Hello, everyone. Because of the high rate of school violence(暴力)in some areas, teenagers' safety becomes a serious problem.①We are planning to set up an organization named School Watch to make sure that students have a safe school environment. Please be part of our plan !

What is School Watch?

School Watch is a volunteer project in our school. It helps us stop violence and improve the quality of school life. It will keep yourself and your schoolmates safe. The other members of School Watch care for you and your classroom and you do the same for them.

Is it for everyone?

Anybody can become a member of School Watch because everyone has something to offer.

What else can it do?

②School Watch makes it possible for us not only to help each other but also to make friends with each other. Some members may offer to help schoolmates who have problems with their homework.

Who is the Best School Watcher?

Our school will look for the Best School Watcher and give him or her lots of prizes. You could be the one!

How do you start?

To be part of this plan, the only thing you need to do is talk to the director of the plan in your grade. If you want to get more information, check the official website at www.schoolwatch .com.

1.The members of School Watch are probably .

A. teenagers B. parents C. policemen

2.School Watch can help its members .

A. protect the environment

B. organize sports activities

C. improve the quality of school life

3.Anyone can become a member of School Watch because .

A. everyone may have problems

B. everyone can give help to others

C. everyone need to make some friends

4.If you want to be a member of School Watch, you should .

A. check the website

B. be good at your schoolwork

C. talk to the director of the plan in your grade

5.The Best School Watcher will get a lot of prizes from every year.

A. the school B. the website C. the organization

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have just opened a small restaurant. In order to attract customers, they put a notice in front of the restaurant, which said: “Meals on the house for three days.”

A foreign student who didn’t know much English passed by the restaurant on the second day. It was lunchtime and he felt hungry. “Well, here is a restaurant. I’m going to have something to eat,” he said.

He saw the notice when he walked towards the restaurant. “American people are really strange. They even eat dinners on the house! But how can I get onto the top of the house?” he asked himself.

He looked around and found a ladder（梯子）against a tree nearby. He was very glad. But as he reached the top, he heard someone shouting at him: “Hey, what are you doing up there?” Mr Smith was looking at him angrily. Beside him was a policeman.

“Doesn’t your notice say ‘Meals on the house for three days’? Is it just a joke?” the foreign student answered.

On hearing this, both Mr Smith and the policeman burst into laughter(開懷大笑). “Do you know what On The House means?”

Do you know the meaning of On The House?

1.The Smiths have ____________.

A. opened a restaurant B. built a house

C. climbed onto the top D. been policemen

2.The student walked past the restaurant ___________.

A. when the Smiths started their business

B. when the Smiths put on the notice

C. when the policeman came to the restaurant

D. when it was time to have lunch

3.The student ____________ so Mr Smith shouted at him.

A. was very hungry

B. knew little about English

C. climbed onto the top of the house

D. took away the ladder

4.“On the house” may mean that the meal _____________.

A. is had on the house B. is paid on the house

C. is made on the house D. is free for the customers

Do animals have a culture? What do we mean by "culture"? Recently social scientists have begun to ask if culture is found just in humans, or if some animals have a culture too. When we speak of culture, we mean a way of life that a group of people have in common. Culture is the forms of behavior (行為)hat help people to live together. It is also the forms of behavior that make one group of people different from another group.

Human beings use tools, cooperate with one another, and communicate with language. But these aspects(方面) of human behavior, or "culture", can also be found in the lives of certain animals, Animals can make tools, for example. We used to think that the ability to use tools was the dividing line between human beings and other animals. Lately, however, we have found that this is not the case. Chimpanzees(黑猩猩) can not only use tools but actually make tools themselves. Animals can also share knowledge with each other and use their own language to communicate. So it may be important for us to know that the line dividing us from animals is not as clear as we used to think.

1.According to the article, "culture" means

A. the languages we learn

B. the good habits we' share with each other

C. the forms of behavior we have in common

2.From the fact that chimpanzees can use and make tools，we know

A. animals may have a culture like our own

B. animals can be as clever as human beings

C. animals have the ability to help human beings

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A. Chimpanzees never help each other.

