Mike Myers is a teacher at Chauncey Rose High School in Terre Haute, Indiana.  Last year, he taught his students about the world’s rain forests.  They learned that rain forests are important because the plants and animals of the rain forest give us food, wood, and medicine.
Destruction of the world’s rain forests is a serious problem.  Unluckily, rain forests are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute!  As part of a class project, Myers’ students bought three acres of rain forest in Central America.  They paid $25 per acre.  The students hope that the land they bought will be protected and not destroyed. The students became so interested in rain forests that they decided to get a closer look at a real rain forest.
So last June, Myers and four of his students took a boat ride down a river.  They saw alligators and crocodiles.  In the middle of the week, a guide took Myers and his students into the rain forest.  “The monkeys were not happy that we were in their forest.  They broke small branches off the trees and threw them at e us,” one of the students said, “It was a great learning experience for all of us,” said Myers.
Each student chose something specific about Costa Rica to study involving the plants, animals, food, and culture.  During the last few days the group had time to do fun activities.  They went whitewater rafting and horseback riding, and visited Costa Rica’s active volcano.
Myers hopes to make the trip every year with a different group of kids.
【小题1】How much did Myers’ students pay for the rain forest they bought?

Imagine that your hairstyle is important for your future.  For teenage boys in  Papua  New Guinea this is true! The Hulie people believe that beautiful hair shows a man is healthy and strong.. They respect men who wear wigs, so teenage Hulie boys have to grow great hair. With this hair, they make a wig that they can wear every day.
The Hulie live deep in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea.  Before the 1930s, people from the outside world didn't even know about them. Today, there are about 70000 Hulie people,  Most still follow their traditional way of life. The Hulie live in small villages, but families. do not live together. Women and small children live in one house and. men live together in another house.  When boys are eight years old, they have to leave their mothers to live with their fathers.
Some Hulie children go to school to study reading and math.  But after middle school. While teenage girls babysit their younger brothers and sisters, most teenage boys，to wig school.  At wig school, they learn how to grow their hair and how to make wigs. The rules are pretty serious
1 .They cannot run, because their hair can be damaged.
2. They have to stay away from fire.
3. They have to put water on their hair 12 times a day to make it Grow faster.
When a Hulie teen wears his wig for the first time, he shows he is a man now, he can get married. To prepare, boys grow their hair for 18 months or longer. Then they cut it and use their own hair to make a mushroom-shaped wig.  Later they grow their hair again for special wigs. These special wigs are for celebrations and festivals. Hulie men wear their mushroom-shaped wigs every day, but they like to be fashionable, too. To add style, they decorate their wigs with flowers and feathers.
【小题1】The article is mainly about________
A. teenage Hulie girls   
B. teenage Hulie boys      
C. Hulie men and women
【小题2】 People didn't know the Hulie people until the 1930s because______
A.they lived in small villages 
B. there are only 2700Huli people
C. they were hidden in the rain forest
【小题3】 The underlined phrase "people from the outside world" means______
A. people who don't live in the rain forest  
B. people who follow their old traditions
C. people who do things outside of the forest
【小题4】According to the article we can refer that Huli_________
A. teenage boys live with the mothers  
B. teenage girls live with their fathers
C. husbands and wives do not live together
【小题5】Hulie boys do not decorate their wigs with_______
A. flowers            B. mushrooms         C. feathers

　　Hundreds of years ago, news was carried from place to place by people on foot or by horse, which took days, weeks and sometimes months for people to receive news. Now it is possible to send words and pictures around the world in seconds. Billions of people learn about news stories of their mother country and all over the world every day, either by watching TV or reading newspapers.

　　Newspaper have been an important part of everyday life since the 18th century. Many countries have hundreds of different newspapers. How do newspaper editors decide which news stories to print?

　　Why do they print some stories and not others? What makes a good newspaper story?

　　Firstly, it is important to report new stories. TV stations can report news much faster than newspapers. Yet, newspapers give more about the same story. They may also look at the story in another way, or they may, print completely different stories to those on TV.

　　Secondly, a news story has to be interesting and unusual. People don't want to read stories about everyday life. As a result, many stories are about China.

　　Another factor is also very important in many news stories. Many people are interested in news in foreign countries, but more prefer to read stories about people, places and events in their own country. So the stories on the front page in Chinese newspaper are usually very different from the ones in British, French and American newspapers.

(1) In old days it was hard to get news, because ________.

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A．people didn't care about news

B．the transportation was not as fast as now

C．nobody paid for news

D．there wasn't anything so interesting as today

(2) According to the passage, newspapers ________.

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A．report news faster than TV

B．give the same thing about the same story as TV

C．give the same ideas about the news as TV

D．sometimes choose different stories from TV

(3) According to the passage, which story will a newspaper editor choose to print on newspaper?

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A．A train arrived at the station on time

B．Students liked to go to school

C．The advertisement of a TV program.

D．A bus fell into the river

(4) If we are in French, what will see in the newspaper?

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A．A Chinese leader gave an important speech about

B．An Englishman was lost in the rain forest

C．The French team won the champion.

D．The American attacked the Iraq.

(5) A possible title for the passage would be.

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A．The News

B．How to Print News

C．News in the Past and Now

D．Newspapers