1 . My grandfather is an eighty-year-old man. He changed, and he often says that life used to be better.
Families aren’t families the way they used to be. A lot of families have broke down. If husband and wife have problems with their marriage, they no longer stay together. And mothers used to stay at home and take care of their children, but now everyone’s working. No one has time to look after children at home.
And the cars! No one walks any more: everyone drives. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. But now they don’t. And in schoo1, the children don’t have to think any more. In math class, for example, we used to add, subtract, multiply and divide in our heads. Kids don’t use their heads any more；instead, they use calculators(计算器).
Most families have computers now. In the past we didn’t have computers.We didn’t even have lights. My mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now nobody eats home-cooked food any more.
And people don’t talk to each other any more. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too, busy to think……
Life used to be simple, but it isn’t any more.
1. My grandfather thinks the life ________.| A．is better than it used to be | B．is worse than it used to be | C．is as good as it used to be | D．is as bad as it used to be |
| A．生活 | B．工作 | C．婚姻 | D．家庭 |
①There are lights at home.
②People like to eat home.cooked food.
③Lots of families have computers.
④Lots of couples live apart because of some prob1ems.
| A．①②④ | B．②③④ | C．①②③ | D．①③④ |
| A．People have too much time to talk with each other. |
| B．Life now is very simple. |
| C．Many families have broken down because of problems between husbands and wives. |
| D．Mothers stay at home and look after their children. |
| A．How life used to be | B．The better life | C．The changes in our life | D．Hard-working students |
2 . When traditional Chinese food baozi and the pizza meet together, what will probably happen?
These days a kind of new food called “Baozza” is getting popular online. In Beijing, many local people and a number of foreigners are the fans of the food. Why?
The new food has the features (特点) of Chinese baozi and western pizza. It has included the tastes of the two kinds of food. The restaurant, located in Beijing, serves all kinds of tastes of Baozza such as margherita and BBQ chicken.
The inventors of the food are a few American businessmen. They used to travel to southern China for business meetings. After they saw and ate baozi made of pork or vegetables many times, they came up with the great idea of creating Baozza.
Alex Cree, one of the inventors, said, “We were talking about the idea of making a kind of special baozi with more traditional western tastes like that of hamburgers and pizza. And then we called it ‘pizza baozi’.”
“There are a lot of people who only order one or two Baozza for the first time. They worry that the food doesn't taste so good,” Loren Heinold, another inventor, said. However, they will ask immediately for more when they turn around.”
1. What is Baozza according to the passage?| A．A kind of traditional Chinese food. | B．A kind of traditional western food. |
| C．A new invention of food. | D．A new restaurant in Beijing. |
| A．Some local people in Beijing. | B．A few Americans in Beijing. |
| C．Some Chinese people in America. | D．A few businessmen in South China. |
| A．Because they don’t have enough money. | B．Because they don’t like the special taste. |
| C．Because they worry that it isn’t healthy. | D．Because they worry that it isn’t delicious. |
| A．It’s exactly a kind of pizza. | B．It’s sold only in South China. |
| C．It’s loved by more and more customers. | D．It’s made of pork or vegetables. |
| A．A kind of new food called Baozza. | B．American businessmen in Beijing. |
| C．The differences between baozi and pizza | D．Delicious traditional Chinese food. |
3 . John was a boy of 15. His parents were busy with work far away from home and spent little time with him. He was often late for school, slept in class and did badly in his school work. His teachers didn't like him and his classmates never played with him. No one cared（关心）about him and he just wanted to give himself up.
One day, Miss Green, a new teacher, came to John's class. She was friendly and beautiful. John liked her and he tried to listen to her class. But still he didn't do well in his exams（考试）. It was Miss Green's class. She was asking a question. "I'd like the smartest boy to answer my question," Then she said, "John, please!" John was surprised and didn't say anything, "just try it! I am sure you can!" Miss Green said. After school, Miss Green had a long talk with John. She told him that he was a good boy and she was worried about his study. John thought a lot that evening. From then on he got to school on time every day. Miss Green helped him with his homework in the afternoon. She also cooked delicious food for him. She told John that he could do well in his study if he worked hard in it. Later, Miss Green gave another exam. John tried his best to finish it and he was very excited to find that he did it well. Now John got a great change and he knew that he could not only learn, but also do it well.
