Many teenagers feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do.In large families，it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends.Even when they are not with their friends，they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone.This communication is very important in children’s growing up，because friends can discuss something.These things are difficult to tell their family members. However，parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them.Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who chooses your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?Your answers are welcome.

1.Many teenagers think that________can understand them better.

A．friends           B．brothers          C．sisters            D．parents

2.When teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents，they usually________.

A．stay alone at home                      B．fight with their parents

C．discuss it with their friends                D．go to their brothers and sisters for help

3.The underlined sentence “Your answers are welcome.” means “________”.

A．You are welcome to discuss the questions with us.

B．We’ve got no idea，so your answers are welcome.

C．Your answers are always right.

D．You can give us all the right answers.

4.Which of the following is the writer’s attitude(态度)?

A．Parents should choose friends for their children.

B．Children should choose everything they like.

C．Parents should understand their children better.

D．Teenagers should only go to their friends for help.

 

In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses, etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections(注射) so that they won’t carry diseases. They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every kind of stores. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food.               When you visit people’s houses, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad about it.

People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be: Their family ties are not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

1.The passage mainly talks about ______.

A．how to keep diseases from pets            B．Canadians have pets as friends

C．how to take good care of pets              D．life of the old in Canada

2.Pets are given injections in animal hospitals ______.

A．in order to keep them safe                B．after being taken home

C．because they carry diseases               D．because they are sick

3.The word “bird feeder” in the second paragraph probably means ______.

A．a person who gives food to birds            B．a container that has food for birds

C．something that catches birds               D．an animal that eats birds

 

 

The parents are _____ their son who has been away from home for days.

 A. in search of    B. to search     C. searching        D. searched for

 

They may be small and not able to speak, but babies are proving their amazing cleverness. Scientists began finding infants’ skills are more than they are supposed to be.
_________
Speaking of music, babies can’t seem to resist it. Not only are their ears turned to the beats, babies can actually dance to the music.
To test babies’ dancing ability, the researchers played recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, and recorded the results. They also invited professional dancers to analyze how well the babies matched their movements to the music. The babies moved their arms, hands, legs feet and heads in response to the music, much more than to the speech. The finding suggests this dancing ability is innate(与生俱来的) in humans, though the researchers aren’t sure why it becomes weaker later in their life.
Learning Quickly while Sleeping
Babies can learn even while asleep, according to a 2011 study. In experiments with 26 sleeping infants, each just 1 to 2 days old, scientists played a musical tone followed by a puff of air to their eyes 200 times over the course of a half-hour. 124 electrodes(电极) stuck on the head and face of each baby recorded brain activity during the experiments. The babies rapidly learned to foretell a puff of air upon hearing the tone, showing a four-time increase on average in the chances of tightening their eyelids in response to the sound by the end of the experiments.
As newborns spend most of their time asleep, this newfound ability might be crucial to rapidly adapting to the world around them and help to ensure their survival, researchers said.
Judging Characters Well
Judging another person helpful or harmful is crucial when choosing friends. And that ability starts early. Kiley Hamlin of Yale University showed both 6-and 10-month-olds a puppet(木偶) show, in which one character helped another climb a hill. In another scene a third character pushed the climber down. The little ones then got to choose which character they preferred. For both age groups, most babies chose the helper character. This character-judging ability could be baby’s first step in the formation of morals, Hamlin thought.
【小题1】Which of the following subtitles can fill in the underlined blank?

A．Dancing to Music

B．Babies’ Amazing Abilities

C．Learning to Dance Quickly

D．Born to Dance

【小题2】The underlined word “it” in the third paragraph refers to______.

A．the finding

B．the dancing ability

C．the response

D．the baby

【小题3】The experiment with 26 sleeping infants prove that_______.

A．babies can learn even while asleep

B．babies can respond to the world around them

C．babies can tighten their eyelids in response to the sound

D．babies can communicate with others while asleep

【小题4】In the last experiment, most babies chose the helper character, showing that________.

A．babies can judge a person helpful or harmful

B．babies love to see a puppet show

C．babies were born to help others

D．babes have learned to help others

根据短文内容，从下框的A~F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。

A.   Bollywood pays great attention to traditional values.

 

B.   Bollywood is lees famous than Hollywood, and yet it produces the most films in the world.

 

C.   Bollywood films are full of ideal things and free of daily worries.

 

D.   Bollywood is a decent refreshing replacement for those over-stimulating Hollywood films.

 

E.   Bollywood has gradually won its reputation on the world stage.

 

F.    Bollywood films are mostly comic romances with light-hearted incidental music.

 

Hollywood movies are regularly filled with sex and violence. They can be exciting films but sometimes all you want is a little light-hearted entertainment.

1.____    Have you heard of Bollywood? All singing, all dancing and unrealistic, it is the perfect alternative to normal Hollywood movies. Bollywood is the Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. Most Chinese school kids have probably never seen an Indian film. Yet Bollywood is the largest producer of films in the world. This year the Indian Filmgare Awards, Bollywood's Oscrs, turn 50 years old.

2.__     The typical Bollywood movie usually has the following ingredients: a cup of romance, a tea-spoon of comedy, a dash of international sight-seeing, served with a huge slice of singing and dancing. There will also be one brave hero, one beautiful heroine and one baddie. The result is a fun-filled musical.

3.__     There is never any mention of politics, poverty or war. The actors change clothes and locations within a single song. But the audience don't mind. To Indian movie lovers, especially the poor, such films are a gateway to heaven and the stars are their gods. The films take them to a magical world away from their everyday troubles. The films tell them the impossible is possible and that true love conquers all.

4.___    But, behind the beautiful scenes, Bollywood still emphasizes traditional family values. In most films, if two lovers want to break an arranged marriage, they can't just run away. They must win over their parents.

5.__    So if you're tired of all that Hollywood actions, check out the following Bollywood films. They will take you to a brighter, cheerier and more colourful world, where it's still cool to dance around a tree and sing a love song.