Are you still doing the V for victory sign? It’s out. The latest popular hand gesture（手势）is to curl both of your hands and put them together to make a heart—shape. Known as “hand heart”, many young stars in the US including Justin Bieber , Blake Lively and Taylor Swift have done the move in recent photos.
“The heart — hand gesture means something between ‘I love you’ and ‘thank you’, ”said the country singer Taylor Swift,21.”It’s a sweet, simple message which you can send without saying a word.”
Taylor Swift often puts her hands above her head in the heart shape at her concerts. And she is believed to be the first to make the gesture popular.
Last month during a charity show, Justin Bieber and his superstar friends did it to help out three kids whose parents were killed in a car accident. The gesture became a real hit after that.
“It used to take longer for nonverbal（不用语言的）culture to move. But now ,with smart phones and the Internet, it’s much faster,” said Patti Wood, an American language expert.
In the Republic of Korea, the hand heart has been popular for a long time, in a different way. People there like making a “bigger heart” by putting their hands above their heads and making a heart shape with their arms. It means: “I love you.” When we want to express ideas, we often move our hands to mean something besides language. Do you know the meaning of this gesture(手势)?
| A．Good luck. | B．We’ve won. |
| C．Everything is all right. | D．Best wishes. |
Who is the first to make the heart — hand gesture popular?
| A．Justin Bieber | B．Blake Lively | C．Patti Wood | D．Taylor Swift |
A charity show is a show that is put on to.
| A．help the people in need | B．make a gesture popular |
| C．express your love or thanks | D．show your special gesture |
Which of the following statements is true?
| A．Smart phones and the Internet are improving fast. |
| B．Smart phones and the Internet used to take longer time in use. |
| C．It’s much easier for nonverbal culture to reach more people. |
| D．It takes nonverbal culture a long time to become popular. |
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Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Mo, who was born in 1955 into a farmer’s family in Gaomi County in Shandong Province, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy and he experienced hunger（饥饿）. These things have influenced Mo Yan’s later writings. |
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60-year-old Park Geun-hye(朴槿惠)was elected（选举）the new President of South Korea in December, 2012. She becomes the country’s first female head of state and her term will last five years from 2013. “I will become a president who puts people’s living before anything else,” she told the cheering Peopl in central Seoul as she accepted her win. “I will keep my premises.” |
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Barack Obama ( born in Hopolulu, Hawaii in 1961), who was elected the 44th President of the United States in 2008, has been elected again to a second term, fighting against Republican chllenger Mitt Romney. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His father was from Kenya. And his mother was born in Wichits, Kansas. |
When Mo Yan was young, his family might be .
| A．big | B．poor |
| C．rich | D．small |
When was Park Geun-hye born?
| A．In 1952. | B．In 1955. |
| C．In 1961. | D．In 1987. |
Where was Barack Obama born?
| A．In Kansas. | B．In Kenya. |
| C．In Columbia. | D．In Hawaii. |
Which of the following is NOT true about the passages?
| A．The writer Mo Yan lived in a big city before he got the prize. |
| B．Park Geun-hye will lead South Korea till the year 2018. |
| C．Obama fought against his challenger Mitt Romney in the election. |
| D．Among the three persons, Park Geun-hye is the oldest. |
The three passages may be from .
| A．an email | B．a letter |
| C．news | D．an ad |
A young man was going to join the army and had to take a medical examination . The doctor was sitting at a desk when he went in. He said to the man, "Take your coat and shirt off, and sit on that chair. "
The young man did so. The doctor looked at him for a moment without getting up from his chair and then said, " All right. Put your clothes on again. "
" But you haven't examined me at all " the young man said in surprise.
"There is no need to do so, " the doctor said with a smile. "When I told you to take your coat and shirt off, you heard me all right, so there is nothing wrong with your ears. You saw your chair, so your eyes are good. You could take your clothes off and sit on the chair, so you must be in good health. And you understood what I told you to do and did it without a mistake, ...."Why did the young man take a medical examination?
| A．He had hurt his ear. |
| B．He hoped to join the army. |
| C．He wanted to get some medicine. |
| D．He wondered if he was in good health. |
The doctor asked the young man to take his coat and shirt off to test_________.
| A．his eyes | B．his arms |
| C．his sense of hearing | D．his sense of touch |
How did the man feel as soon as the medical examination was over?
| A．Bored. | B．Pleased. |
| C．Uncomfortable. | D．Surprised. |
Which of the following can be chosen to complete the underlined sentence?
| A．so I feel sorry for you |
| B．so you are too weak to join the army |
| C．so you need another medical examination |
| D．so you must be clever enough for the army |
The best title for this story is_________.
| A．A Strict Doctor | B．A Special Medical Examination |
| C．A Serious Mistake | D．A Smart Young Man |
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American people sometimes go camping for vocation. Instead of staying in a modern hotels and restaurants，they live in the woods and do everything for themselves for a few days to relax.
When you are camping, you may make all of your own food. Barbeques (烤肉架) are very common while camping.You can bring meat and vegetables to the camp.To make a fire，you can find or bring your own wood and light it with a lighter(打火机)．
Remember to put stones around the fire so that it won’t get too big or dangerous. When the fire is ready，you can cook food over it. Besides meat and vegetables，you can also cook marshmallows(果酱软糖) with the fire.
Children really like this activity at night. The whole family sit around the fire，eat marshmallows，and drink hot chocolate—especially when it is cold outside!
Vacation needn’t mean going to visit faraway places，it could be as simple as setting up a tent in a nearby forest!What do American people do for vocation?
Where do Americans live?
Why do they put stones around the fire?
Do the children really like this activity?
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Mr. Chen is a farmer. He lives in western China w his wife and two sons. One year ago, he found that he had cancer. The doc tor told him that he needed an operation(手术) at once. A
he said the operation would cost thousands of yuan. It was too much money for Mr. Chen and his wife. They had no jobs and both their sons were at school. The s
（局势,状况）seemed hopeless.
Two weeks later, however, Mr. Chen got some (好的) news. A health care project would provide medical treatment for poor patients in western China. They need to pay only half the cost or even less. T
to the project, he was able to receive an operation in time to prevent(防止) the illness from getting
（更糟的）. Now he has returned to his family.
The purpose of this health care project is t improve the situation of poor people in western China. So f
（到目前为止）, the project has h
more than 5,000 people. The Chinese government hopes to
(发展) a new health care model for China. As our country develops, we must remember to care for the weakest members.
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A standard American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1,500 students. Every students is given a locker(锁柜). When students arrive at the school, the first go straight to their lockers American students usually take a yellow school bus or go to school on foot if they
live close enough. When they turn 16 years of age, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students get passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver’s test, they can began driving themselves to school.
Each day, students take six or seven classes. . They can choose art, clothes making and other classes. In some school students mus t take one or more of the classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies.
This is because each teacher has his own classroom. There is a five-minutes break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class. . After school more that half of the students take part in after-school activities.These activities include sports and clubs, such as basketball, baseball,soccer,speech, school newspaper and so on.
| A．They must take science, math, English and social studies. |
| B．Sometimes their parents drive them to school. |
| C．There they put away or get their textbooks. |
| D．The school day usually ends early in the afternoon. |
E. Students move to different classrooms for each subject.
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