1 . This is a song. Millions of Americans will hear this song on New Year’s Eve. It is called Auld Lang Syne (《友谊天长地久》). It is the traditional music played during the New Year’s celebration.
Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember old friends. The words “Auld Lang Syne” means “old long since”. No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version (版本) by Scottish poet Robert Burns came out in 1796. The words and music we know today first appeared (出现) in a songbook three years later.
The song is played in the United States mainly on New Year’s Eve. The version you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. As we end our programme with Auld Lang Syne, I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas. Thanks for listening.
1. Where is the passage from?

A．A storybook.	B．A magazine.
C．A TV programme.	D．A radio programme.

2. Who is telling the song Auld Lang Syne to us?

A．Robert Burns.

B．The Washington Saxophone Quartet.

C．Buddy Thomas.

D．We don’t know.

3. When is Auld Lang Syne mainly played in the USA?

A．On New Year’s Eve.	B．On Christmas Eve.
C．On weekend.	D．On holidays.

4. What’s Auld Lang Syne about?

A．It’s about the history of Scotland.

B．It’s about an Scottish writer.

C．It’s about the need to remember old friends.

D．It’s about the radio friends.

2 . When I was a kid, I never had any problems watching some cartoons. It was so much fun and a great education(教育) too. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry were my idols(偶像). Even now I really feel that they are worth watching at any age.
The problem I’ve found is the cartoons at present. Some of them contain something ugly. Most of the time, they show such many terrible characters with violence(暴力)that you wonder what they really mean. Cartoons are supposed to be funny but they aren’t. If you are expecting to teach your kids good manners and behavior, then they are the worst for your kids to watch.
Kids often imitate what they see in cartoons. If your kid is a fan of such cartoons, he or she will follow his or her favorite cartoon character and try to do something extremely dangerous.
Therefore, try not to let your kids watch too many today’s cartoons. Make sure to keep an eye on what they are watching.
1. When the writer was a kid, he thought that the cartoons then were ________.

A．ugly and terrible	B．funny but terrible
C．ugly and dangerous	D．funny and educational

2. The writer doesn’t like the cartoons at present because ________.

A．he is no longer a kid

B．they are bad for kids’ education

C．they are long and boring

D．they have ugly characters in them

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

A．Everyone should only watch the past cartoon.

B．A large number of kids are crazy about cartoons now.

C．All the cartoons are bad for kids to grow healthily today.

D．Parents should stop their kids watching too many today’s cartoons.

3 . Healthy eating doesn't just mean what you eat, but how you eat. Here is some advice on healthy eating.          

Eat with others. It can help you to see others' healthy eating habits. If you usually eat with your parents, you will find that the food you eat is more delicious.

Listen to your body. Ask yourself if you are really hungry. Have a glass of water to see if you are thirsty--sometimes you are just thirsty, and you need no food. Stop eating before you feel full.

Eat breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Because you don't eat for the past ten hours, your body needs food to get you going. You will be smarter after eating breakfast

Eat healthy snacks like fruits, yogurt(酸奶) or cheese. We all need snacks sometimes. In fact, it's a good idea to eat two healthy snacks between your three meals. This doesn't mean that you can eat a bag of chips instead of a meal.

Don't eat dinner late. In our busy life, we always put off eating dinner until the last minute. Try to eat dinner at least 3 hours before you go to bed. This will give your body a chance to digest most of the food before you rest for the next 8-10 hours.

1. The writer gives us _________ pieces of advice on healthy eating.

A．4

B．5

C．6

D．7

2. Which snack is Not mentioned in the passage?

A．Fruits.

B．Yogurt.

C．Chips.

D．Ice cream.

3. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A．Snacks are bad for our health.

B．We should keep eating until we are full.

C．Dinner is the most important meal of the day.

D．We should have dinner at least 3 hours before going to bed.

4. The underlined word "digest" means   ______ in Chinese.

A．消化

B．享用

C．储存

D．循环

5. The passage mainly tells us ___________

A．where to eat

B．how to eat

C．why to eat

D．when to eat

4 . The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it’s true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth.
Wrong idea No.1： An invention has to be something completely new.
Well, inventing means creating something “new”, but the idea could come from something that already exists*. The Wright Brothers, for example, got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds.
Wrong idea No.2： Inventors are born, not made.
There are a lot of factors* that make invention possible. Take Mozart, for example. He was born with anendowmentfor musical composition. But other factors were also important for his creativity. His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was four years old. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was “99% hard work and 1% inspiration”!
Very successful creators don’t give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, “A failure is the right answer to the wrong question.”
Wrong idea No.3： Inventors are always old people.
Don’t believe that you can’t invent something when you are young. Here are two examples of young inventors： Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was fifteen, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.
As a young man, George Nissen was watching some artists performing in a show. He watched how they fell into the safety net and then jumped back up again. This gave him an idea, and he invented the trampoline*.
1.         got the idea for building a “flying machine” from watching birds.