You see, a nice teacher saved a boy.
1. What can we learn about John from the first paragraph?| A．He was busy at school. |
| B．He made a lot of friends at school. |
| C．He liked his teachers and classmates. |
| D．He wasn’t good at study. |
| A．was kind |
| B．didn't like John |
| C．taught John to cook |
| D．helped John with his homework in the evening |
a. John did well in the exam.
b. Miss Green had a talk with him.
c. Miss Green helped John with his homework.
d. John liked Miss Green and tried to listen to her class.
e. Miss Green asked John to answer a question in the class.
| A．e-b-d-c-a | B．d-e-b-c-a | C．e-b-c-d-a | D．d-c-e-b-a |
| A．Parents and Children. |
| B．A Strict Teacher. |
| C．A Boy’s Change. |
| D．Making Friends at School. |
4 . Embroidery(刺绣) has a long history and can date back to the Warring States period in China. Embroidery is very popular in many countries such as China, India, and Japan. Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needles and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also use other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often used on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.
Embroidery has many unique characteristics(特点). One of the interesting characteristics of embroidery is the basic techniques or stitches(针法), such as the chain stitch, the buttonhole or the blanket stitch, the running stitch, the satin stitch and the cross stitch. They are still the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
Embroidery can be classified according to whether the design is stitched on top of or through the foundation fabric; and by the relationship of stitch placement to the fabric. Different embroidery has its own advantages and disadvantages. In modern society, we can produce many different embroideries. Machine embroidery is one of them. It appears in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.
1. From the passage, we can know embroidery can date back to ________.| A．the Warring States period | B．the Spring and Autumn period |
| C．the modern times | D．the Ming Dynasty |
| A．Metal strips. | B．Pearls. | C．Quills. | D．Wood. |
| A．Seven. | B．Six. | C．Eight. | D．Five. |
| A．The flying stitch. | B．The satin stitch. |
| C．The flat stitch. | D．The button stitch. |
| A．The Introduction of Embroidery | B．The Advantages of Embroidery |
| C．The Disadvantages of Embroidery | D．The Meaning of Embroidery |
5 . Nobody likes to do chores, especially kids. How can you make your kids get into a good habit of doing their chores? Try making chores fun for them.
Play some music. Music makes everything seem like a party, doesn’t it? Play your kids’ favorite music and let them dance around while they are doing their chores.
Make it a treasure hunt (寻宝). It’s a good way when you would like them to clean the house. Let them know that you hide (隐藏) a $5 bill someplace. If they find it, they can keep it.
Change often. If your kids keep doing the same chores for months, they may feel bored. Teaching them a new task (任务) is fun for both you and the kids. They will feel more grown up when they get a new task.
Do it together. It’s never fun to be the only one working and watching everyone else relaxing.
If everyone takes part in doing chores, you will finish them faster and have more fun.
1. The article is for ________.| A．schools | B．teachers | C．parents | D．kids |
| A．three | B．four | C．five | D．six |
| A．play their favorite music | B．hide something for them to find |
| C．give them a new task | D．do it together with them |
| A．tired | B．fun | C．interested | D．bored |
| A．Doing chores is good for kids | B．Help kids set a good habit |
| C．Make chores fun for kids | D．Everyone should do chores |
6 . There's much to see under the sea, but you need to remember that light behaves differently in water than in air. The objects appear closer to you than they exactly are. You might find yourself reaching out to touch something and completely missing it.
Objects underwater will appear larger than they would on the surface, too. Be careful not to tell any stories about the big fish that got away. That fish might not be so big after all! It's just because sometimes things can seem to be as much as about 33 percent bigger in water!
