1 . Nowadays, more and more parents likes sharing their kids' photos of daily life online.Here are some opinions from four teenagers.
 Alex |  I don't think it,s safe.Photos can show their children's faces places they've been to and other information.Some people might use the photos for bad things It's hard to imagine what could happen.Some parents should be more careful about this. |
 Dora | For me.I don't want my photos to be shared online.Some parents even like sharing embarrassing photos of their kids.These parents should avoid hurting their kids' feelings and ask for permission from their kids before doing that. |
 Eric |  In my opinion there's nothing wrong that some parents post pictures of their kids online.It shows that they love their children and it's convenient for relatives to stay in touch with their family .It Eric easier than looking through a photo album. |
 Joan | I agree with that.Our parents have not only given birth to us, but also provided us with many things we need.Can’t they share our photos to express their happiness? It's just another way to express their Joan love and we should understand them. |
1. As for posting their kids photos online, Alex thinks that parents should___________.
| A．ask their kids for permission | B．be more careful about that |
| C．share their love and happiness | D．avoid hurting their kids' feelings |
| A．Joan | B．Dora | C．Eric | D．Alex |
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
2 . Does Fame Drive You Crazy?
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today's star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world's attention. Paparazzi (狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.
According to psychologist Christina Villareal, celebrities—famous people—worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. "Over time," Villareal says, "they feel separated and alone."
The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B.C., painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.
Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their "story" alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren't all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.
Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.
1. It can be learned from the passage that stars today ________.| A．are often misunderstood by the public | B．care little about how they have come into fame |
| C．spend too much on their public appearance | D．can no longer have their privacy protected |
| A．Great heroes of the past were generally admired. |
| B．Well-known actors are usually targets of tabloids. |
| C．The problem faced by celebrities has a long history. |
| D．Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers. |
| A．Lack of favorable chances. | B．Not enough social recognition. |
| C．Availability of modern media. | D．Huge population of fans. |
| A．Sincere. | B．Sympathetic. |
| C．Disapproving. | D．Unbelieving. |
Clean, Convenient, and Cheap
Traffic is the main cause of air pollution and noise in big cities. For example, drivers in New York are famous for honking（鸣）their horns and shouting. That noise drives many visitors and the local people crazy. Other big cities have similar problems with their traffic.
City governments have a lot of pressure to solve these problems. The most common solution is public transportation. New York's biggest form of public transportation is the subway. Another solution is bicycle sharing. This is a system that provides cheap bicycles. In cities that have bicycle sharing programs, there are lots of spots that have parked public bikes. People borrow the bikes and use them. They can return the bike at the same spot where they borrow it, or they can drop it off at another spot.
Bicycle sharing programs are different in each city. In some cities, the bikes are completely free. They aren't even locked. In other cities, you have to pay a small deposit（押金）. You get the deposit back when you return the bike. In still other cities, you need to have a membership with the bicycle sharing program. Once you have a membership, you can use a bike at any time you want.
Bicycle sharing is hugely popular all over the world. There are bicycle sharing systems in dozens of countries and hundreds of cities. In total, there are more than 530 bicycle sharing systems around the world, and that number is going up all the time.
People love this system. It can be great for connecting to other modes of transportation. It's quick to grab a bike when you need one and convenient to drop it off at any station. Bikeshare can also save a lot of money. The annual membership includes unlimited trips under 30 minutes. Whether you're using bikeshare to go to work or ride to meet friends, we bet you'll get there with a smile on your face. Getting places by pedal power gets great exercise. Even biking short distances can have positive effects on your health and stress level. Biking saves fuel, prevents carbon emissions（排放）and keeps pollutants out of the air. It's not only healthy for you, but also for the environment.
1. What causes air pollution and noise in big cities?___________________________________________________________
2. What is the most common solution to the problems?
___________________________________________________________
3. What do you need to do if you want to use a bike at any time?
___________________________________________________________
4. How many bicycle sharing systems are there around the world?
___________________________________________________________
5. What's the last paragraph mainly about?
___________________________________________________________
4 . Cooking shows on TV are usually all about exotic（外来的）foods. Thanks to globalization, people everywhere are introducing their taste foods to dishes from every corner of the world. At the same time, other people are discovering that food from their areas is the best kept secret. In the past few years, this movement（运动）of buying local produce keeps picking up steam because it offers a lot of benefits.
For starters, local food is often tastier because it is fresher. Goods that are imported（进口）from abroad must be grown or shipped from far away, so they naturally lose some of their freshness during the journey. A simple way to test this is to compare a banana from overseas with one that was grown locally and taste. Imported goods must also be washed and packaged in plastic or other containers so they can be stored well during the journey. These materials may cause the nutritional value of these goods to decline（下降）during the shipping process. Food safety is another reason why people are choosing local produce. Today's laws on foods are different from country to country. This causes confusion and makes it difficult to check if any harmful pesticides（农药）were used. When you know the local farmer who grows your food and the fields that are used to produce it, the chances of being polluted are greatly reduced.
