“Who needs a shopping mall if you have Taobao?” says Wang Lin, a young writer in Beijing.
Taobao, China’s largest online shopping site, has become an important part of Wang Lin’s life. She spends lots of money on Taobao.
Many Chinese Internet users like Wang have got the fun of online shopping. Most online shoppers are students or young workers. More women shop online than men. Clothing and home-use products（产品）are the most popular online.
It was reported that more than 1,260 billion（十亿）yuan was spent on online shopping in 2012, and about 80% through Taobao.
Taobao means “looking for good things” in Chinese. People can find almost everything they need on Taobao, from clothes to books, from candies to DVD, from flowers to mobile phones. You may wonder if it’s safe to shop on the Internet. However, Wang Lin said, “It’s very safe and easy. Unless you receive the products from the sellers and are satisfied with them, the shop owner will not get the money. You can also get your money back if you want to return the products.”
1. What is Taobao?
2. What are the most popular products产品 online?
3. Who often shop online?
4. How much money was spent on Taobao in 2012?
5.请将划线句子翻译成汉语。
It’s 7:40 in the morning. Li Yanming, a 13-year-old student in Beijing, is sitting in class. But many of the seats in the classroom are still empty. 1.
Beijing has eight rules to ease（减轻）students’ burdens（负担）this year. The rules ask schools to give students more free time. 2. Other places in China like Fujian and Shandong have similar rules.
What should students do with their new free time? 3. “Teachers asked us to read Chinese textbooks on Tuesday and Thursday, but now I can decide what to read by myself,” Li said. She gets up and goes to school as usual, but uses the whole week’s morning time to read English textbooks.
Zhang Zhaojie is a 14-year-old student from Xiamen. His school day ends at 5:00 pm. 4. So he has time to develop（发展）his interests. He plays basketball, watches English movies or draws pictures. “Now my life is not all about study. I can do what I like to make it rich and colorful,” Zhang said.
5. But they say that students need to make good use of their time. “Freedom comes with responsibility（责任）. Students should learn to be masters of themselves,” said Liu Mingang, a teacher in Beijing.
Li Siyi, a student from Jinan Foreign Language School, takes up a new habit. She refuses to believe everything that she reads. “Not everything in books is true,” she said.
Many other students in her school think the same thing as Li. They learned this through finding a mistake错误 in their Chinese textbook. They learned a Tang poem唐诗, Ci Beigu Shanxia, last year. There was a picture that showed a boat in full sail（船帆）on a river. “But according to（根据）the famous line from the poem, feng zheng yifan xuan, the sail shouldn’t be spread（展开）,” said Zhang Jiayi, Li’s classmate.
To get the right answer, the students turned to their Chinese teacher, Liu Yan. Liu and the students looked up books, searched on the Internet and made sure that the People’s Education Press（人民教育出版社）had really made a mistake about the picture.
The students wrote a letter to them about the mistake. “I think my students did a right thing but I never expected a reply,” said Liu. “I took it as a way of letting them know the importance of spirit（精神）of questioning.”
To their surprise, one month later, they got the reply from Gu Zhenbiao, the expert of Chinese textbooks in middle schools. Gu said sorry for the mistake and he also said he really thinks the students are very great.
When Liu read the letter loudly to all the students, everyone was excited. “We are very happy we have our own ideas!” said Li.
1.What new habit does Li Siyi take up?
A. Refusing to read.
B. Reading more poems.
C. Writing letters to experts.
D. Making sure if what she reads is true.
2. Where did the students from Jinan Foreign Language School find a mistake?
A. In their Chinese textbook.
B. In a Tang poem.
C. On the Internet.
D. In their Chinese class.
3.Who replied to the students?
A. Liu Yan. B. Gu Zhenbiao.
C. Zhang Jiayi. D. The People Education Press.
4.Which of the following is true?
A. Li Siyi doesn’t believe anything in her textbooks now.
B. The students were upset when their teacher read the letter to them.
C. Liu helped the students find out if the picture was wrong.
D. The teacher knew the expert would reply.
5. What can we learn from Li Siyi and her classmates?
A. It’s important to find mistakes.
B. It’s important to have the spirit of questioning.
C. It’s important not to believe anything you read.
D. It’s important to share your own ideas with others.
In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution. They join an “environment club”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean. Here are some things students often do.
No–garbage（垃圾）lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school.
No–car day. On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car---not the students and not the teachers. Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: walk, jump, run, or bike! Use your legs! It’s lots of fun!
Turn off the water! Did you know that toilets厕所 can waste twenty to forty tons（吨）of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In the environment clubs, students fix（修理）those broken toilets.
We love our environment. Let’s work together to make it clean.
1.Environment clubs ask students .
A. to run to school every day
B. to fill a river every day
C. not to forget to take cars
D. not to throw away lunch bags
2.From the passage we know the students usually have lunch .
A. in clubs B. in shops
C. at school D. at home
3.On a no–car day students can’t .
A. go bike riding B. go to school in a taxi
C. take a walk D. build a car
4.After students fix toilets, they save .
A. a small river B. a club
C. a lot of water D. a toilet
5.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. How students help make less pollution.
B. How students clean their school.
C. Asking students to join the environment club.
D. How students help teachers.
完形填空:先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。共15小题，计15分。
One day a young man came to a ___.He asked the teacher to ___ him to be brave勇敢的,because he thought he wasn’t brave enough.The teacher said,“I’ll teach you ._ __ you should do one thing.You should live in a big____next month.To every passing person in the street,you should ___ straight into their eyes and tell loudly that you’re a brave man.” The man got really____,because it seemed very difficult to him.But he must do,because he wanted to be brave.
At first, when meeting the passingers过路人in the city,he was____ and couldn’t speak any word. But he had to keep his____,so he began trying to speak the words. Each time,his voice声音sounded ___ and clearer.The more he kept on doing these,the ___confident自信的 he was.He was happy to see he was becoming brave.
A ___ passed,the man came back to the teacher,“Thank you,teacher. I ___ finished my work.Now I’m not afraid anymore.But____did you know that this would help me?”The teacher smiled,“It is only a habit.If you are afraid to do __,you shouldn’t run away from it.You should try to ___it.This way makes you be brave.”
1.A.student B.worker C.teacher D.farmer
2.A.advise B.teach C. stop D.act
3.A.Until B.Unless C. Because D.But
4.A.village B. town C. city D.country
5.A. look B. wait C. travel D.touch
6.A. glad B. excited C. upset D. relaxed
7.A.afraid B.normal C.surpried D. angry
8.A. promise B. dream C. exprience D. step
9.A. slower B. quiter C.worse D. louder
10.A. less. B.more C.least D. most
11.A.day B.week C. month D.year
12.A.easily B. quickly C. finally D. certainly
13.A.how B. when C.where D.what
14.A.nothing B.something C.everything D. anyting
15.A.forget B.invite C.do D. expect
---Hey, Ben. Why didn’t you go to Eric’s birthday party?
---I had to the final-term exams.
A. work B. improve
C. prepare for D. write down
