This year, Chongqing primary schools decide to start morning classes an hour later. This will help students feel less tired. And most primary schools will begin the first class at about 9 o’clock in the morning. The students are happy about the change.
Liu Ming told us that his classmates were excited by the news on the first day of the school. “Great! From now on we students at Hope Primary School don’t have to get up so early!” Liu said that he used to get up at 6:40 a.m. Now he can get up at 7:50 a.m. because class doesn’t start until 8:50 a.m. Wu Hong feels the same. She said the new timetable was good for her health. “I used to get up at 6:30 a.m. I had to drink coffee every night, or I would feel too sleepy to finish my homework,” said Wu Hong, “Now I can finish it without coffee, because I can sleep a little longer.”
Many teachers say the change will help students learn better. “Students used to doze（瞌睡）for the first two classes in the morning,” said Huang Shan, an English teacher at No.1 Primary School. “But now they are active and learn much better than before.”
But some parents are worried that more sleep will mean less learning. There used to be five classes in the morning. Now there are only four.
In fact, every coin has two sides. So does the change in the school timetable.This year, most Chongqing primary schools start the first class at about .
A．6:40 a.m. B．7:50 a.m. C．8:50 a.m.Hearing the news, the students at Hope Primary School felt .
A．worried B．sad C．excitedHow many classes are there in the morning in Chongqing primary schools now?
A．Three. B．Four. C．Five. used to drink coffee at night in order to finish homework.
A．Wu Hong B．Liu Ming C．Huang ShanWhich is RIGHT according to the passage?
A．Many teachers are worried that more sleep will mean less learning.
B．The students will have to get up one hour earlier than before.
C．The students in No.1 Primary School used to doze for the first two classes in the morning.
Questionaire
Read the question and answer YES or NO, then you will find out how good you are.
1. When you don’t understand something, you ask questions.
2. You like listening to older people talk about the past.
3. You think that you can learn something interesting from everyone around you.
4. You are brave enough when you have to talk to people you don’t know. You enjoy reading books about famous people.
5. You always see and talk to different people.
6. You are interested in learning new ways of doing things.
7. You enjoy sharing experiences with friends and learning from people of all ages.
8. You talk a lot about yourself.
9. Even if you are often wrong, you make your own decisions.
10. You hate teaching what you are good at: sports, technology, whatever.
11. Your parents don’ understand you, so you don’t talk to them much.
SCORE NOW: Score 2 points if you answer YES to each of the first 8 questions, and 0 if you choose NO.
Score 2 points if you answer NO to each of the last 4 questions, and 0 if you choose YES.
18-24 You are friendly and open-minded. You make people feel important by listening to what they have to say. You’ll probably succeed in learning all kinds of interesting things. Good for you!
10-16 Remember that every single person you know can teach you something. You will greatly make your life rich and colorful.
0-8 About 400 years ago, a famous writer wrote, “ No man is an island”. This is still true today. Try to be more open and interested in people around you.If you say “YES” to all these questions, you’ll get _____ points.
| A．12 | B．16 | C．20 | D．24 |
When you score 22 points, you are _____.
| A．shy and nervous | B．silent and serious |
| C．open and friendly | D．brave and strong |
The writer thinks you should_____.
| A．always see and talks to the same people |
| B．make your own decision whenever you want |
| C．enjoy teaching what you are good at |
| D．talk much about yourselves when possible |
“No man is an island” in the text probably means that______.
| A．the famous writer was very clever |
| B．everything is the same as 400 years ago |
| C．you will feel lonely if on an island |
| D．you can not live alone in the world |
The questions are used to test whether you are willing to _____.
| A．learn from others | B．help other people |
| C．do all by yourself | D．depend on others |
High school life can be terrible if you get it all wrong. Find out how to survive high school with a few easy tips.
◆________.
High school is a fun time to make new friends and meet new people. Make friends with all kinds of people and not just a group which you are comfortable with. Socialize， but by judging who you can connect to. You will find friends， but stay away from the ones who don’t want to be your friends.
