Here is a page from a magazine called Future. Read the following information about things that may happen in ten years.

Cars will run on solar power (太阳能) and will be much cleaner. They will be much safer. For example, if you are too close to another car or if you are driving dangerously, your car will slow down or stop by itself.
New cities will have to be built in the sea. Some cities on water will have two levels (层). People will live on the upper level; the lower level will be used for traffic, shops and factories.
Biotechnology (生物技术) will make food better and healthier. Plants without insects or illnesses (病虫害) will be developed. The taste of fruit and vegetables will be better and food will be kept longer.
Many new ways to cure (治愈) illnesses will be found. People will use products of genetic engineering (基因产品) to cure more illnesses. However, some new illnesses will appear.
小题1:What will happen in the future according to the passage?

A．The air won’t be much cleaner.

B．Cars will run by itself without a driver.

C．It’ll be much more dangerous to drive a car.

D．There’ll be fewer accidents and less pollution (污染).

小题2:Where will new cities have to be built in the future?

A．In the sea.	B．In the sky.
C．Underground.	D．On the land.

小题3: What will be made better and healthier by biotechnology?

A．Medicine.	B．Toys.
C．Food.	D．Clothes.

小题4: Genetic engineering will help doctors to cure more________.

A．cold	B．illnesses
C．cancer	D．headache

小题5: Which is the best title (标题) of the passage?

A．Cars in the future.

B．Get ready for the future.

C．How to keep food longer?

D．Where will people live in the future?

A new school term begins, Is anything new at your school? Sichuan students are getting an extra (额外的)hour to sleep in the morning.
This year, Sichuan schools decided that students should start classes later. This should help them feel less tired, For Junior high schools, the first classes will begin no earlier than 8:30 am.
The changes have made students happy.
Liu Xian, 15, said his class was excited by the news on the first day of school. “It’s so good we can get up later!” said Liu.
Liu studies in Chengdu No.4 Middle School. He used to get up at 6:40 am. Now he can get up at 7:40 am because class doesn’t start until 8:40 am.
Wu Hongli, 15, said the new timetable is good for her health. “I used to drink coffee every night or I would feel to sleepy to finish my homework, ”said Wu. “Now I can finish it without coffee.”She used to get up at 6:30 am. Now she can get up at 7:30 am.
Wu Hongli’s mother was happy, too. She thought more sleep would help her daughter grow taller.
But some parents worried that more sleep would mean less learning. There used to be five classes in the morning. Now there are only four.
Many teachers, though, say the changes will help students learn better.
“Students used to doze(瞌睡)for the first two classes in the morning,”said Wu Zongping, an English teacher at Chendu No.12 Middle School. “But now they look fine and they learn much better than before.”
小题1:What made the Sichuan middle school students happy?

A．The new school term began.	B．Their schools took on a new look.
C．They felt a little bit tired.	D．They could get up later.

小题2:In the new term, the first class in the morning in middle schools started at about          .

A．7:00

B．7:30

C．8:00

D．8:40

小题3:Why was Liu Xian excited at the news on the first day of school?

A．There were many changes in his school.

B．He could sleep one more hour in the morning.

C．He could study in Chengdu No.4 Middle School.

D．He would have only five classes in the morning.

小题4:What did the teachers think of the changes of the school timetable?

A．They didn’t like the changes.	B．They could use the timetable more easily.
C．They spoke highly of the changes.	D．They looked fine when they taught.

Dictionaries say that “spring fever” is a lazy or restless feeling . People usually have the feeling on the first warm day of spring. Everyone has probably felt it at one time or another . people have talked about it for years.
Recently, scientists have taken a good look at spring fever. What they found is quite surprising.
In many places we live in , the winter months often seem dark and dreary. When spring comes late March , the world becomes colorful . The number of daylight hours grows with each passing day. According to many scientists, all the sunlight sets off chemicals in the brain (大脑). The chemicals make our feeling change and bring on spring fever.
小题1:How do people who have spring fever feel ?

A．active

B．awake

C．energetic

D．restless .

小题2:Scientists think that _________ cause(s) spring fever .

A．colors

B．sunlight

C．dark

D．illness

小题3: According to the passage ,the underlined word “dreary ”means“______” in Chinese.

A．沉闷的

B．暖和的

C．晴朗的

D．明亮的

小题4:The best title for the passage is ______________ .

