As we know, some children live in the countryside, and some live in the city. Their lives are a little different, but they also have many of the same dreams.

	In the countryside	In the city
Ways of going to school	On foot or by bike	By bus or car
Teaching tools	Recorders(录音机) and radios	DVD, TVs, recorders, radios, loud-speakers, CAI
Eyesight	Less than 45% are near-sighted(近视)	About 75% are near-sighted
After-class activities	Playing with balls	English corners and other school clubs
Homework	Homework can usually be finished at school	Homework never ends
Chores(杂事) to do	Washing, cleaning, farming, looking after younger sisters or brothers, cooking	Usually no chores
Family	Big families	Small families
Dream jobs	Teachers, drivers, scientists, nurses…	Scientists, doctors, computer programmers, managers …

小题1:The survey was done among the ______ between the countryside and the city.

A．parents

B．students

C．teachers

D．drivers

小题2:The children in the city usually do ________ according to the survey.

A．cooking

B．cleaning

C．washing

D．no housework

小题3:About ________ of children in the countryside have good eyesight, while ________ of children in the city have good eyesight.

A．55%; 25%

B．45%; 25%

C．45%; 75%

D．55%; 75%

小题4:Which is NOT mentioned in the survey?

A．Homework.

B．Subjects.

C．Dream jobs.

D．After-class activities.

小题5:Which of the following is RIGHT according to the survey?

A．A classroom in the countryside often has TV sets.

B．Children in the countryside often join the school clubs.

C．Children in the city often have much homework to do.

D．Children in the city often have big families.

Some people say, “Extreme(极限的) sports are so dangerous. Why would anyone want to do them?” But the danger is what makes them so excited. Keep reading to find out the most popular ones.

Bungee jumping: People on some South Pacific islands have been bungee jumping for hundreds of years. In 1979, some people bungee jumped off a bridge in England and made the sport popular around the world. Bungee jumping came to China in 1996.
Skateboarding: At first, this sport was called “sidewalk surfing”. Skateboarders often jump high into the air, go down steps or slide(滑行) down rails on their boards. They wear baggy trousers(宽松裤) so they can move more freely.
Skydiving: This is probably the scariest(最惊险的) extreme sport. Skydivers jump out of airplanes about four kilometers up in the sky. They usually free-fall for a while and then open a parachute to slow down for a safe landing.
Snowboarding: This became a winter Olympic sport in 1998. People tie their feet to the board with special shoes. They don’t use any ski sticks. Then, they ride down hills, jump high and do tricks.
小题1:What made bungee jumping popular all over the world?

A．A history of hundreds of years.

B．Jumping over a river in England.

C．Coming to China in 1996.

D．Jumping off a bridge in Britain.

小题2:In which sport do people jump from a plane?

A．Bungee jumping.	B．Skydiving.
C．Skateboarding.	D．Snowboarding.

小题3:Why do people wear “baggy trousers”?

A．They have many bags on them.

B．They can hold many things.

C．They make people move freely.

D．People wearing them can move fast.

小题4:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “parachute”?

A．直升飞机

B．降落伞

C．滑板

D．飞艇

小题5:Why do some people like to do the extreme sports?

A．It’s dangerous but exciting.	B．It’s exciting and safe.
C．It’s scary but safe.	D．It’s easy to learn.

If you live in the United States, the law says you can’t have a full-time job until you are 16 years old. At 14 or 15, you can work part-time after school or on weekends, and during summer you can work 40 hours each week. Does all that mean that if you are younger than 14, you can’t earn (赚) your own money? Of course not! Kids who are between the ages of 10 and 13 can earn money by doing lots of things.
Valerie, 11, told us that she made money by cleaning up other people’s yards. Lena, 13, makes money by knitting (织) dog sweaters and selling them to her neighbors, and Reisa said she had started taking art classes and showing her work to people. People have asked her to draw pictures for them and they pay her for them. Jasmine, 13, writes articles for different magazines!
Earning is learning. By working to earn your own money, you are learning the skills you will need to succeed in life. These skills can include things like getting along with others, using technology (技术) and using your time. Some people think that asking for money is a lot easier than earning it; however, when you make your own money, you don’t have to depend on someone else. The five dollars that you earn will probably make you feel a lot better in your hand than the twenty dollars you ask for.
小题1:Kids can have full-time jobs at the age of _________ in the USA.
A. 17              B. 14               C. 13             D. 10
小题2:If you are 15 years old, you can’t work _________.

