One night I was sitting in my room half-listening as my 15-year-old brother Tommy fought with my 12-year-old brother Kevin. I didn’t pay attention when Kevin rushed up the stairs with the hurt on his face.
About 20 minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin crying inside the bathroom. I knocked on the door and asked, “Hey Kevin, do you want to talk?”
No answer.
I tried again, “Why don’t you come out of there?”
Again, no answer.
So, joking around, I grabbed a stack of （一摞）cards and a pencil and wrote, “If you don’t want to talk, we can write notes to each other.”
An hour later I was still sitting on the floor outside the bathroom with two stacks of cards in front of me. One was blank and one was cards from Kevin on which he had translated all his yucky feelings into words for me. As I read one of Kevin’s notes, tears came to my eyes. It said, “Nobody in this family cares about me. I’m not the youngest, and I’m not the oldest. Tommy thinks I’m silly and Dad wishes he had the other Kevin as a kid because he’s better at basketball. And you’re never around to even notice me.”
Tears came to my eyes as I wrote back to him. “You know Kevin, I really do love you and I’m sorry I don’t always show it. I am here for you and you are loved in this family.”
There was no answer for a while, but then I heard a tearing sound coming from inside the bathroom. Kevin, who had run out of cards wrote on a torn paper cup. “Thanks.”
I wrote back “For what?” it returned to me with “Loving me” on it.
Since then, I try my best to never only half-notice my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer relationship now. And sometimes when one of us notices that the other is upset, we’ll smile and say “Write it on a paper cup.”The underlined word “yucky” most probably means ____.
| A．upset | B．exciting | C．terrible | D．amazing |
What could be the reason that Kevin’s Dad doesn’t like him?
| A．Kevin is not as clever as his brother. |
| B．He is neither the youngest nor the oldest. |
| C．Kevin doesn’t like to make friends with others. |
| D．Kevin is not good at playing basketball. |
What do we know about the writer?
| A．She has two children in her family. |
| B．She didn’t pay enough attention to Kevin before. |
| C．She used to show her love to Kevin. |
| D．She has a closer relationship with Tommy after that. |
What does the writer want to tell us?
| A．Everyone should show how they love their family members. |
| B．It’s hard to get on well with family members. |
| C．It’s important to keep peace in the family. |
| D．We should try our best to stop our children from fighting. |
He was a single father, raising a 5-year-old boy alone. He worried about his son growing up without a mother to care for him.
One day he went away on business, leaving the child alone. He was worried about the child all the way, not knowing if he had eaten. But his child always told him not to worry. He went home quickly after finishing his work.
When he got home, the child was deep asleep. He was tired out. When he was about to sleep himself, he was surprised to find an overturned bowl of noodles under the quilt. He spanked his sleeping son angrily: "Why are you so naughty, making the quilt dirty? Who will wash it?" It was the first time that he had hit his boy after his wife's death.
"I haven't," the boy explained with tears in his eyes. "This is your supper, Daddy." In order to let his father eat dinner as soon as he got home, the boy cooked two bowls of noodles: one for himself, the other one for his father. He was afraid his father's noodles would get cold, so he placed them under the quilt to keep them hot.
Hearing this, the father hugged his boy tightly without saying a word. According to the passage we know the boy only had _________.
| A．a grandfather | B．a mother | C．a father | D．a grandmother |
The single father was always worried about ______.
| A．his work | B．his money | C．his son | D．his quilt |
When the father got home , __________________________
| A．His son wasn't at home. | B．He was tired out |
| C．His son was doing his homework | D．He was very happy. |
When the father knew the truth, _________.
| A．He hit his son | B．He was very upset. |
| C．He hugged his son tightly. | D．He went outside. |
Which of the following is wrong?
| A．The father worried about his son when he was on business. |
| B．The child was sleeping when his father got home. |
| C．The father often hit his son after his wife’s death. |
| D．The child cooked noodles for himself and his father. |
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Microsoft has stopped providing service for Windows XP since April 8,2014. Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. 【1】The computers that use the XP system are not as safe as before.
The "demise"(停用) of Windows XP will have the greatest influence on China because it has about 210 million XP users, who make up about 70.percent of the PC market in the world. Microsoft's decision to "kill" Windows XP, a product with hundreds of millions of users, has a certain purpose to show its strong position in the operating system market.
