As children,we think that gifts in small packages are less important. The larger a gift box is,the more we 1 it. On birthdays we always 2 what a large gift package holds inside for us. We shake the package and listen to the sound of the things inside carefully. If there is no 3 ,we might think that the package is full of clothes一very 4 if we really want toys.

    Good things come in 5 packages. The world shows its treasures (珍寶) to us not only in big things like planets,but also in little things. Let's take a diamond (鉆石) for example. It is small,but 6 .

   It takes years to create a diamond and it is one of nature's hardest things. More 7,parents consider their children as small packages. But inside the packages,there are priceless (無價(jià)的) gifts — 8 As we move on in life,when we 9 others,we always try to get to know them by listening to what they say 10 making further studies. This is just like when we shake a package and listen to the sound inside it.

1. A. buy   B. want

   C. take   D. throw

2. A. wonder   B. open

   C. ask   D. put

3. A. money   B. clothes

   C. food   D. sound

4. A. excited   B. disappointed

   C. annoyed   D. embarrassing

5. A. large   B. light

   C. bright   D. small

6. A. priceless   B. beautiful

   C. shiny   D. heavy

7. A. carelessly   B. actually

   C. personally   D. successfully

8. A. toys   B. books

   C. love   D. wishes

9. A. trouble   B. need

   C. help   D. meet

10. A. before   B. after

   C. when   D. as

   A lady got on a bus. Without saying a word,she just gestured (做手勢) to the bus driver by putting her thumb on her nose and showing her fingers at the driver. And the driver turned to her and used both hands in the same type of gesture and showed all his fingers at her. The woman held her right arm out at the driver and hit it a few times with her left hand. Then the driver made his left hand skate up (滑) his right arm quickly. And the woman got off the bus.

    There was another woman sitting in the front row of the bus who saw the whole exchange (交換) . She spoke up “ That is the most surprising thing I have ever seen on a bus!What were you doing?”

   “Listen,lady!” said the bus driver ,“The lady that got on the bus just now was a deaf one. She was one of my passengers before. In the bus just now,she asked me if the bus went to 5 th Street. I said no and I told her that we would go along the 10th Street. She asked if we made many stops on the way. I told her that I couldn’t stop the bus halfway. So she got off. ”

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，回答下列問題。

1.Why did the woman say nothing on the bus?

2. Did the driver know the woman before?

3. What did the woman ask when she showed her fingers at the driver?

4. Why did the driver make his left hand skate up his right arm? 

5. How did another woman feel when she saw their “talk”？

    At the age of 14 you may hope hamburgers and chips or pizza to be on the menu,but a teenager has been famous for his cooking. He started cooking at the age of 11.

Flynn McGarry from California,America has cooked for more than 120 people. Now he is running a restaurant with an 18 course tasting menu.

   Flynn said, “I'm interested in cooking because I don't like my mother's food. ” But his mother was not angry with Flynn at all. She bought her son cookbooks and let him look for recipes on the Internet.

   His mother doesn’t really like cooking,so she loves her son's hobby. After Flynn watches some dishes on the Food    Network,he thinks ,‘‘I could do this. ” The boy is very creative,and he tries his best to make better dishes. He hopes more and more people can enjoy his dishes.

   Now his mother has run Eureka. It is a super club for her son. Though Flynn is still at school,he has lots of free time to cook in the Eureka.

1. American teenager Flynn McGarry is good at

   A. running   B. cooking

   C. singing   D. reading

2. You can taste at Flynn McGarry's restaurant.

   A. all kinds of dishes

   B. over nineteen kinds of dishes

   C. less than ten kinds of dishes

   D. eighteen kinds of dishes

3. What does Flynn McGarry think of his mother's dishes?

   A. They are awful.

   B. They are delicious.

   C. They are just so-so.

   D. They are as good as his dishes.

4. What did the mother do to support (支持) her son?

   A. She bought some vegetables for her son.

   B. She surfed the Internet for some recipes.

   C. She bought him some cookbooks.

   D. She tried to learn to cook,too.

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?

   A. Flynn McGarry's mother was mad at her son because of his cooking.

   B. Flynn McGarry's mother often teaches her son to cook.

   C. Though Flynn McGarry tried his best,few people enjoyed his dishes.

   D. Flynn McGarry is a student and a famous cook.

   A man made a nice talking machine. It could weigh people's weight. The man wanted to try the machine before he could make a lot of machines.

    He put the machine into the waiting room of a station. There were always lots of people in and out.