◆Be yourself.
Do your own things， and don’t just follow others. ________. Just be yourself and create a strong self-image.
◆Be positive (积极的).
There is nothing better than having a smile on your face whenever you can. ________. Just be brave enough to meet new people or do something you’ve never tried. Meanwhile， respect your teachers and classmates and try to be helpful if you want the same in return.
◆Be confident.
When you believe in yourself， others will believe in you. ________. And people respect you for that. Make sure you won’t easily get influenced by others.
◆Love high school.________. Make the most out of it， and you will never get those moments back. Come up with funny ideas， top your class， make the best friends， drink， go to parties， but just make as many memories as you can!
| A. Fall in love with it B. Find friends around you C. Practice positive thinking D. Don’t give in to anyone’s wants E. Confidence is a special gift in your life |
When you meet someone for the first time， you will get a general idea in your mind of that person in the first moment. Your feelings about other people， however， are really just show the way that you look at yourself. Your reactions to others say more about you than they do about others. You cannot really love or hate about yourself. We are usually drawn to those who are most like us and may dislike those who have the same characters as ourselves that we dislike.
Therefore， you can allow others to be the mirror to see more clearly your own feelings of self-worth. And， you can view the people you judge negatively (否定地) as mirrors to show you what you are not accepting about yourself.
To live peacefully with others， you will need to learn patience. A big challenge is to let your judgment of others be a lifelong research of yourself. Your task is to consider all the decisions and judgments you make onto others carefully and to begin to see whether you can use them to help yourself and become whole.
Several days ago I had a business lunch with a man who showed objectionable table manners. My first feeling was to judge him as rude. When I noticed that I was judging him， I stopped and asked myself what I was feeling. I discovered that I was nervous to be seen with someone who was eating with his mouth open and loudly blowing his nose. I was very surprised to find how much I cared about how the other people in the restaurant judged me.
Remember that your judgment of someone will not serve as some kind of protective thing against you becoming like him. Just because I judge my lunch partner as rude， it does not prevent me from ever looking or acting like him. In the same way， my patience to him would not cause me to suddenly begin eating my food with my mouth open.
When you get close to life in this manner， those with whom you hate very much as well as those whom you admire and love can be seen as mirrors， guiding you to discover parts of yourself that you dislike and to embrace your greatest characters you are proud of.In the writer’s opinion， when we judge others， we are really ______.
| A．treating them in a polite way |
| B．showing what we ourselves are |
| C．guiding ourselves to know them |
| D．telling them what they should do |
Why did the writer feel bad when he was with his lunch partner?
| A．Because he was afraid he himself might get the bad habits. |
| B．Because he was too angry to go on with his lunch any more. |
| C．Because he was afraid he might be thought badly of by others. |
| D．Because he was too nervous to speak his opinions out right there. |
The underlined word “objectionable” in Paragraph 4 probably means ______.
| A．unbelievable | B．unforgettable |
| C．unacceptable | D．unreasonable |
The writer writes the passage to ______.
| A．tell us a story that happened in a restaurant |
| B．ask us not to behave rudely in some public places |
| C．encourage us to have the right attitude towards others |
| D．advise us to know ourselves from judging others properly |
Soap is more popular in liquid form than in bars in the UK – but there are good reasons to stick with the old traditional way of keeping clean， says Gareth Rubin.
According to market research company Mintel， 87% of
Britons usually buy liquid soap， compared to only 13% who buy bars of it. And solid soap is losing the popularity. But why do some people still prefer traditional solid soap?
1. It’s what they’ve always known. 
Some people are just traditionalists. According to Mark Constantine， he thinks it’s always lovely when we’re using something that’s been about for 3，000 years. Solid soap has got a huge history and they’re very beautiful.
