1. Heart Research UK holds a campaign to ________.

A. encourage people to sing for God at Christmas
B. study the effects of singing on people
C. get people to sing and improve their health
D. bring happiness to people celebrating the holiday

2. What are the benefits of singing according to Graham Welch?

a. Singers' living longer.
b. Singers' general health protection.
c. Singers' feeling happier.
d. Singers' stress reduced.
e. Singers' selfrespect improved.

A. a, b, c  
B. b, c, d
C. c, d, e  
D. e, a, b

3. The underlined part "let your hair down" probably means ________.

A. feel at ease  
B. protect yourself
C. dress casually  
D. cover your nervousness

4. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Singing at Christmas is good for health.
B. In a low mood one is not able to sing well.
C. Experts have disagreements on singing.
D. Singing is the same as other aerobic activities.

5. Which is the BEST title of the passage?

A. Karaoke-Best Place for Singing!
B. Christmas-Best Time for Singing!
C. Singing-Healthy but not Easy!
D. For health-Let's Sing!

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     Creativity is the ability to create inventions,solve problems or create a work of art using
an unusual or innovative(革新的)approach.Creativity is also a skill in high demand in business
and in many other forms of employment.All progress is the result of some sort of creative
act.Thus someone who can produce such acts on a consistent basis is a valuable addition
to any undertaking.
     Research has shown that too much passive media consumption at a young age prevents
the development of creativity.You might think that creativity is a result of high intelligence,
but that is not the case.Sure,it does not hurt to be smart,but you can be a smart robot
without being able to imagine new ways of doing things.On the other hand it's common
knowledge that traveling increases your ability to think"outside the box",because you
experience a lot of new things and different ways of doing things when you witness how
people from other cultures live.
     So what is the difference between surfing the web and watching TV and traveling?
Watching TV is very passive and your brain simply discards most of it.And it is as if it
has become cluttered(凌亂的)with useless information that it cannot really process.
     When you are doing things actively,by being there,by having a heightened sense of
alert,very positive things happen.For example,remember your last trip.Let's say you've
been to Tokyo.For most nonJapanese the experience of being in the city is very impressive.
Everything is huge.There are lots of people and technology is everywhere.Because the city
is new for you,your brain switches in"possibly dangerous"mode.You notice much more,
even tiny details.
     Now that your mind is open it also stores the information better,because of your aroused
state.All your input is stored with stronger emotions and is thus easier to recall later.That's
why you should travel or simply go to new places in your town.Actively observe how you
feel and then try to reproduce the feeling at a familiar place.This way you will learn to see
things with the eyes of a traveler.

1．What do we know from Paragraph 1?

A．Creativity is an important characteristic for business people.
B．Creativity is used just to create inventions or solve problems.
C．A creative personality is only useful in art.
D．Creativity isn't necessarily important for all people.

2．What can be inferred about creativity from the passage?

A．It belongs to people with great intelligence.
B．Experiencing new things is helpful for you to develop it.
C．It means people know about others who live in different cultures.
D．It is like a clever robot that can do many things.

3．Which of the following words in the passage has the opposite meaning to the underlined word "discards" in Paragraph 3?

A．Prevents
B．Increases.
C．Switches.
D．Stores.

4．An example of a trip to Tokyo is given in Paragraph 4 to show that________.

A．the Japanese are one of the intelligent peoples
B．traveling is positive but sometimes dangerous
C．positive things happen while people are traveling abroad
D．most nonJapanese are curious about Tokyo

5．Which of the following statements does the author agree with?

A．Traveling abroad is the only way to enrich people's knowledge.
B．Traveling is likely to arouse people's creativity.
C．Surfing the web is good for developing creativity.
D．Watching TV is an active way of gaining information.

