An idea that started in Seattle's public library has spread throughout America and beyond. The concept is simple: help to build a sense of community in a city by getting everyone to read the same book at the same tome.
In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to communicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools. The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (發(fā)起）the "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book " project in 1998. Her original program used author visits,study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong kong.
In Chicago, the mayor(市長）appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" program. As a result, reading clubs and neighbourhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and character.
The only problem arose in New York ,where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This may show that the idea works best in medium-sized cities or large towns,where a greater sense of unity(一致）can be achieved .Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point ,putting all their energy
And passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.
Ultinatel was Nancy points out,the level of sucicess is not meastured by how many people read a book,but by how many people are enriched by the process.or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared a word.
小題1:What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?

A．To invite authors to guide readers.

B．To encourage people to read and share.

C．To involve people in communnity service.

D．To promote the friendship between cities.

小題2:Why was it difficult for New Yorkers to carry out the projict?

A．They had little interest in reading.

B．They were too busy to read a book.

C．They came from many different backgrounds

D．They lacked support from the locat government

小題3:According to the passage,where would the project be more easily carried out?

A．In large communities with little sense of unity

B．In large cities where libraries are far from home

C．In medium-sized cities with a diverse population

D．In large towns where agreement can be quickly reached

小題4:The underlined words“shared a word”in Paragraph 5 probably mean     

A．exchanged ideas with each other

B．discussed the meaning of a word

C．gamed life experience

D．used the same language

小題5:According to Nacy,the degree of students of the project is judged by
          
the careful selection of a proper book
the growing popularity of the writers
C.the number of people who benefit from reading.
D.the number of books that each person reads.

Competition is a common phenomenon in our social life. We compete when we play games and when we try to do better than others in our study. There is constant competition for academic degrees, jobs, customers, money and so forth. In a sense, __56__ is one of the motive forces to the development of society.
In the natural world, the weak will be replaced by the strong and the __57__ can live; therefore, the only way to survive is to be competitive. Growing in a competitive __58__ is important for a child because future adult life is difficult. Today, most people try to get good education through  __59__ ways. The quality of people is rapidly increasing. Competition of finding a job is more violent than it used to be. The potentially successful job applicant has to be prepared in a stronger  __60__ by gaining more __61__ and experience. In the sports contests, the strongest will come out as winners. In the business world, to __62__ your competitors, you must be better than the other employees. In fact, the only way our world __63__ people is to give laurels to the winners, not to the losers. What is more, by attempting to compete at different activities, we learn to win and lose, gain experience and know our strengths and __64__.
To go ahead, to acquire possessions, we should be competitive. To us, industriousness and ambition are positive values. Whether in games, in study or in business, the aim is to win the game, the degree, the trophy, and the contract. Learning to be __65__ is clearly the best preparation for the tough life.
小題1:

A．science

B．commerce

C．education

D．competition

小題2:

A．fittest

B．top

C． biggest

D．best

小題3:

A．background

B．environment

C．a(chǎn)tmosphere

D．setting

小題4:

A．various

B．uncountable

C．numerous

D．countless

小題5:
.

A．position

B．point

C．spot

D．place

小題6:

A．requirements

B．qualifications

C．a(chǎn)bilities

D．conditions

小題7:

A．beat .

B．hit

C．blow

D．fight

小題8:
.

A．returns .

B．rewards

C．benefits

D．pays

小題9:

A．weaknesses

B．defeats

C．difficulties

D．faults

小題10:

A．strong

B．competitive

C．confident

D．a(chǎn)cademic

To learn English well you must learn about yourself. You must discover what your own special needs are in English. You should pick out what makes English different from your own language and concentrate on those parts. And above all, you should pick out your own personal weaknesses in English, pick out your own special problems, find out what mistakes you most often make and   make a list of them.
It will be best if, in your preparation, you can practise doing the various sorts of work you will be asked to do in examination. You should then make a careful note of any mistakes you make more than once. Count up how many times you make each mistake, and the mistake you make most often should be at the top of your list, the next most common in second place, and so on.
For example, if your own language is Japanese, you may find the problem of articles comes at the top of your list. If you speak German, you may find using some of the conjunctions is your biggest problem. If your mother tongue is French, you find you are always having trouble with some of prepositions. And if Italian is your language, you may constantly forget to use a suitable pronoun when you should.
But these are only examples of mistakes typical of certain languages. They may or may not
be your particular personal mistakes. As I say, these personal ones are the most important of all to discover.
小題1:
To learn English well the most important thing is to ______.

