For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping — watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is starting in Europe. In a number of European countries, people can turn on their TVs and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and many other things.
Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden, for example. The biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries, and in one year it made＄100 million. In France there are two teleshopping channels, and the French spend about＄20 million a year to buy things through those channels.
In Germany, until last year teleshopping was only possible on one channel for 1 hour every day. Then the government allowed more teleshopping. Other channels can open for telebusiness, including the largest American teleshopping company and a 24－hour teleshopping company. German businesses are hoping this new teleshopping will help them sell more things.
Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without leaving their homes. With all the problems of traffic in the cities, this is an important reason. But at the same time, other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. They call teleshopping “junk on the air”. Many Europeans usually worry about the quality of the things for sale on TV. Good quality is important to them, and they believe they cannot be sure about the quality of the things on TV.
The need for high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be different from the American companies. They will have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot touch or see in person.
【小题1】Teleshopping is_______ in Europe.

　 We know that trees are useful in our everyday life. They   1  us many things, such as wood, oxygen, rubber, medicines and many other things. They can  2  tell us a lot about our climate. The following are the reasons. If you   3  a tree, you can see that it has many rings. Most trees grow one new ring   4  year. Because of the reason, we know   5  a tree is. A tree over a hundred years old means that it has more than a hundred   6 . When the climate is dry or very cold, the trees do not grow very much and their rings are usually   7 . When it is wet and warm, the rings are much thicker. If the rings are suddenly very thin or suddenly very thick, this means that the   8  changed suddenly. If we look at the rings on this tree, we can learn about the   9  for a hundred years. We can see  10  our climate is changing today.

Most of us have probably 1 of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and many other famous Disney characters. Perhaps we have even seen them in movies. But have you ever_2_to Disneyland? _3_fact, there are now four__4__Disneyland amusement parks around the world. Two are in the United States, one is in Japan, and__5_is in France.
Disneyland is an amusement park, but we can __6_call it a theme park. It has all the normal__7__that you can find at an amusement park, but it also has a theme. The theme, of course, is Disney movies and Disney characters. For example, you can find a roller coaster in most amusement parks, but in Disneyland, the   8 of the roller coaster is Disney characters. This means that you can find Disney characters all over the roller coaster. You can also __9__Disney movies, eat in Disney restaurants, and buy Disney gifts. And you can see Disney characters __10__around Disneyland all the time.
【小题1】A. hear         B. hears        C. heard
【小题2】A. been        B. gone  .       C. go
【小题3】A. in           B. on          C. at 
【小题4】A. different     B. difference    C. differences
【小题5】A. other        B. the other     C. the others
【小题6】A. too         B. either        C. also
【小题7】A. attracts      B. attraction     C. attractions
【小题8】A. theme        B. themed       C. themes 
【小题9】A. watch        B. saw          C. look
【小题10】A. walk         B. walks         C. walking

A rabbit is running into its hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee found some food, it goes back to his home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger
comes near. A cat purrs (发出呼噜呼噜的声音)when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have –-- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things what have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.  People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for example,  contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we meet a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the Most useful book.
【小题1】 When a rabbit gives the other rabbits a signal of danger, it _______.

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

I really only meant it as a joke.   I wasn't trying to steal anything honestly.

My friend Matthew started bringing his new cell phone to class last week. He was walking around bragging (吹嘘) about it to everyone. He was saying, "My cell phone can download (下载) the newest 41 off the internet. "Then he 42 everyone by downloading a game and starting to play it. The pictures and sound were really 43 .

44 class, he would use his cell phone to watch TV. The rest of us didn't have a phone like 45 , so we had to crowd around him. I was just trying to see the screen, 46 there were so many other kids that I could not see it clearly. I was getting really jealous (嫉妒).

But then yesterday, he forgot his cell phone at the end of class. He left it right on his desk. 47 noticed it was there except me. I decided to teach him a lesson. I took his phone quietly off the desk, and put it in my own bag. My 48 was to give it back to him the next day. I 49 wanted to see his reaction (反应). Maybe he would stop being such a show-off.

But this morning he rushed into class, screaming and yelling (吼叫). He was very 50 and almost mad. He started accusing (指责) different people of 51 his phone, but I had it in my 52 the whole time. He even started fighting with another classmate 53 Matthew was sure that person had taken it. The teacher sent them to the headmaster's office. They 54 got in a lot of trouble. Now I don't know what to 55 ! If I tell him that I took the cell phone, he'll think I stole it. If I don't tell him, then I really did steal it. How did I get into such a trouble?

1.A. ads B. songs C. films D. games

2.A. gave B. showed C. lent D. asked

3.A. good B. bad C. noisy D. unclear

4.A. After B. During C. In D. From

5.A. hers B. ours C. his D. theirs

6.A. and B. but C. then D. so

7.A. Everybody B. Somebody C. Anybody D. Nobody

8.A. plan B. suggestion C. dream D. action

9.A. always B. hardly C. just D. sometimes

10.A. happy B. quiet C. sad D. angry

11.A. losing B. stealing C. playing D. using

12.A. desk B. hand C. bag D. pocket

13.A. if B. because C. until D. though

14.A. both B. all C. neither D. none

15.A. say B. take C. see D. do