     Austin Yowler,13,has football practice Tuesday through Thursday.His brother Kendall,8,
has soccer practice Tuesday and Friday.Both boys play their games on weekends,which
means calling time out for family dinners can be difficult for the Yowler family of Burlington.
They try to squeeze them in two to three times a week.
     "Today,everybody lives such busy lives,and dinner time is just a good time to catch up
with what everybody's doing," says the boys' father,David Yowler.
     "It's really important," his wife,Suzanne,says,"We always did it when I was a kid.You
never know what kids might tell us.They are not very ready to give information at this age,
so it's nice to get little interesting things once in a while."
     Indeed,the family dinner might be more important than many people realize."Surveys
have found that the more often children have dinners with their parents,the less likely they
are to smoke,drink or use drugs,and that parental engagement fostered around the dinner
table is one of the most powerful tools to help parents raise healthy,drugfree children," says
a report.
     Austin Yowler,an eighthgrader,says,"it's nice to just sit down with everybody once in a
while." But he adds that in the evenings he doesn't have football,"I just like to go and hang
out with my friends.Having to come home in the middle of that is just kind of..." His facial
expression finishes the thought.
      It's the conversations happening at the table-not the food being eaten-that is key,the
report says.Dinner time is the best time to strengthen family ties and learn what's going on
in each other's lives.
     "I know family dinners are important,so I tell everyone no texting,no TV and no video
games," says Deanna Eppers of Milford,whose three children are in college,high school and
sixth grade.It's OK,though,for a mom to "call" the kids to the table by texting a message.
"Otherwise," she says,"they say they don't hear me."

1 ．The underlined word "they" may refer to ________.

A．busy lives
B．games
C．family dinners
D．kids

2．Why is a family dinner important?

A．Because the family can learn about each other's life.
B．Because children can enjoy delicious food at this time.
C．Because parents can teach children table manners.
D．Because children needn't do extra activities after school.

3．It can be inferred that Austin's expression was ________.

A．a pleasure
B．a pain
C．a joke
D．a duty

4．Deanna called kids to dinner table by texting a message because________.

A．she couldn't shout at the top of her voice
B．texting a message is a fashionable thing
C．sometimes the kids pretended not to hear her
D．the children may forget it even if she called them

5．The passage is mainly about ________.

A．kids like to eat family dinners
B．kids are too busy to eat dinners
C．kids are unwilling to eat at home
D．kids need those family dinners

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1. What Oscar Wilde says implies that________.

A. we have thoughts similar to those of others
B. most people have a variety of thoughts
C. most people's thoughts are controlled by others
D. other people's thoughts are more important

2. What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph?

A. We may lose ourselves to please others.
B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.
C. We need to pay for what we want to get.
D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.

3. In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should________.

A. care about others' opinions and change opinions all the time
B. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside
C. persuade others to accept our opinions
D. stick to our own values

4. It can be concluded from the passage that________.

A. we shouldn't care about what others think    
B. it's better to do what we like
C. we shouldn't change our own opinions  
D. it's important to accept others' opinions

     "BANG!" the door caused a reverberation (回聲). It was just standing there, with father standing on
one side, and I on the other side.
     We were both in great anger. "Never set foot in this house again!" stormed father. With tears welling up in my eyes, I rushed out of the flat and ran along the street. The street lights were shining, causing rather
sad-feeling. I wandered aimlessly. A young father who held a child in his arms walked past me. I felt as if I saw my childhood from another space: happy and carefree.
     But now … I don't know whether it is because I have grown up or because dad is getting old. We
differ in our ways of thinking. He always put his opinions and codes of behavior on me. Whenever I do something wrong, he never admits it. We are just like two people coming from two different worlds. It feels
like there is an iron door between us that can never be opened.
     I wandered the streets, without a destination in mind. My heart was frozen on this hot summer night. As I walked on there were fewer and fewer people on the streets, until I had only the street lights to keep me company. When I finally reached the high-rise apartment block in which I lived ,I saw that the light was still on.
     I thought to myself: "Is father waiting for me, or is he still angry with me?" In fact, it was nothing.
Perhaps, dad was throwing away some of his old stamps. Perhaps he thought they were useless. I never
had the courage to tell him that I liked collecting stamps. I can't stand his outrageous(蠻橫的)words: "I
can't throw you away, let alone these old papers?"
     All the lights were off except father's. Dad was always like this. Maybe he didn't know how to express himself. After shouting at me, he never showed any mercy or any moments of regret. After an argument he has the habit of creeping up in my sleep and then tucking(用……蓋住) me underneath the covers.
     This was how he always was．He has been a leader for so long that telling everyone else what to do
has become his second nature.
     The light was still on. "Am I wrong?" I whispered, maybe…ith the key in hand, I was as nervous as I
had ever been. At last, I decided to open the door. As soon as I opened the door tears ran down my
cheeks. I suddenly realized that the iron door that I had imagined between us did not exist at all. Love-it's
second to none.

