填入一个适当的词补全对话，每空一词。

A: Hello! May I speak to Li Ming, please?

B: This is Li Ming    1..

A: Hi, Li Ming, this is Wang Hong. Next Saturday is my mother’s birthday. I want to buy a present for her. Would you like to go shopping with me?

B: Yes, I’d like to. But do you know what kind of things your mother likes?

A: Of    2.I know. She likes a woolen sweater.

B: And what color does she like?

A: She    3.dark blue to light blue.

B: Then where shall we buy the dark blue sweater?

A:    4.go to Yuan Da Shopping Center. There are a lot of beautiful sweaters there.

B: Have you    5.to Yuan Da Shopping Center? Is it far from here?

A: Yes. It’s about five kilometers away. We’d    6.take a bus.

B: Which bus?

A: The No.8 bus will take us there.

B:  7.and where shall we meet?

A: At 10:00 o’clock tomorrow morning at the No.8 bus stop.

B: OK. See you.

In Singapore, many middle school students spend lots of their time on their studies．Most people think good education is a ticket to success（成功）in their future. So, many of these students try their best to get a good mark in their exams. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are a big trouble. Sometimes, some of them are even made to go to after-school classes.
Schools run activities outside school hours. The students can join in sports and games, music and dance, swimming and climbing, etc. They are also very interested in community service(社区服务)．
In their spare time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood blockbusters(大片), Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular among them. They understand IT very well. Some of them also spend their free time searching the Internet, e-mailing their friends, playing computer and video games.
They sometimes go to cafes, fast-food restaurants, shopping centers and big bookshops.
So, life as a middle school student in Singapore is not easy but it is rich and colorful.
【小题1】Many students want to get good education to be ________ in the future．

–Jim, I will go to Hong Kong tomorrow.

–_______

A. Me neither.         B. Not at all.

C. It doesn’t matter. D. Have a good trip!

Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?

It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!

Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.

But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.

There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.

It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.

1.The passage is written to _______.

A．explain cultural differences               B．convince readers to maintain cultural differences

C．predict the future of globalization           D．show some cultural phenomena(现象)

2.The author thinks that cultural differences _______.

A．make the world colorful                  B．make communication difficult

C．only exist in food and clothing              D．will never fade away

3.The author starts the argument by ________.

A．mentioning certain cultural phenomena

B．mentioning his view at the very beginning

C．mentioning the opposite view at the very beginning

D．giving examples of cultural differences

4.The underlined word “shrink” probably means “_______”.

A．expand           B．disappear         C．become smaller     D．grow in number

5.The author talks of all the following cultural phenomena except _______.

A．food             B．clothing           C．language          D．architecture

【小题1】The bad news made her ________ sadly.
【小题2】Who __________ you to school this morning?
【小题3】It’s 7:00 p.m. The Greens ______________ the trip to Hong Kong.
【小题4】He with his friends __________ to the cinema tonight.
【小题5】The policeman told the boys_____________ football on the road．