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Name	Vicky Chow
Birth place	Gaoxiong, Taipei
Birthday	December 20, 1981
Hobby	Sleeping& Eating junk food
Dream	Working in a city by the sea

How old is Vicky Chow?
A. 20                  B.32            C. 33
In the future which city might Vicky choose to work in?
A. Changsha            B. Sanya        C. Beijing
Which of the following is true?
A. Vicky isn’t from China.
B. Five days after Vicky’s birthday is Christmas Day.
C. Vicky is athletic.

All over the world, people enjoy sports. Sports are good for people’s health. Many people like to watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TV sets to watch in front of them.
Sports change with the seasons. People play different games in different seasons. Sometimes they play inside the room. Sometimes they play outside. We can find sports here and there. Some sports are rather interesting and people everywhere like them. Football, for example, is very popular in the world. People from different countries cannot understand each other, but after a game they often become very friendly to each other.
Sports are good for ____.

A．the players	B．people’s health
C．the coaches	D．people who like sports

If you like sports, you can ____.

A．buy tickets to see the games

B．see the games on TV

C．see the games on the Internet

D．A, B and C

People play ____ in different seasons.

A．the same game	B．different games
C．any games	D．all kinds of games

____ is very popular in the world.

A．Table tennis	B．Baseball
C．Football	D．Skating

From this passage we can see that ____ can become very friendly.

A．people from different countries all

B．people from the same country

C．friends

D．after a game people from different countries

Movie	Time	Price
The Town (120 minutes)	10:40  13:30 16:20  19:10	Adult (成人): $ 25 Child: $ 20  (under12)
Eat, Pray, Love (100 minutes)	14:20  16:10 18:00  20:00	Adult: $ 23 Child: $ 16 (under12)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (90 minutes)	9:00  13:00 17:00	Adult: $ 20 Child: $ 18 (under12)
Hip-hop Storm (100 minutes)	12:40  14:20 16:10  18:40	Adult: $ 24 Child: $ 15 (under12)

Where can we see this table (表格)?

A．In a hospital.	B．At school.
C．At a tennis club.	D．At a cinema.

Which of the movies is the longest?

A．The Town.	B．Hip-hop Storm.
C．Eat, Pray, Love.	D．Kung Fu Panda 2.

It’s 7:40 in the evening. Mr Wu wants to see a movie. What movie can he see?

A．The Town.	B．Hip-hop Storm.
C．Eat, Pray, Love.	D．Kung Fu Panda 2.

The 9-year-old girl Rose saw the movie Kung Fu Panda 2 with her parents. How much did they pay for the movie?

A．38 dollars.	B．40 dollars.
C．56 dollars.	D．58 dollars.

Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The movie Hip-hop Storm is the shortest.

B．Mr Green has 20 dollars. He can see the movie The Town.

C．You can watch the movie Eat, Pray, Love at 10:00 am.

D．The 10-year-old boy John has 15 dollars. He can watch the movie Hip-hop Storm.

Hello, boys and girls. I have a photo. Let’s have a look at it. This is me. My name is Jack. I’m in No.1 Middle School. This is my mother. She is a Chinese teacher. And this is my father. He is tall and strong. He is an English teacher. My mother and my father are not in my school. Look at the girl. She is my sister, Mary. She is clever. Mary has a dog. It’s Spotty. Spotty is my good friend too. All of us are very happy.
This is a ______of Jack’s family.

A．photo

B．book

C．name

D．CD

Mary is Jack’s____________.

A．classmate	B．cousin
C．sister	D．teacher

Jack’s mother is __________.

A．a Chinese teacher	B．an English teacher
C．at No. 11 Middle School	D．at home

Jack’s father is _____.

A．short

B．thin

C．clever

D．tall

Spotty is ____.

