The people in China don't call themselves “Chinese”. You will never hear them call their own country “China”. The Chinese word for their country means “Central Country.” Of course, they want to be called “people of the Central Country.”

　　These facts come from the book called China by Daniel Chu. What else does the book talk about? The index (索引) in the back pages of the book will tell you. A part of the book's index is shown below.

　　Use the index from the book China to answer these questions.

1．Which of these pages might describe the daily life of the “people of the Central Country”?

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2．If you want to know how big the “Central Country” is, on what page will you start to read?

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3．Which of these words give the pages that will have facts about the Chinese New Year?

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4．Which pages have photographs or pictures of farms?

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5．The words in the index are in the order of the alphabet. Therefore, families comes before farming and right after ________ .

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　　A man falls out of his plane and falls back into it again. Two people row a small boat from New York to England in 56 days. One person is so big, he wouldn't fit in any hospital room. Would you believe these stories? Well, they may sound strange but they did happen. James Cornell has more strange but true stories like these in a book called Very Strange People.

　　Here is part of the table of contents of Very Strange People. The table of contents lists the names of the chapters(章，篇) or parts of the book. It also tells on what page each chapter begins.

　　Unlike many reference materials, the table of contents is not arranged alphabetically. The chapters are listed in the order that they appear in the book.

1．In 1918, Captain Hedley fell out of his plane in midair. Then he fell back into it again! You would most likely read about this pilot in Chapter ________ .

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2．One morning in New York City, people saw a man walking on a tightrope between two tall buildings. You would most likely read this story in Chapter ________ .

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3．The Earl of Bridgewater fed his dogs better than most people feed their friends. This story probably begins on page ________ .

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4．Sarah Winchester thought she would die as soon as her house was finished. So she kept on adding more and more rooms. Her story most likely appears on page ________ .

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5．Because of his great size, Robert Hughes could not enter any hospital room. This story appears before which story?

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　　If you ask some people, “How did you learn English so well?”you may get a surprising answer:“In my sleep!”

　　These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments to test learn-while-you-sleep methods (方法), which are now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects, of which English is only one.

　　Specialists(专家) say that this sleep-study method speeds language learning tremendously(巨大地). They say that the average person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the same period during the day－and this does not affect(影响) his rest in any way. A word of warning, however: sleep-teaching will only hammer into your head what you have studied already while you are awake.

　　In one experiment, ten lessons were broadcast(广播) over the radio at intervals of a fortnight ( two weeks). Each lesson lasted twelve hours－from: 8 p. m. to 8 a. m. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary were given with the student awake. At 11 p. m. a soothing (起镇静作用的) lullaby (催眠曲) was broadcast to send the student to sleep and for the next three hours the radio whispered the lesson again into his sleeping ears. At 2 a. m. a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes of revision (repeating a lesson ). Then he was lulled back to rest again while the radio purred on. At 5 o'clock his sleep ended and he had to go through the lesson again for three hours before his hard-earned breakfast.

1．Compared with other methods of learning, the learn－while you－sleep method is ________ .

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2．During sleep-teaching you can ________ .

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A．learn grammar and vocabulary that you never heard about before

B．learn how to sleep better

C．learn how to sleep less

D．listen to lessons again to know them better

3．Sleep－teaching means listening to ________ .

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4．What was the total number of hours, asleep and awake, that students spent learning English during the experiment

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5．Which of these statements is TRUE according to the passage?

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A．English is the only subject that is taught by the sleep-study method.

B．Only specially clever students can learn by the sleep-study method.

C．At the time of writing there had been only one sleep-study experiment.

D．Specialists seem to think that the sleep-study method is a good way to learn.

　　Millions of people have their names listed in the Manhattan telephone book in New York. Alec Aarman is special, however. His name came first in the book in 1981. The year before the telephone company did not spell his name right. They spelled it Aarman. So John Aab was the first name listed in the telephone book.

　　Alec loves being first. Everyone can't be first like Alec. Someone has to be last. In 1981, the last person listed in the telephone book was N. Zzherobrouskievskieskieea.

　　People are listed in the telephone book by their last names. The names are arranged in the order of the alphabet (字母), from A to Z. When two names begin with the same letter, the second letter is used in deciding the alphabetical order. When two last names are spelled the same, the first names are alphabetized.

　　Look at the names in the list below. Are they in alphabetical order?

1．The name John Hiedel will appear between ________ .

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2．Hill's Top is the name of a store. It may appear in the telephone listing ________ .

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A．between Hill, Gloria and Hill's Market

B．between Hillo, Saml. and Hill's Market

C．before Hill's Market

D．after all the names

3．Which of the following words will appear first in the order of the alphabet?

