenty minutes look away twenty feet or more for at least twenty seconds from whatever device you’re using.
Other suggestions include putting more distance between you and the device and using good lighting. Of course, another way is to spend less time looking at screens. Many experts say children should spend no more than two hours a day using digital devices—with no screen time for children under two.
But not all eye doctors have noticed an increase in problems in children. Dr. David Hunter, from Children’s Hospital Boston, has not seen an increase in his practice. “While it is possible to develop fatigue looking at screens for a long period of time, there’s certainly no proof that it actually causes any damage（伤害）to the eyes.” he says.
小题1:Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Dr. Bonilla-Warford thinks using computers causes nearsightedness.

B．People keep their eyes protected against drying by blinking normally.

C．Children under two can watch TV for less than two hours a day.

D．Dr. David Hunter says headache causes an increase in eye problems.

小题2:What does the underlined word “fatigue” mean?

A．Interest.

B．Ability.

C．Tiredness.

D．Difficulty.

小题3:What can be the best title for the passage?

A．Looking at Screen: Two Hours or More

B．How Can Children Use Their Eyes Properly

C．Using Digital Devices: Advantages and Disadvantages

D．How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for Children

When students and parents are asked to grade subjects according to their importance, the arts are usually at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is only viewed as entertainment, but certainly not an education priority（优先）. This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is very important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it shows their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity（身份，特性）as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception（感知）that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts can express the emotive（情感的）meaning of the same thing. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the language through which we express our fears, our hungers, our discoveries, our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be shared with others. When we do not give children an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the value of peace and love.
So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
小题1:What can we learn from Paragraph 1?      

A．Students regard music as a way of entertainment.

B．Students disagree with their parents on education.

C．Students take music as an important subject.

D．Students prefer the arts to science.

小题2:In Paragraph 2, the writer uses jazz as an example to____________.       

A．compare it with rock music

B．show music identifies a society

C．introduce American musical traditions

D．prove music influences people’s lifestyles

小题3:According to the passage, the arts and science____________.      .

A．explain the world in different ways

B．explain different facts of the world

C．express people’s feelings in different ways

D．explain what it means to be human differently

小题4:What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Music education is worth more attention.

B．Music should be of top education priority.

C．Music is really a good communication tool.

D．Music education makes students more imaginative.

Chinese government has decided to give up the rules of food with no checking .According to the Xinhua News, from September 17th , 2008, Chinese government decided to give up the rules of food with no checking. Many people said yes to it. The officer said that these days, the food safety accident about children milk of Sanlu made the government decide to give it up. In order to keep the food safe and people healthy, Chinese government said that all the food must be checked. The rule of food with no checking made in 1999 was given up from that day.
　　“I think if the companies get the food with no checking, they will never check their food. It gives them the chance of making the food of poor quality,” an old man said in the shop. “ I hope our government not only gives it up, but also makes some strong rules to manage the companies,” a young woman told us. “ The important point is our government should send officers to the companies and check their food every time,” a shop owner said. A young expert of food safety said, “ The department of government should take the food from the shop or supermarket and check, not ask them to send. In that way, we can get the real checking.”
　　But in order to keep people’s health, the government asks the officers to check all the food before they are sent to the shop or supermarket. That means all the food must be checked before they are sold.
小题1:You may read the passage ___________.

A．in a letter

B．in a book

C．in a newspaper

D．in a magazine

小题2:Chinese government decided to give up __________ from September 17, 2008.

A．food check rules

B．the rules of food with checking

C．the rules of food with no checking

D．checking all the food before they are sold

小题3:Many people __________ to check all the food.

A．agree with

B．disagree

C．agreement

D．agree

小题4:A young expert of food safety think the government should_________.

A．make some strong rules to manage the companies.

B．take food from shop or supermarket and check

C．ask the companies to send food and check

D．send more officers to the company to check the food.

小题5:According to the officer’s idea, all the food _________ before they are sold.

