When kids at Archisha Singh’s school in Loudoun County have a birthday, no parents buy them birthday cakes.
Some schools are worried that children might become fat or eat unhealthy food, so they have banned(禁止) cupcakes altogether.
What do kids do? Birthday kids can donate a book. The headmaster of their school will then read it to their class. The headmaster also hands out birthday certificates(证书), special pencils, and makes sure the kids’ names are read out in the school’s morning news.
Parents can send stickers(贴纸), pencils and other things to students. None of the things can be food. If a child donates jump ropes or other sports equipment, that child may get his or her name on a certificate. It will then be displayed at school.
Archisha really misses cupcakes, especially those her mother used to make for her kindergarten class, but her school’s way is fun, too. “I like both ways,” she said.
The headmaster says it’s important that the school should be not only teaching, but offering healthy choices to kids. “There is a better life without cupcakes. If you eat a cupcake, then it’s gone in two seconds, but a book lasts a lifetime. The sports equipment lasts, and the kids can use it day after day.”
【小题1】Some schools have banned cupcakes because ________.

House For Sale

Red Rose Garden，Pudong

3-storey（层） home，509 sqm（平方米） total land area，428.8 sqm built-in, 312.9 sqm garden.

Asking RMB13 million (USDl.57 million).

MP: 13761973547   Tel: 021—58609228    Fax: 021—58609728

Job Wanted

Cherry, 24, a shining girl, good at oral English and putonghua. Now I am working at an international trade (国际贸易) company in Guangzhou. I am kind-hearted, hard-working and healthy, and would like part-time weekend work offering putonghua lessons to foreign friends. If you are interested, please e-mail me at cherryif@hotmail.com.

Beijing Snow World Ski Park

Price: 18 yuan (ticket), 50 yuan／hour on weekdays and 70 yuan／hour at weekends, 120 yuan／four hours on weekdays and 190 yuan／four hours at weekends.

Tel: 010—69191617

1.If an Australian student wants to learn Chinese，he or she can __________.

A．call 021—58609228                     B．fax 021—58609728

C．e-mail cherryif@hotmail.com              D．telephone 010-69191617

2.How many square meters is the garden of the house for sale?

A．509 sqm          B．428.8 sqm         C．312.9 sqm         D．741.7 sqm

3.Where is Cherry working now?

A．Shanghai          B．Guangzhou        C．Beijing            D．Pudong

4.If Nick goes skiing in Beijing Snow World Ski Park，he has to pay more money on _______ than on Tuesday.

A．Sunday           B．Friday            C．Wednesday        D．Monday

5.If you want to ski for four hours on weekdays，how much money will you pay at least?

A．208 yuan          B．200 yuan          C．138 yuan          D．280 yuan

Where in the world can you take an hour’s train ride, and pass a forest, a London street, a scene from the Wild West, and a burning building that never burns down? There’s only one place, and that’s Hollywood, in California. The scenes you see from the tourist train are film sets（布景） in the Universal Studios, one of the oldest and largest movie companies(公司) in the USA.
A visit to Universal Studios brings back memories of great days of Hollywood, the films and the stars. But they are only memories. Hollywood isn’t quite the same as it used to be. Costs have gone up and confidence has gone down. Movie-makers are afraid to spend their money on expensive new ideas. Instead, they repeat old ones.
The film industry is changing fast. Teenagers still go out to the movies. The theatre is a good place to meet friends away from home. But older people mostly stay home to watch series, like Dynasty have become as important to Hollywood as expensive movies. These “soap opera”, as they are called, show rich, powerful families living in beautiful homes and wearing beautiful clothes. But the actors and actresses are nearly all middle-aged, like many of the people who watch them.
Though it is soap operas that are keeping the film-makers of Hollywood in Business, big films are still being made in America. But more and more of them are made outside Hollywood. New York is the most important new center, but there are many others as well. Movie-makers have realized that they don’t need Hollywood any more. Modern cameras and real houses instead of expensively made copies in a studio. Other states, especially Florida and Texas, are working hard to take the film business away from California. They are offering better working conditions and lower cost.
But Hollywood is fighting back. The state of California is trying hard to keep its best-known industry.
【小题1】From the passage, we know Universal Studios is ______.

Beijing is planning to build an international food street beside the Olympic Park before the 2008 Olympic Games. There will be restaurants offering（提供）foods from all over the world in this street.
Beijing welcomes thousands of foreigners（外国人）every day. It is the home of many foreigners. However, Beijing does not have enough western­-style（西式）food restaurants. It has much fewer western-style food restaurants than some other major（主要的）cities in China like Shanghai and Guangzhou .
Beijing hopes the international food street will meet foreigners' demands（要求）, show more western food to Chinese people and offer good service to the 2008 Olympics.
【小题1】The international food street will be built_____.
A. in Shanghai
B. beside the Olympic Park
C. in Guangzhou
【小题2】Beijing doesn't have enough western-style_____.
A. food streets
B. food restaurants
C. supermarkets
【小题3】What is the international food street?
A. It offers all kinds of Chinese food in this street.
B. It offers foods from the western countries only.
C. People can enjoy different kinds of food from all over the world there.
【小题4】There are _____ foreigners in Beijing.
A. few        B. a few          C. many
【小题5】Beijing want to build the international food street because_____.
A. more and more Chinese like western-style food
B. it’ll show more western food to Chinese and offer good service to the 2008 Olympics
C. many foreigners only like to eat western food