①"I will think of it." It is easy to say this, but do you know what great things have come from thinking? Though we can not see, or hear, or feel our thoughts, they have great power (力量) !
②Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer evening when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He began to think, and tried to find out why the apple fell. Then he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.
③James Ferguson once saw the inside of his father's watch, and he wondered, "Why should I not make a watch?" This set him thinking and it led to a wooden clock which kept good time.
④Walt Disney, the famous American film-maker, was often thinking of new ideas. One day, when he was in a meeting, he suddenly stopped talking, deep in thought. He looked and looked at a place high up in the room. This continued for a long time, end then he got an idea for a new cartoon.
⑤Ideas come at any time, end the important thing is to think. When you meet with any difficulty, don't lose heart. Try to think of it before asking someone to help you. Think and by thinking you will learn how to think creatively.Newton wanted to find out ________.
| A．when the apple hit him | B．why the apple fell |
| C．who made the apple fall | D．where the apple fell |
________ made a wooden clock.
| A．Isaac Newton | B．Walt Disney |
| C．James Ferguson | D．James' father |
Walt Disney was ________ when he got an idea for a new cartoon.
| A．making a film | B．telling a story |
| C．having a meeting | D．sitting in a garden |
From the passage we can learn that
| A．we should always ask others for help |
| B．every one of us likes thinking |
| C．it is easy to see and hear our thoughts |
| D．thinking helps to get new ideas |
Which of the following shows the structure (结构) of the passage?
（①="Paragraph" 1, ②=" Paragraph" 2, …）
Mr. Jones opened a shop in Aston to sell writing-paper, pencils and things like that. During the first month, very few people visited his shop. He sold little, and he could see that he was going to lose money. One night, Mr. Jones sat by the fire and was worried after another very bad day. Suddenly he got an idea. He found a piece of wood and wrote to the following notice on it in big letters：
“WHAT DO YOU THINK I GIVE AWAY PENCILS PAPER AND INK”
He put up the notice in front of the shop window before he went to bed. He slept better than usual that night.
The following day, many people came to the shop. Mr. Jones said good morning to them all with a bright smile and asked the first woman what she wanted.
She chose some writing paper and a pencil. As soon as he put them on her hands, she turned to leave the shop.
“That will be thirty cents, please,” he said.
“Why?” she asked in surprise.
“That’s the price of the paper and the pencil.”
“But your notice says it’s free,” she replied.
“Oh no,” he said, “how can I make any money if everything is free?”
She took him outside and showed him the notice “It is wrong, too,” she said. “where is the question mark after the world ‘think’?”
“There isn’t a question mark,” he said.
“But there should be one.”
“I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake,” Mr. Jones said.“You have read my notice in the wrong way.”
“Not at all,” said the woman. “It is quite easy to read. It says： What do you think? I give away pencils and
paper and ink!”
“No,” Mr. Jones said. “You should read it like this . And the answer to the question is： Certainly not! So you really have to pay me thirty cents, you see.”
How did Mr. Jones most probably felt that night?
| A．Confident. | B．Afraid. | C．Unhappy. | D．Worried. |
Which of the following sentences is the most suitable for the blank in the last paragraph?
| A．What do you think? I give away pencils, paper and ink! |
| B．What? Do you think I give away pencils, paper and ink? |
| C．What do you think I give away? Pencils, paper and ink. |
| D．Ink, paper and pencils away give. I think you do what? |
What can we infer (推断) from the story?
| A．Mr. Jones agreed to let the shoppers get things for free that day. |
| B．People in the town considered Mr. Jones a smart and honest man. |
| C．The woman paid the money unwillingly and left the shop angrily. |
| D．Mr. Jones’s trick proved to be a longtime success and he got rich. |
You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABCs? Do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside. So, when a person is a “banana”, he or she is white inside—thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside—looking like a Chinese.
Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are overseas (海外的) Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang (杨振宁) . He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
“ABCs” in this passage means .
| A．three English letters |
| B．a kind of banana |
| C．Chinese born in America |
| D．Americans born in China |
Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because .
| A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside |
| B．they think like Westerners but look like Chinese |
| C．they were born in China but go to study in America |
| D．they like to eat bananas |
Which of the sentences is WRONG about ABCs?
| A．ABCs may know little about China. |
| B．They are overseas Chinese. |
| C．They may speak little Chinese. |
| D．They are Chinese citizens. |
任务型阅读
学校要举行一次劳动世纪实践活动，要求每组同学合作烹制一道菜。请阅读下列材料，根据五位同学的分工，为他们找到相应的任务。
| Tasks |
| A Cutting up the chicken Heating up the oil Putting in the chicken Adding some salt |
B 2kg of chicken 0.5kg of carrots 1 bottle of cooking oil 1 bottle of cooking wine |
C Taking pictures Doing interviews Making a report |
| D Starting a discussion Making decisions Telling group members what to do |
E Washing the dishes Cleaning the table Sweeping the floor Taking away the trash |
Scientists are trying to make the deserts （沙漠）into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very helpful(有帮助的) to dry places. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the earth away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become deserts much more easily.
Why can the land become deserts?
| A．Some places don’t get much rain. |
| B．Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. |
| C．People don’t keep the earth well. |
| D．Scientists haven’t learnt enough about the deserts. |
Scientists want to to make the deserts into good land again.
| A．carry water | B．grow food |
| C．do nothing | D．study a lot |
Why are green plants and grass helpful?
| A．They can hold the water. |
| B．They can stop the wind from blowing the earth away. |
| C．They can keep the earth wet. |
| D．All the above. |
After reading this, we learn that .
| A．it is good to get rid of (去除) the grass in the deserts |
| B．all places without much rain will become deserts |
| C．plants can keep (阻止) dry land from becoming deserts |
| D．it is better to grow crops（农作物）on dry land than to grow grass |
We grow up, even if we don’t want to. But hey, you’re not the only one. Read this article. It can help you look at life the way you did as a kid.
Read a lot of Chicken Soup for the Soul----they have so many good stories about kids and getting the right feeling. Also try reading children’s books, it helps you keep childshy.
When you feel sad, smile. If you can, jump up and down, or move around until you feel sick. Act like a kid! But whatever you do, SMILE! This can help cheer you up if you feel unhappy.
Spend time with little kids. Although you won’t be one again, spending time with them can make you smile more. If you have children of your own, great! Spend lots of time with them.
Think back on a time when you were a kid. Then, try to remember how old your parents were. If you’re not as old as they were when you were 8, you will get the feeling that you are 8 again.
If you are a kid, take a piece of paper and write “ In 15 years I am going to do.” Then, put the letter in an envelope（信封） and read it once every five years. This will make you feel like a kid again.
Chicken Soup for the Soul is a .
| A．storybook | B．math book |
| C．science book | D．newspaper |
What does the underlined word “childshy” mean in Chinese?
| A．幼稚的 | B．不成熟的 | C．儿童的 | D．孩子气的 |
You can feel that you are young again if .
| A．you often do some writing |
| B．you talk with your parents |
| C．you think back of your childhood |
| D．you often help the old people |
The passage mainly talks about .
| A．how to get on well with others |
| B．how to feel like a kid again |
| C．how to play with children |
| D．how to do well in our work |
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