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   We all have our own ways of sharing our life experiences with others.

  Photographers use cameras, artists use brushes, musicians use songs and writers use stories.

   Spencer Johnson’s story Who Moved My Cheese? Shows changes exist in (存在于) our life. Life changes and so we do. We must change ourselves to face the changing environment, or we will fail.

   Just look at the cycle (循环) of the seasons. Trees bud (发芽) in spring and in summer their leaves turn green. In autumn, their leaves start to fall onto the ground. When winter arrives, there are no leaves on trees. Next spring the cycle begins again. Since we know there are cycles in nature, we can prepare for them. We know it is colder in winter and hotter in summer, so we can dress properly.

Since we accept the cycles of nature, we should also accept the changes in our life.

We can prepare ourselves for changes by becoming more flexible(灵活的). We can regard the changes in our life as chances. As we keep changing ourselves, we can keep up with the changes in our life.

1.What do writers use to share their life experiences?

   A. Stories      B. Newspapers     C. Basketballs    D. Pianos

2.Who Moved My Cheese? Tells us that _________________.

   A. changes exist in our life

   B. we should move other’s things

   C. we should use books to share our life experiences

   D. there are difficulties in our life

3.The cycle of the seasons means______________.

   A. we should wear warm clothes in winter

 B. we should accept the changes in our life

   C. we should prepare for the weather

   D. leaves turn yellow in autumn

4.f you fail a test, what should you think according to the passage?

   A. I have no chance to pass the test.

   B. Exams are hard for me.

   C. I have bad luck.

   D. It’s good for me because I know there are more to learn.

5.What’s the main idea of this passage?

   A. Weather changes in different seasons.

   B. Who Moved My Cheese? is a good book.

   C. We should change ourselves when life changes.

   D. We should not lose heart when meet with difficulties.

 

Eating is important to everyone.  1 

“Fast food is easy,” says Sarah Hudson, a 14-year-old high school student from the U.S.A. she is enjoying her lunch at McDonald’s. “It’s quick and delicious.” She eats fast food about twice a week.

Now each American eats about three hamburgers and four bags of French fries(or potato chips) every week. That is 2 520 calories(卡路里).  2 

Most Americans know that fast food isn’t good for them. But it seems that they can’t give it up.  3 and fast food restaurants are part of American life,96﹪ of American school children know McDonald’s   4  In America,33﹪ of them are overweight (or too heavy).That makes it hard for them to move around, go upstairs and even breathe.

   5 Of course it’s not just young people who are getting heavier. It’s all Americans.

A. They will probably have health problems later in life.

B. In fact, more and more people are eating fast food.

C. But not many people have time to think about what to eat.

D. Because they love the French fries, it’s no surprise that children are getting heavier.

E.A person needs about 2 000 calories for a whole day.

 

Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.

No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.

People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big. When machines appeared(出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.

Today some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?

1.The best title(题目)of the text should be ___.

A．Cities or Villages                        B．Back to Towns

C．How Cities Grew                        D．People and Animals

2.The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.

A．villages           B．animals           C．cities             D．people

3.When factories were built, ___.

A．more people live near the factories

B．people began to live in the factories

C．many people began to work in villages

D．many machines appeared in big factories

4.We can learn from the text that ___.

A．people like to work only in big cities

B．some people don't like to live in big cities

C．there will be no small towns in the future(将来)

D．it is better to live in cities than in villages

5.In what order did people do the following things?

A. Worked in villages       B. Lived near the factories.

C. Learned to grow food.    D. Built factories.

E. Began to live near each other.

A. d, b, a, e, c         B. e, a, c, d, b

C. c, e, a, d, b         D. a. c. d. e. b

 

Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree with them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources（资源）， we are short of（缺乏）others, for example，fresh water（淡水）. It is reported that we will have no coal（煤or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources，what can we use in the future and where can we move？Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our everyday life，we can do many things to prevent waste from happening，for example， turn off the water taps（水龙头） when we finish washing，turn off the lights when we leave the classroom，try not to order more food than we need and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do our best.

1.From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.

A．eat too much	B．don‘t work hard
C．waste things	D．throw rubbish everywhere

2.Which is not mentioned in this passage？

A．Fresh water	B．Forest.
C．Oil.	D．Coal.

3.What may happen in 100 years？

A．We may still have enough oil.

B．We may still have enough coal.

C．We may have a little oil.

D．We may have no coal or oil to use.

4.Which of the following is right？

A．Waste brings problems.

B．Waste can bring no problem.

C．China is rich in fresh water.

D．Students never waste things.

5.Which is the best title of this passage？

A．Stop Wasting	B．School life
C．Waste in the School	D．Rich Resources in China

 

Most middle school students find it boring to learn English. But students in Yat Sen middle school in New York, US, don’t think so. Why? Because they are in the school of One Program, which asks students to work on their own or in small groups on computers to have math lessons.

“The program gives the students a new learning style. No traditional classroom can compare with it. We give each lesson according to the students’ interest and their strong and weak points,” said JoelⅠ. Klein, the school’s head teacher, “we’re looking for a new way that interest students children.”

Students enjoy these math lessons, especially lessons with video games. They must find out the answers to math problems to get through the game. One such game is Dimension M. As students move through mazes(迷宫) with their keyboards, some questions come up.

Caleb Deng had to answer the question: What is 5+ (6×3)? He calculated on paper quickly because there was just a minute left to play.

“ I was right,” said Deng, 14, as he ended the game with a high score (高分). “this really makes math lessons more exciting, since we are fighting to learn better.”

1.Students in Yat Sen Middle School like math because __________.

 A. they work in large group

B. they can work on computer

C. the teachers are interesting

D. math questions are easy there 

2.Which is NOT true of the program?

   A. It is very successful.

   B. It is boring to most students.

   C. It makes learning math more interesting.

   D. It gives the students a new way to learn.

3.The underlined word “calculated” in Paragraph 4 most probably means __________.

   A. worked out    B. wrote down     C. threw away    D. gave up

4.Caleb Deng’s story serves as an example to show ___________.

A. how students work in small groups

B. how to end a game with a high score

C. how the question 5+(6×3) should be solved

D. how students learn math through video games

5.This article is mainly about ___________.

   A. how to learn math well

B. an interesting math lesson

C. a new way to learn math

D. kids in Yat Sen Middle School