Plants are very important. This is because plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals can get their food by eating plants and other animals. Man gets his food by eating plants and animals, too. So animals and man need plants to live. This is why there are so many plants around us.
There are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering(无花) plants. Almost all the trees around us are flowers and fruit. Non-flowering plants don’t grow flowers. You can’t see many non-flowering plants around you.
If you look carefully at the plants around you, you’ll find that there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are very big and some very small. Most of them are green. We can live on the earth because of the plants around us.
小题1:Which of the following is the most important according to the passage?

A．Man.

B．Plants.

C．Animals.

D．Air, water, and sunlight.

小题2: We need many plants around us because _______ .

A．plants can grow easily	B．plants are green
C．we can get what we need from plants	D．we like all kinds of plants

小题3:There are ______ non-flowering plants than flowering plants around us.

A．much fewer

B．much more

C．much larger

D．much better

小题4:Which of the following doesn’t come from a plant?

A．Basket.

B．Bread.

C．Cabbage.

D．Stone Forest

小题5:The best title（标题）for this passage may be _________ .

A．Food from Plants	B．Plants Make Food
C．Man and Animals	D．Plants around us

We sometimes call the lion “the king of the jungle (丛林)” because it is stronger and more dangerous than other animals. It can run faster than many animals and it can hunt (捕猎) the best. It is the highest animal in the   21  food chain (食物链).[
In the sea, the shark is one of the animals at the  22  of the food chain. It can swim faster than most other sea animals, and it can use its big teeth to eat them.
What is at the top of the world’s food chain?  23  are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the   24  We could not run faster than cheetahs (猎豹),  so we  25  cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not  26  better than lions, so we invented guns (枪). Now we can hunt the best.
People’s inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, people invented  27 , and now they make the air and rivers dirty. This can make   28  changes. Dirty rivers kill fish.  Then bears cannot eat the fish and the bears die. If we kill one part of the food chain,   29  also die. Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger too! If we protect animals, we are protecting   30 ! We should and we could do something for the world!

小题1:	A．land B．sea C．mountain D．desert

小题2:	A．front B．end C．top D．beginning

小题3:	A．People B．Lions C．Sharks D．Cheetahs

小题4:	A．strongest B．cleverest C．most special D．most important

小题5:	A．used B．had C．made D．invented

小题6:	A．fight B．escape C．kill D．catch

小题7:	A．hotels B．schools C．factories D．hospitals

小题8:	A．great B．terrible C．wonderful D．complete

小题9:	A．one part B．another part C．other parts D．the other parts

小题10:

A．ourself B．yourselves C．themselves D．ourselves

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."
小题1: Whom did the three kids want to challenge?

A．Their chemistry teacher.	B．Their headmaster.
C．Robert Boyle	D．Thomas Edison

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

A．plant

B．animal

C．paper

D．liquid

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

A．red cabbage	B．litmus paper
C．any plant	D．any flower

小题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

Cooking and Learning
In this E-book package, we have four e-books.

Fun with Food
This fun e-book is filled with
exercises --- photo tests,
word exams, riddle games,
coloring pages and exercises
on learning more about food.

小题1:Kids can ________ by reading Fun with Food.

A．do science experiments	B．get cooking experience
C．cook well in the kitchen	D．play some riddle games

小题2: ________ has over sixty pages.

A．Fun with Food	B． Kids Cooking Lessons E-Book
C．Food Facts E-Book	D．Kids Food Science Experiments

小题3:Kids Cooking Lessons E-Book is popular because ________.

A．there is a unit for each age group	B．there are a lot of photo tests in it
C．kids can learn more about science	D．each part is very easy to print off

Recent research from the Pew Internet Project suggests that 90% of Americans aged from 12 to 17 use the Internet, and 51% of those teens use social networks. However, there are many possible problems with social networking sites and the teenagers who use them.

