Are there Harry Porter books in your schooI library? Many kids all over the world are reading J. K. Rowling's books in school. But some parents think their children shouldn't be able to find those and other books in schooI libraries.
Should schooI Iibraries keep books that some parents don't approve of? Should they take those books off the shelves?
All over the country, schools are trying to find solutions to this problem. Read these arguments. Then decide for yourself.
Yes! Some Books Sould Be Banned (禁止) from School Libraries!
"We need certain limits (限定)，"said one student. He said some books have no place in school Iibraries.
Books should meet certain standards before they are put in schooIs. Is this a good book for kids to read? Is it fuII of violence (暴力)? Does it include bad words or ideas kids shouId not learn about? If a book is not good for all kids, it should not be in a schooI Iibrary.
Most parents know what's good for kids. They have a right to decide which books should or should not be in schooI Iibraries. If parents don't have time to find out everything their kids read, they should trust schooIs to do that for them.
No! Books Should Not Be Banned from School Libraries!
"Parents should decide what their own kids read, "said Natalie Nicol, a student. "But other parents shouldn't make that choice for them. "
Many experts say that it's the parents' job, not the schooI's job, to check out what their kids are reading. If they don't Iike a book, they should not let their kids read it.
Why should a few parents stop kids from reading stories like the Harry Potter series? Kids should be able to check out books their parents think are OK to read it.
Many schooIs Iet kids borrow certain books if they have a signed paper from a parent. That works fine. A parent doesn't sign the paper if he or she doesn't want the child to read the book. Other kids can read the books if they have permission.
Some books are not OK for all kids to read. But if more adults were careful about what their own kids read, they wouldn't have to ban books from the library.What does the underlined phrase “approve of" mean?
| A．borrow | B． accept | C． know | D． keep |
According to some parents, what should schooIs do before books are put in schooIs?
| A．Set certain standards. |
| B． Learn about the writers |
| C． Do a survey on books. |
| D．Take out the bad words. |
What is the passage mainly about?
| A．Whether students should read certain books or not. |
| B．Whether some limits should be set on books or not. |
| C．Whether some books should be in schooI libraries or not. |
| D．Whether parents should choose good books for kids or not. |
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，判断句子的正误，正确的涂A，错误的涂B。（共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）
The war finally ended in 1945. During the next years, two great things happened-my dad came home from the army, and I was born! I was the first child, but I wasn't alone for long. In the next four years, my mother had three more boys.
It was great having a big family! The four of us were very close in age, so we played together all the time. We liked the game “policemen and thieves” best. It was exciting. Everybody always wanted to be a thief. Of course, someone had to be the policeman, and it was usually me.
Well, I have grown up now, but I still love the game. There is only one thing different. I'm a real policeman, Policeman Joe, so it's not a game any more.
判断下列句子是否符合短文内容。符合的用“A”表示；不符合的用“B”表示.Joe's father was once a soldier.
During the war his father came back home.
Joe was the youngest child in the family.
He got on well with his brothers.
He always had to be the thief in the game.
Mr Black liked hunting. When he had time, he went out hunting with his friends. One summer he said to himself, “I have never been to the mountains. This time I’ll go there to hunt tigers. That must be interesting.” So when his holidays came, Mr Black went to the station, bought a ticket and was on the train to the mountains.
He got off at a small station and walked for a few kilometres. Then he saw a farmer at the foot of a mountain. “Good morning,” Mr Black said to him. “Are there any tigers here?” “Well,” answered the farmer slowly. “There was one last year, but when it heard someone was coming to hunt tigers, it moved to another place, I think.”Mr Black wanted to hunt tigers in __________.
A. the park B. the mountains C. a zooMr Black went there __________.
A. by car B. by bus C. by trainMr Black arrived there __________.
A. in the afternoon
B. in the evening
C. in the morningMr Black met with __________ on his way.
A. a farmer B. a wolf C. a friendWe can infer (推断) from the story that ___________.
A. Mr Black would get a lot of tigers
B. the farmer liked Mr Black very much
C. the farmer didn’t want Mr Black to hunt tigers
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If you work as a driver in the restaurant, you may ______.
A. never pay for meals
B. pay a little for meals
C. work in the afternoonIf you buy the house, you ______.
A. may pay more than ￥150, 000 for it
B. must have breakfast in the kitchen
C. may live on the south side of the cityAny customer with a Tianjin Daily of June 1, 2010 will get a small present from ______.
A. every supermarket
B. Yingbin Supermarket
C. Tianjin DailyWhen will the concert be?
A. July1, 2005
B. June 8, 2005
C. July 3, 2005If two adults and two students want to go to the concert, the tickets will cost RMB______.
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Dinner customs (习惯) are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana( 加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules (规则) about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子) because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.From the passage we know that in Ghana ______________.
A. the rules for dinner time are not strict
B. dinner is always at six in the evening
C. a family offers food only at four in the afternoonIf you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host (主人) always takes you to __.
A. the dining room first
B. the living room first
C. the garden firstPeople in Ghana usually eat ________.
A. with their spoons
B. from the other side of the dish
C. with their fingersIn fact, most meals in Ghana _______.
A. are not very hard
B. have fufu in them
C. are too hard to eatWhen you eat fufu, you’d better _________.
A. cut it with a saw
B. chew it well
C. Both A and B
In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him. “My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame（名誉）or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius（天才）, who has since then composed（作曲）lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜).
“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.
Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album（集）he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.
Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.
Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事业). He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.
“So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate（感激） could help me learn and grow with them.”
Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?
①. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.
②. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.
③. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.
④. Few people bought his records.
| A．①②③④ | B．④②③① |
| C．①③②④ | D．④①③② |
Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?
| A．Because he wants to live in the UK. |
| B．Because his record company asks him to. |
| C．Because he wants to sell his album in the UK. |
| D．Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career. |
Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.
| A．taking trips gives him some ideas of music |
| B．what we really want to follow is the most important |
| C．music is a thing that can bring him fame and money |
| D．in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing |
What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?
| A．Kind and helpful. |
| B．Proud and confident. |
| C．Active and hard-working. |
| D．Calm and disappointed. |
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