When you get up in the morning, do you find it hard to choose what clothes to wear? If so, you probably need help to make the bigger choices in your life, like what to do when you’re older. Brave New Girls, by American author Jean Gade-berg, will help you make such choices. It says you must be a brave new girl. A brave new girl is one who is confident, healthy and happy. A brave new girl can realize her dreams. To be brave, you need to make a decision for yourself. Other people may tell you what to do, but you should not listen to them. You must only do what you want. If you always wear clothes like your favourite TV star, you must stop doing so. Instead, become your own star and wear the clothes you want. You have to like your body, it says. If you don’t, you will not take good care of it, and it won’t stay healthy. The book also says that girls must start becoming more confident. If you are confident, you’ll succeed in life. A good way to become confident is to realize that you are as clever as boys. In fact you are. Just look at their grades! Only then can you realize your dreams and become who you want to be.

1. What quality should a brave new girl have?

A. Confident.         B. Healthy.              C. Happy.               D. A, B and C.

2.Brave New Girls is a ________.

A. film                 B. story       C. book                D. newspaper

3.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. To be brave.                   B. A good book.

C. To be a brave new girl.                   D. Realize dreams.

 

Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers (志愿者). Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they do something helpful for the environment.

Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she is going to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral will die. I’m helping to do research on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”

“I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize—and myself! After I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America.”

1.Some young people from England _______ after they finish school.

A.go to university abroad

B.spend one year abroad as volunteers

C.go to work for money

D.start work in schools or hospitals

2. Pauline Jones, an eighteen-year-old girl, is living in _______ now.

A.England           B.China             C.Belize            D.Cardiff

3. Pauline Jones is _______ with other people.

A.studying Chinese in a university

B.working to save the coral reefs

C.helping do some housework

D.doing some research in Wales

4.From the passage, we know that the coral reefs ______.

A.will die because of the pollution

B.are not as beautiful as before

C.cannot live without fish in the sea

D.will probably be sold for money

5.Pauline Jones wants to_______after she finishes her work as a volunteer.

A.stay there for another year

B.go back home to start work

C.learn about the people home

D.travel around Central America

 

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