A．after school

B．on weekends

C．during summer

D．on weekdays

小题3:Reisa makes money by _________.

A．cleaning up other people’s yards

B．drawing pictures for others

C．writing articles for different magazines

D．knitting dog sweaters and selling them to her neighbors

小题4:According to the passage, which of the following is Not True?
A. You are learning how to succeed by working in your teens.[
B. Kids are encouraged to live independently in the USA.
C. Earning one’s money is better than asking for money from others.
D. Kids don’t need to get along with others when making money.
小题5:From the passage we know that _________.

A．parents won’t let their children earn their own money

B．it’s hard for kids under 14 years old to earn money in the USA

C．kids can learn skills if they try to earn money on their own

D．if kids try to earn money, they won’t have enough time to study

Did you know that a new weblog is being created each second? Many of these bloggers are teenagers. While their parents wrote in a diary to express their emotions, or shared their interests by spending time with friends, teens are now using blogs instead. In fact, in the US, one in every five school-aged teens has a blog. Most of these are just chatter, some are funny or clever, but a few have become Internet success.
For example, Chloe Spencer’s blog ‘Neopets Fanatic’ gets around 300,000 hits per month. When Chloe was 15, she started the blog out of her strong liking for Neopets, a kind of pet website. One reason her blog has so many visitors is because she gives instructions and tips for the popular pet site.

Then there is Tavi Gevinson’s blog ‘Style Rookie’. It is said to get 1.5 million hits per month. Tavi, who started her blog when she was just 12, puts up her photos of her own clothes online as well as designers’ collections. Tavi’s blog has caught on because she knows a lot about style for someone so young, and she is not afraid to try out unusual clothes or see things in a different way.
Blogs like these are interesting, but they only become really popular after better-known websites link to them or they get noticed by the media(传媒). For example, Tavi’s blog became an overnight(一夜之间) success after being written about in The New York Times. Popular blogs can even earn money, usually from advertisements that companies pay to put up on the bloggers’ sites.
So for some, blogging is just a recreation(消遣), but for others, it can become a source of income and even a full-time job!
小题1: Teens nowadays ________ than their parents did.

A．have more ways of communication

B．share their feelings more

C．write in diaries more often

D．make more friends

小题2: In line 4, the underlined word ‘chatter’ means talk about ________ topics.

A．funny

B．clever

C．serious

D．unimportant

小题3:Chloe Spencer and Tavi Gevinson are both ________.

A．pet lovers	B．teenage bloggers
C．interested in fashion	D．keen on taking photos

小题4: From the passage we know that Chloe Spencer is a person who ________.

A．visits many websites	B．loves pets
C．is easy to get angry	D．rarely gives opinions

小题5: According to paragraph 4, Tavi Gevinson’s blog ________.

A．is not well-known yet

B．is written every night

C．became popular very quickly

D．got a lot of money from advertising

小题6:The best title for the passage might be ________.

