News

A MATCH(比赛) Time: Friday 5:00 p.m. Place: the school playground Program: basketball match Team(队): between Class 9, Grade 7 and Class 4, Grade 7

Poster(海报)

The Red Star Cinema(电影院) Monday- Saturday The Old Man and the Sea(老人与海) Time: 7:15 p.m. Tickets(票): Grown-ups(成人) : ￥20 Students:        ￥10

Lost

A red purse There is an ID card and some money in it. My name is David. Please call 366-0597

根据表格信息，选择最佳答案。
小题1:If(如果) you are a team member(队员) of Class 4,Grade 7, you’ll have a match with _____on Friday.

A．Class 9, Grade 7	B．Class 7, Grade 9
C．Class 4, Grade 7	D．Class 9, Grade 9

小题2:If you want to see the movie The Old Man and the Sea, you can go to ____.

A．the school playground	B．the Red Star Cinema
C．Longtan Zoo	D．the Lost and Found

小题3:You may_______ at 7:15 p.m. every Friday.

A．watch a basketball match	B．watch a movie
C．watch the dolphin show	D．come to the Lost and Found

小题4:If you find a red purse and there is an ID card in it, you can call_____.

A．623-3456

B．366-0579

C．355-0597

D．366-0597

小题5:The Greens(格林夫妻) with their twelve-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son want to watch the movie. How much are the tickets?

A．￥60

B．￥30

C．￥40

D．￥50

News
Place: playground(操场)
Time: 5:00pm this Thursday
Program(节目): a friendly soccer game between Class 3 and Class 4
Lost
Hello, everyone! Do you see a cat in the park? Its name is Molly. It is a black cat. If you see Molly, please call Mary at 820-9291.
Wanted
Do you play the guitar well? We need a guitar teacher to teach kids between the ages of seven and ten. The work time is from Tuesday to Saturday, 300 yuan for each day. Welcome to join us.
小题1:What color is Molly?

A．Black.

B．Green.

C．Red.

D．White.

小题2:If Miss Jones gets the teacher job, how much can she get a week?

A．300 yuan.

B．900 yuan.

C．1500 yuan.

D．1800 yuan.

小题3:Where may you see the first poster(海报)?

A．In a school.

B．In a bank.

C．In a restaurant.

D．In a hospital

It’s reported that a company called MicroCHIPS has developed a wirelessly controlled device(装置). The device is put under the skin and can supply a drug directly into the patient’s body. People give the name “microchips” to it.
Microchips bring good news to patients with long-term( 长期的) illnesses, for example, Osteoporosis( 骨质疏松症). People with Osteoporosis have to get daily injections( 注射) of medicine. One type of treatment requires injections for two years. Many patients stop taking the medicine because of the pain and stress of the infections. However, microchips can deal with it. Doctors will program the device before putting it under the skin, and the device has the ability to release(释放) a dose (剂量) at a given time, every single day. One microchip can hold a full year’s worth of medicine.
Microchips may one day free (使…… 摆脱)people from having to remember to take their medicine, or get injections. The device may also be useful in treating other long-term diseases, including heart disease, cancer and even AIDS.
小题1:What is the passage mainly about?

A．It introduces the company MicroCHIPS.

B．It introduces a new wirelessly controlled device called “ microchips”.

C．It introduces some common long-tern diseases.

D．It’s about how the device called“microchips”works.

小题2:According to the passage, why do many patients stop getting injections?

A．Because of the pain and stress of the injections.

B．Because they are too lazy.

C．Because they like taking pills(药丸).

D．Because they are waiting for the new device.

小题3:According to how the device works, which of the following is the correct order?
① Put the device under the skin.
② The device releases a dose at a given time.
③ Doctors program it.

