We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival. There is a name for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep, the year of the monkey or the year of the dog. And this year is the year of the tiger.
Before New Year’s Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. On New Year’s Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, the family don’t go to sleep to welcome the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their friends and relatives. They say “Happy New Year” and some other greetings (问候) to each other. People usually have a very good time during the festival.
小题1:How many Chinese festivals are mentioned(谈到) in this passage(段)?

A．One

B．Two

C．Three

D．Four

小题2:We can find every Chinese year has ________ name.

A．an animal

B．a pet

C．a family

D．a full

小题3:How do Chinese people usually spend New Year’s Eve?

A．They put on new clothes.

B．They visit their friends and relatives.

C．They are busy shopping and cleaning their houses.

D．They have a big dinner and wait to welcome the New Year.

小题4:On New Year’s Day, people say “_______” to each other when they meet

A．Merry Christmas	B．Glad to meet you
C．Happy birthday to you	D．Happy New Year

小题5:The best title (题目) for this passage (文章) is ______.

A．Good time	B．The Spring Festival
C．Big Dinner	D．The Year of the tiger

Women are said to be very complex（复杂的）and not easy to understand. And so it is said that it is __16____ to buy gifts for them that will please them and make them _17  ___. On this holiday season, all husbands begin their search for the one good gift for their wives. Naturally, all husbands love their wives in many ways even in a simplest form of love that is why their gifts are all very precious（珍贵的）.
A wife is very __  18__ every day, and she has many things in mind like things needed for the children, food for the ___19_ even budgeting money for everyday needs. The most important that a wife puts on her mind is the _20___ of her family members. She’s always worrying about the one of the family members who goes out . So it’s important for a man to give his wife a good gift.
You could also give some personalized things with the name on it! Giving her phone also puts on her mind that ___21____between the two of you is very important! This makes your distance (距离)very _22___ even on a distant(遥远的) place. Jewelry（珠宝） could also be a gift for your wife. It is common, _23__ not all husbands can give a set of jewelry to their wife.
Those are the Women’s Day gift ideas for wife. Whatever the gift is, make sure it is filled _24___ love, and is straight from your heart. This leaves a mark on her heart that _25___ could erase(除去).
小题1:A. difficult B. easy C. necessary
小题2:A. angry B. happy C. hungry
小题3:A. free B. strict C. busy
小题4:A. herself B. family C. you
小题5:A. safety B. clothes C. work
小题6:A. love B. distance C. communication
小题7:A. far B. small C. close
小题8:A. so B. and C. but
小题9:A. with B. in C. of
小题10:A. someone B. nobody C. anybody

Many people like to travel by plane, but I don’t like it because an airport is usually far from the city. You have to get there early and wait for hours for the plane to take off and it is often late. you can’t open the window. You can’t choose the food. Planes are fast, but they still take hours to get out of the airport and into the city.
I like traveling by train. I think trains are safe. Railway stations are usually in cities. When you are late for a train you can catch another one .you can walk around in the train and open the windows. You can see many interesting things on your way. I know it takes a little more time.
I also like cars. You can start your journey when you want to, and you don’t need to get to a railway station or a bus stop. Also you can carry many things with you in a car. But sometimes there are too many cars on the road.
小题1:Why do many people like to travel by plane?____
A. Because it is fast.                
B. Because it is safe.
C. Because you can walk around in the plane.
小题2:Which is not the good thing about the train?____   
A. It is safe.     
B. It takes a little more time. 
C. You can open the windows.
小题3:If you want to take a lot of things with you ,what do you take to go out?____
A. A bus          B.A car.             C.A train
小题4:What is the bad thing about the car ?_____
A. you needn’t go to a station  
B. you can start your journey when you want to.
C. There are too many cars on the road.
小题5:What does the writer think of the plane ,train and car?_____
A. he thinks it takes a lot of time to go to and get out of the airport.
B. He likes to take a train because it takes a little more time.
C. He likes to take a car because he has a car.

Valentine’s Day(情人节) is on February 14th every year. On this day, people send valentines(情人卡)to their loved ones, Valentine’s Day is a special time to tell how much you care about a person.
Many people send candy in hearted shaped(“心”状的)boxes to people they love. Flowers are also presents that people send on Valentine’s Day. Valentine cards with words are often used by many people.
Can you guess who gets the greatest number of Valentine cards in the United States each year? Is it mother or father, sister or brother? Is it uncle or aunt? Is it the special friend? No, it isn’t!
Mothers get a lot of cards, but school teachers get the most each year. Do you know who sends the most? Children do. Children send five times as many on February 14th as adults do.
小题1:Valentines Day _____.

