Miyoke, 13

Do you want to know where I come from? Oh, please guess(猜)！ I can speak good Japanese(日语), but I can’t speak English or Chinese at all. I like white a lot, so you can see me in a white shirt at school.

Grace, 12

Am I very cool? I have long hair with two big eyes. I have an e-friend from China, but she lives in London with me now. She studies English here. I often help her study English.

Maria, 12

I like little animals very much. Dogs are my favorite. So I have two dogs at home, but my mom doesn’t like them at all. I often give some eggs and cakes to them. They like me, too, and they can help me.

Tian Jun, 13

Chinese is my mother language(语言), but I study English at school. Now I can speak a little English. I often have some emails from my friend in the USA. He tells me how to study English in his e-mails. He says he likes Beijing. He wants to visit the Great Wall very much.

1.Miyoke is from      .

2.Grace has        .

A．long hair with two small eyes

B．an e-friend from London

C．a Chinese e-friend

D．short hair with two big eyes

3.     doesn’t like dogs at her home at all.

A．Miyoke’s mom

B．Maria’s mom

C．Maria’s e-friend

D．Tian Jun’s friend

4.Tian Jun can        now.

A．only speak Chinese

B．speak Japanese

C．speak Chinese and English

D．speak Chinese and Japanese

5.Which is RIGHT according to the passage?

A．Miyoke is often in a brown shirt at school.

B．Grace lives with her e-friend in Beijing now.

C．Tian Jun’s friend wants to visit Beijing a lot.

D．Maria doesn’t have a dog at her home.

Most American students have said goodbye to fancy(高级的) fruits these days. In school canteens across the country, cheaper fruits like apples and oranges have taken their places.

   “People are afraid to spend now,” said Linda Morrow, who owns a shoe and handbag store. “They don’t know what the future will bring.”

   During the financial crisis(金融危机), several of the country’s biggest banks have been forced to sell or close. This has made lots of Americans afraid to buy expensive goods.

   Samira Marino, a restaurant owner in Miami, has found everyone is ordering water instead of juice and more people are sharing meals. In more than two dozen interviews with The Associated Press across the country last month, Americans talked about their concerns, from worries about small businesses to doubts about simply making ends meet.

   The crisis began last year. Experts think it was because US banks lend money too easily. Last year a lot of people and companies, who borrowed money, have found themselves unable to pay it back. This left the banks, as well as the people who put their money in the banks, without money. Since the banks borrowed money between themselves and even across borders(国界), the whole world was in trouble.

   This month the US government agreed on a $700 billion plan to try to save the financial market. But no one is sure whether it will help or not. President George W. Bush has warned it will take some time.

   Last week top finance officials from 20 countries promised to work together to find a way out of the money trouble.

1.Why are people in the US afraid to spend?

  A. Because they think it’s unnecessary.      

 B. Because they don’t have the habit of spending money.

 C. Because they worry about their future.

 D. Because they don’t have enough money.

2.The fifth paragraph mainly _________.

  A. tells what it is like in a crisis

  B. explains why there is a crisis

  C. warns people of the danger of the crisis

  D. asks people not to borrow money from banks

3.People feel ______ about the US plan to save the market.

  A. satisfied       B. doubtful         C. hopeless        D. angry

4.The best title for the story is ________.

  A. Ways to make ends meet

  B. The money problem facing the world

  C. Healthy fancy fruits

  D. The art of borrowing

Learners of English often ask: What are the differences between British and American English? How important are these differences?

Certainly, there are some differences between British and American English. There are a few differences in grammar. For example, speakers of British English say “in hospital” and “Have you got a pen?” while Americans say “in the hospital” and “Do you have a pen?”. Pronunciation is sometimes different. Americans usually sound the “r” in words like “bird “and “hurt”. Some speakers of British English do not sound the “r” in these words. There are differences between British and American English in spelling and vocabulary. For example, “colour” and “honour” are British, while “color” and “honor” are American.

These differences in grammar, pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary are not important, however. For the most part, British and American English are the same language.

1.Are there many differences in grammar between British and American English?

A．There are few differences between them.

B．There are many differences between them.

C．There are some differences between them.

D．There are great differences between them.

2.Americans don’t say “Have you got a pen.” do they?

A．Yes, they do.       B．Yes, they don’t.    C．No. they don’t.    D．Sorry, they do .

3.Who says “ in hospital ”? Who says “ in the hospital ”?

A．Americans say “ in the hospital ” while Englishmen say “ in hospital ”.

B．Americans say “ in hospital ” while Englishmen say “in the hospital ”

C．Both Americans and Englishmen say “ in the hospital ”

D．They are the same .

4.From the article we can know____.

A．American English is better than British English.

B．it’s not so difficult for a British English speaker to understand American English.

C．the spelling of “color” is wrong while the spelling of “colour” is right.

D．British English is better than American English.

5.What’s the main idea of the article?

A．We should learn both American English and British English.

B．British and American English are two different languages.

C．Speakers of British and Americans speak the same language.

D．We should learn other languages .

People go to work in different ways. They work from Monday to Friday.Some people go to work on foot because they live near their workplaces. Some people go to work by bike because they live far from their workplaces,or they like riding bikes. They think it's good for their health. Today more people have own cars,so they can go to work in their cars. In the south of China,many people even go to work by boat because water is around their houses. Will people go to work by plane? I think so，if necessary.

1.Some people walk to go to work because _________.

A．they don’t have any cars.

B．they live near their workplaces.

C．they live far from their workplaces.

D．they like walking.

2.Some people go to work by bike because _________.

A．they live far away from their workplaces.

B．they are busy.

C．they are tired.(累的)

D．they like their bikes.

3.Today more people go to work _______.

A．by car                                B．by bus

C．by subway                             D．on foot

4.In the south of China,many people go to work ______.

A．by plane                              B．on foot

C．by boat                               D．by ropeway

5.They work on __________.

A．weekends                             B．Friday

C．Sundays                              D．weekdays

A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing(爆炸) destroyed her home and killed her mother.

Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad(巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they leave their homes in Baghdad.

“Dad, why are the Americans fighting us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.

He tries to comfort him by saying ,“The bombs（炸弹） are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed.

“All we do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu, “We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear(恐惧). We feel hopeless and helpless. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”

1.During the war, children are ______________.  

      A.studying at school       B.safer than their parents    C.in great danger

2.The children have to flee(逃离) their homes because_________.

A.it’s dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing.

B.their parents are not at home

C.they want to get food and water.

3.Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because___________.

A.he doesn’t want to tell him the real reason

B.he doesn’t want to tell a lie.

C.he doesn’t know how to explain it clearly.

4.“sleeping pills” are __________.

     A. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war.

     B.a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep

     C.a kind of food to make them strong

5.According to the passage we know that__________.

    A. all the children in Iraqi are looking for something to eat.

    B. all the children in Iraqi are thinking about something to solve the war problem

    C. the children in Iraqi are feeling fearful, helpless and hopeless during the war.