Indian boy Piscine Patel is troubled by his first name. It sounds like a rude word, and his classmates laughed at him. He decides to change his name to “Pi”.

But Pi’s name problems are nothing compared to what is waiting for him.

Pi’s father owns a zoo. He decides to move to Canada. The family, together with all the zoo animals, set sail across the Pacific. One day, a huge storm hits the ship. The next morning, Pi finds his family has sunk with the ship. He is the only person still alive.

He finds himself on a lifeboat with several animals, one of which is a tiger called Richard Parker. Soon, all the animals are killed and Pi is left alone with the tiger.

As the tiger becomes hungrier, Pi starts to fish to feed him. Otherwise, he himself will become the food.

The boy and the tiger develop an amazing relationship on the sea. Although he feels hopeless, Pi never gives up. After 227 days, the lifeboat finally lands on a beach in Mexico, but Richard Parker runs away into the forest.

The ship company finds Pi and asks what happened. Pi tells them about Richard Parker but the company doesn’t believe him. Pi then tells another story in which there is no tiger, but some other shocking details(細(xì)節(jié)).

Is there really another story? If so, which one is the truth? Maybe you will have your own answer after watching The Life of Pi(《少年派的奇幻漂流》), the latest 3D movie from American Chinese director Ang Lee.

1.What’s the first trouble of the Indian boy Piscine Patel?

A．His classmates laughed at his name.

B．His family set sail across the Pacific to Canada.

C．A huge storm hits the ship with his family.

D．The tiger nearly killed him on the lifeboat.

2.Why are all the other animals on the lifeboat killed? Because     .

A．they are hunted by others

B．they are eaten by the tiger

C．they are sunk under the sea

D．they are killed and cooked by Pi

3.The passage mainly tells us     .

A．how Pi’s lifeboat sank in the sea

B．how the tiger ran away from the sea to the forest

C．what happened to Pi on the lifeboat with a tiger

D．what happened to the animals in Pi’s father’s zoo

4.Which would be true according to the passage?

A．The tiger was killed at last.

B．Pi was saved by another ship.

C．The ship company believed Pi’s tiger story

D．Pi told two stories in the movie.

Who is the greatest teacher in Chinese history? You can’t think of anyone else when you hear people read Confucius’ 2,500–year–old words: “All study but no thinking makes people puzzled. All think but no study makes people lazy. ”

September 28^th was Confucius’ birthday. He was born in the Kingdom of Lu(魯國), in today’s Shandong Province. Chinese look upon Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest teacher. He had about 3,000 students. For more than 2,500 years, Confucius’ ideas have been around in people’s everyday lives. Now they have gone far into Western countries and South Asia. People can still hear them today.

Why are his ideas so popular? They help not only in everyday life but also in society(社會(huì)). Confucius’ most important ideas are kindness and good manners. Confucius said young people should take care of the old. People should give up thinking of themselves and work for others. As a great teacher, Confucius said that all should go to school if they wanted to learn.

Some of Confucius’ popular words are “A kind person should care others” and “Be strict with yourself, but be kind to others.” People use his ideas to help themselves and society. Now, more than 100 internet web sites are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas.

“Kindness and honesty are the best values(價(jià)值) of the world today, ” said 79–year–old Kong Fanjin who is studying Confucius.

1.Confucius was     .

A．born on September 28^th, 3000 years ago

B．born in the in the Kingdom of Chu

C．taught students in today’s Shandong Province

D．not only a greatest teacher but also a greatest thinker

2.Why are Confucius’ ideas so popular?

A．They are about money and power.

B．They help people themselves and the society.

C．They are about different customs and manners.

D．They only help people deal with everyday life.

3.The underline word “them” in the second paragraph refers to     .

A．the greatest teacher and thinker            B．Confucius’ students

C．people in Western countries and South Asia   D．Confucius’ ideas

4.Which of the following is NOT Confucius’ idea?

A．People should get education.

B．The young should take care of the old.

C．Be strict with others, but be kind to yourself.

D．All thinking but no study makes people lazy.

閱讀短文, 根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容從下面方框內(nèi)的七個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選擇五個(gè)還原到原文中，使短文意思通順、結(jié)構(gòu)完整。（每小題2分）

Americans think much about time.   1.  As children，they are taught to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything.   2.   When a person is dying, they say he is living on a borrowed time.

Time is money. Time is knowledge. 3.  A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his free time, he also works hard for more money. 4.   In the street you can hardly see a man walking slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running.

　 5.  But sometimes they also hate time, because they become servant (傭人) of the clock.

A. Time is important to everyone.

B. Time is everything in America.

C. When they are having a good time, they say that time goes easily.

D. From childhood they learn to value (珍視) time.

E. To be worse, They have no time for their families on weekdays.

F. Even on Saturday and Sunday he also works hard as usual.

G. They love time because time can bring them money and lots of things.

最近的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查研究表明：大約有20% 的學(xué)生有不吃早餐的習(xí)慣。 請根據(jù)下列表格的內(nèi)容提示寫一篇大約80字左右的英語短文，文章的開頭已經(jīng)給出。

From a recent survey, we know that about twenty percent students have no habit of having breakfast. ____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

--- How was ___ dinner at Mary’s house ?

--- Great . Her dad is ____ wonderful chef.

A．a(chǎn), the            B．the , a            C．the ,the           D．a(chǎn) ,an

----- Have you heard of Earth Day ?

----Yes . The first Earth Day ______ in 1970 to educate us to protect our planet .

A．celebrates         B．celebrated         C．is celebrated       D．was celebrated

Success will belong to those ___ never say impossible ..

A．whom            B．who              C．that              D．which

_____ out your love . The world will become a nicer place to live in .

A．Speak            B．To speak          C．Speaking          D．Spoke

--- I’d like to introduce my best friend to you , Peter .

---- Thank you , Lucy . But we __________already .

A．meet             B．met              C．will meet          D．have met

 I think this is the most interesting thing _____ has happened to us .

A．that              B．which            C．what             D．who