1. Decide which is the best order of the following according to what happened in the passage.
a. I opened the door and entered the house.
b. Sadly I ran out into the street.
c. I reached the place where I lived and saw my house still brightly lit.
d. I thought of my father's kindness towards me.
e. I walked about in the street without any aim.
A. b, e, d, c, a      
B. b, e, c, d, a    
C. b, e, a, c, d        
D. b, e, c, a, d
2. What made the writer think of his childhood ?
A. The sight of the street lights.
B. The sight of the empty street.
C. The sight of a father with a child in his arms. 
D. The sight of light in his own house.
3. Why do you think the father often shouts at his son?
A. perhaps the father is getting older and older.
B. perhaps the son has already grown up.
C. perhaps they never agree with each other.
D. perhaps the father has got used to doing that.
4. What conclusion can you come to after reading the passage?
A. The father treats his son in an unfair way.
B. The father is actually kind to his son.
C. The father is neither kind nor cruel to his son.
D. The father is always finding fault with his son.

      Millions of people around the world cook their food over a smoky fire every day.It is often difficult to
find wood for the fire.People who do not have wood must spend large amounts of money on cooking fuel.However, there is a much easier way to cook food using energy from the sun.
     Solar cookers, or ovens, have been used for centuries.A Swiss scientist made the first solar oven in
1767.Today, people are using solar cookers in many countries around the world.People use solar ovens to cook food and to heat drinking water to kill bacteria and other harmful organisms.
    There are three kinds of solar ovens.The first is a box cooker.It is designed with a special wall that
shines or reflects sunlight into the box.Heat gets trapped under a piece of glass or plastic covering the top of the cooker.A box oven is effective for slow cooking of large amounts of food.
     The second kind of solar oven is a panel cooker.It includes several flat walls, or panels, that directly
reflect the sun's light onto the food.The food is inside a separate container of plastic or glass that traps heat energy.People can build panel cookers with very few supplies quickly.They do not cost much.In Kenya,
for example, panel cookers are being manufactured for just two dollars.
     The third kind of solar oven is a parabolic (拋物線的) cooker.It has rounded walls that aim sunlight
directly into the bottom of the oven.Food cooks quickly in parabolic ovens.However, these cookers are
hard to make.They must be reaimed often to follow the sun.Parabolic cookers can also cause burns and
eye injuries if they are not used correctly.
     You can make solar ovens from boxes or heavy paper.They will not catch fire.Paper burns at two
hundred thirtytwo degrees Celsius.A solar cooker never gets that hot.Solar ovens cook food at low
temperatures over long periods of time.This permits people to leave food to cook while they do other
things.

1. Which of the following should be the best title for this text?
A. Cooking food with solar energy
B. How to make solar cookers
C. Introduce a new kind of energy
D. Different kinds of cookers
2. From this passage we know that ________.
A. there is no wood for people to use while making a fire now
B. people have been using solar cookers for more than 200 years
C. solar energy is the cleanest energy on the earth
D. more and more people cook food on smoky fires
3. Parabolic cookers may be dangerous to us because ________.
A. they may direct electricity to us humans
B. they may explode easily
C. they may cause burns and eye injuries
D. they may cause fires
4. The third, fourth and fifth paragraphs mainly ________.
A. show how to make solar cookers
B. explain which is the best cooker
C. prove that solar cookers need improving
D. tell us the different makingups of the three kinds of solar cookers