A．Mozart	B．George Nissen
C．Louis Braille	D．The Wright Brothers

2. The underlined word “endowment” probably means “     ”.

A．态度

B．品质

C．天赋

D．能量

3. According to the passage, which of the following is right?

A．Anybody can do inventing.

B．Inventors are born, not made.

C．Inventors are always old people.

D．An invention has to be something completely new.

4. The best title for the passage would be _______.

A．How to perform in a show	B．Be a composer
C．How to help blind people	D．Be an inventor

5 . Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana, thisinformation will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are nostrict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food.
When you go to ahome, the host takes you to the living room first. At this time everyonewelcomes you. Then you go to the dining room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water.All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else.But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of thedish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw because it is very hard.You must chew fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your righthand only.
1. In the fourth paragraph, the writer wants to tell us _______.

A．what to eat in Ghana	B．how much time to spend on a dinner
C．the way of eating	D．different food at a dinner

2. If you are dinner guest to a family in Ghana, you’re first ________.

A．told some strict rules about dinner

B．taken to the dining room

C．taken to the living room

D．told to wash your hands

3. In Ghana, __________.

A．dinner is always at six

B．rules for dinner are not strict

C．a family offers food only at four

D．you don’t have to wash your hands again after dinner

6 . Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk that looks just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a knife.

It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house – even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of vegetable.
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation, a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. The leaves grow. In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast – sometimes as much as the length of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers come out, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start turning up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down! Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. Bananas are picked long before this – when they’re hard and green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling. If bananas are picked when they are ripe (成熟的), they will spoil on the way.
1. What’s the weather like in places where bananas grow?

A．Dry and cold

B．Cold and wet

C．Wet and hot

D．Hot and dry

2. The fruit of banana plants come from________.

A．a stalk

B．a tree

C．a seed

D．a root

3. Bananas are picked long before they are _____________.

A．green

B．ripe

C．hard

D．red

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．All bananas are eaten as fruit.

B．Some banana plants grow taller than a house.

C．Bananas get ripe on their way to the store.

D．It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked.

7 . The world would be a very different place if someone hadn’t invented the lift. There would be few, if any, high-rise buildings because people would refuse to climb many stairs. By the time workers reached their offices on the top floors of a tower building, it would be time to go home – if they were not too tired for the long walk down！

The first lift that we know about was used by the Greek scientist, Archimedes, in about 230 BC. It was a simple place that could be pulled up and down with a rope. A lift like this was used much later in the 12^th century by priests who lived on top of a mountain at Metereo in Greece. Because they were afraid of killers, the priests had not built any stairs up the mountain. The only way up was by lift, which priests worked from the top of the mountain.
A few hundred years later, a Frenchman, Villayer, invented a ‘flying chair’ which used a rope and a place. A number of rich people had these ‘flying chairs’ built in their homes, including Queen Anne of England in Windsor Castle and Louis XVI of France at Versailles. Unluckily, Louis’ daughter was badly hurt when using one of the chairs, and Villayer ran away, afraid that he would be punished.
The main problem for lift engineers was that either humans or animals were needed to pull the ropes. This problem was not worked out until the discovery of steam power. But even steam powered lifts were not always safe because they also used ropes which sometimes broke. If the rope broke - which it sometimes did - the lift fell to the ground and people in it were killed or hurt. This problem worked out in 1854 when an American, Elisha Otis, invented something which stopped the lift from falling if the rope broke. At first Otis lifts were used only in factories, then in 1857 he built one in a large New York store. Now lifts use electric power and are completely safe. They also travel very quickly. Some lifts travel faster than 60 kilometers an hour.
1. The writer thinks that lifts are important today because __________.

A．people like playing on them

B．they are the best way of using steam power

C．we need them for tall buildings

D．workers are lazy

2. The 12^th century priests had a simple lift instead of stairs because ___________.

A．they thought the stairs were broken

B．they liked having stairs and a lift

C．the lived at the bottom of a mountain

D．they were afraid of killers

3. Villayer thought he would be punished because ____________.

A．poor people could not afford his ‘flying chair

B．someone was hurt in one of his ‘flying chairs’

C．his ‘flying chair’ did not work at all

D．he ran away with Louis XVI’s daughter

4. Steam power meant that ________   .

A．they did not need a living thing to pull the ropes

B．Elisha Otis could invent a lift that would not fall

C．the rope always broke

D．they could use lifts in factories

8 . The most common disease in the world is the cold. It often starts with a sore throat . You sneeze and your nose runs. You usually have a headache, too. Often you have a cough later. It's not a serious disease, but you can feel quite bad.
There isn't a cure (良药) for a cold, but you can take some medicine to make you feel better. For example, you can take aspirin (阿司匹林) to get rid of (去除) your headache. It is good to rest. and to drink a lot of water, too. A doctor once told me."With the right medicine. a cold will last for seven days. With no medicine, it will go on for a whole week!"
A long time ago, people understood that some plants made them feel better. For example, the juice of lemons (柠檬) makes a sore throat feel better. In modern times, scientists have found out which chemicals (化学药品) are in them. Man, of our medicines today are made from those chemicals. There are some diseases that we can't cure yet. And nobody has found a cure for old age. But because of modern medicines, the average people now live longer than their grandparents.
1. A cold often starts with _______.