The first one who used the machine was an Indian woman. She stood on the machine. The machine thought for a few seconds to decide which language to speak. 44Good morning,Madam. ” It said in Indian. uYour weight is 72 kilograms. That's three kilograms more. If you eat more fruit and vegetables,you will be soon all right. Please have a nice day. ”

   The second one to use the machine was a Chinese girl. She stood on the machine and waited to hear her weight. “Good morning,Miss. ”The machine said in Chinese. “Your weight is 45 kilograms. It's all right for your age. Keep eating what you eat every day. Please have a nice day. ”

    The third one to use the machine was a very fat American woman. She thought for a long time to stand on the machine. The machine spoke quickly in English, “Good morning. Will one of you get off?”

1. The machine in this passage could .

   A. weigh and talk to people

   B. tell people what they should eat

   C. speak all kinds of languages

   D. make people laugh

2. According to the machine,if the Indian woman weighs,she will be all right.

   A. 72 kilograms   B. 69 kilograms

   C. 75 kilograms   D. 45 kilograms

3. The machine said to a Chinese girl that she .

   A. should eat more

   B. should eat less

   C. had to eat more fruit

   D. kept herself healthy

4. How was the American woman?

   A. She was healthy.

   B. She liked thinking.

   C. She was too heavy.

   D. The machine didn't like her.

    Sabriye Tenberken traveled to Tibet (西藏) alone and opened the first school for the blind there.

At the age of 12 ,Tenberken be came blind while living in Cologne,Germany. She studied at the Central Asian Sciences at Bonn University. Besides Mongolian and modem Chinese,she also learned modem and classical Tibetan.

    She opened the Center for the blind in Lhasa in 1999 that stands to this day. There were no schools for the blind in Tibet before this center opened.

   In the Center,she even took on the teaching herself. And at the same time she tried to train as many teachers as possible for Tibetans.

   At the very beginning,no one would believe that a young woman who herself was blind could succeed (成功) with such a project. But she did it.

Sabriye book My Path Leads to Tibet,tells the history of her project and about living with blindness. It came out in 12 languages.

   In 2011,she was chosen as one of China's 15 most influential (有影響的) foreigners over the past 30 years.

1. What does Sabriye Tenberken do?

   A. She is a blind artist.

   B. She is a tourist.

   C. She is a blind volunteer.

   D. She is a writer.

2. Which of the following languages can Tenberken NOT speak according to the passage?

   A. German. B. Mongolian.

   C. Chinese. D. French.

3. How many schools for the blind were there in Lhasa before Tenberken’s?

   A. No one. B. Only one.

   C. Twelve. D. Fifteen.

4. What book is My Path Leads to Tibet"？

   A. It's a storybook.

   B. It's an autobiography (自傳) .

   C. It's a language learning book.

   D. It's a music practice book.

5. Why was Tenberken so influential in China?

   A. She was blind,but she wrote a book.

   B. She is so hard-working that she learnt many languages.

   C. She trained as many teachers as possible for Tibetans.

   D. She did something great for the blind though she is blind.

   My brother and I often quarrel with each other over small things. One day our father said to us 1 ,

   Tomorrow we will take part in the Ray Home Sports Day. Both of you must go with me. Perhaps you can

2 something from those children. ” My brother

3 “Dad,Ray is a home for physically (身體上) disabled (歹矣疾的) children. What can we learn from them?”

   “You will see”’ our father said. Our father works as a volunteer at Ray. The children there have problems with their hands,speech,hearing or 4 . Every day,he spends hours 5them to move or exercise their legs or arms.

    The following day,he took us to Ray Home. When we got there,we found a nice place to sit down. Finally,the 6 began. There was a 50-metre race to see who could run fastest. All the runners were physically disabled. As the race started,all the children moved as fast as they could. Just then,one of the girls 7 She began to scream (尖叫) at the top of her voice.

   All the 8 children stopped to help the poor girl. Then they all held hands and finished the 9 together. My brother and I were 10 at this： the children weren’t interested in winning the race—they were more interested in helping each other to finish the race.

1. A. seriously   B. warmly

   C. excitedly   D. anxiously

2. A. take   B. hear

   C. get   D. learn

3. A. laughed   B. cried

   C. smiled   D. shouted

4. A. sleeping   B. eating

   C. lying   D. walking

5. A. watching   B. hearing

   C. helping   D. asking

6. A. class   B. sports

   C. party   D. show

7. A. fell behind   B. fell over

   C. came first   D. came last

8. A. healthy   B. kind

   C. disabled   D. worried

9. A. work   B. plan

   C. race   D. test

10. A. shocked   B. embarrassing

   C. lucky   D. pleased 

   People eat different things in different parts of the world.

   In South China we eat rice every day. Sometimes we eat it twice or three times a day for breakfast,lunch and supper. We usually eat it with fish,meat and vegetables.