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4．Which of the following words will appear last in the alphabetical order?

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　　Early on Saturday morning Ann brought her nephew (侄子) Sam to her friends, Bill and Kate, and asked them to look after him for the day. Sam, an independent boy of six years old, had black hair and was wearing a pair of jeans(工装裤) and a bright yellow shirt.

　　At eleven o'clock Bill took Sam into town. Sam walked along behind Bill, looking at the windows of all the shops they passed. After lunch they went to the park and walked about. The whole place was very crowded, Bill stopped to buy some chocolate. When he turned round to give some to Sam, the boy wasn't there. Bill ran round calling Sam, but he couldn't find him. About an hour later, just in front of a shop, he saw the black hair, the pair of jeans and the bright yellow shirt. The boy looked as if he was waiting for someone to come out of the shop. Bill ran across the road, took the boy by the hand and hurried off, and it was quite late. The boy began to cry and pull hard, but Bill, who didn't know much about children, couldn't understand a word the boy was saying. All the way back the boy made a lot of noise.

　　When they got home at last, Bill went straight to the kitchen, with the boy still crying. At the door Bill stopped in amazement. There, sitting at the kitchen table with Kite. was a small boy with black hair, in a pair of jeans and a bright yellow shirt.

1．“an independent boy” means a boy ________ .

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A．living alone

B．habitually taking actions or decisions alone

C．earns enough money to live on

D．not controlled by others

2．The boy in front of a shop looked as if he was waiting for ________ .

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3．Bill couldn't understand what the boy was saying because ________ .

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A．he didn't know much about children

B．the boy was crying and making noises

C．the boy was too afraid to speak clearly

D．the boy wasn't Sam

4．The small boy sitting at the kitchen table was ________ .

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5．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．Ann brought her nephew Sam to Bill and Kate on Saturday morning.

B．Sam disappeared when Bill stopped to buy some chocolate.

C．Sam came back by himself.

D．Sam liked Kate better than Bill.

　　Rita and Maria Rivera are sisters. They used to live in Cuba. They left Cuba on a crowded boat to come to the United States. Tom Nguyen also left his country, Vietnam, to come to the United States. Rita, Maria, and Tom are American immigrants(移民).They have made new homes in their new land. More than 400000 immigrants enter the U. S. in a year. Most come to find more freedom and a better life for the future(未来).

　　Where do most of the immigrants come from? Look at the pie (饼) graph below. Notice which parts of the world are the bigger pieces of the pie. Cuba is in Latin America. Vietnam is in Asia.

　　You can divide a pie into pieces. That's also the idea of a pie graph, or circle graph. A pie graph shows how the whole amount of something is divided into parts.

　　The pie graph at the left has a number in each part. These numbers are percentages, or parts of 100 percent. All the numbers add up to 100%－all the immigrants who come to the U. S. Use the graph to answer the questions below.

1．The graph shows that most immigrants to the U. S. come from ________ .

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2．Africa has only a small part of the circle because ________ .

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A．none of the immigrants come from there

B．few of the immigrants come from there

C．many of the immigrants come from there

D．all of the immigrants come from there

3．More immigrants come to the U. S. from Europe than from ________ .

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4．About the same number of immigrants come from ________ .

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A．Europe and North America

B．Europe and Asia

C．Africa and North America

D．North America and Latin America

5．What percent of all immigrants are from Latin America and Asia?

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　　You have a first name to tell you who you are. You have a last name to tell which family you are from.

　　But a long, long time ago, people didn't have last names. Later they had to invent last names because there were too many Charlies, too many Roberts, and too many Marys. People started to ask, which Charlie? Which Robert? Which Mary?

　　So if a Charlie was a carpenter(木匠), he became Charlie Carpenter. If a Robert was a son of Peter, he became Robert Peterson. If a Mary lived near the woods, she became Mary Woods.

　　This is the way that some last names started long, long ago.

1．One's last name can also be called the ________ .

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2．A long, long time ago, people didn't have last names because ________ .

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A．they didn't know how to invent last names

B．they didn't want to make their names too long

C．there was not a need

D．they were living in one big family

3．What was the first name of David Johnson's forefather (祖先)?

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4．Which of the following last names was invented by place?

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5．Which of the following last names was invented by job?

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　　The earth is not the only body that travels around the sun. With it are eight other planets(行星), fellow members of the sun's family.

　　Two of them are nearer while the other six are farther from the sun than the earth is. The farther they are, the longer trips they make around the sun. People noticed long ago that these made travelling bodies move around in the sky in definite(一定的) paths.

