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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take actions to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second terrible school bus accident in November, 2011.
“School buses should be safe mobile campuses(校园) for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women and children, “Society(社会) should remember in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social caring and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.”
School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports.
The second accident, in which a school bus in the northern province of Liaoning rolled over on Friday, left 35 people injured, according to China Daily.
“In recent days, a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable,” said Mr Wang, an old teacher from Jiangsu. And he also thought that school bus safety must become a serious problem for schools and the government.
Premier Wen has already asked the government to develop new safety standard (标准) for school buses and made sure to help local government with safe buses for school-age children.
【小题1】How many seats did the minibus in Gansu province have before it was turned into a school bus?
| A．64 | B．21 | C．9 | D．19 |
| A．倒车 | B．翻车 | C．撞车 | D．飞车 |
| A．nervous | B．angry | C．stressed | D．tired |
| A．21 pre-school students died in the school bus traffic accident in Gansu. |
| B．35 people were hurt in the school bus accident in Liaoning. |
| C．Mr. Wang thought school bus safety was a serious problem. |
| D．The government has been asked to develop new safety standard for school buses. |
【小题1】C
【小题2】B
【小题3】B
【小题4】A
解析试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了自从2011年甘肃省的校车事故后，校车已经成为一个热门话题。中国国务院总理温家宝承诺,中国将采取行动改善校车安全。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据短文第三段The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports. 载客9人的微型面包车在事故时载有64人。可知应该有9个座位，故选C。
【小题2】词意猜测题。根据第四段描述可知周五在北部省份辽宁一辆校车翻了车，,造成35人受伤。故选B
【小题3】推理判断题。根据第五段a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable描述，可知一系列的校车事故引起了人们的愤怒，这些事故也使我不舒服，根据选项，故选B。
【小题4】细节理解题。根据第三段School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011描述，可知在甘肃的校车事故中有21人死亡，其中有19个学前儿童。故A叙述的内容不符合原文。故选A
考点：社会现象类短文阅读。
Malls (购物中心) are popular places for Americans to go to. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called mall rats. Mall rats shop until they visit hundreds of stores.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking is usually free. And the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest places with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight nightclubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, and of course, they also eat in food courts (广场) that have food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. Some people even get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.
In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to the church. In other words, people can do almost everything in malls. Now people can live in their favorite shopping centers in fact.
【小题1】The passage gives ______ reasons why American people like malls.
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．in one place | B．in a quiet place |
| C．in a busy place | D．in different places |
| A．People can see a doctor in some malls. |
| B．Parking is free in all the malls. |
| C．The malls are only in big cities. |
| D．The largest mall is in Hong Kong. |
For years and years people have been saying that railways are dead. “We can do without railways,” people say—as if cars and planes have made railways unnecessary. We all keep hearing that trains are slow, lose money and are dying. But this is far from the truth. In these days of expensive oil, railways have become highly competitive with cars and planes. If you want to carry people or goods from place to place, they’re cheaper than planes. And they have much in common with planes. A plane goes in a straight line and so does a railway. What is more, a railway takes you from the heart of a city center. It doesn’t stop you as a car does on crowded roads. And no plane or car can ever carry as many goods as one train does.
Far from being dead, railways are much alive. Modern railway lines give you a comfortable journey. Where else can you eat well, sleep comfortably, feel safe and enjoy the scene while you are traveling at the same time? And we are only the beginning, for we have just entered the age of super-fast trains, which are traveling 150 miles an hour and more. Soon we will be wondering why we spent so much on highways and planes we can’t fly in because we don’t have enough money to buy the oil.
