Which country grows the most tea? The answer is India. It grows three times as much as China. Which country drinks the most tea? It’s neither China nor Japan. It’s Great Britain.
In the wild, tea plants may be 30 feet tall. But a plant grown for market is pruned. Pruning keeps the plant only three or four feet tall. This is an easy height for tea picking. Only the two top leaves and bud of each new shoot are picked. So to make money, tea plantations must be huge.
In general, there are two kinds of tea. Black tea and green tea. Black tea is fermented. In the process, the tea loses nearly all of its healthy qualities. Green tea is steamed right after the leaves are picked. Green tea retains its healthy qualities. For example, it may prevent heart disease.
How did we get tea bag? The answer: by accident. Tea merchants used to send samples in tin boxes. This was costly. One merchant thought of a cheaper way. He sent samples in small silk bags. Customers would cut open the bag. They would brew the leaves as usual. One customer put the bag into a pot. Then he just poured hot water over it. And the tea bag was born.
Shen Nong was the first to drink tea. (Shen was a Chinese emperor.) This was about 2737 B.C. Shen had bad digestion. So he drank several cups of hot water daily. One day something happened. Leaves from a wild tea tree fell into the hot water pot. The next cup was poured. The water was now colored. Shen sipped it. He liked it. He drank it all. Shen was proud of his new drink. He served it to his guests. Word spread. People thought this way. Tea is good enough for the Emperor. So it must be good enough for the people. Tea became the drink of China.The best title for this passage should be ________________.
| A．Black Tea | B．Tea Plant |
| C．About Tea | D．Tea Bag |
One difference between green tea and black tea is that green tea __________.
| A．must be pruned | B．has a better taste |
| C．is fermented | D．is healthier |
What does the underlined word “retains” mean?
| A．Keeps. | B．Makes. |
| C．Produces. | D．Loses. |
We can know from this passage that __________.
| A．tea bag was invented by a merchant |
| B．tea is better than any other drink |
| C．tea is popular in many countries |
| D．tea only grows in warm climates |
Once there was a piano player in a bar (酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
“I don’t sing,” said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, “I’m tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!”
The waiter shouted across the room, “Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!”
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.The lady asked the player to sing a song because _____________.
| A．she had paid him for this |
| B．she knew him very well |
| C．she wanted to have a change |
| D．she enjoyed his singing |
Nat King Cole succeeded because ____________.
| A．the lady helped him a lot |
| B．he caught the chance |
| C．he continued to play in the bar |
| D．he stopped playing the piano |
The underlined words “sitting on” in the passage probably mean ___________.
| A．fail to realize | B．forget to use |
| C．try to develop | D．manage to show |
| The Snowdonia Center The Snowdonia Center for young mountain climbers has a climbing lesson. The beginners’ costs are $57 for a week, including food and rooms. Equipment (设备) is included except walking shoes, which can be hired (租用) at a low cost. You must be in good health and prepared to go through body exercise. This could be the beginning of a lifetime of mountain climbing adventure (冒险). |
| Holiday News Vacations now and in the school holidays at a country hotel in Devon. This comfortable, friendly home-from-home hotel is near the beautiful quiet countryside, but just a drive away from the sea. The food is simple but good. Children and pets are welcome. Reduced prices are offered for low season. |
| The World Sea Trip of a Lifetime Our World Sea Trip of 2014 will be unlike any holiday that you have ever had before. You just go to bed in one country and wake up in another on the ship. But if you stay at one hotel after another as you traveled before, you’ll have to pack and unpack all your things, wait and travel during the tour. On the ship, you will be well taken care of. Every meal will be first-class and every cabin (房舱) will be like your home. During the trip, you can rest on deck (甲板), enjoy yourself in the game rooms and in the evening dance to our musical team and watch our wonderful play You will visit all the places most people only dream about---from Acapulco and Hawaii to Tokyo and Hong Kong. For a few thousand dollars, all the things can be yours. |
What can you do if you like to go on holidays with pets?
| A．Choose the holiday in Devon. |
| B．Go to the Snowdonia Center. |
| C．Join the World Sea Trip of 2014. |
| D．Visit Acapulco and Hawaii. |
In what way is the Snowdonia Center different from the other two holidays?
| A．It provides chances for families to get together. |
| B．It provides customers with good food. |
| C．It offers a climbing lesson. |
| D．It offers comfortable rooms. |
What is the most special about the World Sea Trip of 2014?
| A．You can have free meals on deck every day. |
| B．You can sleep on a ship and travel to many places. |
| C．You can dance to your own favourite music. |
| D．You have to pack and unpack your things. |
International travelers, whether traveling for business or pleasure, will find themselves solo from time to time. Here are a few ways to meet new people and perhaps even get new travel chances.
