--- How is your English study?
--- Not bad. But I_______ learning English grammar.

1. A.
   am interested in
2. B.
   am good at
3. C.
   have a little trouble
4. D.
   have no trouble

---What do you think of the book , Betty ?
---It’s a good one . Each time you read it , you will find _______.

1. A.
   something new
2. B.
   new something
3. C.
   nothing new
4. D.
   new nothing

---Could you tell us ________?

---About two months.

1. A.
   how often are we going to be away
2. B.
   where shall we go next month
3. C.
   where we shall go next month
4. D.
   how long we are going to be away

Linda is my uncle’s daughter, so she is my_____

1. A.
   sister
2. B.
   aunt
3. C.
   cousin

YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve

1. 1.

   When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________

   1. A.
      Saturday morning
   2. B.
      Sunday morning
   3. C.
      Saturday night
   4. D.
      Sunday night
2. 2.

   Why did many people hurriy home after the earthquake

   1. A.
      They wanted to provide rescue to the hit area and give other people a helping hand as volunteers
   2. B.
      They wanted to find out the situation of their home
   3. C.
      They felt it too dangerous to stay where they had been
   4. D.
      There weren’t enough soldiers in the hit-area
3. 3.

   What does the underlined sentence mean?

   1. A.
      Xu Yan didn’t make it through the stairs
   2. B.
      Xu Yan get out of the dorm quickly
   3. C.
      Xu Yan felt the earthquake shaking the stair
   4. D.
      Xu Yan was scared that he wouldn’t be able to catch up with the stair
4. 4.

   Which of the following is NOT true

   1. A.
      Tens of thousands of students were killed in Ya’an
   2. B.
      The earthquake also influenced some other cities
   3. C.
      The government took very quick actions
   4. D.
      Most buildings has collapsed in Longmen
5. 5.

   Where would you most probably read this passage?

   1. A.
      Reader
   2. B.
      A History of China’s Earthquakes
   3. C.
      How to Survive(求生) in an Earthquake
   4. D.
      China Weekly

Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant. A half century ago in the United states, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the dividing lines are still there, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal（法律的）limits, or whether it should become more changeable, is often debated（争论）. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the dividing lines of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we seldom recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to go to  school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years – but unless we meet the truant officer（学监）, we may well think that we should go to school because of social custom and parents’ requirement rather than to the law. As adults we know “extra pay for overtime working” very well, but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes（构成）“overtime” is a matter of legal thing. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight – saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law – as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess

1. 1.

   What does the underlined word “irrelevant” probably mean?

   1. A.
      Impossible
   2. B.
      Unacceptable
   3. C.
      Unimportant
   4. D.
      Disagreeable
2. 2.

   The writer raises the questions in Paragraph 2 to introduce the fact that people _____

   1. A.
      are unknowing of the law of time
   2. B.
      fail to make full use of their time
   3. C.
      welcome changeable working hours
   4. D.
      enjoy working overtime for more pay
3. 3.

   We can learn from the passage that most children go to school because they_____

   1. A.
      have to follow the law
   2. B.
      need to find social customs
   3. C.
      need to learn more knowledge
   4. D.
      have to follow their parents’ requirement
4. 4.

   What is the main idea of the passage?

   1. A.
      Our life is governed by the law of time
   2. B.
      How to use time is not worth debating
   3. C.
      New ways of using time change our society
   4. D.
      Our time table is decided by social customs

John gets up early from Monday to Saturday, because he must go to school before 7:30 on weekdays and go to the Drawing Club at 8:00 on Saturday mornings. He usually goes to the bookshop on Saturday afternoons, and after supper he watches TV until(直到) midnight.
He doesn’t get up early on Sundays. He often gets up at 10 a.m. And he always watches TV after he gets up. John’s parents both work on Sundays, so he usually goes to KFC to have a hamburger and some juice for lunch. After that, he goes back home and starts to play computer games until his parents come back. He does his homework after supper. He usually has lots of weekend homework, so he must spend three hours on it. He usually goes to bed at about 11:00 on Sunday evenings. He often complains (抱怨) he has too much homework to do

1. 1.

   How often does John need to get up early?

   1. A.
      Every day
   2. B.
      Five days a week
   3. C.
      Only at the weekend
   4. D.
      Every day except on Sundays
2. 2.

