There is a big supermarket（超市） near Mrs. Green’s home. She usually goes there to buy food. The shop assistants are polite(有礼貌的)and helpful. The things are cheap, too.
One day, Mrs. Green goes to the supermarket. She buys some noodles. Biscuits(饼干)are also their children’s favorite food. And she buys some milk. Her children always have milk for breakfast. Mimi likes fish and Tim likes hot dogs. She buys some fish and sausages(香肠)for them, too. Mrs. Green doesn't have any rice at home. So she buys a bag of rice, but she can’t take it. It is very heavy. Her husband, Mr. Green is coming to the supermarket and carry(搬运)the rice

  1. 1.

    Where’s the supermarket?

    1. A.
      In Mrs. Green’s house
    2. B.
      Near Mrs. Green’s house
    3. C.
      Under the street
    4. D.
      In the mall(商业街)
  2. 2.

    Who likes biscuits?

    1. A.
      Mrs. Green and Mr. Green
    2. B.
      Mrs. Green and Tim
    3. C.
      Mrs. Green and Mimi
    4. D.
      Tim and Mimi
  3. 3.

    Mimi likes _______

    1. A.
      fish
    2. B.
      hot dogs
    3. C.
      rice
    4. D.
      vegetable
  4. 4.

    Does Mrs. Green buy a bag of rice?

    1. A.
      Yes, she does
    2. B.
      No, she doesn't
    3. C.
      Yes, she is
    4. D.
      We don't know
  5. 5.

    Who helps Mrs. Green take the rice?

    1. A.
      Mr. Green
    2. B.
      Mrs. Green
    3. C.
      Mimi
    4. D.
      Tim

When I was a little girl, my family lives in a small village. There was a very beautiful river near my home. The water was clean and cool. I liked to go fishing there with mom. We would catch fish, look for clams and play in the water. There were also a lot of  birds near the river. We would spend all day watching the birds. Life was beautiful and wonderful in the old days.
Now my family lives in the city. Last Sunday my daughter asked me to take her to see the beautiful river I was always talking about. “I want to go fishing there with you and Grandma ao much,” she said.
When we went to the river, we only saw a factory and a mountain of garbage(垃圾). My mom was surprised, my daughter was quite despondent, and I was sad—the river was my best friend. I grew up with it. Now there are no fish in it; the birds are gone, too. I hear it crying for help. But what can I do ?

  1. 1.

    Where was the writer born?

    1. A.
      In a city
    2. B.
      In a village
    3. C.
      In a foreign country
    4. D.
      In a mountain
  2. 2.

    When the writer went back to see the river, what did she find?

    1. A.
      The pollution in the river was very serious
    2. B.
      The river was a good place for children to play
    3. C.
      Bird-watching was more and more popular along the river
    4. D.
      There were many more fish in the river
  3. 3.

    Who is “Grandma” in the reading?

    1. A.
      The writer’s daughter
    2. B.
      The writer’s mom
    3. C.
      The writer
    4. D.
      The writer’s grandmother
  4. 4.

    What does the underlined word “despondent” mean?

    1. A.
      高兴的
    2. B.
      惊喜的
    3. C.
      失望的
    4. D.
      麻木的
  5. 5.

    What did the writer mean when she said, “I grew up with it”?

    1. A.
      She helped clean the garbage out of the river
    2. B.
      She spent much time playing around the river
    3. C.
      She had many friends who lived near the river
    4. D.
      She grew well by eating fish and clams from the river

For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry’s parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.
Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him.
“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn’t do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn’t work either.”
After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn’t find anything wrong.
“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”
Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why

  1. 1.

    Harry’s hiccups lasted ____

    1. A.
      a week
    2. B.
      fourteen days
    3. C.
      twenty-eight days
    4. D.
      one month
  2. 2.

    His hiccups started after he ____

    1. A.
      drank a glass of water
    2. B.
      went to hospital
    3. C.
      ate an Indian meal
    4. D.
      finished his homework
  3. 3.

    His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____

    1. A.
      hiccupped for four seconds
    2. B.
      held his breath
    3. C.
      hiccupped at night
    4. D.
      couldn’t stop hiccupping
  4. 4.

    His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____

    1. A.
      gave him some medicine
    2. B.
      took an X-ray of his chest
    3. C.
      gave him a shock
    4. D.
      let him drink cold drinks
  5. 5.

    What does “shock” in this passage mean？

    1. A.
      震惊
    2. B.
      休克
    3. C.
      喷嚏
    4. D.
      哈欠

 Last weekThis weekNext week
Storybook＄1.25＄1.2＄1.50
Dictionary＄2.59＄2.00＄2.99
Notebook＄3.00＄1.0＄3.45
Jacket＄38.00＄18.00＄25.99

  1. 1.

    How much did you spend on four storybooks last week?

    1. A.
      ＄12
    2. B.
      ＄6
    3. C.
      ＄4.8
    4. D.
      ＄5
  2. 2.

    Which is the cheapest this week?

    1. A.
      Jacket
    2. B.
      Dictionary
    3. C.
      Notebook
    4. D.
      Storybook
  3. 3.

    Next week, which is cheaper than that of last week?

