“Cool” is a word with many meanings. It means a little cold at first. As time changes, the word gets many different meanings. We can use “cool” when we talk about something wonderful or somebody looking smart. For example. When you see a beautiful and expensive car in the street, you can say, “It is cool.” You may think the famous film star Keanu Reeves is cool. You can also use the word to mean something new and surprising. Here is an example. One day a teacher took the students to a farm and then asked them to write something about the visit. One of her students just wrote, “The farm is so cool.” Because he thought “ cool” was the best word to show what he saw and felt. It also shows some people don’t have enough words. Without “cool”, they seem to have no other words to use. Can you think of any other words like “cool: with so many meanings? If you can they are also very “cool”.

1.The meaning of the word “cool” ______.

A. is always the same                 B. changes a lot

C. is “wonderful or smart”           C. is “new and surprising”

2.“You may think the famous film star Keanu reeves is cool”. Here “cool” means ______.

A．a little cold        B．a little hot         C．new and surprising  D．good-looking

3.“It also means some people don’t have enough words”.  Here “it” means_____.

A．the example                           B．the student

C．the word “cool”                      D．the visit to the farm

4.When some people use “cool” everywhere they don’t have other words, the writer seems a little ______.

A．excited           B．happy            C．surprised          D．worried

5.The best title is _____.

A．Something about the word “Cool”        B．“Cool”, the Best Word to Use

C．People use “Cool” Too Much            D．“Cool’ Is A New Word

Now throwing shoes at President Bush is a popular game on the Internet. It turns out that there are times when it’s good to throw shoes.

After leaving his office in the center of the city, a young man bought a new car and drove it from the city to his home. He was very happy and the car ran very fast. Suddenly, a shoe hit the car door . The man got very angry. He jumped out of the car and caught a boy who still had a shoe in his hand.

“Who are you? Why did you do that?” the young man shouted at the boy.

“I’m sorry. But I don’t know what else to do. My sister has been hurt. I cried for help but nobody stopped,” the boy said.

The man looked around and saw a girl by the road. Her leg was bleeding(流血).

“She is my sister. She wanted to cross the road but fell out of her wheelchair. She is too heavy for me. I can’t get her back into the wheelchair. ”The man was moved. He helped the bleeding girl back into her wheelchair.

“Thank you. You’re so kind,” said the little boy. Life speaks to our hearts. Sometimes we don’t have time to listen and it will throw a shoe at us.

1.The young man drove his new car ______.

2.Who threw a shoe at the car?

3.The underlined word “wheelchair” means ______ in this passage.

4.Why did the boy throw the shoe?

5.What can we learn from the story?

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Z=Zoo manager, C=City government

Z: What about giving us more money?

C: I'm sorry, but the government doesn't have any more money for the zoo.

Z: But if we don't. find a solution soon, then we'll have to close it. 1._______________ It's a tourist attraction.

C：Yes, but that's the point. 2.            You're going to have to find the money from somewhere else.                                                    

Z: 3.             Some of these animals are endangered. If we didn't have zoos, they would die.

C: 4.             What if you advertised (做广告) the zoo more? In the newspaper or on the radio, for example.

Z: But if we don't have any money, we can't advertise.

C: 5.＿＿＿＿＿＿＿

Z: Actually, that isn't a bad idea. You might be right!

C: I have the names of some company managers you could meet…

One day we invited some friends to dinner. When it was about six o’clock, my wife found that we had little bread. So she asked our five-year-old daughter, Kathy, to buy some. “Here’s a dollar,” my wife said, “get two loaves(条) of bread, if they have it. If they don’t have it, get anything. But hurry!” Kathy hurried off, and we waited and waited. By a quarter past six, all the friends had arrived. But Kathy had not returned. Finally we saw her dancing around the corner with a bright new hula hoop(呼啦圈) whirling(旋转) round her middle. “Kathy!” her mother cried. “Where did you get that hula hoop, and where is the bread?” “Well, when I got to the shop, they had sold all their bread,” answered Kathy. “And you said ‘If they don’t have that, get anything!’”

1.One day Kathy’s parents invited some friends to __________.

A．have breakfast                         B．have lunch

C．have supper                           D．have a party

2.What did Kathy buy at last?

A．Other food.                            B．Nothing.

C．Hula hoop.                            D．Two loaves of bread.

3.Why did she do this?

A．Because the shop had sold all their bread.

B．Because her mother asked her to get anything if they hadn’t had bread.

C．Because she loved playing with hula hoop.

D．All above.

–It’s raining heavily. Let’s stand under that big tree.

–______________. It’s very dangerous to do so in such weather.

A．We don’t have to                      B．Let’s go

C．All right                               D．We’d better not