Having Fun "Growing" and "Stealing"?
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 Net. They can earn some e-money and buy more "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’ gardens 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(渴望) the life in the countryside. It reduces my work pressure(压力)；besides，it gives me the exciting experience of being a "thief".
Ivy：Well. it’s just a waste of time. Teenagers playing the game spend so many hours on it that they can not focus on(专注于)their study.
小题1: According to the passage，people can’t _______ things in this game.

A．grow

B．borrow

C．steal

D．sell

小题2: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.

小题3:Where can you find this passage?

A．In a car magazine.	B．In an advertisement.
C．In a newspaper	D．In a science book

The Internet has become part of teenage life. There’s a report on 3,375 students aged from 10 to 18 in seven Chinese cities. It says that 38% of them believe they use the Internet often. While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way. Many are playing online games too much. A few even visit Web sites they should not look at. Bad things can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet.
In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, a textbook on good Internet behavior has started to be used in some Shanghai middle schools this term. It uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend offline, let your parents know.
Teachers and parents all think the book is a very good idea. It will teach students how to be a good person in the online world. It will be a guide for teens using the Internet and keep students away from bad sites.
小题1:The underlined word “it” means_____?
A. the book  B. the report  C. the Internet
小题2:From the report, about____ students between 10—18 years old  
in the seven cities use the Internet often.
A. 3,375   B. 1,280   C. 2,100   
小题3: What do most of the students do on the Internet?
A. They get useful information to help in their studies.
B. They play online games.
C. They make online friends.
小题4:Why do teachers and parents think the book is a good idea?
A. Because it helps with the students’studies.
B. Because it is used in Shanghai middle schools.
C. Because it teaches students how to use the Internet in a good 
way.
小题5:Which is  the best title for the passage?
A. The Internet is very useful.
B. Students can’t use the Internet.   
C. Be careful when using the Internet.

Bicycles in China
Bicycles are very popular in China. In our country you can see bicycles almost everywhere. When you walk on the road, you will find a lot of people riding bicycles to school, shops and anywhere else. Therefore(因此), China is known as “the kingdom of bicycles”. In China, many families have one or two bicycles.
Compared(与……比) with cars, bicycles have many advantages. First, they are much cheaper than cars. Most Chinese can’t afford cars, but they can afford bicycles. Second, bicycles are small enough to park anywhere, while cars need a larger piece of land to park. What’s more, with lower speed, bicycles are safer than cars.
However, bicycles also bring some problems. Some riders don’t obey the traffic rules and some riders don’t think about others’ safety. So they ride too fast. During rush hours, too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. We still have a long way to go to solve the problem.
小题1:Where can you see bicycles in China?

A．In the big city.

B．In the town.

C．In the country.

D．Almost everywhere.

小题2:“The kingdom of bicycles” here is saying ____.

A．China has a large number of bicycles	B．China makes bicycles
C．bicycles are a kingdom	D．only China has bicycles

小题3: Which of the following is NOT an advantage of bicycles?

A．Bicycles are much cheaper than cars.	B．Bicycles are easy to park.
C．Bicycles are more beautiful than cars.	D．Bicycles are safer than cars.

小题4:What problems can bicycles bring?

A．Bicycles are more and more expensive.

B．Riding bicycles is more dangerous than driving cars.

C．There are no places for so many bicycles.

D．Too many bicycles may cause traffic jams.

小题5:What does the last sentence mean?

A．We should drive cars instead of riding bicycles.

B．It’s too far to ride bicycles.

C．Bicycles are safe enough.

D．We still need to do much to solve the problem.

阅读下面语言材料，根据要求作答。根据短文内容，判断文后句子的正确(T)与错误（F）
“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the U.S.A greet each other. But “How are you?” is also a very unusual question. It’s a question that often doesn’t need an answer. The person who asks“ How are you?” hopes to hear the answer “Fine”, even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn’t really a question and “Fine” isn’t really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.
Sometimes, people also don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone Asks “Do you agree?”, the other person might think, “No, I disagree. I think you’re Wrong...”But it isn’t very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say “I’m not sure.” It’s a nicer way to say that you don’t agree with someone.
People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one person say “I’ve to go now.” Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse: “Someone’s at the door.”“Something is burning on the stove.” The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn’t want to talk any more, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt the other person.
Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing a talk, people don’t say exactly that they are thinking. It’s an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it’s part of the game of language.
小题1:“How are you?” is another way of saying "Hello." or" Hi."
小题2:It is polite to say" No. I disagree I think you are wrong, "if you don’t agree with others.
小题3:When someone says "I have to go now "On the phone.it means he wants to go on talking.
小题4:"Someone is at the door." may be an excuse for finishing a phone.
小题5:Sometimes people don’t say exactly what they are thinking about just because they try to be nice to each other.

Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today．People didn’t have modern machines．There was no modern medicine, either．
Life today has brought new problems．One of the biggest is pollution．Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty．It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water．Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily．Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution．It’s bad to all living things in the world．
Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day．Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city．This kind of quilt is called smog．
Many countries are making rules to flight pollution．Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air
We need to do many other things．We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground，there will be less pollution．
Rules are not enough．Every person must help to fight pollution．
小题1:Hundreds of years ago．life was much harder than it is today because        ．

A．there were not any modern machines	B．there was no modern medicine
C．both A and B	D．there were not many people

小题2:The most serious kind of pollution is         ．

A．noise pollution	B．air pollution
C．water pollution	D．All the above

小题3:From the passage we know that       ．

A．a few years ago，there was no smog at all

B．today people don’t have to talk to each other in a loud voice

C．we can drink water from the polluted rivers and lakes

D．people are making rules in order to fight pollution

These days computer games are becoming more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along the __1__have changed into computer game houses in order to get more __2___. These places are always crowded with people.
In the computer game houses, people __3__a lot of money matching on the machine. It’s __4__for one to beat a computer, but one can do well after trying again and again. People want to __5__when they play computer games. The more they __6__, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t __7__without it.
The result(结果) is that some people don’t want to __8__and they play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are __9__. They don’t want to have __10__. When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their __11__. Some of them can get enough money from their __12__. Some of them are not __13__enough to get the money. So they have to steal（偷） or rob（抢） others’ money and become __14__.
Computer game addiction(上瘾) is a(n) __15__problem in our life. Something has to be done to stop it.
(   ) 1 A streets         B schools      C towns        D cities
(   ) 2 A boys             B money        C computers    D houses
(  ) 3 A take           B spend        C cost         D pay
(   ) 4 A possible         B easy         C good         D hard
(   ) 5 A read             B learn        C win           D download
(   ) 6 A lose             B try          C waste         D watch
(   ) 7 A come         B eat          C study        D live
(   ) 8 A watch        B win          C stay there   D work
(   ) 9 A better       B exciting         C even worse   D interesting
(   ) 10 A lessons         B games        C families         D sports
(   ) 11 A classes         B rooms        C schools      D shops
(   ) 12 A classmates  B teachers         C sisters       D parents
(   ) 13 A lucky       B unlucky      C careful      D polite
(   ) 14 A good        B bad          C badly        D worse
(   ) 15 A important   B serious      C unusual      D wonderful

Dear Reader,
Think about an 11-year-old child spending her days washing clothes, looking after a baby brother, and doing hard work on the farm.
Think about a little girl. She knows there will not be enough food for dinner, and has no water to drink because it is not clean. She has watched her father, brother and sister lose their lives as the family has no money to send for a doctor.
Hard to believe? For Maria Pastora, these are the facts of life.
Maria would gladly walk to school, but her mother, now alone, really needs her at home. Maria had to leave school to work for her poor family.
But for five dollars a week, you can help out a child like Maria. Show her that somewhere, some­one will help her. Through Save the Children, you can help Maria’s mother get better crops (收成) from their farm, and earn the money to buy clothes and things for school.
To help Maria most, your money is to put to­gether with other helpers, so hardworking people can help themselves. Build a school or a hospital, make their farm better, bring in clean water... This is what Save the Children has been about since 1932.
For you there are many returns. You can write letters to each other, get photos, or study reports. Know you are helping and saving another person in the same world as you. That’s how Save the Chil­dren works. But without you, it can’t work. Please take a moment to fill in this form to help a child like Maria and her village.
It can make such a difference in her life and yours.
Save the Children
David L. Guyer
Chairman
(    ) 7. Maria’s father, brother and sister died because they_________.
A. were too poor to see a doctor   B. didn’t know where to find a doctor
C. didn’t have enough food to eat  D. were too busy to see a doctor
(    ) 8. This letter mainly tells you to_________.
A. know about poor people   B. earn some money for poor children
C. show pity to poor people   D. donate money to help poor children
(    ) 9. If you try to help a child like Maria, which of the following can’t you get from her?
A. You can often get some pictures from her.
B. You can get more money from her when she grows up.
C. You can often get her letters.
D. You can often be told how she is getting on.
(    ) 10. This letter most probably appears_________.
A. on TV     B. in a magazine     C. in a dictionary    D. on the radio

