1 . As an English, I can speak three languages—English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren’t.
Some statistics (数据) from the survey done by the European Commission (欧盟委员会) showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.
And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That’s why my people don’t think it is necessary to learn a foreign language.
In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14. So why don’t students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.
To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.
Changing the British attitude (态度) to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try!
1. Which country does the writer come from?| A．America. . | B．China. . | C．Britain. . | D．Egypt. |
| A．They are good language learners. |
| B．62% of them speak two or more languages. |
| C．They are famous for speaking foreign languages. |
| D．More than half of them only speak English. |
| A．science or German . | B．history or German |
| C．science or history . | D．German or French |
| A．a choice . | B．a game . | C．a mistake . | D．a conversation |
| A．Speaking English . | B．Foreign Language Learning in UK |
| C．Schools in UK . | D．Young English Learners |
If you do badly in one exam. Take it easy. You can work harder and turn to your classmates.
If you feel lonely in a strange place. Don’t worry! You should make more friends or turn to your teachers. It’s normal to feel unhappy when something bad happens to you. You should talk to others or take part in activities. You may feel sad when you lose one of your friends. Going to the movies and playing sports may make you feel better. Also, if you are ill, you may worry about it. Don’t be afraid. Follow the doctor’s advice and have a good rest.
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| Trouble | How to deal with |
| Do badly in one exam | work hard and turn to your |
| Feel lonely | make |
| Something bad happens | talk to others or |
| Lose one of your friends | and playing sports |
| Be | follow the doctor’s advice and |
It’s very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend much time on the phone. This communication (交流) is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can be the right one to talk about something with. These things are difficult to say to the family.
However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them. Some parents even ask their children not to meet their good friends.
根据短文内容,选择正确答案.
1. Many teenagers think that can understand them better.
| A．friends | B．brother |
| C．sisters | D．parents |
| A．To make friends | B．To fight with brothers |
| C．To stop meeting friends | D．To phone parents |
| A．stay alone at home |
| B．fight with their parents |
| C．talk to their friends |
| D．go to their brothers and sisters for help |
| A．Parents should choose everything they like. |
| B．Children should choose everything they like. |
| C．Parents should understand their children better. |
| D．Teenagers should only go to their friends for help. |
| A．How to make friends. |
| B．The communication is important in children’s growing up. |
| C．Parents should ask their children to meet then friends. |
Maybe it’s not easy for you to do that, but it’s possible. Please remember: Keep a good mood, and you will keep healthy. Staying angry with others, in fact, means letting others’ mistakes treat yourself unfairly.
How can you forgive others?
First, think of something pleasant and try to get yourself happy.
Second, don’t wait others to say sorry to you. If anyone hurts you, he won’t say sorry to you. He may just want to hurt you or just don’t see things the same way.
Third, try to see things in others’ shoes. You can understand their minds better and make yourself a little happier.
At last, try to know yourself very well. Whose mistakes caused that, yours or others? If it’s our fault, try to say sorry to them. If it isn’t, smile at the thing.
1. This passage tells us ___ .
| A．to get along well with others |
| B．to say sorry to others bravely when we hurt them |
| C．not to hurt others |
| D．to forgive others when they hurt us |
| A．easy | B．foolish | C．possible | D．impossible |
| A．尽力坚持自己的观点 |
| B．尽力让别人接受自己的观点 |
| C．尽量站在别人的立场上看问题 |
| D．尽量看到别人立场中的实质问题 |
| A．three | B．four | C．five | D．six |
| A．sad | B．disappointed | C．upset | D．healthy |
5 . Almost every Chinese person can recite the two lines of the famous poem:" Every grain on the plate comes from hard work(谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦)." But sadly, many of us don't actually get the real meaning of these lines: Don't waste food.
A CCTV program, News One Plus One, reported that food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year.
Do we have too much food? No, according to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2010, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well known for being generous(慷慨的). Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table.
Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. Last November, Li Hong, a waitress in a restaurant in Nanjing, got fired(开除)because she took some leftover(剩余的)food home for her son. Many people stood by her side and agreed that it was not right to waste food.
What should we do in our daily life to waste less food? Here are some tips:
◆Do not order too much in a restaurant. Only order what you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
◆Don't be too picky(挑剔的)about food. Some food may not taste great. But your body needs it.
