Today we’ll talk about the history of blue jeans. For many people, blue jeans stand for (代表) American culture.
The history of blue jeans usually began with a man named Levi Strauss. He did not invent jeans. But he is the first person to produce and sell them in large numbers. Levi Strauss was born in Germany. In 1847, he and his family moved to the United States. He opened a small store and sold jeans. These pants were especially useful for miners (矿工) in California. They needed strong clothing. Levi Strauss worked with Jacob Davis, who had invented a step for making rivets (铆钉) for jeans. They helped make the blue jeans stronger.
In 1873, Strauss and Davis received a patent (专利) to own this invention. Nineteenth century workers would probably be surprised to know that their pants would one day become fashions. Today, jeans are worn by people of all ages. Jeans come in many colors other than blue and in many styles and prices. Fashion designers even create very costly jeans.
Writer James published a book called Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon (偶像). In the book, he says jeans serve as a sign for two American values, creativity and rebellion (叛逆).
小题1: Why did Jacob use rivets for jeans?

A．Because they made the blue jeans stronger.	B．Because they had a history.
C．Because they are fashionable.	D．Because they were dear.

小题2:Which of the following is WRONG about blue jeans?

A．Miners like to wear strong clothing.

B．Jeans have only one color — blue.

C．James wrote a book about jeans.

D．Levi Strauss is the first person to produce jeans in large numbers.

小题3:The two American values are rebellion and _____________.

A．protection

B．ambition

C．friendship

D．creativity

小题4:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．Jeans are popular.	B．Jeans become fashions.
C．The history of blue jeans.	D．Levi Strauss was a German.

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984. As a little kid, he loved creating little fun computer programs, especially communication tools and games.
When he was a student at Harvard University, Mark founded (创建）Facebook on February 4, 2004. Through Facebook, Harvard students could communicate with each other. Facebook quickly became a great success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school’s students used it in the first two weeks. It soon spread further to any university students, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over in the US. 
Facebook developed fast and became popular. People can communicate with others, add friends, and send them messages. Now, it has more than 175 million users all over the world.
Many big companies have offered a very high price to buy Facebook, but Mark refused them all. His reason was simple. “We are not planning to sell it. We don’t want to make money from it. We just hope Facebook will make it easier for people to know each other.”
Sometimes the simplest ideas go the furthest. We hope Mark can go much further, maybe even further than Bill Gates!
小题1:What was Mark interested in when he was a little kid?
小题2:Where was Facebook first used in the United States?
小题3:How many people use Facebook in the world now?
小题4:Why did Mark not want to sell Facebook to other companies?
小题5:What do you think of Mark Zuckerberg?　（请考生自拟一句话作答）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Have you ever heard of Agatha Christie, an excellent writer? Agatha Christie is, without a doubt,   16  mystery writer in the world. Her books have been translated into more than 100 languages. All 77 novels and story collections she wrote are still on the market 25 years after her   17 .
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in a southwest England seaside town. She enjoyed a very comfortable childhood in a big house with   18  servants(仆人). Agatha was known   19  an imaginative child. With her sister and brother away at school, she often played alone. She passed the time by making up stories which she told to   20 .
Agatha Christie’s first novel was published in 1920. In it, she   21  one of her most popular characters, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. He went on to appear in 33 of her novels, and in several movies   22 . Although Poirot appears again and again in her novels, Christie certainly could not be considered as repeating her ideas. Her powers of invention and her ability to surprise continue to attract   23 readers around the world.
Christie also wrote several   24 . One of these, “The Mousetrap”, became the longest-running play in the history of theater. It is about a murder mystery that   25  in a country house. All these mysterious stories earned her the title “Queen of Crime”.
小题1:

A．more practical	B．more famous
C．the most famous	D．the most practical

小题2:

A．loss

B．birth

C．death

D．arrival

小题3:

A．much

B．plenty of

C．lots

D．a lot

小题4:

A．as

B．like

C．by

D．for

小题5:

A．her brother

B．her

C．herself

D．her sister

小题6:

A．created

B．produced

C．built

D．continued

小题7:

A．also

B．besides

C．as well

D．either

小题8:

A．million

B．millions

C．millions of

D．million of

小题9:

A．stories

B．plays

C．movies

D．comedies

小题10:

A．takes place

B．takes in

C．takes off

D．takes down

As prices and building costs keep rising, the “do-it-yourself” (DIY) is getting more and more popular in the USA.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Rose,” and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Roses took a 2-week courses for ＄280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has much work at home as well as a job in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for＄420. “I was deeply unhappy about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can do to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a DIY, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who didn’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
小题1:Many newly married people in the USA ______.

A．find it hard to pay for what they need

B．must take some courses

C．have to learn to make their own furniture

D．seldom go to a shop to buy things.

小题2:John and his wife went to evening classes to learn how to ______.

A．make furniture	B．make or repair things
C．improve the quality of life	D．save time and money

小题3: Jim Hatfield’s job is to ______.

A．make shoes at home	B．do housework in a shoe factory
C．run a shoe-making factory at home	D．work in a shoe factory

小题4:Jim decided to become a DIY when ______.