Apart from the social advantages, social networking sites can be used to record school research, develop artistic talents and experiment with other forms of subject creation. They provide a way to communicate with others who share the same interests and to get helpful advice on ongoing projects.
Along with these advantages come some dangers. For example, most social networking sites are open to all, especially MySpace, which is the most popular social network among teens in America. It means that they could be put in unpleasant and frightening situations.
A greater danger is that teens may become objects of the people with secret purposes. The secrecy of some social networking sites makes it easy for dangerous people to find young teens and invite them into dangerous conversations. It’s easy for them to pretend as teens and draw children into dangerous real-world communication as well. Then further hurt might be on its way.
Another danger is identity stealing, which can happen when teens share too much information about their names, dates of birth and locations.
Therefore, it’s very important to make sure teens are safe when they use social networks.
Many of the same rules that work for online chat work for these sites:
※Don’t use your real name.
※ Don’t give out personal information to people you don’t know. A last name and a town
are enough for a bad guy to find where you are.
※ Don’t believe that people are who they say to be.
※ Immediately end any communication that makes you uncomfortable and report it to a
parent.
Only if you are sure of your safety, can you enjoy the fun brought by social networking. Besides, trying to deal with all problems on your own can lead to terrible results. Remember, asking your parents or school officials for help doesn’t mean you are unable to do anything but wiser than many others.                                             
小题1:How many dangers of using social networks are mentioned in the passage?

A．2.

B．3.

C．4.

D．5.

小题2:The writer takes MySpace as an example to show that ________.

A．students could be put into unreal situations on the Internet

B．teenagers are facing unknown dangers on the social networks

C．Internet provides more social websites to American teenagers

D．social networks are very popular among teenagers in America

小题3:We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．the dangers are similar when chatting online and surfing social networks

B．more than half American teenagers aged from 12 to 17 use social networks

C．teens who ask for help are wiser when meeting problems on social networks

D．there are more disadvantages than advantages for teens to use social networks

People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living.
Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her. Please have a good look at her: polluted rivers and lakes, growing deserts, the destruction of the forests and wild life, and the depletion (消耗，用尽) of the ozone layer (臭氧层)...
Can she bear to see her children putting the waste here and there? Can she bear to see her children cutting down the trees and destroying the grassland, to see the acid rain destroying everything? Can we bear to see our mother suffering (受苦) so much? Isn’t it time for us to ask ourselves whether this is the way to treat our mother?
Floods, droughts, acid rain..., these are the punishments (惩罚) from nature. Everyone should know that there is only one earth. If we go on treating her like this, it won’t be fit for us to live in any longer. It’s time for us to love her, take good care of her and cure her. We should save the earth so as to save ourselves.
小题1: What does the earth look like now?

A．It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests.

B．It is like a beautiful girl.

C．It is more beautiful and richer.

D．It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer.

小题2: What is the meaning of the underlined word?

A．Know

B．Stand

C．Imagine

D．Hear

小题3: What is the best title of the passage?

A．The earth—our mother.

B．Defenders of the Earth (地球卫士).

C．The earth is very beautiful and healthy.

D．The water on the earth is very clean.

Some students, parents and teachers in Shanghai were surveyed last month. According to the result of the survey, the generation gap (代沟) between students and parents as well as teachers is becoming wider. Here is what they said.
Voice of the students:
　 “Our parents hold too high expectations（期望）which put us under lots of pressure. They care too much about our lives and studies,” one student said.
“It’s impolite that some students’ parents read their children’s diaries without permission!” one student said angrily.
“Some of our teachers are so serious that we can’t make friends with them at all,” another student said sadly.
Voice of the parents:
One mother said, “After school, my daughter usually locks herself into her room and spends lots of time talking with others on the phone. And I can’t stand（忍受） her clothes and hairstyle!”
“I thought my son was doing very well in his studies. I didn’t realize I was being cheated by him until I got a call from his teacher,” said a father.
Voice of the teachers:
An English teacher said, “Today, the role of the teacher is to put knowledge into students’ brain. The power (权力) teachers have kept students away from them.”
“Some parents pay too much attention to their children’s grades instead of creating a lively and colorful environment at home,” another teacher said.
“In the past, teachers and students often played games together or talked with each other. Today, only studies and grades are talked about,” said a teacher. “A school should be a place where students can learn not only knowledge, but also how to face failure and frustration（挫折） bravely enough.” 
小题1: What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?

A．Students like telling how they feel to their classmates.

B．More and more students don’t like to be surveyed.

C．Some parents don’t like their children’s clothes and hairstyle.

D．There has been a great distance between students and parents as well as teachers.

小题2:The underlined word “cheated” in the passage means ___________.