B' Animals use their own language to communicate.

C. People from different places have the same culture.

4.The traditional idea about dividing animals from human beings is that

A. human beings can use tools

B. human beings can depend on each other

C. human beings have the language to communicate

5.The main idea of the article is that

A. the animal culture is different from the human culture

B. knowledge and communication are no longer signs of only human behavior

C. the line dividing human culture from animal culture is not as clear as we might think

Once a small boy lived on a farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.

He needed to get up before sunrise every morning to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would take a break and climb up on the fence (籬笆) along the side of the farm. He could see a house with golden windows. "If they could afford golden windows, then there must be other nice things inside the house." He imagined how great it would be to live there. Then he promised himself, "Some day I will go there and see this wonderful place."

One morning, his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was his chance, he took a sandwich and headed across the field toward the house with the golden windows.

As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how wrong he was. The house was much farther than he had expected. As he went near the house, he saw no golden windows but instead a place in bad need of painting. A small girl very close to his age came out of the poor house and stood by the broken fence. He asked her if she had seen the house with the golden windows.

The girl said, "Sure, I know." and invited him to sit on the porch(門廊).As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset(夕陽)turned the windows of his house to gold! Now he understood that everyone had his own house with golden windows.

1.During his break every morning, the small boy would_______.

A. fix the fence B. climb up on the fence

C. eat sandwiches D. walk around the farm

2.One morning, when knowing he would stay alone, the boy thought it was a chance for him to _______.

A. go to the town

B. play on the field

C. go to see the house

D. make the golden windows

3.What did the boy find when he got there?

A. Nobody lived in the poor house.

B. No golden windows were in the house

C. The house was as old as he expected.

D. The house was nearer than he thought.

4.Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Golden Windows. B. A Wonderful Place.

C. Father and Son. D. A boy's Promise.

The rockets take astronauts and man-made satellites into space. The satellites are used for communication, weather monitoring and research. But how do satellites stay up without falling down?

There are two opposite forces (力量) acting on the satellite. One of them is the force of gravitation (地心引力), which tries to pull the satellite towards the earth. The other force is created by the rotation (旋轉(zhuǎn)) of the satellite around the earth. This force tries to take the satellite away from the earth. With these two forces, the satellite goes round and round. The gravitational pull of the earth (the force which pulls everything towards the ground) is like a rope which keeps the satellite from flying away.

Everything that goes up has to come down. It is only a matter of time before a satellite comes back to the earth. As time goes by, the satellite loses its speed, which makes the gravitational pull stronger than the force pulling it away. This makes the satellite crash (墜落) down to the earth.

1.Which of the following uses of satellites is NOT mentioned?

A. communication

B. monitoring the weather condition

C. doing some research

D. taking pictures

2.The force that pulls the satellite towards the earth is created by ________.

A. the earth

B. the satellite itself

C. the rotation of the satellite

D. the rope

3.Why can’t the satellites fly away?

A. Because of the force from the earth.

B. Because the satellite is too big.

C. Because of the force created by the rotation of the satellite around the earth.

D. Because people on earth have made ropes to tie the satellites tightly.

4.The satellite will finally crashes down to the earth ________.

A. when it flies faster

B. when its speed slows down

C. when people cut the rope

D. when there is no electricity in it

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

A. There are four forces acting on the satellite.

B. The force of gravitation makes the satellite go round and round.

C. As time goes by, the satellite will finally fall down.

D. The satellite will stay in space forever.

Your friends might be in England or may be just next-door neighbors, but they are all just a few clicks away. Life has changed a lot for millions of young people who like to make friends online around the world. Whether you use the chat room, QQ or MSN, you are in this group.

"I don't often talk with my parents or grandparents, but I talk a lot with my friends on QQ," said Tears in Hand, an online name used by a girl student in China.

