1 . In Japan，Luffy is more popular than Harry Potter．Luffy is the main character of One Piece 《海贼王》). The book came out in 1997．
One Piece tells the adventures of Monkey D．Luffy，a 17-year-old boy．He got supernatural abilities (超能力)by eating magical fruit．Luffy’s dream is to find the world’s biggest treasure(宝藏), One piece.   Then he wants to become the next Pirate(海盗) King．
To make his dream come true，Luffy has to reach the end of the most dangerous ocean：the Grand Line(伟大航道)．Luffy travels with a group of brave pirates called the Straw Hats．On his way，more people join the group．They even have a cook，a soldier and a musician．They also fight with other pirates on their way．
Many Chinese teenagers are One Piece fans．Yang Peiqi，14，from Shenzhen says he thinks reading One Piece is great fun and he also likes the theme of the story，- dreams and friends．
1. When did One Piece come out in Japan?

A．In 1997

B．In 2000.

C．In 1996.

D．In 1998.

2. How old is Luffy?

A．16.

B．17

C．18

D．19

3. What are the themes of One Piece?

A．Treasure and money	B．Pirates and war.
C．Dreams and friends.	D．Study and hard work.

4. Which of the following is not true?

A．The Straw Hats is a group of pirates．

B．Yang Peiqi is a fan of One Piece.

C．Luffy wants to find One Piece.

D．In China，Luffy is more popular than Harry Potter．

5. The underlined word “character” means “________” in Chinese.

A．特点

B．字母

C．角色

D．个性

2 .

Li Mei	My favourite book is A Friend Like Henry. It's about how a family dog helps a boy deal with his autism (自闭症) . When I felt sad, my best friend gave me the book. It took me through depression (压抑 ) , heartbreak and joy. It made me become strong. It's worth reading. I hope you can read it.
Tony	Reading in the holiday is an interesting thing. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is my favourite book. It's about a captain's travel under the sea. The story is very interesting and the pictures are 'fantastic. This book can make you relaxed.
Mary	I like reading the Four Great Classical Novels of China although I'm a foreigner from Sydney. I can't wait to introduce The Romance of the Three Kingdoms to you. It taught me a lot about the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu. If you are interested in history, don't miss it.
Mo Xiaotian	My parents often send me many books because I'm studying in England now. In my opinion, The Little Prince is the best one. In this book, a young prince falls to Earth from a small planet and experiences a lot. It's not just a fiction story, but tells us about the correct values. If you read the English version, you can also learn some beautiful sentences.

1. Li Mei got the book from__________.

A．her teacher	B．her parents
C．her friend	D．her classmate

2. Who's studying in England now?

A．Li Mei.

B．Tony.

C．Mary.

D．Mo Xiaotian.

3. The book A Friend Like Henry made Li Mei become____.

A．strong

B．depressed

C．heartbroken

D．sad

4. Which book can you choose if you want to learn about Chinese history?

A．A Friend Like Henty.

B．The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

C．The Little Prince.

D．Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

5. What's the best title(题目) for the passage?

A．My Friends	B．Life Abroad
C．Books I Collect	D．My Favourite Book

3 . Pocket money means that you have money in your pocket(口袋）that you can spend. You may get a regular amount of money from your parents or grandparents , for example , every week or once a month.
How much pocket money should you get ? That depends on what your parents or grandparents can afford, how many kids there are in your family and how old you are . A little primary school kid may get one yuan , but older children would get more . Each family is different.
Many parents or grandparents give kids pocket money so that their kids can :
★use the money to buy things that they want .
★learn to find out how much things cost .
★learn to look after money well .
★learn to shop around for the best price
★ learn to save their pocket money for the future.
★ learn what is worth (值得）buying.
It is difficult to handle money . If you spend all of your money too quickly ,you will not be able to buy the necessary things that you will need in the future life . If you always save money , you will not get many nice things that you really like . Try to use your pocket money in the right way and you will always get something good.
1. Usually kids can get their pocket money from their   _____.

A．parents	B．friends
C．parents or grandparents	D．Teachers

2. What can not influence how much pocket money kids get ?_____.

A．The kids' ages	B．The kids' grades
C．The salary (薪水）	D．the number of kids in a family .

3. The underlined word “ handle ” means _____.

A．pick up

B．deal with

C．buy

D．save

4. Parents hope that their children _____instead of only buying what they want .

A．learn to handle their pocket money

B．save their pocket money

C．learn to buy things

D．know how to shop

5. The writer writes the passage mainly to tell us _____.

A．what pocket money means

B．we should get more pocket money

C．to save more and more pocket money.

D．handling pocket money is useful.