A．Jack’s dog	B．Jack’s sister
C．Mary’s dog	D．Mary’s sister

Tom is a basketball fan(迷)..He is good at playing basketball.His favourite basketball player is Kobe.Tom is in our school basketball team.Every Friday afternoon,he plays basketball after class.
Daniel is Tom’s friend.He is not good at basketball,but he is very good at football.Ronaldo is his favourite football player.Daniel is in the school football team.He plays football with his friends every Tuesday afternoon.
What sport is Tom good at?
_____________________________________________________________
Who is Tom’s favourite basketball player?
________________________________________________________________
When does Tom play basketball?
_____________________________________________________________________
Is Daniel good at basketball?
_________________________________________________________________
Who is Daniel’s favourite football player?
________________________________________________________________________

Hello! I am Dale. This is my jacket. It is red. I have a cup, a ruler and a pen. The cup is green. The ruler is yellow. The pen is black. What’s that? It’s a quilt. It’s blue. My favorite（最喜欢的）color is blue. I have a map. It is a map of China. Look! That is an orange. It’s not my orange. It’s Alice’s.
  Dale’s jacket is ______ .

A．yellow	B．red
C．green	D．blue

  Dale has a yellow ______.

A．cup	B．ruler
C．pen	D．quilt

  Dale’s favorite color is ______.

A．green	B．black
C．red	D．blue

  Dale has a ______.

A．map of China	B．green key
C．blue CD	D．green pen

The orange is ______.

A．Helen’s	B．Dale’s
C．Alice’s	D．Grace’s

Love, sometimes we can’t see it!
This is an old story. One day, a man was not happy when his 7-year-old daughter made a box with some paper. The family didn’t have much money. So the father thought his daughter wasted(浪费)the paper. The next day, the little girl gave the box to her father and said,“Dad, today is your birthday. This box is for you.”
The man was happy. But he was not happy again when he found there was nothing in the box. “Why didn’t you put anything for me in the box?” He asked his daughter. The little girl looked at him and cried, “Dad, I put my love in the box. It’s all for you!”
The man felt sad and said sorry to his daughter. Sometimes, we can’t see love with our eyes.
How old was the daughter?
A. Six years old.
B. Seven years old.
C. Eight years old.
What did the daughter do the next day?
A. She gave the box to her father.
B. She put some money in the box.
C. She gave some paper to her father.
Why was the father was not happy again when he opened the box?
A. Because he didn’t like the box.
B. Because there was nothing in the box.
C. Because he thought his daughter wasted paper.
How did the father feel at last?
A. Happy.         B. Sorry.          C. Bored.
Which of the following is true?
A. The family had lots of money.
B. The daughter loved her father.
C. The father didn’t like his daughter.

Nina and Nora worked in the same office, and they were also neighbours. Nina was a careless girl, and she often lost things. Then she usually went to borrow many things from Nora.
Nora was a kind girl, but she sometimes got tired of lending things to her friend. One Sunday afternoon, Nina knocked at Nora’s front door. When Nora came to open it, Nina said to her, “Hello, Nora, please lend me a bag. I have lost mine. I am going to the shops, and I feel stupid when I haven’t got anything in my hand.”
Nora laughed and answered, “Well, Nina, go down to the end of my garden. You will find a nice wheelbarrow (手推车) in the shelf there. Take that when you go to the shops. Then you will have something in both of your hands.”
What’s the relationship (关系) between Nina and Nora?
___________________________________
Why did Nina often go to Nora’s?
___________________________________
On what day did Nina go to borrow a bag from Nora?
___________________________________
Where was Nina going?
___________________________________
Why didn’t Nora lend Nina a bag that time?
___________________________________

World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by the UNESCO in 1955 to encourage people, especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of reading. It is also the day to honor great writers, for example, William Shakespeare, born or dead on that day.
Many countries celebrate World Book Day. Take UK as an example. On that day, millions of schoolchildren can buy books of special price, a much lower price than usual, in any bookstore. It has been done every year since 1998, World Book Day is also celebrated in China. Wen Jiabao, Premier of China, is an avid reader. He does lots of reading every day though he is very busy. On World Book Day 2009, he called on people to do more reading. Wen suggested that young people should spend more time reading. “Books can not change the world, but people can change the world by changing themselves through reading,” he said.
Why do people like reading? One big advantage(优点) is that reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent. Also reading helps us to follow the latest developments of science and technology. Besides, reading gives us information about other cultures and places of the world. When we read, we may find many things that are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know. What’s more, reading is also one of the most important ways to learn a foreign language like English.
“Reading makes a full man”. Books, magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help us to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to spend time reading every day.
When is World Book Day? _________________
In UK, what can school children do on World Book Day?_________________
What did Premier Wen Jiiabao advise young people do?___________________
How many advantages of reading are mentioned in the passage?___________________
What does the passage mainly about?___________________

Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?
Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many books, few people learned to read.
Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread(传播) quickly.
Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP5 players.
Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced(替代) by computers one day? No, I don’t think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two meters high!
What does the writer do before he goes to sleep’?

