Big Brothers Big Sisters is based on the simplicity and power（力量） of friendship．It is a program which provides friendship and fun by matching vulnerable young people (ages 7-17) with a volunteer adult who can be both a role model and a supportive friend.
Volunteer tutors come from all walks of life—married, single, with or without children. Big Brothers and Big Sisters are not replacement parents or social workers. They are tutors: someone to trust, to have fun with, to talk and go to when needed.
A Big Sister and Little Sister will generally spend between one and four hours together three or four times each month for at least twelve months. They enjoy simple activities such as a picnic at a park, cooking, doing sports or going to a football match. These activities improve the friendship and help the young person develop self-respect, confidence and life direction.
Big Brothers Big Sisters organizations can be found throughout the world. It is the largest and most well-known provider of tutor services internationally and has been operating for 25 years.
Emily and Sarah have been matched since 2008. Emily is a 15-year-old girl who has experienced some difficulties being accepted by her schoolmates at school. “ I was pretty sure there was something wrong with me.”
Emily’s mum came across Big Brothers Big Sisters and thought it would be of benefit to Emily by “providing different feedback about herself other than just depending on schoolmates to measure(测量) her self-worth.
Sarah wanted to get involved(使参与) in a volunteer program. “I googled it and found out how to be a part of it. I thought it would be fun for me to get involved in making time to do something because sometimes it is all work and no play.”
Big Brothers Big Sisters has been of great benefit and enjoyment to both Emily and Sarah. They love and look forward to their time together and the partnership has certainly helped Emily be more comfortable in being the wonderful and happy girl she is!
小题1:According to the passage, “vulnerable young people” are probably those who are   _________.

A．popular at school	B．rather weak physically
C．easily hurt emotionally	D．confident in themselves

小题2:A volunteer is usually expected to work within a year for at least______．

A．72 hours

B．48 hours

C．36 hours

D．24 hours

小题3:Why did Sarah want to get involved in the program?

A．She felt a bit bored with her life.

B．She used to be a volunteer.

C．She needed a part-time job.

D．She wanted to get a difficult job.

小题4:What is the purpose of Big Brothers Big Sisters?

A．To offer students public services．

B．To help students improve their grades．

C．To organize funny sport activities for young people．

D．To provide partnership and fun for young people．

Tea is a popular drink in China. Many people can’t live if they don’t have it. Chinese tea has a long history going back more than 5,000 years. A famous person over 1000 years ago wrote a book about how to make tea. Its name is The Classic of Tea.
Today, China has different kinds of tea: white, yellow, green, oolong, black, and dark tea. People in different places have different tea drinking habits. People in Guangdong and Fujian love “Kung Fu Tea” in small tea cups. People in Beijing like flower green tea. In Lasha, people like to drink salty butter tea (酥油茶) to be healthy.
There are rules for making tea for friends. It’s not good to make the cup full(满的）, because the cup will be too hot for people to hold.
小题1:Did we have tea around 5,000 years ago?
A. Yes, we did.            
B. No, we didn’t.             
C. I don’t know.
小题2:How many kinds of tea are there in China now?
A. There are five.             
B. There are six.              
C.There are seven.
小题3: What kind of tea do people in Guangdong love?
A.Salty butter tea.            
B.Flower tea.                  
C. Kung Fu tea.
小题4: Why do the people in Lasha love salty butter tea?
A. To get thin.                
B. To keep warm.               
C. To keep healthy.
小题5: What is the rule of making tea for friends?
A. Make the cup full.          
B. Don’t make the cup too full.
C. Don’t make it too hot.

Imagine that your hairstyle is important for your future.  For teenage boys in  Papua  New Guinea this is true! The Hulie people believe that beautiful hair shows a man is healthy and strong.. They respect men who wear wigs, so teenage Hulie boys have to grow great hair. With this hair, they make a wig that they can wear every day.
The Hulie live deep in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea.  Before the 1930s, people from the outside world didn't even know about them. Today, there are about 70000 Hulie people,  Most still follow their traditional way of life. The Hulie live in small villages, but families. do not live together. Women and small children live in one house and. men live together in another house.  When boys are eight years old, they have to leave their mothers to live with their fathers.
Some Hulie children go to school to study reading and math.  But after middle school. While teenage girls babysit their younger brothers and sisters, most teenage boys，to wig school.  At wig school, they learn how to grow their hair and how to make wigs. The rules are pretty serious
1 .They cannot run, because their hair can be damaged.
2. They have to stay away from fire.
3. They have to put water on their hair 12 times a day to make it Grow faster.
When a Hulie teen wears his wig for the first time, he shows he is a man now, he can get married. To prepare, boys grow their hair for 18 months or longer. Then they cut it and use their own hair to make a mushroom-shaped wig.  Later they grow their hair again for special wigs. These special wigs are for celebrations and festivals. Hulie men wear their mushroom-shaped wigs every day, but they like to be fashionable, too. To add style, they decorate their wigs with flowers and feathers.
小题1:The article is mainly about________
A. teenage Hulie girls   
B. teenage Hulie boys      
C. Hulie men and women
小题2: People didn't know the Hulie people until the 1930s because______
A.they lived in small villages 
B. there are only 2700Huli people
C. they were hidden in the rain forest
小题3: The underlined phrase "people from the outside world" means______
A. people who don't live in the rain forest  
B. people who follow their old traditions
C. people who do things outside of the forest
小题4:According to the article we can refer that Huli_________
A. teenage boys live with the mothers  
B. teenage girls live with their fathers
C. husbands and wives do not live together
小题5:Hulie boys do not decorate their wigs with_______
A. flowers            B. mushrooms         C. feathers