Make yourself friendly
Be relaxed and polite. Remember to put yourself in social activities. Restaurants, shops and parks are all great places to meet people. If you want to make local friends in a country, stay near the place the locals often visit.
Show your photo album（影集）
Keep a small photo album in your bag when you travel. Photos of family, friends and pets will help your new friends learn more about you and give you things to talk about. They will share their own stories with you, and it will help you learn more about your new friends.
Share something special
Can you help your new friends improve their Chinese? Can you cook a traditional Chinese meal? By sharing your skills, you can have a close friendship with your new friends that they won’t soon forget.
Give some gifts
Many foreigners love Chinese goods but have to pay a lot when buying them in their homeland, so you’d better prepare some gifts such as silks, tea and works of art. They are always popular.
Exchange flats
If you and your new friends get along well, you can give them your information and plan to exchange flats for your next trip. Then you can visit their countries and stay in their houses while they stay in yours. In this way you will improve your friendship and live like a local abroad, but pay less for traveling.The underlined word “solo” in the passage means “__________”.
| A．free | B．alone | C．worried | D．close |
In which way can’t a photo album help you?
| A．Giving you a topic to talk about. |
| B．Clearing your worries about your pets. |
| C．Helping your new friends to learn more about you. |
| D．Encouraging (鼓励) your new friends to talk about themselves. |
From the passage we can learn that __________.
| A．exchanging flats is popular in China |
| B．goods in foreign countries are cheaper |
| C．sharing your special skills can help you develop friendship |
| D．international travelers always get into trouble |
This passage is mainly about how to ___________.
| A．travel more often both at home and abroad |
| B．improve friendship with foreigners |
| C．make friends when traveling in foreign countries |
| D．prepare for a business trip |
Now, there is a new-type school in New York, which has no everyday lessons, no class teachers and even no school buildings. It is called “City-as-School”. The name just means the city itself is the place where students learn their lessons. They are from the age of 15 to 18. The students choose areas of work which interest them. Then they help to do that work. One girl spends her week in a Mayor’s（市长的） office helping the public with problems like housing. Then she goes to help in a theatre for a day and she spends a week for first-year courses at college.
Well, students have to pass Maths and science exams before they enter the “school”. These subjects are not easy to provide in “City-as-School”. Teachers watch the progress（进步）of the students. The success rate is high. 80% of the students go to college after the “City-as-School”.
The students like the duty of their work. They have the sense of purpose（目标）. They know a lot about different kinds of work in the city. One of the students, Liz Martin, writes “I want to say that I do not know where I will be right now if I have never become part of City-as-School. Leaving the high school I once studied in and going to City-as-School was the best decision (决定) I have ever made. The way the school works to get you to go out there and learn different fields instead of sitting in a classroom is wonderful. For all those who are in between school and dropping out, go to CAS and it will change your life forever.”
City-as-School High School is the country’s model for high school students.What do students do in“City-as-School” most of the time?
| A．They do whatever they like. |
| B．They learn Maths and Science. |
| C．They help with work in some areas. |
| D．They learn all the college courses. |
According to the passage,“City-as–School” can help __________.
| A．students learn a lot about different kinds of work |
| B．all the students go to college |
| C．students make much money while studying |
| D．students forget the duty of their work |
What is the best title for the passage?
| A．A New City | B．A New School |
| C．A New-type School | D．A Girl in New York |
Mr. Grey was the manager of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and went to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office if it wasn’t raining, because it gave him some exercise.
One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger stopped him and said to him, “You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without any money in my pockets. I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend me some money and you lent me￡5, because you said you were always ready to take a chance (机会) to give a man a start on the way to success.”
Mr. Grey thought for a few minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember you. Go on with your story!”
“Well,” answered the stranger, “would you like to take another chance?”Mr. Grey liked walking to his office because __________.
| A．he couldn’t pay for the buses |
| B．he wanted to save money |
| C．he wanted to lose weight |
| D．he could do some exercise on the way |
Mr. Grey was always ready to lend money to a stranger to __________.
| A．help him on the way to success |
| B．give himself a start in life |
| C．make him rich |
| D．get more money |
By saying “Would you like to take another chance？”, the stranger __________.
| A．wanted to return Mr. Grey the money |
| B．asked Mr. Grey for money again |
| C．told Mr. Grey that he had success at last |
| D．would like to make friends with him |
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