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Interest is as ________ to learning as the ability to understand，even more so.

A. vital B. available

C. specific D. similar

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The arts, especially music, should be part of every school's lessons at every grade level. Students would be much smarter if they had some musical experience. They could improve their classroom skills, like paying attention and following directions. People develop all these skills when they learn music. Making music also lets children use their imagination. It provides students with a chance to try out their own ideas.

Music not only makes children better students, but also gives them something positive to do. In a music program, children can be part of a band instead of joining a gang (团伙). Parents can enjoy listening to their children's music instead of seeing them____a computer or TV screen. In a school band, students get to be part of a team. They can get along well with old friends and make new friends through music.

Music builds self-confidence, too. It gives children a sense of achievement and success. Making music is something for them to be proud of, and it lets kids practice performing in front of an audience. Music gives children an opportunity for self-expression, and that helps develop their self-confidence.

Once again, music is important because it can make children better students, give them something positive to do, and build their character. That is why music should be offered in every single grade in every school.

1.According to the passage, music could make students smarter by _______________.

A. improving their classroom skills and paying attention

B. improving their classroom skills and imagination

C. improving their attention, direction and imagination

D. learning music, making music and trying out their own ideas

2.What does the underlined phrase "glued to" in the second paragraph mean?

A. unwilling to turn on B. always looking

C. unwilling to leave D. always playing

3.The third paragraph mainly tells us that music could _______________.

A. give children self-expression and self-confidence

B. bring to children achievement and success

C. give children something to be proud of

D. develop children's self-confidence

4.What's the best title of this passage？

A. Music is a must as a course at school

B. Music builds children's self-confidence

C. Music makes students much smarter

D. Learning music and making music

A few months after we moved to a small city in France, I wanted to meet my husband for lunch at the university where he worked. I got lost. I had to call him for help. One of his friends said to him later, “How could she get lost? She just needed to go straight.”

Well, no. That’s the problem. You never “just go straight”, because France is the land of roundabouts (弯道). Highways, major streets, little village lanes – if you go straight long enough, you’ll end up going in circles.

Even after a year here, I’d still get lost going to the grocery store, or just about anywhere that wasn’t within a hundred yards of my house.

I admit I have a horrible sense of direction, can’t read a map, and am not such a good driver. Plus, I’ve been spoiled (宠坏) by living in American cities, where you just indeed need to “go straight”. But in France, driving became my nightmare — the roads are roundabouts within roundabouts.

Finally I found a solution: a GPS program on my smart phone. I rely on it to get anywhere, even places I’ve been.

But it does leave me feeling very bad and helpless when, often, the program doesn’t work, can’t find a GPS signal, or gives wrong information. I’d have to wait until my GPS gets recovered, or else I use my old solution: I call my husband. Is the GPS making us more stupid, or helping us going around more? In my case, it’s probably both.

1.The friend of the writer’s husband’s thought ________.

A. the roundabouts were confusing B. the way to the university was simple

C. she didn’t lose her way D. she was a foolish woman

2.The writer thinks if one just “goes straight” in France, he will probably ________.

A. arrive at his destination at last B. come back to where he starts

C. find his way out of the city D. end up in a grocery store

3.Which of the following statements is NOT true about the writer?

A. She lacks the sense of direction.

B. She once lived in a different country.

C. She has stayed in France for more than a year.

D. She has already got used to the French way of life.

4.What does the writer think of the GPS program?

A. It’s a satisfactory solution to her problem.

B. It improves her sense of direction.

C. It doesn’t always work very well.

D. It is a useless device for her.

Grandma had the coin for as long as I can remember. Every time I went over to her house, she told me the story of the coin：

It was the day after the ship had ______ in New York City. My grandmother and grandfather had come from Poland on that ship. They came to______ for a new life in the United States, ______ from the poverty and war in their native land.

They were walking to their new ______ from their factory jobs when they saw a small glint (闪光) on the sidewalk. My grandmother bent over to ______ it more closely. It turned out to be a dark and dirty quarter. My grandmother ______ it up and said，“This coin is a good omen, a ______ of good fortune to come.” They took the coin to their little apartment and ______ it to make it shine. The next day my grandmother got a(n) ______ job at a jewelry store.

As the years passed, my grandparents______good times and bad. My father and uncles were born, my grandfather was ______from the factory, but got a job at a big machinery company. There, my grandparents finally found the good ______ my grandmother had ______.

When my grandfather died three years ago, my grandmother ______ in to live with my family. This is when she ______the coin to me. Every day she told me this story. After a few months I could ______ tell the story in my sleep, ______ still she told me the story every day, stressing the importance of ______ on the coin. Last week she died. According to her ______， I got the coin. I think I was fortunate enough because I got the thing that ______ the most to my grandmother, and I will cherish it forever.