At the same time, the "death" of XP has created opportunities for China's IT companies to grow and develop. China can break the monopoly(垄断)of international IT giants and protect the internet security(安全) by having information technology and a policy that encourages innovation. 把划线部分翻译成汉语：
根据短文内容回答第2—4题：In which year, Windwos XP started to provid support?
According to the passage,how many XP users are there in the world?
How can China break the monopoly of international IT giants and protect the internet security?
What is the main idea of the passage?
| A．How to protect our XP system? |
| B．How to change your computer? |
| C．Why did Mirosoft stopped providing service for Windows XP |
| D．The influenc about the “demise” of Windows XP. |
Useful Information in Australia
Useful Numbers
All the telephone numbers are useful and free.
。Fire/ Police/ Ambulance(救护车)—000 Telephone information—12455
。Medical(医学的) Care—1300369359 Taxi—1800421113
Surfing the Internet
With so many Internet tearooms and public libraries, it’s easy to surf the Internet in Australia.
Also it’s very cheap for you to surf the Internet.
。Public libraries offer free Internet every day even during public holidays.
。Many travel managers provide connection which is cheap or free.
Post Service
All post offices around the country offer post services(服务) so you can receive mails as you travel around the whole country.
。Post offices are usually open from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm.
。It costs 50 cents to send a standard（标准的） letter in Australia.
Public Holidays
On public holidays all shops are closed across Australia, so are banks and post offices.
。New Year’s Day—1st January
。Australia Day—26th January
。Christmas Day—25th DecemberIf there is a fire, you can call________ in Australia.
| A．1300369359 | B．180042113 | C．000 | D．12455 |
Which is the right time to send a letter in a post office in Australia?
| A．At 8:30 on Tuesday. | B．At 9:30 on Sunday. |
| C．At 8:30 on Saturday. | D．At 9:30 on Monday. |
Mr. Green lives alone in Australia and he isn’t in good health. He needs a nurse to look after him. What should he do?
| A．Go to an Internet tearoom. | B．Send a letter to his son. |
| C．Call 1300369359. | D．Go to a hospital. |
Which one might be open on public holidays?
| A．Public libraries. | B．Shops. | C．Banks. | D．Post offices. |
Which one is not right according to（根据）the above passage?
| A．Surfing the Internet is cheap in Australia. |
| B．It costs 50 cents to send a standard letter. |
| C．Australians go to work on 26th January. |
| D．Australians don't go shopping on public holidays. |
It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.
So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed.
The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪ plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.
Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed.
British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪ say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪ would sacrifice a day’s pay(工资)for one more vacation day. ____________ U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days.
| A．All | B．Most | C．Some | D．Few |
How many vacation days do Americans have on average each year in fact?
| A．9 | B．12 | C．15 | D．23 |
Which country has the most workers working during the vacation days?
| A．America. | B．France. | C．Sweden. | D．great Britain. |
What does the word “sacrifice” mean in the last sentence?
| A．Use up. | B．Put up. | C．Take up. | D．Give up. |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Some American workers are too busy to leave their work. |
| B．French workers can take one Three-to-four week days. |
| C．Swedish workers can enjoy all of their vacation days. |
| D．British workers have the shortest vacation days of all the countries surveyed. |
In the past month，we’ve been holding our breath for news about a Boeing 777 plane,MH 370．
It took off from Kuala Lumpur(吉隆坡)，Malaysia．On March 8．It was heading to Beijing．But about two hours into the flight, the plane went missing．
There were 239 people on the flight，including 154 Chinese．
A total of 12 countries including China and the US have joined the search for the plane．
Did it crash? We know that the weather was clear that day．The pilots didn’t make any distress calls(求救信号)．And as of March l3，experts have not found any broken parts of the plane。
Was it hijacked(劫机)? Two Iranians(伊朗人)used stolen passports to get into the flight．But now they do not appear to be linked to any possible hijacking of the plane，international police agency Interpol(国际刑警组织)official said on March 11．
The search is still going on．It could take months or even years to find out what happened
to the flight．When did MH370 go missing?
| A．March 8 | B．March 9 | C．March ll | D．April 8 |
How many Chinese are there on the flight?
| A．239 | B．1 54 | C．1 45 | D．85 |
What was the weather like that day?
| A．cloudy | B．rainy | C．fine | D．windy |
Did the pilots make any distress calls before the plane went missing?
| A．Yes，they did． | B．No，they didn’t． | C．We don’t know． | D．Maybe |
How long could it take to find out what happened to the flight?
| A．several months | B．several years | C．months or years | D．3 months |
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