A．comes once a year

B．is on February 4th

C．comes twice a year

D．is on the first day of spring

小题2:Teachers get the most Valentines because _____.

A．they send the most

B．students have too much money

C．so many students love their teachers

D．the valentines are only made for them

Two brothers worked together on a farm. One was married and had a large  51 . The other had no wife yet. Although they lived in different houses, they shared everything they got from their farm.
One day, the single brother said to himself, “It’s not  52  that we share all the rice. I’m  53  and I need less than my brother.” So, every night he took a bag of rice from his store-room and  54  across the field  55  their houses, putting it into his brother’s store-room.
At the same time, the married brother thought, “It’s not fair to share all the rice. I’m married and I have my wife and children to  56  me when I am  57 . However, my brother has no one to take care of his  58 .” So, each night he also took a bag of rice and put it into his brother’s store-room.
Several months passed by. They found  59  strange that their rice never became less. Then, one dark night the two brothers ran into each other. Slowly they began to understand what was happening. Their bags fell onto the ground and tears  60  their eyes at once.

小题1:	A．group B．family C．class D．team

小题2:	A．right B．popular C．interesting D．wrong

小题3:	A．poor B．happy C．alone D．rich

小题4:	A．jumped B．played C．went D．rode

小题5:	A．from B．through C．off D．between

小题6:	A．look after B．look for C．look out D．look at

小题7:	A．worried B．old C．healthy D．dead

小题8:	A．hope B．children C．farm D．future

小题9:	A．them B．this C．it D．that

小题10:

A．appeared B．filled C．dropped D．rose

Jack is a little schoolboy. He lives in a small town in England. His father works in a factory in London. One day his mother   1  him to post a letter to his father.
Jack walked down the street. He didn’t see a letter box on the street. But he really   2  a basket with a sign on it. The sign said, “PUT LITTER IN THIS BASKET”. “I can read,” thought Jack, but he couldn’t   3  the word “letter” right.
Jack dropped the letter in the basket. Then he ran  4  to tell his mother about the basket.
“Oh, no, child!” said his mother, “You put the letter in a basket. That litter basket is   5  old paper and other useless things.”
“Oh,”said Jack,“does the   6  on the basket mean that?”
“Yes, it does,”said his mother,“The word is‘litter’not‘letter’. Now get the letter and post it.”
When Jack got there, a man was putting the old   7  in a truck.
“Stop!”shouted Jack, and he began to tell the man about the letter.
The man helped him to look for the letter. After a while they   8  it.
Then Jack put the   9  in the letter box. He said,“  10  don’t they tell us all the words when we first go to school? Then things like that can’t happen.”

小题1:	A．said B．told C．spoke D．talked

小题2:	A．saw B．took C．brought D．watched

小题3:	A．read B．look C．spell D．give

小题4:	A．away B．out C．in D．from,

小题5:	A．to B．on C．with D．for

小题6:	A．letter B．word C．sentence D．sound

小题7:	A．litter B．basket C．box D．paper

小题8:	A．heard B．finished C．worked D．got

小题9:	A．paper B．basket C．sing D．letter

小题10:

A．How B．What C．Why D．When

Before I left to meet Lynne, my friend told me that I had better take some money, but I didn’t listen to him. I thought that Lynne would pay because she invited me.
I arrived at the restaurant on time because I knew Americans like to be on time. Lynne and I sat at a table near the door and soon we began to enjoy ourselves there.
The food there was very delicious. I talked a lot about Saudi Arabia and Lynne told me all about herself. After two hours the waiter came and asked if we wanted one check(账单) or two. Lynne said two. Lynne paid her check, and the waiter gave me mine, I had no money. Then I had an idea, I called my friend. In a few minutes he arrived with some money. He laughed at me all the way home.
Now, I think it’s funny, but I guess you can understand how I felt at that time. So when you visit a foreign country, you have to learn their language and culture.
小题1:From the first paragraph, we mainly know____________.

A．I invited Lynne.	B．Lynne invited me.
C．Lynne was my best friend	D．I knew Lynne very much.

小题2: After the meal,___________________________,

A．Lynne paid only for herself	B．Lynne paid for both of us.
C．I would like to pay for myself	D．I paid for both of us.

小题3:. From the passage we know, when we visit a foreign country,__________.

A．We’d better pay for ourselves.

B．We should learn their language well.

