I can’t join the art club，______ I have no time to take part in its activities．

A．because               B．so                C．though

一May I take my pet dog with me into the cinema?

一The rule says no．So you ________．

A．can                     B．mustn’t                C．may

Paul suggested seeing the wild animals．I _____tigers，so I didn’t go．

A．was mad at          B．was angry with      C．was terrified of

I told my mother I wasn’t worried about my exam．But in fact I____．

A．did                      B．was              C．have

一I wonder _______she will be able to come back from Hong Kong．

一Maybe tomorrow morning．

A．when            B．where                  C．how

一I think running is an easy way to keep healthy．

一______，but Bill doesn’t think so．

A．No problem           B．I agree           C．I’m afraid not

一Welcome to our city! I hope you can have a good time here．

一I’m sure I will．_______．

A．Thank you           B．Never mind          C．That’s right

一I’m a teenager’s mother．Sometimes I don’t know______

—Love and understanding．

A．what my son needs most

B．what does my son want to get

C．why my son gets annoyed very often

Chinese are very generous(慷慨的)when it comes to educating their children．Not caring about the  1  ，parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad—to England，the USA or Australia．The Chinese  2   that the more expensive the education is, the better it is． 3  parents will spend a lot of money on their children’s education．Even  4 parents will buy a computer for their son or daughter．Though they’re not rich，they would rather pay for the education．

    Parents can  5  that their children’s skills are different，skilled(有技能的)in some areas while poor in others．But most  6  fail to realize that the children today need more self-confidence．

   The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to  7  tests and how to study well, but they are not teaching them the most important skills that they need．And these skills are important to help them to be  8  ，happy and clever． 

    Parents can achieve this  9  teaching their children the skills like cooking or doing other housework．

    Teaching a child to cook will  10  many of the skills that he will need later in life．Cooking needs patience and time．It is an interesting but difficult experience．A good cook  11  tries to improve his cooking,，so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish  12  job successfully．His result，a well-cooked dinner，will make him  13  good and give him a lot of self-confidence．

    Some old machines，such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play  14 ，will make him interested and want to know more．He will spend hours studying them and trying to fix them．Your child might become an engineer when he  15  ．These activities are teaching a child not only to study at school，but also to think，to use his mind．And that is more important．

1．A．money         B．education          C．children

2．A．compare         B．believe                 C．disagree

3．A．Or                 B．So                    C．But

4．A．old              B．rich                  C．poor

5．A．see              B．hope                 C．allow

6．A．sons            B．daughters          C．parents

7．A．discuss           B．pass                 C．give

8．A．educational         B．different          C．confident

9．A．before           B．by                  C．of

10．A．improve         B．choose               C．miss

11．A．sometimes     B．always               C．never

12．A．my             B．his                  C．her

13．A．sound          B．look               C．feel

14．A．with           B．for                  C．against

15．A．wakes up       B．grows up               C．shows up

Zhou Yan，a Junior 3 student in Taiyuan，wishes he never got a mobile phone．Last week，he went to see a doctor because his arms and fingers were hurting，and he could not see very well．The doctor told him that he had had“mobile phone disease”．A growing number of teenagers are getting“mobile phone disease”as more are buying mobile phones．

    Zhou got his mobile phone only five months ago．His mum bought it for him to use when he got into trouble．But Zhou used it to send messages to his friends．He sent messages to them all the time，even after going to bed．

    Zhou started to do badly in the exams because he was spending so much time playing with his mobile phone．His mum got angry with him． Zhou Yan didn’t care about his mum’s feeling at all．But one day，Zhou’s arms started to hurt．And that is why he went to see the doctor．

  Yang Ling，who is from Taiyuan Teachers College, says that if someone uses his mobile phone too much，like Zhou Yan，he might get“mobile phone disease”．If teenagers find their arms or fingers hurt，she says, they should go to see a doctor as soon as possible．Yang Ling suggests teenagers should try to use their mobile phones less，especially at school．They should try to have fun in other ways, such as reading and doing sports．

1．Zhou Yan wishes he never got a mobile phone because he thinks ________．

    A．it is useless to him

    B．it doesn’t work well

    C．it has brought him some trouble

2．The reason why Zhou Yan didn’t do well in the exams was that_________．

    A．he often argued with his mother

    B．he never got help from his teacher

    C．he spent too much time on the mobile phone

3．If we say, someone has“mobile phone disease”．we mean________．

  A．they catch a disease caused by mobile phones

   B．something is wrong with their mobile phones

   C．they can’t live without the mobile phones

4．Yang Ling suggests that teenagers should ________．

  A．go to see a doctor as often as possible

  B．use mobile phones more when they are out of school

  C．do something else for fun instead of using mobile phones too much

5．The writer wants to tell us_____ in his article．

  A．only a few teenagers have mobile phones

  B．mobile phones can help teenagers get out of trouble

  C．using mobile phones too much is had for both study and health