2 . How to be successful? After reading the following, you may get the answer.

	Mark Zuckerberg, born on May 14, 1984 in America, was good at computer, and now is the boss of Facebook. He married Priscilla Chan and had a daughter. In only 8 years, Zuck made his small website into a world famous one. Zuck once wrote to his friends, "Life is not always easy. You should always keep your dream and work hard."
	Nick Vujicic was born, without arms and legs, in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia. Nick met all kinds of difficult things in his life. But he never gave up. Now Nick has his own company. He likes to tell his life story to people. He says attitude is the most important in life and it can help you be successful.
	The famous scientist and thinker, Charles Darwin, was born on February 12, 1809, in England. As a boy, Charles liked to go for walks in the forests. He enjoyed watching trees, flowers, animals and comparing what he saw with everything he had read in science books. In 1859, Darwin finished his famous book The Origin of Species and the book changed the world a lot.

1. Mark Zuckerberg comes from________.

A．the US

B．England

C．Australia

D．China

2. ________ thinks attitude is very important if you want to be successful.

A．Charles Darwin	B．Nick Vujicic
C．Mark Zuckerberg	D．Priscilla Chan

3. When Charles Darwin was in school, maybe he liked having ________lessons.

A．English

B．science

C．music

D．math

4. From the passage we know ________.

A．Nick Vujicic is the boss of Facebook and is very rich.

B．Darwin wrote the The Origin of Species at the age of forty.

C．Mark Zuckerberg was good at computers and had a son.

D．The Origin of Species is a book about science.

5. You may find the passage in a ________.

A．diary

B．storybook

C．magazine

D．guidebook

3 .
The earth moves around the sun, and the moon moves around the earth. When our part of the earth turns to the moon, it is night.
The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth.
The sun is very bright. It gives a very strong light. The moon looks quite bright, too. But it doesn’t give any light at all.
The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually(实际上） the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.
1. ____moves around________.

A．The earth; the moon	B．The moon; the earth
C．The moon; the stars	D．The sun; the earth

2. Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because_________.

A．it is much bigger than the sun

B．it comes out only at night

C．it is much nearer to the earth than the sun

D．it doesn’t give a strong light

3. The sun_______________.

A．is very bright, and it gives a very strong light

B．isn’t bright, but it gives a very strong light

C．is very big, but it doesn’t give any light at all

D．is very round, but it can’t move round

4. The stars______________.

A．look much bigger than the moon

B．look much bigger than the sun

C．are a lot brighter than the moon, but they are not bigger than the moon

D．are much farther away from us than the moon

5. When                            ,it is day.

A．our part of the earth turns to the moon

B．our part of the earth turns to the sun

C．the sun moves

D．the moon moves

4 . How much do you know about London? Now let me tell you.
London has about 7, 000, 000 people. About the year 1800 , London was a very big city in the world.
London is famous for many things. Tourists come from all over the world to visit its famous buildings and listen to the famous clock, Big Ben.
Like many big cities, London has problems. there are to many cars and people. Every day about 1, 000, 000 people come and go by underground, but there are still too many cars and buses in the streets. So the air isn’t clean. However, it is cleaner than it was 100 years ago.
For me, the best things in London are the parks. There are five parks in the city centre. But my children’s favourite place is Hamleys, the biggest toy shop in the world.
1. Maybe London became a very big city in the world in______.

A．1750

B．1820

C．1950

D．1980

2. What does the underlined word “underground” mean?

A．Ship.

B．Car.

C．Subway.

D．Taxi.

3. What are the best things in London for the writer?

A．Famous buildings.	B．Parks.
C．Cars and buses.	D．Toys.

4. ---What’s Hamleys in London according to the passage?   www.21-cn-jy.com
---It’s a______.

A．toy shop

B．museum

C．park

D．clock

5. Which of the following sentences is NOT TRUE? ________.

A．London has a population of about 7, 000, 000

B．London is famous for buildings and Big Ben

C．The traffic in the city is easy because of the underground

D．The air in London is cleaner than 100 years ago

5 . It is easier to go down the hill than to climb up the hill, so it is easier to fall into bad habits than into good ones. Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little without one being aware of（意识到）their danger. School boys first pick up little bad habits in the school and on the street. When they can’t write their lessons, they copy from their schoolmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends gambling（赌博）, they want to gamble. When they get bigger, the habits become stronger and stronger, so that they can no longer get rid of（摆脱，除掉）them. From copying, they learn to steal, from gambling, they learn to cheat. At last they become distrusted（不信任） by everybody. How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits in the beginning.

