You speak, write a letter, make a telephone. Your words carry a message. People communicate with words. Do you think you can communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad.
When you put up your hands in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask questions. You shake your head, and people know you are saying "No". You nod and people know you are saying "Yes". Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the door helps you where to go in or out. Have you ever thought that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive messages from them all the time? People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawing to tell beautiful mountains, about the blue sea and many other things. Books are written to tell about all the wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas. Books, magazines, TV, radio and films all help us communicate with others. They can help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.
【小題1】People communicate ________.

A．with words only	B．in many different ways
C．in letters and drawings	D．with smiles, tears and hands

【小題2】Signs can carry as many _________ as words.

A．questions

B．examples

C．tears and smiles

D．messages

【小題3】Which of the following is not talked in the passage as which can help us communicate?

A．books and magazines

B．TV and films

C．newspapers

D．radio

【小題4】Communication is important because it can help people to ______.

A．understand the world and other people better around us.

B．teach each other to speak, write, read and draw.

C．know what other people are thinking about

D．learn about mountains,blue sea and other things.

【小題5】The best title（題目）for this short passage is _________.

A．Signs Carry Messages	B．The important Communication
C．Words, Signs and Drawing	D．Ways of Communication.

Why play games? Because they are fun, and a 1ot more besides. Following the rules…planning your next move...acting as a team member…these are all “game” ideas that you will come across throughout your life.
Think about some of the games you played as a young child, such as rope-jumping and hide-and-seek. Such games are entertaining and fun. But perhaps more importantly, they translate life into exciting dramas that teach children some of the basic rules they will be expected to follow the rest of their lives, such as taking turns and cooperating (合作) .   
Many children’s games have a practical side. Children around the world play games that prepare them for work they will do as grown-ups. For instance, some Saudi Arabian children play a game called bones, which sharpens the hand-eye coordination（協(xié)調(diào)）needed in hunting.
Many sports encourage national or local pride. The most famous games of all, the Olympic Games, bring athletes from around the world together to take part in friendly competition. People who watch the event wave flags, knowing that a gold medal is a win for an entire country, not just the athlete who earned it. For countries experiencing natural disasters or war, an Olympic win can mean so much.
Sports are also an event that unites people. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. People on all continents play it—some for fun and some for a living. Nicolette Iribarne, a Californian soccer player, has discovered a way to spread hope through soccer. He created a foundation to provide poor children with not only soccer balls but also a promising future.
Next time you play your favorite game or sport, think about why you enjoy it, what skills are needed, and whether these skills will help you in other aspects of your life.
【小題1】Through playing hide-and-seek, children are expected to learn to ________.

A．obey the basic rules	B．be a team leader
C．a(chǎn)ct as a grown-up	D．predict possible danger

【小題2】 The underlined part in Paragraph 2 most probably means that games can________.

A．describe life in an exciting way

B．make learning life skills more interesting

C．turn real-life experiences into a play

D．change people’s views of sporting events

【小題3】Iribarne’s goal of forming the foundation is to _______.

A．bring fun to poor kids

B．provide soccer balls for children

C．give poor kids a chance for a better life

D．a(chǎn)ppeal to soccer players to help poor kids

【小題4】What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Sports increase a country’s competitiveness.

B．Sports can get all athletes together.

C．People are advised to play games for fun.

D．Games benefit people all their lives.

The fiddler crab (蟹) is a living clock. It shows the time of day by the colour of its skin, which is dark by day and pale by night. The crab’s changing colour follows a regular twenty—four hour plan that exactly matches the daily rhythm of the sun.
Does the crab actually keep time, or does its skin simply answer to the sun’s rays, changing colour according to the amount of light strikes it? To find out, biologists kept crabs in a dark room for two months. Even without daylight, the crab’s skin colour continued to change exactly on time.
This characteristic probably developed gradually in answer to the daily rising and setting of the sun, to help protect the crab from sunlight and enemies. After millions of years it has become completely regulated (受控制) inside the living body of the crab.
The biologists noticed that once each day the colour of the fiddler crab is especially dark, and that each day this happens fifty minutes later than on the day before. From this they discovered that each crab follows not only the rhythm of the sun but also that of the tides (潮水). The crab’s period of greatest darkening is exactly the time of low tide on the beach where it was caught!
【小題1】The fiddler crab is like a clock because it changes colour ______.
A in a regular 24—hour rhythm              B. in answer to the sun’s rays
C. at low tide                            D. every fifty minutes
【小題2】The crab’s changing colour ______.