A．must be checked	B．must be stored
C．must be handed in	D．can be stored for a long time

Is your schoolbag too heavy? The e-schoolbag will help you. It is said that e-schoolbags are going to be brought into   43  in Chinese middle schools soon.
Heavy schoolbags have been a serious   44  for a long time. But the e-schoolbag will  45 . An e-schoolbag is  46  lighter than a usual schoolbag. Perhaps, the e-schoolbag should be   47  an e-textbook. It is a small computer for students. It is as   48  as a usual book,   49  it can still have all the things for study, such as textbooks, exercise books and so on which can be made   50  chips(芯片) like stamps. The students can read the text page by page on the screen, take notes, or even send e-mails to their teachers. They only need to   51  the right chip into the e-schoolbag. Then they can use it.
Some people say   52  e-textbooks can be easily broken, while others say it is not good for eyes. But only time will tell.

小题1:	A．use B．useful C．used D．to use

小题2:	A．idea B．problem C．question D．thought

小题3:	A．work it out B．work out it C．work out D．work them out

小题4:	A．very B．much C．too D．so

小题5:	A．call B．calls C．called D．calling

小题6:	A．small B．smaller C．smallest D．most small

小题7:	A．and B．as C．or D．but

小题8:	A．into B．from C．up D．of

小题9:	A．bring B．get C．take D．put

小题10:

A．if B．what C．that D．which

What is the best way to study? This is a very important question. Some Chinese students often   31  very hard for long hours. It is a   32   habit, but it is not a better way to study. An efficient(讲效率的) student must   33   enough sleep, enough food and enough rest. Every week you   34   to go out for a walk or visit some friends or some nice places. It's good       35   your study. When you return to your studies, you'll find yourself   36   than before and you'll learn more.
Maybe we can   37   that learning English is   38   taking Chinese medicine. We don't mean that it's bitter (苦的). We mean that like Chinese medicine, the efficiency of your study   39   slowly but surely.   40   slowly but surely every day and effects will come just like Chinese medicine.

小题1:	A．play B．study C．sleep D．think

小题2:	A．best B．better C．good D．bad

小题3:	A．have B．do C．want D．make

小题4:	A．want B．hope C．need D．wish

小题5:	A．in B．for C．to D．at

小题6:	A．weaker B．stronger C．fatter D．thinner

小题7:	A．say B．guess C．talk D．know

小题8:	A．about B．on C．at D．like

小题9:	A．returns B．comes C．gives D．gets

小题10:

A．Sleep B．Know C．Learn D．Play

More than 50,000,000 people live in the rainforests of the world and most of them do not hurt the forest they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they do not cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they do not destroy them.
When we cut down the rainforests, we destroy these forest people, too. In 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the Amazon forest. In 1980, there were only 200,000.
The Yanomami live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of Brazil. They have lived in the rainforest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food and for medicine. But in 1988, someone found gold in their forest, and suddenly 45,000 people came to the forest and began looking for gold. They cut down the forest to make roads. They made more than a hundred airports. The Yanomami people lost land and food. Many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers.
The Yanomami people tried to save their forest, because it was their home. But the people who wanted gold were stronger.
Many forest people try to save their forests. Chico Mendes was famous in Brazil because he wanted to keep the forest for his people. “I want the Amazon forest to help all of us-forest people Brazil, and all the Earth,” he said. A few months later, in December 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed Chico Mendes.
In Borneo, people were cutting down the forest of the Penan people to sell the wood. The Penan people tried to save their rainforest. They made blockades across the roads into the forest. In 1987, they closed fifteen roads for eight months. No one cut down any trees during that time.
In Panama, the Kuna people saved their forest. They made a forest park which tourists pay to visit.
The Gavioes people of Brazil use the forest, but they protect it as well. They find and sell the Brazil nuts(坚果) which grow on the forest trees.
小题1:The number of the people living in the Amazon forest in 1980 was _______ of that in1900.