C．We’d better pay for others after meal.

D．We have to learn both their language and culture.

Although English is not as old as Chinese, it is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always making up new words, and we are often able to know where most come from.
Sometimes, however, no one may really know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called “hamburgers”, especially when they are not made with ham(火腿)? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn’t speak good English, but they ate good food. When some Americans saw them eating round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what they were. The Germans didn’t understand the question and answered, “We come from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of bread with beef in them and started selling them. Such bread came to be called “hamburgers”. Today, “Hamburgers” are sold in many countries around the world.
Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why any word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. This reason, for most English words, can be found in any large English dictionary.
小题1:English is spoken by many people around the world every day, but English is ______.

A．as old as Chinese	B．older than Chinese
C．younger than Chinese	D．older than German

小题2:Hamburg is ______.

A．a kind of food	B．a round piece of beef
C．the name of a country	D．a city in Germany

小题3:According to the story, the word “hamburger” comes from ______.

A．English speakers because they’re always making up new words

B．the round piece of beef which those people from Hamburg ate

C．English because Germans don’t speak good English

D．a large English dictionary

小题4:. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Few Americans like hamburgers.

B．Hamburgers are made with ham.

C．Hamburgers were first sold a century ago.

D．Hamburgers were some people.

小题5:. Which of the following can be found in any large dictionary?

A．Where Germans came from.

B．Where all the new words came from.

C．The reason why a new word has a certain meaning.

D．Why English is spoken all over the world.

Venice(威尼斯) is the “Queen” of the Adriatic sea. Every year   1  from all over the world  2__ Italy to visit the city. Do you know  3  they like to go there for a visit?
Venice is a very beautiful city. It is quite different   4  other cities in the world. There   _5  roads or streets in the city. So there aren’t any cars and buses.There are   6  canals(运河) in the city. There is one big canal and 177 small canals. People move   7  and down the canals   8  to go to work,   9_ or visit their friends.
But Venice is sinking. It is going down and the water is going up. In 2040 Venice
will be   10_ water. The Adriatic Sea will cover the city.
小题1:A. thousand people        B. thousands people    C. thousands of people
小题2: A. travel to                      B. travel from               C. traveled to
小题3: A. where                                B. what                               C. why
小题4:A. from                                   B. with                                C. of
小题5: A. are some                            B. aren’t any                        C. aren’t some
小题6: A. many                                 B. any                                 C. much
小题7: A. on                              B. up                                  C. off
小题8:. A. in buses                      B. in cars                      C. in boats
小题9: A. go to shop                          B. go shopping                     C. go to shopping
小题10:. A. under                               B. with                                C. on

Beijing Opera is also called Peking Opera.. It came into being after 1790 when the famous four  Anhui opera troupe(戏班) came to Beijing. Its music and singing(唱腔) came from Xipi and Er-huang in Anhui and Hubei. Its costtumes are all fascinating and artistic.It is the highest expression of the Chinese culture. It’s full of famous stories , beautiful facial paintings, and wonderful gestures and fighting. This kind of opera is very popular with Chinese people.
There are four main roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng ,Dan, Jing and Chou. Sheng is the leading male(男性) actor。For example , a Wusheng is a soldier or fighter .A Xiaosheng is a young man . A Laosheng is the comedy actor or clown.Dan is the female (女性)role 。 Jing，mostly male , is the face-painted role and Chou is the comedy actor or clown.
Stories in Beijing Opera are very intetesting . Some of them are from the history book ,but most of them are from the literature , especially famous novels . The people in the story usually have some disagreements. They become angry and uhappy . They are sad and lonely . Sometimes they are nervous and worried. Then they find a way to make peace . The stories usually end with happiness and lunghter and people are all happy in the end.
小题1:.Beijing Opera’s singing is from _______.

A．Anhui and hubei	B．Beijing and Anhui
C．the history book	D．the literature and novls

小题2:.The second paragraph(段落) of the reading is about the______of Beijing Opera.

A．stories

B．roles

C．gestures

D．Paintings

小题3:From the reading ,we know the the Chou most probably has a(n) _____feature.

A．honest

B．funny

C．dull

D．serious

小题4:.Which of the following statements is TURE?

A． Peking Opera is full of different gestures.

B． There are only four roles in Beijing Opera.

C． Beijing Opera is the most popular in the world.

D． The people in the story usually are in agreement.

小题5:What role is Sheng ?

A．the eading male actor	B．the female role
C．the comedy actor or clown.	D．the face-painted role