Happiness is for everyone. In fact, happiness is always around you if you care about it. When you are in   1  at school, your classmates will help you; when you study hard at your   2 , your parents are always taking good   3  of you; when you get success(成功), your friends will say congratulations   4  you; when you do something   5 , people around you will help you correct it; and when you do something good to   6  , you will feel happy, too. All these things are   7  . If you pay attention to them, you can see happiness is always   8   you. Happiness is not the same as money. When you are poor, you can say you are very happy, because people can’t buy happiness   9   money. When you meet problems, you can also say loudly you are very happy, because you have many friends to help you. So you can’t always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you agree with me, you can be a happy and   10  person.

Joe wanted a computer. He asked his 1.  for the money and they said he must get it himself. But how did he get it? He  2. about this when he walked home. Not many people wanted to ask children to work for them. Maybe he could take away snow for the neighbours. But this was not 3. . He had to wait a long time for that. He couldn't cut grass for their gardens  4.he had no tools to do the work with.

Then he saw one of his classmates, Dick, delivering  5. . I could do that, he thought. Maybe I could  6.  get the computer right away I could pay  7. it a little each week. He ran to Dick. Joe  8. him a lot of questions. He learned that it was 9.to get twenty-five dollars each week. He learned that the job took  10. three hours  each night. Dick 11. him the phone number of the newspaper manager

Joe almost flew home. After he had told his mother  12. he thought, she  13. . "I think it

is a  14. idea, " she said, "I'll call the newspaper...."

"What, Mum," Joe said, "I'll call." After that, I'm going to be a businessman now.

Joe's mother smiled  15. .

16.               A．teachers        B．parents         C．classmates D．friends

17.               A．said           B．told           C．thought   D．spoke

18.               A．spring          B．summer        C．autumn   D．winter

19.               A．because        B．when          C．while D．after

20.               A．newspapers     B．bikes          C．computers D．cars

21.A still         B. even          C. yet               D. never

22.               A．on            B．to             C．of    D．for

23.               A．answered       B．asked          C．wrote D．read

24.               A．friendly        B．kind           C．possible   D．wrong

25.               A．at             B．about          C．before    D．after

26.               A．taught         B．gave           C．made D．asked

27.               A．that           B．when          C．what  D．where

28.               A．smiled         B．shouted        C．cried D．worried

29.               A．big            B．large           C．great D．bad

30.               A．sadly          B．happily         C．politely    D．angrily

Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse. It took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news of their country and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.

Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life since 18th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news to print？ Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?

Firstly, it’s important to report news. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may print completely different stories from those on TV.

Secondly, a new story has to be interesting and unusual. People don’t want to read stories of everyday life. As a result, many stories are about some kind of danger and seem to be “bad” news. For example, newspapers never print stories about planes landing safely, instead they print stories about plane accidents.

Another factor(因素) is also very important. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspapers are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.

1.According to the passage, how do people learn about news in the world now?

A．They carry news stories and tell others from place to place on foot or by horse.

B．They tell each other what they have seen with their eyes.

C．They watch TV or read newspapers.

D．They listen to the radio every day.

2.Newspapers have been an important part of the daily life since ______.

A．19th century       B．18th century       C．16th century       D．17th century

3.The difference between newspaper stories and TV news reports is that ____.

A．people can learn more about the same news from a newspaper

B．people can read the news story more quickly in a newspaper

C．people can read news stories in other countries

D．people can read news stories about their own country

4.To make a good newspaper story, how many factors does the passage talk about?

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

5.Which is NOT TRUE in the passage?

A．Newspapers may print different stories from those on TV.

B．People like to read interesting and unusual news like plane accidents.

C．Many Chinese people have no interest in news in their own countries.

D．Newspapers have been an important part of everyday life for more than three hundred years.

Electronic (电子的) books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read. Now, electronic textbooks are changing the way many students    1  . Many schools in Washington have begun using online course materials for their students. Rather than using a regular textbook, it’s all online.

“Our students are ready to use resources (资源) from different   2  ,” said the head teacher, Peter Noonan. He talked about the   3   of electronic textbooks to a reporter. “The world is changing   4 . Online textbooks can change right along with the things that are happening.  Besides, electronic textbooks   5  less than regular textbooks. We need to pay $8 million for the regular textbooks for our students, but we only need to spend $6 million   6   the electronic textbooks,” said Peter Noonan.

Students have different ideas about the change,   7  most like it. “I don’t have to carry a textbook around, so that is   8  ,” said a high school student named Melanie Reuter. Maria didn’t   9 . “I don’t like it because the Internet sometimes doesn’t work.”

Some students don’t have a computer or can’t go online at home. Stephen is   10  of them. But he said, “I can go to the library, or go to a friend’s house, to go online.”

1.                A．eat            B．learn           C．sleep     D．walk

2.                A．newspapers     B．schools         C．places    D．grades

3.                A．advantages      B．progress        C．messages D．environment

4.                A．normally        B．slowly          C．possibly  D．fast

5.                A．happened       B．cost            C．ended    D．behaved

6.                A．for            B．in             C．at   D．on

7.                A．but            B．or             C．until D．and

8.                A．polite          B．rude           C．good D．bad

9.                A．appear         B．stay            C．agree    D．arrive

10.               A．another        B．one           C．other     D．neither