A．half

B．one-third

C．two-fifths

D．one-fifth

小题2:The people who _______ have destroyed the rainforest of the Yanomami.

A．pick fruits and kill animals to eat

B．use plants for food and medicine

C．have lived there for about ten thousand years

D．made the roads and the airports

小题3:Those people built roads and airports in order to ________.

A．carry away the gold conveniently

B．make people there live a better life

C．stop spreading the new diseases

D．develop the tourism(旅游业) there

小题4:We can infer the underlined word blockades probably means:

A．包围

B．障碍

C．街区

D．通道

小题5: From the passage, we learn that _________.

A．we need wood to build houses, so we have to cut down trees

B．the rainforest people have done something to protect their home

C．to humans, gold is more important than trees

D．we mustn’t cut down any trees or kill any animals

How did I become known as a "rubbish picker '?  
I never   36   rubbish before.  I didn't care where it went or who cleaned it up.  But two years ago, I started caring about it deeply.  I lived near a forest in Ohio, America.  I can walk there    37   three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog.  One day there was   38   much rubbish there that I became very unhappy.  I decided to clean up the forest.  I want to   39   happy going there again. I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon.  I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes    40   I started to pick up rubbish, my bag was full! From then on, I go to the forest four times a year   41   rubbish, it makes me feel   42  to do something for the environment. After each trip, I look at all the rubbish that I've found.  If   43   of it is recyclable, I keep it.  I will keep picking up 44---people stop dropping it.  I know I am only doing a small bit 45   the earth, but I think it is important.

小题1:	A．took care B．cared about C．cared for D．took care of

小题2:	A．after B．for C．with D．in

小题3:	A．such B．very C．so D．many

小题4:	A．make B．feel C．look D．rind

小题5:	A．after B．later C．before D．of

小题6:	A．pick B．to pick C．to pick up D．pick up

小题7:	A．tired B．sad C．interesting D．great

小题8:	A．many B．few C．some D．much

小题9:	A．until B．after C．as soon as D．when

小题10:

A．helped B．to help C．help D．helping

How many plastic bags do you use every day? 46 there any chance for us to live without them? What can we do to have 47   plastic pollution? A performance in Hangzhou makes people   48  more about the overuse of plastic bags in our lives.
In front of a supermarket in Hangzhou , five volunteers 49  white plastic bags and walked around and through the crowd. The performance   50  people to use more cloth bags  51     plastic ones.
Some of the plastic bags worn by the performers were collected from customers in two food markets and 52  were collected by 700 students from a middle school.
On that day, when leaving the food markets, customers were told to hand over 53  plastic shopping bags. 54  plastic bags were collected in two hours.
“ If we do 55  about it, the earth will be eaten up by white pollution. And 56  will become ‘plastic men’,”said one of the performers.
“How can you breathe in 57  plastic bags?” A   58   woman asked one performer.“How can the earth breathe 59   there are too many plastic bags?”the performer answered.
Starting in June 2008,plastic bags were 60  given for free in supermarkets,shopping malls or food markets all over the country.
People are called on﹙号召﹚to use cloth bags when they go shopping.

小题1:	A．Are B．Were C． Is D．Was

小题2:	A．few B．much C． fewer D．less

小题3:	A．think B．thinks C．to think D．thinking

小题4:	A．worn B．wore C．tried on D．try on

小题5:	A．called back B．called C．called on D．cheered on

小题6:	A．instead B．take the place of C．instead of D．take place

小题7:	A．other B．the other C．another D．the others

小题8:	A．helpful B．unnecessary C．useful D．necessary

小题9:	A．Hundred B．Hundreds of C．Hundred of D．Hundreds

小题10:

A．nothing B．anything C．something D．everything

小题11:

A．human being B．human beings C．humen beings D．humans beings

小题12:

A．so much B．too much C．such many D．so many

小题13:

A．40-year-old B．40-years-old C．40 year old D．40-years old

小题14:

A．until B．because C．if D．unless

小题15:

A．no longer B．always C．not longer D．usually