Wang Jiaming from Beijing Chenjinglun High School says he is a lucky boy .He’s happy that he’s sitting the senior high school entrance exam in2014 instead of 2016.

On October 22,Beijing Municipal Commission of Education* announced that, from 2016,the English scores in the senior high school entrances exam will be reduced* from 120 to 100.Of the 100 points, the listening ability scores will increase to 50.Meanwhile, the points for Chinese will increase from 120 to 150.

“The change won’t affect me. I fell so lucky because English is my strongest subject,’’ said Wang. Why such a change? It places the importance on Chinese in our study and reduces students’ pressure, said Li Yi, a spokesman of the commission.

“The change will also push us to pay attention to the practical usage of English.,’’ said Li. “Students will be encouraged to learn to understand English menus and read English news on mobile phones.”

There isn’t news that other cities will have the same change. But several places are making changes to English tests in the college entrance exams.

For example, Shandong is considering taking out the listening part of the English exam in its Gaokao. But, “ being tested for less points doesn’t mean the subject can be taken lightly,” Bai Ping wrote in China Daily.

English has long been the world’s most commonly used language. Wang Jiaming said he understood the change.

“Chinese, not English, is our mother tongue*,” he said. “ but still, I think English is both interesting and useful.”

1. In the Beijing senior high school entrances exam of 2016, the English scores will be cut down to __________.

A. 50                 B.  100            C. 120           D. 150

2. Wang Jiaming feels lucky because _______

A. the exam change from 2016 doesn’t affect him

B. he doesn’t need to take the important exam

C. Chinese is his strongest subject

D. he is not good at chemistry

3.The sentence “ being tested for less points doesn’t mean the subject can be taken lightly,” in the passage means ______________

A. the students can spend less time on English.

B. it’s harder to for the students get a high score.

C. English is not as important and useful as before

D. studying English is still important for the students.

4. What is the main purpose of the change?

A. To encourage students to learn how to order meals in English.

B. To make students to learn to read English news on mobile phones.

C. To ask students to prepare for the college entrance exam.

D. To make students pay more attention to learn Chinese.

   If you had a chance to cook dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise Dinner<天堂的午餐> 1._______ Liu Xiaoyu, a college student, and you will find a right answer.

Paradise Dinner is a six-minute video. It tells the story of a son 2. _______ makes a big dinner for his 3. _______, but he can only send the dinner to paradise 4. _______ his mother has passed away.

“If you do not show your love to your mother right now, you might 5. _______ have the opportunity in the future, for your mother is 6. _______ older and older day by day-this is the main theme of 7. _______ video,” said liu.

Liu imagined the story of Paradise Dinner during his 2010 summer vacation. In fact, Liu was hardly 8. _______ with Paradise Dinner when he finished it. However, screening the video to his parents, he 9. _______ them moved to tears by his successful completion, which encouraged him to post the video onto the Internet later, and then entered it in the Beijing University Student Film Festival.

Many web users later said they greatly 10. _______ the video, and most of them said they cried right along with Liu’s parents.[来源:学。科。网]