How do you usually get to school? Buy bus? On foot? Roby Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school a little 36__________---he goes by horse (马).
Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles to and from school 37 __________the beginning of the semester. “Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I’m on my way at 6 am.” Burch says, “The streets are mostly 38__________ at this time of morning. It’s a nice way to start the day.”
The idea was his 39__________. His family were enjoying their vacation on their farm this summer, “My dad just said, ‘Roby, you 40__________ ride your horse to school every day.’” says Burch. He thought it really was a good idea.
When they got back home, Burch asked for permission from the headmaster (校长), Joe Cox, and surprisingly, he got the green light. Cox even 41__________ Burch to keep the horse next to the headmaster’s house. Then his dad helped Burch find the best route to school. It is along back streets and has 42__________cars than the others.
For the return trip every afternoon, Burch leaves school at 5:45 pm. Even now, as the days grow shorter and colder, he 43__________ to ride his horse. “ I will ride my horse even in the coldest weather.” he says.
Burch says the first time he sat on a horse as a four-year-old boy he was afraid. 44__________ now, “it’s what I do best.” It’s no surprise that he wants to be a cowboy (牛仔) when he grows up. “I love riding horses more than 45 __________ else.” He says, “It’s really a guy thing.”
【小题1】
A.normallyB.casuallyC.differentlyD.actually
【小题2】
A.forB.sinceC.beforeD.after
【小题3】
A.emptyB.crowdedC.busyD.awful
【小题4】
A.sister’sB.brother’sC.mom’sD.dad’s
【小题5】
A.willB.won’tC.shouldD.shouldn’t
【小题6】
A.invitedB.allowedC.taughtD.urged
【小题7】
A.fewerB.fewC.moreD.many
【小题8】
A.beginsB.stopsC.continuesD.refuses
【小题9】
A.soB.orC.andD.but
【小题10】
A.anythingB.nothingC.everybodyD.somebody
Jia Meng used to keep a diary (日记) in Chinese. But one year ago, the 14-year-old girl from Hei Longjiang began to write her diary in English, because Jia found her mother was reading her diary secretly. She changed the language because her mother can’t read English. “It’s like killing two birds with one stone.” said Jia, “My privacy (隐私) became safe and my English improves a lot.”
Jia’s mother is not the only mom who reads her child’s diary. Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey among over 2, 3000 parents. The results show that  40% of parents read their children’s secrets. That’s why, like Jia, many teenagers try to find ways to protect(保护) their privacy.
Wu Lei, 15, of Shanxi, keeps a diary, too. But he doesn’t write in on paper. He writes online which he thinks is perfectly safe because his parents “know nothing about the Internet.”
Lu Huan, 13, of Guangdong, said her parents always secretly listened to the talk between her friends and her on the telephone in their room. To solve this problem, Lu asked her parents to buy her a mobile phone.
“Parents want to know what is going on in their children’s lives,” said Shao Xiazhen, a teenage expert in Beijing. “ But sometimes they go about it the wrong way.” Shao suggested to teenagers that instead of hiding their secrets, talking to parents is a better solution. “If your parents know that you are safe, they’ll let you keep your secrets.”
根据短文内容,判断下列句子正误。正确的用“A”表示,不正确的用“B”表示。
【小题1】Jia Meng writes her diary in English in order to improve her English.
【小题2】Recently, Renmin University of China had a national survey, and the results show that 40% of parents read their children’s secrets.
【小题3】Keeping a diary online is the best way to protect the privacy according to the article.
【小题4】 Lu Huan asked her parents to buy her a mobile phone in order to protect her privacy.
【小题5】 Shao Xiazhen thinks parents will let children keep their secrets if they talk to parents and parents know they are safe.
E-book is short for electronic( 电子的) book. It is usually read on personal computers. Some
mobile phones can also be used to read e-books.
Earlier e-books were written for a specific group of readers and were about only a few subjects. With the development of the internet, knowledge and answers to a lot of questions mainly come from e-books. This is why the e-book business is increasing quickly
E-books have many advantages. First, they save time. We don’t need to go to a bookstore to buy books, besides, we can find the topic we want to know about on the Internet, and then we can quickly get many e-books on similar topics. Second, e-books save money. Some e-books cost a little money, and there are millions of e-books on the Internet that we can get for free. Third, more trees are saved because e-books don’t need to be printed(印刷) on paper. Fourth, e-books make reading more convenient. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you in a small computer or any e-book reader (电子阅读器) without worrying about their weight.
But e-books have certain disadvantages. They need a personal computer or an e-book reader and the information can be lost if its file format (文件格式) is not supported or changed in the reader’s computer.
However, e-books provide us with a new way of reading. That is good.
根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。
【小题1】Why is the e-book business increasing quickly? Because _________.
A.earlier e-books are about only a few subjects.
B.people don’t like to read any paper books any more.
C.most e-books have been written for a specific group of readers.
D.the development of the Internet makes e-books more useful.
【小题2】How many advantages do e-books have according to this article?
A.ThreeB.FourC.FiveD.Six
【小题3】Which of the following is true according to this article?
A.E-books can’t be red on mobile phones.
B.All the e-books on the Internet cost lots of money.
C.E-books can make reading more convenient.
D.You can’t read e-books without a personal computer.
【小题4】What is the disadvantage of the e-books?
A.You’ll lose the information if its file format is not supported.
B.You can carry hundreds of books in an e-book reader.
C.You can buy cheap e-books anywhere.
D.You can read e-books at any time.
【小题5】 The author mainly tells us __________.
A. you don’t need to buy paper books in a bookstore if you read e-books.
B. the information can be lost if its file format is changed.
C. the development of e-books can help save the environment.
Greg Woodburn, a university student, spends a lot of time cleaning sports shoes. Some of them once belonged to him; some belonged to his friends. But soon the shoes will have new owners, poor children in the USA and 20 other countries, thanks to Greg’s Share Our Soles(鞋底) (S.O.S) charity. 
Greg was a high school running star in a small town in California. He had to stop running for months because his knee was injured. “I started thinking about all the things I got from running, the health, the friendships and the confidence.” he says. And I realized there are children who don’t even have shoes.
Greg collected his own sports shoes and then called his friends and the town. His aim was to have 100 pairs by Christmas 2006. When the number climbed to more than 500 pairs. Greg know that he could collect sports shoes all year round.
Now he has set up collection boxes in his town. So far, S.O.S has collected and donated more than 3,000 pairs of shoes. And Greg has cleaned almost all of them. “People think of it as duty work,” he says, “but I like doing it, because I feel happy when I’m doing it. It’s not work I want to pass on to someone else.”
In just three years, Greg has started three branches(分部) of S.O.S and there are more and more sports shoes.
For many poor children who have received the shoes mean opportunity. Two young boys in southern California used to go to school on alternate days(隔日) because they both shared a pair of shoes. They were too big for one boy and too small for the other. Thanks to S.O.S, each brother received his own pair of shoes. The boys now go to school every day. When they graduate, they say they will help others, just as Greg helped them.
【小题1】Who will Greg donate these sports shoes to?
_____________________________________________
【小题2】From running Greg got health, friendships and confidence, and what did he realize?
_____________________________________________
【小题3】How many pairs of shoes has S.O.S collected and donated so far?
_____________________________________________
【小题4】Why does Greg like to clean the donated shoes?
__________________________________________________
【小题5】What did the two boys in southern California learn from Greg?
___________________________________________________
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