About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very from the other villages and towns. They had few friends and they got bad harvest. But of them left the village. Of course there was neither electricity nor gas（煤气）there.
Once a writer the village. The backwardness（落后）of the village surprised him. He decided about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home village to the people. Several months he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had enjoyed in the city.
“Everything is wonderful in , ”the old man said.
“I’ve to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I could not at night. ”
“What happened to you? ”his wife asked.
“The was on in my bedroom all the time.”
Why not blow（吹） it out, then? ”
“I tried,but it was inside a little glass bottle. ”
A．close B．far C．near D．high
A．All B．Some C．None D．Hundreds
A．visited B．lived C．stayed D．got to
A．to write B．to speak C．to say D．to tell
A．after B．later C．soon D．ago
A．food B．music C．himself D．traffic
A．town B．mountain C．village D．London
A．gone B．came C．been D．got
A．sleep B．help C．walk D．see
A．window B．radio C．light D．TV set
A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars共车. It’s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don’t need to own it. Now the idea of “car sharing” has become in many countries.
As we know, most cars are parked in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars as long as one or two a day on average. When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking and things. That coats too much money. To save money, some people come up with the idea of “car sharing”. If we share a car, we’ll only when we use it.
Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40.000 people have joined it. Japan is also trying to make popular around the country. A popular B. interesting C. funny
A. hour B. hours C. minutes
A. other B. others C. another
A. spend B. cost C. pay
A. time saving B. money saving C. car sharing
Once my father and I went to see a circus(马戏 ). A family was standing in front of us for tickets.
The family had eight children. Their clothes were not but they were clean. They were talking about the clowns(小丑) and elephants excitedly.
“I want tickets,eight for children and two for adults.”said the father to the ticket lady.
The ticket lady told him the . When he heard that, the man cloudn’t believe his . He asked again, “How much?”
The ticket lady spoke again. The father looked sad. Clearly, he didn’t have money.
My dad took a twenty—dollar bill and dropped it on the ground.Then he picked , and said to the man, “Sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The man knew what was on. He looked into my dad’s eyes and took the . “Thank you,thank you ,sir. This a lot to me and my family. ”
We didn’t go to the cirus that night,but we didn’t feel sorry for it at all.A. waiting B. looking C. working
A. common B. cheap C. expensive
A. ticket B. ten C. two
A. ticket B. number C. price
A. eyes B. ears C. nose
A. enough B. any C. little
A. it up B. up it C. them up
A. walking B. going C. looking
A. book B. pocket C. bill
A. hardly B. nearly C. really
Mrs Smith works in a museum in London. She’s in all kinds of old things and she has collected a lot of stamps. But she prefers the vases. So she often spends her holidays in China. She visited a lot of museums in Beijing, Xi’an and other . She goes to the markets and tries to buy some nice old vases.
Last month the woman travelled in Hangzhou. She went to a shop one afternoon and foumd a beautiful vase there. She looked at it for a long time and was sure it was about seven hundred years ago. She liked it very much and paid a lot of money for it. She was so happy that she couldn’t fall that night. On her way to England , she took good care of it.A. interests B. interesting C. interested
A. towns B. cities C. countries
A. American B. English C. German
A. kept B. made C. found
A. asleep B. sleep C. sleeping
Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”
When I was a young boy, I was ____ shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often ____me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later,___ happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to ____ it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak ____ all the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on,boy! Believe in yourself. You are sure to ___.”Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I _____ the topic “Believe in yourself!” I tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 _____. With my mother’s great love, I did ___ in the contest. I could hardly believe my _____ when the news came that I had won the first place.A. too B. so C. quite
A. made faces at B. looked after C. laughed at
A. something B. everything C. anything
A. take part in B. join C. get
A. to B. among C. before
A. win B. pass C. beat
A. brought B. thought C. chose
A. words B. times C. sentences
A. well B. good C. bad
A. result B. eyes C. ears
In many people’s eyes, middle school students are happy and carefree（无忧无虑）. But is it the truth? And what students happy or unhappy?
To find out the answers, Li Jiahui, a student in Pinggu No. 3 Middle School, Beijing, spent six months students’ sense(感受) of happiness last year. The girl made a survey with questions such as “ Are you feeling happy?” and “What makes you unhappy?”
After studying the answers from 284 students, Li learned that___ 40 percent（百分之）of the students feel unhappy, and the from studies is the main reason for their unhappiness.
“More than 50 percent said they were under pressure and 70 percent get enough sleep,” Li said. “It shows that middle school students are not as happy people think. They worry a lot, and they can get angry easily.”
Li also said that over 90 percent say their happiness has to do with how much money they have. Instead, they care about their relationships（关系）with friends, teachers and parents. “Students always feel better when they get _ well with each other,” Li said.
After her survey, Li listed tips that may make students happier, such as: Treat(对待) yourself better, be kind and polite to your friends and relatives, and try new things.
A．helps B．wants C．makes D．keeps
A．to study B．studying C．study D．studied
A．15 years old B．15-years-old C．15-year-old D．15-year-olds
A．about B．than C．below D．inside
A．pressure B．difficulties C．knowledge D．interest
A．don’t B．hadn’t C．did D．didn’t
A．so B．and C．like D．as
A．something B．nothing C．anything D．nobody
A．along B．up C．off D．down
A．any B．a number of C．much D．a lot
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