Come to Austria (奧地利)
Soll is a village in the mountains western Austria. And the Post Hotel is clean and not expensive. It is opened by a local family. From the hotel you can see the whole village, the forests and the mountains. Temperatures in summer are usually 20 °Cto 25 °Cin the daytime, but much cooler by evening.
Enjoy Thailand!
When you visit Bangkok in Thailand, don’t miss the early morning river boat trip to the Floating just outside the city. There you will find many kinds of fruits and vegetables. And you can pay for them when you sit in your boat. Don’t forget your hat: the sun can be strong and it may be as hot as 40℃ at noon.
Visit Hawaii!
Maybe the most beautiful place in Hawaii is Kauai. You can visit its long, sandy beaches in the south and west of the island, and mountains and forests in the north, but don’t be surprised if it rains in the centre of the island. Daytime temperatures there are usually around 24°C to 26°C by the sea, and only a little cooler by late evening.
【小題1】If you go to Bangkok, you can ______.

Who is the greatest teacher in Chinese history? You can’t think of anyone else when you hear people read Confucius’ 2,500–year–old words: “All study but no thinking makes people puzzled. All think but no study makes people lazy. ”
September 28^th was Confucius’ birthday. He was born in the Kingdom of Lu(魯國), in today’s Shandong Province. Chinese look upon Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest teacher. He had about 3,000 students. For more than 2,500 years, Confucius’ ideas have been around in people’s everyday lives. Now they have gone far into Western countries and South Asia. People can still hear them today.
Why are his ideas so popular? They help not only in everyday life but also in society(社會). Confucius’ most important ideas are kindness and good manners. Confucius said young people should take care of the old. People should give up thinking of themselves and work for others. As a great teacher, Confucius said that all should go to school if they wanted to learn.
Some of Confucius’ popular words are “A kind person should care others” and “Be strict with yourself, but be kind to others.” People use his ideas to help themselves and society. Now, more than 100 internet web sites are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas.
“Kindness and honesty are the best values(價值) of the world today, ” said 79–year–old Kong Fanjin who is studying Confucius.
【小題1】Confucius was     .

閱讀下面語篇并根據(jù)語篇內(nèi)容回答問題（共5小題，計(jì)10分）
A train stopped at a small station. A man on the train looked out of the window and saw    a woman. The woman was selling cakes, and the people from the strain bought them. The man wanted to buy a cake, but the woman was far away from him. It was raining, and he didn’t want to go out. Suddenly he saw a boy. The boy was walking on the flatform（月臺）not far from him. “Come here.” He said to the boy, “Do you know how much each of the cakes is?” “Five cents（分）.” The boy answered. The man gave the boy ten cents and asked him to buy two cakes. “One is for me and the other is for you” he told the boy. Some minutes later, the boy came back. He was eating a cake. He gave the man five cents and said, “There was only one    cake left（剩下的）.”
【小題1】Where did the train stop?
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【小題2】Was the woman selling cakes in the train?
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【小題3】How was the weather?
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【小題4】How much is the cake?
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【小題5】How many（多少） cakes did the man ask the boy to buy?
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When Kyle walked into Ernie's Pet World, he looked very worried. He walked quickly to the front counter（柜臺）. Ernie jumped out to greet Kyle. He was the shop's first shopper of the day.
“Good morning, sir!” Ernie said. "What can I do for you?"
“Well, I...,” Kyle started to say.
“Wait, don't tell me,” Ernie stopped him. “You're looking for a … a little dog... for your daughter 's birthday. Right?”
“Not really, l just...”
Ernie didn't let him finish.“Ah, I've got it, You just moved into a new house, and you want some fish for it. I have some very nice fish over here.”
“In fact, I...” Kyle was starting to look very nervous (緊張的). His face had a strange expression（表情）on it.
“No fish? Ah, a cat! You look like a cat person. At Ernie's Pet World, we have the best kinds. Look at this Persian — long, white hair, and look at that cute expression. She's looking at you. She's thinking, ‘Take me home. Take me home.’ Would you like some cat food and toys as well?”
“No, thank you,” Kyle said. By this time, he was walking up and down. He had a pained (痛苦的) look on his face. “Really, I'm not interested in cats or fish or little dogs.”
“What do you want, then?” Ernie asked.
Kyle looked like he was going to cry. “I just want to know if I can use your bathroom（衛(wèi)生間）!”he finally said.
【小題1】Kyle walked into Ernie's Pet World and he walked ________ to the front counter（柜臺）.

