Forget famous goal celebration such as “The Robot” by Peter Crouch and “The Dive” by Juergen Klinsmann, here comes the South African “Diski dance”. The Diski dance, which is performed through heading and kicking an imaginary ball, may be a goal celebration to watch in the following matches.

South Africa’s Siphiwe Tshabalala and his teammates performed this different dance when they celebrated his goal against Mexico in the opening World Cup game on Friday. The dance is already popular on YouTube and many soccer fans may want to learn the moves.

Even South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has learnt the Diski dance which could be better than Cameroon Roger Milla’s corner flag dance celebration in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. US actor John Travolta performed the dance shortly after landing his Boeing 707 at Lanseria airport, north of Johannesburg, on Wednesday morning.

Goal celebrations are now part of the biggest sporting event and players plan them in advance just in case they find the back of the net. In football, a goal celebration is the practice of celebrating the scoring of a goal. The celebration may be performed by the goal-scorer, his or her teammates, the manager or coaches and the supporters of the team.

The Robot goal celebration was so popular that England fans were surprised when Crouch, an English international footballer, said that he wouldn’t be doing it any more unless England won the World Cup.

The word Diski is the word used by the local people for soccer and may also describe the local style of football which focuses on dribbling(带球) and other tricks.

1.Besides “Diski dance”, how many types of goal celebrations are mentioned in the passage?

2.The underlined part “find the back of the net” in Paragraph 4 means                  .

3.What do we learn about the word “Diski”?

4.What can we infer from the passage?

You’re lost in the world of dreams and sleep. You roll over, smiling as you come across a swimming pool filled with chocolate. And then, your wonderful dream becomes a nightmare when someone is screaming, “Get up!” It’s just what every teenager goes through each morning!

Now, there seems to be one school that finally understands that requiring teens to show up at 9 am is not just cruel but also harmful to both the kids and the school.

The Monkseaton High School in North Tyneside, Britain, recently decided to experiment to see if there is any difference in student behavior if they just pushed back the start of their day by one hour, from 9 am to 10 am. And the results are surprising.

Since carrying out the later start, Monkseaton has seen a 28% drop in truancy, even hardly any lateness, and best of all, higher test scores. One of the reasons is that the teenagers are much happier to have the extra hour of sleep, but there is also a scientific reason behind why they need the extra sleep.

The school’s decision to push back the time was based on the research done by Oxford Professor Russell Foster, who pointed out that teenagers and adults have different sleep cycles, explaining why teenagers go to bed late and wake up late.

While adults are wide awake and ready at 8 am, teenagers are not fully awake until 10 am, sometimes even noon. Teachers may argue that their students perform better in the morning, but in fact, it is because they are in the zone while their students are still sleepy, making the students easier to control. Memory tests prove that the more difficult classes should be in the afternoon when teenagers are most wide awake.

The Monkseaton school officials are encouraged by the results and plan on voting to make it a permanent change.

1.What’s the best title of this passage?

2.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “truancy”?

3.What can we learn from the passage?

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

1.It was not easy to walk in these suits, but we slowly                        (向……走去) the edge of the crater and looked down into the red, boiling centre.     (make)

2.I do hope so because I want you to live                               (长寿和健康的生活) as I have.    (as)

3.Every time you feel like smoking a cigarette,           (提醒自己) you are a non-smoker.                                                                                              (remind)

4.                    (很有可能) you will die if you get infected with HIV. (likely)

5.There is no doubt                 (是人类活动) that has caused this global warming rather than a random but natural phenomenon.                                           (activity)

6.         (位于更高的地势), her mother’s house would be safe from the floods. (be)

7.Without the new paints and the new technique,                               (我们不能看见) the many great masterpieces for which this period is famous.     (able)

8.Have your journalists ever had a case     (有人控告他们) getting the wrong end of the stick? (accuse)

9.     (除了这个事实外) butts spoil the beauty of the environment, they contain some very toxic chemicals. (apart)

10.My brother suggested me not taking an umbrella, but hardly                      (我一出去) the house when it began to rain.     (get)

2010年以来，我国相继发生了几起校园暴力事件，使国人为之震惊，震惊之余，大家都陷入了沉思：我们该如何加强校园安全呢？请你以How to improve school safety为题，写一篇120词左右的短文。

参考词汇：校园campus 保安security guard

This book      all the information you need.

  A. contains           B. holds                C. includes         D. contain

–You used to live in the city, ____ you?

  –Yes, but so far I’ve already get used to ____ in the countryside.

  A. didn’t; live      B. didn’t; living      C. did; live            D. did; living

The boy whom you lent the bike to ____ by a car.

  A. hit                B. be hit               C. having been hit      D. was hit

The film ____ this Sunday.

  A. is going to show                           B. is showing

C. is to be shown                         D. is about to be shown

John is not here today. Who can ____ him in the game?

  A. replace            B. take the place       C. instead of       D. in place of

A bus, ____ some taxis, was used to send the patients to the nearest hospital.

  A. and                B. but also             C. and with     D. as well as