Selena Gomez won Favorite Female Singer at 2014 Kids’ Choice Awards on March 29. It is a very important awards show held every year in America.
Gomez was born on July 22,1992 in Texas. The 22-year-old girl is an all-round star----she not only acts well but also sings a lot of popular songs. At the age of 7, Gomez first played with a purple dinosaur on the TV show Barney and Friends. In 2007, Gomez acted in Wizards of Waverly Place (《少年魔法师》)，which was a big success. After that, she played different roles in many films and become more and more popular.
Gomez made her own band at the age of 17. Fans love her songs because of her beautiful voice. By fan, she has released (发行) three albums (专辑). She also has a good sense of fashion. Gomez wore a beautiful dress at the Kids’ Choice Award. It made her lovely and she shone the whole night.
Charity is an important part in Gomez’s life. In October 2008, she was named UNICEF’s spokes-person （联合国儿童基金会的发言人）for Trick-or-Treat, which encourages children to raise money on Halloween to help poor children around the world. She said that she was excited to encourages other kids to make a difference in the world.
【小题1】The underline word “all-round” means “        ” in Chinese.

A．闻名世界的

B．受人尊敬的

C．多才多艺的

D．能言善辩的

【小题2】        was (were) very successful and after that Selena Gomez become more and more popular.

A．Barney and Friends	B．Wizards of Waverly Place
C．Her three albums	D．Her charity activities

【小题3】People like her songs because         .

A．her voice is beautiful	B．she is a movie star
C．she looks pretty	D．she is lovely

【小题4】We can learn from the last paragraph that Selena Gomez is          .

A．fond of Halloween	B．helpful to children
C．good at dress up	D．talented in music

【小题5】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Selene Gomez played a purple dinosaur in Barney and Friends.

B．Selene Gomez started a band at the age of 7.

C．Selene Gomez wore a dress on the night of March 29, 2014.

D．Selene Gomez loves to spend Halloween with children.

Indonesia （印尼）

An Air Asia flight from the Indonesia to Singapore lost contact(联系) with air traffic control on Sunday. Transport Ministry official said the aircraft, flight number QZ 8501, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 a.m local time. The Airbus 320-200 had 155 passengers and crew（乘务员） on it, another Indonesian Transport official said.

Shanghai

HONG KONG---At least 36 people were killed and 47 injured（伤害） in a stampede during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai, the city’s government reported. The deaths happened in the eastern city’s famous Bund, the riverside area where tens of thousands had gathered. The stampede began after 11:35 p.m. in Chen Yi Square, the city said. The exact cause was unclear. President Xi Jingping ordered an immediate investigation, the official Xinhua news service reported.

【小题1】 Which flight lost contact according the article?

A．MH370

B．ATR-72-600

C．QZ8501

D．MH17

【小题2】How many people lost their lives in the two accidents?

A．36

B．42

C．155

D．191

【小题3】The stampede took place _____________.

A．on Christmas Eve	B．during New Year’s Eve
C．at 6:17 a.m local time	D．on Sunday

【小题4】Both the two articles are talking about_____________.

A．health	B．education
C．environment	D．safety

【小题5】We are most likely to read these articles in_____________.

A．text books	B．newspaper
C．comic books	D．magazines

Some people have a very poor sense of direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.
When I was a little girl, I never dared(敢于) to ask strangers the way. And so I used to walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.
Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I would say, “Sorry, I am a stranger here.”
Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps. I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn’t want to keep him waiting.
When I just got to my office, the secretary(秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight.

【小题1】 The writer always refuses to give people directions because _____________.

A．she hates to help others

B．she doesn’t know the people

C．she has no time to help others

D．she’s afraid of giving wrong direction

【小题2】 A man stopped the writer on the way to _____________.

A．sell her something	B．ask her the time
C．make friends with her	D．ask for the direction

【小题3】 The Friendship Building is the place where the writer ______________.

A．lives	B．studies
C．works	D．teaches

【小题4】The words “embarrassed” in the paragraph means “___________”.

A．尴尬

B．困惑

C．激动

D．拮据

【小题5】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The writer is too shy to give others directions.

B．The writer has a very poor sense(感觉) of direction.

C．The writer never got lost when she was young.

D．The man was quite nervous when he saw the writer.

Japanese students work very hard but many are unhappy. They have heavy pressures from their parents. Most students are always told by their parents to study harder and harder so that they can have a wonderful life when they grow up .Though this may be a good idea for those very bright students, it can have terrible results for many students who aren’t gifted (有天赋的)enough. Many of them have tried very hard at study but fail in the exams and make their parents lose heart. Some students feel that they are hated by everyone else and they don’t want to go to school any longer .They become dropouts.
It is surprising that though most Japanese are worried about their children, they do not help them in any way .Many parents feel that they are not able to help their children and that it is the teachers’ work to help their children .To make matters worse, a lot of parents send their children to those schools opening in the evening and on weekends. They only help the students to pass the exams and never teach them the very real sense of the world.
Many Japanese schools usually has rules about everything from the student’ clothes to things in their school bags. Child psychologists(心理学家)now think that such strict rules are harmful to the feeling of the students. Almost 40% of the students said that no one had taught them how to get on with others , how to tell right from wrong and how to show love and care for others, even for their parents.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。
【小题1】 Japanese students have heavy pressures from       .