A．tells the crab what time it is	B．protects the crab from the sunlight and enemies
C．keeps the crab warm	D．is of no real use

【小題3】 When the fiddler crabs were kept in the dark , they ______.

A．did not change colour	B．changed colour more quickly
C．changed colour more slowly	D．changed colour on the same timetable

【小題4】The crab’s colour—changing ability was probably developed ______.

A．in the process of evolution (進(jìn)化)	B．over millions of years
C．by the work of biologists	D．both A and B

【小題5】The best title for this selection would be ______.

A．The Sun and the Tides	B．Discoveries in Biology
C．A scientific Study	D．A Living Clock

When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr. Clark wouldn’t let that happen.
Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.
Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, “You’re all going.”
On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn’t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a bestselling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003,
Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit the orphanages (孤兒院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.
【小題1】Without Mr. Clark, the writer           .

A．might have been put into prison	B．might not have won the prize
C．might have joined a women’s club	D．might not have moved to Atlanta

【小題2】The Essential 55 is           .

A．a(chǎn) show

B．a(chǎn) speech

C．a(chǎn) classroom rule

D．a(chǎn) book

【小題3】How many students’ names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr. Clark?

A．None

B．Three

C．Fifty-five.

D．All.

【小題4】What can we learn in the short reading?

A．It was in Harlem that we saw The Phantom of the Opera for the first time.

B．Mr. Clark taught us not to talk with our mouths full, and we did.

C．Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year in Los Angeles.

D．In 2003, Mr. Clark moved to Atlanta, and he always kept in touch with us.

【小題5】 In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that           .

A．Mr. Clark went to South Africa because he liked traveling

B．Mr. Clark helped to set up a group of women’s clubs

C．a(chǎn) good teacher can help raise his or her students’ scores

D．a(chǎn) good teacher has a good influence on his or her students

Last August, Joe and Mary Mahoney began looking at colleges for their 17-year-old daughter, Maureen. With a checklist of criteria (衡量標(biāo)準(zhǔn))in hand, the Dallas family looked around the country visiting half a dozen schools. They sought a university that offered the teenager’s intended major, one located near a large city, and a campus where their daughter would be safe.
“The safety issue is a big one,” says Joe Mahoney, who quickly discovered he wasn’t alone in his worries. On campus tours other parents voiced similar concerns, and the same question was always asked: what about crime? But when college officials always gave the same answer -----“That’s not a problem here,”-----Mahoney began to feel uneasy.
“No crime whatever?” comments Mahoney today. “I just don’t buy it.” Nor should he: in 1999 the U.S. Department of education had reports of nearly 400,000 serious crimes on or around our campuses. “Parents need to understand that times have changed since they went to college,” says David Nichols, author of Creating a Safe Campus. “Campus crime mirrors the rest of the nation.”
But getting accurate information isn’t easy. Colleges must report crime statistics(統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字) by law, but some hold back for fear of bad publicity（關(guān)注）, leaving the honest ones looking dangerous. “The truth may not always be serious,” warns S. Daniel Carter of Security on Campus, Inc., the nation’s leading campus safety watchdog group.
To help concerned parents, Carter promised to visit campuses and talk to experts around the country to find out major crime issues and effective solutions.
【小題1】It is often difficult to get correct information on campus crime because some colleges ____.

A．receive too many visitors	B．mirror the rest of the nation
C．hide the truth of campus crime	D．have too many watchdog groups

【小題2】The underlined word “buy” in the third paragraph means _____.

A．mind

B．a(chǎn)dmit

C．believe

D．expect

【小題3】 We learn from the text that “the honest ones” in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges _____.

A．that are protected by campus security	B．that report campus crimes by law
C．that are free from campus crime	D．that enjoy very good publicity

【小題4】What is the text mainly about?

A．Exact campus crime statistics.	B．Crimes on or around campuses.
C．Effective solutions to campus crime.	D．Concerns about kids’ campus safety.