【小题1】Some people think railways are dying because______.
| A．planes and cars are expensive |
| B．oil is expensive today |
| C．trains are slow |
| D．railways look ugly |
| A．they are cheaper and more convenient |
| B．there aren’t any planes or cars |
| C．we can have a comfortable journey |
| D．we feel dangerous on highways |
| A．It is cheaper to travel by train than by plane |
| B．The railway station is usually at the center of the city. |
| C．When you get off a plane you will find yourself right in the city center. |
| D．No car or plane can carry as many goods as a train. |
| A．参与性的 | B．性价比高的 |
| C．竞争性的 | D．对比性的 |
| A．Which is the Best, Train, Car or Plane? |
| B．Railways, not the End, but the Beginning |
| C．Trains are More Competitive than Cars or Planes |
| D．Oh, Super-fast Trains |
Good morning, class!
We know that there are too many net bars around us. The Internet is popular and it makes our lives colorful. Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer and get more information from the Internet. We can learn English. We can read some good newspapers and magazines. It can make us clever in playing computer games. We can send E-mails to our friends quickly. We can chat(聊天) freely online with our friends. It can help us get in touch with people from all over the world.
But some students spend too much time in playing computer game and some stay in the net bars all day and all night. Teenagers even get to have boyfriends or girlfriends online. They write too many letters to each other. It takes them too much time to chat online so they do worse and worse in their lessons and they don’t study well any more. I think we mustn’t get online when it is time for us to study. We can do it in summer or winter holidays. We should get online with adults(成人)--our teacher or parents.
At the same time, if we have lots of free time, we can do some out-of-class activities at school. We usually have activities from 4:50 to 5:50 in the afternoon. We have different kinds of activities. If you are interested in sports, you can play basketball or football. We can go to the English Corner. We can practice talking in English there. We hope we can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and less time on the Internet.
Thank you for listening to me. That’s all.【小题1】The short passage is about __________.
| A．going online |
| B．how to communicate with others |
| C．how to spend our free time |
| D．different kinds of activities |
【小题2】The Internet can make our lives _________.| A．helpful and important |
| B．enjoyable and interesting |
| C．enjoyable but expensive |
| D．different kinds of activities |
【小题3】________ is not good.| A．Sending E-mails |
| B．Reading newspapers and magazines online |
| C．going online with adults |
| D．Spending all day in the net bars |
【小题4】Playing computer games________.| A．gives us lots of information |
| B．makes our studies worse |
| C．makes us more clever |
| D．is harmful to our health |
【小题5】Which of the following is NOT right?| A．There are too many net bars in the cities. |
| B．We can learn English from the Internet. |
| C．We mustn’t get online when we are studying at school. |
| D．We cannot do out-of-class activities from 4:50 to 5:50 p.m. |
Students these days often have a lot of worries. Sometimes they have problems with their schoolwork, and sometimes with their friends. . Some people think the worst thing is to do nothing. Laura Mills, a teenager from Washington, agrees. “Problems and worries are normal in life,” says Laura. “But I think talking to someone helps a lot. If we don’t talk to someone, we’ll certainly feel worse.”
Laura once lost her purse, and worried for days. She was afraid to tell her parents about it. She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn’t have any money. She just kept thinking. “If I tell my parents, they’ll be angry!” But in the end, she talked to her parents and they were really understanding. Her dad said he sometimes made careless mistakes himself. They got her a new purse and asked her to be more careful. “I will always remember to share my problems in the future!” Laura says.
Robert Hunt advises students about common problems. He feels the same way as Laura. “It is best not to avoid our problems. We should always try to solve them.” He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to. This person doesn’t need to be an expert (专家) like himself. Students often forget that their parents have more experience than them, and are always there to help them.
In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half. So you’re halfway to solving a problem if you talk to someone about it!
