Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?
It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!
Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.
But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.
There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.
It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.
【小题1】The passage is written to _______.

A．explain cultural differences	B．convince readers to maintain cultural differences
C．predict the future of globalization	D．show some cultural phenomena(现象)

【小题2】The author thinks that cultural differences _______.

A．make the world colorful	B．make communication difficult
C．only exist in food and clothing	D．will never fade away

【小题3】The author starts the argument by ________.

A．mentioning certain cultural phenomena

B．mentioning his view at the very beginning

C．mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning

D．giving examples of cultural differences

【小题4】The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.

A．expand

B．disappear

C．become smaller

D．grow in number

【小题5】The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.

A．food

B．clothing

C．language

D．architecture

  October 21^st,2011

Dear Vincent,

I’m a middle school student in Zhejiang , China. My English teacher , Ms.Li gave me your name and address. I want to be your pen friend.

 English is my favourite subject.That’s why I want to practise English with an American student. I also like art. It’s so interesting and useful.I like history, too. Our history teacher always tells us a lot of interesting historical stories. We all have a good time in history classes.

In my free time, I enjoy playing computer games . It’s exciting and fun. Do you like it ? I also like to go to the movies. I saw Harry Potter and the DeathlyHallows:Part 1 yesterday. It was a great film.But I don’t like sports, so I never enjoy P.E.classes.

How about you? What subjects do you like? What do you look like? What do you want to do when you get older? I hope I can get your letter soon!

Yours,

Zhao Gang

1.Zhao Gang wants to have a pen friend , so he can               .

A.improve his writing                   B.practise English        

C.know more historical stories          D.make Ms.Li happy

2.What subject doesn’t Zhao Gang like?

    A.P.E.              B.English        C. History         D.Art

3.Who is Vincent?

A.Zhao Gang’s classmate             B.A middle school student in Zhejiang.

C. An American student                  D.Ms Li’s student

4.What did Zhao Gang do on October 20 ,2011?

A.He played computer games                  B.He wrote a letter to Vincent   

C.He talked to Ms. Li about his pen friend      D.He went to the cinema.

5.What does Zhao Gang do in his free time?

A. He plays computer games and watches films    B.He does sports

C. He reads books                             D.He sings and dances

 

Hello, I'm Tom. I'm a middle school student. It's nice to meet you here. First, let me tell you _  16   about my family. There are five people in my   17 . They are my mother, my father, my sister, my brother and I.
My father is a worker. My mother is an English teacher. My sister is eighteen and my brother is sixteen. I'm fourteen. We  18  go to the same school. We all enjoy _19  football games.
My_  20  is in West Street. There is a big tree and some small trees around my house. The big one is a pear tree and the small ones are apple _ 21 .   22  there  23  any pears or apples on them now.   24 _ a photo of my house. In the photo, you can see three cats in my house. They are all black and white. We_  25  them very much.

【小题1】

A．anything B．something C．thing D．anyone

【小题2】A school      B. house        C. room     D. family

【小题3】

A．two B．five C．three D．six

【小题4】

A．seeing B．looking at C．watching D．looking

【小题5】

A．bed B．school C．room D．home

【小题6】

A．trees B．rivers C．houses D．schools

【小题7】

A．But B．And C．So D．Or

【小题8】

A．isn't B．is C．are D．aren't

【小题9】

A．He's B．Here's C．It's D．There are

【小题10】

A．are liking B．likes C．like D．is liking

Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?

It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!

Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.

But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.

There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.

It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.

1.The passage is written to _______.

A．explain cultural differences               B．convince readers to maintain cultural differences

C．predict the future of globalization           D．show some cultural phenomena(现象)

2.The author thinks that cultural differences _______.

A．make the world colorful                  B．make communication difficult

C．only exist in food and clothing              D．will never fade away

3.The author starts the argument by ________.

A．mentioning certain cultural phenomena

B．mentioning his view at the very beginning

C．mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning

D．giving examples of cultural differences

4.The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.

A．expand           B．disappear         C．become smaller     D．grow in number

5.The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.

A．food             B．clothing           C．language          D．architecture