Different students have different ideas about freedom(自由), true friends, love, honesty and so on.

Chen Cheng, 13, a boy from Jiangsu: I think I need a true friend. I had some friends before. However, it seemed that they didn’t regard me as their friends. I told them my secrets but they didn’t share theirs with me. I hope to find a true friend who can share happiness and sadness with me.

Gan Xiaoning, 14, a girl from Heilongjiang: Freedom is what I want most. I am a bird in two cages. In school, I have to follow the school’s rules and listen to teachers. At home, my parents don’t allow me to do what I like, either.

Yuan Siyu,15, Guangxi: I am a boy from a poor family. My father works very hard to support the family. I want to go to a college so that I can find a good job in the future.

Qu Yi,14, a girl from Hebei: I want a complete family. My father died of cancer three years ago. Since then, I have had no chance to be together with my parents any more. I admire my classmates who live with their parents.

1.Who is the oldest student of all?

2.What does Chen Cheng want to get most?

3.What does Gan Xiaoning want most?

4.What does Yuan Siyu want to do in the future?

5.What happened to Qu Yi’s family three years ago?

Have you ever had problems in your life and don’t know how to be happy? If so ,you will find “Being a Happy Teenager” by Australian writer Andrew Matthews  useful. In his book, Matthews  tells us how to have a happy life and answers the questions of teenagers.

The book says we should stop being angry. The book tells us some useful skills. For example, if you want to make your memory(记忆) better, you can put what you have learned into pictures of your mind. Many teenagers think  that happiness comes from a good exam result or praise from other people. But you can still be happy when there are no such “good” things.

Success comes from a good attitude(态度). If you learn from problems, you have success in the future. Some school boys have problems such as being too tall or too short, but Matthews tells us happiness comes from thinking about things in a positive way.

If you are  tall , you can get a  better view(视线) at the movie. If you are short, your clothes and shoes take less room in your bedroom! This is Matthews’ most important lesson : you choose to be happy!

1.Andrew Matthews is a ________ .

A. doctor     B. teacher         C. writer

2.What does the book advise you to do if you want to have a better memory?

A. To have a good attitude.

B. To get praise from other people .

C. To put what you have learned into pictures of your mind.

3.After reading the book, you will learn ________ comes from a good attitude.

A. trouble        B. success        C. illness

4.The underlined word “positive” in the fourth paragraph means ________ .

A. 积极的         B.消极的      C.落后的

5.The passage mainly tells us how to ________ .

A. have a happy life

B. learn from problems

C. read a useful book

John is thirteen now. He began to study in a middle school two years ago. His home is in a village and it’s nearly five kilometers from the school. He has to get up early in the morning. After a quick breakfast he runs to school and gets there on time. His father hopes to borrow some money to buy a bike for him. But he knows his mother is always ill and his father spends much money on medicine. He doesn’t agree with his father and keeps running there every day. He is never late for class and his teachers often praise him.

Last week there was a sports meeting in his school. John ran faster than any other boy in the boys’ 800 meters, 1,500 meters and 3,000 meters. The whole school knew him. He was happy. He told his grandma about the good news as soon as he got home.

“I broke two school records today, Granny,” called out the boy.

To his surprise, the old woman wasn’t happy. She thought for a while and said,“I’m sorry to hear that. We have no money to pay for them, you know!”

1.John began to study in a middle school at the age of           .

A. nine      B. eleven C. thirteen

2.John runs to school every day in order to           .

A. keep healthy

B. win the boys’ race

C. get to school on time

3.John doesn’t ask his father to buy him a bike because               .

A. he doesn’t like riding a bike

B. he doesn’t like his father

C. he knows his father doesn’t have enough money

4.John            after the school sports meeting.

A. ran faster B. worked harder   C. became famous

5.John’s Granny wasn’t happy because              .

A. she thought John had broken some things in the school and they had to pay for them.

B. she thought John hadn’t done well in the school sports meeting

C. John’s father couldn’t afford a bike

1.       are from Canada.

A. Bill Gates and Norman Bethune

B. Mark Twain and Thomas Edison

C. Celine Dion and Norman Bethune

2.         invented more than 1,000 things.

A. Norman Bethune

B. Thomas Edison

C. Mark Twain

3.I Surrender is a name of a            .

A. book             B. song          C. story

4.Dr. Bethune worked in China for about           .

A. 1 year            B. 3 years     C. 48 years

5.From the form, we can see             .

A. Norman Bethune was born in Canada, and died there

B. Thomas Edison was 75 years old when he died

C. Bill Gates was born in America

完形填空  从A、B、C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案（每小题1.5分，满分15分）

In learning English , you should first pay attention to listening and speaking. It is the base of reading and writing. You’d better       your best to speak while you do much listening. Don’t be       of making mistakes, you can learn from these mistakes, and be careful not to let them stop you from improving your       . While you are doing this, a good       is to write and keep a diary, write notes or letters. Then if you can ask others to go through(浏览)      you have written and tell you where it is wrong, many mistakes on your speaking will be       found. When you write, through correcting mistakes, you can do better in learning English.

If you are weak in speaking, don’t       about it. One of the helpful ways is reading, you can either read aloud or read to yourself. The important thing is to choose      interesting to read. It can’t be too difficult for you. When you are reading       this way, don’t stop to       the new words, try to guess the meanings of them, it is more important to learn to think in the language than to know the meaning of every word.

1.A. have B. send C. try

2.A. afraid B. proud   C. sure

3.A. English B. Chinese C. Japanese

4.A. start B. way C. idea

5.A. how B. when C. what

6.A. happily B. easily C. slowly

7.A. take B. dream C. worry

8.A. something B. everything C. anything

9.A. at B. on C. in

10.A. look up B. look for C. look after

—Do you know           the Capital Museum?

—Next Friday.

A. how they visited

B. when they will visit

C. when will they visit

Smile to the world,           the world will smile back to you.

A. but         B. or        C. and

If your homework          , you may watch TV for half an hour.

A. is finished B. will be finished    C. has finished

— What can I do to save energy?

— You ought to           the electricity when you leave a room.

A. shut off    B. give up   C. take away

Mr. Brown           to Taiwan for his business the day after tomorrow.

A. flies         B. is flying       C. flying