A．themselves	B．Japan
C．their parents	D．their classmates

【小题2】 What do they work hard for?

A．a wonderful life	B．their parents
C．study	D．themselves

【小题3】The underlined word “dropouts” means_________ .

A．脱离传统社会的人	B．文明的社会人
C．逃学的人	D．偏激的人

【小题4】 Many Japanese schools usually have     rules.

A．few	B．a few
C．a lot of	D．lot of

【小题5】How many students have been taught to how to get on with others?

A．40%

B．50%

C．70%

D．60%

  You’re in a department store and you see two fashionable young women, looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:
“I can’t believe it—a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are hard to find. It’s much cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome.”
They leave and you go over to see this sweater. You’ve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really fashionable. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes.
Every day we notice what people are wearing, drinking and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing (秘密行销). Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it. It can reach people that don’t pay attention to traditional advertising. For example, consumers between the age of 18 and 34. They have a lot of money to spend, but they don’t believe ads.
So advertising agencies hire (雇佣) young actors to “perform” in bars and other places where young adults go. Some people might call this practice misleading, but the marketing manager Jonathan Reseller calls it creative. “Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasing”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。
【小题1】Why do the two fashionable young women make the conversation in the store?

A．Because they want to buy the clothes.

B．Because they are the owners of the store.

C．Because they want to draw other customers’ attention.

D．Because they are excited to find the clothes.

【小题2】What is Lorenzo Bertolla?

A．The name of a clothing store.

B．The brand name of a sweater.

C．The name of a fashionable girl.

D．The name of an advertising agency.

【小题3】The undercover marketing mainly aims at          .

A．teenagers	B．the old
C．young adults	D．young women

【小题4】According to the passage, which sentence is wrong?

A．The two fashionable young women are hired by an advertising agency.

B．Some companies begin to use the undercover marketing.

C．The customers between 18 and 34 don’t believe the ads.

D．The undercover marketing is not as good as the traditional advertising.

【小题5】What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Lorenzo Bertolla clothes.

B．Undercover marketing.

C．Traditional advertising.

D．Companies about Ford and Nike.

In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.
It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
【小题1】Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ________.

A．want to be as rich as their neighbours

B．want others to know or to think that they are rich

C．don’t want others to know they are rich

D．want to be happy

【小题2】It can be inferred (推断) from the story that rich people like to ________.

A．live outside New York City

B．live in New York City

C．live in apartments

D．have many neighbours

【小题3】Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is ________.

A．an important name

B．a popular name in the United States

C．his neighbour’s name

D．not a good name

【小题4】If a person who keeps up with the Joneses, he would _________.

A．do as the poor persons around him do

B．do everything he likes to do

C．do as his neighbours do

D．do as the rich people around him do

Last month when I was taking part in a US college interview ， I was asked ， “ what makes you special ? ” In fact I had answered questions likes this many times since I decided to go to college in the US. College paid special attention to different achievement . For example , a person who is very good at math can go to a famous college but also can be a good football player .
This experience made me think again that I must try to find where my own interests might lead me . To be honest , it was not easy . However , I never felt sorry to choose this way because it helped me understand myself . If I took the College Entrance Examination ,as we call it gaokao in China , it could never possibly do .
When I entered high school , I took gaokao seriously because it seemed to me a great way to show how good at my lessons . However ,as I grew older , I realized gaokao did make me work hard at my lessons , but the pressure also pushed many other activities out of my life , like guitar―playing . Although I had no time for it , I will still get to it in the future .
No doubt, gaokao provides a way of choosing those who are successful in their studies . But it is really important for all of us to rethink what “ talent ” really is today . This is because we now live in a world in which all of our other human qualities ( 品质 ）are needed for success , not just the high grade .
Ken Robinson once said , “ the society depends on different kinds of talents . ”  However , gaokao pays too attention  to a person' s grades but little to his other qualities. And it is these qualities that makes life colorful and fun .
As high school students , we can not change the present situation of education , but we are always free to think outside of the box . Although good school grade is still useful , I hope one day we will see our education also welcomes the amazing possibilities in different people .
【小题1】The US College pay special attention to ________.

A．students ' family background .

B．the different achievement

C．students ' ideas about way of life .

D．the school a student is from .

【小题2】When at high school, the writer ________.

A．had a lot of activities.

B．did not work hard at her lessons .

C．did well in her lessons

D．had no time to play the guitar.

【小题3】From the passage, we know that the writer may ________.

A．go to college in America.

B．give up the US college interview .

