1 . 阅读短文，根据文章内容，完成下列表格。每空一词。
     Some etiquette（礼仪）in modern life

Do you often use a cell phone? Do you take the subway to school every day? These items make our modern life easier. But do you know how we should behave properly while using them? The following suggestions might be helpful.

For cell phone users

◆Keep your voice down when you make a phone call in public. Shouting on the phone may make others feel uncomfortable. And you’d better not use it during an appointment（约会）.

◆Stop sending messages or playing games with your cell phone at a dinner or a party. It’s a good time to communicate（交流）with your family and friends.

◆Don’t make or answer a call while driving. It is not only very dangerous for both you and your passengers but also against the law.

For subway passengers

◆You are supposed to wait in line while buying tickets and getting on the subway.

◆You’re not allowed to eat, drink or smoke on the subway train. The smell and noise may trouble others. It’s our duty to keep the train clean and tidy. Besides, smoking is bad for health.

◆ You can’t take pets on the train. As we all know, animals may spread diseases（传播疾病）and get the train dirty.

◆ You’d better not lie across the subway seats even if the train isn’t crowded. Offering your seat to someone who needs it is regarded as good manners.

Items	What we should do	What we shouldn’t do
Cell phoneusers	Keep your     1    down in public	● Don’t send messages or play games at a dinner or a party. ● Don’t make or answer a     2    while driving.
Subway passengers	● Wait in line ●Keep the train clean and     3     ●Offer your seat to someone who needs it.	● Don’t eat, drink or     4    on the   train. ●Don’t take     5    on the train. ● Don’t lie across the subway seats.

2 . The world we live in is full of amazing things. Do you know the following things?

★Chocolate tastes nice but it may make the little dog die.

★We may sleep for eight hours at a time but a snail (蜗牛) may sleep for three years.

★Our ears and nose become bigger when we grow up but eyes keep the same after a person is born.

★You may think a bear walks slowly. In fact, it can run as fast as a horse.

★Cats won’t die if they fall off very high places because they can turn themselves up the right way.

★The largest animal on the earth is the blue whale (鲸). It weighs about 80 tons (吨)—more than 24 elephants.

★Most animals will die soon if they lose the head. But a cockroach (蟑螂) can live for nine or ten days when they have no head.

★Not all birds can fly. About forty kinds of birds can’t fly, like the penguin (企鹅) and the ostrich (鸵鸟).

Some amazing things in the world
1	It’s nice but you can’t give it to little dogs, because it can kill them.
Snails	They can sleep as long as three years.
Our eyes	The size of the eyes doesn’t     2     from birth.
Bears	They can run very fast like a horse.
Cats	After       3     off very high places, they can stay alive.
Blue whales	They are the largest animal and a blue whale’s weight is about 80 tons.
Cockroaches	They can live for nine or ten days       4     the head.
Birds	Most birds are good at     5     but some can’t.

3 . Many people do not know what to do in face of a decision, big or small. Most decisions aren’t life-changers. But often, the decision isn’t between this or that; it’s between acting or not. If this challenges you, here are some tips. 

Jog or ride a bike to nowhere. Just start moving in hopes of leaving the familiar. Walk down every street or path you can find until you lose your way. Then, see where you end up. Remember what it felt like to wonder where you were going? Try to lose yourself more often. It’ll make you better at making a decision. 

Sit outside without any technology for an hour. Let yourself get bored. Can you hear the birds singing? The wind blowing? Yourself breathing? Try to do this once a week, then every other day, then every day. One of the reasons we find it hard to make better decisions is that we keep getting attracted to new things. A break from the noise will lead you to the decision you need to make.

Do something that scares you. People who have trouble making decisions fear mistakes. Tell someone you love them. Laugh out loud in a public place. Give a speech to a stranger. And when you do this, remember how you feel.When you’re sacred by a risky situation the next time, tell yourself that you did not lie. And try to trust the process in the future.    

Some of these things may seem silly, but the more you do them, the more you’ll control yourself. It doesn’t matter where you’re going. Just go. Once you start moving, you can always change direction.   

