you think you have so much homework to do every day but you do not have enough time. All
the holidays are far away, so you may feel very upset. However, you needn"t be upset．There
are some ways for you to save time and cheer up.
1. Do less. Please remember: if you want to do everything in one day, you can do nothing
well. So you"d better make a list of things you need to do first, and then decide which things are
the most important, and then put all your energy and time into them.
2. Don"t meet other people too often. Not all meetings will waste your time, but many will.
You should say no to your friends sometimes when they invite you to do outdoor activities. If you
always say yes to those invitations, it may mean that you are giving up your own time and that you
can"t do the things you need to do.
3. Don"t make long conversations. You may have one or two close friends in your school
and they may be good at chatting. If you don"t want to waste time, you"d better try not to have a
long conversation with them. You should learn how to spend your time.
B. the most difficult things
C. as many things as we can
D. something interesting
B. you needn"t make a list
C. do outdoor activities with your friends
D. you"d better have a short conversation with your close friends
B. Three
C. Four
D. One
If you open today"s newspaper, what do you see? Ads! Look through a magazine. More ads! Turn on
the TV. Still more ads! Everywhere you look, someone has something to sell.
Here are some ways ads get us to buy. Some ads use famous people. Stars are paid to sell a product.
Think about it. Do they really know about medicine? Do they know about soft drinks? There people may
be famous, but they may not know about what they are selling.
Some ads make you think you"re getting the word of an expert(专家). They say, "Doctor said." A man
in a white coat comes on TV. He looks nice. "I use Bright and White," he says. This man looks like a doctor.
But he is an actor. He has been paid to sell this product.
Does soap have anything to do with a pretty child? But ads may show their product with something nice,
such as the sun, the flowers and so on. Such an ad is about feelings rather than facts. Ads are full of strong
words. Words like "new" and "improved" have strong influence. They can help a product sell. The soap may
be called "Spring Rain". A car may be called "Tiger". Strong words work on our feelings.
Some ads make promises(承诺). But can they keep them? No. Some ads use our fear of being too late.
"Buy now!" they say. "Selling ends soon." Check to see if this is true. Don"t hurry. Take time to think. All ads
hope we will buy something, do something, or think in a certain way. Know what ads are doing. Ask questions
to yourself. Don"t let their words and pictures fool you.
B. in magazine
C. in newspaper
D. all the above
B. they are famous
C. they are all experts
D. they all like white coats
B. a kind of car
C. a kind of medicine
D. a kind of flower
B. always make us strong
C. sometimes fool us
D. keeping promise
kiss. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word "mouth". __2__ some of
them are not so nice.
For example, if you say something __3__ about a person, the person might protest(抗议)and
say, "Do not bad mouth me." Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that
they later regret(后悔)because it hurts that person"s feelings. Or they __4__ the person something
they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say, "I really put my foot in my mouth this time."
That is to say, "I feel sad __5__ saying the wrong thing."
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the __6__ thing that his friend was going to say.
When this happens, the friend might say, "You took the word right from my __7__ !" Sometimes
a person has a bad or unpleasant __8__ with another person. He might say that experience "left a
bad taste in my mouth." __9__ one person has had a very frightening experience, like being chased
by an angry dog, he might say, "I had my heart in my mouth."
When we say someone "was born with a silver spoon(银勺)in his mouth", we mean the person
was born into a rich __10_.
1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____
6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10. _____
Middle School Attached to Shangdong University in Jinan.
The students there hiked about 30km from school to a local mountain and back. The school has held
hiking 2 since 2001, in order to 3 the students" bodies and minds, according to Zhao Yong, the
headmaster.
The trip 4 about nine and a half hours, and more than 700 Junior 2 students took part in the hike.
The trip started at 7:30am and ended at 4:30pm on April 1.
"I felt a strong team spirit during this 5 experience," said Li Yaoyu, 14, one of the flag bearers(旗手) of the hike. "When we fell behind others, strong students supported weak ones so that we could 6 the
trip. Some of them helped me 7 the flag. I wouldn"t have been 8 to finish the trip without their help."
On the way back to school, Shao Mingyang, an eighth grade student, couldn"t go on with the trip
because he was a little 9 . "We suggested that he take the school 10 or give up the trip, but he 11
and insisted(坚持) on walking by himself," said Wang Daoyuan, Shao"s teacher.