A．learn about yourself as much as possible

B．discover your own special needs in the language

C．find out the difference between your own language and English

D．pick out your own personal weaknesses in English

小題2:
The writer advises the readers to ______ .

A．spend as much time on English as possible

B．take examinations of various sorts

C．find out their own problems in doing selected exercises

D．keep a notebook with the important languages points in it

小題3:
The first item on the list should be the mistake you make ______ .

A．more than once

B．many times

C．most often

D．very often

One often hears that children should arrive at school “ready to learn.” For most children, the acquisition of reading and math skills starts in the first grade. In states where kindergarten is compulsory, it begins even earlier.
Many parents, teachers, and politicians maintain that preschool is the best way to prepare children to learn. There is no real consensus, however, about how this preparation should be achieved.
For some, early childhood education relates to the development of the whole child. They think that preschool should encourage exploration and discovery. Group activities teach positive social behaviors such as sharing, kindness, and patience. Time spent alone encourages independence. Learning letters and counting is important only for children who show an interest in them. Advocates of this approach stress that each child is unique and should learn at his or her own pace.
Other people refer to research showing that children are ready to absorb basic academic concepts by age 3 or 4. They claim that early introduction to letters and numbers lays the foundation for later academic excellence. Since the 1980s, many people have stressed the value of preschool and point to the success of programs -such as Head Start - that target low-income children.
Is there proof that an academic curriculum in preschool will lead to academic success? Studies have not been conclusive. In the short term, evidence suggests that middle-class children who attend preschool are ahead of their peers in maths and language skills as well as in social skills, when they enter school. However, the same studies show that the gap narrows considerably by the time children reach age 8.
Children living in poverty are a different matter. Those enrolled in programs such as Head Start seem to do better than impoverished children who do not attend a preschool. For instance, youngsters in one group enrolled in the program, tracked until the age of 21, earned higher scores on intelligence tests, were more likely to graduate from high school, and demonstrated more interest in higher education.
The idea of public preschool raises many issues. Providing Head Start for all children would be a financial burden on communities that already struggle to fund current school programs. Also, where would a sufficient number of teachers trained in early childhood development be found?
小題1:
Advocates of the development of the whole child believe school readiness is______ .

A．showing eagerness in exploration and discovery

B．learning basic skills, such as knowing letters and counting

C．showing great interest in basic academic concepts

D．demonstration of intellectual , social and emotional skills

小題2:
According to the passage, Head Start is most probably______ .

A．a(chǎn) preschool program that supports disabled children

B．a(chǎn) program that helps impoverished children attend a school

C．a(chǎn)n organization that aims to improve current school programs

D．a(chǎn) program that helps design the academic curriculum in preschool

小題3:
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Preschool benefits middle-class children more than poor children.

B．Most children start school with similar language and social skills.

C．Providing Head Start for all children has encountered great difficulties.

D．All children are ready to absorb basic academic concepts by age 3 or 4.

小題4:
Which of the following may best summarize the main idea of the passage?

A．An academic curriculum in preschool will lead to academic success.

B．Preshool is helpful, despite the disagreement about what it should offer.

C．Children enrolled in preschool demonstrate more interest in learning.

D．Preschool education shouldn't be a financial burden on communities.

Restaurant owners should not use disposable chopsticks for the good of their health and the environment , an official of the China Cuisine Association（中國烹飪協(xié)會(huì)）said.
Bian Jiang, its secretary general, recently called on restaurant owners to say no to one-off tableware(餐具), especially wooden chopsticks. “The country produces and throws away over 45 billion pairs of wooden chopsticks every year, at a cost to the environment of about 25 million tree.” Bian said.
“That’s a heavy blow to the county’s shrinking(正在減少的) forests,” he said, “We should not turn a deaf ear to the call for environmental protection. We should stop using disposable tableware from now on.”
In order to discourage the use of wooden chopsticks and to protect wooden resources, the government put a 5% tax on them in April.
The use of disposable chopsticks has been discussed for years. Their supporters say that both restaurant owners and consumers prefer them, and that an industry has grown up around their production.
. 小題1:
The secretary general suggests that wooden chopsticks be stopped from being used because           .

A．they cause a lot of pollution of the environment

B．the environment is no longer green

C．the government is not happy with that

D．too many trees are cut

小題2:
From the text we know that the idea of no disposable tableware will be           .

