Yao Ming,the center of the Chinese National Men's Basketball Team,
served the Houston Rockets in the 2002 NBA. The 2.2 m,120 kg center becomes the first one to come from a foreign team.
　　Yao Ming was born in Shanghai in September,1980. His mother was a center and captain of the Chinese National Women's Team. His father played basketball, too.
　　Yao Ming is widely known in China. He came to be a very important basketball player in China Basketball Association(联赛).It's short for CBA. During the 2000~ 2001 season,he got 27. 1 scores averagely(平均地) for the Shanghai Oriental(东方) Sharks in every match.
　　Yao Ming joined the Houston Rockets in November,2002. He said this was a new start in his basketball life. He would do his best to learn from the NBA and improve himself.
　　Sport analyst (分析家) Bill Walton said, " Yao Ming has the potential(潜力) ,the capability(能力) of changing the future of basketball. "

l.The Houston Rockets is the name of a _____ team.

A. table tennis                      B. volleyball
    C. basketball                       D. golf

 2. Both Yao Ming's father and mother are _____.

A. football players
B. basketball players
C. the centers of the Chinese National Team
D. the captains of the Chinese National Team

3. Yao Ming _____ in CBA during the 2000 ~ 2001season.

A. does well                        
B. is good
C. was good                        
D. did well

4. Yao Ming _____ the Houston Rockets in November,2002.

A. did his best to join          
B. was well-known in
C. became a member of        
D. took part in

5. Sport analyst Bill Walton thought Yao Ming was able to _____.

A.learn from the NBA
B.change the future of basketball.
C. improve himself
D. become the captain of the Houston Rockets

      George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight.  When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines  (发动机). And on holidays he often make one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon
he became a very good worker though he could not read or write. He began to learn English letters when
he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to
have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday,he wrote his own name for the first
time in his life. George invented (发明) many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them.   Today when we take trains from one place to another, we'll think of this great man—George Stephenson.

1. In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father?_____.

A. In 1781
B. In 1789
C. In 1795
D. In 1798

2. He learned about the engine _____.

A. through reading and writing
B. by making it to pieces and studying each piece carefully
C. at lessons from a young teacher
D. by asking a lot of questions

3. He spent a lot of time learning about engines and soon he became _____.

A. a great man
B. a good maker
C. a good worker
D. a good student

4. George Stephenson invented the _____.

A. the train
B. the telephone
C. the car
D. the computer

5. From the passage we know George Stephenson was one of the greatest _____ in the world.

A. workers      
B. writers      
C. learners        
D. inventors

     James Cameron was born in a small town in Canada on August 16, 1954. One night at the age of
15, he found what he wanted to do with his life after he saw a movie. 2011:A Space Odyssey (《2011
太空漫游》). Cameron set his hopes high. He wanted to make movies. But he didn't know anything
about cinema. He didn't even know how to do a camera. What's more, he lived far away from
Hollywood, the place for him to make his dreams come true.
     However, Cameron got lucky in 1971. His father told him they would move to California and live
only a few miles from Hollywood. At that time, he dreamed to go to a film school, but his family
couldn't afford it. So he went to study physics at Fullerton College.
     Before long, Cameron stopped his college study and began making his living as a truck driver. But
he still didn't give up his dream of becoming a movie maker, In 1984 , he wrote and directed The
Terminator(《终结者》). It was a huge success.
     Cameron now could do whatever he wanted. He had several projects in mind, including Titanic
which ended up earning almost $2 billion. Cameron started making Avatar(《阿凡达》)in 2005. It
took his team four years to finish making the movie, but the movie has become another huge success.

1. Was Cameron born in Canada?  

    __________________________________________________________

2. What did Cameron want to do when he was 15 years old?

     _________________________________________________________

3. When did Cameron start making Avatar?  

     __________________________________________________________

4. What does the passage mainly talk about? 

      __________________________________________________________

       Walt Disney, the great film-maker, was born in 1901. When he was a young man, He often sat in the
family garage and draw pictures there. One day a mouse came into the garage and played on the floor. He
stopped drawing and watched the mouse. The mouse came towards him, so he gave the mouse a piece of
bread. Day after day they became good friends.
       Some years later, Disney moved to the west coast of the USA. He tried to get work as an artist, but
still he was unsuccessful. One day he remembered the mouse that used to come out in his father's garage.
He picked up his pencil and started to draw. At last he was pleased with one of his pictures of the mouse.
He called it Mickey Mouse.
       His success as a cartoon-maker had begun. He made scores of cartoons. All of them were liked very
much by children. He died in 1966. But the studios which he started are still busy today, producing more
and more interesting films.
1. Who is Walt Disney?
    __________________________________________________.
2. Where did he make friends with that mouse?
    __________________________________________________.
3. He thought that mouse was lovely, didn't he?
    __________________________________________________.
4. How long did he live in the world?
    __________________________________________________.
5. What is the main idea of this passage?
    __________________________________________________.

     Do you know Tian Liang? He is a Chinese diving player. He was born in 1979 in Chongqing. He likes diving
as he was a little boy. He began his training in diving when he was seven. Tian Liang had a good coach at
primary school. He is Xu Zelu. Tian Liang has been a member of the national team since 1993. He became the
most important member since Xiong Ni and Fu Mingxia left the team.
     Tian Liang won the gold medal in the men's 10-metre platform diving and set a new world record at the
Sydney Olympic Games. His Chinese fans call him"Diving Prince". He won two Olympic gold medals, three
world titles and 15 World Cups in his career (事业). But now Tian Liang isn't in the Chinese diving team any
longer.

1. Tian Liang began his training in diving ______.

A. in 1979
B. in 1986
C. in 1987
D. in 1993

2. Tian Liang's coach was _______ at primary school.

A. Xiong Ni
B. Fu Mingxia
C. Guo Jingjing
D. Xu Zelu

3. He joined the national team at the age of ______.

A. 7
B. 10
C. 14
D. 17

4. He won the gold medal in the men's _____ at the Sydney Olympic Games.

A. 3-metre platform diving
B. 10-metre platform diving
C. 3-metre springboard
D. 10-metre springboard

5. Tian Liang won _______ Olympic gold medals in his career.

A. two
B. three
C. five
D. fifteen

     (1) Da Shan, a Canadian, is perhaps China's most famous foreigner. He speaks Chinese well. He was
 born in 1965. He (2) started to learn Chinese when he studied at Toronto University. In order to remember
more Chinese words, (3) wrote,he, them,often, on, cards, down, small. But he would only memorize words
 he met with while reading, listening or talking in the following two weeks. "There's no use learning words
that don't appear often," he said. "And the best way to learn a foreign language is to keep using it and
understand the culture behind it, Or you'll forget everything quickly." Da Shan says it is important to get into
the language environment. (4) 与中国朋友交谈has helped him learn not only the words, but also the country
and its people.
1. 请将(1)处的句子翻译成汉语。
    ______________________________________.
2. 请用适当的词替换(2)处的单词。
    ______________________________________.
3. 将(3)的单词组合成一个完整的句子。
    ______________________________________.
4. 将(4)处的短语译成英语。
    ______________________________________.
5. 请回答下面的问题：
    What does Da Shan think is the best way to learn a foreign language? 
    ______________________________________.