Online shopping is growing fast in China, and more and more Chinese are buying books online. At the same time, traditional bookstores are facing new challenges. A bookstore in Beijing is going out of business（生意）. All of its books are on sale. Bookstore owner Wang Jian says hot sales of books on the Internet pushed him to change the way he did business.
China has the highest online book buying rate（率）in the world. More than years ago, dangdang.com became the first online bookseller, and now becomes very important in the Chinese online book market.
Facing this challenge, the Xinhua Bookstore also built its online store a few years ago. Zhang Jian, CEO of the Xinhuabookstore.com, says now they are enlarging their online services.
A “price war（战争）”is taking shape between traditional bookstores and online bookstores. Faced with the low-cost advantage of online bookstores, traditional ones can do nothing but lower their prices. At the same time, online bookstores are also starting price wars between each other.
Now some traditional bookstores are trying their best to attract buyers in their own way. They exhibit books better and provide(提供) a very relaxed reading environment in the bookstore. Even though, traditional bookstores can hardly compete with some of the advantages of online bookstores, for example 24-hour service.
小题1:What is the passage about?

A．The development of online bookstores.

B．The disadvantages of traditional bookstores.

C．The great advantages of online bookstores.

D．The challenges traditional bookstores face.

小题2:What made Wang Jian change the way he did business?

A．The small sales of his books.

B．The tiring work of selling books.

C．The high cost of running the bookstore.

D．Competition with other traditional bookstores.

小题3:To attract buyers, traditional bookstores and online bookstores both choose to        .

A．lower the prices of books

B．provide 24-hour service

C．provide relaxed reading areas

D．exhibit books in a better way

小题4:We can know from the passage that       .

A．traditional bookstores will break up sooner or later

B．dangdang. com is the first website selling books in China

C．more and more people will start bookstores on the Internet

D．most of the buyers who buy books online are young students

If you love books, then“Three Cups of Tea”will be your favorite. It will take you on an adventure（冒险）to one of the highest mountains in the world. You will learn how the people and children there lived and how the writer, Greg Mortenson , helped build an education system.
While climbing K2 in Pakistan, one of the world’s most difficult mountains to climb, Greg Mortenson became ill and got lost. He got help in a small village. The people of the village took good care of him, feeding him and letting him sleep in a villager’s house. They also gave him their best food: sweet tea.
When Mortenson was fine, he found that the children of the village worked and studied outdoors. Their teacher came only three times a week and they didn’t have blackboards. They used sticks（枝条）to write on the ground.
The day he left the village, he told them he would come back and build a school. His school would have both boys and girls. Later on, he came back and helped build a school, so the kids were able to study in the classroom with real writing instruments.
That was in 1993. Today Mortenson is going to build 80 schools in Central Asia. He started a foundation（基金）called the Central Asia Institute to raise money for these schools. He has helped more than 18,000 girls receive education so far.
小题1:“Three Cups of Tea”is the name of a        .

A．club

B．teahouse

C．book

D．movie

小题2:The following are what the people of the village did for Greg Mortenson EXCEPT         .

A．taking care of him and feeding him

B．taking him to the hospital

C．finding somewhere to let him sleep

D．giving him their best food

小题3:From the passage we know that        had more chances to receive education in Pakistan mountains in the past.

A．boys

B．girls

C．the rich

D．the poor

　　Hello, boys and girls. My name is Kangkang. I’m from Tianjin. I’m No.1 middle school.
　　My mother works in No.1 middle school. She teaches Chinese. My father is a doctor in a hospital. They both work hard.
　　On Sunday my mother and I often do some shopping. My mother likes shopping a lot. We will go shopping this Sunday afternoon. My mother says she will buy me a red coat. But I don’t like red. I want a yellow one. My mother says yes to me. I am happy.
　　My father doesn’t like shopping at all. He likes animals best. He often takes me to the zoo. My favorite animal is the panda. I think panda are very cute. This Sunday morning my father will go to the zoo with me.
I love my parents very much. They love me, too. I have a happy family.
小题1:Kangkang`s mother is a ____________.
A. doctor B. nurse C. teacher
小题2:What color does Kangkang like?
A. red B. yellow C. black
小题3:______ likes animals best.
A. Kangkang`s mother B. Kangkang C. Kangkang`s father
小题4:______ is Kangkang`s favorite animal?
A. the monkey B. the panda C. the elephant
小题5:There are (有) ______ people in Kangkang`s family.
A. two B. three C. four

