Have you felt annoyed when a mobile phone rings during the class? Something must be done to stop this. Now in New York City, USA, a rule is carried out* in schools. Students can’t even bring mobile phones to school. Is it a good thing or not?
Anxious* parents say that mobile 
phones
are an important tool* in holding New York City’s families together.
“I worry about it,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a mother of a middle school kid. “It’s necessary in our everyday life. We have a washing machine*, we have running water, and we have mobile phones. A number of Americans think mobile phones connect* them to children on buses, getting out from subways, walking through unknown* places.
“I have her call me when she gets out school,” said Lindsay Walt, a schoolgirl’s mother. “No one in New York is going to let their children go to school without a mobile phone.
What about the mobile phone owners, the students? Most of the students said that mobile phones were necessary and the mobile phone was like an extra* hand or foot for them.
“I feel so bored,” said May Chom, 14. “There is also no way to listen to music on the way to school without my phone. It will be a really, really boring trip.
1.Elizabeth Lorris Ritter is worried that ______________.
A. students are not allowed to
bring mobile phones
B. students spend too much time in listening
to music on the mobile phones
C. students bring mobile phones to school and they often ring during the class
D. no rule is carried out to stop students from bringing mobile phones to school
2.____________ American parents disagree with the rule that students can’t bring mobile phones to school.
A. Some. B. Many C. Few D. No
3.May Chom likes to ______________.
A. go to school without a mobile phone
B. chat with her friends on the mobile phone on the way to school
C. walk through interesting places with a mobile phone
D. bring a mobile phone to school
4.This writer wants to tell us the __________ in carrying out* the rule not to use a mobile phone in school.
A. importance B. problem C. happiness D. hopeless
One morning, a blind* boy sat in front of a building
with a hat by his feet .He held a sign* which said,“I am blind. Please help me.
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few
coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat .He then took the sign,
turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He
put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps* and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
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Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty* of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure*what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
1.On the sign what the man wrote was,“_______.”
A. Treasure what we have already had.
B. Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.
C. We are so lucky that we are not blind.
D. Try your best to help those who need your help.
2.The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.
A.承认 B.接受
C.表扬 D.认出
3.From the passage we know that _____.
A. the boy always has a hat on his head.
B. the man is one of his friends.
C. the boy is blind and needs help.
D. the boy works for the man.
4.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A .The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign.
B. The man took away all the few coins from the hat.
C. The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school.
D. Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy.
What was the highlight *of the Ma
y
Day? It was Hangzhou Bay Bridge*, which opened on that
day.
It is 36 kilometers long and the world’s longest
cross- sea bridge. It begins at Jiaxing, crosses the East China Sea, and end at
Cixi,
about 70 kilometers from Ningbo. It will reduce* the driving time between
Shanghai and Ningbo by about two hours.
A great number of the workers started to build it on
November 2003, and ended in June 2007. Now the bridge has become famous. About
40,000 vehicles *can cross the bridge each day at first. This will
be added to 100,000 vehicles a day in 2026. During the May Day holiday, many
car owners came to the bridge as well as tourists on coaches*. So many people
wanted to see the bridge with their own eyes.
As a shortcut *between Zhejiang and Shanghai, the
bridge will not only improve traffic but also help economic *development in the
Changjiang River
Delta.
“People enjoy working in small cities like Cixi but living in big cities like Shanghai,” said a man. “With the help of the bridge, they can leave Shanghai for Cixi in the morning and go back in the afternoon. They only need to drive for about one and a half hours.”
1.Hangzhou Bay Bridge opened________.
A. in November, 2003 B. in July, 2007 C. on May 1, 2008 D. on March 1, 2008
2.It took about ___________ to finish building the bridge.
A. three years and a half B. two years and a half C. three years D. four years and a half
3.Which city is not mentioned in the passage? ___________.
A. Cixi B. Ningbo C. Hangzhou D. Shanghai
4.The passage can most probably be found in _____________.
A. a text book B. a magazine C. a newspaper D. a movie poster
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The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she ,but she stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler, happened? Is everything okay?”
“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is I can do to make a difference.”
“Let me tell you .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish* covering the beach, they up by the waves*, and it was too difficult for them to make their way back by . The man shook* his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man very sorry for those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as as he could, ‘how silly you are! My ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ‘I can’t help them all, I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”
“Thinking for a moment, the man to
help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself,
‘Sometimes the biggest lesson 
in
life comes from the person.
1.A. drinking B.
making C.
selling D. washing
2.A. turned around B. turned
down C. turned on D. turned off
3.A. what B. when C. where D. why
4.A. air B. land C. water D. environment
5.A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
6.A. a legend B. a joke C. a story D. an idea
7.A. pushed B. was pushed C. were pushed D. were pushing
8.A. himself B. itself C. ourselves D. themselves
9.A. feel B. felt C. fell D. fall
10.A. afraid B. surprised C. sad D. angry
11.A. slow B. fast C. soon D. high
12.A. father 
B.
mother C.
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13.A. Or B. So C. Because D. Though
14.A. began B. remembered C. forgot D. waited
15.A. shortest B. tallest C. smallest D.biggest
— I’m afraid that I’ll fail the math test.
— _____________!
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