Question

Mei Qiyue, 13, of Chongqing, leaves her dorm(寝室) early every morning and doesn’t return until late at night. She feels stressed in the dorm. “My roommates look down on me. When I say something, they never agree with me. Sometimes, they even laugh at me together,” said Mei. “The dorm is like hell. I want to leave the moment I walk in.”

Mei is not alone. Many middle school students lave such problems. Plans, opinions and other small differences can create conflict(冲突). “Most teenagers are the only child in the family where they are the ‘King’ or ‘Queen’. They can’t stand other kids’ different ideas, so conflicts between them come out in the dorm,” said Sun Yunxiao, a professor in Beijing.

According to Sun, roommate relations are important in schools, and students should be serious about them. He suggests that students should be patient, sincere(真诚) and cooperative in dealing with their roommates.

Zou Ming, 14, of Shanxi, and his roommates didn’t clean their dorm for a long time during their first semester. “Later, we began to hate each other because nobody would clean,” said Zou. “One day, we had a dorm meeting. At the meeting we discussed the problem seriously and decided each other of us would clean for a week.” After the meeting, they cleaned the dorm for the first time together, and the boys have become good friends.

“I think we should take care of the dorm like our family and our roommates like our brothers,” said Zou. “Only in this way can we have a happy dorm like and make lifelong friends.”

1.Why does Mei Qiyue dislike staying in her dorm?

A. Because she always thinks differently from others.

B. Because she thinks her roommates always look down her.

C. Because the condition of her dorm is very poor.

D. Because she is too shy to talk with anybody.

2.What makes students in dorms have conflicts, according to Professor Sun?

A. That they want to be the only one in the dorm.

B. That they hope to study in dorms rather than in classrooms.

C. That they are not used to hearing different ideas.

D. That they haven’t learned how to care about each other.

3.What was the original problem in Zou Ming’s dorm?

A. No one cleaned the dorm.

B. They hated each other.

C. They had no similar interests.

D. They didn’t help each other.

4.What problem does the story mainly talk about?

A. Students can’t make friends easily in a new school.

B. Chinese middle school students are not really to be independent.

C. Keeping good roommate relations is not easy for some students.

D. Students still need their parents’ help even when they are in middle school.

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Mei Qiyue’s roommates enjoy laughing at her, because she is different.

B. Most teenagers will be the “Kings” or “Queens” of our country.

C. Students should take roommate relations seriously.

D. Zou’s brothers should take care of the dorm with him.

Answer 1