____ we don’t lost heart , we’ll find a way to overcome the difficulty.

　　A. So far as B. As far as C. So long as D. Even though

With the popular low-carbon lifestyle, energy saving occurs more frequently in everyday life. Here are a number of easy suggestions you can follow to keep cool without an air conditioner. Most don’t need electricity as well.

1.       Wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water. Use a piece of ice wrapped in a face cloth. Constantly cooling off the wrists will also cool off the body. Never use just ice; make sure it is wrapped in a towel or something similar. Studies show that this will reduce your core body temperature by as much as 3.5℃. The relief is almost immediate, and will last for up to one hour!

2.       Drink lots of cold drinks. Water is the best but cool liquid of any type that will help to cool you down. The electrolytes(电解质)help to make sure you don’t lost vital minerals through sweating. Adding ice will also help cool you off. Ice does not actually help you cool off if it is in the water you will drink. Cool water does help, and the colder the water is, the more energy our body spends in making it body temperature so that your body can use it.

3.       Keep still and quiet. This is not a good time for exercising, sports or running around . Keep these activities for the evening when the air becomes cooler and the sun goes down.

4.       Place wet towels on the back of your neck and also the top of one’s head. Athletic team doctors have used this for years!

5.       Use perspiration to cool the body down. If you don’t follow Number3, then water vapor produced by sweating actually take heat away form your body if it is exposed to air and allowed to evaporate. The best thing to do is to put your sweaty self in the path of a cool breeze of fan

6.       Stay in the shade.  Read a good book, sit still or take a nap.

7.       Open the windows to let in a breeze. Use screens to keep out insects if they are a problem.

8.       Go swimming. If you can, select a shady body of water.

46. The author suggests adding ice into the drinks because_______________.

A. ice can actually help people cool off 

B. icy drinks contain more vital minerals

C. icy drinks cost more body energy   

D. people love cold drinks in hot weather

47. Which of the following suggestions is NOT given to people who want to cool off?

A. Keep still and quiet and quit exercising completely.

B Expose your sweaty body to moving air after exercise.

C. Stay in a shady place with enough fresh air.

D. Put wet towels on the back of your neck to cool you down.

48. What does the underlined word “perspiration” in Para.6 mean？

A. Exercising.       B. Drinking.       C. Sleeping.       D. Sweating

49. It can be inferred that the author encourages the readers to ________________.

A. spend the summer inside the house     B. relieve pain with a piece of ice

C. use less electricity to save energy      D. avoid being exposed to the wind

50. Which is the best title of the passage?

A. Icy Water Can Help You Keep Cool

B. Keep Cool without an Air conditioner

C. Suggestions to People in Summer

D. What Can We Do in the Hot summer

An allowance(零花钱) is an important tool for teaching kids how to make plans for the use of money, save and make their own decisions. Children remem­ber and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.

How large an allowance is suitable? Experts say there is not right amount. Actual amounts differ from region to re­gion, and from family to family.

To set an suitable allowance for your child, work up a weekly plan. Allow for entertainment costs such as movies and snacks. Next, include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare, school supplies. "If you make the child responsible for these bills’," says Josephine Swanson, a consumer specialist, " he or she will learn to plan for nec­essary costs."

Finally, add some extra money to make saving possible. If you can keep your child’s allowance in line with that of his friends. A child whose buying power falls away below his peers’ can feel left out.

It can be tough, but don’t excuse your children when they make a mistake with their allowance. When Brooke Ste­phens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville, her mother gave her $5 a week, $1.75 of which was for bus fare and lunch." If you lose your money," Brooke’s mother told her, "you walk home."

One week the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store, then she called home for a ride. " Mom made me walk home," recalls Stephens, now a financial planner in Brook­lyn. " At first I was angry. But I finally realized that she was trying to teach me an important lesson. "

Experts advise that an allowance should not be tied di­rectly to a child’s daily housework at home. Kids should help around the house not because they get paid for it but because they share responsibilities as members of a family. You might, however, pay a child for doing extra jobs at home, which can develop his or her early habits.

1.Which of the following is the possible title of the passage?

A．How to develop a child’s early habits.

B．How to work up an amount of pocket money.

C．How to teach a child about money.

D．How to teach a child to save money.

2. It can be inferred from the passage that if a child is given an allowance, he or she may ________.

A．spend all the money very soon

B．fall into the bad habit of wasting money

C．feel responsible and careful about money

D．lose the money and can not return home

3. In Paragraph 4, the words “his peers” refer to ________.

A．his parents                            B．his friends

C．his financial experts                     D．his teachers

4. Why does the writer mention Brooke Stephens?

A．To question the opinion about pocket money.

B．To compare Stephens with other financial experts.

C．To explain that parents should be strict when children are developing good habits about money.

D．To suggest pocket money is useless in developing a child’s sense of responsibility.

5. The writer implies in the passage that ________.

A．children may feel lonely if they have no pocket money

B．a child’s early good habits can be developed if he or she is paid for all the housework

C．paying children for their housework is no good

D．children may learn to put aside some money if they are given a great amount of pocket money

As computers become all the more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly depending on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes（笔画）of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.

Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their homework and essays are typed on a computer.

All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer.

It's faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that's why computers are being applied more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear.

"When I'm writing with a pen, I find I often can't remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it."

"I'm not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper."

Many students don't feel this is something to worry about. Now that it's more convenient and quick to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite?

Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei , the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said "Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的) value. But those characters typed with computer keyboards only have their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And handwriting contains the writer's emotion(情绪). Through one's handwriting, people can get to know one's thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.”

To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes compulsory(必修的)and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand.

1.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?

A．The Importance of Handwriting and Typing.

B．To Type or To Hand Write

C．Writing By Computer Will Replace Writing By Hand

D．Practical and Aesthetic Value of Chinese Characters.

2.The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because______.

A．they are usually asked to e-mail their homework and Essays

B．they can correct the mistakes they make quickly and conveniently

C．they find it not easy to remember how to write a character

D．computers have become popular in China.

3.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of the advantages of handwriting?

A．Handwriting contains the writer's emotion.

B．The writer’s thinking and personality are shown in his or her handwriting,

C．Handwriting can impress people well and build up one’s self-confidence

D．Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic value.

4.The underlined expression “taking stock in”(Paragraph 4) probably means_____.

A．getting bored with                      B．getting dependent on

C．becoming crazy about                    D．getting curious about

5.We can draw the conclusion from the passage that_______.

A．more and more students will give up writing on a computer

B．writing by hand will give way to typing by computer one day

C．more and more students will pay attention to handwriting

D．the typing article better expresses one’s emotion and quality