List Price: $ 34.99 Sale Price: $ 31.49 Recommended Age: 6 months old and up Material: cotton Details: The vehicle (车) can be a car, a sailing boat or an aircraft, you can choose. Each of the toys has its own play value-rattle (发声器) and small bell. There’s plenty of room on board for dolls to enjoy the ride. Packaged in a box.
	List Price: $ 190.00 Sale Price: $ 190.00 Recommended Age: 3 to 5 years old Material: steel Details: Cool ride and hot color. Young drivers enjoy a deluxe (豪华的) ride in this pink Hummer. This set of wheels invites admiring glances as your kid drives along. • Includes Hummer Ride-On, a 6V rechargeable battery, and a charger • Charge time 6 hours; run time 1 hour • Maximum speed of 2.5 kmph
	List Price: $ 50.00 Sale Price: $ 44.99 Recommended Age: 3 years old and up Material: wood Details: A wooden Forklift will load and unload allowing a child to enjoy real life activities. As the forklift goes up and down, it makes a sound. This item will improve a child’s hand and eye coordination (调节) and will inspire imagination. DOLL NOT INCLUDED.
	List Price: $ 31.99 Sale Price: $ 26.99 Recommended Age: 1 year old and up Material: plastic Details: A little vehicle with a driver and six different building blocks, each with its own surprise or visual element, for playing, building or discovering.

1. If you have a baby of 8 months old, which of the following may be proper for your baby?

A．Dream Journey.	B．First Blocks.
C．Wooden Forklift.	D．Pink Hummer.

2. If you want to choose a wooden toy from the boxes, you may pay       .

A．$ 26.99	B．$ 31.49
C．$ 44.99	D．$ 190.00

3. If you buy First Blocks, you will find there are        toy parts together.

A．five	B．six
C．seven	D．eight

When Boris left school, he could not find a job. He tried hard and he wrote letters to many companies until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. Boris began to lose his confidence, then depressed. Still he went on trying and still he failed. He began to think that he had no future at all.

“Why don’t you start your own business?” one of his uncles told him. “The world is a money-locker. You’d better find a way of opening it.”

“But what can I do?”

“Get out and have a look round.” advised his uncle. “See what people want; then give it to them, and they will pay for it.”

Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer. He worked hard, made friends with his customers and gradually managed to win his good fame. A few months later, he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself. He found a number of empty shops but they were all no good: in the wrong position, too expensive or with some other problems. But at long last, he managed to find an empty shop in a new place where there were plenty of customers but no competition.

Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair motor-cycles. Slowly but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last, Boris had managed lo open the money-locker and found bank notes and gold coins inside.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．No Education, No Future.

B．The World Is a Money-locker.

C．Good Fame Is the Key to Success.

D．Difficulty of Starting a Small Business.

5. Which of the following best describes Boris’s job hunting experience?

A．Boring.	B．Surprising.
C．Encouraging.	D．Disappointing.

6. Boris started his career by ________.

A．repairing cycles	B．buying empty shops
C．cycling around the town	D．developing a waste ground

7. Boris finally chose an empty shop in a place because ________.

A．it was not so expensive

B．he had a lot of old customers there

C．there were good opportunities there

D．he could make good use of his skills there

Silvia Maier works at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She and her colleagues invited 51 young men into the lab for 3 hours of tests. They showed each man 180 food items on a computer. Each time, they asked the men to judge how healthy, tasty and appealing the food was.

Then the researchers stressed out 29 of the men. They did this by asking each to put one hand in ice water for three minutes. If the water was too unpleasant, the volunteers could remove their hands, but must continue looking into a video camera. The men were also encouraged to put their hands back into the cold water. All the while, a researcher watched and videotaped the ordeal (考验). Another 22 men held one hand in warm water. They were not videotaped.

Afterward, the researchers showed each man a series of two food items. They did this 210 times. And before making choices, the men were told to choose the healthier of the two items. When the testing was over, the scientists gave the volunteers a snack. Each man got one of the items he had said that he preferred. Despite being coached to choose healthy foods, the stressed men proved more likely to pick the less healthy.

The researchers also performed brain scans of the volunteers. It showed what part of the brain was active as they made their choices. “Our findings indicate that stress affects the decision making,” Maier’s team concluded. And it does this by changing two brain pathways. One affects sensory information, such as taste. The other affects a person’s ability to make decisions such as eating what is good for us.

More studies will be needed to confirm the new findings. But the early signs suggest that stress not only makes junk food more appealing, but also weakens the brain’s ability to resist eating it.

8. How did the scientists mainly get the result?

A．By doing experiments.

B．By asking questions.

C．By conducting surveys.

D．By secret observations.

9. The cold water used in the experiment may make men feel

A．pleasant

B．frightened

C．relaxed

D．stressed

10. Why did the scientists scan the brains of the volunteers?

A．They wanted to find the IQ of them.

B．They wanted to observe the activities of their brains.

C．They wanted to discover the potential disease of them.

D．They wanted to know the health conditions of them.

11. What does the last paragraph imply?

A．The new Swiss study is the final conclusion.

B．Stress may increase self-control in eating.

C．Stress makes junk food more attractive.

D．It is easy for stressed people to resist tasty foods.

Britons are increasingly entertaining guests at home with dinner, film and karaoke nights, inspired by television shows on cookery (烹饪术) and home entertainment, according to a survey.

More than half (53 percent) of the respondents to a poll (民意测验) of 1,000 Britons across the country said they now prefer to spend quality time with family and friends by inviting them over to their homes rather than meeting in bars and restaurants, the survey by mobile phone operator T-Mobile showed.

Popular television shows such as “Come Dine With Me,” where amateur chefs attempt to wow the audience with their culinary (烹调的) skills, “Master Chef” where ordinary people compete to cook to Michelin standards (米其林餐厅评分标准) and a number of celebrity cookery shows have inspired Britons to entertain at home.

The poll showed that nearly a third of respondents had spent money on home entertainment improvements such as sofas, dining tables and bigger televisions to impress the guests.

“Over the last couple of years, my clients have increasingly asked for home parties rather than ones at independent places,” party planning expert Liz Brewer said in a statement accompanying the poll’s results.

“This is not only due to a slowing of economic activity but because many have become increasingly house-proud and eager to show off their cooking skills, in addition to their latest home entertainment purchases.”

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was the top choice for dream host of respondents, while Prime Minister Gordon Brown was one of the least favored, alongside Conservative leader David Cameron.

12. Britons’ interest in entertaining guests at home is growing because of the impact of       .

A．Michelin standards	B．television programs
C．fast economic development	D．mobile phone operator T-Mobile

13. The underlined word “wow” in Paragraph 3 probably means “      ”.

A．fill	B．compare
C．impress	D．associate

14. To entertain guests at home, the hosts have to       .
a. purchase certain furniture
b. improve their cooking skills
c. consult a party planning expert first
d. ask some professional chefs to help

A．a and b	B．c and d
C．a and d	D．b and c

15. What can be learned from the passage?

A．The service of most British restaurants is not satisfactory.

B．Politicians are the top choice for dream host of respondents.

C．Two thirds of Britons are willing to entertain guests at home.

D．Entertaining guests at home will strengthen the relationships.