I'm Tony. My best friends are Frank and Cindy. We often do many things together. Frank lives
next to my home and we are in the same class. He is thirteen years old and tall and medium build. He
has curly hair and blue eyes. He's good-looking and very clever. He's good at math and often helps
me with my homework. He likes wearing black pants and yellow T-shirts.
     Cindy doesn't go to my school. She's eleven years old. She is thin and medium height. She has
curlyblonde hair and her eyes are brown. She is good-looking, too, but a little bit shy. She is good at
playing the guitar. Her favorite subject at school is music. She often teaches Frank and me to play the
guitar after class.
     The three of us have great fun together, and we help each other and sometimes play video games
at my house.

1. What things do the three children do together? They _____.

A. play baseball
B. play video games
C. play the guitar
D. both B & C

2. _____ eyes are blue.

A. Frank's
B. Cindy's
C. My
D. Tony's

3. _____ good at math.

A. Frank is
B. Cindy is
C. Iam
D. Tony is

4. _____ is good-looking, but a little bit shy.

A. Frank
B. Cindy
C. Tony
D. My friend

5. Where do they play video games? _____.

A. at school
B. at Frank's house
C. at Cindy's house
D. at Tony's house

       The right name is important in the business world.  All you have to do is think of the names for
some of the products you buy every day and you'll agree that the name and the product are connected
in the everyone's mind.
       In many countries, successful trade or brand names are protected by law. This is so that other
companies cannot make a product and,  in fact,  be buying something different. Businesses register a
company or a product name with the government.  In fact,  more than 1,000 product and company
names are registered every hour.  Many companies spend a lot of money to find the right name for
their products. A good example of this is.  In the car industry. Some successful names for cars have
powerful associations (聯(lián)系).The Ford Mustang and the Jaguar are only two examples of choosing
the names of animals that are fast and strong.
       When a U. S company decides to sell its product in another country, it has to make sure that the
product name translates properly. When Coca-Cola introduced its soft drink to China, it looked for
the right name.  It wanted a name that would do two things.  One was to present its image(形象)in
Chinese and the second was to be close to its first brand name-Coke. It took some efforts before
finding the right word -which sounds similar and translates as "happiness in the mouth". Asian company
names are not new to the United States. The brand names of Samsung and Sony have been successful.
Finding the right brand name is a big business. Asian companies that sell to foreign markets pay to find
a name that will connect with its customers. There are even naming companies that specialize in inventing
product names. These companies can charge (要價)up to $100,000 a word for their creations. But it's
worth it. Successful companies know how important the right brand names are for their development.
When a U. S company decides to sell its product in another country, it has to make sure that the product
name translates properly. When Coca-Cola introduced its soft drink to China, it looked for the right name. It wanted a name that would do two things. One was to present its image(形象)in Chinese and the second was to be close to its first brand name-Coke. It took some efforts before finding the right word -which
sounds similar and translates as "happiness in the mouth". Asian company names are not new to the
United States. The brand names of Samsung and Sony have been successful. Finding the right brand
name is a big business. Asian companies that sell to foreign markets pay to find a name that will connect
with its customers. There are even naming companies that specialize in inventing product names. These
companies can charge (要價)up to $100,000 a word for their creations. But it's worth it. Successful
companies know how important the right brand names are for their development.

1. Why are trade names protected by law in many countries?

A. To make companies pay for naming service.
B. To help people choose the best products
C. To present good images of the products.
D. To prevent good images from being copied

2. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Many companies care about the cost of finding the right names
B. Creative trade names can help companies to have a larger sale
C. The government often does business with naming companies
D. It is considered necessary for cars to be names after animals

3. What's the best title for the passage?

A. The Business of Names
B. The Development of Names
C. The Rules of Naming Business
D. The Methods of Choosing Names

      Small children often laugh at the short ones or at someone who isn't dressed as well as they are. But as they
grow up, they learn not to hurt people's feelings by laughing at their problems. They learn to laugh at other
things. Most important they learn to laugh at themselves.
      Suppose (假設(shè)) you're playing a game. You make a mistake and lose. Do you become angry? Or can you
laugh at yourself and hope to do better next time? Suppose you are at a special dinner. You at times spill (濺)
some food. Why keep worrying about how clumsy (笨拙) you looked? Why not laugh it off and enjoy yourself
any way? If you can, it's a good sign you've really grown up.