A．he enjoyed doing everything by himself

B．he becomes an unusual person

C．his car repairs cost very much

D．the car repair class wasn’t helpful

小题5:Which of the following statement is right?

A．If you want to become a DIY, you can only go to DIY classes.

B．People who take DIY courses are quite different from the others.

C．DIY is becoming more and more popular because of the raising living cost.

D．Most families in the country are doing everything because they enjoy the life style.

One thing that British and Chinese cultures share is a love for fine tea. Today, when we think of Western tea culture, we often think of the English and beautiful china tea cups.
Afternoon tea
People believe that an English lady, Anna, first introduced the idea of afternoon tea. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the English ate only two main meals each day: breakfast and a heavy supper that would last for several hours in the evening. As a result, people often got very hungry during the long wait between these two meals. To solve this problem, Anna came up with the clever idea of inviting some friends to join her for an afternoon meal between four and five o’clock. This meal included cakes and sandwiches. And tea was served(供应) to wash down the food. In order to make this afternoon meal important, fine china cups and plates and silver teapots, knives, forks and spoons were used. Soon, afternoon tea parties became popular social occasions. Today, afternoon tea parties continue to play an important part in the social life in modern Britain.
Will you come for coffee?
Coffee also has an important role in British culture. People often use the words “Will you come for coffee” to mean “Would you like to come to my home for a chat?” Normally, several different drinks such as tea, hot chocolate or a soft drink like orange juice will be served as well as coffee, and you will be asked what you would like. However, you will not normally be offered wine at a “coffee” party.
Coffeehouses and the London Stock Exchange
In the 17th century London, coffeehouses were busy and noisy places. Businessmen and bankers went to coffeehouses to do their business, as well as to drink coffee. In fact, the London Stock Exchange(伦敦股票交易所) is believed to have started from these coffeehouses.
小题1:Anna introduced the idea of drinking afternoon tea because she ______.

A．enjoyed chatting with her friends at home

B．loved fine tea and beautiful china tea cups

C．wanted to share nice food with her friends

D．found people felt hungry during the long wait between the two meals

小题2:What does “social occasions” mean in Chinese?

A．集体婚礼

B．社交活动

C．社区表演

D．公共场合

小题3: If someone says to you “Will you come for coffee,” you ______.

A．will be offered coffee only

B．are asked what you would like to drink

C．will be asked to have a chat with him or her

D．you are invited to take part in an afternoon tea party

小题4: From the last paragraph we can see______

A．a new business was started in coffeehouses.

B．coffeehouses are still used by businessmen and bankers.

C．businessmen and bankers went to coffeehouses just for coffee.

D．most people wouldn’t like to go to coffeehouses because of the noise.

小题5: Which is the best title of the article?

A．British and Chinese cultures.	B．The beginning of Tea and Coffee.
C．Coffeehouse and Business.	D．English tea and coffee culture.

You may have known several kinds of police --- traffic police, fire police and street police. But have you ever heard of energy-saving(节能) policeman?
A group of 22 energy-saving policemen went to work last week in Beijing. They go around the city to see the use of energy in hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and other public places. One of their aims is to make sure that these places have set their air conditioning(空调) no cooler than 26℃.
They also set up a special phone line so that people can tell them which buildings fail to follow the rule.
“If everyone sets their air conditioning at 26℃, Beijing will save 400 million kilowatthour of electricity in one summer. That’s one-third of all the usages of the city in the season,” said a TV advertisement.
Other Chinese cities, like Wuhan in Hubei Province and Yangzhou in Jiansu Province, are going to follow Beijing’s steps in setting up a similar police team.
As one of the fastest developing countries, China is using a lot of energy. This has a great effect on the country’s environment and limited(有限的) energy.
From 1986 to 2005, the country experienced 20 warm winters continuously(连续). Numbers show that Chinese cities have to spend billions of yuan solving environmental problems every year.
At the beginning of this month, China made its first action plan to fight pollution. It aims to reduce energy usage by 20% and increase renewable(可更新的) energy up to 10% from 7% by 2010.
To introduce the public to a green life, last week Beijing held a show on energy-saving technology and productions. Environment-friendly machines, such as a vending machine that helps collect used bottles, have attracted lots of attention. “We want to tell people that there are certain ways to protect the environment. Each of us can find effective ways to do it on our daily lives,” said Liu Qianguang, an environmental engineer in Beijing.
小题1:The job of the energy-saving policemen is ______.

A．to set up a special phone line

B．to set the air conditioning cooler

C．to check the use of energy in public places

D．to make sure that more energy will be produced

小题2:Beijing uses ______ million kilowatt-hour electricity in summer.

A．1200.

B．800.

C．400.

D．133.

小题3:Which of the following years’ winters were all warm in China?

A．1968—1988.

B．1999—2003.

C．2002—2006.

D．2005—2009.

小题4:In the year 2010 China’s energy usages is going to be cut by ______.

A．7%.

B．10%.

C．17%.

D．20%.

小题5:According to Liu Qianguang, ______.