2. Solid soap is more pleasant.
Smelling a plastic bottle doesn’t feel very comfortable， while you can get bars of different textures and smells – some bars have sea salt， nuts， fruits or flowers in them for a bit of a surprise. Others come in beautiful or even funny shapes and sizes. You can tie attractive bars of soap up in silk ribbons (丝带) and present them as a gift to a loved one – the effect isn’t quite the same when you do this with a liquid soap.
3. Less packaging (包装) is better for the planet.
All those bottles has to come from somewhere and go somewhere. Recycling can only do so much， whereas typically a bar of soap comes in a little paper wrapper and that’s it. If you care about the environment， you can even buy bars of soap without paper around them. “And about 60% of the cost of a bottle of soap goes on the packaging and the pump (泵头).” says Constantine.
4. The bottles are a little bit difficult.
You can hold a bar of soap in one hand and it works. With the bottles you first have to use both hands to unlock the pump， and shut your eyes to the liquid slowly dropping the sticky thing onto your bathroom floor. When the bar of soap runs down， you can still use it until it is no more， but with the liquid soap it is a difficult task to get the last drop out of the bottom. According to market research company Mintel， ______.
| A．solid soap is as popular as liquid soap |
| B．more people refuse to buy liquid soap |
| C．solid soap is becoming less popular |
| D．solid soap is better for the planet |
Compared to solid soap， liquid soap ______.
| A．has less packaging |
| B．has a much longer history |
| C．is more pleasant in smells |
| D．has less funny shapes and sizes |
What can you infer from the passage?
| A．Liquid soap is not worth the price according to Constantine. |
| B．A bottle of liquid soap cannot be a present for a friend. |
| C．More people will buy solid soap without silk ribbons. |
| D．It’s impossible to use up the liquid soap in a bottle. |
What does the passage mainly talk about?
| A．People’s preference to soap is changing. |
| B．Liquid soap is still liked by many Britons. |
| C．The advantages and disadvantages of solid soap. |
| D．The reasons why some people still prefer solid soap. |
American English is full of colorful expressions. One such expression is to touch all bases.
There are four bases in baseball – first， second， third and home plate. When a baseball player hits the ball， he must run to each base – in order – and touch it with his foot. It is the only way to get a point. If the player hits the ball and fails to touch all the bases， the point will not be counted.
The importance of touching all the bases was shown at the start of the 1974 baseball seasons.
Hank Aaron was a player with the Atlanta Braves team. He was trying to find the record for hitting the most home runs (全垒打). Aaron needed just one home run to be well matched with the record held by Babe Ruth， the greatest hitter in baseball history. Aaron got that home run the very first time he had a chance to hit the ball. That gave him 714 home runs – the same as Babe Ruth. After that day， baseball fans held their breath every time when it was Hank Aaron’s turn to hit. When would he hit home run number 715?
The wait was not long. In the second week of the season， Aaron again hit the ball over the wall. He had beaten Babe Ruth’s record. But first， he had to run around the four bases. The other players on his team watched carefully to make sure he touched each one.
So， to touch all bases means to do what is necessary to complete an activity.
The expression is used to business and politics. No business deal or political events are really complete until you discuss all the problems involved. Or， as it is said， until you touch all bases.When a baseball player hits the ball， he must ______ to get a point.
| A．run to each base freely |
| B．touch the home plate first |
| C．touch all the bases with his hands |
| D．run to each base in order and touch it with his foot |
When was the importance of touching all the bases shown?
| A．At the start of the 1974 baseball seasons. |
| B．At the end of the 1974 baseball seasons. |
| C．Before the baseball rules made. |
| D．In the second week of 1974. |
Who hit home run number 715?
| A．Babe Ruth. | B．Hank Aaron. |
| C．Babe Ruth’s partner. | D．Hank Aaron’s friend. |
What does the expression “to touch all bases” mean?
| A．To do what is needed to finish an activity. |
| B．To get a chance to be the greatest hitter. |
| C．To try your best to set a new record. |
| D．To solve the problems successfully. |
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