◆Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don't buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. According to News One Plus One, Chinese people .| A．save enough food to feed 200 million people for a year |
| B．throw away lots of food every year |
| C．get enough food to feed millions of people every year |
| D．have to feed 200 million hungry people every year |
| A．we have too much food to feed people in the world |
| B．there were 925 million people in developing countries |
| C．because of hunger, six million children die every year |
| D．there are only a few people getting hungry every year |
| A．all Chinese people are generous |
| B．Chinese people always waste food |
| C．Li Hong got fired because she wasted food |
| D．everyone should get into the habit of saving food |
| A．When we order too much food in a restaurant, just take the leftover food home. |
| B．Eat more food that doesn't taste great. |
| C．We should not buy vegetables and fruit. |
| D．We should keep an eye on the food we like. |
| A．Don't waste food. |
| B．Many people die of hunger. |
| C．Don't be picky about food. |
| D．Eat all the food you order. |
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources（资源）, we are short of（缺乏） others, for example, fresh water（淡水）. It is reported that we will have no coal（煤） or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources， what can we use in the future and where can we move？Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life，we can do many things to prevent waste from happening， for example， turn off the water taps（水龙头） when we finish washing， turn off the lights when we leave the classroom， try not to order more food than we need， and so on. Little by little， everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day， if we do our best.
1. From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.
| A．eat too much | B．don’t work hard |
| C．waste things | D．throw rubbish everywhere |
| A．Fresh water | B．Forest. |
| C．Oil. | D．Coal. |
| A．We may still have enough oil. | B．We may still have enough coal. |
| C．We may have a little oil. | D．We may have no coal or oil to use. |
| A．Waste brings problems. | B．Waste can bring no problem. |
| C．China is rich in fresh water. | D．Students never waste things. |
| A．Stop Wasting | B．School life |
| C．Waste in the School | D．Rich Resources in China |
Nowadays, music has become an important part of our life. We can listen to music on CDs, on radio or on TV. Also, we can search the Internet to find the song we like. It’s the easiest way to enjoy the music that we like. Also we can download (下载)our favorite songs from the Internet for free. If we have a Walkman (随身听)，we can hear music everywhere. It can give us pleasure if we are sad. It can cheer us up, too. When we are tired, it can make us relaxed.
Different people like different kinds of music. Young people like pop music. Maybe old people like gentle and quiet music. Different music can express different feelings. When we are happy, we like to listen to jubilant (欢快的) music. When we are unhappy, we want to hear soft music. We need different kinds of music in different moods. We can get different feelings from music. Music is the best friend of human beings. We can’t imagine what life would be like without music.根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. According to the first paragraph, we can know people play chess, cards or listen to music .
| A．for exercising | B．to learn more knowledge |
| C．for fun | D．to relax |
| A．Music can give us pleasure. |
| B．Music can make us relaxed. |
| C．Music can cheer us up. |
| D．Music can improve our listening skills. |
| A．gentle music | B．rock music |
| C．jazz music | D．pop music |
| A．心情 | B．喜怒无常 | C．气氛 | D．生气 |
| A．No one likes playing chess. |
| B．There are different kinds of music. |
| C．Listening to music can make us more tired. |
| D．Old people don’t like music at all. |
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine . Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain . Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather . But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest .
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided . I think failure(失败) is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude（态度）decides everything. With an optimistic（乐观的）attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
1. People sometimes complain __________ .
| A．their studies are successful |
| B．they have no enough money |
| C．life is tiring |
| A．the students don’t like their lessons |
| B．the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs |
| C．the teachers are tired of their work |
| A．you want to go out |
| B．you can listen to a concert |
| C．crops will grow better |
| A．don’t know what to do |
| B．may give up hope |
| C．shouldn’t be afraid of it |
| A．Smile and the World Smiles to You |
| B．Complaining about Life |
| C．Failure is the Mother of Success |
It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!
Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners, you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.
But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.
There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.
It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.
1. The passage is written to _______.
| A．explain cultural differences | B．convince readers to maintain cultural differences |
| C．predict the future of globalization | D．show some cultural phenomena(现象) |
| A．make the world colorful | B．make communication difficult |
| C．only exist in food and clothing | D．will never fade away |
| A．mentioning certain cultural phenomena |
| B．mentioning his view at the very beginning |
| C．mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning |
| D．giving examples of cultural differences |
| A．expand | B．disappear | C．become smaller | D．grow in number |
| A．food | B．clothing | C．language | D．architecture |
10 . Anger(生气) is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get really angry.
Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe faster, your face turns red, and you may want to break something or hit someone, but sometimes, you hide your anger. For example, you may hide it in your heart. The problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach may hurt.
In fact, it’s not good to hide your anger, and it’s normal for you to get angry sometimes. But anger must be let out in the right way, without hurting others or yourself.
When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. It’s helpful to talk about your anger with an adult, such as parents, a teacher, etc. When you talk about anger, those bad feelings can start to go away. Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry: talk to a good friend; count from 1 to 100; give someone a hug(拥抱); go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc.
Remember that how you act when you are angry can make everything better or worse. Don’t let your anger control you.
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1. You may get
2. Breathing
3. If you
4. We must let out our anger in the right way
5. Talking about your anger with your parents is
6. When you feel angry you can give someone a
