Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events---love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life, stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated(復(fù)雜), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.

Country music, sometimes called country-western, comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the west. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps（軍營(yíng)）in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.

Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada—in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1, 200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world.

1.It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from_____ .

A. the Northeast and Midwest

B. factories and army camps in the South

C. the Appalachian Mountains and the West

D. real-life stories in small towns

2.Before World War II country music was popular mainly in_____ .

A. the south B. the north

C. the Midwest D. the Northeast

3.During World War II many Southerners went to the Northeast and the Mid-west because _____.

A. they wanted to take music with them

B. they wanted to make other people like country music

C. they wanted to work in the factories there

D. they wanted to make country music popular

4.Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world today because_______.

A. city people said it was low class

B. people could sing it in many different languages

C. it started with cowboys and poor Southerners

D. it is loved by different kinds of people in the world

5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Country music is about human feelings and events.

B. Country music is sung by stars all in English.

C. Country music is popular among city people today.

D.City people didn’t like country music at first.

Have you ever had a dream to make your home a happier place? Maybe there are some points you can follow.

1. When you want to dress in a modern way, your mum doesn’t like you wearing a mini-skirt. When you are making phone calls to friends, they ask if you’re speaking to a boy or a girl. Sometimes it seems that you’re not as close to your parents as you used to be. How can you become close again?

Closing the Gap by American writer Jay McGraw gives advice on how to have a better relationship with your parents. 2. When you think, “My parents don’t want me to have any fun,” that usually means your parents want you to be safe. 3. They need to feel they are important and loved. You should tell your parents your needs, and find out what their needs are. Then, you can think of a way to make all of you happy. He gives you some ideas:

(1) 4. You could talk about your school life and your plans for the future.

(2) Keep a diary. This is to help you understand more about yourself and your feelings.

(3) Show your parents you are growing up. 5.

Your parents will feel that you are no longer a little child. If you follow these steps, soon you will be able to break down the walls between your parents and yourself.

A. Make time to talk.

B. They seldom talk with each other.

C. Both parents and children have needs.

D. Wash your clothes and help clean the house.

E. A generation gap has become a serious problem.

F. He gives ways to help you understand your parents.

G. Sometimes you don’t think your parents are fair to you.

根據(jù)所給漢語(yǔ)和單詞首字母提示，寫出下列英語(yǔ)句子空白處所缺單詞的正確形式。（每空一詞）

1.We think he will not be a___________ to computer games any longer.

2.Saleha came home so thin and weak that her own children hardly r ____her.

3.People are worried about the quality of the air they b___________.

4.The i___________ man was taken to hospital to have a treatment.

5.She is _________(節(jié)食) because she wants to lose weight.

6.The climate here is quite pleasant, so the temperature r________ ，if ever，reaches 30°C in summer.

7.Marx was strongly _________(影響) by the historian Niebuhr.

8.If other people become______________(有錢的，富裕的) than you, that is no reason to be unhappy.

9.Some children find it difficult to talk to ________(成年人)

10.When he was a child, he dreamt of being one of the greatest ____(音樂(lè)家) in the world in the future.

根據(jù)所學(xué)課文和所給漢語(yǔ)意思完成下列句子（每空不超過(guò)三個(gè)詞）！

1.When Zhou Kai’s mother saw him _________________towards the front door without a jacket on, she_________________ him anxiously.

周凱的媽媽看到他沒(méi)有穿夾克衫就往前門走去，她擔(dān)心地盯著周凱。

2.Britain was the first country in the world_________________ a free health care system _________________by the government.

英國(guó)是世界上第一個(gè)由政府負(fù)擔(dān)經(jīng)費(fèi)、實(shí)行免費(fèi)醫(yī)療的國(guó)家。

3.The next day, I _______________a house and _______________a television and a video recorder.

第二天，我闖進(jìn)一戶人家，偷了一臺(tái)電視機(jī)和一臺(tái)錄像機(jī)。

4.By the time he was 14, Mozart _________________ many pieces for the harpsichord , piano and violin, _________________ for orchestras.

莫扎特到14歲的時(shí)候，不僅已經(jīng)譜寫了很多管弦樂(lè)曲，還譜寫了許多大鍵琴曲，鋼琴曲和小提琴曲。

5.Ye Xiaogang, ____________ was born in 1955, is one of a group of Chinese composers _________________ the New Tide.