1. It is easier to fall into ______ than into ______ .

A．good habits, bad ones

B．bad habits, good ones

C．bad habits, good one

D．good habits, bad one

2. Bad habits come ______.

A．suddenly	B．little by little
C．faster and faster	D．slower and slower

3. Where do school boys pick up little bad habits first?

A．In the school.

B．On the street.

C．In the school and on the street.

D．In a hospital.

4. When school boys get bigger, their bad habits become ______.

A．stronger and stronger	B．weaker and weaker
C．better and better	D．less and less

5. It is important for us to ______ .

A．copy others

B．learn steal and cheat

C．get rid of the bad habits in the beginning

D．laugh at others

6 . You are going to high school, aren’t you? Maybe you don’t know what to do. Well, here’s a list of the top six things to do when you are in high school. These things will give you ideas of what your high school life could be like. Here you go!

①Find your passion* and what kind of person you are: Whether it’s dance, basketball, or drawing, the important thing is that you have found something you are interested in.

②Talk to people you wouldn’t usually talk to: meet new people, find new friends and even talk to people you don’t like. It will show what a great person you are. You never know what will happen after high school.

③Take part in at least one competition: This will give you tears of laughter, happiness and memories.

④Get a job: This will help you see what it’s like to have responsibility*. It can also help you make a little money to spend on yourself.

⑤Take a trip with your friends: It doesn’t matter where you go or what you do, the memories will happen on the way and go on till the final place.

⑥Do your best at school: Don’t ever get lazy; working hard now will help you in the future.

1. The writer mainly tells you six things you should do _____.

A．in your high school years

B．at the beginning of your high school years

C．before your high school begins

D．after finishing your high school

2. The writer gives you advice that you should talk to people you don’t like because _____.

A．you will feel sorry if not

B．it will show how great you are

C．it will show how clever you are

D．you can make your study better

3. Which of the following you’d better not do according to the passage?

A．Find your interest

B．Get a Job

C．Take a trip with your friends

D．Get lazy

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Have a happy school life

B．How to get along with your schoolmates

C．Ideas of successful high school life

D．Make sure your school life easy

7 . When it rains, do your shoes get wet? Of course they do! But you can buy these pretty red and white “Umbrella for Shoes”. They keep the rain off wet.
Who sweeps the floor at your home? Do you do it yourself? Perhaps your mother does it. Well, now you just need a cat. Get a cat and buy these four “Dusters (抹布)for Cats ”.
You talk too long on the phone, don’t you? Most teenagers do! Save time – buy
the “Telephone Dumb–bell (哑铃)”! It weighs five kilos. Then your calls will be less than five minutes.
Do your friends sometimes come up behind you and make you jump? Do cars come around the corner when you try to cross the road? Well, you can solve that problem with these modern “Forward – backward Glasses.” Look forward with the right eye and back with the left.
1. Which of the following pictures is the right order to match the text?

A．d; a; b; c

B．b; a; c; d

C．d; a; c; b

D．b; d; a; c

2. From the text, we know that cats can help mother to _________.

A．do some housework	B．keep the rain off
C．speak on the phone	D．look for something

3. The text tells us that we can solve some problems with the four _______.

A．drawings

B．inventions

C．animals

D．shoes

8 . My name is Lily. This is my classroom. There are 40 desks, 40 chairs, a bookcase, a computer and a teacher’s desk in it. It has two green doors and four windows. There’s a clock and a map on the wall(墙壁). Look, that is Kate. She is my friend. A red bag, three black pens and four green pencils are on her desk. My favourite day is Saturday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays.
1. How many pencils are there on the desk?

A．Three

B．Two.

C．One

D．Four.

2. The doors are _____________.

A．green

B．red

C．white

D．blue

3. What’s on the wall’?

A．A clock.

B．A map.

C．A bookcase.

D．A and B.

4. Lily’s favourite day is _____________.

A．Monday

B．Friday

C．Saturday

D．Sunday

5. Which is TRUE? (哪一个是正确的)

A．Kate’s pencil is yellow.

B．There are 4 pens on the desk.

C．There are 4 windows in the classroom.

D．The bag is yellow.