What is the best way to study ? This is a very important question. Some Chinese students often   41   very hard   42  long hours. This is a   43   habit (習(xí)慣), but it is not a better way to study . A good student must   44   enough sleep, enough food and enough rest. Every   45   you   46   to take a walk or play basketball or ping-pong or sing a song. When you   47   to your studies, you’ll find yourself   48   than before and you’ll learn more.

Perhaps we can   49   that learning English is like taking Chinese medicine, we mean that like Chinese medicine, the effects(效果) of your study   50   slowly but surely. Learn every day and effects will come just like Chinese medicine.          

1. A. play                   B. study                               C. sleep                                D. think

2. A. at                         B. in                           C. for                           D. with

3.A. best               B. better                                 C. good                          D. bad

4. A. have                         B. do                            C. want                          D. make

5. A. month           B. week                         C. hour                           D. day

6. A. want              B. hope                          C. need                          D. wish

7.A. begin              B. return                        C. go                             D. are

8.A. stronger          B. weaker                        C. strong                          D. week

9.A. say              B. guess                                  C. talk                            D. know

10. A. return                     B. come                        C. give                            D. get  

People cannot reach an agreement on the use of science and technology. For example, will radiation from electronic equipment destroy the environment? Should medical scientists change gene structures to prevent genetic disease or to create “more perfect” human beings? While people are arguing about these and others, technology continues to influence our everyday lives—the home, health and education, entertainment and communication, and so on.

   Some people carry on active social lives with computers —their own or the ones in public places like cafes, social centers, libraries, and so on. Communicating with others in chat rooms,  computer users can get to know people they might never meet in traditional ways. With live online video connections, two people with cameras in their computers can see and talk to each other from separate places.

   With modern telephone technology, most people stopped writing lettters—especially personal letters and notes. But now, writing to communicate has returned in electronic form, or e-mail, which is a way of sending messages from one computer to another. For some computer users, the wish to communicate intelligently or creatively with others makes them want to write better.

   Computer technology has also made it possible to run a house electronically. From turning lights on and off to starting the coffee and cooking the hot meal, computers are taking care of people at home. Many modern machines have computer chips that allow their owners to program them. For instance, you can “instruct” a microwave oven how to cook a dish. Most entertainment equipment operates with computer technology too. Computers can even start cars automatically so that on cold winter mornings you can get into a warmed-up vehicle and drive off.

   Although much of the technology in our everyday lives has good effects, there are some uses that raise questions. For example, are interactive media ( i.e., a combination of television, telephone, and computer) going to control minds, cause people to forget about family life and personal relationships? What effects will the genentic engineering of food have on people’s health? High-tech medical treatments can make a person live a much longer life, but can they improve the health and happiness of human beings? Only time will tell, but, in the meantime, science and technology will continue to move forward. 

1.What does the underlined word “ chips” mean?

A. thin pieces of potatoes  B. small holes    C. small pieces of wood   D. central parts

2. We can know from the passage that _________.

   A. technology never stops changing our everyday lives 

   B. with computers each of us can live a comfortable life

   C. people can do more activities with computers

   D. the more you use computers, the better you might write

3. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A. The longer you live, the happier you are.

B. High-tech medical treatments can’t improve our health and happiness.  

C. High-tech medical treatments can’t help us with everything.

D.The writer questioned high-tech medical treatments somehow.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

   A. Science and New Technology        B. Computers Change Our Lives

   C. Everyday Uses of Technology        D. Only Time Will Tell          

As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize, or they can be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.

Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is life’s biggest challenge.

You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dream, the book says.

In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is.

Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is, in fact, many small dreams.

You must also never give up your dream.

There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will lead to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book. As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn more skills and find new interests.

1. Follow Your Heart is         .

2.If you want to make your dream real, you should         .

3. From the text, we know the word“challenge”means“       ”.

4. What shouldn’t be done to make your dream come true?

5.What is the best title for the text?

What is the best way to study? This is a very important question. Some Chinese students often  36  very hard  37  long hours. This is a   38 habit(習(xí)慣), but it is not a better way to study.  A good student must 39 enough sleep, enough food and enough rest.          
Every  40  you   41   to take a walk or play basketball or ping-pong or sing a song. When you  42   to your studies, you’ll find yourself   43   than before and you’ll learn more.
Perhaps we can  44  that learning English is like taking Chinese medicine, We mean that like Chinese medicine, the effects(效果) of your study   45   slowly but surely. Learn every day and effects will come just like Chinese medicine.
【小題1】A. play           B. study              C. sleep         
【小題2】A. at                 B. in                   C. for            
【小題3】 A. best           B. better           C. good           
【小題4】 A. have            B. do                  C. want          
【小題5】 A. day             B. week             C. hour             
【小題6】 A. want           B. hope               C. need
【小題7】A. begin          B. return            C. go             
【小題8】 A. stronger            B. weaker           C. strong
【小題9】A. say               B. guess             C. talk               
【小題10】A. return            B. come          C. give

I have worked in Shenyang for two months. I seldom meet Westerners in the street. But on TV, I see many foreigners in Shenyang. I am a little lonely and I really hope to make friends with English speakers. Although I study Chinese hard, my Chinese is poor and I can’t communicate in Chinese very well.

However, Chinese people usually smile and wave to me on the bus and at any other places. In the street, the most common conversation goes like this: A Chinese person, “Hello.”

I, “Hello.”

The Chinese，“Where are you from?”

“England.”

“Oh, I see!” and then if his vocabulary is exhausted(耗盡的), “Bye-bye”. This can happen five or six times on any trip around town. How I hope to see a Westerner at that time.

1.The writer comes from_______.

2.The writer feels________ in Shenyang.

3. Why doesn’t the writer make friends with Chinese people?

4.What do Chinese people usually ask the writer about?

5.What is the best title for this passage?