Are you angry when your classmates sing loudly while you are trying to study or your best friend does not wait for you after school ?

If your answer is “Yes”, you need to learn how to control your feelings . Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends .

Gary Egeberg , an American high school teacher , has written My Feelings Are like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings . It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen . The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse . It can never make them better .

“Getting angry is not a natural way to act ,” the book says . It is just a bad habit , like smoking .

The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry .

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily . Here are the top three:

※Keep a record . Every time you get angry , write down why you are angry . Look at it later when you are calm and you will see you get angry too easily .

※Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry . This will teach you not to be angry .

※Do something different . When you get angry , walk away from the problem and go somewhere else . Try to laugh .

6. If you often get angry , _________________ .

A. you will do worse in your study　　　 B. you will have fewer friends

C. smoking can be a good help　　　　 D. nobody will wait for you after school

7. Gary Egeberg is someone who ___________ .

A. knows how to control your feeling　　 B. gets angry easily with his students

C. likes to keeping wild animals　　　　 D. teaches in a secondary school

8. According to Gary’s book , you can control your anger by _________ .

A. never talking with friends　　 B. singing loudly to calm down

C. staying away from others　　 D. reminding yourself not to get angry

9. From the first tip we can draw the conclusion(得出結(jié)論) that __________ .

A. Writing helps to control one’s feelings B. one’s anger is built upon one’s experience

C. people think better when they are calm　 D. a good habit helps to take away a bad one

10. From this passage we know that ___________ .

A. there are more than three tips in Gary’s book　

B. Gary never gets angry in his life

C. getting angry easily can’t be changed easily　　

D. school kids often get angry with each other

Are you a Harry Potter fan? Lots of kids like the stories. They think J.K. Rowling does a good job writing them. But what if you could write your own Harry Potter story?

　　Xiao Yi, a Junior 2 student at Weiyu Middle School in Shanghai, gave Harry a sister in one story, Xiao changes lots of Harry Potter stories to make them more interesting. Xiao doesn't think there are enough bad people in the stories, so she made Harry's new sister Jenny, bad. Harry's, parents adopted（收養(yǎng)）Jenny before their own only child Harry was born and now she wants to be against him. Xiao puts her classmates at Weiyu Middle School into the stories, too. Some of her new characters（人物）are a lot like her friends.“It seems my classmates and I are students at Hogwards with Harry,”Xiao said.

　　Often students at Weiyu also like to change their favorite stories. One third of Xiao's 60 students have written stories like The Lord of Rings in their own way. Xu Qingru, also a Weiyu student, enjoys writing new stories for the Japanese cartoon films Let's Go. In Xu's story, her classmates live together with the brothers Lie and Hao. When Xu finishes part of a story, she usually puts it online for others to read. Xu is happy when classmates and friends online tell her they like her stories. Liu Yun, her Chinese teacher, likes them, too.“This girl's novel is full of imagination,”Liu said.

(1)________ wrote the novel Harry Potter that is popular in the world.

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A．Xiao Yi	B．Jenny
C．Xu Qingru	D．J.K. Rowling

(2)Which of the following is right?

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A．Xiao Yi likes bad people in the story.

B．Xiao Yi changes few of Harry Potter stories.

C．Xiao Yi's classmates are put into Harry Potter stories by Xiao Yi.

D．Harry Potter's parents want to be against Harry in Xiao Yi's story.

(3)The students at Weiyu Middle School _________.

[　　]

A．change their favorite stories

B．haven't changed the Lord of Rings

C．don't like writing in their own way

D．haven't written new stories for Let's Go

(4)Where do Xu Qingru's classmates read her stories?

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A．In the classroom.

B．Online.

C．In the teacher's office.

D．In her bedroom.

(5)From this story, we know that __________.

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A．the life of the students at Weiyu Middle School may be rich and interesting

B．their teachers worry about their study

C．all of the students at Weiyu change their favorite stories

D．Liu Yun is Xu Qingru's best classmate

The good things about computer games
u   They’re fun!
u   They can improve hand-eye coordination. That means you can think and do things more quickly.
u   You feel good when you can move up levels and see how well you’re doing.
u   Most games make you think about what you’re going to do, and they can help you improve the ability (能力) of solving problems.
u   You can play games on the Internet with people from all over the world.
u   Anyone can play computer games, even if they aren’t very good at sports, have a disability, or find it hard to talk to others.
The bad things about computer games
u Kids may start hitting others in their lives just as they do in games because they may think it’s OK to hit others, or to talk to people, including their parents and teachers, impolitely.
u   If kids play games for a long time, they may not go out and exercise. They may start eating snacks while they play games and they will become too fat. Doctors are worried about kids that play too many computer games.
u   Playing games is a big problem for some people. They will play or think about games when they have time. This means they may stop talking with others and become really boring people.
【小題1】How many good things about computer games does the writer mention?

