Today about half of the high school students go on to universities after they finish the high school. A student at a state university doesn’t have to pay very much if his parents live in that state.

But many students work while they are studying at universities. In this way they develop their good working skills and live on their own.

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1. Children in the USA usually start school earlier than those in China.　　　　   (  )

2. High schools in America are the same as Junior Schools in China.　　　　　　  (  )

3. Most American students go to public schools because studying there is much cheaper than that in private schools.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 (  )

4. The country gives money to the parents if their children go to public schools.    (  )

5. it’s good for university students to work before they leave universities.　　　　 (  )

Last year we were traveling across the Channel and Kate put a piece of paper with her name and address on it into a bottle. She threw the bottle into the sea. She never thought it again, but eleven

months later, she got a letter from a girl from Holland. Both girls write to each other often now. However, they have decided to use the post office. Letters will cost a little more, but they will certainly travel faster.

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1. Kate and the writer each got a letter from a beautiful girl of their age.　　　　

2. Kate put her name and address into a bottle to give her friend a chance to write to her.　　

3. She heard from a girl of her father’s eleven months later and she was very surprised. 

4. Letters cost a little more in the post office than in the bottle.　　　　　　   

5. We often use bottles to post letters.　　　　　　　　 

A foreigner once got hungry and went into a restaurant in London. He sat down at a table. When the waiter came, he opened his mouth, put his fingers into it and took them out again in order to express that he wanted something to eat for he could not speak English. The waiter soon brought a cup of tea. The man shook(摇动) his head. The waiter then took away the tea and brought a cup of coffee. The man again shook his head. He tried again and again, but he wasn’t able to make the waiter understand him. Finally another man came in. He spoke English clearly and fluently. In a few minutes, there was a large plate of meat and vegetables on the table before him.

So you see a man often goes hungry if he doesn't master(掌握) a foreign language.

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1. Chinese students pay little attention to spoken English.

2. The students only practice speaking English in class.

3. The story happened in a restaurant in New York.

4. The man wanted to eat something because he was hungry.

5. Another man spoke English very well.

“How much would you give me for it?” the farmer opened his eyes and asked.

“Twenty dollars. Would it be enough?”

A few minutes later, the farmer agreed. After he paid the farmer, the man said, “My cat will certainly feel thirsty. May I take the bowl so that the cat can have milk?”

But the farmer said, “I’m sorry, I can’t give it to you. Thanks to the bowl, I have already sold twenty cats.”

读短文，判断正（T）误（F）

1.From the reading we learn that the man wanted to find a bowl for the cat.

2.In the reading “draw the farmer’s attention to the value of the bowl” means “let the farmer know the bowl cost a lot”.

3.The man asked for the bowl because the cat could drink milk from it.

4.The farmer didn’t want to sell the bowl because all his cats like the bowl.

5.It seems that the farmer learnt to make money.

In South China we eat rice every day. Sometimes we eat it two or three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and supper. We usually eat it with fish, meat and vegetable.

The Japanese eat rice, too. They also eat a lot of fish. They sometimes eat raw (未加工的)fish. In Africa, maiz (玉米)is the most important food. People there make maize into flour (面粉）.From this flour they make different kinds of bread and cakes.

In Western countries such as Britain, Australia and the U.S.A., the most important food is bread or potatoes. People there usually make their bread from wheat (小麦)flour. They cook the potatoes in different ways. In England the most popular food is fish and chips. Sometimes people cook this food at home, but usually they buy it at the shop. They eat this food at home, in their work place, in the part or on the road. People call it “take-away” food.

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1.The passage is about ways of life.

2.People in Japan sometimes eat fish when it isn’t cooked.

3.The most important food for African people is maize.

4.One of the countries in Africa is called “a Western country”.

5.People eat “take-away” food only on their way to work.

The moon is our nearest neighbor in space. It is our satellites and men that have visited it already. It is smaller than the earth. Plants can’t grow on the moon because there’s no air or water on it.

The moon hasn’t its own light. It shines back the light of the sun. When the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces us, it looks like a great round ball. We can’t see the moon when the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces away from us.

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1.We can see schools and hospitals from a plane high in the sky.

2.People sent off man-made satellites to look at the earth and stars.

3.We can find plants on the moon.

4.The moon is our nearest neighbor in space, so the moon looks bright.

5.The moon looks like a great ball when the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces us.

Many years later, the doctor became old .He began to forget things. People were afraid and didn’t go to him any more. The old doctor asked, “Why does no one come to see me now?”

No one wanted to tell him why, because they didn’t want to hurt the good man. Instead they said, “Everybody in the town is healthy now.” The doctor was pleased when he heard that.

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1.The story was about an old doctor in a small town.

2.Many years later the old doctor began to forget things.

3.People didn’t go to see him any more.

4.No one wanted to tell him why, because they were not friendly to him.

5.The doctor was pleased when he heard nobody was ill.

Then, when he was a little older, Billy’s mother gave him some pencils, and a drawing book, and he began drawing pictures too, but they were never good.

When Billy was five years old, his mother gave him a small black-board, some pieces of chalk, and a duster (揩布). He liked those very much. One day he was trying to draw a picture of his father on the blackboard. He drew lines and rubbed them out (擦去), drew more and rubbed those out too for ten minutes, but when he looked at his picture he was not happy.

“Well,” he said at last to his mother, “I’ll put a tail on it and make it a monkey.”

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1.Billy’s mother wanted to draw better than his son.

2.Billy began drawing pictures at the age of five.

3.Billy’s mother was bad at drawing and Billy was bad at it, too.

4.One day he tried to draw a picture of his father because he loved his father.

5.He drew lines and rubbed them out because the picture on the blackboard wasn’t like his father at all.

Joe gave them a smile and turned to his wife. “Aha, I can’t believe they know me and I’m getting a warm welcome here,” he guessed. “They saw my games on TV.”

They sat down and then a young man came back and gave out his hand. “Thanks a lot,” said the coach. “I just can’t believe you know who I am.” “All I know,” replied the man, “is that they would not show the film until at least ten people bought tickets.”

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1.Joe and his family couldn’t go out for anything funny that day because there was a wonderful film.

2.When Joe and his family got to the cinema, the film didn’t begin to show.

3.Joe was worried when some people warmly greeted him.

4.Now with the coach’s family there were eleven people in the cinema.

5.In fact the people in the cinema clapped to the coach because they often saw him on TV.

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1.The donkey was hungry, so the young man wanted to give his cakes to it.

2.The story took place in a village.

3.At first the old man thought the young man was kind.

4.The donkey was one of the young man’s friends.

5.The young man was really silly.