1.A. sailed B. joined C. landed D. pulled

2.A. prepare B. ask C. apply D. search

3.A. absent B. fre C. tired D. independent

4.A. restaurant B. store C. apartment D. cottage

5.A. examine B. observe C. test D. touch

6.A. picked B. dug C. lifted D. fixed

7.A. moment B. message C. gift D. sign

8.A. packed B. cleaned C. repaired D. rebuilt

9.A. worse B. greater C. better D. easier

10.A. got over B. took up C. passed by D. went through

11.A. laid off B. laid down C. shut off D. broken down

12.A. wealth B. chance C. fortune D. situation

13.A. described B. planned C. experienced D. predicted

14.A. settled B. moved C. entered D. dropped

15.A. promised B. presente C. sent D. gave

16.A. hardly B. practically C. particularly D. usually

17.A. and B. so C. but D. however

18.A. keeping B. passing C. carrying D. holding

19.A. order B. dream C. explanation D. will

20.A. proved B. offered C. meant D. contributed

The park was full of people, ________ themselves in the sunshine.

A. having enjoyed B. enjoyed

C. enjoying D. to enjoy

John is a tall man weighing as much as 100 kilogram.Though he is large，but he fears dogs.One day he was taking walk when a dog suddenly appeared from somewhere.He became so nervous that he ran as fast as he can.The dog kept run after him and it was getting closer.In the danger situation，John decided to climb up a tree to avoid the dog.Unfortunate，it was not an easy job.He hadn't gone up very high when the dog stood right above the tree.The dog jumped up and bit it's teeth into his bottom.John fell right onto the dog's head，that killed it immediately.

Do you often talk with your parents? Here is some advice on how to talk with them.

★ Try to start your talk with something fun. This will make talking easier. For example,

ask them questions about their day. How is work? They love this.

★ Make it clear what you want to tell your parents. If they have an opinion, let them finish and don’t stop their talking. Ask them to do the same for you.

★ Show them respect by listening to them carefully. Look at them in the eye.

★ Be honest. Honesty builds trust. Life is good when your parents trust you.

★ If your parents don’t understand, that’s OK. It doesn’t mean that they don’t love you. Sometimes you have to explain the things to them again

★ When you finish the talk, thank them for listening. Say something like“Thanks, that helps.” It will let them know that is important to you and make them want to do it more often.

1.If you want to start the talk easily, you should say something ____________ at the beginning.

A. interesting B. dishonest

C. serious D. unhappy

2.While talking to your parents, you should look at them in the eye to show you _____ them.

A. hate B. understand

C. respect D. like

3.When the parents don’t understand you, you can_____.

A. ask them to stop B. argue with them

C. leave them angrily D. explain your ideas to them again

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. We should respect our parents.

B. It’s important to trust our parents.

C. We should love our parents.

D. Some ways to communicate with our parents.

Try to be independent, for your parents can't do ________ for you all your life.

A. something B. nothing

C. everything D. anything

Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping,according to a study published last week in the US.

For years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women,but during the 2011 holiday season 58 percent of those making online purchases（购买）were women.

“It shows how mainstream the Internet is becoming”,said Lee Rainie,director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project group,which carried out the study.

Rainie said it was only a matter of time before women shoppers caught up with men.This is because women traditionally make decisions about spending.

Users were more likely to shop online to save time.Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 were responsible for some of the most dramatic increases in the online gift-buying population this time around.

However,three-quarters of the US Internet users did not buy holiday gifts online in 2011.They worried about credit card security（安全）,or just compared online prices with off-line prices,then dashed off to t he shops to get the best deals.

“But even if shoppers don’t buy online,websites are becoming promotion tools for stores,”said Dan Hess,vice president of Comscore Networks Inc.Hess said that actually most stores’ websites can make customers fully believe the security of their credit card numbers.And most are able to ensure that gifts arrive on time.“It’s all about making the shopping experience more efficient,more reliable and more comfortable.”Hess said.

1.Which of the following statements is true?

A. More women shopped online than men during 2011 holiday season.

B. There were fewer women online shoppers than men during 2 011 holiday season.

C. Most of the Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 are women.

D. People in the US were more likely to buy gifts online.

2.From the passage we can infer that________.

A. men usually decide how to spend money in the family

B. women usually decide what to buy in the family

C. the Internet is used in all the shops.

D. more and more shops will sell their goods online.

3.According to Dan Hess,shopping online is ________.

A. unsafe B. convenient

C. a waste of time D. cheaper

4.What can we know from the passage?

A. American people only buy gifts in holidays.

B. Shopping online is fun for women.

C. Shopping off-line provides better service.

D. Young people like to do gift-shopping online.

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