1 . Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those people who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who has cars may want to walk on the country road at their free time.
In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into ____ When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you. When you take lessons, your parents are always taking care of your life and health. When you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you. When you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them , you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. It’s a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are happy, because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are happy, because you have more chances to challenge yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, “ Life is like a revolving door, when it closes, it also opens.” If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.
1. According to the passage, which of the following is happiness?

A．You have lots of money, but you have no friends.

B．When you’re in trouble, your classmates often help you.

C．You have a big house, but you always feel lonely.

D．When you meet difficulties, you give up at once.

2. What does the underlined word “ it ”refer to?

A．Happiness.

B．Trouble

C．Health

D．Difficulty

3. The third paragraph(段) tells us that ________.

A．Poor people are always happy.	B．Difficulties means happiness.
C．Happiness is a feeling of heart.	D．Life is the revolving door.

4. What would be the best title for this passage?

A．Money and cars.	B．Happiness is everywhere.
C．Happiness is money.	D．Luck in life.

2 . Li Lu is a fifth-grade student who lived in a small village in Shanxi Province. She lived with her grandparents, because her parents are migrant workers in big cities. During the days when there were no school buses, Li Lu had to ride a bike five kilometers and climb a small mountain to school every day. Her 70-year-old grandfather says he and Li Lu’s grandmother always worried about her safety.
“There are so many cars on the roads, and we were really _____ about her all the time. When it was time for her to come home, we would stare at the alley’s (小巷的) entrance until she showed up.”
But with the start of the new school year, the school’s new bus now picks up the students. Eleven-year-old Li Lu pointed at her seat on the bus and said ,“Now I don’t ride my bike any more. My grandparents no longer need to worry about me. The bus is spacious and comfortable. Look! This is my seat, with my name tag on the seatback.”
1. How far is Li Lu’s home from her school?

A．Five minutes by bike.	B．Over five kilometers.
C．Fifty minutes by bus.	D．Four kilometers.

2. The underlined word “concerned” can be best translated into ________.

A．关注

B．有关的

C．担心的

D．涉及

3. Why does Li Lu live with her grandparents?

A．Because she lives far from school.

B．Because her parents have died.

C．Because she had to ride a bike five kilometers to school.

D．Because her parents work in big cities.

4. What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．Going to school by bike.	B．Far away from school.
C．Li Lu has taken the new school bus.	D．Li Lu and her family.

3 . Stop! Listen! What do you hear? You may hear many different sounds. Some of those sounds may be noisy. Noise is loud and unwanted sound.

Noise can be caused by many kinds of machines, such as motorcycles, jet planes, tractors and so on. And, to some people, rock bands are also noise.

What happened to people who live near noisy machines or use them over a period of time? Doctors find that these people have trouble in sleeping, But, most important, constant loud noise can cause a loss of hearing.

Scientists use a unit of measure called a decibel to measure the loudness of a sound. The sound of a quiet room, for example, measures 35 decibels. Talking measures between 40 and 65 decibels. Sounds from traffic and from some rock bands can measure over 120 decibels. Noise at this high level causes the greatest hearing loss.

1. From the article we know noise is ___________.
wanted sound

A．loud and unwanted sound	B．all sounds that you can hear
C．comfortable sound

2. A “decibel” is a _________

A．unit that measures sound	B．kind of noise
C．machine that makes very loud noise	D．person who hates noise

3. According to the passage, loud noise can ________.help people sleep better

A．stop machine	B．cause a loss of hearing
C．kill people

4. The main idea of this passage is that __________

A．noise pollution can be a serious problem

B．rock bands are noisy

C．noise can cause people to be mad

D．some people hate noise deeply

5. Study the chart below, Which room would be the quietest?

Room	Noise Level
A	35 decibels
B	120 decibels
C	130 decibels
D	40 decibels

A．Room A	B．Room B
C．Room C	D．Room D