A．Three.

B．Six.

C．Seven.

D．Nine.

【小題2】What does the underlined word “coordination” mean in Chinese?

A．協(xié)調(diào)

B．障礙

C．舒適

D．問題

【小題3】If you play computer games all the time, you may become a(n) ______ person.

A．healthy, impolite and boring	B．healthy, polite and boring
C．unhealthy, polite and boring	D．unhealthy, impolite and boring

【小題4】Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

A．Most games are good for your ability of solving problems.

B．You can’t play games with strangers on the Internet.

C．Playing too many computer games may make you fat.

D．Playing games can also cause many problems.

【小題5】The passage is mainly about       .

A．the two sides of computer games	B．how to improve your computer games skills
C．playing computer games with others	D．some interesting things about computer games

Are you still doing the V for victory sign? It’s out. The latest popular hand gesture（手勢）is to curl both of your hands and put them together to make a heart—shape. Known as “hand heart”, many young stars in the US including Justin Bieber , Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have done the move in recent photos.
“The heart — hand gesture means something between ‘I love you’ and ‘thank you’, ”said the country singer Taylor Swift,21.”It’s a sweet, simple message which you can send without saying a word.”
Taylor Swift often puts her hands above her head in the heart shape at her concerts. And she is believed to be the first to make the gesture popular.
Last month during a charity show, Justin Bieber and his superstar friends did it to help out three kids whose parents were killed in a car accident. The gesture became a real hit after that.
“It used to take longer for nonverbal（不用語言的）culture to move. But now ,with smart phones and the Internet, it’s much faster,” said Patti Wood, an American language expert.
In the Republic of Korea, the hand heart has been popular for a long time, in a different way. People there like making a “bigger heart” by putting their hands above their heads and making a heart shape with their arms. It means: “I love you.”
【小題1】When we want to express ideas, we often move our hands to mean something besides language. Do you know the meaning of this gesture(手勢)?

A．Good luck.	B．We’ve won.
C．Everything is all right.	D．Best wishes.

【小題2】Who is the first to make the heart — hand gesture popular?

A．Justin Bieber

B．Blake Lively

C．Patti Wood

D．Taylor Swift

【小題3】A charity show is a show that is put on to.

A．help the people in need	B．make a gesture popular
C．express your love or thanks	D．show your special gesture

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

A．Smart phones and the Internet are improving fast.

B．Smart phones and the Internet used to take longer time in use.

C．It’s much easier for nonverbal culture to reach more people.

D．It takes nonverbal culture a long time to become popular.

The good things about computer games
They’re fun!
They can improve hand-eye coordination. That means you can think and do things more quickly.
You feel good when you can move up levels and see how well you’re doing.
Most games make you think about what you’re going to do, and they can help you improve the ability (能力) of solving problems.
You can play games on the Internet with people from all over the world.
Anyone can play computer games, even if they aren’t very good at sports, have a disability, or find it hard to talk to others.
The bad things about computer games
Kids may start hitting others in their lives just as they do in games because they may think it’s OK to hit others, or to talk to people, including their parents and teachers, impolitely.
If kids play games for a long time, they may not go out and exercise. They may start eating snacks while they play games and they will become too fat. Doctors are worried about kids that play too many computer games.
Playing games is a big problem for some people. They will play or think about games when they have time. This means they may stop talking with others and become really boring people.
【小題1】How many good things about computer games does the writer mention?

A．Three.

B．Six.

C．Seven.

D．Nine.

【小題2】What does the underlined word “coordination” mean in Chinese?

A．協(xié)調(diào)

B．障礙

C．舒適

D．問題

【小題3】If you play computer games all the time, you may become a(n) ______ person.

A．healthy, impolite and boring	B．healthy, polite and boring
C．unhealthy, polite and boring	D．unhealthy, impolite and boring

【小題4】Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

A．Most games are good for your ability of solving problems.

B．You can’t play games with strangers on the Internet.

C．Playing too many computer games may make you fat.

D．Playing games can also cause many problems.

【小題5】The passage is mainly about       .

A．the two sides of computer games

B．how to improve your computer games skills

C．playing computer games with others

D．some interesting things about computer games