A．there are few ways to protect the environment

B．it’s difficult to find good ways to save energy

C．it’s easy for one to do something good for the environment

D．it’s difficult for one to do something good for the environment

China is the home of tea,  36 has more than 4,000 years of history. People in China drink tea daily.  37  the three major drinks ----tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by   38 people in the world. Tea from China, along   39 silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export  40  .
Tea leaves  41  mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild  42  and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all 43  kinds of tea.
Over the past centuries, Chinese people  44  their unique tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making, tea drinking and so on. Tea is   45  a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.

小题1:	A．who B．which C．where D．when

小题2:	A．In B．For C．Of D．By

小题3:	A．the number of B．a number of C．a large number of D．the largest number of

小题4:	A．between B．with C．except D．besides

小题5:	A．at that time B．from now on C．since then D．since now

小题6:	A．produce B．are produced C．make D．are made

小题7:	A．climate B．weather C．condition D．environment

小题8:	A．interesting B．important C．famous D．normal

小题9:	A．had developed B．have developed C．developed D．are developing

小题10:

A．too B．as well C．either D．also

Many children use the Internet to get useful knowledge and information, and to relax in their free time. But some of them are not using in a good way. Here are some rules to make sure you are safe and have fun on the Internet.
● Make rules for Internet use with your parents. For example, when you can go online, for how long and what activities you can go online.
● Don’t give your password (密码) to anyone else, and never leak out the following information---your real name, home address, age, school, phone number or other personal information. 
● Check with your parents before giving out a credit (信用) card number.
● Never send a photo of yourself to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it’s OK.
● Check with your parents before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and attract different kinds of people. You and your parents must make sure it’s a right place for you.
● Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet without your parent’s permission (允许). Never meet anyone you met on line alone.
● Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. Treat everyone online as strangers.
● If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site. Tell a parent or teacher right away.
● Treat other people as you’d like to be treated. Never use bad language.
● Remember—not everything you read on the Internet is true.
小题1: If you want a true friend on the Internet , you can ____________ .
A  tell the people what your name is .      B  meet the people on line alone.
C  write an e-mail about yourself .        D  get your parent’s permission.
小题2:It’s good for children to ________ on the Internet.

A．give password to others	B．get useful knowledge and information
C．give out a credit card number	D．go into a chat room as they’d like to

小题3: The underlined phrase “leak out” in the third paragraph may mean “________.”

A．give away

B．leave out

C．give out

D．put away

小题4:If your parents don’t agree, never ________.

A．read anything on the Internet	B．relax in your free time
C．have a face-to face meeting with anyone you met online
D．treat other people as you’d like to be treated

小题5: This passage is mainly about “________”.

A．How to use Computers	B．Surfing on the Internet
C．Information on the Internet	D．Internet Safety Rules

Think rock. paper, scissors is a children’s game? Think again.

Top players from  around the world came together in Toronto to compete for a ten-thousand-Canadian dollar prize and the title (头衔) of world champion.
More than 500 players, including national from Australia, Norway and New Zealand, attended.
The simple game is often used to make decisions and solve some simple problems.
Players hold their fists (拳头~) closed and count to three before making one of three hand signals: a fist 0ock),flat hand (paper) or two fingers (scissors). Paper covers rock, scissors cut paper and rock breaks scissors.
Players  have different ideas about the history of the game, but it is believed to have been played for centuries in Japan
The Paper Scissors Stone Club was found in  England in 1842 and provided an environment where  players could play together.
In 1918, the name was changed to World RPS  Club and its headquarters (总部)moved from London to Toronto. In 1925 its members were over 10,000.
The world championships have been held since 2O02, which are held once every year
小题1:The winner could get______

A．$1,000

B．$10,000

C．C$1,00O

D．C$10,000

小题2:According to the passage the game “Paper Scissors Stone" originated(起源于)in ________
A. Japan       B Australia    :  C. America        D. Norway
小题3:Where did the  Paper Stone Club’s headquarters move to Toronto?
A In 1842    B   In  1898    C  In   1918    D In  1925
小题4: How many world championships had been held by 2009?

A．Two.

B．Eight

C．Seventy.

D．Eighty

Once, a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But it was incomplete, so it could only roll very slowly. It enjoyed the flowers and the sunshine along the way. It talked with worms. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece.
Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. The circle put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled away slowly.
Sometimes we are perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better. He will never know someone loves him or someone is giving him something he has always wanted or never had.
We couldn’t be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always live a wonderful time in our lives.
小题1:
The circle rolled very slowly because it       .

A．spent much time talking to worms

B．wanted to enjoy the sunshine

C．was looking for its missing piece

D．lost a piece of its own

小题2:
Why did the circle stop when it rolled quickly? Because it       .

A．wanted to enjoy the world

B．found a different world

C．wanted to look for another missing piece

D．thought the world changed so quickly

小题3:
The story mainly tells us that       .

A．nobody loves us if we give nothing

B．a man who has everything is the happiest

C．losing something may not be a bad thing sometimes

D．we are not whole when we lose something