Food is very important. Everyone needs to       well if he or she wants to be healthy. Our minds (头脑)       a kind of food, too. This kind of food is knowledge (知识). We began to get       when we were very young. Small children       very interested in everything around them. They learn everything while they are watching       listening. When they are getting older, they began to read       books, science books, and anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and       to find the answers.
What is the best       to get knowledge? If we learn by      , we’ll get the most knowledge. If we’re       getting answers from others and do not ask why, we’ll never learn well.

During the Winter Olympics in Sochi(索契), 25,000 volunteers from Russia and other countries provided services for athletes and guests. The student Oksana Verkholyak helped translate Russian into English and Korean at the Games. She told us about their usual day.
“We get up at 7:30 in the morning. Then we have breakfast. Usually we have porridge for breakfast. There is always tea, coffee, bread and pies. After breakfast, we head for a bus stop and get on a bus which runs to the media center. It takes us 30 minutes to get there,” she said.
When volunteers arrived there, they went through the security (安全) check point. They couldn’t bring water or food with them. “Security guards check our bags. We are not allowed to have things made of metals. They check phones, video cameras, electric equipment and computers,” Oksana added.
In the evening volunteers got back to the apartment buildings. All of them were like one big family. They lived together and got some rest together—after dinner they went to the beach to watch the sunset.
Not only students helped organize the Sochi Olympics. There were many so-called silver volunteers who retired but didn’t lose interest in sports. Some of the volunteers had an experience working at the Olympic Games in other countries and even at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
【小题1】 How many foreign languages did Oksana Verkholyak use at the Games?
A. One.    B. Two.     C. Three.
【小题2】Where did the volunteers go first after breakfast?
A. To the apartment buildings.
B. To the security check point.
C. To a bus stop.
【小题3】 What couldn’t the volunteers take into the media center?
A. Water and computers.    
B. Video cameras and phones.
C. Knives and hamburgers.
【小题4】Which is NOT true about the silver volunteers?
A. They’re all young people.        
B. They love sports.
C. Some of them have volunteered for the Olympics before.
【小题5】What is the best title of this passage?
A. A volunteer’s day at Sochi Olympics    
B. 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
C. Different jobs for volunteers

完形填空

　　Every person my meet something that they can't 1 . Some people don't' like dogs and cats 2 they have fur. Some people don't like snakes because they are terrible. 3 have many different reasons. Fox example, Mrs Lee likes shopping. But she doesn't like waiting 4 line when the 5 is having along telephone 6 . He or she will talk happily to their friends and make the customers 7 for a long time. She also doesn't like salesperson to 8 her around and saying “Why 9 this? It will look good on you.” Sometimes she will get mad with the sales person and she will 10 go to that shop again. Mr Lee has 11 problems. He love reading. So 12 his wife is in the shop, he is in a library. Sometimes people will talk to him in the library. If this happens ail the time, he will get 13 and shout at them “Would you mind 14 away?” He knows it is not very polite. He said “I try 15 rude. But they are too noisy.” Do you have any problem like them?

阅读理解

It is said that people born on different dates have different characteristics.

For example, people who were born between March 21 and April 20 are likely to be active and strong. They like power and enjoy adventures.

People who were born between April 21 and May 21 are likely to learn more slowly, but they can remember what they learn well. They love children and usually have many friends.

People who were born between May 22 and June 21 are bright and humorous. They like to talk and enjoy wearing fine clothes.

People who were born between June 22 and July 22 think deeply. They would rather hide their feelings than express them.

People who were born between July 23 and August 22 are interested in many subjects and it is interesting to hear them talk.

People who were born between August 23 and September 22 are said to be calm and thoughtful. They like to read and often become successful scientists.

If you have free time, you can read about star signs to see if your characteristics match your birth date.

1.People who were born between March 21 and April 20 are ____.

2.People who were born between May 22 and June 21 like to ____.

3.People who were born between June 22 and July 22 are not good at ____.

4.People who were born ____ often become successful scientists.

5.The passage mainly talks about ____.

Many people think that we will do more work if we spend more time.So students have to spend the whole day doing their schoolwork except during the   61  .We can often see that students are busy with their schoolwork   62  at school and at home.

Students today usually have many   63 .They love music and sports.They like   64  TV.A two-day weekend can get them away from too much schoolwork, and they can have a   65  time.But because of too much schoolwork, they have no time to enjoy   66 .Students really don’t like their weekend homework, so they usually don’t like doing their weekend homework   67  Sunday night.And because there is not   68  time for so much work, students usually finish it in a hurry.The poor weekend homework often makes teachers   69 .Too much schoolwork also   70  students lose interest in learning.

A horse runs faster after a rest.We should give students less homework and more free time.

1.                A．parties         B．meals          C．films D．classes

2.                A．all             B．either          C．neither   D．both

3.                A．sports          B．interests        C．exercises D．problems

4.                A．watching        B．watches        C．watch    D．to watching

5.                A．bad            B．good           C．glad D．sad

6.                A．ours           B．your           C．theirs    D．themselves

7.                A．on            B．after           C．until D．when

8.                A．enough         B．good           C．weak D．necessary

9.                A．happy          B．pleased         C．angry D．angrily

10.               A．does           B．makes          C．takes D．leaves