1 . Confidence is very important in daily life. It can help you when you face problems. If you are more confident, you are much happier. And you can have more chances to make yourselves successful. Here are some suggestions to help you be more confident.
Speak loudly. When you are not confident, you can’t do what you want to do well. Try to speak loudly enough so that people can hear you clearly. The high voice can help you become more confident.
Play sports. Physical exercise makes you tired but really relaxed. A strong body helps you be full of confidence.
Make a list of good things. Write down a list of things you did to see how many things you have finished well. Did you finish your homework? Did you clean your room? Give yourself a prize when you do well.
Get out of fear. Fear comes along with fail. But it’s easy to overcome if you know that fail is a part of your life. Don’t be afraid of failing. Try to start again and believe you can do better.
Take up a hobby. If you like singing, sing as much as you can. A hobby can make you unique. And it can make you happy and confident.
1. How many suggestions are there for being more confident?| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．People with strong bodies. | B．People with high voice. |
| C．People with a hobby. | D．People with more confidence. |
| A．A hobby. | B．Sports. | C．Good things. | D．Voice. |
| A．A weak body can help you be full of confidence. |
| B．The high voice can’t help you become more confident. |
| C．A list of good things can’t help you to be confident. |
| D．It is easy to overcome fear if you know that fail is a part of your life. |
| A．Why should you be confident? | B．How can you be more confident? |
| C．Who can be more confident? | D．What is confidence? |
2 . Everyone has worries. How will you do if you have your worry? There is always something you can do to help yourself feel less worried. Sitting there worrying is no fun and it won’t solve your problems.
Children are worried about their grades in school. If you worry about grades, ask yourself these questions:
▲Why are grades important? What do grades mean to me?
▲How do I get ready for class? Do I go over my notes even when there isn’t a test?
▲Do I have a good place to do my homework?
▲Did I try different ways of studying?
If your worry is about a fight you had with your friend, you might write down all the things you could do—write a note to him or her, invite him or her to watch a basketball game, say sorry to him or her and so on. Once you have several things you could do, you can choose one thing that could get your friend back.
You can ask for help when you’re worried. You can find someone to talk to, such as your parents, friends, teachers, and so on.
1. What do children often worry most about?| A．Their homework. | B．Their hobbies. |
| C．Their grades at school. | D．A fight with their friends. |
| A．do your homework | B．ask for help and talk to someone |
| C．get ready for class | D．work hard |
| A．How do I get ready for class? | B．What do grades mean to me? |
| C．Why are grades important? | D．Why not give up (放弃) my studies? |
| A．invite him or her to watch a game | B．leave him or her alone |
| C．try to make new friends | D．put the blame (责备) on him or her |
| A．When people are worried. | B．How to deal with (处理) worries. |
| C．Who is often worried. | D．What kinds of worries people have. |
3 . I have a brother and his name is Jimmy. This is Jimmy’s bedroom. What a mess! His things are everywhere. You can see his schoolbag under the chair. You can see his tape player on the chair. Where are his tapes? Look! They are over there, on the bed. Jimmy often listens to his tapes in bed.
Jimmy has some books. You can see them in the bookcase. In the bookcase, you can also see a white model plane. It’s very big and beautiful. What’s next to the model plane? Let’s have a look! Oh, it’s a hamburger. Jimmy often puts his food in the bookcase.
1. What does the underlined sentence (划线句子) “What a mess!” mean?| A．Jimmy’s bedroom is clean. | B．Jimmy’s bedroom is small. |
| C．Jimmy’s bedroom is not tidy. | D．Jimmy’s bedroom is big. |
| A．It’s white. | B．It’s beautiful. |
| C．It’s very big. | D．It’s next to his tape player. |
| A．Jimmy’s Food. | B．Jimmy’s Friends. |
| C．Jimmy’s Bedroom. | D．Jimmy’s Model Plane. |
4 . Everyone has a family name. In China, the family name is the first name, but in England the family name is the last name. Do you know how English get their family names? English people get their family names in these ways (方法).
Some family names come from the places of their homes. A man lives on or near a hill, and his family name may be Hill. A man’s family name is Lake, because he lives near the lake. Some family names come from their jobs. If (如果) he is a cook, his family name may be Cook. And some people get their family names from their father’s name. If you see the name Jackson, you can know he is the son of Jack.
