Summer Culture Welcome a student from France or Spain into your family! Exchange(交换) students from Spain and France are looking for welcoming, fun and loving hosts who will share life and culture with them for a few weeks in June, July and August. Stays can be from 4 to 6 weeks. What to do with your exchange student: Movies/Museums/Beach/Cooking/Community projects/ Volunteering/ Shopping/anything you can think of... Requirements to hosts:

Loving and active family One stay-at-home host parent Willing to take students to places of interest once a week Contact information: If you are interested and would like more information, please contact: Shirley Wentzell 909-918-6715 Email: Shirley(@uceus.com

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. How long will exchange students possibly stay in host families?

A．10 days.

B．5 weeks.

C．2 months.

D．1 year.

2. According to the text, exchange students ________.

A．can experience different cultures in host families	B．must take part in a community project
C．have to cook dinners by themselves	D．need to give money to the host

3. According to the passage, the host should ________.

A．be rich and well-educated	B．have good full-time jobs
C．speak Spanish and French	D．take students on a trip every week

4. If you want to host a exchange student, you can ________.

A．visit the official website	B．call 909-918-6715
C．send an e-mail to school	D．visit the student in person

5. The text above is probably a ________.

A．letter

B．notice

C．poster

D．diary

Thirty years ago, Lake Ponkapog in Hartwell was full of life. Many birds and animals lived beside the water which was full of fish. Now there are few birds, animals and fish. People polluted the lake water.

How did this happen? First, we must think about how water gets into Lake Ponkapog. When it rains, water comes into the lake from all around. In the past, there were forests all around Lake Ponkapog, so the rainwater was clean.

Now there are many homes around the lake. People often use chemicals in their gardens. They also use chemicals inside their houses for cleaning or killing insects. There are many factories. Factories use chemicals to produce products and some chemicals fall onto the ground from cars or trucks. When it rains, the rainwater picks up all the chemicals from homes, factories, cars and trucks and then carries them into the lake. They pollute the water and kill the animals.

Boats on the lake are also a problem. Lake Ponkapog is a popular place for motorboats. But oil and gas from boats often leak(泄漏) into the lake. So more harmful chemicals go into the water in this way.

People in Hartwell are worried. They love their lake and want to save it. Will it be possible? A clean lake must have clean rainwater going into it. Clean rainwater is possible only if people are more careful about chemicals at home and at work. They must also be more careful about gas and oil and other chemicals on the ground. And they mustn’t use motorboats any more on the lake. All these may change people’s life. Only then Lake Ponkapog can be a beautiful, clean lake again.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
6. In the past, ________ made the water in Lake Ponkapog clean.

A．forests

B．rain

C．birds

D．fish

7. Chemicals from homes and factories ________.

A．are always clean	B．can help the animals
C．are good for the lake	D．pollute the water and kill the animals

8. Cleaner rainwater will mean ________.

A．more boats on the lake	B．more dirty things in the lake
C．a cleaner lake	D．a dirtier lake

9. To save Lake Ponkapog, people need to ________.

A．be more careful about chemicals	B．use less water
C．grow fewer plants in the garden	D．use more motorboats on the lake

10. The passage is about ________.

A．boats on Lake Ponkapog	B．why the water is dirty in Lake Ponkapog
C．clean rainwater	D．dirty lakes

English is now the first language of about 400 million people, the mother language of twelve countries and the official language of sixty-three more countries. That means one in every seven people in the world speaks English.

English has become the new Latin (拉丁语) of the century. One must know English is a part of the twenty-first century. In Italy, for example, English is a must for many technical jobs. In China, English is the most important foreign language learned at school.

Now no other language on the earth is better suitable to play the role of the world language. Because English is easier to learn than any other language, and it easily borrows local words and phrases from other languages to expand its vocabulary (丰富它的词汇量).

English is so widely used that it has become the standard language for all kinds of international communication. Now 75% of the world’s mail is in English. 60% of the world’s telephone calls are made in English. 60% of the world’s radio stations are broadcast (广播) in English and over half of the world’s books and magazines are written in English. In a word, English is now the world’s first language.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
11. ________ countries speak English as their mother language.

A．12

B．45

C．63

D．75

12. If you want to ask for a technical job in Italy, you must be able to speak ________.

A．Latin

B．Chinese

C．English

D．Italian

13. “English has become the new Latin of the century” means ________.

A．English has a long history	B．English is as important as Latin
C．English has borrowed lots of words from Latin	D．English is as difficult to learn as Latin

14. ________ of the world’s magazines are written in English.

A．More than 50%

B．75%

C．60%

D．Less than 50%

15. The writer thinks English is now ________.

A．a native language	B．the world language
C．an official language	D．the Latin language

Once upon a time there was a little prince. He was so spoilt (宠坏的) that he wouldn’t let anybody have a new toy if he didn’t have one first.

    16     The prince invited him to spend a year in the palace, asking the toymaker to make him a new toy every day. The toymaker said, “My toys are very special.     17     Will you spend a little time with each one every day?” “Of course, I will,” the prince replied.

From then on, every morning the prince received a new toy. The prince appeared very happy.

    18     And soon there were too many toys for him to play with. The little prince couldn’t get to sleep until midnight. He was so tired and sleepy.     19     Even worse, the toys were getting angry because he spent less time playing with them.

One day, the prince saw some children playing outside the palace.     20     When they finished playing, they could take home the toys they liked the most.

At the end of the year, all the toys were shared out and the palace turned into the best playroom.

根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

A．But the toy collection kept growing.

B．Then he invited them to play with him.

C．He hardly had time to enjoy playing.

D．They need an owner to play with them.

E．One day a wonderful toymaker came to the land.