Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. "I got a red flower today. Could you please sign签字 this note?" he said to Mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.
Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is "OK", but often he gets "You can do better than this." Mum knows what it means. She tells me "You can do better than thi
s" means "Extremely bad" in China.
In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is "Please be nicer tomorrow". Many parents are satisfied with对---满意 a B-grade for each subject.
But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spent more time on homework than I did when I was a 6th grader in the USA! Yet his parents and teachers didn't think he worked hard enough.
Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.
1.Why did Ted come home with .a letter last Friday ?
A. Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother
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B. Because he did something wrong.
C. Because the teacher was happy with his progress.
D. Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.
2.If a student in the USA gets "OK" in his school work, it means .
A. he gets top scores
B. he gets medium scores
C. he gets extremely bad scores
D. he gets the worst scores
3.American parents will be when their children get a B-grade in their school.
A. excited B. sad C. angry D. happy
4.The underlined words "high expectations" in this passage means .
A. 很高的待遇 B. 很多的自由 C. 很高的期望 D. 很多的关爱
5.The writer mainly wants to tell us .
A. the differences between Chinese education and American education
B. Chinese students are better than American students
C. American parents are not strict enough with their children
D. what the best way to educate children is
Many students have already had clear ideas about what jobs they would like to have in the future. We believe boys’ choices are different from girls’. To find out how different their choices are, we made a survey in Green High School. The following diagram shows the results of the survey.
1.About 45% of the girls would like to be ________ in the future.
A. bank clerks B. reporters C. scientists D. teachers
2.About ________ of the boys want to be teachers as well.
A. 5% B. 15% C. 28% D. 38%
3.Which job do the girls like least?
A. Bank clerks B. Reporters C. Managers D. Scientists
4.What does the diagram show us?
A. Boys’ abilities of jobs are the same as girls’.
B. Boys’ abilities of jobs are different from girls’.
C. Boys’ choices of jobs are the same as girls’.
D. Boys’ choices of jobs are different from girls’.
5.Which of the following statements is RIGHT?
A. More girls would like to be reporters than boys.
B. More boys would like to be bank clerks than girls.
C. Boys would like to be reporters most.
D. Girls would like to be managers most.
Do you want to be successful in everything you do? If so, then _？ Here is an example.
There was a farmer who _ corn (玉米) all his life. Each year he took his corn to the market. Then each time his corn was chosen as the _ and won the first prize.
One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something surprising about how he grew it.The farmer _ seed (做种子的) corn to his neighbors.
“How can you share your best seed corn with your neighbors？” the reporter asked.“You know they are taking part in the _ with you each year.”
“Why, sir,” said the farmer, “didn't you know？The wind picks up pollen (花粉) from the corn and moves it quickly from field to field. If my neighbors grow __ corn, crosspollination (异花传粉) will affect the quality of my corn. So if I want to grow good corn, I must _ _ my neighbors to grow good corn.”
The farmer knows much about the connection of life. His corn cannot improve _ _ his neighbor's corn improves.
As a great man says, “We make a living by what we __ _, but we make a life by what we give.” We can't live without food, clothes, and many other things. However, a meaningful life is not decided by how much we can get, but by how much we can give others. Giving, instead of taking, makes us different from other animals. So those who choose to live well must help others to live well and those who choose to be happy must help others to find _ _ in their life.
1.A. why B. how C. when D. where
2.A. grew B. bought C. sold D. collected
3.A. cheapest B. prettiest C. best D. shortest
4.A. lent B. showed C. offered D. provided
5.A. game B. fight C. experiment D. competition
6.A. tasty B. bad C. tall D. unusual
7.A. teach B. remind C .help D. require
8.A. unless B. though C. because D. when
9.A. do B. own C. get 
D. grow
10.A. hope B. success C. friendship D. happiness
A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars共车. It’s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don’t need to own it. Now the idea of “car sharing” has become in many countries.
As we know, most cars are parked in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars as long as one or two a day on average. When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking and things. That coats too much money. To save money, some people come up with the idea of “car sharing”. If we share a car, we’ll only when we use it.
Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40.000 people have joined it. Japan is also trying to make popular around the country.
1.A popular B. interesting C. funny
2.A. hour B. hours C. minutes
3.A. other B. others C. another
4.A. spend B. cost 
C. pay
5.A. time saving B. money saving C. car sharing
—Could you tell me _____ the Sports Center?
—The day after tomorrow, I think.
A. when will you visit B. when you will visit
C. when would you visit D. when you would visit
Lily Sam likes popular songs, so they went to Zhou Jielun’s concert together last night.
A.Both, and B.Either, or C. Not only, but also D.Neither, nor
