1 . SPORTS EVENTS

BASKETBALL

Central Sports Centre, City Road.

All Stars vs Rockets, Saturday 8:30 p.m. $12

Northerners vs Tigers, Sunday noon $14

BUSH WALKING

Meet at Wanda Station, Saturday 9:00 a.m. sharp for 3-hour walk to Canary Mountains. $7, call 341-5432.

Meet at Westley Station, Sunday 9:00 a.m. sharp for a full day walk to Wombak Valley. $5, call 341-8643: Bring your own lunch.

SOCCER

St Martins Sports Centre

St Martins vs Doonsberg, Saturday 2:00 p.m. $8

Eastside Central vs Light Hill, Sunday 2:00 p.m. $8

Neill Park Recreation Centre

Neill Park vs Robinson, Saturday 2:00 p.m. $11

Essen vs Springwood, Sunday 2:00 p.m. $11

LAWN BOWLS

Tans Town B.C

Tans Town vs White Vale, Saturday 9:00 p.m. $10

Wake Hill B.C.

Wake Hill vs Coils, Saturday 2:00 p.m. $9

1. _______ sports events are to be held at Saturday 2:00 p.m. according to the passage.

A．Two

B．Three

C．Four

D．Five

2. You may find the passage most probably in a ________.

A．handbook about tour	B．notice about sports
C．magazine about ball matches	D．blog about match reviews

3. If you have $18, you can go to both ________.

A．All Stars vs Rockets and the bushwalking at Westley Station

B．Wake Hill vs Colls and Essen vs Springwood

C．Neill Park vs Robinson and Eastside Central vs Light Hill

D．St Matins vs Doonsberg and Northerners vs Tigers

2 . If Confucius(孔子)were still alive today and could celebrate his September 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles. He'd need a fan or a strong wind to help him put them out.

While many people in China will remember Confucius on his special day, few people in the United States will give him a passing thought. It's nothing personal. Most Americans don't even remember the birthdays of their own national heroes.

But this doesn't mean that Americans don't care about Confucius. In many ways he has become a bridge that foreigners must cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China.

In the past two decades, the Chinese studies programs have gained huge popularity in Western universities. More recently, the Chinese government has set up Confucius Institutes in more than 80 countries. These schools teach both Chinese language and culture. The main courses of Chinese culture usually include Chinese art, history and

philosophy(哲学). Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantage of the ancient Chinese wisdom to make up for the drawbacks(缺陷)of Western philosophy. Students in the United States, at the same time, are racing to learn Chinese. So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal power with the United States. Businessmen who hope to make money in China are reading books about Confucius to understand their Chinese customers.

So the old thinker's ideas are still alive and well.

Today China attracts the West more than ever, and it will need more teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West.

As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is.

1. The opening paragraph is mainly intended to______________.

A．provide some key facts about Confucius

B．attract the readers' interest in the subject

C．show great respect for the ancient thinker

D．prove the popularity of modern birthday celebrations

2. We can learn from Paragraph 4 that American students___________.

A．have a great interest in studying Chinese

B．take an active part in Chinese competitions

C．try to get high scores in Chinese exams

D．fight for a chance to learn Chinese

3. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Forgotten Wisdom in America

B．Huge Fans of the Chinese Language

C．Chinese Culture for Westerners

D．Old Thinker with a Big Future

4. The passage is likely to appear in__________.

A．a personal biography	B．a history paper
C．a cultural newspaper	D．a philosophy textbook

3 . A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away. That’s the finding of a study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least an ounce of salt-water fish per day compared             to those who never ate fish.
The Dutch research is one of three human studies that give strong scientific support to the long held belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart.
Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000 deaths occurring from heart attacks each year. But previous research has shown that the level of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans             do. There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption averages more than 3 ounces.
For 20 years, the Dutch study followed 852 middle-aged men, 20 percent of whom ate no fish. At the start of the study, average fish consumption was about two-thirds of an ounce each day, with more men eating lean fish than fatty fish.
During the next two decades, 78 of the men died from heart disease. The fewest deaths were among the group who regularly ate fish, even at levels far lower than those of the Japanese or Eskimos.This relationship was true regardless of other factors such as age, high blood pressure, or blood cholesterol（胆固醇）levels.
1. In which section of a newspaper can we read this passage?