A．He reads books.

B．He reads newspapers

C．He looks through magazines

D．He looks at the posters on the wall.

When was paper first created?

A．About 2.000 years ago.	B．In the 19th century.
C．About 1.000 years ago.	D．In the 11th century.

Why were books expensive and rare before the invention of printing?
A. People could not read.
B. People could not write words on paper.
C. People could not find silk, cotton or bamboo.
D People could only produce books one at a time by hand
What happened after books became cheaper?

A．People didn’t want to buy books.

B．Printing was invented in China.

C．Knowledge and ideas spread quickly.

D．The Internet was introduced to people soon

What is the writer’s opinion about books and computers’?

A．People won’t need books any more

B．Books won’t be replaced by computers.

C．People prefer to find information in books.

D．Computers have already replaced books.

A large book NBA star Yao Ming’s English autography will come out in New York, US , this month. It is called “Yao: A Life in Two Worlds.” It talks about his first year in the NBA. Yao wrote it with a US report.
Alicia’s Coming American singer Alicia Keys,23, will be in the “Wall of Hope” concert with other stars, on the Great Wall, in Beijing, on September 25. The R& B singer is a five-time Grammy winner.
Top singing award Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, 25, won Best Male singer at the Fourth Chinese Music Billboard Awards() , in Taipei, on Saturday.
Football winners the Chinese under-17 football team is No. 1 in Asia. They won the Asian U-17 Championship in Japan on Saturday. They beat the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(朝鲜人民共和国) 1-0. After 85 minutes, Wang Weilong shot the only goal. They took the cup for the first time in 12 years.
____ wrote “Yao: A Life in Two Worlds.”

A．Yao Ming	B．A US report
C．Yao Ming and a US report	D．A NBA star

“Wall of Hope” concert ____.

A．was given by Alicia

B．was given in America

C．was given by 23 stars

D．was given by Alicia and other stars

Jay Chou ____.

A．is the best singer in the world

B．is the top singer in China

C．won top singer award of the Fourth Chinese Music Billboard Awards

D．has won top singer award four times

The Chinese under-17 football team____.

A．got the first place in the world

B．won the champion in Asia

C．lost the game

D．beat Japanese team

Which of the followings is right about football winners?

A．The football players are all 17 years old

B．The players are from all over the world

C．The players are all from Asia

D．The players are more than 17 years old

Mrs. Green is going to give a birthday party for Mary. Mary is her daughter. She is going to be ten years old. A lot of friends of Mary’s are going to come to the party. There are twenty girls of them.
Mrs. Green is getting ready for the party. Mrs. White is helping her.
“That’s a big nice cake,” Mrs. White says to Mrs. Green.
“Thank you very much.”
Mrs. Green is going shopping now. She is going to buy fruit for the party.
She buys lots of pears, apples, oranges and bananas. Then she goes home.
It’s five o’clock in the afternoon. Everything is ready. Now the first girl is arriving. The party is going to begin in thirty minutes.
What kind of party is Mrs. Green holding?

A．Mr. Green’s birthday party

B．Mrs. Green’s birthday party

C．Mary Green’s birthday party

D．Mr. White’s birthday party

Who helped Mrs. Green prepare for the party?

A．Mr. Green	B．Mr. White
C．Mary Green	D．Mrs. White

How many people will come to the party?

A．The twenty girls	B．ten girls
C．Twenty girls and Mrs. White	D．More than twenty

What does Mrs. Green buy these apples for?

A．The twenty girls	B．The party
C．Mrs. White	D．Mary

When will the party start?

A．At six o’clock

B．In thirty minutes

C．At five o’clock in the afternoon

D．At half past five in the afternoon

Daniel has many friends. They look different and they have different personalities, but they are all friendly and helpful. He’d like to introduce some of them to us.

