What sports do you like doing? Are you in any of your school’s teams? If yes, how did you make it?
I did not pass the boys’ basketball tryouts (预选赛) in seventh grade. Making the team was very important to me, but my name was not on the list. On the way home, I was both angry and upset. “I can’t believe I didn’t make the team, ” I said loudly. “How did Alex make the team? He can’t catch up with a tortoise (乌龟)! Why is Jimmy a better choice than me? He just stands around moving his arms!” “Adam!” my mom said, cutting me off. “Why don’t you just stop and think? Maybe you need a little more practice.”
Suddenly (突然的), I knew she was right. It was nobody’s fault (错误) but my own. I decided to work hard for the team over the next year. I practiced hard every day and had lessons every week. When summer came, I joined lots of basketball camps. Through camp after camp, my abilities grew, and I knew I was ready for tryouts in the fall.
The day finally came. As everyone crowded around the lists, I played it cool and waited for my chance to read the names. I slowly looked down the list. Not only did I make it on the list, but my name was the very first!
1．From paragraph 2 we can know that ________.| A．The writer didn’t want to join the basketball team. |
| B．The writer could play basketball very well. |
| C．Jimmy and Alex are in the basketball team. |
| D．Jimmy and Alex are not good at playing basketball. |
| A．切成了两半 | B．用力打了我 | C．打断我的话 | D．很生我的气 |
| A．a-c-e-b-d-f | B．a-e-c-b-d-f | C．a-e-b-d-f-c | D．a-e-c-b-f-d |
| A．Join the Team | B．Never Stop Trying | C．Talent is Important | D．Trust Your Friends |
Tom was a shopkeeper. He had a small corner shop. It was open from seven in the morning until eleven at night and sold many different things. Tom worked hard in his shop but he had a good business and he was happy.
Then a supermarket opened across the street. The supermarket was ten times the size of Tom’s shop.
The manager of the supermarket wanted to take people away from Tom. He found out what Tom’s prices were and then made his lower than Tom’s.
People quickly stopped buying things from Tom’s shop. They bought everything from the supermarket instead. Soon Tom’s business was very bad and he was angry.
“It’s not fair,” Tom thought, “I must do something to teach that supermarket manager lesson.”
The price of steak in the supermarket was $5.00 a pound. Tom put a sign in his window, Steak-$ 4.50 a pound.
The next day the price of steak in the supermarket was S 4.25 a pound, Tom changed the sign in his window. “Steak-$4.00 a pound.”
An hour later, the sign in the supermarket said, “Steak-$ 3.75 a pound.” Ten minutes later the sign in Tom’s window said, “Steak-$ 3.50 a pound.” Five minutes later the sign in the supermarket said, “Steak-$2.50 a pound.” Twenty seconds later the sign in Tom s window said, “Steak-$1.00 a pound.”
The manager of the supermarket ran across the road into Tom’s shop. “This price cutting must stop,” he said, “Steak is costing me $4. 00 a pound. I’m selling it at $2. 50 a pound. I’m losing money every minute!”
“I’ll stop cutting all my prices,” Tom said, “if you stop cutting all yours”.
The supermarket manager agreed, and the two men shook hands.
Tom smiled. He had not lost any money on the steak. He didn’t sell steak at all.
1．Tom worked hard but he was happy because ________.| A．he liked hard work | B．he wanted to make a lot of money |
| C．he had a good business | D．his prices were high |
| A．He told them bad things about Tom. |
| B．His prices were lower than Tom’s. |
| C．His shop was bigger than Tom s. |
| D．His shop sold more things than Tom’s. |
| A．Making your prices the same as others’. |
| B．Making your prices lower than others’. |
| C．Making your prices higher than others’. |
| D．Losing money every minute. |
| A．125 | B．150 | C．100 | D．175 |
Journey to the West, or Xi You Ji, is a very famous Chinese TV series. It’s about the great trip of Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing. The series is based on a book of the same name written by Wu Cheng’en in the Ming Dynasty.
The TV series was the first of its kind in China. The production team (制作团队) spent about six years, from 1982 to 1988, making it. The production team met many problems. At that time, they only had very simple tools (工具). However, they tried their best to make the TV series well. For example, they spent two months visiting over 60 places across China to find the best places for different stories. They needed the wire (威亚) to help characters “fly”, but no one knew how to do it. They flew to Hong Kong, China to learn the skill.
Through the production team’s hard work, the TV series finally aired in China. It quickly became very popular and about nine out of ten people watched it. It was repeated more than 3,000 times. Now, it’s still popular with Chinese people. When people talk about the summer vacation, lots of them think of the TV series. People in other countries also love it.
1．When did the production team start to make the TV play?| A．In 1982. | B．In 1984. | C．In 1986. | D．In 1988. |
| A．By telling a story. | B．By asking a question. | C．By showing his ideas. | D．By giving some examples. |
| A．pointed out | B．went out | C．came out | D．found out |
| A．Making the TV series cost a lot of money. | B．It’s popular all over the world. |
| C．It’s for young kids to spend their free time. | D．It’s the best TV series during the summer vacation. |
Each different part of China has its own
Chinese paper cutting, or jianzhi is a kind of folk art. It’s a way to express people’s hope and feelings. It has a
Chinese clay art is well-known and popular all over the country. Now many kids learn to make it in
| A．common | B．special | C．difficult |
| A．history | B．time | C．event |
| A．of | B．with | C．to |
| A．beautiful | B．lively | C．common |
| A．as | B．in | C．on |
| A．home | B．school | C．computer |
| A．movies | B．actors | C．characters |
| A．Before | B．After | C．Until |
| A．achieve | B．finish | C．complete |
| A．pieces of | B．a piece of | C．pieces |
Writing a good story is not an easy task. What’s the secret? Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in literature (文学), believes his success comes from a large number of reading.
Mo was born into a farming family in a village in Shandong Province. He grew up listening to folk stories about gods, spirits and foxes. Those stories later became the inspiration (灵感) for Mo’s writing.
Mo left school at the age of 12 and started to work in the fields.
Although he was tired after his daily hard work, Mo was always hungry for books. However, there were few in the village. He read his older brother’s textbooks and even dictionaries. He helped others with farm work in exchange (交换) for books.
“When I finished reading all the books around, I thought I was the most knowledgeable man in the world,” he told Xinhua.
After Mo left his hometown and joined the army in 1976, he began to read widely, including works by Lu Xun and many other famous writers. He studied from these writers but did not copy them. Instead, he developed his own style. As the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, Mo told a group of reporters in his hometown shortly after he won the award. “I grew up in an environment filled with folk culture. It enters my novels whenever I pick up a pen. This has influenced, even decided, my style.”
1．Mo Yan comes fromThere are a lot of Chinese cultures about fish. In Chinese, “fish” sounds like “surplus” (余， 盈余).
Crucian carp
The first kind of fish is crucian carp. It sounds like the Chinese word “吉”.
Chinese carp
The second kind of fish is Chinese carp. It sounds like the Chinese word “礼”.
Catfish
| A．Do you know what kind of fish Chinese people like to eat for the New Year? |
| B．This Chinese word means “good luck”. |
| C．Chinese people always like to have a surplus at the end of the year. |
| D．The third kind of fish is catfish. |
| E．They draw pictures about fish. |
| F．It means gifts or presents. |
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