   The Japanese eat rice,too. They also eat a lot of fish. They sometimes eat raw (生的) fish. In Africa,maize (玉米) is the most important food. People there make maize into flour (面粉) .From this flour they make different kinds of bread and cakes.

   In western countries such as Britain,Australia and the US,the most important food is bread and potatoes. People there usually make their bread from wheat flour. They cook potatoes in different ways. In England the most popular food is fish and chips.

   Sometimes people eat this food at home,in their workplaces,in the park or even on the road. People call it “take-away”food.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，回答下列問題。

1.What is this passage about?

2. Who sometimes eat fish when it isn’t cooked?

3. What is the most important food for African people?

4. Is Australia called “a western country”？

5. English people eat “take-away” food at home,on their way to school or in their offices,don't they?

1. stays the longest time in America.

   A. Claud Ansari

   B. Su Chen Wang

   C. Norma Ruiz

   D. Su Chen Wang's husband

2. There are people in Norma Ruiz's family.

   A. four   B. five

   C. six   D. seven

3. Su Chen Wang's children go to school in .

   A. America   B. Taiwan

   C. Singapore   D. China

4. Norma Ruiz worked in a a few years ago.

   A. school

   B. restaurant

   C. tailor's shop

   D. hospital

5. lives with his/her family in America.

   A. Claud Ansari

   B. Su Chen Wang

   C. Norma Ruiz

   D. Norma Ruiz's mother

    From an early age,Parker always said that he would be an astronaut. But no matter how much he studied,worked,and took tests,he never passed.

   However,Parker went on working hard,and never gave up his dream. He continued training and studying everyday,just like he was studying for the next month's astronaut test.

   He kept on doing it as he got older,and when he was a very old man,he heard that doctors in Space Agency were doing some very important medical (醫(yī)學(xué) 的) experiments (實(shí)驗(yàn)) . For those experiments,they needed a very old astronaut. Parker was the only old man in the whole world who was trained to fly in a rocket. He got the chance to fly this time.

   The experiments were very successful. The knowledge from the experiments helped doctors to cure one of the worst sicknesses for old people.

   People all over the world saw the photos of an astronaut with a walking stick and no teeth. They called him a hero. But Parker didn't care about it ,“I am just a real astronaut now. That's enough. ” Parker said to the reporter.

1. What did Parker want to be when he was a child?

   A. A doctor. B. A train driver.

   C. An astronaut. D. An engineer.

2. Why did Space Agency choose Parker?

   A. Because he was old but strong.

   B. Because he had a dream of flying.

   C. Because he was old but was trained to fly.

   D. Because he studied,worked,and took many tests.

3. The underlined word “cure” has the same meaning

“ ” as.

   A. find new food to eat

   B. find a good way to do with

   C. find a nice place to live in

   D. find a new kind of sickness

4. People called him a hero because.

   A. his dream came true

   B. he was the oldest astronaut

   C. he kept on studying and training

   D. he helped do the important medical experiments

5. What does the passage tell us?

   A. We are never too old to learn.

   B. We should keep on with the dream.

   C. We must do sports even if we are old.

   D. We must stop doing something useless.

   Having a garden means you need lots of space and free time. But there are many reasons why gardening (園藝) is a good hobby to develop. One of them is,plants bring color to any room and keep the air nice and good. And,if you keep some flowering plants outside your windows,they may even attract lovely bees,butterflies. In a word,it's good for places around us. Gardeners also feel very close to nature. This is important,especially with all of the environmental problems we are trying to do with these days.

   There are another two reasons for gardening as well. One is that it makes people more relaxed. Studies show that people who do gardening feel calmer in their lives. This is because gardening makes them feel less stressed. Another one is that it keeps you healthy. Gardening keeps you active and provides fresh food. Both of these are helpful for a healthy lifestyle.

   If you are looking for a hobby,give gardening a try. You will find the fun of getting your hands dirty and the pleasure that comes with growing something.

Moreover (而且) ，nothing tastes better than vegetables you grow in your own garden.

1 . What do we need most if we open up a garden?

   A. Money.

   B. Experience.

   C. Space and free time.

   D. A good lifestyle.

2. How many reasons for gardening can we read in the passage?

   A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.

3. What does the underlined word “attract” mean in Chinese?

   A. 傷害   B. 吸引   C. 養(yǎng)育   D. 裝扮

4. In the writer's opinion,gardening makes one feel much.

   A. more lonely   B. calmer

   C. more tired   D. richer

5. What's the main idea of the passage?

   A. The best place to plant.

   B. The problems of gardening.

   C. How to make a garden beautiful.

   D. The reasons for people to do gardening.