QQ is the biggest messaging service in China. A report from the company which developed QQ says that 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October. And probably Tears in Hand was one of them. "I log in on Friday nights, Saturdays or Sundays, when I feel bored. I usually spend about ten hours chatting online every week," she said. "But I never talk with strangers, especially boys or men." Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with strangers online because she knows that she shouldn't believe in the strangers online easily.

Many people like to meet online friends when they feel they have got to know someone very well. Tears in Hand once met one online friend face to face and they went to a football match together.

A boy named Blue Sky dislikes QQ users, "I used to chat on QQ, but I found most people are talking about foolish things. Now I only chat in English on MSN with my Japanese or American friends because I want to learn more about foreign cultures." So he spends very little time chatting on QQ and he thinks it's a waste of time and money. He said, "If you are addicted to it, you can't concentrate on your lessons. We should know that friends in our real life are more important than those online ones.

1.People meet face to face when they think they .

A. have to know each other well B. have the same interest

C. have enough free time D. have nothing to do

2.Tears in Hand thinks QQ is .

A. the biggest messaging service in China

B. a good place to spend her boring time

C. a safe place to chat with strangers

D. the best place to make friends

3.From the passage, we know "they are all just a few clicks away" means " ".

A. it is wonderful to see your friends by clicking

B. it is easy and fast to get in touch with your friends

C. it is impossible to make friend online

D. it is popular to live much closer to your friends

4.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the last paragraph?

A. All the people on QQ are talking about foolish things.

B. Chatting online is helpful and interesting.

C. We can't believe boys or men online.

D. We should think more of our friends in real life.

5.The main idea of this passage is .

A. the world is becoming small because of the Internet

B. we can use QQ now

C. QQ is very popular among young people

D. QQ is always helpful to young people

Spending two or three hours playing outdoors each day can reduce(減少)a child's chance of becoming short-sighted (近視), research shows. It challenges the belief that short-sightedness

is caused by computer use, watching TV or reading in weak light.

Australian government researchers believe that sunlight is good for people's eyes.They compared the vision(視力) and habits of 100 seven-year-old children in China and Australia. In all, 30% of the Chinese children were short-sighted. This percentage was ten times higher than Australian children.

Both groups spent a similar amount of time reading, watching TV and playing computer games. However, the Australian children spent an average of two hours a day outdoors-90 minutes more than the Chinese children.

Professor Ian Morgan said, "Humans are naturally long-sighted, but when people begin to go to school and spend little or no time outdoors, the number of short-sighted people gets larger. We are also seeing more and more short-sighted children in cities all around the world-and the main reason may be that city children spend less time outdoors."

Daylight can be hundreds of times brighter than indoor light. But why does playing outside prevent us from becoming short-sighted? Scientists believe that natural light has a special chemical (化學(xué)物質(zhì))which stops the eyeball from growing out of shape and prevents people from becoming short-sighted.

So go outdoors. It doesn't matter if that time is spent having a picnic or playing sports.

1.What can reduce a child's chance of becomingshort-sighted according to the passage?

A. Playing computergames. B. watching TV.

C. Reading books. D. Playing outdoors

2.What does the underlined word "percentage"mean?

A. 百分比 B. 功率 C. 平均分 D. 效率

3.How much time did the Chinese children spend outdoors every day?

A. 2 hours. B. 90minutes. C. 1 hour. D. 30 minutes.

4.What is the fifth paragraph mainly about?

A. Why people become short-sighted.

B. Why natural light has a special chemical.

C. Why playing outside is good for one's eyesight.

D. Why daylight is much brighter than indoor light.

Some people have a very poor sense of direction. Unlucky, I am one of , them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

When I was a little girl，I never dared ask strangers the way. So I used to walk round in circle and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. if anyone asks me the way to somewhere, I always say, “Sorry, I am a stranger here. ”

Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn’t want to keep him waiting.

When I just got to my office, the secretary showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight!

1.The writer always refuses to give people directions because_________.

A. she’s a stranger to the city

B. she doesn’t know the people

C. she has no time to help others

D. she’s afraid of giving wrong directions

2.A man stopped the writer on the way to ______.

