In the southeast of China, people living near the sea believe that a typhoon comes because the sea is
angry with them. They also believe in a kind goodness called Mazu, who they think can protect them on
the sea, especially when a typhoon comes.
     Typhoon have been given different names for several hundred years. They are now also named after
girl's names, boy's names and names of flowers and so on. You may think it is funny to connect a beautiful
flower with such a terrible thing, since there is nothing pretty about the typhoon itself.
     Typhoon Rananim attacked China's southeast coastal regions (沿海地區(qū)) since 12 August, 2004 and
killed over 100 people. Sarcastically (諷刺的是), the name Rananim means "hello" in the local language spoken
in Micronesia (密克羅尼西亞). In fact, typhoon are quite destructive (破壞性的). It is quite usual that when
a typhoon comes, hundreds of people may die and even more get hurt. During that time, the storm's strong
wind and heavy rain may destroy (毀壞) farmland and killed livestock (牲畜). What is worse, the area attacked
by the typhoon may lose its power supply, and millions of people may live without water or telephone service
for some time.

(     )1. Typhoons always have some different beautiful names.                           
(     )2. The typhoon attacked southeast part of China in August, 2004 is named "hello".
(     )3. Mazu can protect people from being hurt when a typhoon comes.                  
(     )4. When the typhoon comes, there is a strong wind and heavy rain.                 
(     )5. Typhoon is a kind of natural disaster.                                         

     Three things are necessary for us to keep alive (活的). They are air, water and food. We eat food two
or three times every day. We breathe (呼吸) air continually (不斷地) day and night. If a man does not eat
any food, he can live for about three weeks; if he is stopped from drinking, he can keep alive for about three
days, but if he doesn't breathe, he can keep alive for only about three minutes. So we see that breathing is
more important than drinking, and drinking is more important than eating.

(     )1. We can't live without air, water and food.                                                 
(     )2. A man can keep alive for about twenty-one days if he has water to drink and air to breathe. 
(     )3. He can live for about three days if he only drinks water.                                  
(     )4. If he is stopped from breathing, He'll die in a moment.                                    
(     )5. Food is the least important of the three.                                                  

     Anger (生氣) is a kind of feeling. Many things can make you angry. When you have a lot of homework
to do, when your team loses an important game, when a friend borrows your bike and breaks it, you can
get really angry.
     Usually, your body will tell you when you are angry. For example, you breathe faster, your face turns
red, and you may want to break something or hit someone, but sometimes you hide your anger. For example,
you may hide it in your heart. The problem is that if you do this, you may get a headache or your stomach
may hurt.
     In fact, it is not good to hide your anger, and it is important for you to get angry sometimes. But anger
must be let out in the right way, without hurting others or yourself.
     When you get angry, you can talk about it with other people. It is helpful to talk about your anger with
an adult, such as a parent, a teacher, etc. When you talk about anger, those bad feelings can start to go away.
Here are some other things you can do when you start to feel angry: talk to a good friend; count from 1 to
100; give someone a hug; go for a bike ride; think about good things, etc.
     Remember that how you act when you are angry can make everything better or worse. Don't let your
anger control you.

1. Which of the following may make us angry?

A. We have a lot of homework.
B. We hide our feeling.
C. We talk with our parents.
D. We count from 1 to 100.

2. It is better to _____ when you feel angry.

A. lose your game
B. talk to someone about it
C. hit someone hard
D. hide it in your heart

3. We can infer from the passage that it is _____ to get angry.

A. helpful
B. serious
C. wrong
D. normal

     Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime "business
hours" are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week
have become irrelevant (不相關(guān)的). A half century ago in the United States, most people experienced dividing
lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the boundaries (界限) are
still present, but they seem not clear.
     The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used
to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week
should strengthen (加強) its legal limits (法律限制), or whether it should become more "practical" is often
discussed. How should we, as a society, arrange our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the
boundaries of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
     These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we seldom care about the "law of
time" even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to attend school a certain number
of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years - but unless we meet the truant officer (督學(xué)),
we may well think that we should go to school due to social custom( 習(xí)慣) and parents' demand (要求) rather
than to the law. As adults we are used to "extra (額外的) pay for overtime working", but less used to the fact
that "overtime" is a matter of legal definition. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight-saving time,
have we ever thought to ourselves; "Here is the law in action"? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has
great influence on how to arrange and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving
law-as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin
to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess (評價).

1. What does "in most, it no longer does." in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. Most states require stores to be open on Sunday now.
B. Most states do not require stores to close on Sunday now.
C. Stores are no longer open on Sunday in most of the states now.
D. Stores no longer close on Sunday in most of the states now.

2. The writer's questions in Paragraph 2 are to introduce the fact that people _____.

A. fail to make full use of their time
B. enjoy working overtime for extra pay
C. do not care about the law of time
D. welcome practical working hours

3. According to the passage, most children go to school because they _____.

A. need to learn knowledge
B. have to listen to their parents
C. need to make good friends
D. have to practice the law

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Our life is decided by the law of time.
B. How to arrange time is not worth discussing.
C. New ways of using time change our society.
D. Time arrangement is decided by social customs.

1. We need ________ kinds of things to make an ALL ABOUT ME box.

A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five

2. What should we do first to make an ALL ABOUT ME box? 

A. Color the inside of the box.
B. Turn the box on its side.
C. Put the name inside the box.
D. Make a list of favorite foods.

3. An ALL ABOUT ME box tells about ________.

A. a toy
B. a book
C. a person
D. a picture