What's more, in deeper water, colors just don't seem as bright. In fact, it looks as if some colors are missing. Remember the color of an object results from the wavelengths (波长) of light that are reflected(反射) from its surface. And light is taken in as it moves down through the water.
Swimmers wear wet suits to keep warm underwater. Let's take a bright red, yellow, and blue wet suit as an example. These colors are hard to miss on the surface of water. Watch carefully the changes in color as you descend in the water. The red part now looks almost black because the red light wavelengths, the longest among these three colors, are missing. As you go down deeper, the same thing will happen to the yellow part and in the end to the blue part. Even at a place of about 6 to 9 meters underwater, you will look terrible, like a ghost(鬼怪)! And you have to wait for your return to the surface to enjoy the bright colors again.
1. You miss the object under water when you want to touch it because ______.| A．your eyesight is quite poor | B．you are not quick enough |
| C．it is not as close as it seems | D．it disappears very quickly |
| A．the size | B．the color | C．the position | D．the weight |
| A．上升 | B．增加 | C．屏息 | D．下潜 |
| A．A four-meter-long fish looks three meters long underwater. |
| B．The wavelengths of red light are longer than those of blue light. |
| C．Much water will be taken in by the swimmer deep in the wave. |
| D．You will see a ghost if you go as deep as 6 to 9 meters into the sea. |
| A．The standard of color underwater | B．The direction of light underwater |
| C．The brightness of color underwater | D．The behavior of light underwater |
7 . The Beijing Hearing Dog Association has a plan. They plan to choose some stray dogs (流浪狗) and train them. Then the dogs will be able to help the old and the deaf.
They will choose young dogs, because it's easier to train them. The kind of dog is not important.
Twenty-four volunteers will join the training. They all have some experience of keeping dogs and they all love dogs. They will learn a special language first from the coach (教练) and they teach the dogs. This training will take 180 days. Then the better-performed dogs will enter the next training. They will learn to understand different sounds, such as knocking on a door and water boiling. Then the dogs will live with the deaf or the old for 30 days.
Some people think the plan won't work, because it will cost a lot of money. But some people like the plan and they would like to be the volunteers.
1. Why does the association want to choose young dogs?| A．Because young dogs are cuter. | B．Because young dogs are stronger. |
| C．Because it's easier to train them. | D．Because it will cost less to train them. |
| A．They all want to help the young. | B．They all keep lots of dogs. |
| C．They all work in the association. | D．They all have experience of keeping dogs and they all love dogs. |
| A．They will learn to understand different languages. |
| B．They will learn to understand different sounds. |
| C．They will learn to understand old people's living habits. |
| D．They will learn to understand different ways to open the door. |
| A．The association will train police dogs. | B．The first training will take 180 days. |
| C．All dogs will enter the second training. | D．All the people like the plan. |
| A．Stray dogs will help people. | B．Dogs are very clever. |
| C．The old need dogs' help. | D．It's difficult to train a dog. |
8 . "I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net."
"I often check my e-mail forty times a day."
"I spend more than ten hours on the net every day."
"I spend more time in chat rooms than with my 'real-life' friends."
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction（上瘾）called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug use. The people lose control of the time they spend on the Internet.
For example. One college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days.
Studies show that about 6%-10% of the Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teenagers because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in front of the computers than in the real world of friends and family.
Is "surfing the net" a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms（症状）:
You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
You can't wait for your next online time.
You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
You go out with your friends less and less.
1. How does the writer describe the addicts' use of Internet？| A．It is something like keeping drugs. | B．It is a way of producing drugs. |
| C．It is like taking drugs. | D．It is terrible to imagine. |
| A．The teenagers are wasting too much money. |
| B．They used to work on the Internet. |
| C．The playing field of the teenagers will disappear. |
| D．More and more teenagers will become addicted to the Internet. |
| A．Internet problems are more serious among college students. |
| B．Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep. |
| C．Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted. |
| D．The police often help to find those Internet addicts. |
| A．Don't be addicted to the Internet. |
| B．Go to family activities more often. |
| C．Do things as you have planned. |
| D．Stay with your parents as often as possible. |
| A．How to Surf the Internet | B．Internet Addiction |
| C．Internet Users | D．How Internet Change Our Lives |
9 . Over the last few centuries, there have been many changes in our lives.