     There are 70,000 pubs in England and Wales have several thousand more in Scotland.
     Every country has its drinking shop, but none has an institution quite like the British pub.
The most important feature of a good pub (which modern buildings hardly ever achieve) is
a feeling of something private. It must have nooks and crannies, corners and snugs, where
conversations and assignations can take place without the whole world listening in.
     Most pubs have at least two separate bars. The "public bar" which is for ordinary and
women is the basic drinking shop. The "lounge bar" (or saloon bar) which is for traveling
salesmen and "ladies" probably has a carpet on the floor and rather more comfortable
decoration. There may be a difference of a few pence in the drink prices, although all pubs
are required by law to put their price lists easily seen on display.
     Pubs have been changing over the past few decades. More and more of them sell good,
inexpensive food and are competing strongly with restaurants. Tea and coffee are often on
offer and children are being made more welcome. The law says that no one under 14 may
enter a pub, and between 14 and 18 they must be accompanied by an adult and may not
buy or consume alcoholic drink. In reality some pubs, especially in country districts, welcome
whole families. Some set aside special rooms for children and where there are gardens they
are almost always welcome.
     The most basic change, however, came about in the 1938 licensing laws which allowed
pubs in England and Wales to open not just at lunch time and in the evening, but all day, from
11 a.m. to 11 p.m. (Scottish laws already permitted all day opening.)

1. Which of the following can be the best title?

A. Pubs' history
B. Pubs in Britain
C. Changes of pubs
D. Features of a good pub

2. According to the British people, what kind of pub is a good one?

A. The one with all day opening time.
B. The one with good and inexpensive food.
C. The one with all kinds of people enjoying themselves.
D. The one with different parts where people can have a private conversation.

3. In paragraph 4, we can learn that .

A. pubs allow people above 14 to enter alone
B. pubs never allow people under 18 to enter
C. pubs don't sell more expensive food than restaurants
D. pubs often sell alcoholic drinks as well as tea and coffee

4. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. The law requires all the pubs have slightly different prices of drinks.
B. Ordinary people and women are often having fun in the "public pub".
C. In some country pubs, children accompanied by their parents are always welcome.
D. Scottish laws allow pubs to open not just at lunch time and in the evening, but all day.

     Pets provide an unconditional love that requires very little on the part of the human.
     Animals are so special to those of us who love them. We miss them when they are no
longer with us. We grieve (哀悼) for them in ways which are just the same as grieving for
a human loved one.
     Whether the end comes through old age, illness, or sudden death, the death of a pet can
cause enormous feelings of sorrow, guilt, and loneliness for children and adults alike, as the
animal was considered a family member, a child's favoured playmate, or an older person's
loyal and faithful companion.
     Some people don't want a pet because they do die! It's understandable to be unwilling
to expose yourself to death but, at the same time, we become immeasurably more human
because our animals die. When we live with animals we're more in step with the rhythms
of the planet from day to night and from season to season because our companions make
us more aware of the changes around us. Our companion animals teach us about the simple
gifts of a beautiful day, a good meal and a gentle touch.
     The death of a pet can make us struggle with our belief structure－a natural part of the
grieving period. Whether grieving an animal or human, we question our beliefs and many
people find their belief structure becomes stronger when they ask themselves hard questions.
Others find a new way of acceptance.
     And we learn from our animals. Animals aren't afraid to die; they show us that the end
of life can be faced without fear. They can teach us to accept death as an opening for love
and wonder.
     Allow yourself to grieve in whatever way is appropriate for you. The loss of a pet is real
grief and causes us to travel through the stages of grief－denial, anger, depression, guilt, and
acceptance. These stages must be lived through for the mourning to allow full healing.

1. According to the passage, the reason why some people don't want a pet may be that .

A. animals may change our belief structure
B. animals are so special for those who love them
C. pets can never escape from death which makes people sad
D. pets only provide people with love but never ask for return

2. The underlined sentence in paragraph 4 probably means .

A. the animals' death is unacceptable for their owners
B. the animals' death may arouse their true feelings inside
C. the animals' death may expose people to the changes in life
D. the animals' death is more understandable than human's death

3. According to the passage, we can infer that .

A. pets can give us some gifts when they have a good meal
B. pets are so selfless and brave that all the people love them
C. people can never accept the death of pets or the one they love
D. people may go through several stages before they can accept the death of a pet

4. What's the attitude of the author towards grieving a pet?

A. Neutral.
B. Negative
C. Positive.
D. Critical