In 1961 Obama was born in Hawaii, US. His father is an African and his mother is a white American. He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii.
When Obama was 10 years old, he was one of only three black students at his school in Hawaii. He felt very different from most other students. White girls wanted to touch his hair. A white boy even asked him what his father was.
“I lied to them that my father was a Kenyan prince（王子）. But I kept asking myself who I am,” said Obama.
However, 37 years later, the boy made history. Obama became the first black president（总统） in US history.
This unusual background（背景） made him wonder who he was. He once turned to alcohol (酒) to help forget this question.
With the help of his friends, Obama finally turned his life around at college. His hard work made him a star at Harvard. Later, he became only the third black senator (参议员) in US history.
“Obama’s success has made Martin Luther King’s dream come true. That is: A man should not be judged （判断）by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character,” wrote ABC news

1. 1.

   Obama was born in _______________

   1. A.
   2. B.
      ritain      B America
   3. C.
      Kenya
   4. D.
   5. E.
      ndonesia
2. 2.

   There was/were _______black students besides Obama at the school where he studied when he was ten

   1. A.
      no
   2. B.
      one
   3. C.
      two
   4. D.
      three
3. 3.

   Obama became the first black president in US history when he was ______

   1. A.
      37
   2. B.
      40
   3. C.
      47
   4. D.
      50
4. 4.

   Which of the following is true?

   1. A.
      Obama’s father was a Kenyan prince
   2. B.
      Obama once forgot who his father was with the help of alcohol
   3. C.
      Obama was so dishonest when he was young that nobody believed him
   4. D.
      Obama changed his college life because of his friends’ help and his hard work
5. 5.

   From the passage we can see that____________

   1. A.
      we could judge a person by the colour of his skin
   2. B.
      we could not judge a person by the content of his character
   3. C.
      we should not judge a person by the color of his skin
   4. D.
      we should judge a person by what he did when he was young

Jimmy doesn’t 1ike school and is always looking for excuses(借口)not to go．If he coughs，he asks his mother to write a note saying he has a cold . If he has a headache，he asks his mother to take him to the doctor during school hours．He spends more time at home than he does at school. Even when he is at school．he looks for excuses to go home early．
One day he came home from school in the middle of the morning．His father was of course
surprised to see him back so early．
“You’re home early．Jimmy，”he said“Is the school closed today?”
“No．Dad，”Jimmy said．“It’s open．But I came home early．”
“How did you do this?”his father asked him．“What did you say to the teacher?”
“I told her that I had a new baby brother and I had to come home and help you．’’
“But your mother has had twins．” his father said．“a boy and a girl. You have a baby brother and a baby sister．”
“Yes．I know, Dad．”Jimmy said“I’m saving my baby sister for next week．”

1. 1.

   Why is Jimmy always trying not to go to school?

   1. A.
      Because he often coughs．
   2. B.
      Because he often has colds．
   3. C.
      Because he doesn’t like school．
   4. D.
      Because he always has a headache
2. 2.

   Jimmy spends most of his time       

   1. A.
      ．at school
   2. B.
      ．at home
   3. C.
      in the hospital
   4. D.
      ．in the 1ibrary
3. 3.

   One morning Jimmy’s father was surprised because          ．

   1. A.
      Jimmy came back early from school
   2. B.
      Jimmy’s school was closed
   3. C.
      Jimmy’s mother was ill
   4. D.
      Jimmy’s mother had two babies
4. 4.

   What excuse did Jimmy give to the teacher to go home early?

   1. A.
      He had a headache．
   2. B.
      He didn’t want to go to school．
   3. C.
      His father was busy with his work．
   4. D.
      He had a baby brother to look after．
5. 5.

   Jimmy didn’t tell his teacher about the twins because．

   1. A.
      he wanted to save one for another excuse
   2. B.
      he didn’t know the fact
   3. C.
      he didn’t like the baby sister
   4. D.
      his father asked him not to do so

A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain.
“You have no flying skills at all!” he said to the swans. “All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No, that’s beyond you. Let’s have a flying competition. I’ll show you what real flying is!”
One of the swans, a strong young male, took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show his skills. He flew in circles, performed other flying tricks, and then came down and looked proudly at the swan.
Now it was the swan’s turn. He flew up, and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him, making all kinds of comments about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn’t see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so exhausted that he found it hard to stay in the air, and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water.
The swan pretended not to notice, and said, “Why do you keep touching the water, brother? Is that another trick? “
“No,” said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition. “I’m in trouble because of my pride! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life. . . ”
The swan took pity on him, and took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach

1. 1.

