“Can I learn to play the violin．Daddy?”Ann asks her father．
“That sounds good．But how long can you learn?”
“A month,” Ann says．“After a month，I can play for you．If I don’t play well，I won’t play it．”
“All right．” her father says．
He soon finds a violin teacher and Ann starts her lessons．The fee(费用) isn’t cheap，but her father doesn’t say anything．
A month passes．The time comes for Ann to play for her father．
She says to her father, “I want to play for you，Daddy．”
“OK，Ann，”her father says．“Start”
She starts to play．She doesn’t play well．Her father has a friend with him，and the friend can’t stand(忍受)it．
When Ann stops，her father says, “Great! Ann, you can have more lessons．”
Ann runs out of the room．Her father’s friend says to him, “I don’t think your daughter plays well．”
“Well，you’re right．”her father says．“But she’s very happy, right?”
小题1:Ann thinks playing the violin is________, so she wants to learn it．

A．tired

B．dangerous(危险的)

C．boring(无聊的)

D．interesting

小题2:Ann wants to learn to play the violin for _______before she plays it for her father．

A．two weeks

B．six weeks

C．a month

D．six months

小题3:_______finds a violin teacher to teach her．

A．Ann’s father	B．Ann’s father’s friend
C．Ann’s mother	D．Ann’s uncle

小题4:Ann’s father wants Ann to have more lessons because_________．

A．Ann plays well	B．the fee is very cheap
C．he loves Ann	D．he 1ikes the violin

小题5:From this passage we can see that ________．

A．Ann doesn’t 1ike playing the violin

B．Ann can have more 1essons

C．Ann doesn’t want to have more 1essons

D．Ann’s father doesn’t have a friend

Jack drives a school bus．His bus is different from other school buses because it doesn’t carry children．Jack’s bus takes dogs to school in the morning and brings them home at night．Jack takes the dogs to “The Dog School”．There four men teach the dogs to obey(服从)and protect(保护)their owners．All kinds of dogs go to the school—large dogs，small dogs，young dogs and old dogs Jack says that young dogs are the easiest to teach，but the old ones can learn，too．
Do you have a dog? Maybe it would like to go to “The Dog School”．
小题1:Jack _________．

A．is a bus driver

B．has a school for dogs

C．keeps a dog in his house

D．teaches children at school

小题2:Which kind of dogs are easy to teach?  _________．

A．Old dogs．

B．Young dogs．

C．Large dogs

D．Hot dogs．

小题3:Jack teaches the dogs to________．

A．run away

B．go to bed

C．eat food

D．protect their owners

小题4:At night the dogs sleep ________．

A．on a bus	B．at a hospital
C．at the school	D．in their own home

小题5:The best title of the passage is________．

A．A School for Dogs

B．Taking Children to School

C．How to Find Dogs

D．How to Drive a Bus

Rick is a good man．He makes birthday cakes in a shop．His cakes are great and have very good prices，so many people buy his cakes．He makes friends with lots of his customers(顾客)．They all like him very much．One evening．he wants to go home，but many of his old customers come in．Rick smiles(微笑)to them，“I am sorry．It is late today．If you need cakes，please come tomorrow．”One of them takes out a nice cake and says to him，“You make so many great cakes for us．This birthday cake is for you．Happy birthday, Rick．”
小题1:Where does Rick work?  ________．

A．At school．

B．In the classroom．

C．In a shop．

D．At a party．

小题2:When the customers come one evening，Rick _______．

A．is making cakes	B．is at home
C．wants to go home	D．is playing basketball

小题3:His customers give him________．

A．many cakes

B．a birthday cake

C．some money

D．some fruit

小题4:Rick’s customers like him because_________．

A．he’s a good man	B．his cakes are big
C．his cakes are at a very good price	D．A and C

小题5:One evening, the customers come to Rick’s shop because________．

A．they want to buy cakes	B．it is Rick’s birthday that day
C．Rick asks them to come	D．they come for a party

This happened to me at the age of twelve. It seems like a long time to remember the name of the old lady. Yet it keeps in my  35 that she taught me a lesson in tolerance(宽容) which I shall never forget.
On a winter afternoon, a friend and I were  36 stones onto the roof of the old lady’s house. I found myself a perfectly smooth stone and threw it out. The stone was too smooth, however, so it slipped(滑) from my hands and  37  straight not for the roof but for a small window on the old lady’s back porch(门廊). At the sound of broken   38 , we knew we were in trouble and ran away.
I was too scared(胆怯) about getting caught by the old lady that first night. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn’t been   39 , I started to feel guilty(有罪的) for what I had done. She  40 greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the newspaper, but I was no longer able to act comfortably.
I made up my mind to  41 for her window with my paper delivery(发送) money I collected. I put the money in an envelope with a note explaining I was  42  for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the cost for repairing it.
I waited  43 it was dark, snuck(悄悄地走) up to the old lady’s house and put the letter I didn’t sign in her door. Once again, I could have the freedom of lookingstraight  44 the old lady’s kind eyes.
The next day, I handed the old lady her paper and was able to return the warm smile that I was  45 from her. She thanked me and gave me a bag of cookies.
Reaching for the cookies, I  46 an envelope and pulled it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope, I was surprised to see the seven dollars and a short note that said, “I’m proud of you!”

