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The best thing about going to school is learning how to read. Books are great friends. They can help you to learn about anything you want to know. They can go anywhere with you. You can read about animals, faraway places, people, and anything else.

Books are written by people called authors(作者). Authors think of things they want to write about. They make a plan for a book and start to write .Some authors write books that give us information(信息)and teach us things. Authors are very important people because they help us learn. Find a good book to read and read every day ,You will enjoy your time with a good book.

1.What can you read about in books?

2.What is the best part about going to school?

3.What are authors?

4.What do authors do before they write a book?

A. They think about what they want to write about.                        

B. They eat lunch.

C. They make a plan for the book.                                                

D. Both A and C.

5..Authors are important people because     .

As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize, or they can be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.

Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?

Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrews tells us that making our dream real is life’s bigger challenge. You may think you’re not good at some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from getting your dreams, the book says.

In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is, in fact, many small dreams.

You must also never give up your dream.

There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will lead to better exam results, While saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book.

As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn more skills and find new interests.

1.Follow Your Heart is       ___  .

  A. the first thing you must do to make your dream real

  B. the most important dream to have for teenagers

  C. the name of a famous Australian writer

  D. the name of a book by Andrews

2.If you want to make your dream real, you should  ______.

  A. remember what your dream is first  

  B. keep telling yourself what you want        

  C. never be afraid of the big difficulties       

  D. try to start with all the things above

3.What’s the Chinese meaning of the word “challenge”?

  A.变化            B.挑战          C.决定        D.态度

4.What shouldn’t be done to make your dream come true?

  A. Always remember what your dream is   

  B. Watch TV instead of studying

  C. Do what you should do step by step    

  D. Read more books, learn more skills and find new interests

5.What is the best title for the text?

  A. Keep your dream in your mind      B. How to find your real dream

  C. Never stop dreaming of success     D. Teenagers have many dreams

What is the best way to study? This is a very important question. Some Chinese students often   31  very hard for long hours. It is a   32   habit, but it is not a better way to study. An efficient(讲效率的) student must   33   enough sleep, enough food and enough rest. Every week you   34   to go out for a walk or visit some friends or some nice places. It's good       35   your study. When you return to your studies, you'll find yourself   36   than before and you'll learn more.

Maybe we can   37   that learning English is   38   taking Chinese medicine. We don't mean that it's bitter (苦的). We mean that like Chinese medicine, the efficiency of your study   39   slowly but surely.   40   slowly but surely every day and effects will come just like Chinese medicine.

For many years scientists have said that the earth is getting warmer. Now they have found something new-hot cities! In the southern US, they have found that cities become very hot in summer. For example, the city of Atlanta in Georgia has roof(屋顶) temperature of up to 50^oC while it is 27℃ in the streets! At night, the outside of buildings stays so hot that the heat of the city causes storms over the city!

China also has the same kind of problems. Every year more farmland is used for factories or offices. More housing is needed, too. As people become richer, they buy more cars. New roads are needed and new car parks are built in the city centers. This all makes cities hotter.

It isn’t easy to change the situation. City planners say that we should plant more trees in the middle of cities. Every new street should have trees on both sides, they say. Trees make the temperature lower, so we should have more trees in our parks and squares. We should also paint our roofs white. If we do this, they do not become so hot. Every roof in a hot and sunny country should have solar(太阳的) roof panels. The electricity from these can be used to run the air conditioners (空调)in the buildings.

People continue to cut down forests around the cities. This makes the problem worse. Cities are growing faster and faster. By the year 2025, four fifths(五分之四) of the population will be living in cities. If we go on like this, there will not be enough farmland to feed everyone in the world

1.The scientists have found       .

2.The way to make the city cooler is to       .

3.What will probably happen in the future according to the fourth paragraph(段落)?

4.What is the best title(题目)for the passage?