During the Winter Olympics in Sochi(索契), 25,000 volunteers from Russia and other countries provided services for athletes and guests. The student Oksana Verkholyak helped translate Russian into English and Korean at the Games. She told us about their usual day.
“We get up at 7:30 in the morning. Then we have breakfast. Usually we have porridge for breakfast. There is always tea, coffee, bread and pies. After breakfast, we head for a bus stop and get on a bus which runs to the media center. It takes us 30 minutes to get there,” she said.
When volunteers arrived there, they went through the security (安全) check point. They couldn’t bring water or food with them. “Security guards check our bags. We are not allowed to have things made of metals. They check phones, video cameras, electric equipment and computers,” Oksana added.
In the evening volunteers got back to the apartment buildings. All of them were like one big family. They lived together and got some rest together—after dinner they went to the beach to watch the sunset.
Not only students helped organize the Sochi Olympics. There were many so-called silver volunteers who retired but didn’t lose interest in sports. Some of the volunteers had an experience working at the Olympic Games in other countries and even at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
小题1: How many foreign languages did Oksana Verkholyak use at the Games?
A. One.    B. Two.     C. Three.
小题2:Where did the volunteers go first after breakfast?
A. To the apartment buildings.
B. To the security check point.
C. To a bus stop.
小题3: What couldn’t the volunteers take into the media center?
A. Water and computers.    
B. Video cameras and phones.
C. Knives and hamburgers.
小题4:Which is NOT true about the silver volunteers?
A. They’re all young people.        
B. They love sports.
C. Some of them have volunteered for the Olympics before.
小题5:What is the best title of this passage?
A. A volunteer’s day at Sochi Olympics    
B. 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
C. Different jobs for volunteers
Earth Day is on April 22nd. People say thanks to the Earth and learn ways to keep the Earth safe and clean. But saving the Earth is not just for grow-ups. Kids are also taking an active part in it.
The American writer and filmmaker Lynne made a film called Young Voices for the Planet. It lists a lot of stories about different kids who help to keep our environment clean.
Team Marine, US  A group of students at Santa Monica High School started an organization called Team Marine. They tell people why plastic bags are bad for sea animals and environment. In 2011, they successfully made lawmakers (立法者) in their city stop people using plastic bags.
Felix, 15, Germany  In 2007, a 9-year-old boy, Felix, started a club,Plant for the Planet. It encourages children around the world to plant trees in their own countries. Felix helped plant 25 million trees in Germany and 120 million trees worldwide.
Alec, 17, US  When he was 12, Alec set up Kids VS Global (全球的) Warming. It teaches kids about weather change and ways to stop the world getting warmer and warmer. Alec travels widely to encourage people to help stop global warming. He has given more than 70 talks across the country.
Olivia, 13, US  When Olivia was 11, she heard about the 2010 oil spill (漏油) in the Gulf of Mexico. She painted 500 pictures of birds to raise money for the clean-up. She raised more than $200,000 to protect (保护) birds and other wild animals.
小题1:What is the purpose of setting up the “Earth Day” and who can do something for the Earth?
A.To keep the earth peaceful and beautiful by adults and kids
B.To keep the earth balanced by adults only
C.To keep the earth safe and clean by adults and kids
D.To keep the earth safe and clean by kids only
小题2:Young Voices for the Planet made by Lynne is ________.
A.a bookB.a TV play
C.a filmD.a club
小题3:According to the passage, we know ________ doesn’t agree to use plastic bags.
A.Team MarineB.Felix
C.AlecD.Olivia
小题4:Alec travels widely to encourage people to ________.
A.raise moneyB.plant trees
C.protect wild animalsD.help stop global warming
小题5:The passage is mainly talk about how ________.
A.kids are saving the EarthB.parents are planting trees
C.students are raising moneyD.grow-ups are using plastics bags


Huang Xiaoming
Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming visited the panda base(据点) in Sichuan province.
During his visit, Huang put on a keeper’s suit and tried cutting bamboo, cleaning cages and feeding the pandas.
Huang also adopted a pair of panda twins with a gift of one million yuan.

Angelina Jolie
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie can do all kinds of things on screen. It looks like she’s good at everything, shooting, fighting and killing. But there’s one thing she’s afraid of—cooking. The 33-year-old actress says she was never able to master cooking skills.“I don’t cook—it’s the one thing I can’t do!”she says.

