1 . Suppose you want to buy some new clothes or a new TV. Or maybe you need some work done on your car. How can you find the best price without shopping all over town？Ads can help you. Ads can show you lots of prices. And you don’t have to go anywhere to see them. Just open a newspaper or magazine，and you’ll find plenty of ads. The following is an ad about TV sets for sale. Please read it and answer the questions below.
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．You can buy any kind on July 14th. |
| B．The service time is 9-9 every day except Monday. |
| C．The larger the screen is, the higher the price will be. |
| D．The lowest price is more than 300. |
| A．The date of the American National Day (July 4th). |
| B．The postcode of the area where the store is. |
| C．The phone number of the store. |
| D．The names of the TV sets. |
2 . Last summer, we went to Hawaii for holiday. During my week-long trip with my husband, we spent most of our time
We didn’t take any
As we stood in line at the check-in, we noticed the
We watched the children become unworried while they were playing cards. But the mother stared at her knees,
I suddenly
| A．flying | B．travelling | C．swimming | D．walking |
| A．action | B．children | C．photos | D．friends |
| A．before | B．ago | C．now | D．yet |
| A．sea | B．airport | C．destination | D．station |
| A．traveled | B．left | C．missed | D．forgotten |
| A．class | B．parent | C．passenger | D．family |
| A．Therefore | B．Otherwise | C．However | D．Then |
| A．hit | B．discovered | C．forbidden | D．killed |
| A．nervously | B．bravely | C．confidently | D．proudly |
| A．unable | B．likely | C．willing | D．afraid |
| A．never | B．ever | C．almost | D．hardly |
| A．feeling | B．experiencing | C．fighting | D．ignoring |
| A．wiped out | B．eased off | C．broken up | D．turned into |
| A．regretted | B．decided | C．remembered | D．discovered |
| A．created | B．valued | C．shared | D．planned |
3 . There was a man playing the piano in a bar. He was a good piano player and always performed in this bar. People came in just to hear him play. But one night, a customer told him that he didn't want to hear him just play the piano any more. He wanted him to sing a song.
The man said, "I don't sing." But the customer was persistent(执着的). He told the bar manager, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want that man to sing!" The manager shouted across the room, "If you want to get paid, sing a song. Our customers are asking you to sing!" So he did. He sang a song. A piano player who had never sung in public did so for the first time. And everyone was surprised by his song Mona Lisa. He got lots of applause that night. He had such a talent for singing, but he just had been sitting on his talent for the past years! If without such a chance, he may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. However, now he has become one of the best-known singers in America.
You, too, have skills and abilities. Maybe your "talent" is not as great as the singer above, but it may be better than you think! And with effort, most skills can be improved. So, in your life, you should be brave enough to try doing different things and find out what talents you really have!
1. Why did the man start to sing?| A．Because he wanted to make more money. |
| B．Because the bar manager said he liked his song. |
| C．Because the manager asked him to sing at the request of a customer. |
| D．Because he wanted to show everyone that he had a talent for singing. |
| A．The man didn't get paid at last. |
| B．The customers were unsatisfied with the song. |
| C．The man became a singer later. |
| D．The manager had to lay the man off. |
| A．Some people really have no skills or abilities. |
| B．Sometimes through effort we can know our talents. |
| C．None of us is as great as the singer. |
| D．No skills can be improved even if you try your best. |
4 . A Trip to the Forest
One day Bob took two of his friends into the mountains. They put up their tents and then rode off to a forest to see how the trees were growing. In the afternoon when they were about ten kilometres from their camp, it started to snow. More and more snow fell. Soon Bob could hardly see his hands before his face. He could not find the road. Bob knew there were two roads. One road went to the camp, and the other went to his house. But all was white snow. Everything was the same. How could he take his friends back to the camp?
Bob had an idea. The horses! Let the horses take them back! But what would happen if the horses took the road to his house? That would be a trip of thirty-five kilometres in such cold weather! It was getting late. They rode on and on. At last the horses stopped. Where were they? None of them could tell. John looked around. What was that under the tree? It was one of their tents!
1. John and his two friends went to the forest to _____.| A．build their camp |
| B．find their way home |
| C．enjoy the mountains in the snow |
| D．watch the trees in the forest |
| A．there was only one road to their camp |
| B．they couldn't decide which of the two roads led to their tents |
| C．there were no roads in the mountains at all |
| D．everything was covered by the white snow |
| A．John's house | B．the camp |
| C．the forest | D．the mountains |
| A．it was getting late | B．they were tired after running for a long way |
| C．they knew that they had got to the camp | D．they had seen John's house |
