As you grow older, you’ll be faced with some challenging decisions—like whether to cut class or try cigarettes. Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. People who are your age, like your classmates, are called peers. When they try to influence how you act, to get you to do something, it’s called peer pressure.

Peers can have a positive influence on each other. Maybe another student in your science class taught you an easy way to remember the planets in the solar system. Maybe you got others excited about your new favorite book, and now everyone’s reading it. These are examples of how peers positively influence each other.

Sometimes peers influence each other in negative ways. For example, a few kids in school might try to get you to cut class with them; your soccer friend might try to convince you to be mean to another player and never pass him the ball.

It is tough to be the only one who says “no” to peer pressure, but you can do it. Paying attention to your own feelings and beliefs about what is right and wrong can help you know the right thing to do.

You’ve probably had a parent or teacher advising you to “choose your friends wisely.” Peer pressure is a big reason why they say this. If you choose friends who don’t cut class, smoke cigarettes, or lie to their parents, then you probably won’t do these things either, even if other kids do.

If you continue to face peer pressure and you’re finding it difficult to handle, talk to someone you trust. Don’t feel guilty if you’ve made a mistake or two.

1.For whom is the passage most probably written?

A. Parents. B. Teachers.

C. Students. D. Doctors.

2. In the last three paragraphs, the author mainly_____.

A. explains why friendship is so important

B. shows how to make more good friends

C. discusses how peers influence us

D. gives advice on how to deal with peer pressure

3.Which of following may help handle peer pressure?

A. Spending more time with classmates.

B. Taking up more relaxing hobbies.

C. Choosing friends with no bad habits.

D. Helping others who are in trouble.

4.What is the topic of the passage?

A. Friendship. B. Making decisions

C. Self-confidence D. Peer pressure

Camp Jano India

Celebrate Indian culture, languages, arts, festivals and literature. Weekly themes are brought to life through related arts, games, projects, stories and theatre in a very unique, exciting, creative, interactive (互动的) and structured style. A very unique and memorable (难忘的) experience that kids will want to repeat! Mornings are spent with the Hindi language at the child’s level. Afternoons provide the cultural elements taught in an interactive style with special emphasis (重点) on drama.

Bay Language Academy

We invite campers (4-12 years old) to travel and open up doors to explore past and recent civilizations through daily field trips. Cultures will be shown through customs and cooking. Lectures (6/10-8/30) will introduce/reinforce French, Spanish or Chinese and the cultures they convey. Our language summer-camp is infused (灌输) with cultural activities and taught by a team of bilingual (通晓双语的) instructors.

Petits Confettis

Want your 3- to 5-year-old kids to experience a French camp? Come and join us for 6 weeks of French camps!

Kids will be totally happy to learn French and French culture while they take part in team projects like building a tipi or making French bread. Weekly themes include cooking, arts, drama, outdoor activities, board games, music, yoga, rhymes and story time.

Chinese Immersion Summer Camp

This is our 11th Chinese language and culture summer camp. We take children from 6th grade. This year we continue the weekly fun themes like art, science, cooking and sports in the morning. In the afternoon, we have abacus, reading and Chinese culture lessons taught in Chinese. Our teachers are all native speakers with a lot of experience. Our weekly field trips go to different places like SF zoo, tech museums, fire stations etc.

1.Camp Jano India can give children a memorable experience probably because ______.

A. it has quite experienced teachers

B. it teaches Indian languages at different levels

C. the activities are arranged for the whole day

D. the activities are carried on in an interesting style

2.Bay Language Academy and Chinese Immersion Summer Camp are similar in that ______.

A. they both provide field trips

B. they both have bilingual teachers

C. they both provide sports programs in the morning

D. they are both intended for kids of 4-12 years old

3.A girl who likes yoga will go to ______.

A. Camp Jano India

B. Bay Language Academy

C. Petits Confettis

D. Chinese Immersion Summer Camp

4.What is the common theme of the four camps?

A. Fun and sports. B. Travel and adventure.

C. Language and culture. D. Art and music.

When asked to list typical English gentlemen,for many,Colin Firth immediately comes to mind.

In his recent film,Kingsman:The Secret Service,the 54-year-old actor appears as elegant and violent super spy Harry Hart.One minute he’s calm and polite,and then in the next he’s skillfully violent and aggressive.For example,in one scene he says,“Manners maketh a man”,before severely beating up a group of villains(坏人).Firth brings out the perfect mix of typical British style and humor through this performance.

