How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month? Maybe 200 yuan? But for Li Beibei,
30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch — 1.5 yuan each day. "Meat is too expensive
for me," said Li.
      Li, 14, is a Junior 1 student at Beijing's Xingzhi Experimental School. Her parents are migrant workers
(外来务工人员). They came to Beijing from a village in Luohe, He'nan two years ago. Her father now works
as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job.
      Li Beibei has 460 friends at Xingzhi. Every day, Li gets up at 5:30 am and rides her bike for 20 minutes to
get to school. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework-usually at least one hour every day. But that is not all
her work. During the weekdays she helps her mum cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes. "I could cook
when I was eight. Dad said sometimes I cook better than Mum!"
      Li said she wanted to be a doctor. "I watch TV and find out there are many people with AIDS in He'nan.
Some are kids. They need help," said Li.
      But she is afraid to leave school. "I hope I will always be in school," said Li. "Dad works hard to get money.
I promise him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future."

1. Li Beibei came from ______.

A. Beijing
B. Liaoning
C. He'nan
D. Xingzhi

2. Which of the following sentences is TRUE? ______.

A. The girl's parents are both cleaners
B. Her parents gave her 30 yuan to buy books
C. The girl often helps her mother do some housework
D. She studies hardest in her class

3. She spends ______ on her homework everyday.

A. 20 minutes
B. over one hour
C. half an hour
D. two hours

4. Her wish is to be a doctor because she wants to ______.

A. help poor farmers
B. help the people with AIDS
C. make her parents healthier
D. help poor kids

5. The best title of the passage should be ______.

A. A City Girl
B. Hard But Happy Life
C. A Village Girl's Hope
D. A Girl's School Life

      Rose is one of the funniest girls in her class. She looks like a boy, and she is good at performing. So she
(1)________ (choose) to play Harry Potter by her classmates last week. She said happily, "I'm sure that I am
able to do the job well because I (2)________ (see) the movie many times already."
      Dick, one of Rose's best classmates, is also an actor in the play. He (3)________ (like) to perform the play
with Rose. He said, "We are confident that we (4)________ (do) well in our school art festival next week." 
      Mrs. Smith, their teacher, pays much attention to their play. She often encourages them. Yesterday
afternoon when she (5)________ (watch) their performance, she took photos of them.

      In England, people often talk about the weather because they can experience (经历) four seasons in one day.
In the morning the weather is warm just like in spring. An hour later black clouds come and then it rains hard.
The weather gets a little cold. In the late afternoon the sky will be sunny, the sun will begin to shine, and it will
be summer at this time of a day.
      In England, people can also have summer in winter, or have winter in summer. So in winter they can swim
sometimes, and in summer sometimes they should take warm clothes.
      When you go to England, you will see that some English people usually take an umbrella (伞) or a raincoat
with them in the sunny morning, but you should not laugh at them.
      If you don't take an umbrella or a raincoat, you will regret (后悔) later in the day.

1. Why do people in England often talk about the weather?

A. Because they may have four seasons in one day
B. Because they often have very good weather
C. Because the weather is warm just like in spring
D. Because the sky is sunny all day

2. From the story we know that when _______ come, there is a heavy rain.

A. sunshine and snow
B. black clouds
C. summer and winter
D. spring and autumn

3. "People can also have summer in winter." Means "it is sometimes too ______ in winter."

A. warm
B. cool
C. cold
D. rainy

4. In the sunny morning some English people usually take a raincoat or an umbrella with them because _______.

A. their friends ask them to do so
B. it often rains in England
C. they are going to sell them
D. they are their favourite things

5. The best title (标题) for this passage is _______.

A. Bad Seasons
B. Summer or Winter
C. The Weather in England
D. Strange English People

      In almost every big university (大学) in the United States, football is a favourite sport. American football is
different. Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the
other end of the field. They have four chances (机会) to move the ball ten yards (码). They can carry it or
they can throw it. If they move the ball ten yards, they can try to move it another ten yards. If they move it to
the end of the field, they receive six points (点).
      It is difficult to move the ball. Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man with the ball. If he does
not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball the other team. 
      Each university wants its own team to win. Many thousands of people come to watch. They all shout for
their favourite team.
      Young men and women come on the field to help the people shout more. They dance and jump while they
shout.
      Each team plays ten or eleven games each season.
      The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game
after the season ends. The best teams play again on January 1, the first day of the New Year. Many people go
to see these games and many others watch them on TV.

