What is the hottest topic at your school? In Hangzhou Yongjin Middle School, it's money.
      The school ran an activity called "Making a living" recently. About 800 Junior One and Junior Two students
were divided into teams. They went out to make money by selling things.
      What did they choose to sell? Some sold newspapers, some chose bottled water, some sold shopping bags
and bamboo baskets. They sold different kinds of things. Hu Qi's team decided to sell educational books in front
of the Children's Center. They thought parents would like to buy books for their children. But unfortunately, they
came across urban management officers. The officers asked them to leave. "We played hide-and-seek (捉迷藏)
with the officers the whole morning," said Hu. "Finally we gave up and moved to another place."
      Wang Yongyi and her team sold ice cream in a square. They didn't meet any officers. But few people were
interested in what they were selling. The team then set a board saying the money was to help the kids in the
country. It worked．More people came to their stall (小摊). A foreigner even gave them 100 Yuan. He said he
wanted to help the children. 
      Meng Zhaoxiang and his team were luckier. They sold all their cakes in four hours, spending 39.5 Yuan and
getting back 80 Yuan. They made 40.5 Yuan. "It was not easy to make the money." said Meng. "Some people
just looked. Others just tasted but didn't buy." 
      "Now, we know how hard it is for our parents to make money," said the students.
1. Is the name of the activity "Making a living"?
                                                                                         
2. Why did the students in Hu Qi's team choose to sell books? 
                                                                                         
3. What will Wang Yongyi's team use the money to do? 
                                                                                         
4. How many teams are mentioned in the article? 
                                                                                         
5. What's the purpose of the activity?
                                                                                         

       British teenagers cost their parents an average (平均) of￡9,000 a year. Where does their money come
from? And what do they like to spend it on? Let's see what the two boys said.
       Emil, 15, lives with his parents, two brothers and one sister.
       Income (收入): Every week I get￡30 from my parents. I usually spend it going out with my friends.
       Expenditure (花费): I have two phones. My parents pay for one — it's￡25 a month — and I pay for the
other. If I need clothes, and I really need them, my mum will give me the money. I pay ￡6 for my hair cut.
       Tom, another boy, 17, lives with his parents. They give some extra (额外的) money when he has used up
the money he gets from a part-time job.
       Income: I've got a part-time job. I do two evenings a week and on Sundays. My monthly wage (工资) is
about￡220. If I have used up my wages, I ask for a bit of money. If I ask my dad, he gives me the money and
then I have to pay him back at the end of the month, but my mum just gives me the money and says, "All right.
Have a good time!"
       Expenditure: I usually save up my pay for the things I want. If I need a little bit of extra money, I'll ask for
it as a present. But if I want anything else that costs more, I will spend some of my wages on it. My dad pays
￡25 for my monthly phone calls. I think he pays for it because he wants me to be able to keep in touch with
them.

1. How much money does Emil get from his parents each month?

A. ￡80.
B. ￡90.
C. ￡100.
D. ￡120.

2. From the passage, we can learn that Emil ______.

A. is the only child in the family
B. lives in a big family
C. lives with his grandparents
D. has two sisters and a brother

3. Tom's father pays for ______ for him.

A. his clothes
B. his haircut
C. his monthly phone calls
D. his presents

     Have you ever p  1   a few trees on Tree Planting Day? Each year, millions of people, both old and young,
men and women, plant a lot of trees. But this may not be the best way to make your home a g  2   place.
     Last week, we visited a park in Hebei. We were s  3   to find most of the trees had been b  4  . The workers
told us that the trees d  5   soon after they were planted, because they weren't watered well enough. So workers
burned them and cleaned the place for n  6   trees to be planted this year. On a card f  7   n one of the dead
trees, a student w  8  , "I hope this tree will grow up with me to b  9   the backbone (栋梁) of our country." The
workers said that the survival (存活) of the trees was really more important than how many trees were planted.
     Some people in Beijing now have a new idea that they can d 10   some money and let professionals
(专业人士) plant and take care of the trees.
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6.                  7.                 8.                 9.                10.