   The crow met the swan on a ___________

   1. A.
      beach
   2. B.
      field
   3. C.
      lake
   4. D.
      ground
2. 2.

   What’s the correct order of the following events?
   a. The crow followed the swan and got into trouble.
   b. The swan felt pity for the crow and saved it.
   c. The crow had to ask the swan for help.
   d. The swan accepted a challenge of performing flying tricks

   1. A.
      a, d, b, c
   2. B.
      a, b, d, c
   3. C.
      d, a, c, b
   4. D.
      d, c, a, b
3. 3.

   What does the underlined word “took pity on” in the last paragraph mean?

   1. A.
      对…… 怜悯
   2. B.
      对……后悔
   3. C.
      对……蔑视
   4. D.
      对……失望
4. 4.

   The underlined sentence means ____________

   1. A.
      The swan began to fly
   2. B.
      It is the turn for the swan to feel proud
   3. C.
      The crow began to fly
   4. D.
      It is the turn for the crow to feel proud
5. 5.

   What do we learn from the passage?

   1. A.
      Practice makes perfect
   2. B.
      The early bird catches the worm
   3. C.
      No pains, no gains
   4. D.
      Pride goes before a fall

How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month? Maybe 200 yuan? But for Li Beibei, 30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch—1.5 yuan each day. “Meat is too expensive for me,” said Li.
Li, 14, is a Junior 1 student at Beijing’s Xingzhi Experimental School. Her parents are migrant workers(外来务工人员). They came to Beijing from a village in Luohe, He’nan two years ago. Her father now works as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job.
Li Beibei has 460 friends at Xingzhi. Every day, Li gets up at 5:30 am and rides her bike for 20 minutes to get to school. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework—usually at least one hour every day. But that is not all her work. During the weekdays she helps her mum cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes. “I could cook when I was eight. Dad said sometimes I cook better than Mum!”
Li said she wanted to be a doctor. “I watch TV and find out there are many people with AIDS in He’nan. Some are kids. They need help,” said Li.
But she is afraid to leave school. “I hope I will always be in school,” said Li. “Dad works hard to get money. I promise him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future.”

1. 1.

   Li Beibei came from ______

   1. A.
      Beijing
   2. B.
      Liaoning
   3. C.
      He’nan
   4. D.
      Xingzhi
2. 2.

   Which of the following sentences is TRUE? ______

   1. A.
      The girl’s parents are both cleaners
   2. B.
      Her parents gave her 30 yuan to buy books
   3. C.
      The girl often helps her mother do some housework
   4. D.
      She studies hardest in her class
3. 3.

   She spends ______ on her homework everyday

   1. A.
      20 minutes
   2. B.
      over one hour
   3. C.
      half an hour
   4. D.
      two hours
4. 4.

   Her wish is to be a doctor because she wants to ______

   1. A.
      help poor farmers
   2. B.
      help the people with AIDS
   3. C.
      make her parents healthier
   4. D.
      help poor kids
5. 5.

   The best title of the passage should be ______

   1. A.
      A City Girl
   2. B.
      Hard But Happy Life
   3. C.
      A Village Girl’s Hope
   4. D.
      A Girl’s School Life

One day an old man is selling(出售) a horse. A young man comes to the horse and begins to look at it slowly.
Then the old man goes up to him and says in his ears, “Don’t say anything about the horse before I sell it, then I will give you some meat.”
“All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the horse, he gives the young man some meat and says, “Now, can you tell me how you see the bad ears of the horse?”
“I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why do you look at the horse?” asks the old man.
The young man answers, “Because I never saw a horse before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

1. 1.

   What is the old man doing?

   1. A.
      He is giving some meat to the young man
   2. B.
      He is selling a horse
   3. C.
      He is looking at a horse
   4. D.
      He is finding the bad ears of the horse
2. 2.

   The young man looks at the horse slowly because ___________

   1. A.
      he never saw a horse before
   2. B.
      He wants some meat
   3. C.
      he wants to help the old man
   4. D.
      he wants to find the bad ears
3. 3.

   Which of the following is Not true according to the passage?

   1. A.
      The old man sells the horse
   2. B.
      The young man doesn’t say anything about the horse before the old man sells it
   3. C.
      The old man doesn’t give the young man any meat
   4. D.
      The young man doesn’t know there is something wrong with the horse
4. 4.

