For most seventh graders, life doesn't get much harder than a history test. But for Grant Reed of Beliville, Ohio, it's his own current events that are so painful. "Honestly, I don't want to die,"Grant says. Last year, doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus found a tumour(肿瘤)in Grant's brain. They cut it out, but the surgery left him with stroke-like symptoms. Plus, he had to go through months of radia?tion and chemotherapy to try to stop the spread of the disease.

Yet, through it all, Grant has shown remarkable determination, which he owes, partly, to Ohio State Football. His parents, Troy and Denise, were both in the OSU marching band and fell in love during half-time of the Michigan game. His cat is named after the team Buckeyes. His wardrobe is painted scarlet (the colour of the team's sportswear). The point is, almost nothing mattered more to Grant than Ohio State Football―until he got sick, of course.

"I didn't like the word cancer," Grant says. So he decided not to use the word. Instead, the kid named his cancer Michigan and insisted everyone in his life refer to it as such, because Ohio State always beats Michigan. That was something he could understand and make into a competition. He was going to beat this disease.

It's now been more than a year since Grant issued that announcement. "And if you look at his scans," Dr Randal Olshefski at Nationwide Children's Hospital says, "there's nothing there. There's a big space, but there's no tumour. w

"Grant is beating Michigan. And although much of it has to go to science, don't discount the semantics(语义学),You have to do something to make it a disease you can fight. And for Grant, that was naming it Michi?gan ,"his parents say.

This weekend, Ohio State and Michigan will be battling like their lives depend on it. But in this house * the Reed family will be watching with a calm insight: it's just a game.

1.  What's the main idea of the first paragraph?

A.    The seventh grade is a hard time.

B.    Grant suffered a serious disease.

C.    The operation was successful.

D.    The tumour has spread all over.

2.    From the second paragraph, we can infer that .

A.    Grant was a born football fan

B.    football makes a true man

C.    interest is the best teacher

D.    God helps those who help themselves

3.    Why did Grant name his cancer Michigan?

A.    Because he dared not face the disease.

B.    Because he didn't want to die so young.

C.    Because Michigan was his favourite team.

D.    Because Michigan was always beaten by his favourite team.

4.    By saying that it's just a game, we can infer that the Reed family .

A.    have lost interest in the match between Ohio State and Michigan

B.    believe Michigan will surely beat Ohio State this weekend

C.    have had a clearer and better understanding of life

D.    view the match as a matter of life and death

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Geena Davis knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. "I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sun?glasses," she says. "I used to wear them to watch TV."

Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good , but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as "Klieg eyes". It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.

Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hepburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Break fast at Tiffany's. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979? Ray-Ban "Wayfarers" were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blues Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban "Aviator" sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban "Predator" sunglasses famous in Men in Black.

Of course sunglasses aren't 〗ust a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don't have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses availa?ble these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.

1. What is mainly discussed in this passage?

  A.    Some movie stars.

B.     How to protect eyes.

C.    The sunglasses wearing.

D.    How to be a movie star.

2. Why did Geena Davis like to wear sunglasses?

  A.    She was a movie star.

B.    She wanted to follow a movie star.

C.    Wearing sunglasses was good for her eyes.

D.    It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.

3. Early actors' eyes hurt because____ •

  A.    they wore sunglasses

B.    they went out in the sun too much

C.    the lights on movie sets were too bright

D.    their scripts were written in very small writing

4. We may know from this passage that_____ •

A. Audrey Hepburn was a famous film star

B, Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker

C. sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986

D. Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses

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