1 . Students learn their lessons in class. In class teachers teach them. Students sit in the classroom listening to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the only way for students to learn something? Of course not. There is another way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For example, if you can not remember something when you are doing your homework, you can look at your book to find the answer. This is a way to teach yourself. And it is not a difficult thing. We can do this at any place and at any time.

How do you teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are interested in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. The question is something you don't understand, or you want to know more about. You can write down these questions. A clever student is usually good at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by thinking hard, by reading the test or other books, and sometimes by asking other people. This is the way of teaching yourself. And you must do this all by yourself. If you keep doing like this for a long time, you are sure to succeed in your study.

1. Listening to the teacher is______ for students to learn something.

A．not a way	B．the best way
C．the only way	D．not the only way

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．A student can teach himself only in class.

B．It is a bad way to learn from the teacher.       ^

C．A student can learn to teach himself if he wants to.

D．Students know very well how to teach themselves.

3. In leaching yourself，the first thing you must do is______.

A．writing

B．reading

C．asking

D．answering

4. A clever student usually likes _____.

A．asking questions	B．answering questions
C．finding answers	D．teaching others

5. If you want to succeed，you had better learn______.

A．how to teach others

B．how to teach yourself

C．how to read and write carefully

D．how to ask questions

2 .
Peter is a sixth-grader at Woodland Primary School. He is only 12 years old but has been smoking for three years. John, 15, is a Junior 2 student at Woodland Secondary School. He began smoking four years ago. “Smoking is part of my life,” John said. Peter and John are not those boys’ real names. But their problem, smoking, is a very real problem. In many countries, smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people. Most smokers start in their teens or earlier.
A study of 8,000 London students shows that smoking is a problem for many British kids. More than 21% of middle school students and 6 % of primary school pupils said they smoked. “If young people start smoking early, it will be very hard for them to give up later on,” said a professor.
Every year, about four million people die because of smoking. And if people keep smoking,   that number will go up to about ten million a year by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. So we have to learn and tell others about the dangers of smoking.
1. The sentence “Smoking is part of my life” probably means “__________”

A．I don’t smoke very often.

B．Smoking is very important to me.

C．I don’t smoke at all.

D．I’m going to give up smoking.

2. What will probably happen if a person starts smoking early?

A．He will surely die early.

B．He cannot stop smoking.

C．It will be difficult for him to give up smoking.

D．He will become lazy soon.

3. The study in the passage shows that __________.

A．smoking is a serious problem among British students

B．there are more and more smokers in England

C．some student smokers are having fun smoking

D．most of smokers are young students

4. The main idea of this passage is that__________.

A．smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people

B．more and more people die because of smoking every year

C．WHO asks young people to give up smoking

D．we needn’t worry about the student smokers

5. As middle school students, what should we do from now on?

A．We should start smoking after middle school.

B．We should ask others to smoke outside.

C．We should laugh at smokers.

D．We should say no to smoking.