Are you a Harry Potter fan? Lots of kids like the stories. They think J.K. Rowling does a good job writing them. But what if you could write your own Harry Potter story?

　　Xiao Yi, a Junior 2 student at Weiyu Middle School in Shanghai, gave Harry a sister in one story, Xiao changes lots of Harry Potter stories to make them more interesting. Xiao doesn't think there are enough bad people in the stories, so she made Harry's new sister Jenny, bad. Harry's, parents adopted（收养）Jenny before their own only child Harry was born and now she wants to be against him. Xiao puts her classmates at Weiyu Middle School into the stories, too. Some of her new characters（人物）are a lot like her friends.“It seems my classmates and I are students at Hogwards with Harry,”Xiao said.

　　Often students at Weiyu also like to change their favorite stories. One third of Xiao's 60 students have written stories like The Lord of Rings in their own way. Xu Qingru, also a Weiyu student, enjoys writing new stories for the Japanese cartoon films Let's Go. In Xu's story, her classmates live together with the brothers Lie and Hao. When Xu finishes part of a story, she usually puts it online for others to read. Xu is happy when classmates and friends online tell her they like her stories. Liu Yun, her Chinese teacher, likes them, too.“This girl's novel is full of imagination,”Liu said.

(1)________ wrote the novel Harry Potter that is popular in the world.

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A．Xiao Yi	B．Jenny
C．Xu Qingru	D．J.K. Rowling

(2)Which of the following is right?

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A．Xiao Yi likes bad people in the story.

B．Xiao Yi changes few of Harry Potter stories.

C．Xiao Yi's classmates are put into Harry Potter stories by Xiao Yi.

D．Harry Potter's parents want to be against Harry in Xiao Yi's story.

(3)The students at Weiyu Middle School _________.

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A．change their favorite stories

B．haven't changed the Lord of Rings

C．don't like writing in their own way

D．haven't written new stories for Let's Go

(4)Where do Xu Qingru's classmates read her stories?

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A．In the classroom.

B．Online.

C．In the teacher's office.

D．In her bedroom.

(5)From this story, we know that __________.

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A．the life of the students at Weiyu Middle School may be rich and interesting

B．their teachers worry about their study

C．all of the students at Weiyu change their favorite stories

D．Liu Yun is Xu Qingru's best classmate

What do you like most when you can get one of such things: freedom, true friends, love, honesty and so on? Here are some choices of students:

Chen Cheng, 14, Jiangsu: I think I need a true friend. I had some friends before. However, it seemed that they didn't treat me well. I told them my secrets but they didn't share theirs with me. What's worse, they told my secrets to others, which made me very unhappy. I hope to find a true lifelong（终身的）friend who can share happiness and sadness with me and keep my secrets.

Gan Xiaoning 14, Heilongjiang: Freedom is what I want most. I am a bird in two cages. In school, I have to follow the school's rules and listen to teachers. At home, my parents don't allow me to do what I like, either. I have to do everything that they tell me to do: study, study and study some more. So, freedom is the only thing I really want!

Yuan Siyu, 15, Guangxi: I am a boy from a poor family. My father works very hard but only makes a little money every month to support the family. I want to go to a key university （重点大学）so that I can find a good job in the future. Then, I can earn enough money to get my family out of poverty(贫困) and offer my parents a happy life.

Qu Yi, 15, Hebei: I want a complete family. My parents got divorced(离婚) three years ago. Since then, I have had no chance to be together with both of them any more. Now, I am living with my mom and get her love, but I also want my dad's love. I am envious(羡慕) of my classmates who live with their parents. So, I would have a complete family if I could.

1. What is not mentioned in the passage?

A．freedom          B．love              C．a true friend       D．hobby

2.Who is facing the problem of poverty and decides to fight?

A．Qu Yi             B．Chen Cheng        C．Gan Xiaoning       D．Yuan Siyu

3.As for Chen Cheng, she wants a friend_______.