1. In the passage, English people can get their family names in ________ ways.| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．Hill | B．Bill | C．Lake | D．Cook |
| A．Jack’s father | B．Jack’s friend | C．Jack’s teacher | D．Jack’s son |
5 . ①Do you know how to make friends with a group of people? Let me tell you the steps about making friends with the group. Maybe it’s helpful to you.
②First, you need to know what kind of group they are. If people of the group are shy, never ask them “Why don’t you talk?” , “Why are you quiet? Or “Why do you look shy?” They don’t like such questions.
③Next, remember that each group is different. They may use different words, like different things or have different ways of “hanging out”.
④Then, the important thing is that you should try to be outgoing. If you are outgoing, you would become very popular.
⑤Finally, find a right topic (话题) to talk about with the group. For example, You can talk with them about the weather, the news , their hobbies or their school life.
1. You can ask the questions like “_______” when you want to talk with a shy person.| A．Why don’t you talk? | B．Why are you quiet? |
| C．Why do you look shy? | D．It’s a nice day, isn’t it? |
| A．the weather | B．the news | C．their hobbies | D．their ages |
| A．the different ways to make friends | B．the important thing to make friends |
| C．the steps about making friends with the group | D．a right topic to talk about with the group happily |
| A．①→②③→④⑤ | B．①→②③④→⑤ | C．①→②③④⑤ | D．①②③④→⑤ |
6 . Sarah, aged 10: I think we will find life on other planets.
Lisa, aged 11: There is life on other planets. I’d like to take my three cats with me and travel to space by spaceship (宇宙飞船).
Ricky, aged 9: I think if we all ride bikes, we will help fight pollution in the world. And maybe we can build a monorail (单轨铁路) to go around the city.
Carlos, aged 11: If New York City keeps going the way it is, things will be worse. The city will be more crowded, with more cars, worse air, more litter (垃圾), fewer open and green spaces. We need to take care of our city and make it better and cleaner.
Sabrina, aged 12: In the year 2050, my city, New York City, will be the best living place. People will keep their homes warm in a different but green way. For example, they will make use of solar power (太阳能). Many people will go to space camps to get ready for space living.
1. What does Carlos care about in New York City?| A．The education. | B．The culture. | C．The space. | D．The environment. |
| A．worried about | B．hopeful about | C．afraid of | D．interested in |
| A．How to protect the environment. | B．How to fight pollution. |
| C．What the life in the future will be like. | D．What life in New York City is like. |
7 . Some animals can easily find their way home after a long journey. How do they make it? Scientific research shows that they are born with certain unusual abilities for direction.
A certain kind of ants, for example, can count their steps to avoid getting lost. They can go as far as 110 metres and bring food home. These ants live in the open desert, so they have nothing to guide them along the way. It’s like someone walking six kilometres through a dark forest.
Some fish have an unbelievable (不可思议的) sense of smell. They can smell even a single drop of their home water in a large sea area. Some sea birds have a similar ability. They are able to make a smell map of their flying area.
Some animals can sense the earth’s magnetic field (磁场), while humans can’t. This magnetic field guides a certain kind of fish when they swim a long way to a place and then back. How can this kind of fish do that? It is still a mystery. Scientists have no good answers yet.
However, animals with such unusual abilities still have difficulty dealing with environmental changes caused by human activities. For example, many birds depend on stars for direction, but they get lost easily at night when city lights are kept on all night. To solve this problem, we can simply (仅仅) turn off some lights at night. Clearly, one small act of humans may mean a lot to animals.
1. Where is this passage most probably from?| A．A storybook. | B．An art magazine. | C．A guidebook. | D．A science magazine. |
| A．By imagining the way. | B．By counting their steps. |
| C．By bringing food together. | D．By walking through a forest. |
| A．To help animals. | B．To travel at night. |
| C．To keep city lights on. | D．To develop unusual abilities. |
| A．Birds Sense of Light | B．Fish’s Sense of Smell |
| C．Animals’ Sense of Direction | D．Animals’ Sense of Magnetic Field |
8 . Now Chinese movies have become one of the favorites among the young people in Malawi (马拉维). Many people can enjoy them in video show halls, homes and through the Internet.
