Look at your classmates around you. You all wear the same uniform and similar sneakers. Do you want to stand out among them? A fashionable and useful backpack can be a great idea!
Backpacks are lightweight and easy to carry.
They are great tools for students. They help you to stay organized. You can keep school things, books and personal items like cell phones and keys neatly (整洁地). With a unique backpack, you can also stand out among your classmates.
Tourists also love backpacks. With convenient backpacks, backpackers can move freely from one place to another. Meanwhile, they can also free their hands to do other things like taking photos.
But in the very beginning backpacks were not what we see today.
It is thought that US hiker Dick Kelty invented the first modern backpack in 1951. He used nylon (尼龙) and aluminum tubing (铝制管型材料) to make backpacks lightweight. Then he added shoulder straps (带子) and waist straps to transfer(转移) much of the weight to the hips (臀部).
Today, backpacks come in different styles.
Rolling (滚动的) backpacks have wheels on the bottom. Users can pull them along the ground if they are too heavy to carry on their shoulders.
And with more people bringing laptops to school and work, backpacks also offer space for lightweight electronics.
【小题1】 Backpacks are useful for tourists because_____.

A．they have wheels on the bottom

B．it frees tourists’ hands to do other things

C．tourists can feel fashionable

D．they make tourists feel special

【小题2】The underlined word “unique” in the passage probably means “       ”.

A．普通的	B．独特的
C．有用的	D．便利的

【小题3】 The first modern backpack was thought to be invented by _____.

A．a famous inventor	B．an Englishman
C．a hiker	D．a student

【小题4】 In order to make the backpack light, _____ is used.

A．cotton	B．nylon
C．cloth	D．paper

【小题5】 The passage mainly talks about _____.

A．a famous TV drama

B．different functions (功能) of backpacks

C．the history of backpacks

D．who wears backpacks

One afternoon, my son came home from school and asked me, “Are all people the same even if their skin color is different?” I thought for a moment, then I said, “I’ll explain. Let’s go to a fruit store first. I have something interesting to show you.”
At the store, I told him that we needed to buy apples. And we bought some red apples, green apples and yellow apples.
After we got home, I told Adam, “It’s time to answer your question.” I put one of each type of apple on the table: first a red apple, followed by a green apple and then a yellow apple. Then I looked at Adam, who was sitting on the other side of the table.
“Adam, people are just like apples. They come in different colors, shapes and sizes. See, some may not even look as delicious as others.” As I was talking, Adam was examining each one carefully.
Then, I took each of the apples and peeled them, placing them back on the table, but in a different place.
“OK, Adam, tell me which one is the red apple, the green apple and the yellow apple.”
He said, “I can’t tell. They all look the same now.”
“Take a bite(一口) of each one. See if that helps you tell which one is which.”
He took big bites, and then a huge smile came across his face. “People are just like apples! They are all different, but if you take off the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the inside.”
“Right,” I agreed. “Just like everyone has their own features but they are nearly the same.”
He completely got it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.
Now, when I eat an apple, it tastes a little sweeter than before. What perfect fruit it is!
【小题1】I took Adam to buy apples for         .            

A．supper

B．his question

C．a party

D．a present

【小题2】As soon as we got home, I put          on the table.

A．all the apples	B．three apples of different colors
C．three red apples	D．three peeled apples

【小题3】After Adam took big bites, he found they         .

A．looked the same

B．tasted good

C．tasted the same

D．weren’t delicious

【小题4】In the end, Adam understood that         .

A．people are much the same even if their skin color is different

B．people are different if their skin color is different

C．the apples look the same after they are peeled

D．apples of different colors taste different

【小题5】I feel that apples taste a little sweeter than before because         .

A．they are delicious enough	B．they are perfect fruit for thinking
C．they are safe fruit	D．my son falls in love with them

For most people, the word “fashion” means “clothes”. But people may ask the question, “What clothes are in fashion?” And they use the adjective “fashionable” in the same way: 
“She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable color.”
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs…and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspaper, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours. New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
【小题1】 From this passage we know that “fashion” means ______.

A．clothes	B．many things
C．most of the popular things	D．everything

【小题2】Today fashions change very quickly because _______.

A．people read newspaper every day

B．radios send information from one country to another

C．new things that people like are often shown on TV

D．people quickly learn what is happening in the world

【小题3】“There is money in fashion” means ______.

A．clothes are expensive	B．money comes from fashion
C．people like new things	D．fashions make big money

【小题4】 The best title for the passage is ______.

A．Fashions	B．Fashion mean clothes
C．Fashion means money	D．A fashionable