A．How to be good teen bloggers

B．How teen bloggers attract the media

C．Keeping diaries or writing blogs

D．Teen bloggers mean business

Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show happiness, as in the expression “a red-letter day”. This is a day when something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs. For almost 600 years, church calendars have been marked with red to show special holy(神圣的)days. Today’s calendars are still marked that way with the dates of holidays and special days printed in red.
The expression “a red-letter day”is often heard in daily life. “A red-letter day” is a day that people are especially happy. It may be a day that you have waited for a long time, a wedding day, for example. Or it may be a day with a happy surprise. You might tell a friend that yesterday was a red-letter day, because you won some money in the lottery.
“Rolling out the red carpet” is another commonly heard expression. It describes an especially warm welcome of any kind. A city may “roll out the carpet ”for its baseball team, when the team arrives home after winning a championship. A group of supporters go to the air port to the greet the team. The red-carpet welcome includes a lot of cheering by thousands of fans, a parade, music and speech of praise by local statesmen.
Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. “Red-handed ” is an example. To be caught “red-handed” is to be found in an act of wrong doing. The evidence is clear. You are guilty. Today we use the expression “ to be caught red-handed ”in situation(情况)that are not serious. For example, a mother might say she caught her son red-handed, taking cookies out of the cookie jar.
Some American Expressions with __小题1:___

Be used for_小题2:__ happiness	a red -letter day	a day that people are happy a day with a ___小题3:__
	rolling out the red carpet	describes an especially warm___小题4:_____
Be used in_小题5:expressions	to be caught red-hanged	to be found doing a wrong action can’t be used in a serious situation

Below are some suggestions given by the English children posted on the website about how to help Africa. Which do you think is the best?

I think health is the most important thing. We need to make sure that the money we give is spent wisely. The money should be spent first on clean water supplies and better health care. Robin, aged 16, Birmingham

I think the most important thing is to improve the education of the African countries. There is an old saying,  "If you give a man a fish, you'll feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you'll feed him for a lifetime." We need to help themselves, not just throw money at the problem when it appears. Rebecca, aged 15, Liverpool

People seem to give a lot more money to charity when there is a sudden, huge disaster（灾难）like the earthquake. It's good for people to do so, but I also think that everyone should give a small part of their salary（工资）to charity. If everyone did that, it would make a big difference. Mary, aged 14, Stratford-on-Avon

Giving money to charity can help, but it's not the final answer. I think what these countries need is a good government. Bethany, aged 16, Newcastle

The best thing we can do is to send experts（专家）like engineers, doctors and teachers to help the people to help themselves. Robert, aged 16, Cardiff

小题1:Which two children share the similar opinion?

A．Mary and Rebecca	B．Bethany and Mary
C．Rebecca and Bethany	D．Rebecca and Robert

小题2:Who pays more attention to African's health care?

A．Mary

B．Robin

C．Rebecca

D．Robert

小题3:Where are these suggestions posted?

A．In the textbook	B．On the website
C．In the guidebook	D．In the magazine

Recently, an Internet game has become a new fashion among young office workers and students. People can "farm" on a piece of "land" and "grow", "sell" or even "steal" "vegetables", "flowers", and "fruits" on the Internet. They can earn some e-money and buy some "seeds", "pets" and even "houses".
Joyce interviewed some young people. Here are their opinions.
Harold: I don't quite understand why they are so mad about the childish game. Maybe they are just not confident enough to face the real world.
Allan: I enjoy putting some "bugs" in my friends' garden and we've become closer because of the game. Having fun together is the most exciting thing about it.
Laura: You know, people in the city are longing for the life in the countryside, It reduces（减少）my work pressure; besides, it gives me the exciting experience of becoming a "thief".
Ivy: Well, it's just a waste of time. Teenagers playing the game spend so many hours on it that they cannot focus on（专注）their study.
小题1:According to the passage, people cannot       things in this game.

A．grow

B．borrow

C．steal

D．sell

小题2:Among the people Joyce interviewed,        likes the game while       dislikes the game.

A．Laura; Allan	B．Allan; Harold
C．Harold; Ivy	D．Ivy; Allan

小题3:From Laura's words, we can guess that she's most probably      .

A．a student

B．an office worker

C．a farmer

D．a thief

小题4:Which is NOT the reason why people like the game?

A．They are longing for country life.

B．They can have fun with friends.

C．The game can relax people and give them a new experience.

D．They are confident enough to face the real world.

