1 . It’s hard to make friends if you stay at home all the time. Get out of the house and do things that will put you in touch with other people. It’s easier to make friends when you have similar interests.
Don’t be afraid to show people what you are good at. Talk about things you like and do best. People will be interested in you if there is something interesting about you.
Look at people in the eyes when you talk to them. That way, they’ll find it easier to talk to you.
Be a good listener. Let people talk about themselves before talking about “me, me, me”.
Try to make friends with the kind of people you really like, not just with those who are easy to meet. Be friendly with a lot of people. That way, you will have a bigger group to choose from and have more chances for making friends.
1. We should _________ if we want to have more friends.| A．stay at home | B．surf the Internet |
| C．make telephone calls | D．get in touch with other people |
| A．in front of them | B．at the floor |
| C．at the sky | D．at them in the eyes |
| A．talk about “me, me, me” |
| B．only show people what you are good at |
| C．be friendly with a lot of people |
| D．just make friends with who are easy to meet |
| A．People should talk about themselves when they talk to other people. |
| B．It’s hard to make friends if you stay at home all the time. |
| C．Don’t be afraid to show people what you are really good at. |
| D．Please look at people in the eyes when you talk to them. |
| A．how to study better | B．how to make more friends |
| C．how to show yourself | D．how to be a good listener |
2 . Each country and culture has its own set of public (公共的) holidays and festivals. Some of these holidays and festivals are common across the world. But there are many other holidays that are unknown.
Blessed Rainy Day
Life in a county where it rains a lot can be hard. In Bhutan, Blessed Rainy Day is the holiday marking the end of the rainy season. On this day, everyone is encouraged to enjoy a bath out of the house to wash away bad luck.
Punch Your Neighbor Festival
The cities of Potosi and Macha in Bolivia hold the festival in the Bolivian Andes Mountains in May every year. It is celebrated by thousands of people and it is based on (基于) the Quechuae word “Tinku” that means “meeting”. The meaning of the word has become worse as it is celebrated with beatings (殴打) that can really hurt people now.
Melon Day
Turkmenistan’s Melon Day is a celebration of their national fruit. It takes place (发生) in August. Thousands of mouth-watering melons will be sent to the county’s capital Ashgabat on Sunday to celebrate the holiday.
Haxey Hood
It is on January 6th in England. The Haxey Hood game in England has a big group of people trying to push a small leather tube (皮管) towards one of the four pubs (酒馆) in town, where it will stay until the following year’s game. When a person has the tube, he can’t run with it. He has to pass it to people in his team.
1. How do people celebrate Blessed Rainy Day?| A．By playing in the rain. | B．By throwing water on people. |
| C．By taking a bath outdoors. | D．By having a shower in the bathroom. |
| A．In December. | B．In August. | C．In May. | D．In January. |
| A．It can be dangerous. | B．Most people hate it. |
| C．It encourages people to love each other. | D．It is the most interesting festival. |
| A．Dance with a leather tube. | B．Run with a leather tube. |
| C．Push a leather tube towards a pub. | D．Drink with a leather tube. |
| A．In a novel (小说). | B．In a poster (海报). |
| C．In an advertisement (广告). | D．In a newspaper. |
3 . Are you an eating-lover? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular program A Bite of China? It’s a TV program on Chinese delicious food and is produced by CCTV. Is there any holiday that isn’t celebrated with special festival food? Here are several traditional Chinese food:
Noodles are a symbol of long life in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of Chinese birthday celebration as a birthday cake with its candles lit in many western countries. Since noodles mean long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut if off.
Although westerners sometimes may be very sorry see fish lying on the plate, in China a whole fish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is a tradition to serve the whole fish last, pointed towards the most valued guest. Fish also has a special meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.
A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat Festival is Zongzi. This tasty dish is made of rice dumplings with meat, peanuts or other delicious food in bamboo leaves. The tradition of Zongzi is meant to remind us of a great man Qu Yuan in Chinese history.