Shao came back to school at 5:05pm. He was the last to finish the hike. His classmates waited for him at the school gate and 12 for him. "I felt 13 for my students, especially Shao Mingyang. I"m happy to
see them learn the 14 of perseverance(坚持不懈), which will be very 15 in their future lives," said
Wang.
| ( )1. A. what ( )2. A. lessons ( )3. A. check ( )4. A. cost ( )5. A. special ( )6. A. stop ( )7. A. protect ( )8. A. glad ( )9. A. fat ( )10.A. flag ( )11.A. complained ( )12.A. looked ( )13.A. sorry ( )14.A. lesson ( )15.A. colorful | B. how B. examinations B. build B. spent B. normal B. continue B. fetch B. ready B. nervous B. uniform B. refused B. welcome B. thankful B. skill B. important | C. when C. activities C. mix C. began C. tiring C. enjoy C. carry C. safe C. strong C. dinner C. agreed C. cheered C. proud C. way C. educational | D. why D. games D. train D. lasted D. healthy D. test D. guard D. able D. careless D. bus D. wondered D. served D. hopeful D. meaning D. modern |
| 阅读理解 | |||
As I was finishing seventh grade, my school decided to make some changes because of financial | |||
| 1. What problem did the writer have in the new classes? | |||
| A. He couldn"t do what he used to do. B. His classmates had no interests. C. His classmates didn"t want to talk to him. D. He had no close friends in the class. | |||
| 2. What does the word envy mean in this passage? | |||
| A. Hope to join other groups. B. Wish to be in other people"s situation. C. Expect other people to come to him. D. Want to share other people"s interests. | |||
| 3. What can we know about the writer? | |||
| A. He was an outgoing happy boy. B. He can"t get on well wit  h his classmates.C. He was good at making friends. D. He liked to take part in school activities. | |||
| 4. From the reading, we can infer that ________. | |||
| A. there were fewer classes in the school B. some students were asked to go to other school C. students spent more moneyon new classes D. the writer"s friends didn"t like him any more | |||
| 5. The writer wants to tell us that ________. | |||
| A. it"s difficult to make new friends B. the school needs much money to run C. being active is good for making friends D. it"s not good to envy your close friends | |||
| 阅读理解 | |||
| Thirteen-year-old Lola Walters has taken America by storm! She is nearly blind, but wowed the crowds at the American Gymnastics Academy Long Beach Open last month. Lola suffers from a condition causing her to see double. She cannot see anything until she is just five feet away. However, she competed with other young gymnasts with perfect vision. The judges knew nothing of her condition, but they were still amazed by her perfect gymnastics skills. "The floor isn"t any different for me," Lola says. "But the beam(平衡木) is only four inches wide, so it"s hard enough for anyone to walk on, let alone jump on. So when I start to see two beams instead of just the one, I need to steady(稳固) myself on my feet and really focus." There is a saying that goes, "One minute on th  e stage is worth ten years off the stage." Even for normal people, you have to work very hard to achieve success, to say nothing of a blind girl like Lola. Can you imagine how  much pain she endured(忍受) when she was practicing? It"s common for her to fall down from the beam and her accidents are more serious than other gymnasts. But that does not stop her from practicing gymnastics. Now gymnastics has become Lola"s passion and she plans to be a gymnastics coach when she"s older. | |||
| 1. Lola is suffering from ________. | |||
| A. seeing double B. being a coach C. jumping on beam D. more common accidents | |||
| 2. It"s clear that ________. | |||
| A. Lola was hit by a storm in the US B. Lola often falls off the beam when practicing C. Lola is a beautiful blind girl D. Lola has become a coach | |||
| 3. The judges were amazed by Lola"s skills because ________. | |||
| A. they knew she couldn"t see well B. she performed perfectly C. she was a young coach D. they had never seen that before | |||
| 4. We can learn from the reading that ________. | |||
| A. blindness is good for gymnastics B. the judges prefer hard-working to perfect skills C. Lola has no trouble to perform on the floor D. normal people can achieve success easily | |||
| 5. The best title for the reading is ________. | |||
| A. Fair Judges B. Careful Gymnast C. Nothing Impossible D. Strange Illness |
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have many friends at first. They had made new friends in their