   What does John do on Sunday mornings?

   1. A.
      He goes to have lessons
   2. B.
      He goes to a club
   3. C.
      He goes to the bookshop
   4. D.
      He watches TV
3. 3.

   When does John do his weekend homework?

   1. A.
      On Sunday evenings
   2. B.
      On Sunday mornings
   3. C.
      On Saturday evenings
   4. D.
      On Sunday afternoons
4. 4.

   Why does John have lunch in KFC on Sundays?

   1. A.
      Because he’s too busy
   2. B.
      Because his parents aren’t at home
   3. C.
      Because he gets up too late
   4. D.
      Because his parents have lunch in KF
   5. E.
5. 5.

   Which of these is not right?

   1. A.
      John watches TV after supper on Saturdays
   2. B.
      John doesn’t exercise on Sundays
   3. C.
      John watches much TV on Sunday afternoons
   4. D.
      John goes to bed late on Saturday and Sunday evenings

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 in the USA. When she was about 19 months old, she got very ill. After many weeks, the doctor told her parents, “Your daughter is better, but now she can’t see and she can’t hear.” Her mother and her father were very sad. After a few years , things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She didn’t understand anything.
Then one day a teacher came. Her name was Anne Sullivan. She lived with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn words. Helen was a very bright child and soon she learned to spell her first word. When she was older, she went to college(大学).
Helen was a very old woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear. It helped many people in the world

1. 1.

   Where was Helen Keller from?

   1. A.
      England
   2. B.
      America
   3. C.
      Japan
   4. D.
      India
2. 2.

   What happened to Helen when she was 19 months?

   1. A.
      She got very ill
   2. B.
      She began to go to school
   3. C.
      She left her home
   4. D.
      Her mother died
3. 3.

   Anne Sullivan helped Helen Keller_____________

   1. A.
      hear something
   2. B.
      see the world with her eyes
   3. C.
      learn words
   4. D.
      do housework by herself
4. 4.

   What do people think of Helen Keller?

   1. A.
      She was quiet
   2. B.
      She was brave and wonderful
   3. C.
      She was blind and deaf
   4. D.
      She was ill
5. 5.

   Hellen Keller was famous because____________________

   1. A.
      she couldn’t see or hear
   2. B.
      she went to college as a blind(盲的) woman
   3. C.
      she was a bright woman
   4. D.
      As a blind,she learned to read and write and helped many people in the world

Tom was ten years old, and he was a very lazy boy, He didn't like doing any work. He had to go to school of course, but he didn't study hard there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that their son would become one, too, when he grew up. But one day Tom said to his mother, "When I finish school, I want to be a dustman." "A dustman?" his mother asked, she was very surprised. "That's not a very pleasant job, why do you want to become a dustman?" "Because then I would only have to work one day a week." Tom answered at once. "Only one day a week?" his mother said, "What do you mean? and how do you know?" "Well", Tom replied, "I know that the dustmen who come to our house on work on Thursday, because I only see them on that day."

1. 1.

   What kind of boy was Tom?

   1. A.
      Tom was a clever boy
   2. B.
      Tom was a boy who didn't like to work
   3. C.
      Tom was a boy who worked very hard
2. 2.

   What did Tom say he wanted to be?

   1. A.
      Tom said that he wanted to be a person who collected rubbish and emptied the dustbins
   2. B.
      Tom said that he wanted to be a person who taught the children at school
   3. C.
      Tom said that he wanted to be a person who worked in a hospital
3. 3.

   Why did Tom think that dustmen only worked one day a week?

   1. A.
      Because Tom heard of this
   2. B.
      Because one of the dustmen had told him before
   3. C.
      Because Tom had seen the dustmen only on Thursday at his house

1. 1.

   This is _______ for Kesington Hotel in London

   1. A.
      a notice
   2. B.
      a postcard
   3. C.
      a picture
   4. D.
      an advertisement
2. 2.

   A single room an d a double room in Kesington Hotel cost _______ each night

   1. A.
      £ 62
   2. B.
      £ 85
   3. C.
      £ 124
   4. D.
      £ 147
3. 3.

   The room in the hotel hasn’t got ___________

   1. A.
      a telephone
   2. B.
      a computer
   3. C.
      a colour TV
   4. D.
      a bathroom