If someone is lost in a forest( 森林 ), he needs only study the trees around him carefully to find his way. On this half of the earth, he will find that the side of the tree with the most leaves and branches(樹枝 ) is the south side. Also, by checking the tops of the trees, he will find that they lean(傾斜 ) to the south too.
Another sign( 標志物) for him to know where he is going is found in the bark.( 樹皮) That is brighter on the south side.The remanining(樹樁 ) of a cut tree is also a finder, for its rings can give him another sign. The rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side.
One more sign: some very small plants grow at the foot of a tree and they point to the north.
【小題1】 The passage is mainly about __________.

A．how to find a big tree if one is lost in the forest.

B．How to cut down trees in the forest

C．How to find the direction(方向 )in the forest

D．How to grow trees in the forest .

【小題2】 From a cut tree we can know that ___________.

A．the direction is written on it

B．the rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side

C．the rings will be thinner on the south

D．its rings can send messages to you

【小題3】 The passage tells us __________ ways of finding the direction in the frorest.

A．three

B．four

C．five

D．six

  Many people go to school for a good education. They learn languages ,history, maths and other subjects. School education is very important and useful, yet no one can learn everything from school. No matter how much a teacher knows, he can’t teach his students everything they want to know. His work is to show his students how to learn.He teaches them how to read and how to think. So, much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself. It is quite easy to learn something in language or formula (公式 )in maths, but it is difficult to use a formula to find the answer to a maths problem. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they can invent many things and change the world a lot. Though Thomas Edison invented many things, he didn’t have much school education. How do they do all this ? A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get knowledge( 知識 ) from books outside school. They work hard all their lives, and the most important thing is that they know how to use their heads.
【小題1】 Why do many people go to school?__________

A．to get a good education	B．to buy some books
C．to make friends	D．to meet different teachers

【小題2】 What should a student try to do since he cannot learn everything from school?____ ____.

A．try to remember more knowledge and formulas

B．try to remember what the teacher teach

C．try to learn how to read and how to think

D．try to read a lot of books

【小題3】 How can an inventor invent things? The most important thing is how to ____.

A．get knowledge	B．use his head well
C．teach everything	D．learn more knowledge from his teacher

【小題4】 Which of the following is TRUE?__________

A．School education is not important for a person

B．A student should learn how to study

C．A student can learn everything from school

D．A good teacher can teach everything.

Barack Obama, a black man, is the president of the United States now. He was born in August ,1961, in Hawaii and has lived in many places. His mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya. Obama went to Columbia University in Massachusetts. His wife is Michelle Obama. She also worked as a lawyer and later worked for the University of Chicago. They have two young daughters.
Obama wrote a book Dreams from my father. “ I always live in the dream of my father and American people,” Obama once said. He was born in a poor family. And he was taken good care of by his grandparents when he was young. He also lived and worked in Africa. Then he got good education in Harvard University. In 2008, he became the first black president in the history of America.
【小題1】 Where was Barack Obama born?____________

A．In Hawaii

B．In Kansas

C．In massachusetts

D．In Harvard

【小題2】 Barack Obama became president at the age of ____________.

A．37

B．47

C．57

D．51

【小題3】 Which is the best title of this passage?_____________

A．Education of a president	B．Dreams from my father
C．Life of Barack Obama	D．Where is Obama from

The Most Popular Pets in the world
What are the most popular pets in the world? Cats and dogs!
【小題1】___.This is around half of the country’s population(人口).About 60% of American families celebrate（慶祝） their pets’ birthday.
Cats and dogs are also good topics for small talks---“ What a lovely dog! What's his name?” 【小題2】__
People think dogs are loyal（忠誠的） animals. They help do lots of jobs like hunting(打獵 ) and guarding(守衛(wèi) ). 【小題3】_______. In 1957, Russia put a dog called Laika into space.
Cats catch mice. They are not as loyal as dogs, but they can make people happy.
Today, cats and dogs are both people’s good friends.  【小題4】___. The most famous ones are Garfield and Snoopy. Garfield is a lazy fat cat. He likes eating and sleeping all the time. He is smart, too. He can write some letters and tell time sometimes, although he often repeats that he can’t. He is often mad at his master who can understand him well. Snoopy is a kind small dog. 【小題5】______ . He likes to write stories and make his friends feel better.

They are really tiring. They are in the most popular cartoons He is quiet and he has many good friends. People easily become friends because of pets They even went into space earlier than people Also, there are many other different types of pets. In the USA, there are more than 100 million cats and dogs.

 

書面表達（15*）
假設(shè)你叫Tom,你的筆友Alice寫信給你傾訴心中的煩惱。請根據(jù)她的來信內(nèi)容給她寫一份回信并提幾條合理建議，幫助她擺脫煩惱。
要求：1.回信中不能寫出你真實的姓名和班級
2. 必須根據(jù)來信的內(nèi)容提建議。
3.字數(shù)60---80詞左右。
Dear Tom,
How is it going with you? I hope you had a happy winter holiday in your hometown.I heard that your Chinese children could have a lot of pocket money from your families in Spring festival. But things for us are quite different in America.Though I want to buy a computer game for a long time, I don’t have enough money. I can’t ask my parents for money. What should I do?
Another thing which worries me most is that I am getting so heavy. I often stay up late to play computers so I always feel tired in the day and fall asleep in the class. Last week I failed my maths test. A lot of classmates laugh at me and they don’t play with me.I feel lonely and so sad.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours,
Alice

I wish I could go to Mars one day.

A．a(chǎn) few days.

B．that day.

C．in one day.

D．some day.

The strategies that Tom came up with worked out fine.

A．think up

B．thought up

C．thought out

D．came out