　　We know that every little bit of matter in the universe pulls upon every other bit of matter. There exists(存在) a pull between the earth and the moon, which keeps the moon travelling in its orbit(轨道) around our planet, the earth. The gravity(重力) holds you to its surface, and pulls back to it the ball which you throw into the air. Of course the ball also pulls on the larger earth, but the earth is so much larger that the pull is not noticed.

　　Now remember that large bodies exert (施加) a greater pull on any body than smaller ones which contain(含有) less material (原料，材料). But each object in the universe, no matter how small, pulls on all other objects to some degree(某种程度).

1．According to the passage, there are ________ fellow members besides the earth in the sun's family.

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2．Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A．The earth is farther from the sun than any of the other eight planets.

B．Two of the planets are farther from the sun than the earth.

C．Six of the planets are closer to the sun than the earth.

D．The earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.

3．What holds the nine planets in their paths?

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4．Why the moon travels around the earth is ________ .

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A．that the sun pulls upon the moon

B．that the earth pulls upon the moon

C．that the earth and the moon pull upon each other

D．that the other eight planets pull upon the moon

5．In the last paragraph the writer tell us ________ .

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A．each object in the universe pulls upon all the others more or less

B．a large body pulls on a small one less than a small body pulls on a large one

C．a small body does not pull on a large one

D．the pull between two bodies is always equal(相等)

　　It shook, rattled (嗄嗄作响), and groaned (呻吟). It wasn't pretty. It looked like a black box sitting on high, skinny wheels. But it could go anywhere, and it was cheap.

　　What was it? It was Henry Ford's Model-T ca－better known as the Tin Lizzie. This car was the most popular of all for nearly 20 years. It changed the American way of life forever.

　　Model T's were sold as fast as they were made. Eleven thousand were sold in 1908. They cost $850 each. Of course, you can't buy a new car for $850 any longer. The prices of new cars keep changing.

　　The line graph below shows how the average prices of American cars have been changing.

　　A line graph shows how something has changed. This kind of graph uses a simple line to show changes. If the line goes up, that means things have gone up in some way. If the line goes down, then something has gone down.

　　Suppose you want to find the average price of cars for 1977. Find 1977 at the bottom of the graph. Find the dot over the year. Then find the price across from the dot.

　　Use the line graph to answer the questions below.

1．What was the average price of a car in 1979?

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2．What does the line graph show about car prices?

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3．In what year did cars cost more than $4000 but less than $6000?

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4．Suppose you were looking for a new car in 1981. What would the average price have been?

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5．How did the average price of cars change from 1977 to 1979?

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　　When Peter and Rose Malupa came to the United States from the Philippines, they lived in an apartment in the center of Chicago. Rose worked as an accountant (会计) in a downtown bank.

　　After looking for a long time, Peter and Rose bought a house in the suburbs(郊区).

　　One morning, Mrs. Todd, the Malupas, next-door neighbor, stopped by to meet Rose, “Welcome to the neighborhood. We'd like to invite you and your husband to our home this Saturday evening. We want you to meet all the neighbors.”

　　On Saturday night, at 7 o'clock Peter and Rose walked to the Todds' home. Lots of people were at the party. Several people congratulated Rose and Peter on their new home.

　　About 8:30, Peter walked over to Rose and asked, “when will they serve dinner? I'm really hungry.”

　　“I don't know,” Rose answered. “I'm hungry, too. Maybe they like to eat late.”

　　At 9:15, everyone was still standing, talking and enjoying the refreshments(点心). Peter was feeling weak. He was so hungry. Rose brought Peter a bowl of crackers(饼干) and some cheese. By 10 o'clock, Peter was sick of crackers. And he was still very hungry.

　　Some guests started leaving, Peter and Rose were surprised. One guest said to Mr. Todd, “Thanks for inviting us to the party. We had a good time.”

　　Then Rose realized her mistake. She whispered to Peter, “This is a neighborhood party, not a dinner party. I made a mistake. All the other guests ate dinner before they came here.”

　　Peter and Rose quickly thanked the Todds for the party. They grabbed (取下) their coats and left. They walked back home, got into their car and drove to a nearby shopping center. The Italian restaurant was closed and the Chinese restaurant was closed. “What are we going to do?” Peter asked.

1．“looking” in “After looking for a long time,” means “ ________ ”.

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2．Why did Mrs. Todd invite the Malupas to her home?

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3．What did the Malupas think they would have at the party?

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4．Rose realized her mistake ________ of the party.

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5．After they left the neighborhood party, they went to a shopping center ________ .

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