A．How to Get Over Spring Fever	B．Spring Fever
C．Darkness in winter	D．Spring and winter

There are over 800 boarding (寄宿) schools in the UK with students from home and foreign countries. Boarding schools started hundreds of years ago in the country. But the earliest boarding schools were set up for white, rich boys only. Now both boys and girls can go to boarding schools from the age of 7 to 18.
What to do
In the UK, boarding schools have three terms in a school year, with about 13 weeks in each term. Students study and live together. They can’t go outside if they are not allowed to. In some schools, each student has his or her subject plan. Besides the usual classrooms and laboratories, the boarding schools have lots of other facilities for their students, including music rooms, boats, swimming pools, cinemas and theatres. Most boarding schools have a “light out” time. So when it’s time to go to bed, all the lights in the bedrooms are turned off. There are house-masters to take care of students all the time, especially after school hours.
What to wear 
Nearly all students at boarding schools wear a school uniform. Boys usually wear a shirt and a tie, and girls wear a white blouse, sometimes also a tie and a skirt. As students get older, the rules become less strict.
_______________
In the UK, boarding schools provide students with delicious food. They can choose to have a full English breakfast or simply bread. They can also choose between a meal with no meat and another meal at lunch and dinner. And there is always self-service for salad (沙拉), other side dishes and a dessert. Students can also make themselves something to eat at any time in a kitchen, or drink tea or have a snack between meals.
小题1: Which of the following is TRUE according to (根据) the passage?

A．Only white children were allowed to attend the earliest boarding schools.

B．Students in a boarding school are looked after only after school hours.

C．As students get older, the rules about wearing school uniforms become stricter.

D．Students can have different activities in a boarding school.

小题2:Which is the best title for the last paragraph?

A．What to eat

B．When to eat

C．Where to eat

D．How to eat

小题3: The underlined word ‘facilities’ means _____________.

A．教师

B．设施

C．活动

D．课程

Almost every day, we discuss the topic of health, especially for kids. But what is health? “Health” means eating well, getting enough exercise, and having a healthy weight. Let’s read the following rules. They can help you stay healthy.
1. Eat a variety of food, especially fruit and vegetables. We all know that eating fruit and vegetables can help us stay healthy, but many of us only eat our favorite food. Remember that we can only get the nutrition (营养) we need by eating different kinds of food, especially fruit and vegetables.
2. Drink water and milk most often. Everyone knows that water is important. Besides that, kids need plenty of calcium (钙) to grow strong bones, and milk is rich in it. Every day, you should drink at least three cups of milk, when you are 9 years old or older. You should also try to have less sugary drinks, like soda and coca. They include a lot of sugar. Sugar only includes calories (热量), not important nutrition.
3. Listen to your body. When you are eating, notice how your body feels. When your stomach feels comfortably full, stop eating. Eating too much makes you feel uncomfortable. If you do it too often, it can make you unhealthy and fat.
4. Limit screen time. What’s screen time? It’s the amount of time you spend watching TV, movies and playing computer games. The more time you spend on these sitting-down activities, the less time you spend playing sports, like basketball, and doing other activities like riding and swimming. Try to spend no more than 2 hours a day on screen time.
小题1:In this passage, “health” includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A．eating well	B．doing more exercise
C．having a healthy weight	D．wearing comfortable clothes

小题2:The underlined phrase “a variety of” means ______.

A．plenty of

B．all kinds of

C．the rest of

D．a lot of

小题3:Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Eating more fruit and vegetables is good for people.

B．We should eat and drink things with little sugar.

C．We should spend the same time on both sitting-down activities and sports.

D．When we are full, we should stop eating, no matter how delicious the food is.

小题4:Screen time is the time that you spend ______.

A．playing computer games	B．watching movies
C．watching TV	D．All of above

小题5:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．How to eat healthy food.	B．Eating and playing are both important.
C．Suggestions for staying healthy.	D．Health is very important.

  The panda is one of the animals most in danger. Three are about 1,000 pandas living in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying how they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.
Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southern China. They mainly live on bamboo, and each pandas needs to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming smaller for many different reasons, so pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don’t have many babies, and baby panda often dies. The situation is becoming very serious.
Our government is working hard to save pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo will grow better. Then the pandas will have enough food and enough places to live in. Pandas born in the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.
Most people love pandas. The panda is one of the best-known animals in the world. It is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature. The WWF works to protect all animals in danger, so the panda has become the symbol of all animals in danger. There is still a long way to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger. There is still a long way to go to save the panda. Think of other animals in danger such as tigers, whales, turtles and elephants—and we need to save them, too.
小题1: There are about ___ pandas living in the nature reserves today.

A．30

B．160

C．300

D．1,000

小题2: Paragraph 2 is mainly about ___.

A．why pandas are in danger	B．why baby pandas often die
C．how to protect all animals	D．how to plant more bamboo

小题3: The government is trying ___ to help the pandas.

A．to build more zoos

B．to send more scientists

C．to make bigger nature reserves

D．to ask the WWF to work in China

小题4: ___ is the symbol for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

A．The Tiger

B．The panda

C．The elephant

D．The Whale

You are what you eat
Keeping better eating habits can help you have less illness. A healthy eating plan means choosing the right food to eat and cooking food in a healthy way.
___________
Do you often change your toothbrush? Maybe you think it is unnecessary. A study shows old toothbrushes bring disease(病菌). You should often change your toothbrush.
Exercise
Swimming, cycling, jogging, skating, dancing, walking and some other activities can help you stay healthy. You should exercise at least three times a week and for twenty minutes or more each time. Do it!
Plan out your life
You should have breakfast before you go to school. Have a right meal for lunch. Follow a healthy diet.
小题1:What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Healthy food.

