Today’s story is about Zhang Qian,a student from Beijing. He’s now studying in the United States. He’s living with an American family in New York. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. It’s 9: 00 a.m. and Zhang Qian’s family are at home. His mom and aunt are making zongzi. His dad and uncle are watching the boat races (比赛) on TV.

Is Zhang Qian also watching the races and eating zongzi? It’s 9: 00 p. m. in New York,and it’s the night before the festival. But there isn’t a Dragon Boat Festival in the US, so it's like any other night for Zhang Qian and his host family(寄宿家庭). The mother is reading a story to her young children. The father is watching a football game on TV. Zhang Qian is talking on the phone to his cousin in Beijing. Zhang Qian misses his family and wants to have his mom's delicious zongzi. Zhang Qian likes New York and his host family a lot, but there’s still ‘no place like home’.

1.Where is Zhang Qian now?

A. In Beijing. B. At school.

C. At a TV company. D. In New York.

2.What does Zhang Qian’s father do on Dragon Boat Festival?

A. He makes zongzi.

B. He talks to Zhang Qian

C. He watches the boat race.

D. He watches the football game.

3.According to the passage, what can we learn about New York?

A. People don’t do anything for Dragon Boat Festival.

B. People make zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.

C. People like talking on the phone.

D. There are many host families.

4.What does Zhang Qian think of his host family?

A. There are many people in the family.

B. Everybody is busy in the family.

C. It’s very nice but not his home.

D. It’s a warm home for him.

阅读理解。

The Year of the Goat was a main reason for the low newborns in 2015, a report said.

There were 16.55 million babies born in China last year, about 320,000 fewer than 2014, the Year of the Horse, it said.

China began to allow couples where one partner was an only child to have a second child in late 2013, which made 11 million couples eligible (符合条件的).

People expected the policy to result in 1 million more births compared with 2014. However, that did not happen. There is an old Chinese saying that 9 out of 10 people born in the Year of the Goat are unlucky in their lives.

It was reported that the decline (下降) was mainly because of the Year of the Goat. China will likely welcome 17.5 to 21 million newborns yearly in the next five years.

In 2015, the number of wowen aged 15 to 49, considered to be of childbearing age, fell by 5 million from 2014, In addition, the group between 20 and 29 years old, who are main childbearing people, has declined by 1.5 million, the report said.

Among babies born last year, the number of first children dropped by 850,000 from 2014, or 4.1 percent, it said.At the same time, the number of the second children increased by 450,000.

The number of Chinese wowen of childbearing age reached the highest point in 2011 and then began to decline.

1.You can probably read this passage in a(n) _____ .

A. advertisement B. newspaper

C. guidebook D. novel

2.According to the report, the number of newborns declined in 2015 compared with 2014 mainly because of _____ .

A. the Year of the Horse B. the Year of the Goat

C. the working conditions D. the living conditions

3.The number of Chinese wowen of childbearing age reached the highest poilt in _____ .

A.2011 B.2012

C.2013 D.2014

4.From 2010 to 2014, the newborn numbers in China _____.

A. declined every year B. kept the same

C. increased every year D. doubled

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