Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究員) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力盡的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (請求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌癥) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小題1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.

A．make more money	B．raise money for his basket team
C．make himself more famous	D．raise money for researchers to find a cure for SARS

【小題2】We can infer (推斷)from the passage that _____.

A．Edna may not be a rich lady but she is willing to do something for others

B．Ruth is angry because she has been asked to donate too much money

C．Ruth leads a busy life and she feels very tired

D．Yao Ming wants to be a television host

【小題3】Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Only Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna try their best to do things for charity.

B．Ruth has given a lot of support to charity although she is not very rich.

C．The writer hopes that more people can do things for charity.

D．Edna is very rich because she has her own shop.

【小題4】One morning, Ruth received a letter with a picture of a horse in it because _____.

A．she lost her horse

B．a(chǎn) charity wanted her to donate some money

C．she loved horse very much

D．she wanted to keep a horse as a pet

【小題5】The underlined(劃線) part in the last paragraph probably means that _____.

A．what impresses people deeply is what they have done for others

B．when you want to do something for others, you need stand out

C．the moment you stand out, you can do something for others

D．when you look back sometimes, you need stand out

         It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.

         As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.

         He asked her what was wrong and she replied, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”

         The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”

     He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地),where she placed the rose on the grave.

         The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.

         Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.

1.The man went to the shop to         .

            A. have a rest                                                   B. help the girl

       C. buy some food                                             D. order some flowers

2.The man’s mother lived         away from him.

            A. 2 kilometers           B. 75 miles       C. 200 miles              D. 200 kilometers

3.The girl was crying on the road because          .

       A. she was hungry                                           B. she got hurt

            C. she couldn't afford a rose                        D. she couldn’t find her way home

4.After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to          together.

            A. the cemetery                                                        B. his shop

       C. the girl’s home                                            D. his mother’s house

5. We can learn from the passage that           .

        A. the girl loved flowers very much         

B. the girl loved her mother very much

        C. the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother

        D. the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her

 

Sally was a student. It was going to be her mother’s birthday. She wanted to buy her a present that would be nice and useful but not expensive.

A week before her mother’s birthday, she went shopping after a quick and simple lunch. When she had been looking for half an hour, she found a shop that was selling cheep umbrellas（傘）, and decided to take a black one, since her mother had lost hers the month before.

She thought, “You could carry that when you are wearing clothes of any color.” So she decided to buy a lovely black umbrella and took it back to school with her until her classes had finished.

On her way back home in the train that evening, she felt hungry because she had such a small lunch that she went along to the buffet car（餐車） for another sandwich and cup of coffee. She had left the black umbrella above her seat in the compartment（車廂）, but when she got back, it had gone! When she had left the compartment, there had been no other passengers（乘客） in it, but now there were three.

Sally began to cry when she saw that the umbrella was no longer there. The other passengers felt very sorry for her and asked what the matter was. She told them that the black umbrella she had bought for her mother was gone, and that she had to get out at the next station. After the three other passengers heard it, they asked her for her mother’s address so that they could sent the umbrella to her if someone had taken it by mistake and brought it back after Sally had got out of the train.

The next week, Sally heard from her mother. It said, “Thank you very much for your lovely presents, but why did you send me three black umbrellas?”

1.Which of the following is the best for the sentence “You could carry that when you are wearing clothes of any color?”

A．You can carry it when you are wearing any clothes.

B．Any color of your clothes will be all right.

C．The umbrella will be OK for your clothes in any colors.

D．You can take any clothes that you like to wear.

2.What does the story infer（推斷）?

A．Her mother would write to her if she didn’t receive the presents.

B．The three umbrella were sent by the girl.

C．Only four people had ever been to the compartment.

D．Nobody brought the umbrella back.

3.How many umbrellas did Sally’s mother get at last?

A．No.

B．Only one.

C．Three.

D．Four.

4.The best name of the story is ________.

A．A Lucky Girl	B．The Missing Umbrella
C．A Happy Mother	D．Mother’s Present

5.What does the writer want to tell us?

A．You should take care of your things when you are traveling.

B．Show your love to others, and they will bring you love.

C．Children should often come back to see their parents.

D．It’s no use crying when you are in trouble.

 

Liu Bing is Zhang Kun’s friend,  and now he is in a high school in Ottawa.  This is a letter   1    Liu Bing to Zhang Kun. 

Dear Zhang Kun, 

Thank you    2    your postcard.  I’m    3    to you in the reading-room.  Now I have many new friends here.  Henry is one of them.  He is my classmate.  He is 14    4    old.  His mother is a Canadian,  but his father is from Australia.  He often    5    me to go to his home for dinner    6    his parents. 

His family like China very much.  At school,  we have many good teachers.  One of them is from the USA.  We    7    her Miss Green.  She teaches English.  Our French teacher is Mr.  Smith,  and he is from Paris.  He loves    8    very much,  and we all love him.  Our Chinese teacher is Mr.  Scott,  and he likes Chinese kung fu very much.  After school,  he often talks to me in Chinese.

   9    is your English now?  I want to know something    10    you very much, please write to me soon.

                                                           Yours,

Liu Bing

1.A. for            B. to           C. from             D. at

2.A. for            B. with         C. at               D. to

3.A. telling        B. talking      C. writing          D. speaking

4.A. year       B. month        C. months           D. years

5.A. tells      B. asks         C. ask              D. call

6.A. and            B. with         C. for              D. in

7.A. calls      B. tell         C. tells            D. call

8.A. us         B. we           C. I                D. it

9.A. What       B. How          C. Where            D. Who

10.A. about     B. at           C. in               D. for

 

請仔細閱讀以下五個段落，然后從A到F六個選項中選出和每個段落對應的內(nèi)容。其中有一項多余。
請閱讀以下五個人的信息，然后為他們選擇最適合的一處地方：
【小題1】Joe comes from Moscow. He has studied in Beijing for two years. So he misses his hometown very much. He hopes to go to a city where he can find the feeling of returning home.
【小題2】Mary is an American girl. She likes going shopping. This year she’ll graduate from a famous Chinese college. So she is planning to travel to a city where she may find a job.
【小題3】Henry is from Canada. He is interested in surfing and diving. But the city in which he is living is far from the sea. So he is expecting to get to a place where he can do these activities and taste bananas and pineapples.
【小題4】Rosa comes from Britain. She cannot stand hot weather. And she thinks some Chinese cities have too much pollution. So she wants to go somewhere clean and peaceful.
【小題5】Timmy comes from Japan. He has great interest in taking photos. He is looking forward to staying close to nature. He even wants to take a boat while taking photos. However, he doesn’t like hot food.

A		City: Lhasa Temperature in July:15-17℃ Attractions: blue sky, fresh air and wonderful dances
B		City: Harbin Temperature in July: 24-30℃ Attractions: some old buildings in Russian style
C		City: Chongqing Temperature in July: 28-30℃ Attractions: tall mountains, hot food and friendly people.
D		City: Hong Kong Temperature in July: 29-30℃ Attractions: nice and cheap clothes, all kinds of tasty food and chances to find good jobs.
E		City: Guilin Temperature in July: 29-30℃ Attractions: fantastic hills, clean rivers and many other natural sights.
F		City: Sanya Temperature in July: 27-32℃ Attractions: exciting water sports, lovely beaches and great tropical fruit.