—Is she a teacher?

______. She teaches ________ English.

A. Yes; us              B. Yes; our             C. No; us

Today sending text messages(短信) through mobile phone(手机) is a part of our lives. According to a survey(调查), a third of the U.S. children send more than 100 text messages a day. Sending text messages is becoming more and more popular among young people in China, too. Children prefer text messages to communicate(交流) with friends no matter(不论) where they are, even under the noses of parents and teachers. It seems that some children are “addicted(上瘾)” to sending text messages. In fact, sending too many text messages is bad for their lives, health and study. However, it isn’t all bad. It helps to improve our lives in some ways. Today many children greet(问候) each other on holidays by sending text messages instead of writing paper cards. During the last Spring Festival, more than 15 billion(十亿) text messages were sent in China. “Sending text messages helps save my pocket money,” said Wang Cheng, a friend of mine, “and it saves paper, too.” Many parents send their kids text messages instead of giving orders by mouth. It sounds more friendly. And children can accept them easily.

【小题1】Sending ______ is a part of our lives today.
A. magazines
B. text messages
C. cards
【小题2】______ young people like sending text messages, too.
A. Chinese
B. English
C. Indian
【小题3】Why is sending too many text messages bad for study?
A. Because it costs much time.
B. Because it costs much money.
C. Because it makes the parents angry.
【小题4】Today many children greet each other on holidays by ______.
A. visiting
B. writing paper cards
C. sending text messages
【小题5】Sending text messages can ______.
A. make us study well
B. save money and paper
C. make children clever

 At school we take exercise for an hour every day to build us up.

A. cheer us up  B. make us happy   C. change us   D. make us stronger

Project Hope is a social service program to help poor students. It started on October 30^th, 1989. It aims to bring schools into poor areas of China, and to help poor families afford an education for their children.
In the past sixteen years, Project Hope has raised about 3 billion yuan from people at home and abroad. It has paid for the education of 2.5 million poor students and sent 2.3 million students to high schools. Minmin comes from a poor family. She has received help from Project Hope. Without the help of project Hope, she couldn’t go on her studies. Project Hope changes her life. She has been a college student for two years. With the money, Project Hope has built thousands of schools and libraries and trained 2300 teachers. But 40 million children from poor families still need help, so Project Hope still has a lot of work to do.
【小题1】 Project Hope is a social service program to _______________.
A. help homeless people    B. help poor students       C. help disable children
【小题2】Project Hope started ___________.
A. in 1998             B. 14 years ago            C. in the past sixteen years
【小题3】 Minmin has been a college student with the help of ___________.
A. Project Hope            B. her classmates          C. her teachers
【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Project Hope has raised money to build ring roads.
B. Project Hope has raised money from Home and abroad.
C. Project Hope has trained 2.5 million teachers.
【小题5】The writer wrote this article to ______________.
A. tell us what Project Hope does
B. tell us how poor China is   
C. raise money

People often complain they face too many problems. Every day and everywhere there are problems. Many times we find it hard to stay happy. When one problem is solved, another one comes up.
People have money problems, work problems, family problems, health problems..... the list goes on. And we usually think that people who are happy and successful are having fewer problems than us. Look at the successful people we often mention. They have money they need, they have jobs they love, they have good friends, they have obedient(孝顺的) kids, they have the successful business, they have loving families etc. Everything goes well with them. That is why they are happy and successful. But in fact, the more successful you are, the more problems you have to face. More success means more challenges they have to face, and more success means more risks they have to take.
Young and old, rich and poor, successful and unsuccessful, educated and uneducated, all have problems. The difference is that their problems are different from each other.  Rich and successful have big problems. Poor and unsuccessful have small problems. Still they all have problems which they can face. Successful people are successful just because they are ready to face challenges larger than ordinary people.
Winning the US elections(选举) makes Obama very happy. As a new US president, he has to face bigger challenges. He has to be more careful about his work he does, or he will lose his position(位置). Looking at him, we may say he is lucky, happy and successful. But, I think, as the US president, he has more pressure than an ordinary person.
【小题1】You will be a/an ______ person if you are afraid to face more challenges.