Firth began appearing on English TV in the early 1990s,but it wasn’t until he played Mr Darcy,a charming upper class character from Jane Austen’s famous novel“Pride and Prejudice”,that Firth’s career really took off.His portrayal(形象)of the perfect fictional gentleman conquered millions of hearts,especially females’.

In many fans and critics’eyes,Firth has British good looks,British charm,and a gift for characters with a British sense of being reserved(矜持).Movie reviewer Jason O’Bryan described Firth as“always befitting the calm and stiff-upper-lip British gentlemen character”.

However Firth doesn’t consider himself the authority on gentlemen.“I don’t necessarily approach every challenge like a perfect English gentleman spy.There are many aspects in my personality that are not consistent with someone like Harry Hart,”he said to Dialogue,an English—language show on CCTV News.

But let’s just take his words as another gentlemanly quality-modesty.After all,who might expect an Oscar-winning actor over 50 years old to learn to fight for his first action movie?

To prepare for Kingsman,Firth trained for three hours every day over six months.He broke a tooth and got bru ised everywhere,but took the damage as a symbol of his accomplishments.

In Dialogue,Firth said he had many other sides-he’s passionate about literature and literary research.However,to many of his movie fans, he is indeed a gentleman and excellent actor above a11 else.

1.The example given in Paragraph 2 is _____________.

A.to describe the character of Harry Hart

B.to introduce one scene of Kingsman

C.to prove Colin Firth a gentleman

D.to compare Colin Firth with Harry Hart

2.When did Firth come to be famous?

A.In the early 1990s.

B.After he played Mr Darcy.

C.When he was 54 years old.

D.During his childhood.

3.From the text we can infer ______________.

A.Colin Firth is violent and aggressive

B.Colin Firth has many sides in personality

C.Colin Firth has similar character to Harry Hart

D.Colin Firth has more male fans than females

4.Which of the following might be the best title for the text?

A.An authority on English gentlemen

B.A famous actor

C.A charming upper class character

D.A super spy

October sixteenth is World Food Day.This day is also the anniversary of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(F.A.O.).The UN agency leads international efforts to defeat world hunger.It was created in 1945.

The F.A.O.says more than one hundred fifty countries are to hold special events to celebrate World Food Day.At F.A.O.headquarters in Rome,for example,runners will compete in a five-kilometer race through the city’s historical area.Events in other countries include discussions among experts,press conferences and musical programs.

The message of this year’s World Food Day is “investing in agriculture for food security”.The F.A.O.says,“During the early 1990s,the foreign aid for agriculture was nine thousand million dollars each year.But now, it has declined to less than five thousand million dollars a year.”Yet, the F.A.O.estimates that more than eight hundred and fifty million people around the world do not get enough food.

The UN agency notes that seventy percent of the world’s hungry lies in the farmers who grow small amount of food.Many also face problems of feeding themselves.The F.A.O.says agricultural aid could help small farmers make a profit from their crops.Farmers would also be able to feed their families throughout the year and re-invest in their farms.They could buy better seeds,equipment and chemical fertilizers to help their crops grow.

Muhammad Yunis.the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to improve the lives of poor people,as well as his Bangladesh microfinance organization,the Grameen Bank,has lent small amount of money to poor people who are unable to get traditional loans,especially women.Minister Yunis says that he plans to give his share of the one million three hundred thousand dollars Nobel award to good causes.He says he wants to establish an eye hospital and start a project to produce low-cost food for the poor.

1.To celebrate the World Food Day, how many kinds of activities are mentioned in the passage?

A.Two. B.Three. C.Four. D.Five.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.The F.A.O.is established to invest in agriculture for food security.

B.The foreign aid for agriculture has reduced by nearly 50%in recent decades.

C.The Grameen Bank has provided large amount of loans for poor farmers.

D.Yunis will donate his entire Nobel award to help solve the hunger for the poor.

3.With agricultural aid,farmers can_________________.

A.promote the production of crops

B.produce low-cost food

C. invest money in other fields

D.buy better food

4.The writer wrote the passage mainly to____________.

A.give an introduction of the F.A.O.

B.inform us of the situations of the world food

C.appeal for more investment in agriculture

D.show how to deal with the world’s hunger

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