A．Ads	B．Movies
C．Briefs	D．Health and Diet

2. The passage is mainly about _________.

A．the high incidence of heart disease in some countries

B．the changes in people’s diet

C．the effect of fish eating on people’s health

D．the daily fish consumption of people in different cultures

3. The phrase “This relationship” in paragraph 6 refers to the connection between ____ and the level of heart disease.

A．the amount of fish eaten	B．regular fish-eating
C．the kind of fish eaten	D．people of different areas

4. From the passage we know the author is most probably ___________.

A．a heart doctor	B．a science researcher
C．a supporter of healthy eating	D．a university student

4 . NEW YORK—Gordon Parks, who experienced the struggles and victories of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with " The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, his family said.

Parks, who also wrote fiction and was a gifted composer, died at his home in New York, according to a former wife, and nephew Charles Parks.

"Nothing came easy," Parks wrote in his autobiography(自传)."I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness. "

He covered everything from fashion to politics to sports at Life from 1948 to 1968.

But as a photographer, he was perhaps best known for his photo essays on the effects of poverty in the United States and abroad and on the spirit of the civil rights movement.

He went through a series of jobs as a teen and young man, including piano player and railroad dining car waiter. The breakthrough came when he was about 25 , when he bought a used camera in a pawn shop (典当行) for $7.50. He became a freelance (自由投稿的)fashion photographer, went on to Vogue magazine and then to Life in 1948.

" Reflecting now, I realize that, even within the limits of my childhood vision, I was on a search for pride, meanwhile taking measurable glimpses of how certain blacks, who suffered from racism, were against it," he wrote.

When he accepted an award from Wichita Stale University in May 1991, he said it was "another step forward in my making peace with Kansas and Kansas making peace with me."

1. Which of the following jobs didn't Gordon Parks do?

A．A photographer.	B．A director.
C．A composer.	D．A politician.

2. What can you infer from the passage?

A．Parks thought not everything was easy.

B．Parks was later fond of exploring every person.

C．Parks worked at Life for 20 years.

D．Parks married only once.

3. What directly helped Parks be a fashion photographer?

A．His photo essays.	B．A used camera。.
C．A pawn shop。	D．Vogue magazine.

4. The passage is most probably taken from _____ .

A．a short 一 story collection.	B．a popular science magazine.
C．a research paper.	D．a newspaper.

5 . Young people in the United States do not have a strong understanding of the world and their place in it.

Two U．S.­based groups，the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Geographic Society，commissioned an online survey earlier this year.They wanted to know what young people educated in American colleges know about geography，U.S.foreign policy，recent international events，and economics.

The survey was given to over 1,200 Americans between the ages of 18 and 26，all of them presently attending，or having previously graduated from，a 2­ or 4­year college or university.

The average test score，out of 75 total possible answers，was 55 percent.The study identifies a few important problems.For example，only 30 percent knew that the only part of the U．S.government that can declare war is Congress.Only 60% of those taking the survey could identify Brazil on a world map.

Part of the problem，argue the organizers of the survey，is the Internet.They say it is becoming harder to find high­quality information about world events among all the fake news and trivia(琐事)which swamp(淹没)the Web.Forty­three percent of those questioned said they read about the news on Facebook.

Another problem is that most college courses do not require students to learn about international issues.If such information is not required，Richard Haass from the Council on Foreign Relations said，then the United States could have leaders like Gary Johnson.He was a recent presidential candidate who did not know about the Syrian city of Aleppo when a reporter asked him about it.

The survey results were not all bad.The young people also demonstrated a good understanding of climate change and renewable energy.And the majority of them said that international issues were becoming more important to them.

Haass says these findings suggest the need to find ways to get good information to students，both in school and online.To help，the Council on Foreign Relations is creating a new program called CFR Campus，designed to help build knowledge about global issues.

1. What can we learn about the survey?

A．All the participants were recent university graduates.

B．It was given to over 1,200 American people aged from 18 to 26.

C．Its aim is to figure out what the young people know about America.

D．It was an online survey conducted by two US universities.

2. According to the survey，what topic did the young Americans understand best?

A．Environmental matters.

B．Geographic information.

C．Foreign relations.

D．Government organizations.

3. In which column of a newspaper could we find this article?

A．Economics.

B．Entertainment.

C．Education.

D．Politics.