Dear Mr Zhu,
I am writing to your magazine’s “Teenagers Now” column(专栏) to ask for some help with my 16-year-old son. At the moment, he refuses to do almost everything his mother and I ask him to do. He is our only child and we treat him very well. His grandparents buy him many things, and yet he is still rude to us. He refuses to spend time with us or do as we tell him. Sometimes he acts as if he doesn’t even love us at all.
Now he refuses to do his homework, and instead insists on wasting his time watching DVDs and listening to foreign music. I cannot understand this music, but I don’t like it. He also spends too much time in Internet cafes, where he either plays games or chats online. He is wasting valuable time during this important period in his life!
What am I to do? At present, to prevent making his mother unhappy with an argument, I am allowing him his freedom. However, I am worried that if I keep allowing him to do what he wants, he may fail at school, or worse.
How can I help my son without harming our relationship?
Yours
Liu Zhenhua
1. What’s Mr. Zhu’s job?
A. A teacher. B. A magazine columnist.
C. A youth worker. D. A doctor.
2.From the passage, we can know that Mr. Liu’s son is _______ to his parents.
A. friendly B. thankful C. polite D. rude
3.What does Liu Zhenhua write to Mr. Zhu for?
A. To blame his son.
B. To ask for help with his son.
C. To say something about his son.
D. To complain to him about his son.
4.What do you think is the possible answer for the father?
A. The father should let the son alone.
B. The father should give his son a beating.
C. The father should allow his son his freedom.
D. The father should be patient enough to have communication with the son.
In China, the National Holiday is a big festival and it is to celebrate the founding of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong in 1949.Besides from the Spring Festival, the National Holiday is the only other week-long public break from school and work.
As one of the only opportunities for workers to go home, visit their families or to travel around the country, all hotels, tourist attractions, trains, buses and airplanes around the country are completely packed with holidaying Chinese people.
Are you sorry for not traveling during the National Day ? If you stay at home at that time, I think you are very lucky. Why? Because there are too many people everywhere. In many places of interest in China, it’s too crowded to do anything.
Look at the picture. It was too crowded on the Great Wall on October 1st, 2012. You even couldn’t take photos for you or your friends. All that we could see were people. It was reported that there were about twenty people per meter on the Great Wall. My friends told me they could see nothing but many people on the Great Wall. “We couldn’t walk if the people in front of us didn’t walk,” he said. He showed us a photo on the Great Wall. In the photo, we hardly found him out, there were too many people.
So some people give the advice that we should not have the gold week any more. But other people say no about this advice. What’s your idea of it? Are you sorry now for not traveling during the gold week? I love staying at home more than traveling next National Day.
1. How did the writer feel about staying at home on National Day?
A. He believed it was interesting to stay at home on National Day.
B. He believed it was boring to stay at home on National Day.
C. He felt lucky to stay at home on National Day.
D. He felt sorry to stay at home on National Day.
2.How many days can people have a break on the Spring Festival.
A. 5 days B.7 days C.10 days D 15 days
3.Which of the following is TRUE about the Great Wall on National Day?
A. You could find yourself easily on the photos you took that day
B. You could walk as you like on the Great Wall
C. There were about 30 people per meter.
D. All that could you see on the Great Wall were people.
4.Where do you think is the article from?
A. www.chinabus.com B. www.movies123.com
C. www.chinatourist.com D. www.storyhouse.com
阅读下面四篇材料，请从各题所给的A, B, C, D 四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
1.Auntie Chang’s Dumpling House is in .
A. China B. England C. the USA D. Japanese
2.Auntie Chang’s has specials every day .
A. in the morning B. at noon C. in the evening D. at night
3.Which of the following is TRUE about the Dumpling House?
A. It is the Top 100 Japanese Restaurants in the USA .
B .We can order for dumplings on-line.
C. The Dumpling House is for the Chinese only.
D. The phone number of Auntie Chang’s Dumpling House is 713-514-8410 .
When our children were younger, it was popular for city people to buy a small farm in the country and a few animals there.
One of our new neighbors ducks. They seemed very lovely; however, they were to run around in their yard and the neighbors’ yards— ours. Our vegetables were their favorite food. Often we would “shoo” the ducks home and want to know_ there wasn’t a fence to keep them.
One day, I asked her if she her ducks were bringing trouble to my garden. She told me that they were her _ and he was away traveling. My attitude （态度） to her was bad. We realized that our neighbors were not planning to build a , so our son built one .The ducks now stayed in their own yard. I didn’t see my neighbor again months later.
A women’s church group asked me to at their mother and daughter party. The topic was “Love”. Much to my ，the first woman I saw when I walked into the church was my neighbor. I knew I could not speak about love to them when I hadn’t been __ my neighbor. So I walk to her and said sorry for my attitude. She forgave（原谅）me and then we talked a lot _ .
Do you have anybody like that in your life? Let me encourage（鼓励） ，if at all possible, go to clear the air between you.
1.A. put B. keep C. send D. take
2.A. bought B. sold C. dropped D. showed
3.A. made B. allowed C. invited D. chosen
4.A. except B. but C. without D. including
5.A. what B. why C. if D. when
6.A. saw B. understood C. thought D. realized
7.A. husband’s B. daughter’s C. wife’s D. grandma’s
8.A. fence B. house C. home D. room
9.A. after B. before C. until D. while
10.A. speak B. talk C. say D. tell
11.A. happiness B. disappointment C.sadness D. surprise
12.A.worried about B. patient with C. strict with D. annoyed with
13.A. up B. along C. around D. down
14.A. angrily B. seriously C. happily D. carefully
15.A. us B. you C. ourselves D. Yourselves
–If you have any trouble, be sure to call me.
– __________________
A. I am glad to hear that. B. I will. Thank you very much.
C. I have no trouble. D. I will think it over.
–What do you think of the summer camp?
–Wonderful! It’s the greatest ______ I have ever had.
A. mistake B. point C. experience D. influence