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Newspapers are not nearly as popular today as they were in the past.   小题1:  Most people read only the sports pages, the advice or the gossip（闲话，绯闻）columns, the comics, and perhaps the classified advertisements.
Most people don't take the time to read the real news.     小题2:  These techniques（技术，手段）are used on the front page because it is the first thing you see when you pick up the paper. The first page attracts attention and encourages the reader to look through the rest of the paper.     小题3:    If the headline is horrible（恐惧的）enough or frightening enough or wild enough, perhaps they will go on to read the front page anymore. They may read the headlines, but that is all, then they turn to the sports page, or comics, or advertisements. It seems that people do not want the news from a newspaper anymore.   小题4:  
More people watch television news because it is easier and more interesting than reading a newspaper. What about you? Do you read news from a newspaper?  小题5:  Or do you care about news at all? Would you mind if there were no news?

A. They say they get the news on the television now. B. There are not very many people who seriously read a newspaper every day. C. More and more people read newspapers every day. D. They attempt（试图）to catch the reader's interest with pictures and exciting headlines（大字标题，新闻提要） E. Do you think it is easier to get the news from television? F. They like reading stories. G. This is why editors always look for a good first page story and headline to make them stop and look.

Six years ago, Ann graduated（毕业）from college with a degree of Art. Now she is twenty-nine and works for a large computer company. She takes classes twice a week after work. She is learning to use the computer program PowerPoint. “I enjoyed the college, but my job doesn’t use the information I learned at college,” Ann says. “The course is helping me to do my job better.”
Ann’s sixty-year-old mother and father are taking courses in Art and Music. “We love these two subjects. Learning is so much fun,” they say happily. “It’s never too old to learn.”
小题1: Ann graduated from college when she was     .

A．twenty-nine

B．twenty-six

C．twenty-three

D．twenty

小题2:The underlined word ‘degree’ means ‘   ’ in Chinese.

A．温度

B．程度

C．学位

D．位置

小题3: More people are taking training courses after work in order to     .

A．improve their working skills	B．enjoy Art and Music
C．study computer programs	D．make more money

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Ann doesn’t want to use the information she learned at college.

B．People in the past usually stopped studying after graduating from college.

C．People can only get information from their teachers.

D．Ann’s parents are too old to learn Art and Music.

Korean culture is really exciting right now. The Korean Wave is sweeping Asian countries including China. Young people are going crazy about Korean TV dramas, Korean pop songs, taekwondo and the Korean language.
The Korean Wave started a few years ago with the TV series “Winter Sonata”. This love story is still popular. People, especially girls, like the beautiful story and handsome actors like Bae Yong Jun (裴勇俊).
In the music world, Korean girls are making themselves heard in China. You can often find big Korean names like Baby Vox, S. E. S and Finkle at the top of the Chinese music charts (排行榜).
The Korean Wave has also made young people want to try the clothes and hairstyles of pop stars, too. Not only that. Now some girls in China are having plastic surgery (整容) to change the way they look. People say some beautiful Korean stars have had plastic surgery. These stars don’t make plastic surgery look shameful (丢面子的).
Are all the faces of beautiful Korean girls not real? Find out for yourself when you next visit South Korea.
小题1: What does the Korea Wave refer to? It refers to ____..

A．Korean TV dramas	B．Korean culture
C．Korean language	D．Korean actors

小题2:When did the Korean Wave start? It started with ____ 

A．the Korean pop songs	B．Taekwondo
C．the TV series “Winter Sonata”	D．the Korean food

小题3:Who is the famous actor in Korean dramas?

A．Bae Yong Jun.

B．Baby Vox.

C．S. E. S

D．Finke

小题4:Korean stars often change their looks by ____.

A．singing pop songs	B．acting in TV dramas
C．trying different food	D．having plastic surgery

小题5:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?.

A．Winter Sonata tells a very famous love story.

B．Young people like Korean pop stars’ clothes and hairstyles.

C．Chinese girls also want to try plastic surgery.

D．Korean pop stars think plastic surgery is shameful.