   The old man promised to give some _________ to the young man

   1. A.
      presents
   2. B.
      money
   3. C.
      food
   4. D.
      meat
5. 5.

   How does the young man look at the horse?

   1. A.
      Quickly
   2. B.
      Carefully
   3. C.
      Fast
   4. D.
      Happy

When the Audet family turns on the lights at Blue Farm, they are using electricity that comes from cows—cow manure (粪肥), to be specific.
Cows produce a lot of wastes. One cow can create 30 gallons of wastes each day. Now imagine the output of over 1,000 cows at Blue Farm. That’s really a big amount.
When farmers clean their barns, they put the wastes in a big heap, and spread some of them on their fields for fertilizer(肥料). But now places like Blue Spruce Farm have a new way of using cow wastes. They use them to produce electricity.
Here’s how it works: A big machine moves back and forth cleaning the barn floor. “The cows aren’t bothered,” says Marie Audet. “They are animals of habit; they get used to it, and just lift one foot and then another to let it go by.”
The machine pushes the manure into a big 600-gallon tank like a small swimming pool. The tank is called a digester (化粪池) because what happens there is just like what happens inside a cow: Bacteria(细菌) get to work and continue to digest the manure.
Methane gas (甲烷、沼气)in the atmosphere is known as a “greenhouse” gas because it keeps heat just like a greenhouse does, causing our planet to warm up. That’s an environmental concern. But the digester has a good result. Its gas is kept and used to power electric generators (发电机).
At Blue Farm, the generators make enough electricity to power 400 homes. The Audet family sells the extra electricity they can’t use themselves

1. 1.

   We learn from the text that the Audet family is using cow wastes to ______

   1. A.
      make electricity
   2. B.
      produce fertilizer
   3. C.
      build their farm
   4. D.
      feed the cows
2. 2.

   How are the cow wastes collected into the digester at Blue Farm?

   1. A.
      Marie Audet does the work
   2. B.
      The job is done by machine
   3. C.
      The cows lift the cow wastes
   4. D.
      Bacteria get to work on them
3. 3.

   According to the passage, which of the following is changed into electricity?

   1. A.
      The power of moving water
   2. B.
      The heat of burning coal
   3. C.
      The power of sunlight
   4. D.
      The heat of the methane gas
4. 4.

   The new way of using cow wastes at Blue Farm might be best described as ______

   1. A.
      reducing
   2. B.
      saving
   3. C.
      recycling
   4. D.
      changing
5. 5.

   What is the main purpose for writing the passage?

   1. A.
      To introduce a new way of making electricity
   2. B.
      To explain how a new energy works better
   3. C.
      To show a new rebuilding plan for a big farm
   4. D.
      To explain the reasons for green house effect

Wearing clothes is not just about fashion. We need clothes to stay warm or cool in different weather. I have three friends. They are from different places. And they like to wear different clothes.
Dave is from the UK. He likes rainy days, because rain makes the grass green. On a rainy day, he often wears his rain boots. He also likes his light blue umbrella.
Mona is from Australia. She likes sunny days. She likes to go to the beach. She often wears her beautiful skirt with her blouse.
Peter is from Canada. He likes snowy days. He likes to play with snow. He often wears his coat. He also likes to wear his scarf and gloves

1. 1.

   People need clothes to stay         in different weather

   1. A.
      warm of cool
   2. B.
      big or small
   3. C.
      tall and short
2. 2.

   How many friends does the writer have?

   1. A.
      One
   2. B.
      Two
   3. C.
      Three
3. 3.

   What weather does Dave like?

   1. A.
      Rainy days
   2. B.
      Sunny days
   3. C.
      Snowy days
4. 4.

   What clothes does Mona often wear?

   1. A.
      Her jacket with her shorts
   2. B.
      Her skirt with her blouse
   3. C.
      Her coat with her pants
5. 5.

   Where is Peter from?

   1. A.
      The UK
   2. B.
      Australia
   3. C.
      Canada

There are many different ways to travel to Paris from London. One of the quickest and most popular ways is by train. From Waterloo Railway Station, you can travel all the way to Paris. The journey takes about three hours. The train, called the Eurostar, is very modern, and the seats are comfortable.
You can also travel to France by ship. First, you go to Dover, on the coast, by bus from London. The bus stops at the Ferry Terminal Seven in Dover. You can buy your tickets there. Passengers travelling by car can drive on to the ferry, too.
Another way to travel to Paris is by plane. There are several airports with international flights to Paris and other cities in France. You can travel to London Airport by bus or subway.
Some people even go by taxi but this is a very expensive way to travel!

