My grandfather is eighty years old. He sometimes complains（抱怨）about how fast things have changed.

He often says that families aren’t the families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up（破裂）. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they will no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home to take care of their children, but now they’re busy working. They have no time to look after children at home. What’s more, more and more people drive. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. But now children don’t. And in school, children don’t have to think more as we used to. In math class, for example, we used to add, subtract, multiply and divide（加、减、乘、除）using our heads. But now most students use calculators. Most families have computers now. In the past, we didn’t have computers. We even had no lights. My mother to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now few people eat home-cooked food. And people seldom talk to each other. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think… Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.

根据短文内容，判断句子是否正确，正写（A），错写（B）。（10分）

1.The writer’s grandfather thinks people now are much busier than they used to be.

2.Students have to think more at school now than past.

3.．People like to eat home—cooked food now.

4.．Lots of couples（夫妇）don’t live together because of unhappy problems.

【小题】5．People have too much time to talk with each other now.

Students these days often have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends.      Some people think the worst thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a teenager from Washington, agrees. “Problems and worries are normal in life,” says Laura. “But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don’t talk to someone, we’ll certainly feel worse.”
Laura once lost her purse, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents shout it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn’t have any money. She just kept thinking. “If I tell my parents, they’ll be angry!” But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new purse and asked her to be more careful. “I will always remember to share my problems in the future!” Laura says.
Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He feels the same way as Laura. “It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve (解决) them.” He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn’t need to be an expert (专家) like himself. Students often forget that their parents have more experience than them, and are always there to help them.
In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half. So you’re halfway to solving a problem if you talk to someone about it!
【小题1】Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph One?

Jaya is sixteen, but he doesn’t go to school. He studies medicine at New York University in a class of twenty-year-olds. Jaya was born in Madras in India but now lives in a house in New York with his mother, father and brother. They can all speak English. His father is a doctor.

Jaya was different from a very young age. He could count before he could say “Mummy” or “Daddy”. He could answer questions on calculus (微积分) when he was five and did algebra(几何) when he was eight. Now he studies from 8:15am to 4: 00am every day at the university. Then he studies at home with his father from 6:30 to 10:00 every evening. Jaya doesn’t have any friends. He thinks other children can’t understand him. He never goes out in the evenings, but he sometimes watches TV. He says, “I live for one thing — I want to be a doctor before I am nineteen.”

1.Is Jaya very clever?

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2.Where was Jaya born?

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3.Who teaches him medicine at home?

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4.What was Jaya very interested in when he was very young, math or medicine?

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5.Why doesn’t Jaya make friends?

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My grandfather lives ______. He sometimes feels ______. We should often go to see him.

A. alone, alone     B. alone, lonely      C. lonely, lonely    D. lonely, alone

先通读短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母填入一个合适的词。
John is going to show us a___1____ his home town. He lives in a small house w___2___ a garden and his mother g ____3____vegetables and flowers in the garden. There are lots of tall b____4_____ in his town. There is a park near the c_____5____of town. He likes going into town o____6_____ his bicycle. He sometimes goes s_____7____ in summer when it is warm and s____8_____. There are not m_____9_____ cars and they can not go into the centre of town. He t_____10_____ it is a wonderful place to visit.