The Dragon Boat festival is very popular in China, it usually comes in May or June. On that day, people eat a special food--- rice dumplings. It is known as dragon-boat racing. Dragon-boat racing is the most popular activity during the festival. A dragon boat looks like a dragon, and is painted in red, white, yellow or black. Usually, a dragon boat is 20 to 40 metres long, and needs 20 people to row. Boatmen row the boat in cadence (节奏) with the drumbeats(鼓点), and a man in the front of the boat waves a small flag to help coordinate(使动作协调) the rowing.
Dragon-boat racing becomes a popular activity in South China. International(国际的) dragon-boat racing is held in Guangzhou and Hong Kong every year. Which is the most popular activity during the Dragon Boat Festival ?
| A．Eat rice dumplings | B．trick or treat |
| C．Pumpkin lantern | D．Dragon-Boat racing |
A Dragon boat needs ______________ people to row.
| A．20 | B．40 | C．60 | D．30 |
If you want to watch international dragon-boat racing, you can go to ______.
| A．Guangxi and Guangzhou |
| B．Guangzhou and Fujian |
| C．Guangzhou and Hong Kong |
| D．Hong Kong and Guangxi |
This passage is about __________.
| A．South China |
| B．Dragon-boat racing |
| C．how to row the boat |
| D．the Dragon Boat Festival |
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are working? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to take control of(控制)your feelings and stop getting
angry so easily．Getting angry with people can make you lose friends．
Gary Egeberg，an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings
Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings．It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them．The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse．It can never make them better．Getting angry is not a natured(本性) way to act. It is just a bad habit，like smoking.The book says you can control your anger easily-all you have to do is telling yourself not to be angry．
When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it．Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do．
The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily．Here are our top three：
① Keep a record. Every time you get angry,write down why you are angry．Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily．
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry．This will teach you not to be angry．
③ Do something different．When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else．Try to laugh !
| A．not to get angry easily | B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercise | D．to help each other |
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
Last Tuesday, a little girl died after eating some fried chicken. Her father bought the chicken for her from a street seller in Fenzhuang Village, Fengtai, Beijing.After testing the girl, the doctor said she was poisoned (中毒) by nitrites(亚硝酸盐). Some experts suggest that we should buy foods with QS signs. They are safer.
After hearing about the accident, many people feel more worried about the food safety because there have been many food safety problems in our country these years. For example, poisonous(有毒的) rice, oil, milk and so on have been found out recently. People feel quite afraid because these poisonous foods are rather bad for their health and even kill them. They want the government to do something to stop such poisonous foods and drinks appearing again so that they can have safe and healthy foodsand drinks.
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Andy was a little country boy. He lived in the house on the side of a hill. There was a railroad track below the house and Andy often watched the train as it passed by.
One day, as Andy was crossing the track, he saw that there was something wrong with it. One of the rails seemed to be out of its place. Just then he heard a noise. Dear, dear! The train was coming! It would soon be there! He must try to stop it in some way.
Andy did not think of any danger to himself, but he ran and stood in the middle of the track, not far from the place where the rail was broken, and then he held out his arms and waited.
On and on came the train. The engineer saw the boy on the track and whistled for him to get out of the way. But Andy stood still and did not move.
The engineer had to stop the train. He was very angry as he cried out to the boy and asked him why he stood on track.
But when Andy pointed to the broken rail ，the man understood everything. Andy saved the train and the lives of all the people on it.When Andy was young, _____.
| A．he often liked playing at the foot of the hill |
| B．he often ran on the track up and down |
| C．he often enjoyed listening to the click of rails |
| D．he often watched the train pass by |
One day, as Andy went across the track, ____.
| A．he thought there was something wrong with it |
| B．he saw the train was coming |
| C．he found one of the rails was broken |
| D．he heard a noise |
When the train was coming,____.
| A．Andy stood on the track to hold out his arms |
| B．Andy ran to the train to stop it |
| C．Andy ran out of the track quickly |
| D．Andy cried out to the engineer |
As soon as the engineer saw the boy on the track,____.
| A．he asked Andy why he stood there |
| B．he shouted at Andy |
| C．he whistled for Andy to leave the track |
| D．he asked Andy to get out of the way |
When Andy pointed to the broken rail,____.
| A．the engineer got off the train and repaired it |
| B．the engineer understood and got very angry |
| C．the engineer understood why the boy tried to stop the train |
| D．the engineer came out to see what was the matter |
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control(控制) your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!The writer wants to tell us ____.
| A．not to get angry easily | B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercises | D．to help each other |
The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to指的是____.
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
Mr. Brown’s house was less than two miles from his office, so he could drive home every day for lunch. Every time he drove home at noon, he found many cars outside his house and there was no room for his own car. He had to drive somewhere else to park his car. Then he walked back home. This made him very angry.
He put up a board in the garden facing the road. The board said, “No Parking”. But nobody noticed it. People seemed to obey only a police notice with white letters on a blue board:
Mrs. Brown asked his husband to steal a police notice but he was afraid to do so. Then she asked him to make one just like a police notice. Mr. Brown said he was not the police and couldn’t use the word “police”. Several days later, Mr. Brown made a blue board with white letters.
| PLEASE NOTICE NO PARKING |
“Oh!” Mrs. Brown said. “You told me you weren’t going to use the word ‘police’, but why do you use it now?” “Really?” he asked.
“Look again,” she started to laugh. “You are really clever”.Mr. Brown’s office was ______ his house.
| A．next to | B．not far from | C．2 hours’ drive from | D．5 miles from |
Mr. Brown was angry because ______.
| A．he found no room to park his car outside his house |
| B．he had nothing to eat for lunch at home |
| C．he lost the way when he drove back home one day |
| D．he couldn’t make a police notice outside his house |
Mr. Brown made ______ notice board s altogether 总共。
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．no |
In the end, Mr. Brown made a notice board and it _____.
| A．was just the same as a police notice |
| B．was different in color from a police notice |
| C．just looked like a police notice |
| D．said “PLEASE NOTICE, NO PARKING” |
We can infer推断 that ______ after he put up the blue board.
| A．more people will park their cars outside his house |
| B．more policemen will park their cars outside his house |
| C．fewer people will park their cars outside his house |
| D．fewer people will visit him at noon later on |
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