Today's parents miss the golden age that their own mothers enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers found.
Mothers have less time to themselves and feel under greater pressure to juggle work and family life than the previous generation. As a result, 88 per cent said they felt guilty about the lack of time they spent with their children.
The survey of 1,000 mothers also found that more than a third said they had less time to themselves than their mothers did — just three hours a week or 26 minutes a day.
And 64 percent said this was because they felt they 'had' to go out to work, while nearly a third (29 per cent) said they were under constant pressure to be the 'perfect mother', the report found.
Other findings showed social network and parenting website were important in proving help and support among female communities
Kate Fox, of the Social Issues Research Centre, which conducted the survey for Procter & Gamble, said: "With increasing pressure on mothers to work a 'double shift' — to be the perfect mother as well as a wage-earner — support networks are more important than ever."
It comes as a separate report examining childcare in the leading industrialized nations found that working mothers in Britain spend just 81 minutes a day caring for their children as a "primary activity".
Critics say the pressure on women to work long hours, and leave their children in the hands of nurseries or child minders, is putting the well-being of their children at risk.
The study also reveals that, despite the fact that more and more modern mothers go out to work, the burden of childcare still falls on them — even if their husband is not in work.
A father who is not in work tends to spend just 63 minutes a day looking after his child — 18 minutes less than a mother who goes out to work.
Working fathers spare less than three quarters of an hour with their children.
【小題1】What is the main idea of the passage?  

A．More and more modern mothers go out to work to support the families.

B．Today's parents would rather leave their children in the hands of nurseries.

C．Today's parents have less time to take care of their children.

D．To keep the balance of work and family is not an easy thing.

【小題2】What does the underlined word "juggle" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?  

A．keep objects in the air

B．do many things at once

C．change things

D．organize spending

【小題3】According to Kate Fox,         .   

A．people should learn to relax by using the network

B．network plays an important role in society

C．mothers should make use of the network to gain support

D．it is impossible for woman to become the "double shift"

【小題4】Today's mothers lack the time to company their children mainly because         .   

A．they have no choice but go to work

B．they are under constant pressure

C．they want to be "the perfect mother"

D．they have less time to themselves

【小題5】 Which of the following statements is True?    

A．Mothers usually spend three hours looking after their children a day.

B．Since more and more modern mothers go out to work, the burden of childcare falls on fathers.

C．Child minders are good to the health of the children.

D．Mothers spend more time with their children than fathers.

Much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.
Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.
The same is in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down to see if there is anything wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other’s stare at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?
Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are different when it comes to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious. That is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.
However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time; in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to hat the former is speaking, to tell him that he is attentive. 
If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking, as if he tries to dominate you, you will feel disconcerted. A poor liar usually expose s himself by looking too long at the victim, since he believes the false ides that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication.
In fact, continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time, to show affection that words cannot express.
Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and specific situation.
【小題1】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．It is always very rude and aggressive to look at others for a long time.

B．One’s feelings can be shown through their eyes.

C．If a stranger looks at you for some time, he must be attracted at you..

D．If you are stared at by a stranger, you must look very awkward.

【小題2】How can we tell if someone possibly lying?

A．If he looks at you directly in the eye for too long.

B．If he looks at you occasionally.

C．If he looks honest.

D．If he looks attentive.

【小題3】What is suggested if you ate talking to others?
A. You’d better look at the listener all the time.
B. You are advised to try to dominate the listeners.
C. You are supposed to look at the listeners from time to time.
D. You should not make eye contact with listeners.
【小題4】If two persons exchange eye contact gently for long, what is probably their relationship?

A．Father and son.

B．Strangers.

C．Lovers.

D．Teacher and student.

【小題5】Where can we read this passage?

A．In a textbook. .

B．In a science journal.

C．In a magazine.

D．In a psychology report.

If you see someone drowning, speed is very important. Once you get him out of the water, if he isn’t breathing, you have four minutes before his brain is completely destroyed. Support his neck, lift his head back and press his chin upwards. This stops the tongue blocking the airway in the throat and is sometimes enough to get him breathing again. If that doesn’t work, start mouth-to-mouth breathing. Press his nostrils (鼻孔)together with your fingers .Open you mouth and take a deep breath. Blow into his lungs until his chest rises, then remove your mouth ,and watch his chest fall. Repeat twelve times a minute. Keep doing until help arrives.
To bring a child back to life, keep your lips around his mouth and nose and gently blow into his mouth. Give the first four breaths as quickly as possible to fill the blood with oxygen. If , in spite of your efforts, he starts turning a blue-grey color, you can feel no pulse(脈搏). Then pressing is the last chance of saving his life.
With arms straight, rock forwards, pressing down on the lower half of the breastbone. Don’t be too hard or you may break a rib (肋骨). Check how effective you are by seeing if his color improves or his pulse becomes independent to your chest pressing. If this happens, stop the pressing. Otherwise continue until rescue arrives.
【小題1】This passage is mainly about __________.      .

