French Presidents（总统）

Name	Time for being president of France
Charles de Gaulle	8 January, 1959 – 28 April, 1969
Georges Pompidou	20 June, 1969 – 2 April, 1974
Valéry Giscard d´Estaing	27 May, 1974 – 21 May, 1981
Francois Mitterrand	21 May, 1981 – 17 May, 1995
Jacques Chirac	17 May, 1995 – 16 May, 2007
Nicolas Sarkozy	16 May, 2007— 7 May, 2012
Francois Hollande	7 May, 2012 —

【小题1】Georges Pompidou became president of France on ____________.

A．8 January, 1959

B．2 April, 1974

C．20 June, 1969

D．17 May, 1995

【小题2】According to the chart（表格）, ______ was president of France for the longest time.

A．Valéry Giscard d´Estaing	B．Jacques Chirac
C．Francois Mitterrand	D．Charles de Gaulle

【小题3】According to the chart, we know that Nicolas Sarkozy          .

A．won’t be the next president of France

B．was president of France for 6 years

C．became president of France on 7 May, 2012

D．was a very successful president

 Einstein, the famous scientist, was born          March, 1879.

A．at               B．on               C．in               D．to

 

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20^th World Cup, which is expected to take place between June 12 and July 13,2014 in Brazil. It will be the second time for the country to host the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the Fifa World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany.
Brazil is the greatest football nation in the world. There are 100 million Brazilians. How many of them are football fans? 100 million! All of them think that they know all about football. This makes life very difficult for the Brazilian team manager. When things go badly for the Brazilian team, the newspaper would demand (要求)that the team manager should leave his job. “If we win, they put me in heaven(天堂),”as a manager once said, “If we lose, they put me in hell(地狱).”
You can’t escape football in Brazil. There are football matches on every street and beach. On television, the results of the football matches come before the main news programs. There are six television Channels in Rio de Janeiro(里约日内卢). On Sundays each channel shows a different football match.
Brazil is not the richest country in the world,but the government spends much money on football. It cost more than one billion pounds to prepare for the 1950 World Cup. That’s 10 pounds for every Brazilian. And many Brazilians don’t earn as much as 10 pounds a week. Is it worth it?
“Brazil must have a great football team.” says one reporter. “If it costs one billion pounds, that’s all right. If the government doesn’t give a good football team, then it will become unpopular. Football is more than a game in Brazil.”

【小题1】Which of the following countries hasn’t hosted the FIFA World Cup twice yet so far?

A．Mexico	B．Italy
C．France	D．Brazil

【小题2】It is the        that come before the main news programs on television.

A．football matches

B．results of football matches

C．football matches on the streets

D．football matches on the beaches

【小题3】The underlined sentence means “In Brazil         .”

A．people like football very much,

B．there is something else in football.

C．People like competition.

D．football has influences on the politics(政治)and economy(经济)of the nation.

Many people go to school for education. School education is very important and useful ,but no one can learn everything from school. A teacher ,no matter how much he knows ,cannot teach his student everything .His work is to show his students how to learn .He teaches them how to read and how to think . So much more is to be learned outside school by students themselves.

  It’s always more important to know how to learn by oneself than to learn some facts or formulas （公式）by heart. It’s quite easy to learn some facts in history or a formula in maths, but it’s very difficult to use them. Edison and Einstein didn’t get everything from school, but they were all successful. They invented so many things. The reason for their success is that they knew how to study .They read many books outside school .They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. The most important thing is that they know how to use their brains（大脑）。

1.__Students can’t learn everything in school because _____________.

A. the teacher doesn’t know much

B. the teacher can only teach them how to read and write

C. the teacher would not like to teach

D. there are still many things for the students to learn outside

2.__A teacher’s work is ________

A. to teach all subjects

B. to teach everything

C .to teach the students how to read and think

D. to work hard

3.__To know how to _____is much more important than facts or formulas by heart.

A. work out math problems          B. remember all the facts

C. study science                    D. study

4.__Why did the famous scientists become successful ? Because______

A. they know how to study    

B. they remembered  all the formulas

C. they didn’t get everything from school

D. they didn’t know how to use their brains

5.__Which is WRONG according  to the passage?

A. Outside school study is as important  as school study

B. It’s more important to know how to learn than only remember some facts and formulas.

C. It’s very easy to use a formula in working out a math problem.

D.It’s helpful to read more books outside school.

 

You must have seen ads on TV about hair care products （护发用品）. The models have shining hair like jewels （珠宝）. But now to make hair shine is no longer the task of hair care products, because hair can be made into real jewels. Believe it or not, a company called LifeGem in the US turns hair into jewels.

The company is in the business of taking hair from dead people and making it into diamonds （钻石）. The diamonds are for the families to remember the dead people.

Now the company plans to make three diamonds using Beethoven's hair to show their latest technology （技术）. The work will take about 7 months and in the end, Beethoven's long hair will become 3 shining diamonds between 0.5 to 1 carat （克拉）in size.

Since the great musician died in 1827, you may wonder how they got Beethoven's hair. Actually, the hair was given by John Rezniloff, who holds the Guinness World Record for the largest and most valuable collection of celebrities' （名人） hair. His collection also includes hair of Napoleon, Albert Einstein,  Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. In total,  the collection is worth over 5 million dollars.

Though it sounds unbelievable （难以置信）, to have such diamonds made with hair may be a good way to show respect （尊敬） and love to those who died.

1.What does the company of LifeGem do?

A．It buys shining hair.

B．It produces hair care products.

C．It uses hair to make jewels.

D．It sells expensive diamonds to famous people.

2.Why does the company decide to make diamonds out of Beethoven's hair?

A．To show the latest technology.

B．To make the biggest diamond.

C．To make the most shining diamond.

D．To help the dead people become famous.

3.How long will the work take?

A．Half a month.

B．One month.

C．Three months.

D．Seven months.

4.What does the underlined word "it" refer to?

A．The collection of celebrities' hair.

B．The making of hair care products.

C．To make diamonds with hair.

D．The Guinness World Record.