A．①②③

B．②③①

C．③①②

D．③②①

Ma Yan is not really a writer, but this 15-year-old girl has written a book that has moved many people around the world. Ma Yan’s diary tells us about Ma’s life. She lives in a poor village called Zhangjiashu in Tongxin, Ningxia, and she has no money to go to school. However, she is brave and wants to go to school very much.
Her mother gave her diary to a reporter, Pierre Haski when he went to Zhangjiashu in 2001. Now, Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and China.
Ma Yan is now a Junior Three student at Yuwang Middle School in Tongxin. Before this, she had to drop out of school twice. She had to stop going to school the first time, because her mum told her there was no money for her to go to school. She worked for 21 days and saved 13 yuan. With this money, she went back to school. The second time, her family told her she had to leave school while her two brothers could stay.
“I want to study,” Ma Yan wrote in her diary. “Why can boys study but girls can’t? It would be wonderful if I could stay at school forever.”
Ma Yan loves school so much because she wants to have a better life.
“My parents work hard in the fields but they are still poor. They have no knowledge(知识). Most girls in my village leave school early and get married young. I don’t want that kind of life,” Ma Yan said.
After her story became known, many students sent money to her. She hopes to go to Tsinghua University and become a reporter. “Then, I can find poor kids like me, and help them,” she said.
小题1:Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and       .

A．America

B．Austria

C．Russia

D．China

小题2:Why did Ma Yan leave school for the first time?

A．She didn’t study as hard as her brothers.

B．Her brothers studied better than she did.

C．Her family didn’t have money for her to school.

D．She had to help her mother do some housework.

小题3:Ma Yan wants to study because she wants to          .

A．teach her parents some knowledge

B．get more money for her study in university

C．become more famous in the world

D．get more knowledge to change her life

Most people want to work, but in today’s word ,it is more difficult to find work for everybody.The economics of the world need to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people.
Often this is not possible,and so more people are out of work.
Some people have no jobs now because new machines can do the work of many people do in a short time.Also, machines do not ask for more money and longer holidays. In all the countries of the world, machines are taking work from people ,not only in factories but also on the farms.
One machine can often do the work of forty people. About 75,000 people are moving to the cities a day to look for jobs ,but only 70% of them can find jobs .
小题1:The economics of the world need to grow to______.

A．get more money	B．keep the old number of jobs of people
C．make new machines	D．let people look for jobs

小题2:Some people are out of work because _______.

A．of the machines

B．they are old

C．they ask for more money and longer holidays

D．they want to move to the cities

小题3:About machines,which of the following is NOT　RIGHT?________.

A． Machines can do the work of many people do in a short time.

B． Machines do not ask for more money and holidays.

C． Two machines can do the work of eighty people.

D． Machines cant’t take work from people at all.

小题4:.How many people can’t find jobs every day _______?

A．75,000

B．52500

C．22500

D．52500

小题5:.From the passage, we know _______.

A． it’s not possible for everybody to find work.

B． Machines can only take work from people in factories.

C． In the future , there will be enough jobs for everybody

D． Machines will do the work instead of people

下面是一片摘自《上海中学生英文报》网站的报道。请仔细阅读该报道按信息表中项目要求在答卷上的信息表中填写信息。
Depending on yourself
Growing up is not always easy .When we face difficulties ,a spirit of depending yourself is more useful than crying for help .That ‘s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of growing from boy to man with family hardship tells us .
Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua county (县),henan Province .When he was only 11,his father became badly ill and one day he came back with an unwanted baby girl .A year later Hong’s mother left home . She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick hus-band .So everything hard fell on to the young boy’s shoulders :to take care of his father and the sister Chenchen ,and to go on to study .
Although his life was hard ,Hong didn’t go away from hisfather and sister .He worked in part-time jobs to feed his family .He climbed tall trees to get birds’eggs for his sister .He walked two hours at weekends to the market to buy different things to sell around his school .A few years later ,he studied at a sollege .To take care of Chenchen ,he worked hard to rent a room near his college for her ,and send her to school .
After Hong’s story went public ,he became a hero in people’s eyes .But Hong refused offers-from others .He sard he felt encouraged by kind offers ,but he could depend on his own work .
Though his hard life ,he has grown up from boy to man .
From :Shanghai Middle School English Online
Information Card

1	Hong’s spirit____1____________________________________
2	Hong’s birthplace______2______________________________
3	Hong’s age when his mother left home ________3_________________________________
4	The distance between Hong’s school and the market ______4________________________
5	The way Hong fed his family ___________5___________________________

A lady has a problem with her daughter:
My nine-year-old daughter, Maria, is in Year Four. Every evening we get into homework battles(争执). Three afternoons a week, she has activities(netball, singing) after school and by the time we get home early, we argue(争论) about whether she should do her homework right after school, or if she should have some time to rest and play first. When Maria at last sits down to do her homework, she seems to want me there helping all the time, I do want to help her, but I’m sure that she is going to need to be able to do it on her own. And in fact, most of the time, I have other things I need to be doing. It seems that children these days have much more homework than we did, and some of it is really beyond(超越) their abilities(能力). As you can see, I’m really worried about homework and I really don’t know what I should do. Any ideas?
小题1:The woman’s daughter is          .