A．how to save people out of the water

B．how to give first aid to people who are drowning

C．how to do mouth-to –mouth breathing

D．how to save a child from a river

【小題2】Once you get a drowning man out of the water, if he isn’t breathing, you must first _______. 

A．get him breathing again

B．take him to the nearest hospital as soon as possible

C．find someone to help you

D．call the First Aid Center

【小題3】 If the drowning boy has no pulse, ____________.

A．pressing his chin upwards in enough to get him breathing

B．blowing air into his mouth is sure to save his life

C．pressing his nostrils together with your fingers can work

D．pressing is the last chance of saving his life

【小題4】Which of the following statements is true?

A．If a man does not breathe for four minutes, his brain will be completely destroyed.

B．If you see someone drowning, you must give him mouth –to – mouth breathing.

C．Don’t stop pressing his chest, if the drowning man starts breathing again.

D．When pressing, you can do it as hard as you can.

Many young people want to be pop stars. Pop stars are rich. Many people think they are leading a happy and easy life. In fact, they have very hard lives. They spend much of their time on travel. Sometimes the travel is interesting, but in most time it is boring to pop stars. The following chart is a day’s life of a pop star.

Feb. 10, 2007
5:00	Woke up and had breakfast in the hotel, packed bags. Took taxi to airport.
7:30	Plane took off half an hour later than usual for the bad weather.
8:30	Plane landed. Waited for luggage for half an hour. Signed for fans at the airport.
9:45	Arrived at the hotel and had a short rest.
10:00	Started out to attend the meeting with fans and gave an interview to the local reporters.
11:00	Went to radio station to attend the live show.
12:00	Had lunch with local producer.
13:00	Went to theatre and prepared for the night’s show. The lighting of the theatre was good, but the band did poorly.
17:00	Back to hotel. Tried to have a rest. Still worried about the band.
18:00	Had supper, but ate little.
18:30	Went to theatre again and got ready for show.
19:00	Sang very well, and audience gave a warm welcome. The band improved a little.
22:00	Show was over. Very tired from it.
23:00	Back to hotel. Took a bath. Too excited to sleep, so watched TV
0:00	Fell asleep, with TV on.

【小題1】According to the chart, the pop star was a ________.

A．singer

B．dancer

C．player

D．pianist.

【小題2】According to his plan, his plane should have taken off at _______.

A．6:30

B．7:00

C．7:30

D．:8:00

【小題3】 At the radio station, the pop star ________.

A．showed fans how to become famous	B．gave a performance on the air
C．met fans and signed for them	D．told people how he lived his life

【小題4】From this passage we get to know that ________.

A．not all people like pop stars	B．pop stars have their own bands
C．fans are troublesome for pop stars	D．to be a pop star is not all fun

Having a husband means an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, getting married saves an hour of housework a week. “It’s a well-known pattern,” said lead researcher Frank Stafford at University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. “Men usually work more outside the home, while women take on more of the housework.”
He points out that differences among households (家庭) exist. But in general, marriage means more housework for women and less for men. “And the situation gets worse for women when they have children.” Stafford said.
Overall, times are changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are taking on more housework, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005.
Single women in their 20s and 30s did the least housework, about 12 weekly hours, while married women in their 60s and 70s did the most – about 21 hours a week.
Men showed a somewhat different pattern, with older men picking up the broom more often than younger men. Single men worked the hardest around the house, more than that of all other age groups of married men.
Having children increases housework even further. With more than three children , for example, wives took on more of the extra work, clocking about 28 hours a week compared with husbands’ 10 hours.
【小題1】 How many hours of housework did men do every week in the 1970s?

A．About 28

B．About 26

C．About 13

D．About 6

【小題2】What kind of man is doing most housework according to the text?

A．An unmarried man.	B．An older married man.
C．A younger married man.	D．A married man with children.

【小題3】What can we conclude from Stafford’s research?

A．Marriage gives men more freedom.

B．Marriage has effects on job choices.

C．Housework sharing changes over time.

D．Having children means doubled housework.

【小題4】According to the “well-known pattern” in Paragraph 1, a married man ________.

A．takes on heavier work	B．does more housework
C．is the main breadwinner	D．is the master of the house