Name Introductions

Daniel Radcliff Born in London, England in 1989

An actor

Played the part of Harry Potter

Celina Dixon Born in Montreal, Canada in 1968

A singing star

In 1997, sang My Heart Will Go On for the film Titanic

Thomas Edison Born in 1847, Kentucky, the USA

Made over 1,000 inventions

Died in 1931

Bill Gates Born in 1955 in the USA

Wrote Business@ the Speed of Thought

Owns Microsoft Company

Mark Twain Born in 1835 in the USA

A writer

Wrote Tom Sawyer

Died in 1910

1. Who is the youngest of the people?

A. Daniel Radcliff.       B. Celina Dixon. 

C. Bill Gates.        D. Mark Twain

2. ________ people of the five people come from the USA.

A. Five     B. Two     C. Three     D. Four

3.My Heart Will Go On is the name of a ________.

A. film     B. book     C. story     D. song

4. Thomas Edison died at the age of ________.

A. 81     B. 82     C. 84     D. 85

5. Who wrote Tom Sawyer?

A. Thomas Edison.       B. Bill Gates.  

C. Celina Dixon.        D. Mark Twain.

Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum(论坛) asking what “PK” meant.
“My family has been watching the ‘I Am the Singer’ singing competition TV program. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the “I Am the Singer” singing competition, “PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition raking.
Like this father, Chinese teachers at Middle schools have also been finding their students using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write the compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn’t understand.
“My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I’ve grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. I loved to ‘FB’ with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM’,” went one composition.
“GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). “PLMM” is Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “FB” means Fu Bai (corruption). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.
Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, meaning an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, meaning an ugly looking male ) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
【小题1】By writing the article, the writer tries to _________.
A. explain some Internet jargons               
B. suggest common Internet jargons
C. draw our attention to Internet jargons
【小题2】What does the underlined word Internet jargons mean?
A. Internet language            
B. Internet action           
C. Internet fashion
【小题3】What does the writer think about the word “PK”?
A. Fathers can’t possibly know it.
B. The daughter should understand it.
C. Online game players may know it.
【小题4】The example of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons__________.
A. are used not only online
B. cause trouble to our mother tongue
C. are welcomed by all the people
【小题5】What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Puzzled Father!    
B. Do You Speak Internet English?
C. Kong Long or Qing Wa?

Name            Personal Information

Norman  Bethune   Born in 1890 in Canada.

A doctor

Came to China in 1938

Died in 1939 in China

Celine Dion        Born in Montreal, Canada

A singing star

In 1997, sang My Heart Will Go On for the film Titanic

Thomas Edison     Born in 1847, Kentucky, USA

Made over 1,000 inventions

Died in 1931

Bill

Gates            Born in 1955 in the USA

Wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought

Owns Microsoft Company

Mark   Twain       Born in 1835 in the USA

A writer

Wrote The Adventures of Tome Sawyer

Died in 1910

1.________  is  from  Canada.

A．Bill Gates          B．Mark Twain        C．Thomas Edison      D．Celine Dion

2.The _______ was born in 1835.

A．inventor          B．singer            C．doctor            D．writer

3.My Heart Will Go On is the name of a ______.

A．book             B．film              C．song             D．story

4.Dr. Bethune worked in China for about _______ years.  

A．4                B．8                C．2                D．6

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Mark Twain wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought.

B．Bill Gates started working for Microsoft Company in 1955.

C．Thomas Edison made over 1,000 inventions.

D．Celine Dion stopped singing in 1997

用所给动词的适当形式填空。（10分）

When Jane was a little girl, she liked 1.__ (keep) pets. She had many books about animals and there were many pictures and stamps on the walls of her bedroom. She often said that she ___2.__(work) in a zoo when she grew up.

Most of Jane’s pets were quite small— parrots, cats, dogs and so on. But one day she met something quite big.

That afternoon, Jane’s mother was surprised _3.___ (see) a big animal with long hair in the kitchen. He _4.____ (wear) a T-shirt and sitting on a chair, trying to put on a pair of glasses and making faces at her. In front of him, on the table, were a basket of fruits and a glass of wa­ter. “Jane, where are you?” the mother shouted. Then suddenly she __5.______(remember) that a few days before a young gorilla（大猩猩）_6.__ (call) Gor had run away from the zoo.

“I found him in the city square,” Jane said. “He seemed so lonely. I talked to him. We became friends at once and he followed me home.”

“Well, you know you can’t (keep) him,” her moth­er said. “He must _7.__(send) back to the zoo. You’d better_8.____ (phone) the police.”

Soon a policeman came and also a truck from the zoo. Nobody was angry with Jane when she told her story. The policeman knew Jane loved animals. And the zoo-keeper said, “Thank you for your kindness. I can see Gor _9.___ (like) you, but we need him back.” Jane agreed. She hugged Gor and said that she would go and see him at weekends. These days Jane _10.___(stop) collecting animals. But you can still find her with her friend Gor at the zoo on Saturdays and Sundays!