     

The art of making     1
Introduction		People often have to decide if they will act.
Tips	Going for a jog or a bike ride.	Start moving to leave the familiar and get     2     .  Do it more often and it will make you better at making a  decision.
	Stay outside with        3     technology.	Do something outside to get yourself bored. Be away from the noise for a while daily and you will make     4    decisions.
	Do something that  scares you	Remember your    5     when you do these scary things. Trust the process in the future.
Conclusion		The more you do, the more in control you’ll feel. Stop worrying about which way to go and just start moving.

4 . 阅读短文，并按要求完成下列句子。
We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another place at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded.
When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration is probably the migration of the fish which is called “salmon” (鲑鱼)．This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mouse. They leave their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea.
Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobster (龙虾)．Every year, when the season of the bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go. So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another place, but at other times we don't. Maybe living things just like to travel.
1. The reason for most of the animals to move is ____________.
2. Find the word in the passage which means “the movement from one place to another of a large group of animals” and write it down here: ______.
3. The underlined word “There” in the second paragraph refers to (指的是) ____________.
4. The salmon comes back to its birthplace in order to ____________.
5. The lobsters begin to move to another place when ____________.

5 . Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809. His mother died when he was ten years old. Later, his family moved to Illinois and his father remarried. The family was poor, so they had to struggle just to live. In Illinois, there were neither teachers nor schools, but Lincoln’s stepmother encouraged him to study. He learned to read and write while working on the farm.
At twenty-one, Lincoln left home. He soon received a law license and became a lawyer. People trusted him and began to call him “Honest Abe”.
During the following years, he took a more active part in polities. Soon he was not only a highly respected lawyer but also a well-known politician. He was elected the sixteenth president of the United States in 1860, and in the next year the Civil War broke out.
The Civil War was between the southern states that wanted to leave the Union and form their own country, and northern states that wanted to keep all the states as one country. The southern states wanted to keep the laws that allowed them to own slaves. Both the northern states and President Lincoln wanted to get rid of those laws. On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ended and all slaves were set free.
Less than a week later, on April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C. He died the next day from his wounds.

Abraham Lincoln
Birth	★He was born in 1809.
His family	★His mother died when he was     1    . ★His stepmother was     2     to him and encouraged him to study.
Unusual Experience	★A farmer, a lawyer, a politician and the sixteenth     3     of the United States.
Achievement	★The Civil War broke out between the southern states and the     4     states. ★All slaves were set free when the Civil War     5    . ★“Keeping all the states as one country” came true.

6 . 根据短文内容，完成下列句子。
John: I’m 15 years old and I love football. I also like reading, especially (尤其是) stories about people from other countries. I don’t enjoy singing or playing computers. I think that rock music is terrible.
Ann: Hi, I’m Ann. I’m 16 and I like dancing and computers. I also like rock music. I hate hiking and I’m not interested in classical music. I don’t enjoy reading too much.
Steve: I’m 14 years old and I love skiing. Other favorite hobbies are reading and singing. I don’t like hiking. I think that rock music is too noisy and I think that football is boring.
Peter: I’m from Australia. I’m 15 and I am fond of singing. I sing a lot, and when I’m not singing, I listen to rock music or use my computer. I don’t like football and I think that classical music is terrible. I hate dancing!
Sarah: My name is Sarah and I’m 14 years old. My interests are reading novels, playing football and singing songs. I think that rock music is terrible, and I don’t like dancing. I don’t enjoy computers, either.
Joe: Hi, I’m Joe. I really like computers. I surf the Internet all the time and I like playing computer games. I don’t enjoy football and I hate hiking. Rock music is OK, and so is skiing.
1. Steve is a ___________ boy, Ann is a ___________ girl, but we don’t know Joe’s age.
2. ___________, ___________ and ___________ don’t like hiking.
3. John and Sarah could be friends, because they both like ___________.
4. Ann and Sarah could not be friends, because they ___________.
5. Who do you want to be friends with?
___________, because ________________.