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In April 2007, a 16-year-old boy named Charlie McDonnell was bored, so he used his laptop and webcam to make his first video, and posted it on YouTube under the name Charlieissocoollike. Two days after that, he had 150 subscribers（关注）, so he decided to make more videos. He soon became quite popular in the UK.
A few months later, Oprah Winfrey, the famous American TV host, showed one of his videos called How to be English on her programme. In this video, Charlie wears a suit and tie and talks in a funny accent. He shows viewers how to make a cup of tea. The video made Charlie suddenly famous in the United States too. To say thank you to all his fans, he made a video called Challenge Charlie. In this video heasked people to suggest funny or difficult things for him to do in his videos. Challenges included drinking tomato ketchup, wearing all of his clothes at once and painting himself purple!
Charlie is also a singer and songwriter. His most popular videos are of him singing and playing the ukelele. In Duet with Myself, he uses special effects to sing a duet with himself about what a boring person he is. This has now been watched over 7 million times! Charlie met Alex Daythrough YouTube and they started a band together. They have made two CDs and performed several concerts.
With more than one and a half million subscribers, Charlie is the most popular video blogger in the UK. He has now made enough money to buy a house with his friend Alex. But what is the secret of his success? “I make the kind of videos that I want to watch,” he says. He says that he wants to go to university in the future but has decided to try and make a career on YouTube before that. So far, it’s going very well!When did Charlie make his first video?
Which video made Charlie suddenly famous in the United States?
Why did Charlie make Challenge Charlie?
Who did Charlie start a band together with?
What is the passage mainly about?
The day was like any other day in his life. Tom walked past the shop on the street corner. He stopped to look at the front row of shoes, and he felt happy to see that the pair of shoes he wanted very much was still there. Looking down at his old shoes, he felt sorry for himself. He really wanted to have them for his birthday.
He sadly walked away and thought how to tell his mother about it. He knew very well she had little money. He decided not to go home at once, as he looked sad and his mother would notice it. So he went to the park and sat on the grass. There he saw a boy moving a wheelchair with his hands. Tom looked at him and was surprised to see that the boy had no feet. He looked at his own feet. “It’s much better to be without shoes than without feet. ”he thought. There was no reason for him to feel so sorry and sad. He went away and smiled, thinking he was happier.Tom passed the shop _________.
| A．on foot | B．by bike |
| C．in a wheelchair | D．by bus |
Tom stopped in front of the shop because he wanted to _______.
| A．buy the shoes |
| B．look at the shoes he liked |
| C．buy a present for his friend |
| D．get something for his birthday party |
Why did Tom go to the park? Because ________.
| A．many nice shoes were sold there |
| B．he wanted to play there for a while |
| C．he wanted to see his disabled friend |
| D．he didn’t want to make his mother worried |
We can learn from the story that Tom ________.
| A．liked new shoes very much | B．loved his mother very much |
| C．didn’t want to stay at home | D．had no feet |
Have you ever heard your own voice? “Of course,” you say. Has anyone else ever heard your voice? Again you say, “Of course.”But that’s not quite true. Nobody else has ever heard your voice—the way you hear it. When you talk, you set up sound waves(声波). The air outside your head carries the sound waves to your outer ears. But, of course, the sound of your voice begins inside your head. The bones(骨头) of your head pick up the sound waves, too. They carry the sound waves straight to your inner(里面的) ears. You get the sound from the outside and the inside too. Other people get just the sound waves from the outside. That’s why they don’t hear your voice the way you do.The sound of your voice begins ________.
| A．inside your head | B．outside your head |
| C．in your inner ears | D．in your outer ears |
When you talk, other people hear your voice _______.
| A．through the bones of your head |
| B．from the outside |
| C．from the inside |
| D．all of the above |
The phrase “pick up” here means ________.
| A．to raise | B．to get |
| C．to choose | D．to pull |
The passage is mainly about _________.
| A．waves in the air |
| B．the way you hear your own voice |
| C．voice gets around far and wide |
| D．the different ways you and others hear your voice |
Once there was something wrong with a machine in a factory. The workers could do nothing but turn to a German engineer for help, who drew a line on it and then said, “Take off the part where the line is and change it for a new one. ”The machine, with a new line on, began running well again. The engineer then asked for $30,000 for what he had done. The following were what he wrote on a bill, “The new part only costs one dollar, and knowing where the problem with the machine is costs $29,999.”