To start with, people were not able to travel such a long distance in such a short time in the past. Planes were not very popular at that time because they used to be a very expensive way to travel. Nowadays, more and more people can travel by plane and we can take many other fast and comfortable vehicles, such as cars and high-speed trains.
Secondly, in the past, people had to work much harder because they did not have the tools we have today. Today, most of the difficult and dangerous work is done by computers and machines.
Thirdly, in the past, the living conditions were not as good as they are now. There were no bathrooms or running water in many houses, and many people could not buy things like refrigerators, TV sets or washing machines. Now, most families have several of these things.
Lastly, communications have become much easier than before. In the past, we kept in touch with others by writing letters or sending faxes, but now we have many other ways to choose from, such as making a phone call, sending e-mails or messages and chatting online. Moreover, we can even see the people whom we are making a phone call with through mobile phones, and we can see each other while chatting online. The most surprising thing is that we can make a phone call with the astronauts and see them when they are in space. What a magical thing!
Thanks to the technology, especially the Internet, our lives have become much easier and happier than before. I'm sure they will become more wonderful in the future. Don't you think so?
1. Why were planes not so popular many years ago?| A．Because they were not big enough. | B．Because they were not able to fly long. |
| C．Because they were very expensive. | D．Because they were not fast enough. |
| A．for fewer hours | B．much harder | C．more easily | D．more quickly |
| A．Many families have TV sets and washing machines nowadays. |
| B．There were no bathrooms or running water before. |
| C．Living conditions have been improved. |
| D．Many people can take baths at home now. |
| A．traveling | B．living conditions | C．working tools | D．communication |
| A．Great changes in our lives. | B．Good education will change our lives. |
| C．Fast development of science. | D．We live a happy life now. |
10 . Michael Faraday(迈克尔·法拉第) was one of the most famous scientists in history, and is known as “Father of Electricity(电)”. He discovered electromagnetic rotation, benzene, electromagnetic induction, etc. Without the work of this British scientist, many of the things we live with, such as computers, fridges, wouldn’t be here.
Faraday’s achievements seem more wonderful when we realize that he had very little schooling. He was born in 1791 in London. His father was too poor to send him to school. So the boy went to work at a bookstore, where he became interested in books on science.
One day young Faraday attended a lecture(讲座) given by a famous scientist, Sir Humpry Davy. Faraday took very careful notes at the lecture. Back at the bookstore he made diagrams(图表) to explain what Davy had said. Then he made the notes and diagrams into a book and sent it to the great scientist. In a letter he also told Davy that he was very interested in science.
Faraday received the excitement of his life when, on the day before Christmas in 1812, a messenger(邮递员) came to the bookstore with a note asking him to call on Davy the next day. As a result of that visit, Faraday became an assistant(助手) in Davy’s laboratory. At first, Faraday only washed chemistry glassware and kept the laboratory clean, but later he was given more important work to do. It was in Davy’s laboratory that Faraday received the training that enabled him to become one of the world’s greatest scientists.
1. How many of Faraday’s discoveries are mentioned in Paragraph 1?| A．2. | B．3. | C．4. | D．5. |
| A．when he was at school | B．before he went to school |
| C．as he was working at a bookstore | D．after he listened to Davy’s lecture |
| A．Faraday paid a visit to Davy. | B．Faraday became a teacher. |
| C．Faraday got a book from Davy. | D．Faraday made a present for Davy. |
| A．Faraday was a tidy person. | B．Faraday was a slow learner. |
| C．Davy pushed Faraday too hard. | D．Davy was pleased with Faraday. |
| A．A Great Friendship | B．Father of Electricity |
| C．A Life-changing Visit | D．The Most Important Discovery |
