Samaranch (born 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010) was a Spanish(西班牙) sports official who served as the 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001.Samaranch was born into a rich family in Barcelona, he studied business at IESE Business School in Barcelona. He was good at Spanish, French, English, Russian and German. Because of his father’s influence, he became interested in sports. He was fond of football, boxing, roller skating and ice hockey（冰球）in particular. Later, he became an ice hockey player, after that he served as Spain's national ice hockey coach. He was selected to be the president of the IOC at the 83rd of the IOC plenary session(全會)in Moscow in 1980. Samaranch's greatest wish before retirement is to hope the Olympics will be held in China. Beijing succeeded in hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics on July 13, 2001. Three days later, he officially retired at the IOC in Moscow. Then he was awarded the Olympic gold medal, and accepted the "International Olympic Committee Honorary Life President" title. In the opening plenary session, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Samaranch "Medal of Honor." Though he passed away , we Chinese people will remember him forever.

1.Where was Samaranch born?  He was born in         .

2.He became interested in sports because of         .

3.He used to be a(n)          after he left IESE Business School.

4.When did Samaranch retire as the president of the IOC ?______.

5.What does the underlined phrase “passed away” mean in Chinese?

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Round eyes, round head, round ears, round body! What is this lovely little animal? He looks l  1 a bear. But he is not a bear. He is a KOALA(考拉).
People in Australia love koalas and take care of t  2 .They have set up places for koalas to live s  3 . No one can kill them for their pretty fur. When a koala is b  4 ,he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her b  5 . The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six m  6 .
The koala could not live w  7  a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala s  8  in the tree. At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes eating only the bark (樹皮) and the l  9 of the trees. He eats n  10  else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!
How lovely the koalas really are!

Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒藥) and some nice food in the house. You must take good care of them.” With these words, he went out.

But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished（懲罰）, so he drank the poison to kill himself.

1.In the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much.

A．the rich man       B．the servant        C．both A and B       D．neither A and B

2.The rich man knew that it was _______ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

A．the cat           B．himself           C．nobody           D．the servant

3.The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________.

A．there was in fact poison in the bottles

B．he did not want the servant to drink his wine

C．he wanted to kill the cat

D．he wanted to kill the servant

4.In fact, _______ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

A．the servant 　　   B．cat 　　          C．the rich man 　    D．nobody

5.From the story, we know that the servant is very _______.

A．lazy 　　         B．bad              C．clever 　　       D．kind

 Charles Dickens, one of the greatest English writers, was born in 1812 in a small town of England. When he was nine years old, the family moved to London.  There were several younger children in the family. Their life was hard.  So Dickens could not go to school. When Charles went to school, he was already twelve years old.  But he didn't finish school Two years later he began to work. The future Writer often went to the library to read books.  He read a lot. Then Dickens wrote a lot of novels and stories all his life. Dickens died over a hundred years ago, but people are still reading his books with great interest.

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1. Charles Dickens was a great British writer.

2. Dickens began to go to school when he was very young.

3. At the age of fourteen Charles began to work.

4. The future writer bought lots of books to read.                                   

5. Today, people still like the books written

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Friends play an important part in our lives. We may have many friends, but we often don’t understand c   71  how we make friends. We may get on well with a n   72   of people, but we usually make friends with a very few of them.
People use the word "friend" freely. Friends may k   73 each other since childhood or they may recently meet. In fact, people many have different k   74  of friends such as school friends, work friends, or sports friends. A person may c   75   different friends for different activities. If you play with s   76  on the playground, the person is your playmate. If you often play chess w   77  a friend, the person is your chess partner.
One may have many good friends and only one best friend. " Best friends" or "close friends" are u   78  two people who have known each other for a long time. A close friend is someone who is able to s   79  experience, joys and sorrows(悲傷) with you. This is a person you can rely on (信賴) when you are in n   80  , and this is the person to whom you are willing to lend a helping hand.
Friendship is one of life’s greatest treasure.