I am a student in China now. My name is Kelly Smith. I live with my parents, two sisters and a brother in Beijing. My parents teach English in No. 6 Middle School. I study in the same school. I am happy here, because I like my new school and the classmates. They are very kind to me. They like to play with me because I look different from them. I have blue eyes and long blond hair. They often say I look like a doll (洋娃娃). Also I speak English well, so lots of students like to talk with me to improve (提高) their English.
小题1:How many people are there in Kelly’s family?
A. three B. five C. six
小题2:Kelly’s parents are _______.
A. doctors B. teachers C. farmers
小题3:Why does Kelly like her new school?
A. Because it is very big.
B. Because it is very beautiful
C. Because the classmates are kind to her.
小题4:What color are Kelly’s eyes?
A. blonde B. black C. blue
小题5:Why do students like to talk with Kelly?
A. Because Kelly is a beautiful girl.
B. Because Kelly’s English is very good.
C. Because Kelly is very interesting.

Anger is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When your teacher gives you too much homework, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your favorite thing and then breaks it, you may get really angry.
Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe faster, your face turns red, and you may want to break something or hit(打) someone, but sometimes, you hide(隐藏) your anger. For example, you may hide it in your heart. The problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach may hurt.
In fact, it’s not good to hide your anger, and it’s normal for you to get angry sometimes. But anger must be let out in the right way, without hurting others or yourself.
When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. It’s helpful to talk about your anger with an adult, such as parents, a teacher, etc. When you talk about anger, those bad feelings can start to go away. Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry: talk to a good friend; count from 1 to 100; give someone a hug(拥抱); go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc.
Remember that how you act when you are angry can make everything better or worse. Don’t let your anger control you.
小题1:You may not get angry when ____.

A．there is too much homework on this weekend

B．your favorite basketball team wins the game

C．a friend breaks your favorite thing

D．your parents don’t let you watch TV

小题2: ____ shows that you’re not angry.

A．Taking a faster breath	B．Getting a headache
C．Getting a stomachache	D．Wanting to protect someone

小题3:According to the passage, you can do everything when you get angry except(除了) ____.

A．go for a bike ride

B．think about good things

C．talk to a good friend

D．say bad things to the people around you

小题4:The underlined word “control” in the last paragraph means____ in Chinese.

A．控制

B．连接

C．帮助

D．失去

小题5:This passage is mainly about ____.

A．anger

B．excitement

C．happiness

D．sadness

The Clockwork Radio
The British inventor Trevor Baylis created this really clever ′wind-up radio′ for people from Third World countries. in some parts of the Third World countries, it’s very hard for people to get or pay for enough energy. This radio uses no batteries (电池) and does not need any electricity to run it. A clockwork generator (发电机) is put inside the radio and works as the power. When it is fully wound up (上弦), the radio can work for long periods.

The clock work product is not a new invention. The Victorians had already put it in wide use. We may find them used in toys as well. Then what is new about this clockwork radio? Baylis has used this simple but effective (高效的) way of creating electricity to both help the people of the Third World and to develop a product which is selling well in Western Europe.
Even former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandella has one of these radios and personally recommends this product to others.
小题1:What does the clockwork radio use to run it?

A．Batteries.	B．Electricity.
C．A clockwork generator.	D．Wind power.

小题2:The Third World countries are       in the world.

A．the rich countries	B．the poor countries
C．Western European	D．Victorian countries

小题3:Which sentence is true according to the passage?

A．the clockwork radio can work for only a short period of time.

B．Trevor Baylis created the world’s first clockwork product.

C．The clockwise radio is also a toy for people of the Third World.

D．Nelson Mandella owns one of the clockwork radios.

Sandra usually gets up at six in the morning. She usually has breakfast at six thirty. She goes to school at around seven o’clock. School starts at seven thirty.
Sandra learns many subjects at school: math, English, science, history, art, music and PE. Her favorite subject is music. It’s relaxing, and the music teacher is fun.
Sandra has four classes in the morning. At eleven forty she comes home for lunch. She has lunch with her grandmother. In the afternoon, she isn’t very busy. She has only two classes. After school she does her homework and plays with other kids.
In the evening, Sandra’s parents come home from work at five o’clock. The family have dinner at six. After that they usually listen to music or watch TV. Sandra goes to bed at nine thirty. Her grandmother goes to bed at nine, and her parents go to bed at around ten o’clock.
小题1:Sandra goes to school at __________.