Name	Age	Appearance and hobbies
Amy (volleyball player)	17	She is very tall (1.87 meters)! She has a baby face. Her fans say she’s very beautiful. She likes listening to pop songs and drawing.
Tom (skiing player)	18	He is always smiling so people say that he is a “sunny boy”. He is a “black horse”. He won the first gold medal(金牌) for his city this year. He likes reading and playing games.
Millie (singer)	16	People call her “Baby”. She’s a tall girl with black glasses and short hair. She likes wearing men’s clothes, so she looks like a boy. She likes singing, of course. She is good at playing basketball!

Why do people say Tom is a “sunny boy”?

A．Because he likes reading.

B．Because he likes playing games.

C．Because he is always smiling.

D．Because he is a skier.

. Which of the following is not true about Millie?

A．She is very tall.	B．She wears black glasses.
C．She likes wearing a dress.	D．She has short hair.

Which sentence is wrong?

A．“Baby” does well in playing basketball.

B．Millie is the youngest of the three.

C．Amy has a baby face.

D．Tom likes black horses.

When US student Olivia Priedeman, 17, woke up one morning, she thought she had had a dream about making plans with a friend.
But it wasn’t a dream. Her phone showed that during the night, Priedeman had read a text message from her friend. She did it while she was fast asleep.
Reading and sending text messages while asleep—called “sleep texting”—is an unusual sleep behaviour, similar to sleepwalking. It’s also a growing concern(关心的事) among doctors: young people can’t live without their cell phones.
One in three teenagers sends more than 100 text messages a day, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And at least four out of five teenagers said they sleep with their phone on or near their bed.
Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, has studied sleeping texting. She said that having a phone nearby all night is a big part of the problem.
Andrew Stiehm, a sleep medicine expert with Allina Health in Minnesota, agrees. It’s possible for the part of the brain that controls motor skills (动作技能) to wake up, while the part of the brain that controls memory and judgment(判断) may be still asleep. That’s why some people can perform basic movements ---such as walking, talking, texting or even driving—while they’re sleeping. Some of Dowdell’s students said that they’re disturbed by their nighttime texting behavior. But because sleep texting is unconscious, it’s a difficult habit to break. Dowdell said she knows of some students who wear socks on their hands to keep themselves from texting.
Marjorie Hogan, a doctor at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suggests keeping all electronic devices(电子设备) outside the bedroom at certain times.
What happened to Olivia Priedeman?

A．She sleepwalked to a friend’s house.

B．She dreamed of making plans with a friend.

C．She phoned one of her friends during the night.

D．She read a text message from her friend while asleep.

. Which part the brain controls keeps awake while asleep?

A．judgment	B．language
C．memory	D．motor skills

What does the underlined word “unconscious” mean?

A．无法	B．无意识的
C．无反应的	D．无规律的

. What does doctor Hogan suggest people who sleep text do?

A．Stop text during the daytime.

B．Take some medicine to control the behaviour.

C．Keep their phones out of their bedrooms while they sleep.

D．Wear socks on their hands to stop themselves from texting.

We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．It’s easy to give up a sleep texting habit.

B．One in three teenagers has a sleep texting habit.

C．Sleep texting can reduce the quality of one’s sleep.

D．Sleep texting does more harm to one’s health than sleepwalking.

One day Mozart saw an old man playing the violin at the street corner. He found that the old man was playing one of his compositions(乐曲) .The old man played for some time, but the cap in front of him was still empty—nobody put any money into the cap. Mozart asked the old man ,“Do you often play compositions by Mozart?” The old man answered ,“Now everybody knows Mozart and likes his compositions.” “Do you make a living by playing the violin?”
The old man said he did. Mozart took over the violin from the old man and began to play. He played so well that all the passers-by stopped to listen to the wonderful music and soon the old man felt surprised that the man could play so well, He asked Mozart,“Who are you ,Sir?” “A poor musician like you.”then Mozart gave the violin to the old man and went away.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正误。正确的填“T”，错误的填“F”，并将答案填入题前的括号内。
the old man played the violin at the street corner to give a concert.
Mozart was a famous musician.
Nobody gave any money to the old man because he played the composition by Mozart.
When the old man heard the wonderful music he was disappointed.
All of the passers-by stopped to listen to the music because Mozart played so well.