"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son's room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted.
"Oh, Tom! You're still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It's half past eleven. If you don't go to bed soon, you'll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White.
"But I've nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son's face. She sat down beside him.
"You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What's special about it? Show me what it can do!"
"I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware (硬件) is good. There's so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, 'Dragon Player', is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don't have to worry about any infected（感染） disks because I have a virus（病毒） detector (探测器) which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders.
"Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I'm sure it's a wonderful computer, but I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about."
【小题1】When Mrs White was calling Tom, he was ______.

A．playing computer games in' his bedroom	B．playing with a dragon in his bedroom
C．playing "Dragon Player" in the study	D．lying in bed reading a book

【小题2】 Tom was excited because ______.

A．the computer has a good memory	B．the hardware is good
C．he had nearly won the game	D．his mother came to see him

【小题3】 What do we know about Mrs White?

A．She loves her son too much.

B．She loves computer games too.

C．She is very hard on his son.

D．She is as wonderful as the computer game.

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    The verb“chat”means to talk(to someone)in a friendly，informal(非正式的)way．Today there are many  1  on the Internet where you can chat．You can chat with people all over the world，in many languages and about many subjects or topics．These places  2  “chatroom”．Sometimes you need to register(注册)to enter a chatroom．You need to provide a username and possibly your e-mail  3  ．Your username does not have to be your  4  name．It can be any name you want．When you have your usemame，other people in the chatroom will call you by that name and  5  else can use it．

  Chatting is a good way to  6  your informal English．Messages in a chatroom are usually short sentences．Sometimes  7  are not even sentences， 8  just a few words that are not really grammatically correct．It’s a typical way in which we speak in a  9  conversation with friends．To save time，people often use abbreviations like TTYL(talk to you later)or IDK(I don’t know)．So don’t go to a chatroom to practice“perfect”English．Go to a chatroom to practice informal English and find new  10  ．You can even use a chatroom to help improve your typing skills if you want．

 

 

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	I am Alice. I like We chat. It is fast, convenient and fashionable. And you can use it for free. It can be used in my mobile phone. It has hold-to-talk voice messaging function. I am a fan of Leehom Wang. Through We chat, Leehom Wang often says something to me. It’s amazing.
	I am David. I love Micro blog. I update my Micro blog when I am free. We can share instant(即时的) messages with each other. I often look through Yao Chen’s Micro blog. She has many followers. I make many friends with them. I often write something on my Micro blog, for example, “I’m in blue today. I didn’t pass the exam.” Then many friends comfort me. I share my birthday party, my new phone, my new coat, etc. with my friends. It is fun.
	I’m Lily. I don’t like We chat or Micro blog. I don’t believe them. There are so many crimes(愚蠢行为) on We chat. Many people are cheated(欺骗) because they believe in other people they meet on We chat easily. It is not a real world. As to Micro blog, I don’t think it is a good way to make friends. And you should write something no more than 140 words. I like keeping diaries. I don’t want my secrets known by others. I am a low-key(低调的) girl.

【小题1】Who loves Micro blog?

A．Alice.	B．David.
C．Lily.	D．Leehom Wang.

【小题2】What does Alice think about We chat?

A．It’s fast and convenient.	B．It’s fashionable but slow.
C．It’s safe and useful.	D．It’s fun but expensive.

【小题3】Why doesn’t Lily believe We chat?

A．Because many people are cheated on We chat easily.

B．Because she doesn’t like to say anything to her friends.

C．Because she doesn’t think it is a good way to make friends.

D．Because she prefers keeping diaries to showing secrets to others.

America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today,10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society (社会) in many ways —education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the growing of America has made us a very different society —one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.
A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position (职位、地位), marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say, ‘I am much younger than my mother—or my father—was at my age.’ No one says ‘ Act your age’ any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
【小题1】It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America ______.

A．has made people feel younger

B．has changed people’s social position

C．has changed people’s understanding of age

D．has slowed down the country’s social development

【小题2】The underlined word ‘one’ in the first paragraph refers to____.

A．a society

B．America

C．a place

D．population

【小题3】."Act your age " in the last paragraph means people should ______.

A．be active when they are old

B．do the right thing at the right age

C．show respect for their parents young or the old

D．take more physical exercise suitable to their age

【小题4】If a 20-year-old man becomes general manager of a big company, the writer of the text would most probably consider it ______.

A．normal	B．wonderful
C．unbelievable	D．unreasonable

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15^th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,'" Saunders says.

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

1.The turning point in Saunders' life came when ________.

A．he started to play ball games

B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

D．he started to receive Ridgway's training

2.We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.

A．dismissed Saunders' dream as fantasy

B．built up his body together with Saunders

C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

3.What do we know about Saunders?

A．He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

4.The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.

A．Excited

B．Convinced

C．Delighted

D．Fascinated

5.It can be inferred that Saunders' journey to the North Pole ________.

A．was accompanied by his old playmates

B．set a record in the North Pole expedition

C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

D．made him well-known in the 1960s