A．欺骗

B．批评

C．表扬

D．揭露

小题3: What can we infer (推断) from the teachers who were surveyed?

A．Teachers feel what they are doing for students is good.

B．Parents, teachers and educational rules all influence students greatly.

C．Teachers should care more about excellent students.

D．Now teachers and students communicate better than before.

小题4:Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?

A．Unhappy Teenagers	B．Educational Rules
C．The Generation Gap	D．Serious Parents

It is said that the eyes are the windows of our soul. Beautiful and bright eyes not only show a good health but also make you look very attractive. However, to have healthy eyes you have to look after them properly. Your eyes need everyday attention.
Pay more attention to your diet. First, eat food that is good for your eyes. They are fresh fruits and vegetables as fish, eggs, and milk. Besides, a regular amount of vitamins A and B2 should also be taken.
A regular and sound sleep is a must. It relaxes the eye muscles（肌肉）and gives them the rest required. Sleep not only helps the body to repair its tired tissues (组织). Usually, you must sleep for at least seven to eight hours every day. Loss of sleep can give you dark circles under the eye.
You must exercise your eyes every day. Blink (眨眼) yours eyes at regular periods, which makes the eyeballs watery, and gives them a good wash.
We use our eyes in many unnoticeable and wrong ways. Fox example, if a small thing goes into our eye we start rubbing it, which is wrong. Rubbing can cause damage（伤害） to your eyes. Don’t read or write in poor or bright sunlight. Always use sunglasses as sunlight can cause eye tiredness. Light should not shine directly in your eyes. Too much reading, writing, watching television or working on the computer can also cause eye tiredness.
Remember to always take care of God’s most beautiful gift to you. Your life will be very colorless without your eyes.

46 to keep your eyes healthy	47	●Eating food that is good for your eyes, 48  as fresh fruits, vegetables and food high in protein（蛋白质）. ●Taking a proper amount of Vitamins A and B2 regularly.
	Sleep	●Having a regular and sound sleep is  49  ●Reducing loss of   50.
	Eye __51	●Having your eyes exercised every day. ●Blinking your eyes at regular periods.
	Eye using	●It’s 52 to rub your eye when something goes in. ●Read or write in soft sunlight. ●Light should never shine in your eyes in a 53 way. ●Take a 54 after reading, writing, watching TV or working on the computer.
Eye __55 _ matters（影响） a lot

Mobile phone has become a problem for middle schools. Some middle schools in Australia have banned(禁止) students from carrying mobile phones during school hours.
Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, teachers said mobile phone use is a distraction(娱乐) to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.
She said some schools had tried to ban mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t get in touch with(与…联系) their children.
Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there was a good reason, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students should not have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.
Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.
小题1:Some middle schools in Australia have banned students from carrying mobile phones,          

A．because they are students	B．when they are free
C．when they are at school	D．because they are children

小题2: We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from       .

A．the makers and sellers	B．the passers-by and strangers
C．their parents and friends	D．some mobile phones users

小题3:What does the underlined word cheat mean in the passage?

A．聊天

B．核对

C．查询

D．作弊

小题4:Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t         during school hours.

A．use their mobile phones	B．leave their mobile phones at school office
C．help the teachers with their work	D．get in touch with their children

小题5: The passage tells us that         .

A．students shouldn’t have mobile phones at school except for some special reasons.

B．it is impossible to ban students from using mobile phones at school

C．some parents felt unhappy because they couldn’t use their phones at school

D．parents should teach their children how to use mobile phones during school hours.

Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time.
In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health; when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge(向…挑战)yourself. So you can not always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving(旋转)door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.
小题1:Those who have big houses may often feel         .

A．happy

B．lonely

C．free

D．excited

小题2:When you fall down in a PE class, both your teacher and your classmates will     .

A．laugh at you	B．play jokes on you
C．quarrel with you	D．help you up

小题3:What will your friends say to you when you make great progress?

A．Oh, so do I	B．Congratulations
C．Good luck	D．It’s just so-so

小题4: Which idea is NOT right according to the passage?

A．People who have cars would never like to walk in the open air

B．You can get help from others when you make mistakes

C．You can still be a happy person even if you have little money

D．Happiness is always around you though difficulties come towards you

小题5: Which of the following is this passage about?

A．Bad luck

B．Good luck

C．Happiness

D．Life