One dollar for changing a new part sounds reasonable （有道理的）but the $29,999 is exactly the value （价值）of wisdom （智慧）and knowledge.The factory turned to the German engineer because _______.
| A．he had nothing to do in the factory |
| B．there were no other people in the factory |
| C．the workers could not repair the machine |
| D．the workers asked for too much money for repairing the machine |
According to the engineer, the finding of the problem cost _______.
| A．only one dollar | B．$ 29.999 |
| C．nothing | D．less than the now part |
The best title for the passage should be _______.
| A．The Value of Knowledge | B．Helpless Workers |
| C．The Expensive Machine | D．The Lucky Factory |
“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly question that people in the U.S.A use to greet each other. But “How are you?” is also a very unusual question. The person who asks “How are you?” hopes to hear the answer “Fine”, even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn’t really a question and “Fine” isn’t really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.
Sometimes, people also don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks “Do you agree?” the other person might think, “No, I disagree. I think you’re wrong...”But it isn’t very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say “I’m not sure.” It’s a nicer way to say that you don’t agree with someone.
People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one person say “I’ve to go now.” Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse: “Someone’s at the door.” “Something is burning on the stove.” The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn’t want to talk any more, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt the other person.
When they are greeting each other, talking about an idea or finishing a talk, people don’t say exactly what they are thinking. They are trying to be nice to each other, and it’s part of the game of language.When a person in America asks “How are you?”, he or she wants to hear “_____”.
| A．How are you? | B．Hello |
| C．I don’t know | D．Fine |
When a person disagrees with someone, it is polite to say “_____”
| A．I think you are wrong. | B．I’m not sure. |
| C．I agree | D．No, I disagree. |
When a person says “I’ve to go now. Someone is at the door.” he or she may be _____.
| A．giving an excuse | B．ill |
| C．hurting someone’s feeling | D．asking a question |
The rule of the game of language is probably _____.
| A．“Always say what you mean” |
| B．“Don’t disagree with others” |
| C．“Never ask questions ” |
| D．“Be polite” |
When I was a kid in Minnesota, watermelon was expensive. One of my father’s friends, Bernie, was a rich businessman, who owned a large store in St. Paul.
Every summer, when the first watermelons arrived, Bernie would call. Dad and I would go to Bernie’s place. We’ d sit on the edge of the dock（码头）, feet dangling（摇晃）, and got ready for a big meal.
Bernie would take his knife, cut our first watermelon, hand us both a big piece and sit down next to us. Then we’d bury our faces in watermelon, eating only the heart—the reddest, juiciest, firmest, sweetest, most seed-free part—and throw away the rest.
Bernie was my father’s idea of a rich man. I always thought it was because he was such a successful businessman. Years later, I realized that it was not Bernie’s wealth itself but his way of dealing with it that my father liked. Bernie knew how to stop working, get together with friends and eat only the heart of the watermelon.
What I learned from Bernie is that being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to eat only the heart of the watermelon. If you don’t take the time to dangle your feet over the dock and enjoy life’s small pleasure, your work is probably hurting your life.
For many years, I forgot that lesson I’d learned as a kid on the loading dock. I was too busy making all the money I could.
Well, I’ve relearned it. I hope I have time left to enjoy the success of others and to take pleasure in the day. That’s the heart of the watermelon. I have learned again to throw the rest away.We learned from the second paragraph that the writer and his father were feeling ______.
| A．relaxed | B．worried | C．hungry | D．proud |
How did the writer and his father eat the watermelon?
| A．They ate it in a polite way. |
| B．They only ate its best part. |
| C．They ate every part of it. |
| D．They shared only one piece. |
In the eyes of the writer’s father, Bernie ______.
| A．was just a rich businessman |
| B．worked hard all the time |
| C．lived a rich but healthy life |
| D．knew how to make money |
The underlined part “the heart of the watermelon” in the last paragraph refers to ______.
| A．the best part of the watermelon |
| B．the writer’s busy life |
| C．the writer’s decision of making money |
| D．the writer’s hope of enjoying life |
It can be learned from the passage that ______.
| A．one has to work hard to reach his goal |
| B．a friend in need is a friend in deed |
| C．watermelon is the healthiest fruit |
| D．one should keep work-life balance |
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