What do you usually do after school? Playing football? Watching TV? Come on, we need something new! Let’s see how kids in foreign countries spend their free time!
Mess Around with Dress-up
Do your parents have any old clothes? See if you get an old box and start collecting hats, shoes and clothes now! Then, when your friends come over after school, you can play dress-up. See if you can make yourself into a doctor，or a cowboy, or even a spaceman! Use glitter paint and old material to decorate the clothes the way you like them.
If you are really clever, you could even put on a show for your family! Let your imagination run wild!
Want to learn new things after school? Want to make new friends who aren’t in your class? You can get both of them in clubs. In other countries, schools, there are usually all kinds of clubs for kids to join. There is French club，student government, theater, choir (合唱队）and photography club.
Take photography club as an example. One may learn all the necessary skills about taking photos. For example, you will learn how to choose a camera，how to use the light and how to develop pictures. Sounds cool, right?
But that’s not all. One can also make a lot of friends in clubs. It’s always good to enjoy your spare time with friends，isn’t it?What is the best title for _____？
| A．Start a Club | B．Learn a Club |
| C．An Important Club | D．A Photography Club |
From the first paragraph we know________.
| A．foreign kids don’t like watching TV |
| B．Chinese kids like playing football with foreign kids |
| C．playing football is not popular with foreign kids |
| D．foreign kids have some different ways to spend their free time |
When you join a photography club，you cannot________.
| A．enjoy your free time | B．get a camera for free |
| C．make some new friends | D．learn to take pictures |
The text mainly talks about________.
| A．how to take a good picture |
| B．how to join a photography club |
| C．after-class activities in foreign countries |
| D．putting on a show in foreign schools |
Clean water is not only important for people to produce food, but necessary for our life. However, many people in Asia and Africa don’t have enough clean water to use. The World Health Organization reports that almost 4,000 children die each day of dirty water or lack of water.
Farmers use 70%~85% of the world fresh water to produce food. People usually don’t pay much attention to how much water industry (工业) uses, but you may be surprised to know that industry uses 59% of the water in developed countries.
Home use takes up only 8% in the world. But as cities grow, more water will be used. The local government has to try to make people use less water.
In 60% of European cities, people are saving water by using less. They even keep waste water for other use.
In Australia, the government has encouraged people to collect rainwater and recycle water from showers for a second use.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has made a water saving program to encourage families and businesses to check their water use and save more water. Scientists and the UN are looking for good water management as the key to solving the problem. We can all work together to protect our fresh water in our daily life.
| A．需要 | B．喜欢 | C．缺少 | D．饮用 |
| A．industry | B．farmers | C．people | D．families |
| A．Australia | B．America | C．Africa | D．European |
| A．have found | B．find out | C．are looking for | D．has found |
| A．saving water | B．waste water | C．using water | D．recycling water |
It is easier to go down a hill than to climb up a hill, so it is to fall into bad habit than into good ones.
Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little while people do not notice their danger. Some schoolboys first pick up bad habits in school and on the streets. When they cannot finish their lessons, they copy from their classmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. When they are older, the habits become so strong that they can never get rid of them. From copying, they fall behind, then learn to steal, and smoking is bad for their health. At last they become worse and worse.
How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits at the very beginning.
| A．quickly | B．suddenly | C．quietly and slowly | D．easily |
| A．only in class |
| B．in schools and on the streets |
| C．when they were born |
| D．at home |
| A．put on | B．ring up | C．pick up | D．give up |
| A．become too strong to get rid of | B．become smaller |
| C．run away | D．leave |
| A．harmful only to young people | B．bad for their health |
| C．not bad for us | D．bad for their study |
Reader’s Digest is a monthly magazine. Before the 1980s, it belonged to a privately held company, which was started in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and Dewitt Wallace. This magazine is small and easy to carry, just half the size of most American magazines, which caused a phrase in 2005, “America in your pocket.” It is the best selling magazine in the USA. At present, its circulation(发行量)in the USA has reached 10 million copies and the number of the readers there is 38 million. It also has 40 million overseas readers in more than another 70 countries.