Alexis was an old woman. She had no children because she did not like children at all. But she loved cats. She had mother cats and baby cats. She had black cats and white cats. The children in the neighborhood came to her house to play with the cats. More and more cats came to the old woman’s house. There were too many cats. The old woman couldn’t feed them all. Then she had an idea (主意). “The children love my cats,” she thought (想). So she gave each child a cat. Then she was very happy. And the children were very happy, too. And the cats were pleased, too, because they each had a room.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷下列句子的正誤。正確的用“A”表示，不正確的用“B”表示。
【小題1】Alexis didn’t have any children.
【小題2】She liked children very much.
【小題3】She had four cats.
【小題4】The children in the neighborhood loved her cats very much.
【小題5】She gave each child a cat because she couldn’t feed them all.

An old farmer lived with his little grandson. Every day the farmer got up early to read books.
One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa! I want to read books just like you, but I don’t understand them. What are the advantages of reading?” The grandfather said, “Take this litter basket to the river and bring me back a basket of water.” the boy did, but all the water leaked out（漏出）before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, “ You’ll have to walk faster next time.”
This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. The boy said, “ See, Grandpa, it’s useless（無用的）!”
“You think it is useless?” the old man said. “ Look at the basket.”
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he found that the basket was different. It was cleaner, inside and out.
“That’s what happens when you read books. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read them, you will be changed, inside and out.”
【小題1】Who did the old farmer live with?
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【小題2】What did the old farmer do every morning?
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【小題3】Did the grandson know the advantages of reading at first?
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【小題4】What did the grandfather ask his grandson to do?
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【小題5】How was the basket after the grandson took water with it?
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Lucy Brown teaches English in a junior high school. She loves her students very much, and she works hard. She often tells them some interesting stories in class and her students like her, too.
Yesterday, Lucy found some boys always made faces（做鬼臉）in class. She didn’t want them to do that again, so she got all her students together and said, “Boys and girls, when I was young, I liked making faces in class, too. But one day, my grandmother told me not to do that again. She said, ‘If you make faces again, you will be ugly when you grow up.’ So you shouldn’t do that again.”
Some students thought she was right, but some students didn’t. One of the boys put up his hand. “Oh, Tom! What do you want to say?” asked Lucy.
The boy stood up and said, “Miss Brown, you must regret（后悔）listening to your grandmother now.”
【小題1】 Lucy is _____.

A man was looking for things of the old times. One day he came to a village and found a blue bowl. It looked very old. The bowl was on the ground and a cat was drinking milk from it. A farmer，the owner of the cat，was sitting beside the bowl. The man did not want the farmer to know that he was interested in the bowl. So he said to him in a soft voice，“What a nice cat you have! Will you sell it to me？”
“How much will you give me for the cat？”the farmer asked.
“Thirty dollars. Would that be enough？”Later，the farmer agreed. After he paid the farmer，the man said，“This cat is used to eating with his bowl. May I take this bowl with the cat？”But the farmer said，“I'm sorry I can't give you the bowl. Thanks to(多虧了) the bowl，I have sold thirty cats.”
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷下列句子正誤。正確的用“A”表示，不正確的用“B”表示。
【小題1】A man was looking for old things.
【小題2】One day he found a blue bowl in a town.
【小題3】The man wanted to buy the cat because he it was very nice.
【小題4】The man thought he could easily get the bowl after he bought the cat.
【小題5】From the story we can see that the farmer wasn’t clever.

閱讀短文。根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問題。(共10分，每小題2分)

Worthington was born in England. He moved to western Australia when he was very young. His family was very poor，at the age of 17，he went to another side of the country and began to make money by himself.
When he was 19. Worthington entered in Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art(澳大利亞國家藝術(shù)學(xué)院). In 1997，he became an actor. He tried his best to act in Australian TV shows and movies but he was not successful. In 2006，he wanted a new beginning，he worked harder and knew about acting well.
About one year later，he had a chance(機(jī)會). He met James Cameron，a Hollywood director(導(dǎo)演). He wanted Worthington to take part in a new movie，Avatar. Worthington went to America to play it. After that，more and more people knew him.
Playing in a film as big as Avatar brought Worthington new chances. He became a famous actor. He worked well with James Cameron，he will act in Drift，a movie about sports.
【小題1】Was Worthington born in England?
【小題2】When did Worthington become an actor?
【小題3】 Who wanted Worthington to take part in a new movie，Avatar?
【小題4】Did Worthington play Avatar in America or Australia?
【小題5】 Why did Worthington become a famous actor?

閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的五個選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有一項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。(共4分，每小題1分)
Once upon a time，a girl called Goldilocks went into the forest. She picked some flowers but soon she was lost. 【小題1】 __________. She saw a little house. She hurried to the house and knocked on the door. Nobody answered. 【小題2】__________. On a table，she counted three bowls of food and three chairs. First，she finished all the food in the smallest bowl and 【小題3】__________. She was so heavy，and she destroyed it. Next，she walked into the bedroom and【小題4】__________. When the three bears returned，the naughty girl was still asleep. Finally，when the baby bear cried，Goldilocks opened her eyes and saw them，and hurried away without her basket. And she didn’t return to the forest again.