Buying local foods can also have a beneficial influence on the environment. By supporting local growers , consumers（消费者）can keep green space and farmland in their communities in good condition. Buying local also helps to build the local community. If farmers can sell directly to consumers instead of middlemen, they will earn more money for their families. Additional profits（利润）also make farmers care for their soil and keep quality standards high. In the end, it's a win-win situation for both parties.
If you are interested in increasing more local foods into your diet, you can start by attending a farmers' market in your area. This is an open market where farmers sell fruits, vegetables, and meat directly to the public. If you have any questions about the production process or quality of these goods, you can ask the farmers directly. Once you experience the freshness of local foods for yourself, it might be difficult to go back to the supermarket.
1. Why does the writer encourage us to buy local foods in the passage?| A．They look fresher and do less harm to our health. |
| B．They are often sold at a lower price in the open markets. |
| C．They are strictly checked before coming into the markets. |
| D．They are washed and packed with plastic carefully. |
| A．taking off | B．speeding up | C．cutting down | D．depending on |
| A．All the cooking shows on TV will support local foods. |
| B．Local foods will replace the imported ones completely. |
| C．The green space and farmland will be developed better. |
| D．An agreement will be reached on laws of world's foods. |
| A．The Basic Information about Local Foods | B．Local Foods in Different Countries |
| C．Making Tasty Dishes from Local Foods | D．Learning to Love Locally-Grown Foods |
5 . Most of us fear failure. However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success comes from the Latin succedere, meaning “to come after.” And what does success usually come after? Failure. It seems that one cannot exist without the other.
Every failure – even the worst ones – helps us learn to do things differently in the future. “Learning from the past mistakes and making changes helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully,” says mountaineer Pete Athans, who has now reached the world’s highest peak (山峰) seven times. Failure also reminds us that things can go wrong – sometimes with terrible results.
Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman to reach the top of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without extra oxygen (氧气). In 2007, while climbing in Nepal, she was in an avalanche ( 雪 崩 ). She survived, but two nearby Spanish climbers died. The experience taught Kaltenbrunner that no matter how prepared a person is, bad things can still happen. But Kaltenbrunner decided she had to learn from her experience and move on.
Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are often reluctant to tell people that we are failures because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. In the past ten years, some scientific magazines – mostly in medicine – have published reports of failed experiments. The belief is that the science community can also learn from “negative” results and that this can finally lead to positive outcomes.
The business world already understands the value of negative results. Eli Lilly and Company has failure parties to study data about medicine that doesn’t work. In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early 1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple’s biggest failures. However, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential (潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.
The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.
1. The writer writes Paragraph 2 and 3 mainly to .| A．show how bad things can become important lessons |
| B．tell us that it’s possible for anyone to be successful |
| C．prove how bad things can happen in any situation |
| D．teach us what not to do when climbing mountains |
| A．unable | B．unsure | C．unwilling | D．uninterested |
| A．An attitude towards failure. |
| B．The experience of success. |
| C．A difficult way to success. |
| D．The rewards of failure. |
6 . Everyone has a birthday. These children live in different parts of the world. They celebrate(庆祝) their birthdays in different ways. For all of them, birthdays are fun!
Mark | Chen |
Mark lives in the US. He celebrates his ninth birthday with his friends and family. They sing “Happy Birthday” to him while he blows out the nine candles on his birthday cake. |
Chen lives in Hong Kong. Every year at Chen’s birthday dinner, his mother serves a bowl (碗) of long noodles. Everyone wishes him a long life, just like noodles. |
Carmen | Luis |
Carmen lives in Mexico. She and her friends celebrate her birthday with a pinata. They try to open the pinata so that the candy and the gifts(礼物) will fall out. This birthday celebration is fun for everyone! | Luis lives in Argentina. He is nine years old today. At his birthday party, his brother will gently pull(揪) on his ear nine times. Children get one pull for each year. |
1. Who has long noodles on the birthday?
| A．Luis. | B．Chen. | C．Mark. | D．Carmen. |
| A．Get candy and gifs. | B．Have a bowl of salad. |
| C．Pull on her ear. | D．Eat a birthday cake. |
| A．All the children are boys and they are nine years old. |
| B．All the children have birthday cake on their birthday. |
| C．All the children in Argentina celebrate their birthday with piñata. |
| D．All the children celebrate their birthdays in different ways, but they have fun. |
7 . Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it's easy — you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in the summer.
However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a source(资源) of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn't need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we recycled all our plastic bottles, we wouldn't need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don't recycle much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks recycled only about 10% of plastic waste. The rest became rubbish on land and in rivers and seas.
So next time you want to throw away a plastic bottle in the litter bin, stop and think. If you recycled it, you would help the environment. But what can you do when there isn't a recycling bin near you? Well, there are lots of useful ways that you can use your bottles again. For example, an empty bottle makes a great piggy bank for your pocket money, and if you cut a bottle in half, you will have a plant pot. Go green! You can make a difference.