In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there were many orphans（孤儿）there. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home, and he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children’s Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in1949. This is how the SOS stand for “Save Our Souls（灵魂）.” This means “Please help us!” An SOS Children’ village gives help to orphans.
Hermann Gmeiner’s idea for helping orphans soon spread（传播）all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children’s Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages. Today the children from the first village have grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children’s Villages.
In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest village has 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks meals for them and makes comfortable, happy home for them.
Of course, the children don’t spend all their time in the village. They go to school, they go out with their friends. But the village gives them a home—sometimes for the first time in their lives.
小题1:Which of the following came last?

A．People gave Gmeiner some money.

B．There were many orphans at the end of the war

C．Gmeiner built the first SOS Children’s Village

D．A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help the orphans

小题2:An orphan is a child    .

A．who has no brother

B．who has no sister

C．who has no parents

D．all of the above

小题3:We can conclude（推论）from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from       .

A．governments	B．special organization
C．the orphans themselves	D．people in general（大体上）

小题4:Which of the following can best summarize（总结） the work a woman in an SOS Village does for each group of children?

A．She gives the children a lot of love and kindness	B．She lives with each group of children
C．She cooks meals for children	D．She looks after them

Huzhou, May 10 (Huzhou Daily)—A city eye examination has showed that Huzhou primary and high school children’s eyesight has been getting worse. It showed test results were lower than those from the last examination in 2010.
Only 10% of the tested students had good eyesight, but more than 30 percent in 2010. The examination covered 1,770 students from 54 classes. They were from primary and high schools in 5 districts.
According to the test results of the junior high school group, children from Anji District scored an average of four, much lower than 4.8. Below four is classed as short-sightedness. None of the students from Deqing District tested above 4.8.
Huzhou would adopt measures to improve children’s eyesight. Most importantly, students should be freed from the burden(负担) of exams and relax their eyes more often every day.
小题1:How many students had good eyesight in the eye examination?

A．177

B．277

C．530

D．1,770

小题2:Where were the tested students from? They were from         .

A．primary and high schools in 54 districts

B．primary and high schools in 5 districts

C．primary and high schools in Anji District

D．primary and high schools in Deqing District

小题3:Which of the following is classed as short-sightedness according to the passage?

A．The eyesight below 4.	B．The eyesight below 4.2.
C．The eyesight below 4.6.	D．The eyesight below 4.8.

小题4: If the students want to improve their eyesight, what should they do?
They should       .

A．read in the sun	B．read more books
C．study hard	D．often relax their eyes

Please give kids a break. The request(要求) came after an online survey about  31  activities between classes. Some schools only   32  students to play in the corridors (走廊) during the ten-minute breaks, while   33  even make students do homework in the classroom. About this problem, different people have   34  ideas.
70% of parents in the survey said their children were not allowed to play   35  during breaks. Teachers should know children are 36  to be active, so education shouldn’t run  37   the laws(规律) of nature. “ It   38 that the playground is useless,” said one of the parents.      Some parents agreed to   39  the school did. “ Games during breaks will make children too excited to listen to the teacher   40  in class.” Schools had their own reasons   41    this. Teachers were facing lots of responsibility(责任) over school  42 . Some schools stopped activities   43  children were injured （受伤）during breaks.   44  didn’t want to do so,   but there was no better   45  to solve the problem.

小题1:	A．teachers’ B．children’s C．kid’s D．people’s

小题2:	A．make B．let C．allow D．have

小题3:	A．other B．another C．others D．the other

小题4:	A．same B．special C．usual D．different

小题5:	A．outside B．inside C．upstairs D．downstairs

小题6:	A．afraid B．born C．similar D．able

小题7:	A．after B．to C．with D．against

小题8:	A．likes B．looks C．sees D．seems

小题9:	A．what B．that C．which D．how

小题10:

A．careless B．careful C．carefully D．care

小题11:

A．to B．of C．for D．with

小题12:

A．rules B．safety C．games D．sports

小题13:

A．before B．while C．so D．because

小题14:

A．They B．We C．You D．He

小题15:

A．road B．street C．help D．way