【小题1】Which of the following can be put in the blank in Paragraph One?
| A．What can they do about this? |
| B．Where do the problems come from? |
| C．When did they have these problems? |
| D．Why do they have so many problems? |
| A．answer a question | B．give an example |
| C．introduce his friend | D．share his experience |
| A．Laura’s teacher |
| B．the writer of the passage |
| C．a person with a problem |
| D．an expert on students’ problems |
“Mind your own business．” we’re told．“Don’t talk about others behind their backs．”The problem with this advice is that，not only is it unrealistic，it’s also counterproductive(起反作用的)．
Common sense holds that gossip(流言蜚语)hurts people’s feelings and damages relationships．But recent research shows the opposite—that strong communities and relationships between people would be impossible without gossip．
Gossip is a way for people to let you know the limits of social behavior．“If you move into a community and your neighbor tells you how the former homeowner never dealt with his rubbish properly，his gossip is letting you in on something，”says Dr．Ralph Rosnow of Temple University．“Gossip says：these are the boundaries and you are crossing them．You’re not abiding by the rules and you’d better get back in line．” Seen this way，gossip is a way to communicate criticism(批评)without conflict(冲突)，giving you a chance to change your behavior without losing face．
On the other hand，what about ill-willed gossip，the kind that puts other people down? Gossip is hearing something we like about someone we don’t and，in nearly every country in the world，gossip magazines have huge numbers of readers．According to researchers，however，this kind of gossip also has a good side because it helps us put our own problems in perspective(正确地)．“If we read bad news about well-known people，or get the frightful details of our neighbors’ bad situation over a cup of coffee，our own problems begin to pale in comparison(对比)，”says Dr．Jack Levin of Northeastern University．
However，that doesn’t mean that gossip is necessarily a good thing，either．Researchers found that people who gossip a lot tend to feel like they’re under a lot of stress．This might be because while they’re busy talking about other people，they’re also busy thinking what other people are saying about them．
【小题1】What is the purpose of the text?
| A．To encourage us to spread gossip about others． |
| B．To prevent us from spreading gossip about others。 |
| C．To make a comparison between good gossip and bad gossip． |
| D．To recognize certain positive functions of gossip． |
| A．it’s a bad habit to gossip |
| B．nobody pays attention to gossip |
| C．not all the gossip you hear is worth believing |
| D．it’s necessary to have a nice gossip with a friend or neighbor |
| A．making | B．breaking | C．obeying | D．changing |
| A．people under much stress enjoy gossiping about others. |
| B．in a way gossip helps us deal with our own problems. |
| C．in fact most people tend to believe gossip. |
| D．the more there is gossip, the stronger relationships become between people. |
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.
【小题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. |
A. 5 days B.7 days C.10 days D 15 days
【小题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. |
| A．www.chinabus.com | B．www.movies123.com |
| C．www.chinatourist.com | D．www.storyhouse.com |
Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show happiness, as in the expression “a red-letter day”. This is a day when something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs. For almost 600 years, church calendars have been marked with red to show special holy(神圣的)days. Today’s calendars are still marked that way with the dates of holidays and special days printed in red.
The expression “a red-letter day”is often heard in daily life. “A red-letter day” is a day that people are especially happy. It may be a day that you have waited for a long time, a wedding day, for example. Or it may be a day with a happy surprise. You might tell a friend that yesterday was a red-letter day, because you won some money in the lottery.
“Rolling out the red carpet” is another commonly heard expression. It describes an especially warm welcome of any kind. A city may “roll out the carpet ”for its baseball team, when the team arrives home after winning a championship. A group of supporters go to the air port to the greet the team. The red-carpet welcome includes a lot of cheering by thousands of fans, a parade, music and speech of praise by local statesmen.
Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. “Red-handed ” is an example. To be caught “red-handed” is to be found in an act of wrong doing. The evidence is clear. You are guilty. Today we use the expression “ to be caught red-handed ”in situation(情况)that are not serious. For example, a mother might say she caught her son red-handed, taking cookies out of the cookie jar.
Some American Expressions with __【小题1】___
Be used for_【小题2】__happiness | a red -letter day | a day that people are happy a day with a ___ 【小题3】__ |
| rolling out the red carpet | describes an especially warm___【小题4】_____ | |
Be used in_【小题5】expressions | to be caught red-hanged | to be found doing a wrong action can’t be used in a serious situation |