Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people even try to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people sometimes have their names recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

    Often it takes a group of people to do something unusual. One such team paddled(用漿劃)a bathtub（浴缸）145 kilometers for 24 hours. This group had 13 members. They paddled their bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28 and 29, 1983. A month later, a racing team of hospital bed pushers in Avon ,Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes! However, the distance record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Brunt field Bedding Center. This team from Edinburgh pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometers in 1979. It took the team 35 days to cover the distance.

    Another group of record makers held the highest dinner party in the world. Nine people from Sydney, Australia, climbed Mountain Huascaran on June 28 1989.The climbers carried a dinner table, chairs, and a meal up the mountain .When they reached the top, they all put on warm suits for dinner.

    People all over the world are trying hard to do something unusual to make a record. It should be understood; however, that now not all the records will be kept in the Guinness Book of Records.

1.According to the passage, what record was made near Ashford in May, 1983?

A. A record for paddling a bathtub.

B. A record for climbing a mountain.

C. A record for pushing a hospital bed.

D. A record for swimming across a river.

2.What was unusual about the highest dinner party held by the nine people in the passage?

A. The people who held the dinner party all came from Sydney.

B. Only nine people held the highest dinner party.

C. They had a meal on the mountain.

D. They carried a dinner table and chairs up the mountain to hold the dinner party.

3.Which of the following show the right order(順序)of what happened in the passage?

    a. A group of 13 members paddled a bathtub on a river near Ashford.

    b. A team from Edinburgh made a distance record for hospital bed pushing.

    c. A group of nine people from Sydney had a dinner party on the top of Mountain Huascaran.

    d. A racing team pushed a hospital bed 16 kilometers in just 50 minutes in Avon.

    A. a-b-c-d    B. d-b-c-a    C. a-d-b-c    D. b-a-d-c

4.Which of the following is mentioned(提及)in the passage?

     A. Hospital bed pushing was a popular sport in Edinburgh.

     B. People living in Ashford usually used a bathtub to carry things.

     C. Two different records for hospital bed pushing were given.

     D. Hospital bed pushing was held twice a year in Avon, Great Britain.

“Why does the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!”

  That’s an old joke in the west, but it came to my mind again when I saw people crossing the road at the intersection of Shanxi Road and Huaihai Road in Shanghai.

  When the traffic light was red, a group of people were waiting for the light to change. Suddenly one man began rushing to the other side of the road. Soon others followed him at the crossing and more people did the same. Just like chickens, they didn’t mind the honking horns(喇叭聲) and kept crossing the road in a mess.

  Every year several thousand people are either killed or hurt on the roads in Shanghai. And at least one third of them were jaywalking(亂穿馬路). Jaywalking is very common in Shanghai. It seems that jaywalkers are not afraid of the danger to themselves.

  Traffic laws are to keep people safe. So we should obey them, and have good road-crossing habits. When someone starts to jaywalk, we should stop him, and never follow him. That way we can avoid the traffic accidents.

1.The underlined word “intersection” here probably means “        ”.

A. road       B. bridge              C. crossing      D. traffic

2.The writer saw people      in Shanghai that day.

A. crossing the road in a mess           B. waiting for the green light patiently

C. crossing the road with chickens       D. hurting each other in the street

3.How does the writer like what he saw in Shanghai that day?

A. He thinks it’s OK.                 B. He thinks it’s wrong.

C. He has no idea of it.                D. He doesn’t mention it

A wise man was visiting a village with his students. He found a group of family members shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his students and asked: “Why do people shout in anger at each other?”
His students thought for a while, and one of them said: “Because when we lose our calm, we shout.”
“But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can just as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner,” said the wise man.
Students gave some other answers but none were any good.
“When two people are angry at each other, their hearts become distanced,” the wise man explained. “To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the louder they will have to shout to hear each other and cover that great distance.”
The wise man then gave an example: “What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly because their hearts are very close. When they love each other even more, what happens? They don’t need to talk. They only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his students and said: “So when you argue, do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance you from others. Otherwise, there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.”
【小題1】What did they find when a wise man and his students were visiting a village?

Do animals have a culture? What do we mean by "culture"? Recently social scientists have begun to ask if culture is found just in humans, or if some animals have a culture too.  When we speak of culture, we mean a way of life that a group of people have in common. Culture is the forms of behavior (行為)hat help people to live together. It is also the forms of behavior that make one group of people different from another group.
Human beings use tools, cooperate with one another, and communicate with language.  But these aspects(方面) of human behavior, or "culture", can also be found in the lives of certain animals, Animals can make tools, for example. We used to think that the ability to use tools was the dividing line between human beings and other animals.  Lately, however, we have found that this is not the case. Chimpanzees(黑猩猩) can not only use tools but actually make tools themselves. Animals can also share knowledge with each other and use their own language to communicate. So it may be important for us to know that the line dividing us from animals is not as clear as we used to think.
【小題1】According to the article, "culture" means         
A. the languages we learn            
B. the good habits we' share with each other
C. the forms of behavior we have in common
【小題2】From the fact that chimpanzees can use and make tools，we know         
A. animals may have a culture like our own
B. animals can be as clever as human beings
C. animals have the ability to help human beings
【小題3】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. Chimpanzees never help each other.
B' Animals use their own language to communicate.
C. People from different places have the same culture.
【小題4】The traditional idea about dividing animals from human beings is that         
A. human beings can use tools       
B. human beings can depend on each other
C. human beings have the language to communicate
【小題5】The main idea of the article is that         
A. the animal culture is different from the human culture
B. knowledge and communication are no longer signs of only human behavior
C. the line dividing human culture from animal culture is not as clear as we might think