4 . Do you remember the things happened many years ago ? Do you remember all the names of your friends? Do you have a good memory ?
A good memory is a great help in learning language . Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he learns when he is a little child. And some children , who live abroad with their parents ,seem to learn two languages more easily . In native school it is not easy to learn a second language because the pupils have so little time for it . and they are busy with other subjects . A man’s mind is like a camera, but it takes photos not only of what we see but of what we feel ,hear, smell and taste . When we take a real photo with a camera ,there is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends . In the same way there is much work to do be done before we can keep a picture forever in our mind . Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us .
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. We usually begin to learn a language by ______it first .

A．speaking

B．seeing

C．hearing

D．feeling

2. If you have a good _______,you’ll have less difficulty in learning something .

A．photo

B．picture

C．memory

D．camera

3. The children who live in abroad can learn two languages more easily , because _________.

A．they are very clever

B．they have good teachers

C．they have more chances to use these languages

D．they have a better life

4. From the passage ,we know that one’s mind is like _________.

A．a photo

B．a language

C．a diary

D．a camera

5. A   camera   takes photos of what can be __________.

A．seen

B．felt

C．heard

D．smelt

5 . Life in the future will be different from life today.But what will the changes be? The population(人口) is growing fast . There will be many people in the world and most of them will live to over 100 years old .
Computer will be very small and useful,and   there will be computers in every home .Travelling will be   very cheap and easy.
And many people will go to other countries for holidays. There will be changes in our food ,too. There will not be much room for cows and sheep, so meat will be very expensive .Maybe   no one will eat it every day .They will eat many fruits and vegetables .Maybe people will be quite   healthy . Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do hard work .So many people will not have enough work to do.
根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）误 （F）
1. All the people in the world will have long life in the future.
2. Life in the future   won’t   be the same as life today.
3. Travelling is very cheap and easy today.
4. People will be healthy because they eat fruits.
5. All the people will not work.

6 . New York City isn’t the biggest city in the world, but it is the biggest city in the United States. Most Americans live in much smaller cities and towns, but almost 8million people live in New York City. Why did so many people come to live in one place?
A look at the city shows us that New York City has a good port（商埠）. The Dutch(荷兰) settlers (new comers) , wanted to use it for business. In 1626, the Dutch paid the Indians twenty-four dollars for the island of Manhattan. Its Dutch name was New Amsterdam. Then the British took the land in 1664 and changed its name to New York.

1. Which of the following is the biggest city in the United States?

A．New York

B．Washington

C．New Amsterdam

D．Chicago

2. More and more people from different countries in the world come into New York because _______.

A．New York has the largest population in the United States.

B．New York is as beautiful as a picture.

C．New York is a developing city.

D．they think it is a good place for business.

3. The underlined word “ took” in Paragraph means ________ in Chinese.

A．花费

B．耕耘

C．占领

D．测量

4. The United States became an independent country in ________.

A．the sixteenth century

B．the seventeenth century

C．the eighteenth century

D．the nineteenth century

5. From the passage, we can know _________.

A．much about Dutch

B．how the Dutch took New Amsterdam

C．some of the history of New York

D．how the people from different countries come to the USA

7 . Have you ever studied abroad? If you come to Australia as a foreign high school student, you can have a lot of fun there, especially on holidays.
There are many festivals in Australia. The most important one is Christmas. Since it is a long holiday, most foreign students in Australia love to fly back to their home countries to spend the time with their families and friends, but a few students still stay in Australia during the holiday to get part-time jobs. It is quite easy to find a part-time job at Christmas.
Students often take part in another major social activity. They go to the beach to have fun in the sunshine. The summer in Australia is from December to February, so going to the beach in December is very popular among Australians.
Easter in March is another important holiday in the year. It actually combines "Good Friday" and "Easter Monday". Almost every shop closes on Good Friday. And people usually go to see Easter Show.
The Chinese new year is not a public holiday in Australia, so every Chinese student still has to go to school to study and do his or her normal duties.
1.                   is the most important festival in Australia.

A．Easter

B．Christmas

C．The Spring Festival

D．New Year’s Day

2. Most foreign students in Australia often                   during the Christmas holiday.

A．get a part-time job in the restaurants

B．go to the beach to have fun in the sunshine

C．fly back to their homeland to stay with their parents

D．go to school to study

3.                 in December is very popular among Australians.

A．Skiing on an iced lake

B．Hiking in the mountains

C．Studying in a school library

D．Going to the beach to enjoy the sunshine

4. From the passage we can see that                       .

A．all the foreign students in Australia will go home during Christmas

B．people in Australia usually go to see Easter Show in March.

C．it’s hard to find a part-time job at Christmas

D．Chinese students in an Australian school needn’t go to school when Spring Festival comes

5. Which is the best title for this passage?

A．Christmas time in Australia

B．The holidays in Australia

C．Enjoy your visit to Australia

D．Have you ever studied in Australia?