Luis Ndalama, 38, is a businessman who has been doing a videodisc (影碟) business for over 15 years. He told Xinhua News Agency (新华社) his customers have been watching Chinese movies for a long time. However, because they didn’t understand Chinese, many of them used to have difficulties in following the movies. “But with time, we have seen many Chinese movies with subtitles (字幕), and this helps many of my customers to understand them even better.” Ndalama said.
In an interview with Xinhua, many young people were able to explain things they learned from movies about China. “It’s always fun watching Chinese movies. At first it was very hard to understand them. Because everything about them and us was different in terms (词语) of language, food, dressing, dances and many other cultural values. But now, there are a lot of things that I know about China through movies. For example, I know about Kung Fu, the Great wall, food like Biang Biang noodles and many other interesting things about China,” Kham a said.
1. What can we say about the young people in Malawi?| A．They are interested in making movies. |
| B．They show great interest in Chinese movies. |
| C．They prefer to do business with Chinese people. |
| D．They think it difficult to communicate in Chinese. |
| A．Customers. | B．Movies. | C．Subtitles. | D．Interviews. |
| A．Chinese movies are popular in the world. |
| B．More and more people start to study in China. |
| C．Chinese movies help foreigners learn about Chinese culture. |
| D．Lots of foreign people were interviewed by Xinhua Agency. |
9 . Do you know anything about the invention of the bar code (条形码)?
A small food store owner found it was difficult to keep records of the product information. In 1948, he contacted (联系) the Drexel Institute of Technology to solve this problem. Bernard Silver was interested in it and he began to look into it. Silver and his students realized their answer in the form of ultraviolet light (紫外线), ink and a scanner (扫描仪).
The system did work at first, but it’s very expensive and sometimes the system didn’t work well. If the invention was to become popular in grocery stores, the problems had to be solved. Finally, Silver solved them.
The patent (专利权) for the bar code system was asked by Silver and Woodland in 1949. But the patent was not given until 1952. Although this patent was given, the system was still not popular among store owners. In 1966, the system began moving its way into more grocery stores.
Logicon developed the Universal Grocery Products Identification Number (通用标识码) in 1970. Marsh’s superstore in lroy was the first store to set up this bar code reading system. It became very popular ever since, and now it’s obviously popular in all types of stores worldwide (在世界各地).
1. What did the store owner think of keeping records of the product information?| A．It’s interesting. | B．It’s boring. | C．It’s easy. | D．It’s not easy. |
| A．be made up of | B．make a study of | C．look up | D．learn about |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．Silver. | B．Silver’s student. | C．Logicon. | D．Woodland. |
| A．The bar code, an exciting invention. | B．How bar code was invented. |
| C．Why stores use the bar code. | D．How bar code was used. |
10 . Chinese calligraphy (书法) is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. There are many famous calligraphers in history such as Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing. Different calligraphy works can show different calligraphers’ feelings and personality. Today, they can be seen on the walls of offices, shops, hotels and many other places.
Calligraphy started in China and spread to other parts of Asia with Chinese culture. It has a history of 4,000 to 5,000 years. Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters and especially refers to the rules of writing with a brush.
“If I once lived in China, I must have become a calligrapher rather than a painter,” the world-famous master of art, Picasso, once said after seeing Zhang Daqian write down his name with a calligraphy brush.
The tool for practicing calligraphy is calligraphy brushes. They are usually made from the hair of different animals. But there is a popular calligraphy brush that is made from foetal hair (胎毛). No one is really sure where the tradition comes from. But hundreds of years ago in China, people started to believe this kind of calligraphy brush was a symbol of good luck.
1. What can we learn about a calligrapher through his calligraphy works?①His age. ②His character. ③His background. ④His feelings.
| A．①② | B．①③ | C．③④ | D．②④ |
| A．He once lived in China. | B．He once practiced calligraphy. |
| C．He thought calligraphy was very great. | D．He was both a great calligrapher and a painter. |
| A．Because they can help people write more beautiful characters. |
| B．Because they are thought to bring good luck to those who use them. |
| C．Because they are cheaper than those made from animal hair. |
| D．Because they can help kids write characters easily. |
