Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
| A．The Statue of Liberty. | B．Superman. |
| C．His serf-portrait. | D．A Greenwich Village modal. |
Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
| A．Because he made little money out of a lawyer. |
| B．Because he wanted to make toys for the children. |
| C．Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks. |
| D．Because he was going to work in the museum instead. |
What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
| A．Nathan's work. | B．Nathan's exhibition. |
| C．Nathan's art. | D．Nathan's self-portrait |
What would be the best title for the passage?
| A．The Brick Artist | B．The Brick Exhibition |
| C．Toy Bricks for Adults | D．The Artist's Childhood |
There are many things we should know, but we do not learn them at school. For example, if we want to use our money better, we need to shop carefully. We need to know how to compare（比较） the prices of the things in different shops. We also should know how to make the best choice when we shop.
Knowing how to make such choices is a life skill, and we should practice it in our daily life.
| A．Supermarket W. | B．Supermarket T. |
| C．Supermarket Y. | D．Supermarket U. |
| A．Supermarket W, Supermarket U |
| B．Supermarket Y, Supermarket T |
| C．Supermarket W, Supermarket Y |
| D．Supermarket U, Supermarket T |
| A．Supermarket W. | B．Supermarket U. |
| C．Supermarket Y. | D．Supermarket T. |
| A．Supermarket W. |
| B．Supermarket T. |
| C．Supermarket U. |
| D．Supermarket Y. |
| A．The environment. | B．The service. |
| C．The business hours. | D．The price. |
Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the U.S.A. Children play baseball in sports fields or parks.
At summer picnic, there is often an informal（非正式的） baseball game. Boys and girls, young and old take turns to play. There are nine players on each team.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are showed on TV and members of the important baseball teams become America's heroes（英雄）. At the end of the season, the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go along to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the radio or watch television. People seem to talk only about the game. Even long after it is over, they still talk about the result and the players.
American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the U.S.A. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball. When there is an important game, thousands of people sit beside radios or in front of television sets to get the result.
| A．seven | B．eleven | C．four | D．nine |
| A．April to September | B．March to September |
| C．January to September | D．May to September |
A. The basketball season B. The football season
C. A basketball match D. A football match
| A．Boys and girls like baseball games. |
| B．More people are interested in football than baseball. |
| C．Just young boys and girls take turns to play in the informal baseball game. |
| D．Children sometimes play baseball in parks. |
A. Baseball B. Table tennis
C. Basketball D. American football
Millions years ago much of our earth was covered with blocks (块) of ice. These ice blocks were as tall as high buildings in modern cities. Most of the ice was in the northern (北方的)part of the world.
Then the ice blocks started to move south. Cold and rain came with the ice. Animals and people had to move.
At last, the ice began to melt (融化). After half a million years, most of it had melted. More than half of the earth became covered with water. The climate became much warmer. Things began to grow. The earth began to look the way it looks today. Millions of years ago our earth was very _________________.
| A．warm | B．hot | C．cool | D．cold |
What did animals and people try to do when the ice blocks moved south?
| A．they tried to stop them moving. | B．They tried to melt them. |
| C．They tried to stay ahead of them. | D．They tried to move behind them. |
The melting ice maybe helped to form _____________.
| A．mountains and valleys | B．the sun, the moon and the earth |
| C．cities and countries | D．seas, lakes and rivers |
The underlined word “climate” means _______________.
| A．the freezing ice | B．the weather of the year |
| C．the moving of the ice blocks | D．a plant or an animal |
Which of these things maybe happened because the Ice Age ended?
a. Forests grew b. Food became harder to find
c. Fishing became easier d. The temperature dropped.
| A．a; b | B．b; d | C．c; d | D．a; c |
Mrs White was going to have her first baby very soon. Yesterday her husband took her to a hospital.So Mr White helped her get into car and drove her there. A nurse (护士)took Mrs White to her room and told Mr White that he could go home and she could call him when the baby arrived(出生). But Mr White said he liked to wait at the hospital. The nurse said .“You may wait outside.” Mr White was walking up and down at about midnight（午夜）when the nurse came out of the room and said with a smile.“Which would you like better, a boy or a girl?”“A girl,” said Mr White.“I have an elder sister,and she loves me.”“Well,”said the nurse,”“it’s a boy this time.”“That’s all right，”said Mr White happily,“That’s my second choice.” Why did Mr White take Mrs White to a hospital?
Because they wanted to see an old friend.
Because they wanted to give their child something.
Because Mrs White was going to have her first baby very soon.
Because they needed some help. Mr White was______ all the time.
| A．Waiting outside | B．staying with Mrs White |
| C．waiting at home | D．helping the nurse |
Why did Mr White like to have a girl?
| A．because the girl looked like him. |
| B．Because his elder sister loved him. |
| C．Because the girl looked like Mrs White. |
| D．Because he didn’t have much time to look after a boy. |
Mr White _______.
| A．had a boy |
| B．had a girl |
| C．had a boy and a girl |
| D．told the nurse that Mr White wanted a boy |
Which of the following is NOT wrong?
| A．Mr White didn’t like to have wrong. |
| B．Mrs White told Mr White that they had a baby. |
| C．Mr White was very happy that he had a baby. |
| D．Mr White went to the hospital by bus. |
This is a true story in Guyana. One day, a child took some silver paper from a cigarette box. He rolled it into a tiny ball and pushed it up his nose. He couldn’t get it out again. He ran crying to his mother. His mother couldn’t get the paper out, either. A week later the paper was still in his nose. His nose began to have a bad smell. So his mother took his child to the hospital. The doctor looked up his nose. She put a tiny steel rod（钢棒）into his nose and felt the paper. She said she would have to cut his nose to get the paper out. The child’s mother came home looking sad. She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut. He was a handsome boy and the cut would make him ugly.
Next day, the child’s mother took him to her friend Sidney. Sidney lived in a house with an old woman called May. She asked to see the child, so the child let her look up his nose. He closed his eyes. “Yes, I can see it,” May said. “It will be out soon!” As she spoke, she shook black pepper on the child’s nose. He gave a mighty sneeze and the paper flew out. His mother was surprised. May told her to take the boy to the sea for a swim. She said the salt water would go up his nose and stop the bad smell. So the child didn’t have to go to the hospital and gave his nose cut.How did the silver ball go into the boy’s nose?
| A．His mother put it into his nose. |
| B．The boy himself pushed the ball up his nose. |
| C．The silver ball rolled into his nose itself. |
| D．The passage didn’t tell us. |
Why did the boy’s nose have a bad smell?
| A．The ball stayed in his nose for too long. |
| B．The boy didn't like to wash his nose. |
| C．His nose is cut and gave a bad smell. |
| D．Because he had a running nose. |
What can help to stop the bad smell?
| A．Some medicine. | B．Some black pepper. | C．Fresh air. | D．The salt water. |
In the last paragraph, the underlined word mighty means _____________.
| A．有力的 | B．可能的 | C．好笑的. | D．坚硬的 |
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