C．become a good football player in the US.

D．change the present situation of education .

【小题4】 Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A．My school life abroad.

B．Different exams in the US.

C．My view on gaokao

D．The importance of school grades

Hello, everyone. Because of the high rate of school violence(暴力) in some areas, teenagers’ safety becomes a serious problem. We are planning to set up an organization named School Watch to make sure that students have a safe school environment. Please be part of our plan!
What is School Watch?
School Watch is a volunteer project in our school. It helps us stop violence and improve the quality of school life. It will keep yourself and your schoolmates safe. The other members of School Watch care for you and your classroom, and you do the same for them.
Is it for everyone?
Anybody can become a member of School Watch because everyone has something to offer.
What else can it do?
School Watch makes it possible for us not only to help each other but also to make friends with each other. Some members may offer to help the schoolmates who have problems with their homework.
Who is the School Watch?
Our school will look for the School Watcher and give him or her lots of prizes. You could be the one!
How do you start?
To be a part of this plan, the only thing you need to do is to talk to the director of the plan in your grade. You can check the official website at www.schoolwatch.com if you want to get more information.
【小题1】School Watch can help its members_______.

A．save the environment

B．go to school on time

C．improve the quality of school life

D．organize the sports activities

【小题2】The members of School Watch are probably______.

A．teenagers	B．doctors
C．parents	D．policemen

【小题3】Anyone can become a member of School Watch because ______.

A．everyone may have problems

B．everyone can give help to others

C．everyone doesn’t go to school

D．everyone isn’t busy

【小题4】 If you want to become a member of School Watch, you should ______.

A．check the website

B．talk to the director of the plan in your grade

C．be good at school work

D．go to the police

UNICEF, United Nations International Children’s Emergence Fund, was set up in December 11, 1946 to help children in poor countries. It works in 191 countries and areas. It helps governments and families make the world a better place for children. UNICEF gets money from donations.  People can help UNICEF by doing the volunteer work.

A group of French doctors established an organization called Doctors Without Borders in 1971. The doctors said everyone should be able to receive health care. This organization helps sick people in poor countries receive health care.

Do you know ORBIS? It is a charity that helps the people who can’t see. The doctors and nurses in the charities fly to the poor and rural areas all over the world to help blind people. But they need a lot of money to do this, so the doctors at ORBIS hope that more and more people can donate money to them to support their work.

Save the Earth Club is for students. It helps keep the school, neighborhood and city clean by encouraging recycling. In this way we can save some energy resources (资源), too. We hope to improve the environment and encourage others to do the same. We meet 2—4 times a month. You are welcome to join us!

【小题1】If Amy wants to volunteer her time to help the poor children, she can join         .

A．UNICEF	B．Doctors Without Borders
C．ORBIS	D．Save the Earth Club

【小题2】Doctors Without Borders wants to           .

A．help the blind people see again

B．encourage people clean up dirty places

C．make the world a better place for children

D．make sick people in poor countries get health care

【小题3】Which of the following may belong to Save the Earth Club?

A．Food bank.	B．Animal helps.
C．Health help.	D．Clean-up Day.

【小题4】Which of the following is NOT true?

A．UNICEF will be 67 years old in 2013.

B．ORBIS helps all the poor people all over the world.

C．Save the Earth Club has two or more than two activities a month.

D．Doctors Without Borders means medical care has no borders.

【小题5】The underlined word “recycling” means “        ”.

A．giving up	B．throwing away
C．using again	D．cleaning up

Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a new study tells that calling attention to the words and letters on the book may lead to better readers.
The two-year study compared（比较）children who were read to this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the words showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding.
Shayne Piasta, a professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, says most preschool teachers would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read storybooks in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed words.
Ms. Piasta says if you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word spelling. But she says studies show that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic（系统的）way.
They watched more than three hundred children aged four and five in classrooms in Ohio and Virginia. The children came from poor families and were poor in their language skills. They may become bad readers when they enter primary schools later.
Professor Justice says children’s language skills can be improved by discussing with him or her when you are reading a book to a child. There are different ways that adults can talk to children about the letters and words on the page. They can point to a word and discuss the shape of it with a finger. They can point out a word: “This is ‘dog’.” They can discuss the meaning of the word or how the words tell the story. And they can also show how words are written left to right in English.
【小题1】What does the underlined phrase “it makes sense” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．It can be understood and agreed.

B．It is impossible to happen.

C．It can be difficult to imagine and describe.

D．It is surprising to see.

【小题2】What can we infer from the passage?

A．Parents are more important than teachers for little children.

B．Teachers need to learn a lot to use the new teaching way.

C．It’s impossible for preschool children to understand words.

D．Skills are important to children’s reading development.

【小题3】The writer wants to tell us that _________.

A．preschool children should have higher discussing skills

B．parents should make a plan to teach their children reading

C．teachers should help children pay attention to printed words

D．languages skills should be discussed with preschool children