A．6:00

B．6:30

C．7:00

D．7:30

小题2:Sandra’s favorite subject is __________.

A．math

B．music

C．history

D．art

小题3:Sandra has___________ classes every day.

A．four

B．six

C．seven

D．eight

小题4:Sandra usually does homework _________.

A．after dinner

B．in the morning

C．before breakfast

D．in the afternoon

小题5:The family don’t __________ in the evening.

A．play chess

B．watch TV

C．go to bed

D．listen to music

New York is one of the last large American cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 170 horses working in certain parts of the city. The horses are expensive to feed, but it is even more expensive to look after them. Because the horses must walk on the streets, they need special horseshoes. In fact , they need more than 8,000 of them each year. Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. Keeping these shoes in good repair is the job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five of these blacksmiths in the whole United States.
The cost of shoing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty-five dollars, and it takes a good blacksmith two or three hours to do the job.
A blacksmith’s job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of metal and then fit it to the horse’s foot. The blacksmith must bend over all the time when he is fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse’s leg while he works. Clearly, a blacksmith must be very storng. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses---for before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg.
One of the blacksmiths in New York is James Corbin. He came to the country from Ireland in 1948. He not only makes horseshoes for the police but also works for a group of horse owners near the city. Corbin became interested in blacksmithing because his father did it, and,as the puts it, “It’s a good way to make a living.”
小题1:According to the reading passage, a blacksmith must be likely a______ man.

A．clever

B．rich

C．strong

D．lucky

小题2:James Corbin became a blacksmith because he__________.

A．was interested in horses	B．was needed by the policemen
C．drew a picture of the horseshoe	D．had a make a living

小题3:In the reading passage “to shape a shoe” is to__________.

A．fit it on the horse’s foot

B．use it for two or three hours

C．make the from of a horseshoe from a piece of metal

D．draw a picture of the shoe

小题4:The best title for the passage is “__________”.

A．Policemen on Horseback	B．Blacksmiths and Horseshoeing
C．James Corbin, a Blacksmith	D．Horseshoeing is a Good Way to Make a Living

小题5:Which of the following is true?

A．Only a few large American cities have some policemen on horseback.

B．New York is the only city in America to have some policemen on horseback.

C．Policemen on horseback enjoy travelling around the United States.

D．Policemen on horseback are less expensive than those in cars.

Most children like watching TV. It’s very interesting. By watching TV they can see and learn a lot and know many things about their country and the world. Of course ,they can also learn over the radio. But they can learn better and more easily on TV. Why? Because they can hear and watch at the same time. But they can’t see anything over the radio. TV helps to open children’s eyes. It helps to open their minds , too. They learn newer and better ways of doing things. Many children watch TV only on Saturday or Sunday evening. They are always busy with their lessons. But a few children watch TV every night. They go to bed very late. They can’ t have a good rest. How about you, my young friend?
小题1:A few children go to bed late because they ______

A．are busy with their lessons	B．do their homework
C．watch TV	D．listen to the radio

小题2:Children can’t see anything ______

A．in the radio

B．on the radio

C．on TV

D．by watching TV

小题3:TV helps to open children’s ______

A．eyes and minds

B．minds

C．eyes or minds

D．eyes

小题4:Why do many children watch TV only on Saturday or Sunday evening? Because ______

A．TV is not good	B．they don’t like watching TV
C．they have no time	D．they want to play football

小题5:Children can study better and more easily on TV because ______

A．they like to watch TV

B．they can hear at the same time

C．they can watch at the same time

D．they can hear and watch at the same time

The earth moves round the sun ,and the moon goes round the earth .When our part（部分）of the earth turns to the sun ,it is day ,When our part of the earth turns away from the sun ,it is night. The sun is much bigger than the moon .But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth. The sun is very bright .It gives a very strong light .The moon looks quite bright, too .But it doesn’t give any light at all. The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars .But actually（事实上）, the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon .They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.
小题1:Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because______.

A．it is much bigger than the sun

B．it comes out only at night

C．it is much nearer to the earth than the sun

D．it doesn’t give a very strong light

小题2:The stars ______.

A．look much bigger than the sun

B．look much brighter than the moon

C．are a lot brighter than the moon, but they are not bigger than the moon

D．are much farther away from us than the moon

小题3:When it is day, _______.

A．our part of the earth turns to（转到）the moon

B．the sun looks much smaller than the stars

C．we can’t see any stars in the sky.

D．the moon turns away from the sun