A．hard to put into practice	B．welcomed by a lot of people
C．receiving indifferent attitudes	D．rejected by some people

小題3:
What does the underlined word “disposable” in the first paragraph mean?

A．Waste

B．Expensive

C．Man

D．One-use

小題4:
What’s the main idea of the text?

A．Many people support the idea of saying no to using wooden chopsticks.

B．The government calls on people to stop using wooden chopsticks.

C．Disposable tableware wastes a lot of forests and does damage to the environment.

D．People are aware of the cost of using disposable tableware

For some kids, old photos and baby pictures are embarrassing. For others, they are cherished keepsakes (紀(jì)念品). But for thousands of children living in orphanages (孤兒院) worldwide, these records of the past simply don't exist. Either the kids' parents weren't around to snap photos, or the pictures have been lost. Whatever the reason is, the Memory Project is giving orphans a lasting document of their youth.
Over the last two years, the Memory Project has provided hand-painted portraits to more than 4,000 children living in orphanages in poor countries. Ben Schumaker, 24, got the idea when he was visiting an orphanage in Guatemala in Central America. But he's not creating the portraits(肖像) alone. Students in hundreds of high school art classes across the U.S. paint them using photos sent from the orphanages.
Schumaker believes that the artists benefit from the project as much as the orphans do. “There are two purposes of the Memory Project,” he said. “One is to offer a special gift to the child abroad. The other is to help open the eyes of the student who is painting.” Staring into the eyes of another person, Schumaker believes, it creates a real connection. This connection raises awareness in U.S. schools about the needs of the world's poor children. “It's about planting a seed,” he said.
Schumaker is also working on Books of Hope, a project in which students of all ages put together homemade books for children in Uganda and India. He hopes that one day children in Uganda and India will send books to the U.S. “It's important to me to have it be a two-way exchange,” Schmnaker says.
小題1:
Old photos and baby pictures are clearly unavailable to             .

A．the kids in rich families	B．the kids in common families
C．the kids in expanded families	D．the kids without parents

小題2:
How can the orphans in Guatemala get a continuing record of their youth?

A．By hand-painted portraits that Ben Schumaker painted.

B．By the photos the orphanage taken for them.

C．By the photos taken by the U.S. students in high schools.

D．By the Memory Project started by Ben Schumaker.

小題3:
What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?

A．The special gifts that the world's poor children received.

B．The benefits that the Memory Project brings.

C．The need of the US schools.

D．How to help the orphans.

小題4:
According to the passage, Schumaker helps the kids in poor countries.

A．two

B．three

C．four

D．five

Nowadays, more and more villagers have left to make a living in big cities. As a result, their children have become leftover children and they need more care. The survey below is from villages in Yongzhou, Hunan Province. Three hundred children were chosen to answer the questions.

What they want	Love	Money		Freedom	Control		Something else
	40%	18%		28%	10%		4%
Whom to communicate with	Oneself		Family members			No one
	27%		55%			18%
Whether they can communicate with their parents freely	Yes		A little difficult			No
	46%		44%			10%
The way they prefer to live	Living with parents		Living without parents			No idea
	58%		14%			28%
What they think of their parents’ working in cities	Bad		Good			No idea
	20%		39%			41%
Happiest place	School		Home			Friend’s homes
	48%		34%			18%

小題1:
Of all the five needs, the leftover children need _______ most.

A．love

B．money

C．control

D．freedom

小題2:
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．About one out of every two children has no one to talk with.

B．All of the children prefer to stay at home without their parents.

C．About 1/3 of the children think their parents’ working in cities is bad.

D．More than half of the children think it good to live with their parents.

小題3:
How many children think their happiest place is their school?

A．48.

B．102.

C．144.

D．156.

小題4:
We can learn from the survey that _______.

A．most leftover children want more freedom without parents

B．over 40% of the children have difficulty talking to parents freely

C．a(chǎn)ll the leftover children dream of making money in big cities

D．most villagers prefer living a peaceful life in the countryside

If you want to be a volunteer, you have to answer the following typical questions. Do you want to work with people, animals or machines? Do you want to work indoors or outdoors, directly serve people in need or serve people behind the scenes? Every year, thousands of people in the west offer volunteer service. Volunteering greatly strengthens the community because it helps the old, the young, the weak, the sick, and the disabled and the injured to solve problems.
Volunteers usually help in many different ways. They may give people advice, offer friendship to the young, drive the elderly to church (if up to the driving age), advise kids against drugs, work as assistants in schools or nursing homes, raise funds, plant trees, help out in local libraries and do many other things. Volunteering can be a few hours a week or a few hours a month. Anybody who wants to serve people in need can become a volunteer.
In fact, the art of volunteering is a process of both giving and receiving. Volunteering allows volunteers to meet new people, make new friends and mix with people from all walks of life. Volunteering is an excellent way to experiment and try out new techniques and skills, discover your individual talents and explore career choice. Being a volunteer will take you on a wonderful journey and help you learn more than what you can get from books.
小題1:
As a volunteer, only when you grow old enough can you _______.