A. sell her something

B. ask for the time

C. make friends with her

D. ask for the direction

3.The Friendship Building is the place where the writer _____.

A. lives B. studies

C. works D. teaches

4.The word” embarrassed” in the last paragraph means “______”.

A. 尷尬的 B. 困惑的

C. 激動(dòng)的 D. 拮據(jù)的

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

A. The writer is too shy to give others directions.

B. The writer has a very poor sense of direction.

C. The writer never got lost when she was young.

D. The man was quite nervous when he saw the writer.

Respect(尊重)is something often given to strangers, like politeness, but many people often forget to use it at home. Showing respect for family members needs more thoughts.

Show politeness. If politeness is good for strangers, it's good for home use as well. Remember to say "please" and "thank you", "hello" and "goodbye", "good morning" and "good evening". These are basic rules of etiquette, which can show your respect for family members when they are used in communication with them.

Defend your family members. There's no need to go out and cause trouble to protect your family. But when you're in public, watch what you say about your family members. When you face criticism(批評)from others, defend your family. After all, their bad habits have a bad effect on you too.

Give them space to grow up. Respect sometimes requires you to mind your own business; even at home. For example, respect your sister's choice of her boyfriend, even when you don't agree, by allowing her to make her own decisions and being there to support her when they don't have a happy ending. Skip the "I-told-you-so" out of respect for your sister and your family connection.

Keep communication. You don't have to agree with your family members to show them respect. Even though you don't agree with it, remember to respect a family member by continuing to communicate with that person. Once you have stated your own opinion, though, you may want to avoid the disagreeable subject.

1.The underlined word "skip" in the fourth paragraph may mean " ".

A. 略過 B. 跳躍 C. 改變 D. 移動(dòng)

2.Which of the following shows your respect to your family members?

A. Make decisions for your sister．

B. Protect your family in spite of making trouble

C. Always agree with what they say．

D. Say "hello" or "thank you" to them．

3.What should you do if you disagree with your family members?

A. Keep communicating but avoid unpleasant subjects.

B. Stop talking to them．

C. Never discuss with them again．

D. Change your own opinion．

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Why Should You Respect Family Members

B. How Should You Defend Family Members

C. How Should You Respect Family Members

D. Why Should You Respect Family Members' Choices

5.This article is probably taken from .

A. a science magazine B. a movie review

C. an advertisement D. a newspaper

A famous foreign company in China wanted a clerk for its public relation department(公關(guān)部).

A beautiful girl with a master's degree(碩士學(xué)位)went through a lot of challenges and her name was on the list. In the final stage she faced an interview together with another girl. Both of them were outstanding, not only in looks but also in education.

The girl was successful in the interview. It seemed that she would get the chance. At last the examiner asked her, "Can you come to the office next Monday?" Shocked by the unexpected question, the beautiful girl couldn't make a decision at the moment, so she said, "I have to talk with my parents before I give an answer." The examiner felt surprised but said calmly, "If so, let's wait till you are ready."

The next day, the girl came to tell the examiner that her parents had agreed to let her begin work next Monday. But the examiner said regretfully, "Sorry, another suitable candidate(候選人)has got the job. You had better try another place. "The beautiful girl was surprised. She asked for an explanation(解釋) and was told, " What is needed here is a person who knows her own mind."

That was how a good opportunity right under the nose of a beautiful girl ran away.

1.The beautiful girl wanted to ask her parents for advice because .

A. she didn't like the job

B. she didn’t expect the examiner would ask such a question

C. she didn't want to answer the question

D. her parents would be angry if she didn't ask them

2.The examiner regarded as the most important.

A. a person's confidence B. a person's knowledge

C. a person's age D. a person' s beautiful looks

3.The underlined phrase "right under the nose of" probably means .

A. 就在鼻子下 B. 想要得到的

C. 沒有把握的 D. 就在眼前的

4.The best title for the passage above might be__________.

A. Make Decisions With Your Parents

B. A Successful Interview

C. Use Your Own Mind

D. Answer the Examiner's Question Quickly