A．headache

B．a cough

C．a pain in your throat

D．feeling a little cold

2. What should we do when we catch a cold?

A．We only take some medicine.

B．We should rest well, drink much water and have some medicine.

C．We just wait for a whole week.

D．We only need a good rest.

3. What makes a sore throat feel better?

A．The medicine aspirin.	B．A lot of water.
C．Something inside lemons.	D．The root of a plant.

4. What is the real meaning of the doctor's words?

A．There is almost no medicine that can cure the cold.

B．There is some medicine that can cure the cold.

C．You will feel well after a whole week when you take some medicine.

D．The cold is a serious disease.

5. From the passage. which of the following is not TRUE?

A．You can feel quite bad though the cold is not a serious disease.

B．We can get some medicine to get rid of our headache.

C．Even if you don't take any medicine, you will feel well after seven days.

D．People have found a cure for old age.

9 . In America: There are many more cars than in China. Maybe the number of cars in California is the same as the number in China. But there are fewer traffic jams and accidents in America than in China. We hardly see traffic police in the street, but all cars obey traffic rules strictly , and people hardly find that a car does not obey traffic rules in the street.
About America traffic rules, there are many better terms , such as:
1. Stop line: There are stop line in all crossing without traffic lights(some have two stop lines and others have four stop lines); all cars must stop while meeting the stop lines.
2．Traffic lights: There are traffic lights in the crossing of the road .Cars may almost turn every direction. the traffic lights can give signals step by step including u-turn . There is a kind of middle lane of turning left. When a car wants to turn left in the road, he may enter into the middle lane of turning left and give a signal of turning left. When he thinks being safe he may turn left.
3. Specific item: Such as parking, there are three kinds of lines (its color are white, blue or red) in the roadside. Every line may park different kinds of cars. There are streets in some residential(住宅区) areas, and no car can park at any time or any period time.
4. About the priority (优先权) of passengers and cars: At any case, passengers have the priority to cars. But only after passengers have passed the road and gotten the top of sidestep, cars may go ahead. In general, traffic rules of America are very specific, convenient and safe.
1. According to the passage, we can know________.

A．there are more traffic jams and accidents in America than in China

B．traffic policemen are often seen in the street in America

C．California may have as many cars as China

D．You can easily find that a car does not obey traffic rules in the street in America

2. When you meet a stop line while driving a car in the crossing without traffic lights,,_____.

A．you can go ahead	B．you can turn left
C．you can have a u-turn	D．you must stop

3. Which color is not include in the parking lines in America ？

A．yellow

B．blue

C．red

D．white

4. Which of the following is true?

A．Any car can park at any time or any period time in the streets in some residential areas.

B．While giving a signal of turning left and being safe, you can turn left in the middle lane of turning left

C．At any case, cars have the priority to passengers.

D．You can park your car at any one of the three parking lines.

5. This passage mainly talks about________

A．the priority of passengers and cars	B．the traffic lights
C．the stop line	D．American traffic rules

10 . Music is different from songs. Songs express feelings with lyrics(歌词）, but music with tones (音调).Unlike songs, music tones in themselves have no specific meanings. Different people may get different things from the same musical performance. Though some music works are difficult to understand, people need music in their daily life because it brings fun to them. Different people like different music: some love classical music, and others take an interest in pop music. Most young people like pop music.
Pop music began in the USA and became popular around the world during the 1950s and 1960s.The best-known early kind of pop music was “rock and roll”. Pop music has taken the place of （取代）native music in many parts of the world. It has caused the number of people for “jazz” music to become much smaller than in the 1950s and earlier and it has now begun to become the most popular. Much pop music is without artistic value (艺术价值), but the works of some pop singers such as the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the groups like Pink Floyd and Crosby are excellent. And there is still great interest in it today. Pop music concerts and festivals are held all over the world.
1. The biggest difference between music and songs is ________.

A．feelings

B．lyrics and tones

C．languages and countries

D．meanings

2. Which of the following has now become the most popular according to the passage?

A．Native music.

B．Jazz.

C．Pop music.

D．Classical music.

3. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to this passage?

A．People can get different things from the same piece of music.

B．Pop music began to be popular in the mid­twentieth century.

C．The best-known early form of pop music was “rock and roll”.

D．Much pop music is of great artistic value, so it interests young people greatly.