1. The passage talks about ________.

A. football
B. how to play football
C. American sports
D. American football

2. We can _______ the football in both American football and Chinese football.

A. kick
B. throw
C. run with
D. catch

3. Why is it difficult to move the ball? Because ________.

A. ten yards is a long way
B. many men on the other team try not to let the ball come near
C. the playing field is very large
D. eleven men have to catch the ball one by one

4. If they ________, the teams will play on January 1.

A. receive six points
B. play eleven games in the season
C. are the best teams
D. move the ball to the end of the field

5. Many people come to watch football and they want their team to win. Which of the following is not their act?

A. Jumping.
B. Dancing.
C. Crying.
D. Shouting.

    If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?
    Don't listen to people who say the young people today often think only of themselves. It's not true at all.
More and more young people in the U.S.A. volunteer (志愿) to spend their school holidays working for others.
And they don't do it for money. Here are some of their stories.
    Alice Hamilton, 17
    I'm going to help the Forest Center build new hiking paths in the mountains. It's going to be terrific
(极好的)-I'll spend the whole summer living in the tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I'm going to
sleep under the stars. It will be a nice sport, and I'll be able to do something good at the same time.
    Jason Moore,18
    This summer, I'm going to volunteer with Special House Program. They build good, low-cost (低成本的)
houses and sell them to families that are not very rich. They'll teach me what to do, so I'll help people and also
have a chance to learn how to build houses.
    Trish Anderson,16
    I'm going to teach kids who have trouble in reading. I'll work for a program called Reading for Life. Every
day, I'm going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher, and I love children
and reading, so this is going to be a great experience for me.

1. Young people in the U.S.A. volunteer to spend _____ helping others.

[     ]

A. school holidays
B. weekdays
C. every morning
D. every afternoon

2. What does Alice volunteer to do in summer?

[     ]

A. To sleep under the stars.
B. To breathe the clean mountain air.
C. To spend the whole summer living in the tent.
D. To help build new hiking paths in the mountains.

3. From the passage, we know that Jason Moore _____.

[     ]

A. likes reading
B. is 18 years old
C. isn't very rich
D. is good at sport

4. _____ wants to be a teacher.

[     ]

A. Alice Hamilton
B. Jason Moore
C. Trish Anderson
D. None of them

5. Which is the most possible title (标题) for this passage?

[     ]

A. Reading for Life
B. A Special House Program
C. The Forest Center
D. Young American Volunteers

    Never go into a supermarket hungry! This is a good piece of advice. If you go shopping for food before
lunchtime, you'll probably buy more than you plan to. Unfortunately, however, just this advice isn't enough
for consumers these days. Modern shoppers need an education in how and how not to but things at the
store. First, you check the weekly newspaper ads. Find out the items that are on sale and decide if you really
need these things. In other words, don't but anything just because it's cheaper than usual! "New and
Improved!" or "All Natural" on the front of a package influence you. Instead, read the list of ingredients
(成分) on the back. Third, compare prices: that is, you should examine the prices of both different brands
and different sizes of the same brand.
    Another suggestion for customers is to buy ordinary items instead of famous brands. Ordinary items in
supermarkets come in plain packages. These products are cheaper because producers don't spend much
money on packing or advertising. The quality, however, is usually as good as the quality of well-known
name brands. In the same way, in buying clothes, you often find high quality and low pices in brands that
are not famous. Shopping on discount clothing stores can help you save a lot of money. Although these
stores aren't very attractive, and they usually do not have individual dressing rooms, not only are the prices
low, but you can often find the same famous brands that you find in high-priced department stores. 
    Wise consumers read magazine ads and watch TV commercials, but they do this with one advantage:
knowledge of the psychology behind the ads. In other words, well-informed consumers watch for information
and heck for misinformation. They ask themselves questions: Is the advertiser hiding something in small print
at the bottom of the page? Is there any real information in the commercial, or is the advertiser simply showing
an attractive image? With the answers to these questions, consumers can make a wise choice.

1. Before you decide to buy things you should ____.

A. make sure whether they are on sale
B. consider if you really need them
C. examine the prices of different brands
D. read the words on the front of the package

2. The writer suggests consumers buy ordinary products because ____.

A. they come in plain package
B. they are advertised on newspapers
C. they are both good and cheaper
D. the quality is better than that of famous ones

3. The main idea of the last paragraph is that ____.

A. ads and commercials sometimes tell lies
B. advertisements sometime hide some information
C. good consumers never read ads and commercials
D. we should make good use of ads and commercials

      Most people in Britain live in small family groups. More than a quarter of homes in Britain have only got one
person in them. Some of these are old people but some are people of twenty or thirty who choose to live alone.
35% of homes have two people in them, and another 17% have three people. 15% have four people in them, and
the other homes have five or more. 
     The families in Britain are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are
about eighteen or nineteen, they leave their parents' homes, and they often go to different cities. Sometimes they
only visit their parents two or three times a year.

1. How many homes in Britain have 3 people living in them?

A. 8% of homes.
B. 15% of homes.
C. 17% of homes
D. 35% of homes.

2. At what age do children in Britain usually leave their parents' homes?

A. About 18 or 19.
B. About 20 or 21.
C. About 25 or 26.
D. About 30 or 31.

3. What is the passage?

A. An invention.
B. A report.
C. A. play
D. A joke.

4. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. Young people in Britain.
B. Old people in Britain.
C. Families in Britain.
D. The population in Britain.

5. According to the passage, which of following is right?

A. There are 25% of homes have 3 people in them.
B. There are 25% of homes have 2 people in them.
C. There are 25% of homes have 1 people in them.
D. There are 35% of homes have 3 people in them.