David is a middle school student. He had lived in a small village for fifteen years. 1. His father, Mr. Hill, was a rich farmer and later on he opened a shop in our town. He bought a house here last month. His family moved to the new house and his son began to study in our class. But he had few friends here. 2.
His neighbor Cathy is a kind girl. She has many friends. She finds the boy never talks with anybody and decides to help him. 3. Now they’re good friends.
One afternoon, Cathy told David, “ 4. I'll have a birthday party. Would you like to come?”
“Certainly. I’m glad to,” the boy said happily.
David got home and thought of a present he could give to Cathy. 5. He couldn’t telephone her because he didn’t know her number. At that moment Mrs. Hill came and asked, “What’s the matter, dear?”
“What would you like if it was your sixteenth birthday, Mom?”
“Nothing,” the woman said, “I just wish I were sixteen.”
One day an Australian farmer，Joe，saw a bright light in the sky. The light came nearer and nearer and suddenly Joe realized that it was a spaceship. The spaceship landed in a field nearby.
The door of the spaceship opened and two strange beings（怪物）climbed out. They seemed to be half man and half bird. Joe was afraid of them. He tried to run away. But the spacemen walked towards him，picked him up and carried him into the spaceship.They put wires（导线）from a machine onto his head and they they began to speak to him in English.
They asked him questions about earth.“We’ re from Venus（金星），”they said，“But it is getting very hot there. A lot of our people are dying and we have not much time left. We are trying to find a new home.”
After some time they freed Joe and at last the spaceship took off and disappeared. Joe told his friends about the spacemen，but no one believed his story.
“You wi ll believe me one day，”Joe told them.“The spacemen will come back again.”
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1.What’s the bright light in the sky?
A. A bird B. A plane C. A rocket D. A spaceship
2.What are the strange beings like?
A. Men B. Birds
C. Neither men nor birds D. Half man and half bird
3.What did the strange beings want Joe to do?
A. Put wires from a machine onto his head
B. Speak to them in English
C. Answer some questions about the earth
D. Find a new home
4.Why did the aliens come to the earth?
A. To find a new home B. To speak to Joe
C. To destroy the earth D. To take Joe away
5.According to the passage，which sentence is RIGHT?
A. The aliens took away Joe
B. It is getting very cold on Venus
C. A lot of people on Venus are dying
D. Not all the people believed Joe
Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? Things have changed.
China has banned（禁止）free plastic bags in shops and supermarkets，and people have to pay for using plastic bags. The rule started on June 1st. It came because our country tried to make less litter. Making super-thin plastic bags has also been banned.
The Chinese once used about 3,000,000,000 plastic shopping bags a day，and they have caused pollution of the environment. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution because they are easy to break and people throw them away here and there. So the Chinese people are encouraged to bring their own bags for shop ping.
What kind of shopping bag is the best to bring? Some students in Chongqing have a good idea. They make their own shopping bags. They use old clothes to make cloth bags，and send them to their parents as presents. They also ask their parents and friends to use cloth bags instead of plastic ones. They think it is their duty to protect the environment.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. People in China have to now.
A. throw plastic bags here and there
B. collect plastic bags in the street
C. pay for using plastic bags at shops and supermarkets
D. use free plastic bags at shops and supermarkets
2. China made this rule because plastic bags were bad for the .
A. environment B. families C. shops D. supermarkets
3. The Chinese people are encouraged to bring for shopping.
A. no bags B. free plastic bags
C. their own bags D. super-thin plastic bags
4.Some students in Chongqing .
A. ask their parents to make cloth bags
B. make cloth bags themselves
C. pick up plastic bags everywhere
D. buy cloth bags for their parents
5.What’s the main idea of this article?
A. Making super-thin plastic bags has been banned in China.
B. The bags have become a main cause of plastic pollution.
C. Some students in Chongqing begin to make their own shopping bags.
D. To protect the environment，free plastic bags have been banned in China.
Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others．For example，some high school and college students in the U.S.A. often spend many hours as volunteers in the hospitals，orphanages（孤儿院）or rest homes．They read books to the people in these places，or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their problems．
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old．They paint，clean up or repair their houses，do their shopping or mow（割；修剪）their lawns．For boys who no longer have fathers，there is an organization called Big Brothers．College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing trip and help them get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers．
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games．Some of these clubs show films or organize short trips to the mountains or some places of interest．Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to know the problems and needs of young boys and girls．
Volunteers believe that some of the happiest people in the world are those who help to bring happiness to others．
根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。
1.In America，it takes most of high school and college students little time to be volunteers in hospitals，orphanages or rest homes.
2.Some young volunteers can go and play in the homes of people who are sick or old.
3.If a boy has no father，he can get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers in an organization called Big Brothers.
4.Most of the clubs don’t like to use the high school or college students as volunteers because they’re too young to remember anything.
5.If you bring happiness to others，you will feel happy too.
Many of you are studying English and you may be wondering why it is so difficult . It’s actually not too difficult to learn you know some about the language and culture that it reflects（反映）. the first thing you need to know about English is that it is made up of several languages such as French，German，Latin，Greek and Anglo-Saxon. In addition（除此以外），there are words from Spanish in English and American Indian words and names，even some Chinese and Japanese can be found in the English language. This borrowing of words other languages is of the key reasons why some of the difficulties that people meet with（遇到） they are learning English.
1.A. learn B. to learn C. learning D. learned
2.A. but B. and C. if D. unless
3.A. news B. facts C. truth D. information
4.A. Perhaps B. But C. Soon D. Yet
5.A. other B. another C. the other D. others
6.A. much B. lot C. a lot D. many
7.A. words B. culture C. language D. letters
8.A. for B. to C. from D. out
9.A. that B. something C. one D. this
10.A. until B. before C. after D. while
A：What’s the matter with you?
B：1.
A：How long have you been like this?
B： 2.
A：That sounds terrible!
B：The chemical factory produces terrible gas. The bad air makes my chest hurt. Please read this article.
A： 3.
B：It’s about air pollution in China. Today，air pollution has become a serious problem.
A： 4. What should we do as a student?
B： 5.
