Music is an international language. Popular music in America is what every student likes.
Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and
at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly when they drive
streets. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio when they drive to work. They also listen to the News about sports, the weather, politics（政治）, and activities of the American people. Most of the radio broadcast is music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in every state(州). Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Whenever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies（协奏曲） of Beethoven.
1.Almost every American student likes_________. .
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A．popular music |
B．American songs |
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C．folk music |
D．classical music |
2.What do adult drivers do while they are driving?.
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A．listen to pop songs |
B．listen to news and make a CD |
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C．listen to music and news |
D．listen to stories |
3.What’s one of the reasons that singers become national stars?
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A．Their CDs or tapes are used in every state. |
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B．Several young people buy their CDs or tapes. |
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C．They travel around the world. |
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D．They are followed by young people sometimes. |
4._______ was started by cowboys.
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A．Popular music |
B．Classical music |
C．Western music |
D．Serious music |
5.What is the best title of the passage?
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A．Popular Music in America |
B．Kinds of Music in America |
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C．How to Be Famous Singers |
D．International Language |
Ma Yan is not really a writer, but this 15-year-old girl has written a book that has moved many people around the world. Ma Yan’s diary tells us about Ma’s life. She lives in a poor village called Zhangjiashu in Tongxin, Ningxia, and she has no money to go to school. However, she is brave and wants to go to school very much.
Her mother gave her diary to a reporter, Pierre Haski when he went to Zhangjiashu in 2001. Now, Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and China.
Ma Yan is now a Junior Three student at Yuwang Middle School in Tongxin. Before this, she had to drop out of school twice. She had to stop going to school the first time, because her mum told her there was no money for her to go to school. She worked for 21 days and saved 13 yuan. With this money, she went back to school. The second time, her family told her she had to leave school while her two brothers could stay.
“I want to study,” Ma Yan wrote in her diary. “Why can boys study but girls can’t? It would be wonderful if I could stay at school forever.”
Ma Yan loves school so much because she wants to have a better life.
“My parents work hard in the fields but they are still poor. They have no knowledge(知识). Most girls in my village leave school early and get married young. I don’t want that kind of life,” Ma Yan said.
After her story became known, many students sent money to her. She hopes to go to Tsinghua University and become a reporter. “Then, I can find poor kids like me, and help them,” she said.
1.Ma Yan’s diary has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Japan and .
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A．America |
B．Austria |
C．Russia |
D．China |
2.Why did Ma Yan leave school for the first time?
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A．She didn’t study as hard as her brothers. |
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B．Her brothers studied better than she did. |
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C．Her family didn’t have money for her to school. |
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D．She had to help her mother do some housework. |
3.Ma Yan wants to study because she wants to .
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A．teach her parents some knowledge |
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B．get more money for her study in university |
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C．become more famous in the world |
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D．get more knowledge to change her life |
Here is how to leave the supermarket with the things you wanted to buy and nothing more.
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Suggestion 1: Pick up a basket. You’ll head straight for the checkout (收款台) when it starts to get heavy. Don’t use the trolleys (购物车) because they will make you put in extra things. |
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Suggestion 2: Make a list and stick to（坚持） it. Supermarkets usually place things we use every day far away, such as bread and milk. So you have to walk along the aisles (过道) in between, buying things you don’t really need on the way. |
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Suggestion 3: Keep away from BOGOFs (Buy One Get One Free offers). Just how many watermelons can you eat in a week? Fruit and vegetables usually work out cheaper. |
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Suggestion 4: Look up and down. The most expensive things are placed in the middle. For cheaper things, check the higher and the lower places. |
1.How many suggestions does the writer give us?
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A．One. |
B．Two. |
C．Three. |
D．Four. |
2.To buy things we use every day in the supermarket, we have to ______.
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A．pick up a basket |
B．look up and down |
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C．walk along the aisles |
D．keep away from BOGOFs |
3.The most expensive things are placed in the ______ places.
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A．middle |
B．high |
C．low |
D．near |
I live in the north of New York. One day last 31 when we received our first snow, I looked out and knew that I had to stay at home.
An hour later, I tried to go out to walk my dog. But to my 32, I found my sidewalk and path were cleaned. I had no idea 33 did this good deed（事情）. I looked over to my neighbor’s sidewalk. There stood the husband with also surprising looks on his face. I 34 him who did it. He also had no idea.
About a week later, we had another snow and I 35 to find the snow angel (天使). It was a good plan, but I got busy inside and 36 to keep a look out. When I remembered to look out, the sidewalk was 37 again.
Now I believe determined (坚决的) to find my snow angel. I asked everyone I knew in the neighborhood. I had 38 here for only three years and only knew some of them. So once again my snow angel got away.
I waited for the third snow. While I was reading I 39 some noise. Tears came to my eyes. I found my snow angel was an 8-year-old boy. He lives a few houses away from me, 40 he came here to clean my side-walk.
For a short time I know , he is an angel for everyone, not only for me.
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The box is big, but you can carry it because there is _____ in it.
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A. something C. anything |
B.everything D. nothing |
My father _______ at eight o’clock yesterday evening.
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A. watched TV C. is watching TV |
B. was watching TV D. watches TV |
