You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But do you know there is such a thing a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No, they are just Chinese people like you and me.
ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-looking like a Chinese.
Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics.
But if ABCs can not speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood. Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist, C.N.Yang(杨振宁). He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
【小题1】“ABC” in this passage means “     ”.

– Do you know of Guo Mingyi?

- Yes. He is an ordinary (普通的) worker        helps many poor children in China. We should follow his example.

A. that               B. which              C. whom

1.Joe ________(meet) his favorite basketball player two days ago.

2.These years, more and more ____________(visit) come to Chongqing to have fun.

3.Both of us _________(be) going to study harder this year.

4._________ (luck), he found his lost dog.

5.His backpack is newer than __________(Tom).

6. It’s not good for your health to go to school without _________(eat) breakfast.

7.Zhang Yimou made a new movie ____________(call) “The Flowers Of War”.

8.Could you please ___________(sweep) the floor?

9. He can play the piano with his feet. He is an __________(usual) pianist.

10.There are over nine __________(hundred) students in our grade.

  At school I have a good friend. He is an English boy. His name is Tom. He is twelve. We are in No. 10 Middle School. We’re not in the same class. He is in Class 4, Grade 1. I’m in Class 2, Grade 1. Tom’s sister is not a student. Her name is Jane. She is five. She is a nice girl. 
Miss Gao is my English teacher. She is thirty. Mr Wang is Tom’s Chinese teacher. He is thirty, too. They’re good teachers. 
根据短文内容, 判断下列句子正(T)误(F)。 
【小题1】Tom is American. 
【小题2】 We aren’t in the same school. 
【小题3】 Tom is in Class Four, Grade One. 
【小题4】Jane is Tom’s sister. 
【小题5】Miss Gao is Tom’s English teacher.

If you open today’s newspaper, what do you see? Ads! Look through a magazine. More ads! Turn on the TV. Still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to sell.
Here are some ways ads get us to buy. Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product. Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drinks? There people may be famous, but they may not know about what they are selling.
Some ads make you think you’re getting the word of an expert. They say, “Doctor said.” A man in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. “I use Bright and White,” he says. This man looks like a doctor. But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.
Does soap have anything to do with a pretty child? But ads may show their product with something nice, such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than facts. Ads are full of strong words. Words like “new” and “improved” have strong influence. They can help a product sell. The soap may be called “Spring Rain”. A car may be called “Tiger”. Strong words work on our feelings.
Some ads make promises（承诺）. But can they keep them? No. Some ads use our fear of being too late. “Buy now!” they say. “Selling ends soon.” Check to see if this is true. Don’t hurry. Take time to think. All ads hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions to yourself. Don’t let their words and pictures fool you.
【小题1】Why do famous people appear in ads?
A. Because they know every product well.
B. Because they want to serve the people.
C. Because they can make money from the ads.
【小题2】The underlined word “expert” in Paragraph Three probably means _____.
A.主持人                   B.专家                      C.演员
【小题3】According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. The famous people may not know about what they are selling.
B. Some ads make promises to people and they can keep them.
C. Ads are full of strong words, such as “new” and “improved”.
【小题4】According to the passage, we know that “Tiger” might be the name of _____.
A. a kind of car            B. a kind of computer   C. a kind of soap
【小题5】What does the writer want to tell us?
A. We should not always believe the ads.
B. We should buy things that ads ask us to buy.
C. We should think about ads before buying things.