8 . My friend Alice visited my city last week . She arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning .She is from Australia. I showed her around the city.

　　We visited the Clock Tower first. The Clock Tower was very tall. We took some photos there. Then we went to the City Museum. After that, we saw a good movie.
　　The next day, we visited the Ladies’ Street(女人街). There were a lot of clothes shops. The clothes were cheap and beautiful. Alice bought some clothes for her parents and friends. Then we went to the Seafood(海鲜) Street. We bought some seafood. We also had seafood in a restaurant. Both of us enjoyed the meal. Then we went to a concert(音乐会) in the evening. The music was fantastic!
　　On the third day, the weather was very hot, so we decided to visit Hong Kong Wetland Park . We saw many kinds of plants and animals in it.they were very interesting.
　 Alice went back to Australia on Friday evening. She enjoyed the trip. She invited(邀请) me to visit Australia next summer.
根据短文内容，回答问题：
1. Where did Alice come from ?
____________________________________________________________________
2. How long did Alice stay in Hong Kong ?
____________________________________________________________________
3. What did Alice buy on the Ladies’ Street ?
______________________________________________________________
4. How was the weather on the third day ?
____________________________________________________________
5. What did they see in Hong Kong Wetland Park ?
___________________________________________________

9 . "Earworms", some people call them. Songs that get stuck in your head go round and round, sometimes for days, sometimes for months. For no clear reason you cannot help yourself from humming or singing a tune by Lady Gaga.
To a psychologist, the most interesting thing about earworms is that they show a part of our mind that is clearly outside of our control. Earworms arrive without permission and refuse to leave when we tell them to. They are parasites (寄生虫) living in a part of our minds.
If you have got an earworm you can suffer an attack of it simply by someone mentioning the tune, without having to hear it. This proves that earworms are a part of long-term memory. Humans have an "inner ear", for remembering phone numbers, for instance. When it gets infected with earworms, rather than review our plans for the day, or lists of things to remember, the inner ear gets stuck on a few short bars of music or a couple of phrases from a song. A part of us that we normally do not have to think about, that should just do what we ask, has been turned against us, upsetting us with a request that we never asked for. The mind is an inner world which we do not have complete knowledge of, or have control over.
Fortunately psychology can provide some advice on how to deal with an uncontrollable mind. Consider the famous "don’t think of a white bear" problem, which tells you to try not to think about white bears, or to do something else, to avoid both thinking of the white bear and not thinking of the white bear. For earworms, the solution may be the same. Our inner ear has become infected with an earworm. This is a part not under our control, so just sending in instructions to "shut up" is unlikely to be of much help (and has been shown to make it worse). Much better is to employ the inner ear in another task. If your mind is poisoned by Brittany Spears’ Toxic, for instance, then try singing Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out Of My Head. Let me know if it works!
1. According to the passage, earworms are ______.

A．songs that keep going round in our mind

B．worms that live in a part of our brain

C．tunes by pop singers like Lady Gaga

D．parasites clearly under our control

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Singing songs may get earworms out of your head.

B．Earworms are used for keeping long-term memory.

C．Humans do not have complete control over their mind.

D．You won’t suffer from earworms unless you hear the song.

3. What does “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The instruction to shut up your mind.

B．“Don’t think of the white bear” problem.

C．Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out Of My Head.

D．Using the earworm-infected inner ear in another task.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The causes and influences of earworms.

B．What earworms are and how to deal with them.

C．How to clear earworms out of your head.

D．The relation between earworms and popular songs.

10 . This is not a diet. It's a simple way to lose weight~ And you don' t even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you'll become thin.

( 1 ) Wake - up

When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend( 弯曲) forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn about 10 calories (热量单位，卡路里).

(2) Start with soup

When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, you'll feel fuller, so you'll eat less when the main food comes.

(3) An apple (or more) a day

Apples are full of fiber（纤维) and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least three, apples a day lose weight.

(4) Stand up and walk around

Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit_______(平均) two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories.

Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.

1. What should we have first if we want to eat less main food?

A．Soup.	B．Ice cream.
C．Salad.	D．Cheese.

2. Why does eating apples make one's stomach want less food?

A．Because apples are delicious.

B．Because apples are full of fiber and water.

C．Because apples are sour.

D．Because only apples are filled with calories.

3. Which of the following may the authordisagree?

A．Sitting up slowly without using your hands helps burn calories.

B．Eating apples every day is good for people's health.

C．You have to join a gym if you want to lose weight.

D．It' s good to walk around while talking on the mobile phone.

4. What's the purpose of the passage?

A．To give some advice on how to lose weight.

B．To advise people to eat apples every day.

C．To tell people how to enjoy a better life.

D．To advise people to give up bad habits.

5. In which part of a newspaper would you most probably read the passage?

A．Shopping.	B．Teaching.
C．Family.	D．Health.