A．four years old

B．six years old

C．eight years old

D．nine years old

小题2:Maria doesn’t have any activities after school for           afternoons.

A．two

B．three

C．five

D．seven

小题3:Maria want to           first when she gets home early.

A．do her homework	B．play netball and sing
C．have supper	D．have a rest and play

小题4:Can you guess where this passage is from?

A．A diary.

B．A newspaper.

C．A novel(小说).

D．A story.

Lots of young people like reading magazines in their free time for fun. Of so many different magazines, Reader’s Digest is famous and popular.
Reader’s Digest is a monthly magazine. Before the 1980s, it belonged to a privately held company, which was started in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and Dewitt Wallace. This magazine is small and easy to carry, it’s just half the size of most American magazines, which caused a phrase in 2005, “America in your pocket”. It is the best selling magazine in the USA. At present, its circulation in the USA has reached 10 million copies and the number of the readers there is 38 million. Outside the USA, another 40 million people throughout more than 70 countries also read this magazine in 21 languages.

This magazine’s focus is not news but more of cultural views because the editors think people now can get timely news from somewhere else such as TV and newspaper. They hope this magazine can give readers something that is about special personal experiences, or something the readers can share with their families. In different countries, this magazine provides a window to the world for the local readers. Some parts of the magazine are about the local customs and interests of the local readers. The other parts give the local readers information from all over the world.
This magazine actually used to be a public business until the Wallaces died in the 1980s. Because they had no children, there was no one to take over the company. Sixteen years ago, this company went public and became a public company.
小题1:How often does Reader’s Digest come out in the USA?

A．Once a year.	B．Once a month.
C．Once a week.	D．Once a day.

小题2:How many people all over the world read this magazine?

A．38 million.

B．40 million.

C．78 million.

D．108 million.

小题3:Which of the following is NOT the focus of Reader’s Digest?.

A．Timely news .	B．Personal experiences
C．Cultural views	D．Local customs

小题4:Which of the following is true?

A．Reader’s Digest is the name of a newspaper.

B．Reader’s Digest is big and not easy to carry.

C．Reader’s Digest can open people’s eyes.

D．Reader’s Digest is still a family business today.

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning; others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world. Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines of the passages.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers. Some newspapers are published once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day. You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. Also they bring us more and more information with Internet.
小题1:People read newspapers in order to _____________.

A．learn the latest (最新的) news

B．meet their own different needs

C．read the short stories

D．find the morning news

小题2:From the passage we can see that __________ when people get newspapers.

A．they read them very carefully

B．they just read the headlines

C．not everyone reads all the pages

D．they have no time to read them

小题3:Newspapers have so many pages because _______________.

A．more and more people like to read them

B．people enjoy reading something different

C．newspaper become cheaper

D．more pages mean more money

小题4:The most popular in the world are newspaper ____________.

A．in English	B．in Chinese
C．in other language	D．with many pages

小题5:According the passage, besides newspapers, people also get information from ___.

A．magazines	B．advertisements
C．e-mail	D．Internet

以上是一份针对学生的musical habits的调查问卷及结果。请根据问卷选择最佳答案。

MUSICAL HABITS QUESTIONNAIRE                                                                                 Yes   No
1. Do you like listening to music?	18	2
2. What kind of concerts do you prefer?   Pop concerts   Rock concerts Never go to concerts	8 4	8
3. Do you play a musical instrument?	14	6
4. How often do you play your instrument?   0～3 hours per week   3～6 hours per week   Never play any instruments	10 4	6
5. What instrument is your favourite? Guitar   Piano   Violin   No favourite instruments	7 5 2	6

小题1:We asked ______ students about their musical habits.

A．eight

B．ten

C．eighteen

D．twenty

小题2:How many kinds of instruments are mentioned?

A．Two

B．Three

C．Four

D．Five

小题3:Most students like _______.

A．playing the violin	B．going to rock concerts
C．listening to music	D．playing the piano

小题4:Which of the following is NOT RIGHT according to the questionnaire?

A．Six students like the guitar best.

B．Ten students play the instrument 0～3 hours per week.

C．Six students never play any instruments.

D．Four students prefer rock concerts.