The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
For the first time ever, two little fairy tale (童话) characters meet in one fun-filled, action-packed musical adventure. Trying to find their way in a great big world, Tom Thumb and Thumbelina join forces and face difficulties in a great journey to find their true home.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Peter Gallagher
Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes
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Uptown Girls
Carefree Molly Gunn loses her inheritance (遗产) and must do something she’s never done before---to get a job. She ends up as babysitter to an 8-year-old girl who teaches Molly to be a grownup, while Molly teaches her to be a kid.
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning
Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
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Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story
Based on a true story, the movie Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story is about the British author’s rise to fame, from poor single mother to author of the popular Harry Potter books, and one of the wealthiest woman in the world.
Starring: Poppy Montgomery, Emily Holmes
Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
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The Book Thief
To everyone’s excitement, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in this moving film based on the bestseller about a girl who changes the lives of those around her in World War II Germany.
Starring: Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush
Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
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1. Where can the passage be found?
A. On the website. B. In a newspaper.
C. In a magazine. D. On a poster.
2._______ will be interested in the passage.
A. People who love books
B. People who enjoy films
C. People who are fond of stories
D. People who are crazy about music
3.Which of the following will help you know about the writer of Harry Potter?
A. The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina.
B. Uptown Girls.
C. Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story.
D. The Book Thief.
4. According to the passage, which actor or actress may be the most popular?
A. Poppy Montgomery B. Emily Holmes
C. Brittany Murphy D. Geoffrey Rush
How often do you let other people like a bad driver, a rude waiter, or an angry boss, change your mood (情绪)?
Sixteen years ago I learned a lesson. I got in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane (车道) when all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver used his brakes (车闸), the tires made a loud noise, and at the very last moment our car stopped just 3cm from the back of the other car.
I couldn’t believe it. But then I couldn’t believe what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, turned his head around and he started shouting at us. I couldn’t believe it!
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy could have killed us!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. He said, “Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of anger and disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump (倾倒) it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you.
So I started thinking how often I let Garbage Trucks run right over me and how often I take their garbage and spread it to other people.
I began to see Garbage Trucks. I see the load people are carrying. I see them coming to dump it. And like my taxi driver, I don’t take it personally. I just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
1.What happened to the author on his way to Grand Central Station?
A. He was caught in a traffic jam.
B. He had a fight with his taxi driver.
C. His taxi suddenly got a flat tire.
D. His taxi almost ran into another car.
2.When the author saw his taxi driver smile and wave at the driver of the black car, he ______.
A. got very angry
B. was deeply impressed
C. felt quite disappointed
D. praised him for his manners
3.The underlined part “the load” in the last paragraph probably refers to _______.
A. waste materials B. poor habits
C. the bad mood D. great pressure
4. How did the author learn to deal with Garbage Trucks?
A. Fight back immediately.
B. Call the police for help.
C. Smile and move on.
D. Dump it on someone else.
《China Daily》准备在文化动态专栏里刊登一条短消息，介绍上海市少年儿童业余艺术教育情况。假如你是撰稿人，请用英语完成这篇简单介绍。内容要点如下：
(1) 办校概况：全市现有业余艺校450多所。成千上万的少年儿童参加学习。拥有16所分校（branch）和6,000多位学生的上海少年艺术学校（Shanghai Children’s ArtSchool）规模最大。
(2) 学习收获：家长依据孩子的不同兴趣将他们送入不同的业余艺校，学习音乐、舞蹈、绘画和书法（calligraphy）。孩子们学到了不少书本上学不到的新知识。
(3) 发展前景：这种新型学校得到许多家长的支持，必将越办越好。
注意：
(1) 要有标题。
(2) 介绍须包括所有内容要点，但不要逐条译成英语。
(3) 介绍的长度为80—120个词。
根据中文或英文首字母提示完成句子(必须使用本册书中所学过的生词)
1.Students examined how children a______ language.
2.A bee has stung my hand and it is __________________（膨胀）up
3.The lung is an o________________ and so is the heart.
4.An __________（精确的） instrument is able to give you information that is correct to a detailed level.
5.He felt g________________ after he stole some money from the old couple.
6.If you have an a__________ with someone，you have arranged to see them at a particular time，usually in connection with their work.
7.Keeping an o state of mind is good for health.
8.It'll be two years before the ________(过程)is complete.
9.She said it d to challenge me.
10.We should_________(应用)both theories in the language classroom.
For second degree burns ,keep cloths cool by putting them back in a basin of cold water, 1. and placing them on the burned area 2. for about an hour until the pain is not so bad .Cover the burned area with a dry, clean bandage that will not stick to the skin . Hold the bandage 3. with tape.
My first assignment was as a(an) 4. to a famous fashion editor, who was going to take a photos of a model by the name of WangLi .I was5. as I was to assist him .We hadn’t gone far when our 6. called……She explained that as an 7. she expected all the photographs to8. her before the deadline. My colleague 9. the situation and announced that as this was 10. he would have to refer the matter to his editor .
One day, Amy is digging in the ground for a potato when along comes Tom. Seeing that there is no one in sight, Tom starts to scream. Tom’s angry mother rushes over and drives Amy away. Once his mum has gone, Tom helps himself to Amy’s potato.
We’ve all experienced similar annoying tricks when we were young—the brother who stole your ball and then got you into trouble by telling your parents you had hit him. But Amy and Tom are not humans. They’re African baboons(狒狒). __1.___
Tom’s scream and his mother’s attack on Amy could have been a matter of chance, but Tom was later seen playing the same tricks on others. _2.__
Studying behavior like this is complicated but scientists discovered apes(猿) clearly showed that they intended to cheat and knew when they themselves had been cheated. __3.___ An ape was annoying him, so he tricked her into going away by pretending he had seen something interesting. When she found nothing, she “walked back, hit me over the head with her hand and ignored me for the rest of the day.”
Another way to decide whether an animal’s behavior is deliberate is to look for actions that are not normal for that animal. A zoo worker describes how an ape dealt with an enemy. “He slowly stole up behind the other ape, walking on tiptoe. When he got close to his enemy, he pushed him violently in the back, then ran indoors.” Wild apes do not normally walk on tiptoe. __4.__ But looking at the many cases of deliberate trickery in apes, it is impossible to explain them all as simple copying.
It seems that trickery does play an important part in ape societies. ___5.__ Studying the intelligence of our closest relative could be the way to understand the development of human intelligence.
A. An amusing example of this comes from a psychologist working in Tanzania.
B. And playing tricks is as much a part of monkey behavior as it is of human behavior.
C. So the psychologists asked his colleagues if they had noticed this kind of trickery.
D. Of course it’s possible that it could have learnt from humans that such behavior works, without understanding why.
E. This use of a third individual to achieve a goal is only one of the many tricks commonly used by baboons.
F. The ability of animals to cheat may be a better measure of their intelligence than their use of tools.
G. In most cases the animal probably doesn’t know it is cheating.