1. This article is mostly about ______.

A. why laughter is good for your body
B. what you should laugh at
C. where you may laugh
D. who you may laugh

2. The writer says small children laugh at people who ______.

A. have problems
B. not to be worried
C. dress well
D. play games

3. Next the writer shows how laughter could help you ______.

A. not to spill food
B. not to be worried
C. not to enjoy yourself
D. to grow up

4. The most important thing is to learn how to laugh at ______.

A. jokes
B. pictures
C. children
D. yourself

5. The writer shows how laughter could help you not to ______.

A. make a mistake
B. lose game
C. become angry
D. try again

     How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but
have never yet found the time? Far too many.
     This is life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal (排演) and, unhappily. we do miss so many of its
best moments.
     We take johs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this
style of life is merely a temporary (暫時的) state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then,
at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize
that all those years waiting for real life to come along were in fact real life.
     In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English: "Have a nice day." They speak slowly and
seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to
enjoy the moment.
     How often do we say to ourselves, "I'll take up horse-riding (or golf, or sailing) when I get a higher
position," only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.
     When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectahle job at The Daily
Telegraph to go and work for a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to
me to be his completely abnormal (反常的) mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in
central London for a small local area? I wanted to know.
     Now I am a little older and possibly wiser, I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under
continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern
Region trains.

1. The underlined phrase "turn his back on" most prohably means "________".

A. give up
B. keep on
C. try out
D. look for

2. The man preferred working for a small newspaper partly because ________.

A. something had gone wrong with his mind
B. he wanted to have more time to enjoy life
C. he would have more chances to make money
D. he liked travelling on Southern Region trains

3. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Find a Good Job
B. Wait for Real Life
C. Value This Very Day
D. Get a Higher Position

      Reading Oliver James'Affluenza,I thought about what often happens at home.My 12-year-ole
daughter is in tears."I have so take a test tomorrow.I don't understand any of it,"she cries out.After
shouting and shutting her door,she calms down enough to go through her notes.The following dry I
ask her how the test went and the just says"OK,I got a nine".
       "Wow.well done!"I say,before she finishes with "But I never get a ten!"
According to James,this obsession with getting top marks has been a bad development, which
encourages people to think of education in terms of work and money. To test this, I asked my
daughter why she was so worried about her tests. She looked at me as if I was thick. "Well, if I
don't get good grades,I won't be able to afford nice things like a car and stuff."
       I was quite surprised,because I don't consider myself a pushy parent.But James suggests
and it leaves students feeling failures even if they are very bright.He points to the Danish system
(體制)of education as a better model.Creating happy citizens who have good social skills is seen
as more important than high achievements at school or the needs of business.
       For me,  I cannot remember the last time I had to work out the area of a circle,recite a
Shakespeare poem or grammar rules,yet I have lived a happy life.What I really needed to learn
at school was how to make polite conversations,or how to avoid getting into debt or how to
develop good personality.
       This is in fact similar to what Oliver James really has in mind. And he is looking for schools
where students are encouraged to find and follow their own interests, something more like Tongjon.
Tongjon has been developed in some Korean private schools.  It is quite different from the more
rigid system of learning things by heart that is used in Korea, and indeed in many other school
systems around the world.
      As the Russian poet Pushkin said,"Inspiration(靈感)is needed in geometry(幾何學(xué))just as
much as in poetry ",  and inspiration does not come from endlessly revising for tests or getting
worried about them .

1. What does the writer probably think of his/her daughter?

A. She sets herself a goal too high to reach.
B. She should be more polite to her parents.
C. Sheis hard-working but not very bright.
D. She takes her grades much too seriously.

2. What does the word "obsession"in paragraph 3 mean?

A. A plain and unavoidable fact.
B. A satisfied and very proud state.
C. A practical and widely-used way.
D. A fixed and often unreasonable idea.

3. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Social skills are as important as high grades.
B. Interest in grades can shake self-confidence.
C. The writer regrets not having studied hard at school.
D. Danish educational system is for very smart students.

4. The writer wants to tell us that____.

A. learning happily is the key to self-development.
B. top marks may be helpful to increase one's interest.
C. tests should be improved to give children inspiration.
D. education should meet one's needs for word and money.