1. A Bite of China is a ________.| A．newspaper | B．magazine | C．film | D．TV program |
| A．noodles | B．fish | C．cakes | D．eggs |
| A．it is pointed to the valued guest | B．it sounds like the word yu in Chinese |
| C．it is very delicious | D．it is served last at a party |
| A．长寿 | B．贫穷 | C．充裕 | D．遗憾 |
| A．Chinese language. | B．Chinese history. |
| C．Chinese festival. | D．Chinese food. |
Anger is a kind of feeling.
| A．Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry. |
| B．Many things can make you angry. |
| C．Don’t let your anger control you. |
| D．It’s not helpful to talk about your anger with an old person. |
| E．But sometimes you hide your anger. |
| F．Don’t care about your anger. |
| G．When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. |
5 . Hello, everyone. Welcome to CCTV. We have wonderful programs on different channels (频道). Here is some information for you.
On Channel CCTV-3, you can enjoy different kinds of art and music shows.
CCTV-5 offers (提供) sports news and games. It is a very good channel for sports lovers.
CCTV-6 is a movie channel. You can enjoy movies at home 24 hours on this channel.
CCTV-9 offers different kinds of English programs all day. News in English and English Speech Competitions are shown on this channel.
At 12: 35 every day, you can watch reports about law (法律) on CCTV-1. Law experts (专家) are invited to join the program to give their opinions on law problems.
1. Robert is a football fan and he can enjoy football games on ________.| A．CCTV-6 | B．CCTV-1 | C．CCTV-5 | D．CCTV-9 |
| A．food | B．singing | C．animals | D．movies |
| A．learn English | B．dance | C．cook | D．keep healthy |
| A．twice a day | B．every day | C．once a week | D．in the evening |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
6 . People celebrate birthdays in nearly every country in the world. And they celebrate them in many different ways.
In Brazil, the special birthday food isn’t a cake but special candles. In China, people eat long noodles as a wish for long life. In Iceland, people have pancakes with sweet candies in them on birthdays.
In Britain, people celebrate the birthday all day. The birthday child is lifted up by his or her classmates. That is to say the child can grow up happily and healthily.
In Holland, children not only get gifts (礼物), but they get things to others, too. They give cakes, cookies and candies to their classmates and teachers on their birthday.
In Thailand, the birthday person holds a tall candle. The candle is as tall as the birthday person. It will bring good luck to him or her.
In many countries, birthday customs (习俗) are changing. But one thing never changes—birthdays are special days for everyone.
1. What is the symbol of long life in China?| A．Candles. | B．Pancakes with candles. | C．A big birthday cake. | D．Long noodles. |
| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. | D．Seven. |
| A．Britain | B．Holland | C．Thailand | D．Iceland |
| A．a cake | B．a tall candle | C．some cookies | D．some candies |
| A．people celebrate birthdays in the same way | B．the special birthday food in Brazil is a cake |
| C．children in Holland can’t get gifts | D．birthdays are special days for people |
7 . “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” This is an old English saying. It means that we should go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we will be healthy. We will also be rich and clever.
Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need eight hours’ sleep every night. If you go to bed late, you can’t have enough sleep. Then you can’t think carefully and your homework will be wrong. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy!
Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We should sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us sleep well. When the daylight comes, we should get up. This is the time for exercise. If the body is not used, it will become weak. Exercise keeps it strong.
Exercise helps the blood (血液) to move around inside the body. Blood takes nutrition (营养) to all parts of our bodies. The brains (大脑) in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and take exercise, we can think better!
Our bodies also need air to breathe. Without air we will die. Get up early in the morning and we can have plenty of clean, fresh air. That will keep us healthy and happy.
1. The old English saying tells us ________.| A．why to stay up late | B．when we should get up |
| C．how to make more money | D．it is important to go to bed and get up early |
| A．7 hours. | B．8 hours. | C．9 hours. | D．10 hours. |
| A．Exercise often. | B．Get up early. | C．Go to bed early. | D．Have enough sleep. |
| A．传播 | B．康复 | C．呼吸 | D．检查 |
| A．People will die without air. | B．The dark is good for sleeping. |
| C．Enough sleep makes you think carefully. | D．The more sleep you have, the cleverer you are. |
8 . Is that Yao Ming playing basketball? It looks like him, but it is a robot! The Yao Ming robot was one of the many “stars” at the World Robot Conference (世界机器人大会). It was from Aug. 23 to 27 in Beijing.