A．plant trees on hills	B．drive the elderly to church
C．give advice to others	D．help out in local libraries

小題2:
. How is the second paragraph mainly developed?

A．By listing examples.	B．By comparing.
C．By giving explanations.	D．By discussing.

小題3:
It can be inferred from the passage that to be a volunteer, _______.

A．you can do experiments	B．you must be very strong
C．you need to work very long	D．you can get something valuable

小題4:
What’s the best title of the passage?

A．How to hunt for jobs	B．Volunteer service in the west
C．How to make friends	D．How to work with animals

Many people think that the BBC news programs are better than those on other channels because the BBC is not a commercial company. It pays for its programs from the television license money which everyone must pay if they have a television.
The BBC, which is often known as "Auntie", is the biggest news collecting operation in the world. It has the world’s largest network of foreign correspondents (通訊員；記者）. Ten percent of the BBC’s annual budget is spent on news collecting, reporting and presenting. More than 1,700 people work for the BBC news service.
The BBC produces more than 214 hours of news and current affairs programs for radio and television each week. Each television news program costs about £78,000 per hour and each radio news program costs approximately £4,800 per hour. In the UK, about 19 million people ― almost 35% of the total population, watch the BBC television news progams every day.
Developments in technology are improving news collection and presentation every year. The BBC now uses special cameras in the TV news studios to film the news presenters, and captions― the words and sentences at the bottom of the screen, are now produced automatically by computer.
小題1:
According to the first paragraph, we can learn that __________.

A．many people are more content with the BBC than with other channels

B．the BBC news programs are better thought of than the news programs on other channels

C．the BBC news programs are better than other programs

D．if we have a television, we must pay the television license money.

小題2:
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．The number of the people working for the BBC news service is the largest in the world

B．The percentage of the BBC’s budget spent on news collecting is the largest in the world

C．The BBC has the largest network of foreign correspondents in the world

D．The BBC now uses special cameras to film the news presenters and captions

小題3:
We can infer from the passage that the UK has a population of about __________.

A．54 million

B．19 million

C．5.4 million

D．6.6 million

小題4:
What’s the best title for the passage?

A．The BBC News Service

B．The BBC Is Not Commercial

C．Developments in Technology Are Improving News Collection

D．The Biggest Operation in The World

It has always been said that women are not good drivers, because they simply don’t have very good driving ability. On the other hand, most car accidents happen to men; very few happen to women.
From this, we can see that women are much more careful while driving. Another very interesting fact is that in the past, women preferred to let their husbands be the only driver in the family rather than have a driving license. Somehow they were prevented from making this step in their life, but nowadays there are many women that want to pass their driving tests at an early age.
However, we have to admit that men are more skillful drivers than women, but this does not mean that a woman cannot become a good driver by accumulating (積累) experience. So more and more teenagers and women around the age of thirty now want to pass their driving tests. While taking their driving lessons, they also have a number of special lessons with their parents or somebody in the family that has a driving license. This is just to improve their driving abilities and help them to pass the tests more easily.
To conclude, we can say that women are not such bad drivers. They just need more experience than men in order to be able to drive well. And on the other hand, there are a number of women that show better driving skills than the men around them.
小題1:
Compared with the past, nowadays many women ________.

A．prefer to have a driving license	B．have more accidents while driving
C．a(chǎn)re somehow prevented from driving	D．a(chǎn)re the only driver in the family

小題2:
What advantage do women have over men in driving?

A．They have more skills.	B．They are much more careful.
C．They know more traffic rules.	D．They have more driving experience.

小題3:
What can we infer from the passage?

A．Teenage girls cannot take driving tests.

B．Men didn’t allow women to drive in the past.

C．With enough experience, women can become good drivers.

D．Women can easily pass their tests by taking driving lessons.

小題4:
The passage mainly talks about ________.

A．women and their driving ability

B．men and their driving ability

C．why men are better drivers than women

D．why more women like to have a driving license