1. What is NOT mentioned about bottled water in this passage?| A．It's healthy. | B．It's clean. | C．It's easy. | D．It's expensive. |
| A．energy | B．oil | C．rubbish | D．plants |
| A．90% | B．50% | C．80% | D．10% |
| A．To drop them into the river. | B．To make a piggy bank. |
| C．To make a plant pot. | D．To recycle them. |
| A．To make a different life, you'd better go outside. | B．To look different, you'd better wear green clothes. |
| C．To protect the environment, you can do something. | D．To go green, you should use plastic products. |
Why Alice is still wonderful
Have you ever read the novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? When British writer Lewis Carroll dropped Alice down the rabbit hole in 1865, he had no way of knowing what it would lead to (how popular it would be). The girl and her friends in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have become well-known around the world. More than 100 versions of the book have been published. More than two dozen adaptations of the story have been made into movies. Millions of people are fascinated by the story and the characters in it.
Why have Alice and her friends kept us fascinated with them for so long? Why is the story so attractive?
One reason is that many people think the 7-year-old girl is our inner child. She is the child that we ever dreamed to be. Alice is the center of the book. She's brave, curious and always wants to move ahead to the next adventure. When she meets problems or even is attacked, she never once thinks of asking her parents for help. Instead, she tries to solve the problem in her own way. Maybe this can explain why the story is so welcomed by kids and teenagers. Because nowadays, they have been over protected by their parents and can't live in a world of their own. Alice is the child they really want to be.
Besides, the attractive setting in the book is another reason. The story is set in an imaginative world. Many things that don't exist in the real world can be found in the story. In the book, Alice can be 3 inches (7.6cm) tall and stand up on her tiptoes. She even finds a blue caterpillar smoking on a mushroom. Kids and teenagers are really attracted by the strange and imaginative world in the story.
The wonderland world makes us connect Alice's adventures with our own childhood. No matter how old you are, there is always a child living in your heart.
1. Who is the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by?__________________________________________________________
2. How many versions of the story have been published?
__________________________________________________________
3. Why is the story so attractive?
__________________________________________________________
4. Does the story make us think of our own childhood or adulthood?
__________________________________________________________
5. What's the passage mainly about?
__________________________________________________________
9 . Why keep them?
People keep dogs and cats because they enjoy their friendship. Fish cannot be friendly, but they have beautiful shapes and colours. They are a pleasure to watch as they swim in their tanks （水槽）.
What do they need?
First of all, the fish need a suitable （合适的） tank, and you must fill the tank with suitable water. It is also good for them to have a few water plants in the tank to keep the water pure （纯净）.A few snails (蜗牛) in the tank are a good idea, too. They will keep it clean.
What about feeding them?
There are many kinds of fish food that you can get in pet shops. Most are suitable for all kinds of fish. You should feed your fish once a day only. It is important not to give them too much food. Just give them as much as they can eat in about 15 minutes. This will keep them healthy.
1. It is not good to put ________ in the fish tank.| A．a few snails | B．a few water plants |
| C．only a little water | D．enough clean water |
| A．Because fish can play with people. |
| B．Because fish are very friendly. |
| C．Because fish can clean the tanks. |
| D．Because people love to watch them swimming in the tanks. |
| A．Once a week. | B．Once a day. |
| C．Every fifteen minutes. | D．As many times as possible. |
| A．thirsty | B．fat |
| C．unhealthy | D．dirty |
| A．Some people love to keep fish of beautiful shapes and colours. |
| B．A suitable tank with suitable water is important for fish keeping. |
| C．All the fish food sold in pet shops is suitable for any kind of fish. |
| D．If it takes the fish 30 minutes to eat up the fish food, the food is too much. |
10 . Does Fame Drive You Crazy
Although being famous might sound like a dream comes true, today s stars, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world’s attention. Paparazzi (狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature (签名)!
According to psychologist Christina Villarreal, celebrities—famous people—worry constantly (不断地) about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. “Over time,” Villarreal says, “they feel separated and alone.”
The phenomenon (现象) of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B. C, painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his works attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern websites do.
Being famous people today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren’t all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.
Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.
1. It can be learned from the passage that stars today ________.| A．are often misunderstood by the public |
| B．can no longer have their privacy protected |
| C．spend too much on their public appearance |
| D．care little about how they have come into fame |
| A．Great heroes of the past were generally admired. |
| B．Well-known actors are usually targets of tabloids. |
| C．The problem faced by celebrities has a long history. |
| D．Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers. |
| A．Availability of modern media. | B．Huge population of fans. |
| C．Not enough social recognition. | D．Lack of favorable chances. |
| A．Sincere. | B．Doubtful. | C．Sympathetic. | D．Disapproving. |