出生在1955年的葉小剛，是以“新潮流”著稱得一群中國(guó)作曲家的一員。

假如你是新華中學(xué)的學(xué)生會(huì)主席李華，最近學(xué)生忙于學(xué)習(xí)，疏于鍛煉，體質(zhì)下降，容易感冒，結(jié)合實(shí)際，寫一份“號(hào)召鍛煉”的倡議書，內(nèi)容如下：

1. 現(xiàn)狀分析；

2. 倡導(dǎo)鍛煉。

注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

2.可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文流暢。

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Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can（垃圾桶）that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

1.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A. Go shopping B. Take a vacation

C. Join his family D. Find a house

2.What does the underlined word“restored”in the last paragraph mean?

A. Showed B. Gave back

C. Delivered D. Sent out

3.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. Turning Trash to Treasure. B. Living in a a New Country.

C. From India to Australia. D. In Search of New Friends.

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment. “We didn’t know at that time that there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it,” says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA.

But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement. Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement. “The understanding has increased many, many times,” says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first Earth Day.

According to US government reports, emissions (排放)from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.3 million tons a year to 5.5 tons. The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9. Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place. A kind of “Green thinking ” has become part of practices.

Great improvement has been achieved. In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs, today in 1995 there are about 6,600. Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

Twenty–five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment. Today, it’s hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program. “Until we do that, nothing else will change!” says Bruce Anderson.

1.According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about ________.

A. the social movement

B. environmental problems

C. recycling techniques

D. the importance of Earth Day

2.Where does the support for environmental protection mainly come from?

A. The business circle B. Government officials

C.The grass–roots level D. University professors

3.What have Americans achieved in environmental protection?

A. They have cut car emissions to the lowest.

B They have reduced pollution through effective measures.

C. They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities.

D. They have settled their environmental problems.

4.What is especially important for environmental protection according to the last paragraph?

A. Planning B. Education

C. Green living D. CO reduction

Passenger pigeons(旅鴿) once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群) so large that they darkened the sky for hours.

It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons--a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.

Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans’ need for wood, which scattered (驅(qū)散) the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.

In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.

1.In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons________.

A. were the largest bird population in the Us

B. lived mainly in the south of America

C. did great harm to the natural environment

D. were the biggest bird in the world

2.The underlined word “ undoing” probably refers to the pigeons’ ________.

A. escape B. liberation

C. ruin D. evolution

3.What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?

A. To seek pleasure. B. To save other birds.

C. To make money. D. To protect crops.

4.What can we infer about the law passed in Michigan?

A. It was ignored by the public.

B. It was declared too late.

C. It was unfair.

D. It was strict.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000--7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations--UNESCO and National Geographic among them--have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Centre Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes--which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded–the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project--Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

1.Many scholars are making efforts to ______.

A. promote global languages

B. set up language research organizations.

C. search for language communities

D. rescue disappearing languages

2.What does “that tradition’ in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Telling stories about language users

B. Writing books on language teaching.

C. Having full records of the languages

D. Living with the native speaker.

3.What is Turin’s book based on?

A. The cultual studies

B. The documents available at Yale.

C. His language research in Bhutan.

D. His personal experience in Nepal.

4.Which of the following best describe Turin’s work?

A.Write, sell and donate.

B. Collect, protect and reconnect.

C. Record, repair and reward.

D. Design, experiment and report.

The jobs of the future have not yet been invented. 1. . By helping them develop classic skills that will serve them well no matter what the future holds.

1. Curiosity

Your children need to be deeply curious. 2. . Ask kids, “What ingredients (配料) can we add to make these pancakes even better next time?” and then try them out. Ingredients make the pancakes better? What could we try next time?

2. Creativity

True creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new. 3. . There are a dozen different things you can do with them. Experimenting with materials to create something new can go a long way in helping them develop their creativity.

3.Personal skills

Understanding how others feel can be a challenge for kids. We know what’s going on inside our own head, but what about others? Being able to read people helps kid from misreading a situation and jumping to false conclusions. 4. . “Why do you think she’s crying?” “Can you tell how that man is feeling by looking at his face?” “If someone were to do that to you, how would you feel?”

4. Self Expression

5. there are many ways to express thoughts and ideas-music, acting, drawing, building, photography. You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another.

A. Encourage kids to cook with you.

B. And we can’t forget science education.

C. We can give kids chances to think about materials in new ways.

D. So how can we help our kids prepare for jobs that don’t yet exist?

E. Gardening is another great activity for helping kids develop this skill.

F. We can do this in real life or ask questions about characters in stories.

G. Being able to communicate ideas in a meaningful way is a valuable skill.