2.26-meter-tall Yao Ming made his NBA debut（初次登台）on October 23, 2002 and got 6 points for the Houston Rockets in the game. The next day, he got 13 points（得分）in another game.

   Yao Ming , 22, has been a star in China for some time, but it is still under question as to whether he can play well in the NBA. Yao Ming said, “When you watch it on TV, it looks very easy. But when you are playing in the NBA, it is really tough.” He said that joining the Houston Rockets was a new start and a new challenge. “I hope that through very hard work I can make everyone happy and help the Rockets win more games,” he said

   Yao Ming speaks some English. Both he and his teammates can understand each other. They don't think there is a language problem.

While Yao Ming faces this new challenge,  the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yao Ming will bring new energy （活力） to the Rockets. The team has started having lessons to learn more about China, and many people who work for the Rockets have learned to speak some Chinese.

1.On October 23, 2002, Yao Ming played his______ game in the NBA

A. first    B. second    C. third    D fourth

2.Yao Ming got __________ points in the two games for the Houston Rockets in October ,2002.

　　A. 6　　　 　B.13　　　　C.19　　　D.23

3.Yao Ming thinks that _____.

    A. it is boring to play basketball                 

B. playing in the NBA is not easy

    C. it is difficult to watch NBA games on TV       

D. he is an NBA star

4.From the passage we can learn that ________.

A. Yao Ming will work hard for his team

B. Yao Ming often watches TV

　　C. Yao Ming is the best player in the team

D. The Rockets has lost several games

A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don’t start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce(确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically(生物学上)these sleepyhead(贪睡者)students aren’t used to the early hour.

　　“Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies,” says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent (青春期的)sleep at Brown’s School of Medicine.

　　Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns(方式).

　　Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.

　　Sleep patterns change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at night and sleep later in the morning. But it’s not just a matter of choice---their bodies are going through a change of sleep patterns.

　　All of this makes the transfer(迁移)from middle school to high school---which may start one hour earlier in the morning----all the more difficult, Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the “sleep late, rise late” pattern, adolescents are up against difficulties when they try to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body’s way of saying. “I need a timeout.”

1.Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because _______.

A．it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime

B．it is biologically difficult for students to rise early

C．students work so late at night that they can’t get up early

D．students are so lazy that they don’t like to go to school early

2.The underlined phrase nod off most probably means _______.

A．turn around       B．agree with others   C．fall asleep         D．refuse to work

3.What might be a reason for the hard transfer from middle school to high school?

A．Adolescents depend more on their parents.

B．Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns.

C．Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood.

D．Adolescents need more sleep than they used to.

4.What is the test mainly about?

A．Adolescent health care.

B．Problems in adolescent learning.

C．Adolescent sleep difficulties.

D．Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns.

　　Miss Wu is a young teacher of English in China. She loves teaching very much. One day when she was giving an English lesson, she found the headmaster sitting at the back of the classroom. After class, the headmaster told her that he came to her class to find out how much English and how much Chinese she was using. The result was about half English and half Chinese. She was using Chinese when she gave instructions to her students and when she wanted to get feedback (反馈) from her students. The headmaster told her that she should use more English in her class.

　　Miss Wu made a plan like this:

　　·Talk with an Englishman every Sunday for two hours to learn more .English expressions;

　　·Write some English expressions on cards. These cards not only remind her to use English in class, but also help her remember some expressions;

　　·Have a five-minute talk in English with students before class.

　　She used body language to help her if students could not understand.

　　One year later, she found she could use English freely in class.

(1) Miss Wu ________.

[　　]

A．has a poor memory

B．is a teacher of Chinese

C．loves her job

D．is angry with the headmaster

(2) The headmaster came to Miss Wu's class to ________.

[　　]

A．write some English expressions on cards

B．help her improve her English teaching

C．give instructions to the students

D．get feedback from the students

(3) After the headmaster left, Miss Wu realized that she should ________ in her class.

[　　]

A．use more Chinese

B．use more English

C．use half English and half Chinese

D．use body language

(4) What does the underlined word “remind” mean?

[　　]

(5) What is the main idea of this passage?

[　　]

A．Use cards in English teaching.

B．Talk with English-speaking people.

C．Speak more English in English class.

D．Learn more English expressions.