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Tea pot

Color: White

Price: ¥ 120

Delivery (递送）time: 10 work days after received 30% payment. Tea pots with good quality. And the best gift for your friends or your family.

Handbag

Color: Black-and white

Price: ¥ 280 (¥ 520 for two on Women’s Day)

Delivery time: 7 days after confirmation (认证）

We have our own designers. Our new styles may give you a new surprise.

2013 Newly Children Bicycle

Color Blue

Price: ¥ 240 (20% off on Children’s Day)

Delivery time: 5 days after confirmation

With a basket for children aged from 3-7

New Design Fashion Button

Color: All kinds of colors

Price: Y 1.00 (¥9 for ten)

Delivery time: 3 days after confirmation

New and popular designs, you can dye them into different colors if you like.

1 Where can you buy these things according to the ad?

A. In a shop.        B. In a mall.           C. On the Internet.   D. In a supermarket.

2 From the ad, you can buy the children bicycle for a child of __________.

A. 2               B. 5                     C.8               D. 10

3 The best birthday gift for your grandpa is __________.

A. some buttons      B. a handbag      C. a tea pot           D. a children bicycle

4 My mother ordered some fashion buttons, and she can get them __________ days later.

A. three                  B. five             C. seven                 D. ten

5 If you have Y 400, you can buy __________.

A. two handbags                         B. 500 buttons

C. a handbag and a bicycle                 D. a tea pot and a handbag

Imagine the situation. You are driving along a desert or on a mountain. You have no idea where you are. You passed the last house two hours ago. Then your car breaks down. It is night and it is cold. You have no mobile phone. What do you do? Well, next time take a GPS with you. This invention may be able to help you. It is a device(装置) which uses satellites (卫星) to find the user’s position(位置). It can find your position to within 20 metres. A GPS cannot start your car, but at least you will know where you are.
GPS, which means Global Positioning System, is a small radio receiver. It looks like a mobile phone. You can hold it in your hand, or put in your pocket. It is sometimes put into a watch or a telephone. We also find GPS devices in cars, planes, or boats. Some of these devices have electronic maps, so you know where you are. For example, in a city they can tell you the name of the street.
There are three parts to the Global Positioning System. The first part is the receiver. You can hold it in your hand, or have it fixed into your car, plane, etc. The second part is a group of satellites orbiting the Earth. The receiver contacts at least four of the satellites and calculates(计算) its position. The third part of the system is a network of ground stations. They are all over the world. They control the satellites and make sure they are working well.
Some people think that in the future the GPS will be as common as the mobile. They are becoming cheaper and more and more accurate(精确的). There are also new uses for the GPS. Perhaps they will become like watches. Everyone will have one and you will never be lost again.
【小题1】According to the passage, with the help of the GPS, people __________.

Think of life as a game in which you are playing with five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit and you keep all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce (弹跳) back.
But the other four balls, family, health, friends and spirit, are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be broken. They will never be the same. You must understand that and try to have balance in your life. How?
Don’t look down on your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different and each of us is special.
Don’t let other people set goals for you. Only you know what is best for yourself.
Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don’t be afraid of difficulties. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible. The quickest way to receive love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.
Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is a treasure you can always carry easily.
Don’t use time or words carelessly. You can’t get them back. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why we call it “the present” Life is not a competition, but a trip, step by step.
【小题1】The passage tells us not to _________ because everyone is special.

Volunteering means that you work to help people without being paid. There are many different volunteers. They help people who really need help. There are many places where you can be volunteers. Here are just a few places for you.

Hospital---ask if you can go and visit people who are really sick. Sometimes what they need is someone to talk to, or someone to give them hope

Orphanage (孤儿院) ---the children living there really need someone to play with them.

Food Shelter（救助站）---many food shelters need people to clean up the shelters and help give out food or water to those who need it.

Seniors’ Home (敬老院) ---help the elderly people clean up their homes.

Community (社区) Center ---a lot of community centers are very well run. However, some of them really need extra help, especially cleaning and repairs.

As a student you can also do a lot of things to help others at school. Maybe you could start a support group. Here is some advice:

Help students give up smoking, drinking or other bad habits.

Help students who come from poor families.

Help new students get used to their school life soon.

Provide graduating students with information on future studies.

1.Volunteers don’t want to get ________ when they help others.

A．everything        B．money            C．some presents      D．a job

2.How many places are mentioned for you to be volunteers in according to this passage?

A．Six               B．Five              C．Four             D．Three

3.The volunteers can ________ in the community center.

A．give the sick person hope

B．give out food or water to the people who need it

C．play with the children in orphanage

D．clean up the yard

4.From the passage, you know the following volunteer jobs can be done at school except _______.

A．helping students who come from poor families

B．helping the students who have bad habits

C．helping the student to copy others' homework

D．helping the students in trouble with their studies

My version(视力) is getting worse. I can’t even see what is five feet away from me without glasses. ①我拒绝戴眼镜，though I know I need to. I’m afraid they will make me look ugly. Besides, I can do well without them. These were my thoughts two years ago, when I was in the sixth grade. An embarrassing experience taught me that what I was thinking was wrong.

②School has been out for two months. I was going to junior high school soon, where I was sure that looks are everything. So the question still remained there. Should I, Or should I not, wear glasses? The question was still in my mind when my family and I attended a wedding(婚礼) late in the summer.

During the wedding, I drank too much juice. Soon after it ended, I walked quickly to the bathroom. Since it was an emergency(紧急) and I couldn’t clearly see which door was ③marked boys. I just opened the nearest door and entered the restroom.

Unluckily, I had entered the wrong restroom. But I didn’t know this until I heard a scream(尖叫声) coming from the entrance when I was washing my hands .

After that, I decided to wear the ugly-looking glasses. I didn’t really ④care about what people thought of me any more, because I never wanted to enter the wrong bathroom again.

On the first day of seventh grade, ⑤my friends didn’t make fun of me. Instead they gave me compliments. They thought the glasses made me look more cute and more natural.

So if you know something is right, just do it. ⑥It doesn’t matter what others think of you. All that matters is what you think of yourself—and that you can see where you are going!

1. (A) 试写出文中③处划线部分mark的汉语意思：               .

(B)用一个适当的英语单词替代文中④处划线部分care about：               .

2.根据文中①处的汉语提示，用英语将句子补充完整：                        .

3.写出文中②处划线部分的同义句：School _____  _____ two months ago.

4.将文中⑤处划线部分合并成一句：

My friends gave me compliments _____  _____  _____ fun of me.

5.将文中⑥处的划线部分翻译成汉语：                                     .