小题1:	A．diary B．memory C．notebook D．handbag

小题2:	A．throwing B．carrying C．choosing D．putting

小题3:	A．dropped B．knocked C．headed D．landed

小题4:	A．wall B．roof C．door D．glass

小题5:	A．discovered B．controlled C．invited D．forgotten

小题6:	A．often B．just C．hardly D．still

小题7:	A．ask B．look C．pay D．care

小题8:	A．late B．sorry C．ready D．good

小题9:	A．before B．though C．since D．until

小题10:

A．against B．into C．through D．around

小题11:

A．receiving B．hearing C．separating D．taking

小题12:

A．bought B．filled C．felt D．sent

Amy:  I like to take my vacations at home. But this summer, I want to do something different. I’m going sightseeing（观光）. Next week I am leaving for Ottawa. I’m staying there for two weeks. Then I’m going to Alaska. I’m going to take many photos there. I can’t wait any longer.

	Jay :  This summer vacation is coming. I’ll be very busy. I’m going to Europe（欧洲）to visit my cousins in Liverpool and my aunts in Naples. I plan to go to Rome, because I want to meet pen friend Jackson there.
	Jarey: I think the best place for a summer vacation is the beach. I’m going to Hawaii on August 8. It has fantastic beaches and I like the sand, the sea and the sun, I am staying there for three weeks. There are many exciting things to do there.

小题1:Amy is going to _________ first for her summer vacation.

A．Alaska

B．Ottawa

C．Hawaii

D．Rome

小题2:Jay is going to Europe to _________ . 

A．visit his pen friends

B．go sightseeing

C．take photos

D．visit his relatives（亲戚）

小题3:Jay’s pen friend lives in _________ . 

A．Liverpool

B．Naples

C．Rome

D．Warsaw

小题4:Jarey is going to stay in Hawaii for _________ . 

A．ten days

B．three weeks

C．four weeks

D．half a month

小题5:Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Jay is going to take many photos during the summer vacation.

B．Amy isn’t going to take vacation at home this summer.

C．There are beautiful beaches in Hawaii.

D．Jay’s aunts live in Naples.

Napoga Gurigo，a 12-year-old girl，lives in a village in Ghana. It is   1  for her family to get clean drinking water. The nearest place to get water is a muddy （混浊的） water hole half a kilometer away from her   2 . Animals and villagers use it alike. Each morning, Napoga leaves home at half past five to collect water for her family. Sometimes it   3  a few hours to get enough water. Napoga has no time to go to school for learning. In the neighboring areas, many boys and girls   4  Napoga. They can't keep strong and   5  just because they have not enough drinking water.
In fact, 70% of Earth's surface is water. But most of   6  is sea water. We can't use salty water in our daily life. Fresh water is what we __7__ drink, take showers and cook food. And fresh water covers only 1 percent of Earth's surface. In some areas people try to make deep wells （水井） to get water from   8 . But there still   9  enough for farming. Scientists say that 10  30 years, more people in the world will face all kinds of water problems than now. So we must do something to take care of our water resources (资源).

小题1:	A．easy B．hard C．fun D．impossible

小题2:	A．school B．city C．country D．home

小题3:	A．spends B．costs C．pays D．takes

小题4:	A．look like B．are like C．feel like D．sound like

小题5:	A．healthy B．strong C．heavy D．clean

小题6:	A．them B．those C．that D．these

小题7:	A．used to B．are used to C．use to D．are used

小题8:	A．underground B．subway C．rivers D．the sea

小题9:	A．haven't B．isn't C．aren't D．hasn't

小题10:

A．in B．after C．before D．for

Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究员) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
小题1:Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.

A．make more money	B．raise money for his basket team
C．make himself more famous	D．raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS

小题2:We can infer (推断)from the passage that _____.

A．Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others

B．Ruth is angry because she has been asked to donate too much money

C．Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired

D．Yao Ming wants to be a television host

小题3:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Only Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna try their best to do things for charity.

B．Ruth has given a lot of support to charity although she is not very rich.

C．The writer hopes that more people can do things for charity.

D．Edna is very rich because she has her own shop.

小题4:One morning, Ruth received a letter with a picture of a horse in it because _____.

