French kids can be editors for a day

Can kids make their own newspapers? They do in Paris. Student editors at a French newspaper for kids called Mon Quotidien, do every day.

The ten-year-old newspaper sometimes sells 200,000 copies every day. It gets more than one million dollars every year! This is much more than many other newspapers.

How do they decide what to put in the paper? All the adult editors working on the children’s newspaper agree that the paper should be simple to read. Kids should be able to finish it within 10 minutes. The paper covers(报道) kids’ favorite subjects like school life, animals and science. It also talks about big world problems.

In order to make the paper more popular with kids, adult editors invite students aged 10 to 15 to join them. They have meetings every Wednesday and Sunday. Adult editors, reporters and kids sit together and decide which topics should come out in the paper and on which page. Which topic should come out on the front page, world news or bears in the zoo? Often the kid editors and adult editors disagree. Sometimes, the adult editors have to give up because their little editors won’t give in. Usually the student editors stay in the newspaper office for three hours at each meeting. Any kid in France can call the newspaper if they are interested in being a one-day editor.

1.The French newspaper Mon Quotidien has a history of 10 years.

2.The newspaper is for the kids to create and practice, not to earn any money.

3. The editors of the newspaper are all kids.

4. The children can finish reading the newspaper within 10 minutes because it’s simple.

I was waiting for the bus when I met the woman. “You look tired. Come and sit here,” she said. “    are you going?”

“I don’t know. I just want to catch a     and see what it will be like at the end.”

“I’m afraid you’ll see     there. Why don’t you enjoy the sights on the way?”

“How can I do that while my heart’s      ?” I asked sadly. My best friend had left me.

The woman seemed to understand my feeling. “Don’t cry, little girl. I’ve had a similar experience to yours. Thirty-five years ago, my husband left our three children and me. I was deadly sad. I decided to kill myself and the children, so I took them to the sea.    ，they seemed to know what would happen, so they    loudly. Their cry suddenly woke me up. How could I      my hope to live for one of life’s problems? After that, I worked hard to raise the children. Now they all live    and one of them has his own family.

Then the woman gave me a smile, “We should never wait for the door to      before us. We should find the key to the     or try to find another way.”

The bus came and I got on it with a smile.

1.A. WhatB. HowC. Where

2.A. trainB. busC. boat

3.A. nothingB. everythingC. something

4.A. smilingB. breakingC. singing

5.A. SoB. HoweverC. Besides

6.A. laughedB. talkedC. cried

7.A. give away   B. give upC. get up

8.A. happilyB. sadlyC. badly

9.A. openB. closeC. lock

10.A. classroom  B. officeC. door

Dictionaries are very useful books. People use dictionaries to     the meanings of words.  If you are learning English, you would use an English dictionary. Some students have dictionaries. Their dictionaries contain Chinese and English words. They are useful, but it is usually     to use a dictionary written completely     English. This will         you to begin to think in English. A good English dictionary will show you the correct spellings of a word and its pronunciation. Many dictionaries also show     a word is used in sentences.

1.A. find         B. find out         C. look for

2. A. good          B. well              C. better

3. A. with           B. about             C. in

4.A. make         B. let               C. help

5.A. when         B. why              C. how

A: Excuse me,  1.

B: Yes, and you are…?

A: 2.  This is my menbership card. Would you plesase show me your passport?

B: OK.  3.

A: Welcome to Beijing, Miss White. I’m so glad that you are the first guest I have receiver.

B: Thank you, Miss Chen. 4.

A: Let me help you with your suitcase. Our car is waiting for us just at the entrance.

B: Thank you very much.

I am an English guide from Beijing China Travel Service.

Here you are.

are you Miss White from New York?

I’m so lucky that I could meet my guide as soon as I got off  the plane.

I’m allowed to go out with my friends ________ school nights, but I have to be home _______ 9:00 p.m..

A. at, at          B. on, in   

C. on, by         D. for, at

Only in this way ____make progress in your English.

A.you                 B.can you     

C.you be able to      D.will you able to

If my mother ___ I get a grade of 50 in English exam, she would be angry.

A.knows　 　      B.knew　　　

C.has known　　　　D.would know

—Are you still afraid __________?   —No, I’m not.

A. to being aloneB. of being alone   

C. of alone D. to live lonely

—I haven’t seen your grandfather for several years. Where has he gone?

—Oh, he _____ for two years.

A. has died    B. has been dead   

C. died       D. was died

— She didn’t come to school yesterday, did she?

— ___________, though she was not feeling well.

A. No, she didn’t     B. No, she did     

C. Yes, she didn’t    D. Yes, she did