A．who often tells lies to her                 B．who only cares about her own happiness

C．who can play with her                    D．who can share her feeling and keep secrets

4.What does the underlined word “earn” mean in this passage?

A．Gave             B．Make             C．Lend             D．Borrow

5.Which of the following is true?

A．Qu Yi's father works very hard and makes much money to support his family.

B．Chen Cheng gets along very well with his friends

C．If Qu Yi's parents didn't get divorced, he would be much happier.

D．Gan Xiaoning says he is a bird because he wants to fly like a bird.

 

    Mr. King lives in a city．He has some shops and so he makes a lot of money．His son，Mike, studies in a middle school．The boy likes everything，but he does not like studying．He doesn't listen to his teachers in class and he never finishes his homework on time．He always plays football when tie has some time．And he can never pass the exams．

    Mr. King is so busy with his business that has little time to stay at home，and he never care for his son’s studies．So he doesn't know anything about his son's studies．

    One day Miss Read，Mike's teacher．makes a telephone call for Mr. King，On the telephone，hone she tells him all about the boy's studies．She wants him to try to help the boy at home．When the man hears this, he doesn't feel happy．

    In the afternoon when his son  comer back from school，Mr. King gives him a good beating （打）．But soon he feels sorry for it．when he sees Mike crying in the bedroom．The next morning，before Mike goes to school，the father says to him，“Study hard，my son! I’ll buy you a car when you pass the exam next year．

    Another term is over. Mike doesn't pass the exam once more. Mr. King has a look at the school report for a few minutes and then he asks his son, “You don’t pass the exam again, Mike．What do you do this term'?’’

    “I learn how to drive a car．dad．”answers the boy．

1．Mr. King is                           

A．a football player                                         B．a teacher

C．a driver                                                     D．a businessman

2．Mike can never pass the exams because                      ．

A．his father has a lot of money   

B．he doesn't like studying

C．his teachers are not very good

D．he has to help his father in出e shops

3．Miss Read rings Mr. King

A．to tell him to take his son out of school

B．to buy things from his shop

C．to tell him about Mike's studies

D．because his son doesn't pass the exam once again

4．In the sentence “But soon he feels sorry for it when he sees Mike crying in the bed room．”The word “it” refers to（指）                     

    A．Mike's mark（分数）                              B．beating his soil

    C．something that Miss Read tells Mr. King       D．the car

5．Which of the following is wrong?

    A．Mike doesn't pass exam at the end of the term．

    B．Mike's father buys him a car so he has to learn how to drive it

    C．Mike doesn't do well in his lessons for another term．

    D．Mike thinks his father will buy him a car．

Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.

She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. "I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts(工作班次) are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school."

So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6.a.m. five nights a week for just￡90, before tax and insurance. "It's better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work 'unsocial hours' should get a bit extra."

The hours she's chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn't think that puts any pressure on their relationship.

Her work isn't physically very hard, but it's not exactly pleasant, either. "I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they'd be a bit more careful."

The fact that she's working all night doesn't worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I've got to be here, I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags."

Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other. people when she tells them what she does for a living. "They think you're a cleaner because you don't know how to read and write," said Margaret. "I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I'd been doing, but I don't think that way any more. I don't dislike the work though I can't say I'm mad about it."

54. Margaret left her job as a nurse because_______.

　　 A. she needed the right time to look after her children

　　 B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure

　　 C. she wanted to earn more money to support her family

　　 D. she felt tired of taking care of patients

55. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because_______.

　　 A. they never clean their offices　　　 　　　 B. they look down upon cleaners

　　 C. they never do their work carefully 　 D. they always make a mess in their offices

56. When at work, Margaret feels_______.

A. tired because of the heavy workload　 　　

B. happy because the building is fully lit

　　 C. light-hearted because of her fellow workers　　

D. bored because time passed slowly

57. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret's parents would_______.

　　 A. help care for her children　　　　 B. feel disappointed in her

C. show sympathy (同情) for her D. regret what they had said