A．she lost her horse

B．a charity wanted her to donate some money

C．she loved horse very much

D．she wanted to keep a horse as a pet

小题5:The underlined(划线) part in the last paragraph probably means that _____.

A．what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others

B．when you want to do something for others, you need stand out

C．the moment you stand out, you can do something for others

D．when you look back sometimes, you need stand out

    Tolstoy, the greatest Russian writer, liked to walk about in a railway station near his home. One day when he was walking up and down as ___1___, looking at people getting on and off the trains, he heard a lady __2___ after him, “Hey, you old man, go and bring back my handbag I left in the __3___ room.”
Tolstoy went there. He picked the bag up and walked quickly along the platform (站台). At the same time the lady was waiting beside the carriage (车厢), looking __4___. When at last the old man gave the bag back to her, she opened it to make sure nothing was __5___. “ Good, old man,” said the woman. “ You are just as quick as I can __6___. Here you are. ” She gave a coin to him. Tolstoy __7__ the coin and put it into his pocket with a smile.
The woman was very _8__ when she heard he was Tolstoy, the writer of the great novel War and Peace. She returned to Tolstoy and said, “ Oh, excuse me ….. Oh, how silly I was to __9__ you as a porter (搬运工). Please throw back that coin if you forgive me.”
“Oh, madam, why? You have nothing wrong,” Tolstoy laughed and said, “ The coin is given for my work, so I’ll __10___ it. Thank you, madam! ”

小题1:	A．possible B．often C．usual D．well

小题2:	A．talking B．speaking C．telling D．shouting

小题3:	A．reading B．meeting C．waiting D．dining

小题4:	A．happy B．back C．well D．worried

小题5:	A．there B．inside C．missing D．wrong

小题6:	A．expect B．run C．do D．like

小题7:	A．showed B．watched C．accepted D．picked

小题8:	A．angry B．surprised C．happy D．sad

小题9:	A．see B．treat C．have D．look

小题10:

A．throw B．put C．keep D．stay

小题1: Sun Mei, 23, is a clerk in a bank. She likes playing table tennis. She would like a companion(伴侣) who is a soldier (军人) and not shorter than 170 cm. it will be good if he is a sports fan.
小题2: Tang Xiaoli, 29, 160 cm tall, has just come to Guangdong Province. She works as an accountant(会计) now. she hopes to find a companion who has a house of his own and at least has got a bachelor’s degree(学士学位).
小题3: Liu Fenghua, 56, is a retired teacher from high school. Her husband died of a heart attack()心脏病发作) four years ago. She hopes to find a companion who is 60-70.
小题4: Xie Qun, 24, works as a secretary in Shenzhen. She is 161 cm tall and just finished college a year ago. She loves listening to all kinds of music. She wants to find a companion who is under 30, and at least has got a bachelor’s degree.
小题5:Zhang Ying, 35, is a kindergarten(幼儿园) teacher. She is divorced(离婚的) now. in her free time, she enjoyed learning English. She wants to find a companion who has no housing problems, and isn’t younger than her.

A．

B．

C．

D． E. F.

  Chen Guangbiao（陈光标） was born in Jiangsu in July,1968. He is the chairperson of a company in Jiangsu. Now he is one of China’s richest men and he has donated a great amount of money to charity projects. He says he will donate everything he has to charity after he dies.
When people are in need of help, he will appear at once. He helped people during the Wenchuan earthquake, the Yunnan earthquake and the Taiwan earthquake. He also gave a helping hand in Japan’s earthquake. He has built many Hope Primary Schools to support the education in poor areas.
He doesn’t do charity for honour. He wants to encourage more people to make contributions to charity. After announcing he would donate everything to charity after his death, many businesses, overseas(海外)Chinese people and common people encouraged by him have also promised to do something for charity.
As a philanthropist(慈善家),he is asked for help every day. Sometimes he gets very tired, but he has never stopped caring.
So far, he has received a lot of awards, including Pioneer of the Year, and National May Day Labour Medal(全国五一劳动奖章).He is considered（认为） as one of china’s top philanthropists.

小题1:How old is Chen Guangbiao now?

A．40

B．41

C．52

D．44

小题2:He says he will donate _____ to charity after he dies.

A．nothing	B．some schools
C．everything he has	D．his whole company

小题3:What does he do charity for?

A．He wants to do charity for money.

B．He wants to do charity for pleasure.

C．He wants to ask people to help him.

D．He wants to encourage more people to contribute to charity.

小题4:Which of the following is NOT mentioned（提到，提及） in the passage?

A．He is from Jiangsu.

B．He has visited many countries.

C．He has helped people in need.

D．He has got a lot of awards.

小题5:Which do you think is the best title for the passage?

A．Earthquakes.

B．Hope Primary Schools.

C．Pioneer of the Year.

D．Philanthropist Chen Guangbiao