In Canada and the United States, people enjoy entertaining(请客) at home. They often invites friends for a meal, a party or just for coffee and conversation.
Here are the kinds of things people say when they invite someone to their homes: “Would you like to come over for dinner this Saturday night?” “Hey, we’re having a party on Friday. Can you come?”
To answer an invitation, either say thank you and accept or say you are sorry and give an excuse. “Thanks, I’d love to. What time would you like me to come?” or “ Oh, sorry. I’ve tickets for a movie.”
Sometimes, however, people in the west use expressions(语句) that sound like invitation but which are not real invitation. For example, “Please come over for a drink sometime.” “Why not get together for a party sometime?” or “Why don’t you come over and see us sometime soon?” They are really polite ways of ending a conversation. They are not real invitations because they don’t mention(提到、涉及) a certain time or date. They just show that the person is trying to be friendly. To answer expressions like this, people just say, “Sure, that would be great!” or “OK! Thanks.”
So next time when you hear what sounds like an invitation, listen carefully. Is it a real invitation or is the person just being friendly?
小题1:Why do Canadians and Americans often invite friends for meals at home?

A．Because they have modern and beautiful houses.

B．Because they can spend less money.

C．Because they enjoy entertaining at home.

D．Because they can save time.

小题2:Which of the following is NOT a real invitation?

A．Please go to the concert with me some day.

B．Would you like to have a cup of tea with us this evening?

C．I’ve two tickets here. Can you go to the cinema with me?

D．If you are free now, let’s go to Wang’s for a drink.

小题3:If people say, “Why not get together for a party sometime?”, you just say “__________”

A．I’m glad to hear that.	B．How about this evening?
C．Oh, sorry. I’m very busy.	D．That’s great. Thanks.

小题4:People use “an unreal invitation” in order to show __________.

A．they’re trying to be friendly

B．they’re trying to make friends with others

C．they have already got ready for a party

D．their spirit of generosity

小题5: The passage is mainly about __________.

A．entertainment at home

B．real invitations or not

C．expressions of starting a conversation

D．ways of ending a conversation

  Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they don’t all have the same coffee culture. In Europe for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed when Starbucks coffee shops spread across the country.
The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.
Things really began to change for the company in 1981.That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing（市场营销）.
In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso (浓咖啡) bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.
However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the “feel the same everywhere” environment offered by Starbucks.
小题1: The underlined word “ran” in Paragraph 3 probably means “       ”.

A．moved	B．managed
C．loved	D．used

小题2: According to the passage, which is the right order for the following sentences?
a. This man helped to make Starbucks a huge coffee company.
b. He went to Seattle to learn about the company and later worked for it.
c. Howard Schultz noticed Starbucks ordered lots of special coffee makers.
d. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in Seattle in the USA.
A. a-d-c -b            B. a-d-b-c            
C. d-c- b-a            D. d-c-a-b
小题3:Why did so many Starbucks close in some countries?

A．All of the coffee tastes the same.

B．The coffee in these places was too expensive.

C．The people in these countries didn’t drink coffee.

D．There were too many coffee shops in one place.

Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum(论坛) asking what “PK” meant.
“My family has been watching the ‘I Am the Singer’ singing competition TV program. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the “I Am the Singer” singing competition, “PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition raking.
Like this father, Chinese teachers at Middle schools have also been finding their students using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write the compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn’t understand.
“My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I’ve grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. I loved to ‘FB’ with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM’,” went one composition.
“GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). “PLMM” is Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “FB” means Fu Bai (corruption). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.
Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, meaning an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, meaning an ugly looking male ) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
小题1:By writing the article, the writer tries to _________.
A. explain some Internet jargons               
B. suggest common Internet jargons
C. draw our attention to Internet jargons
小题2:What does the underlined word Internet jargons mean?
A. Internet language            
B. Internet action           
C. Internet fashion
小题3:What does the writer think about the word “PK”?
A. Fathers can’t possibly know it.
B. The daughter should understand it.
C. Online game players may know it.
小题4:The example of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons__________.
A. are used not only online
B. cause trouble to our mother tongue
C. are welcomed by all the people
小题5:What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Puzzled Father!    
B. Do You Speak Internet English?
C. Kong Long or Qing Wa?