Chen Luyu
Chinese hostess Chen Luyu is famous for her popular talk show. She set up an online version of her show at Sina.com.
People have grown tired of Chen’s show, especially her habit of constantly asking guests, “really?”.
But the producer of the show supports Chen. “She’s one of the few Chinese hosts who knows how to control her desire to express herself and let the guests speak freely in an interview.”
小题1:What kind of animals does Huang Xiaoming like?
A.Pandas.B.Monkeys.
C.Tigers.D.Lions.
小题2:Which is TRUE about Angelina Jolie?
A.She is good at everything.B.She can’t shoot well.
C.She can’t cook by herself.D.She can cook well.
小题3:Why have people grown tired of Chen Luyu’s show according to the passage?
A.Because she isn’t famous for her talk show.
B.Because she set up an online version of talk show.
C.Because she has the habit of constantly asking, “Really?”.
D.Because she likes to express herself.
小题4: What does the underlined word“adopt”mean in the first paragraph?
A.批准B.继承C.采纳D.收养
小题5:We can know from the passage that _______.
A.Angelina Jolie is a shy actressB.Chen Luyu isn’t famous any more
C.Huang Xiaoming is a kind manD.All the three stars are Chinese
According to a national study, in the summer of 2013, the long-term(长期的) warm weather in the UK has made the number of butterflies increase.
Around 46,000 volunteers(志愿者) took part in the year’s Big Butterfly Count(统计), and they found 830,000 butterflies. Volunteers were asked to make a record. They would record how many times they found one of 21 different kinds of butterflies.
Later, the scientists used the records to find out how many butterflies of different kinds were found across the country. Then, they compared the results to the year before. They found that there was a rise in the number of 15 kinds of butterflies, and some of them went up by 50% compared to recent years. They said the increase in butterfly numbers was a result of warm weather.
However, scientists also said that the number of butterflies was in decline(下降) as a whole, and that we might not see the same result the next year.
Richard Fox, who works for Butterfly Conservation, said, “UK butterflies are in long-term decline. Studies have been done since the 1970s. They show that UK butterflies have declined in type and number.”
He added, “We must halt the long-term decline of these beautiful creatures(生物). The only way is by stopping the damage that has been done to the butterflies’ habitats(栖息地) across the UK.”
小题1: The volunteers were asked to ______.
A.study 830,000 butterflies
B.help scientists take notes
C.record the number of each kind of butterfly
D.find how many kinds of butterflies there are
小题2:What can we learn from the study?
A.There were 20 kinds of UK butterflies.
B.50% more UK butterflies were found in 2013.
C.The number of 15 kinds of UK butterflies increased.
D.There was a long-term increase in UK butterfly number.
小题3:What does the underlined part “the same result” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.The weather is cold.B.The weather is warm.
C.UK butterfly numbers decline.D.UK butterfly numbers increase.
小题4: The underlined word “halt” in the last paragraph means “_________”.
A.stopB.studyC.makeD.plan
小题5: What would be the best headline of the passage?
A.Different kinds of butterflies in the UK.
B.Big Butterfly Count in the UK in 2013.
C.UK Scientists made butterfly numbers increase.
D.Warm weather made UK butterfly numbers increase.
We live in an amazing world, reading the following news and you will find it yourself.
News 1: Bao Xishun is the tallest man in the world. He is 2.36 metres tall. He Pingping is the shortest man in the world. He is only 0.73 metres tall. They are Chinese. On July 13th, Bao Xishun married (娶) a girl and He Pingping took part in their wedding ceremony (婚礼).
News 2: In the USA, a seventh-grader, Aidan Murray Medley went fishing in the sea one morning. The 12-year-old boy caught a 250-kilogram shark! It took Aidan 28 minutes to catch the shark. It was so hard that his body lost all feeling. Aidan now has the Florida(佛罗里达洲) record (记录). He beat (打破) a 232-kilogram catch from 1981.
News 3: A young sheep climbs a tree to feed on leaves in a park in the southern Swedish town of Lund. The sheep climbed to a height (高度) of seven metres and spent an hour and a half in the tree before returning to the ground.
小题1:  Where do the tallest man and the shortest man in the world come from?
A.China.B.America.
C.Sweden. D.Florida.
小题2: How old is the boy who caught the fish?
A.13.B.12.C.250. D.7.
小题3:How long did it take Aidan to catch the fish?
A.Nearly half an hour.B.Over half an hour.
C.An hour and a half. D.12 hours.
小题4:Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.Bao Xishun married He Pingping.
B.The tallest man and the shortest man are not both from China.
C.The boy caught the biggest fish in the world.
D.The sheep climbed very high and spent a long time in the tree.
小题5:Which can be the best title?
A.The Tallest Man’s Wedding Ceremony
B.The Amazing World
C.A Boy Caught the Biggest Fish
D.A Sheep Climbed a Tree
More than 50 music students of New Milford High School in New Jersey, US, got a letter from their headmaster. The letter said that the music department of the school was in big trouble. The students had to pass a test, or the department(系) would be shut down.
On a Saturday, two officials greeted the nervous students. They asked the students to play a piece by Richard Strauss. But they had to sing the words to the music – German words!
Other tasks were also difficult. One student had to sing Mary had a Little Lamb, a children’s song, in an operatic (歌剧的) voice.
After three hours of testing, students waited for the results. They met some students from the New Jersey Youth Orchestra (管弦乐团). The judges(裁判员) gave them only a passing grade.
The worried New Milford students started to realize they had no chance. “I thought it was over,” said Bryan Olsen-Santana, a junior. “The person next to me was crying. I felt bad for her. I felt bad for myself, too, because music is everything to me.”
But then the headmaster came and told them something very dramatic (戏剧性的): “Someone’s played a joke on you!”
What was going on?
The test was part of a reality TV show (电视真人秀) called “Schooled”. The students’ parents, the school and a TV network had made it together.
Everything was fake. The two “officials” were really comedians (喜剧演员). The “students from New Jersey Youth Orchestra” were from another school. There were hidden cameras. The students’ parents were hiding as they watched.
As a reward for putting up with the joke, the students got gifts: MP3 players, digital cameras and school supplies. They were all from the show’s sponsor (赞助商).
小题1:What is the letter about?
A.The headmaster would come back next term.
B.The school didn’t have money to run.
C.The music department was in big trouble.
D.The students had to give up music.
小题2:The students were nervous before the test, because _____.
A.they were not good at music
B.the judges were very strict
C.they thought they couldn’t pass
D.it would decide the future of the music department
小题3:According to Olsen-Santana, we learn that _____.
A.their school failed the test
B.he likes music very much
C.the test was just a joke
D.the girl next to him was sorry for herself
小题4:What does the underlined word “fake” mean in the passage?
A.顺利的 B.假扮的
C.受欢迎的 D.便捷的
小题5:The students didn’t get _____ as gifts.
A.moneyB.MP3 players
C.digital camerasD.school supplies
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