    1. A.
      Storybook
    2. B.
      Dictionary
    3. C.
      Notebook
    4. D.
      Jacket

During the day we work and play; at night we sleep. Our bodies rest while we sleep. In the morning we are ready to work and play again. While we are asleep, our bodies grow most. Children who are tired usually need more sleep. We can get our lessons better and we feel better too, when we have had plenty of rest. Boys and girls who are eight or nine years old need ten hours of sleep every night. Our bodies need plenty of air when we sleep. If we do not get enough fresh（新鲜的）air we’ll feel tired when we wake up. While in bed we must not cover our heads. If we do, our lungs（肺）will not get enough fresh air. If we open our windows at night we can have plenty of fresh air. Cool air is better than warm air. Boys and girls who want to grow and be strong must get plenty of sleep

  1. 1.

    Our bodies grow most while we are _______

    1. A.
      eating
    2. B.
      playing
    3. C.
      sleeping
    4. D.
      waking
  2. 2.

    Which is better for us at night?

    1. A.
      Hot air
    2. B.
      Cool air
    3. C.
      Warm air
    4. D.
      Dry air
  3. 3.

    Too little sleep makes us ________

    1. A.
      happy
    2. B.
      hungry
    3. C.
      tired
    4. D.
      grow
  4. 4.

    How much sleep should boys and girls of nine years have every night?

    1. A.
      Eight hours
    2. B.
      Nine hours
    3. C.
      Ten hours
    4. D.
      Eleven hours
  5. 5.

    What do the lungs need most?

    1. A.
      Fresh air
    2. B.
      Food
    3. C.
      Rest
    4. D.
      Exercise

Andrew Engel was puzzled. He was sitting in class, but had no idea what the other students were talking about. He had done his homework, paid attention to lectures, and taken notes, but nothing was familiar. “Everyone is so much cleverer than I am,” he thought. It was a strange feeling, as he was always a good student in high school.
He felt even more puzzled a few days later. He got lost on his way to his favorite cinema. What’s worse, he began having trouble finding the right words when speaking. He asked, “What’s for dinner, Mom?” after he had just eaten. Poor Andrew, he was only 15!
His parents were worried and took Andrew to see a doctor. A brain scan（扫描） made it clear: Andrew had a malignant brain tumor(恶性脑肿瘤) . It was pressing on the part of the brain that makes new memory. He should be operated on as soon as possible. Andrew was scared!
Doctors removed the tumor, but Andrew’s memory was still poor. He was told he would probably never go back to school. Andrew was eager to enter a university, but it seemed that his dream wouldn’t come true.
“Even though they told me this, I knew I wanted to go back to school,” Andrew said. “I wanted to get my memory back.”
Andrew began by auditing(旁听) an English class at a nearby school. In class, he took notes carefully and read his notes several times a day, then typed them again and again. He studied twelve hours a day, seven days a week. He worked ten times harder than other students. In 2007, at age 29, he graduated from a local university. Six months later, Andrew found a job

  1. 1.

    Andrew’s strange behavior(行为) including all the following except_________

    1. A.
      having no idea what the other students were talking about
    2. B.
      getting lost on his way to his favorite cinema
    3. C.
      having trouble finding the right words when speaking
    4. D.
      not knowing who he was
  2. 2.

    The underlined word "scared" in the third paragraph means “ __________”

    1. A.
      very frightened
    2. B.
      very excited
    3. C.
      very surprised
    4. D.
      very happy
  3. 3.

    The tumor in Andrew’s brain __________

    1. A.
      didn’t damage his memory
    2. B.
      didn’t have to be removed
    3. C.
      caused his forgetfulness
    4. D.
      is still in his brain
  4. 4.

    Andrew studied very hard at the nearby school because ___________

    1. A.
      he wanted to realize his dream
    2. B.
      he liked to stay with other students
    3. C.
      he wanted to forget his illness
    4. D.
      his parents wanted him to do so
  5. 5.

    Which of the following is the best title of the article?

    1. A.
      A man with an amazing brain
    2. B.
      An unusual story of memory lost and found
    3. C.
      How to improve your memory
    4. D.
      Never lose your memory

Dreams are expressions of thoughts, feelings and events that pass through our mind while we are sleeping. Everybody dreams. But only some people remember their dreams. Our dreams often include all the senses—smells, sounds, sights, tastes and things we touch. We dream in color. Sometimes we dream the same dream over and over again. These repeated dreams are often unpleasant. They may even be nightmares—bad dreams that frighten us.
Early in the twentieth century, two famous scientists developed their personal ideas about dreams. Australian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud published a book called The Interpretation(诠释) of Dreams in 1900. Freud believed people often dream about things they want but can't have. These dreams often have something to do with sex and aggression(侵犯). Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung worked closely with Freud for several years, but he believed dreams could help people grow and understand themselves. He believed dreams provide solutions(解答) to problems we face when we are awake. He didn't believe dreams hide our feelings about sex or aggression. Today we know more about the science of dreaming because researchers can take pictures of people's brains while they are sleeping.
Other researchers are studying how dreaming helps our bodies work with problems and very sad emotions(感情). Robert Stickgold is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University in Massachusetts. Doctor Stickgold says that when we dream, the brain is trying to make sense of the world. He does not agree with Sigmund Freud that dreaming is the way we express our hidden feelings and desires．
Scientists believe it is important to keep researching dreams. Doctor Stickgold says it has been more than one hundred years since Sigmund Freud published his important book about dreaming. Yet there is still no agreement on exactly how the brain works when we are dreaming or why we dream

  1. 1.