Why are black cats bad?
November 17 is an important day for black cats in Italy. An animal rights group has named that day “Black Cat Day” to stop the killing of thousands of the cats. Why do people     the animal so much? It is because people believe black cats bring bad luck if they walk across your path.
The black cat is just one of the     of superstition(迷信）.You may already know that Western people don’t like the number 13. They also believe that walking under a ladder, opening an umbrella indoors and      a mirror can also bring bad luck.
According to Andrew Macaskill, who works for Times , British people believe it is    to see one magpie(喜鹊). But two bring good luck. “In Britain, people like to have a horseshoes over the door. They believe it can bring good luck,” Macaskill said. “But the horseshoe needs to be the right way up. The luck     if it is upside down.”
In the US, people usually spit on a new baseball bat before using it for the first time. They think this can bring good luck. Also, it is believed that good spirits live in trees. So by knocking on anything made from wood, people can call upon those spirits for protection against misfortune. People in the US also believe there are evil（邪恶的） spirits in blooms（扫帚）. So     lean a broom against a bed. The evil spirits will cast a spell on the bed.

小题1:	A．love B．keep C．hate D．raise

小题2:	A．symbols B．stories C．ways D．means

小题3:	A．buying B．breaking C．borrowing D．bringing

小题4:	A．lucky B．unlucky C．possible D．impossible

小题5:	A．throws away B．runs away C．gives away D．puts away

小题6:	A．always B．usually C．sometimes D．never

小题1:Sally Smith sent the postcard from ___________.

A．Barcelona, Spain	B．Boston, USA
C．Mexico City, Mexico	D．Bangkok, Thailand

小题2:Bill will probably be back in____________.

A．a day	B．a week
C．two weeks	D．a month

小题3:Which of the following is mentioned in the three postcards?

A．Barcelona is a big city.	B．Mexico city is very hot.
C．Bangkok is a very old city.	D．Mexico City is small but beautiful.

Are you a gourmand(美食主义者)? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular program?“A Bite of China(舌尖上的中国)” is a documentary on Chinese delicious food which has been broadcasted by Chinese central television. Is there any holiday that isn't celebrated with a special festival food? Here are several traditional Chinese foods:
Eggs hold a special meaning in many cultures, and China is no exception(例外). The Chinese believe eggs mean producing something new. After a baby is born, parents may hold a "red egg and ginger party," where they pass out eggs to announce the birth. In some areas of China the number of eggs represents the sex of the child, for example, an even number(1,3,5,---) for a girl, and an odd number(2,4,6---) if a boy has been born.
Noodles are a symbol of longlife in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of a Chinese birthday celebration as a birthday cake with lit candles is in many countries. Since noodles represent long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut it off.
Although westerners sometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on a plate, in China a whole fish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is traditional to serve the whole fish last, pointed toward the valued guest. Fish also has a special meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.
A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat Festival is Zongzi. This tasty dish is made of rice dumplings with meat, peanut or other delicious food in bamboo leaves. The tradition of Zongzi is meant to remind us of a great man, Qu Yuan.
The 50-minute program tries to bring something new by presenting more cultural elements(元素),such as eating habits and the quality of eating.
小题1:A bite of China is _______________.

A．a book	B．a documentary
C．a guide book	D．a newspaper

小题2:How many kinds of traditional food are mentioned in the passage?

A．two	B．three
C．four	D．five

小题3:A girl has been born in Mr. Li’s home. How many red eggs may he pass out to his friends according to Chinese tradition?

A．two eggs	B．none
C．three eggs	D．six eggs

小题4:Which of the following is RIGHT according to the passage?

A．We can cut birthday noodles off in China if we think they are too long.

B．It is impolite to server a whole fish last at a party in China.

C．The program lasts for one hour.

D．There are many kinds of Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival.

小题5:What does the writer mean in the last paragraph?

A．The writer thinks the program is too long.

B．The writer thinks the program has more meanings inside than the story itself.

C．The writer thinks everyone can have a good eating habit after watching the program.

D．The writer thinks the program has brought many kinds of delicious food to us.

Eating habits are different in many countries. The Chinese have a saying, “Eat good things for breakfast, eat a big meal for lunch, but eat less at dinner.” Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast, but their ideas about lunch and dinner are different.
Most Americans only give themselves a short time for lunch. So they eat a small meal. After work they will have more time to eat a big dinner. Also a quiet dinner at home with all the family members talking about their day is a way to rest after a long, hard day of work.
Eating at restaurant is also different. In China, people like to talk and laugh while eating. Very often you can hear people talking and laughing loudly, and they are just having a good time. In America it is not like this. People want a quiet place where they can eat a good meal far away from the noise of the outside world. If some people are talking too loudly, the manager (经理) may come out and ask them to leave.
小题1:Which is the good way for keeping healthy in China?

A．Eating nothing for breakfast.

B．Eating less to lose weight.

C．Eating less at dinner.

D．Eating what you want.

小题2: How long do most Americans only give themselves for lunch?

A．The whole noon.	B．A long time.
C．A short time.	D．More time.

小题3:Is talking at table a way to rest in America?

A．Yes, it is.	B．No, it isn’t.
C．No, they don’t talk.	D．Having dinner in a restaurant.

小题4:What do people like doing when we are having a meal in China?

A．Having a rest.	B．Eating quickly.
C．Only eating quietly.	D．Talking and laughing.

小题5:What will the manager of the restaurant do if some people are talking too loudly in America?

A．Talk with them happily.	B．Ask them to be quiet.
C．Let them go away.	D．Do nothing.