1. 1.

   The most popular way to Paris is_______.

   1. A.
      by ship
   2. B.
      by plane
   3. C.
      by train
2. 2.

   Traveling from London to Paris by taxi is_______.

   1. A.
      quick
   2. B.
      expensive
   3. C.
      comfortable
3. 3.

   What does the word “ ferry” mean in Chinese?

   1. A.
      汽车站
   2. B.
      港口
   3. C.
      火车站
4. 4.

   How many ways of transportation(交通) are mentioned in the passage?

   1. A.
      Five
   2. B.
      Six
   3. C.
      Seven
5. 5.

   The passage mainly tells us about_______.

   1. A.
      different ways traveling from London to Paris
   2. B.
      international flights from London to Paris
   3. C.
      buses stopping at Ferry Terminal Seven in Dover

Part-time waiter Busy café needs honest and reliable   waiter for weekends.Must enjoy working with a team and dealing with customers.Call   Serge at 95562476 after 6 pm.
Delivery（投递，传送）person Young, fit person required to deliver   heavy boxes of books.Must have a driver’s license and be able to carry heavy   boxes.We are looking for a trust worthy person for this position.Call Gary at   0556-805987 any time.
Nanny wanted   Kind, hard-working nanny wanted to look   after three friendly children.Must be experienced and have childcare   qualifications（资格）.Please call Tess at 98674451 between 10 am and 3 pm.

 
Alice, Sonia and Bobby are looking at the employment section in their local newspaper.They are looking at advertisements for different types of jobs.
“Why don’t you apply（申请）for the job as a waiter, Bobby?” said Alice.
“Do you think I will have a chance?” Bobby replied.
“Of course you will,” said Alice.“You’re certainly honest and reliable（可靠的）.Everyone trusts you, and you’re never late.”
“I think Sonia should apply for the job as a nanny,” Bobby said.
“Yes, Sonia,” Alice said.“You always work so hard and you love children.You would be perfect!”
“I’d love to do it,” Sonia said, “but the advertisement says they want someone who is experienced.I don’t have any experience or qualifications.But what about you, Alice?
“Yes, Alice,” Bobby said.“Which job would you like”?
“I think I should become a career advisor!” said Alice.
根据图表内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最恰当的答案。

1. 1.

   What does the underlined word “nanny” mean?

   1. A.
      女工
   2. B.
      阿姨
   3. C.
      佣人
   4. D.
      保姆
2. 2.

   The friends are looking at the employment section in the newspaper for _______.

   1. A.
      money
   2. B.
      advertisements
   3. C.
      jobs
   4. D.
      chances
3. 3.

   Who is supposed to be a good waiter?

   1. A.
      Alice
   2. B.
      Sonia
   3. C.
      Bobby
   4. D.
      Serge
4. 4.

   If Bobby wanted the jobs at the café he could call Serge _______.

   1. A.
      anytime
   2. B.
      after 6 pm
   3. C.
      before 10 am
   4. D.
      after 3 pm
5. 5.

   Alice was the most active of the three in _______.

   1. A.
      giving suggestions
   2. B.
      applying for jobs
   3. C.
      making experiences
   4. D.
      looking at the employment advertisements

1. 1.

   We can read the above material in ________

   1. A.
      A newspaper
   2. B.
      a traveling report
   3. C.
      a textbook
   4. D.
      a job advertisement
2. 2.

   You call _____________ if you’re interested in the special trips

   1. A.
      Reader 2007
   2. B.
      4, 5&6 day breaks
   3. C.
      Italian Special Offers
   4. D.
      01223 434385
3. 3.

   You have to pay at least ________ to go to SICILY & MOUNT ETN

   1. A.
      A. ￡179
   2. B.
      ￡189
   3. C.
      ￡215
   4. D.
      ￡368
4. 4.

   We can NOT learn about ________ of the special trips

   1. A.
      the price
   2. B.
      the food
   3. C.
      the time
   4. D.
      the sights
5. 5.

   The trips are offered by __________

   1. A.
      Reader magazine
   2. B.
      Cambridge University
   3. C.
      NEWMARKET PROMOTIONS
   4. D.
      INDIVIDUAL BROCHURES