Robots from the world came to WRC. Some can work in factories. Some go to outer space or underwater. But service robots were the most popular at the WRC. Service robots can help do many jobs in our daily lives, such as washing, teaching and playing sports.
For example, the Yao Ming robot can teach kids how to play basketball. If schools use it, it can bring lots of fun to PE classes.
Alpha 2 is a housekeeper robot. If you want to turn off the lights, or TV, just tell it before going to sleep, children may also want to hear Alpha 2 tell them a bedtime story.
A supermarket robot makes shopping easier. You can talk with the robot. It will help you find things. It also carries them for you. You can even use the robot to pay for your things.
Do you want to have a service robot, too?
1. How long was the WRC?| A．Two days. | B．Five days. | C．One week. | D．One month. |
| A．Factory robots. | B．Space robots. |
| C．Service robots. | D．Underwater robots. |
| A．售货员 | B．厨师 | C．教练 | D．管家 |
| A．Turn off the TV. | B．Find things in the supermarket. |
| C．Tell a bedtime story. | D．Teach children to play basketball. |
| A．Robots. | B．Stars. | C．Jobs. | D．Sports. |
As early as 5000 or 6000 years ago, Chinese people started to dance and made it a part of their life activities. In the Xia dynasty (夏朝), dance became a main part of activities. Court dance (宫廷舞) started at that time. Court dance was the best in the Tang dynasty, because the Tang dynasty dance spread fast to Korea and Japan. Even today people can find the charm (魅力) of the Tang dynasty dance in the dances of these countries.
Folk dance (民间舞) is sometimes special to a place: the lion dance in Hebei Province and Guangdong Province, the tea-picking dance in Yunnan Province, the great yangko in the north-east of China and so on.
1. According to the passage, Chinese people dance for more than 5000 years at least.2. Court dance began in the Tang dynasty.
3. In the Tang dynasty, court dance spread quickly to Korea and Japan.
4. The lion dance is famous in Guangdong Province and Yunnan Province.
5. The main idea of the passage is about the folk dance.
10 . In Chinese culture, gift giving is a way of remembering special days. But there are some taboos (禁忌) on gift giving.
Chinese people usually don’t give a clock to each other. A clock sounds as zhong in Chinese. It means “the end”. So, giving someone a clock means “Your time is up.”
If clocks aren’t OK, maybe buying some fruit is a good idea. But remember not to buy pears. A pear sounds as li in Chinese. That means separation. The umbrella also sounds the same as the word for separation in Chinese. Therefore, pears and umbrellas aren’t good.
If you want to celebrate a happy moment, prepare some flowers. But don’t buy the chrysanthemum (菊花), because it is often used to remember the passing of a loved one.
Four sounds like si in Chinese, which means death (死亡). You shouldn’t give gifts in sets of four. When giving lucky money, the number shouldn’t include a four such as 40 or 400. Chinese people like to give lucky money equal to certain “lucky numbers”. For example,“520”means“I love you”,“1314”means“forever love”, “666”means“hoping everything goes well for you”and“888”means“wishing you wealth”.
At last, it’s better to wrap (包装) your gift with paper in red or other warm colors. Black and white are considered unlucky colors.
1. The underlined word “separation” means ________ in Chinese?| A．分离 | B．团聚 | C．合作 | D．聚会 |
| A．The pear and the clock. | B．The pear and the umbrella. |
| C．The umbrella and the clock. | D．The pear and the chrysanthemum. |
| A．I love you. | B．Forever love. |
| C．Wishing you wealth. | D．Hoping everything goes well for you. |
| A．You’d better wrap your gift with paper in warm colors. |
| B．You can buy your friends the chrysanthemum for her birthday. |
| C．In China, it’s OK to give gifts in sets of four. |
| D．Clock means “the beginning” in Chinese. |
| A．education | B．health | C．culture | D．sports |