This magazines focus(焦点) is not news but more of cultural views because the editors think people now can get timely news from somewhere else. They hope this magazine can give readers something that is about special personal experiences, something the readers can share with their families. In different countries, this magazine provides a window to the world for the local(当地的) readers. Some parts of the magazine are about the local customs and interests of the local readers. The other parts give the local readers information from all over the world. How often does Reader’s Digest come out in the USA?
| A．Once a year. | B．Once a month. |
| C．Once a week. | D．Once a day. |
How many people all over the world read this magazine?
| A．38 million | B．40 million. | C．78 million. | D．108 million. |
This magazine’s focus includes the following topics EXCEPT(除了) ___________.
| A．something about the timely news |
| B．some special personal experiences |
| C．some information from all over the world |
| D．the local customs and interests of the local readers |
We went into a secondhand shop to get out of the rain. I took my 6-year-old daughter’s hand and we started to walk around. Suddenly she reached out her hand to touch a pair of shiny black shoes.
“Buy for me?” she asked.
“Oh, Sweetie, they are tap dancing (踢踏舞) shoes. You aren’t taking tap dance.”
“Buy for me?” she repeated.
“Well, let’s try them on.”
She sat on the floor and took off her bright pink rain boots. When she stood up we heard “click”. She took a step, “click, click, click.”
The sun came out and we went on our way. Our next stop was the grocery store. “Click, click, click…” people turned to look as we entered the store. People would never allow their daughter to wear tap dancing shoes to the grocery store.
“Excuse me, dear. Why would you allow(允许) your daughter to wear tap dancing shoes here? They make such a noise.”
“Isn’t it wonderful?”
“Wonderful? My dear, this is not the place to wear those shoes.”
“You don’t understand. When she was a baby, doctors told us that she would never walk or talk. It has taken a lot of hard work and patience, but she asked for the shoes and the ‘click, click, click’ says that she can walk,” I said.
My daughter is 18 now and will graduate from grade 12 in June. It has not always been easy, but it has all been worthwhile (值得的). She has taught me that it doesn’t matter what others think. They don’t walk in your shoes.Why did the mother and daughter go to the secondhand shop?
| A．Because the daughter loved the place. |
| B．Because they liked walking there so much. |
| C．Because they tried to keep themselves from the rain. |
| D．Because the mother wanted to buy cheap shoes for her daughter. |
People would never allow their daughter to wear tap dancing shoes to the grocery store because _________.
| A．they are noisy | B．they are expensive |
| C．they are dirty | D．it is not allowed |
What does the sentence “They don’t walk in your shoes” mean?
| A．They don’t know how you feel. |
| B．They don’t walk the same way as you. |
| C．They don’t know the size of your shoes. |
| D．They don’t have the same shoes as yours. |
The story tells us ______.
| A．the love between mother and daughter is strong |
| B．you should wear the wrong shoes for your feet |
| C．wearing your own shoes helps you walk faster |
| D．sometimes you shouldn’t care about what others say |
Joe, an outgoing girl, is from a rich family. Therefore she can afford almost everything. But Joe’s parents are too busy to spend enough time with her, which makes Joe more than lonely. So, she always goes to WeChat. On WeChat, she can do a lot of things like buying things, reading articles, and making friends with those she either knows or not.
She uses the name Linda on WeChat and has made a lot of friends there. Last year Joe made a foreign friend on WeChat. Her name was Catherine and she lived in Sydney. Catherine once sent a picture of “herself”: a tall, good-looking young woman with big eyes. Catherine and Joe were both interested in rock music and modern dance. So, they liked each other very much.
When Joe’s father told her that he was meeting a client in Sydney this summer, she went with him to give Catherine a surprise for her birthday. When Joe came to Catherine’s house in Sydney, she found that her foreign “girlfriend” was a ten-year-old boy named Jim! What a surprise! Joe spends time on WeChat to .
| A．make friends | B．kill time | C．read articles | D．buy things |
What is the real name of Joe’s “girlfriend”?
| A．Catherine | B．Joe | C．Jim | D．Linda |
From this article, we can say .
| A．Everyone uses his real name on WeChat |
| B．On WeChat, we can only talk with Chinese people. |
| C．On WeChat, we can talk with Chinese people in Australia. |
| D．Joe’s father went to Sydney to meet Joe’s friend Catherine. |
What’s the best title of the passage?
| A．A Sad Girl | B．A Real Surprise |
| C．A Special Foreigner | D．A Boy Called Jim |
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