    Dreams  ________

    1. A.
      are remembered by everyone
    2. B.
      express all that we think in our mind
    3. C.
      include few senses and things we touch
    4. D.
      are sometimes nightmares that repeat and frighten us
  2. 2.

    A book on dreaming was published by  ________

    1. A.
      Sigmund Freud
    2. B.
      Robert Stickgold
    3. C.
      Carl Jung
    4. D.
      the writer
  3. 3.

    In the passage, all the psychiatrists  ________

    1. A.
      believe dreams can help people understand all the problems that they face
    2. B.
      think dreams always hide someone's feelings about sex or aggression
    3. C.
      study dream and dreaming and have their own ideas
    4. D.
      have the same idea that people often dream about the things they want
  4. 4.

    From the passage, we know that  ________

    1. A.
      Jung thought dreams provide solutions to problems we face when we are sleeping
    2. B.
      Freud developed the idea that dreams are expressions of people's hidden feelings
    3. C.
      Scientists have known quite well why we dream because they can take pictures of our brains
    4. D.
      Other researchers have discovered how dreaming helps our bodies work with problems and very sad emotions

Do you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? Normally the women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s. Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent（聪明的） than women. Right? Wrong. Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size. Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain. The brain is made up of “grey matter” and “white matter”. While men have more of the white matter, the amount（数量）of “thinking” brain is almost the same in both men and women.
It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls may learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of different information at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.
There are other important differences between two sexes（性别）. As white matter is the key to spatial（空间的）tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. “A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions … and women often need to!
The differences begin when fetuses（胎儿）are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children when they are very young. A boy would try to climb a barrier before him or push it down while a girl would ask for help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills. It may all go back to our ancestors, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research

  1. 1.

    Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?

    1. A.
      Grey matter controls thinking in the brain
    2. B.
      Men’s brain is 10% less than women’s
    3. C.
      Grey matter plays the same role as white matter
    4. D.
      Men and women have the same amount of white matter
  2. 2.

    What can you infer from Paragraphs 2 and 3?

    1. A.
      Men have weaker spatial abilities
    2. B.
      Women do not need to tell directions
    3. C.
      Women prefer doing many things at a time
    4. D.
      Women do many jobs at a time better than men
  3. 3.

    What can you learn from Paragraph 4?

    1. A.
      Our children needed more spatial skills
    2. B.
      Women may have more feelings than men
    3. C.
      Young boys may be stronger than young girls
    4. D.
      More women take up jobs requiring speech skills
  4. 4.

    The passage is mainly about _______

    1. A.
      ways of being more intelligent
    2. B.
      differences between men and women
    3. C.
      studies on brains between two sexes
    4. D.
      studies on white matter and grey matter

One of Anna’s friends has chickenpox(水痘). Two days later, Katie has chickenpox. Anna’s mother says: “ Your best friend has chickenpox . We have to keep an eye on you.”
The next evening, Anna finds some red spots(斑点) on her face. The next morning, she stays home from school. She can’t go to her grandpa’s birthday party. She can’t go to her soccer practice. She can’t go to the supermarket with her mother.Anna cries(哭喊): “ I don’t like chickenpox. I miss school. I miss my friends.”
Then Anna’s mother has an idea.
After lunch, Katie, Mike and Danny come to Anna’s home--- all with spots like her. Anna’s mother says : “ Let’s have a chickenpox party!”
All the afternoon, the kids play games. When Anna’s friends have to go home,
“See you at school.” Katie says.
“Having chickenpox is not so bad.” says Danny.
“I know,” Anna says with a laugh(笑), “ Can we all have chickenpox again next week?”

  1. 1.

    What’s the Chinese meaning for “ keep an eye on...”?

    1. A.
      保护眼睛
    2. B.
      保留眼睛
    3. C.
      留心
    4. D.
      看医生
  2. 2.

    kids(孩子) have chickenpox from the passage（文章)?

    1. A.
      Two
    2. B.
      Three
    3. C.
      Four
    4. D.
      Five
  3. 3.

    asks Anna’s friends to come to her home

    1. A.
      Anna’s mother
    2. B.
      Anna’s father
    3. C.
      Anna
    4. D.
      Katie
  4. 4.

    first has chickenpox

    1. A.
      Katie
    2. B.
      Mike
    3. C.
      Danny
    4. D.
      We don’t know
  5. 5.

    Why does Anna say “Can we all have chickenpox again next week?”

    1. A.
      Because they want to have chickenpox
    2. B.
      Because they don’t need to go to school
    3. C.
      Because she likes staying at home
    4. D.
      Because the chickenpox party makes her very happy
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