B．Healthy lifestyle.

C．Junk food.

D．Healthy sports.

小题2:What is the best title for the second passage??

A．Man’s disease.

B．Disease.

C．Your toothbrush.

D．Your bathroom.

小题3:How long should you exercise each time?

A．Twenty-five minutes.	B．Fifteen minutes.
C．Five minutes.	D．Ten minutes.

小题4:From the passage, we know __________ can help us stay healthy.

A．right diet

B．exercise and right diet

C．sleep

D．exercise

小题5:What does a healthy plan mean?
A. Choosing the right food.             B. Cooking the food in a healthy way.
C. Never eat meat or fresh vegetables.      D. Both A and B.

I do not need a calendar to tell me when it is winter. All I need is my nose. When I wake up in the morning and smell the tasty treats my mom is cooking downstairs, I know winter has arrived.
The first one is the smell of chocolate. During the holiday season (from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day) my mother makes her special hot chocolate. She always adds a peppermint candy cane (薄荷味拐棍糖) to the drink and tops it with cream.
The hot chocolate gets me out of bed, but it is my mother’s chocolate fudge (软糕) that makes me run downstairs. It is a thick chunk (块) of chocolate that tastes like heaven. My mother adds nuts. That gives it more texture (质感).
But my mother isn’t done yet. She also makes a treat she calls “window panes (窗玻璃)”. She takes a few different colored marshmallows (棉花糖) and melts them together with chocolate. The final product looks like a colorful church window, so we call it “window panes”.
These tasty holiday treats are usually eaten after a meal as a dessert. But don’t tell Santa Claus because I secretly eat them all day long.
小题1:What wakes “me” up in the morning?

A．The alarm clock.	B．My mom.
C．The noise upstairs.	D．The smell of food.

小题2: In the author’s eyes, the taste of the chocolate fudge is ____.

A．terrible	B．wonderful
C．awful	D．so so

小题3:With nuts, the chocolate fudge tastes _____.

A．softer	B．sweeter
C．harder	D．hotter

小题4:The “window panes” the author mentions refer to _____.

A．special hot chocolate drink

B．decorations on the window

C．chocolate cake with fruits on it

D．a mixture of marshmallows and chocolate

小题5:Why does the author look forward to the winter?

A．There is plenty of time to play around.

B．The food his mom cooks is mouthwatering.

C．It’s great fun to play outdoors.

D．He can have a good rest during the winter.

Have you ever seen snow? Many people in the world have not. Some countries never have snow; some have only a little on the tops of very high mountains. In the north of England, there is quite a lot of snow every winter, but in the south of England, there is usually little.
When a student from a warm country comes to England in autumn for the first time, he feels cold at first. There are often dark clouds, grey sky and cold rain in England in autumn, and most students from warm countries do not like this.
But snow is different. Though it is cold, it is also beautiful. Perhaps, after several dark mornings, the student wakes up one day, and there is a lot of light in his room. He thinks “Is it so late?” and jumps out of bed. But no, it is not very late. He looks out of the window and there is the snow on the ground and on the houses and everywhere. The light of his room comes from clean, beautiful snow.
小题1:In which part of England is there much snow in winter?

A．In the east.	B．In the north.
C．In the west.	D．In the south.

小题2:In the autumn of England, we can NOT often see __________.

A．grey sky	B．dark clouds
C．strong winds	D．cold rain

小题3: Why does the student ask himself “Is it so late?”

A．Because he has some work to do.

B．Because it is bright in the room.

C．Because it is really late.

D．Because he usually gets up early.

小题4: Which of the following statements is true?

A．Every country in the world has snow in winter.

B．Foreign students like the weather in England.

C．It is often very warm in the autumn of England.

D．Many people in the world haven’t seen snow.

The purpose（目的） of students51 come to school is to study. But52 needs the right way or we would waste the time or the money. The followings are ways for studying.
The 53time for reading is morning. Because in the morning, the air is fresh and our mind are clear. For that reason, we can get good results
When we study we must be patient（有耐心的）. If we don’t understand a test well, We must read it again. We should not read the next54 we have learned the first one well.
When we are studying we must put our hearts 55 the book. We can not read absent-mindedly（心不在焉的）, or we could get56 from the book while we are reading.
We must always ask “why”. If it is not57 understand, write it down ask our teacher or parents, brothers or friends, in58 possible way We must know it completely and then our knowledge can be 59well.
Though there many ways of studying,60, the above mentioned（提到的） be quite enough if we can keep it in heart.      

小题1:	A．who B．whose C．which D．they

小题2:	A．studies B．be studying C．to study D．studied

小题3:	A．good B．better C．best D．bad

小题4:	A．as B．until C．after D．if

小题5:	A．in B．into C．to D．on

小题6:	A．something B．anything C．everything D．nothing

小题7:	A．well B．good C．nice D．true

小题8:	A．some B．any C．a D．many

小题9:	A．use B．used C．been used D．Be used

小题10:

A．but B．however C．how D．still