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CCTV New Year’s Gala(春晚) is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Central Television. The program begins at 8:00 PM and    1.  until about 1:00 AM on the first day of the New Year.

The program has received extremely    2.  audiences(观众), which have grown greatly    3.  the years. As the Chinese New Year’s Eve is a time when the   4.  members get together, the Gala adds a pleasant mood to the house    5.  people sis in front of their TV set laughing, discussing and enjoying the    6. . It has become a    7.  in China to watch the New Year’s Gala. Around 1:00 in the early morning, the program    8.  with the song Can’t Forget Tonight.

To bring audiences even   9.  to the yearly show, the Gala organizers have tired many ways to make the program more attractive. It is    10. that there will be no advertisements this year so that audiences can be satisfied with a natural and smooth Gala.

 

News 1
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan developed the world’s first popular and widely known hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than regular ones.
News 2
Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Don’t worry, things will get better soon. Last week, China started checking textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books all over the country. The government said the results of the check would come out at the end of June.
News 3
People will see a new “star” in the sky soon. China plants to send a satellite into space by December 2006.It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive, right? That’s for sure; 1.4 billion yuan!
News 4
Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours? One day, maybe you can. Last Saturday, the American X-43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers per hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world.X-43A is only three to four meters long, but it’s very heavy. It weighs 1,270 kilograms.
【小题1】The satellite sent by China will move around ________.

A．the moon

B．the earth

C．the sun

D．the mars

【小题2】The speed of the fastest plane in the world is ______.

A．1.4 kilometers per second	B．43 kilometers per minute
C．1,270 kilometers per hour	D．8,000 kilometers per hour

【小题3】The checking of textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books will __________.

A．make a lot of money

B．make the children sad

C．make sure there are no mistakes in them

D．make sure the books are not too expensive

【小题4】Which of the following statements about the new star is NOT true?

A．It will go around the moon.	B．It will stay in space for two years.
C．It costs a lot.	D．It will go into space by December 2006.

【小题5】Yuan Longping won the World Food Prize because ___________.

A．he likes to eat hybrid rice

B．he is a successful father

C．he grows more rice than others

D．he developed the world’s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice

Have you heard of Chen Binqiang in Zhejiang Province? Over the past six years, he has taken care of his mother who got Alzheimer’s disease.
Chen’s mother, 64-year-old Chen Yueguang, has been ill since 2007. The illness became very serious quickly and she has lost the ability to speak and can not look after herself. None of Chen’s other family members, however, could take care of their sick mother. Chen’s father died in a traffic accident when he was eight, his two sisters married far away and his wife has a 92-year-old grandmother to look after. 
Chen taught Chinese in Central School of Lengshui town, which is about 30 kilometers away from his home in Pan’an. So he spent five days at school and only went home on weekends. When he said he would take his mother to work, even his wife was doubtful and worried. She really doesn’t think it is a good idea for him to take care of his mother in school. She worries what if he lost his job because of this.
But Chen has made the decision. Soon he was putting a safety hat onto his mother’s head and helping her sit on his electric bike’s back seat. He thinks that his mother used to take him around and now he should take her.
These days, things got a little easier for him. With the help of Pan’an government, Chen got a new job in Pan’an Middle School in October 2012. The new school is only five minutes’ ride from his home, which means he can take care of his mother more conveniently.
Chen feels happiest when his mother is looking at him. She must have forgotten who he is, and she even can’t call his name. But she surely knows that Chen is kind to her. He feels that is enough.
On February 19^th, 2013, Chen got the prize for Touching China, held by China Central Television to honor those whose performances have moved the people.
【小题1】 What does Chen Binqiang do? He is ___________,

A．a farmer

B．a driver

C．a postman

D．a teacher

【小题2】The word “doubtful” in Paragraph 3 means ________.

A．疑惑

B．明白

C．预料

D．支持

【小题3】 How did Chen take her mother to his school?

A．In his car.	B．In a taxi.
C．By electric bike.	D．On foot.

【小题4】 The passage mainly tells us _______.

A．people will live a very hard life if our parents become seriously ill

B．it should be allowed to take care of our mothers at work places

C．a man who shows loving care for his mother and his great spirit

D．Touching China honors people whose performances move us

News 1
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice, won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan developed the world’s first popular and widely known hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than regular ones.
News 2
Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Don’t worry, things will get better soon. Last week, China started checking textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books all over the country. The government said the results of the check would come out at the end of June.
News 3
People will see a new “star” in the sky soon. China plants to send a satellite into space by December 2006.It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive, right? That’s for sure; 1.4 billion yuan!
News 4
Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours? One day, maybe you can. Last Saturday, the American X-43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers per hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world.X-43A is only three to four meters long, but it’s very heavy. It weighs 1,270 kilograms.
【小题1】The satellite sent by China will move around ________.

A．the moon

B．the earth

C．the sun

D．the mars

【小题2】The speed of the fastest plane in the world is ______.

A．1.4 kilometers per second	B．43 kilometers per minute
C．1,270 kilometers per hour	D．8,000 kilometers per hour

【小题3】The checking of textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books will __________.

A．make a lot of money

B．make the children sad

C．make sure there are no mistakes in them

D．make sure the books are not too expensive

【小题4】Which of the following statements about the new star is NOT true?

A．It will go around the moon.	B．It will stay in space for two years.
C．It costs a lot.	D．It will go into space by December 2006.

【小题5】Yuan Longping won the World Food Prize because ___________.

A．he likes to eat hybrid rice

B．he is a successful father

C．he grows more rice than others

D．he developed the world’s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice

Zhao Tao, a student from No.2 Middle School, has just come back from Shanghai. This morning, he told us something about his pleasant trip .When he talked about the Shanghai World Expo, he was so excited and so proud that he kept telling about it for several hours. The Shanghai World Expo held by China has been on for more than one month .It started on May 1st, and will end on October 31st, 2010. Its main idea is “Better City, Better Life.” About 242 countries and organizations are attending this expo. Many new products can be seen here, such as we can see the snow in the South Korea Corporate Pavilion(展馆) every day during this hot summer though it seldom snows in Shanghai. And we can see, hear, touch and smell the 4-D films at the Oil Pavilion. How wonderful all these new products are!
China Pavilion is in the center of the expo garden. It is very beautiful. It represents the development of China from ancient time to now. It’s a pride of our China!
Thousands of people from all over the world are coming to the expo every day. And many volunteers are working for them. All the tourists are very pleased and they say that the Shanghai World Expo is the greatest one in the world so far.
However, Zhao said, “The expo garden is now so crowded. If you want to visit it, you’d better go there during the summer vacation.”
【小题1】The main idea of the Shanghai World Expo is “______”

A．Better City, Better Life.	B．How to Protect the Environment.
C．No War in the World.	D．No Earthquake.

【小题2】In which pavilion can we see the snow during this hot summer?

A．China Pavilion.	B．the Oil Pavilion.
C．the South Korea Corporate Pavilion.	D．I don’t know.

【小题3】So far, how long has the Shanghai World Expo been on ?

A．For 20 days.

B．For a month.

C．For four weeks.

D．For about 50 days.

【小题4】How many countries and organizations are attending the Shanghai World Expo?

A．150.

B．Less than 180.

C．242.

D．220

【小题5】Which of the following is NOT talked about in this passage?

A．Zhao Tao is a middle school student.	B．China’s new products are excellent.
C．The volunteers are working very hard.	D．The expo garden is now very crowded.