Five teenagers from Sarasota, Florida, are making music from garbage. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from old things. The guitars are boxes. The horn (喇叭) is made from pipes . The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack, who was in eighth grade at the time, decided to make a homemade guitar. After some hard work, he ended up building it from a cereal box, a big ruler and some little sticks. After Jack showed his guitar to his friend Ollie, Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the rubbish box,” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually recycle old things.”
Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans. Evan, 14, plays the guitar; Harrison, 15, plays the horns and the violin; and Austin, 16, plays the keyboard. They make up the band The Garbage-Men and play at local parties around. They wand to help people get interested in recycling old things. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really easy for people to understand,” Jack says. Their instruments may be garbage, but their message isn’t. 
1.What are the Garbage-Men band’s instruments made from?
A. Big boxes.
B. Little sticks.
C. Old things.
2.Which of the followings is NOT true?
A. Evan is the youngest in his band.
B. Jack came out of the idea to make a band first.
C. There are five members in the Garbage-Men band.
3.Ollie’s drums are made of .
A. B. C.
4.What do the five teenagers suggest people do?
A. Making instruments.
B. Listen to music.
C. Reuse garbage.
5.The best title of the passage is .
A. Five music Fans
B. Reduce, Reuse, Replay
C. A Strange Band
Molly Daniels opened the door so hard that the door nearly broke it. Then she looked through the window at her neighbor across the yard. “ She is in my garden again. Those are my strawberries, not hers. Maybe I should call the police.”
Her friend, Doris, was sitting at the table with a cup of coffee in her hands. “You want to call the police because she picks your strawberries?” she asked.
“Of course,” Molly answered angrily. “What would you do if your neighbor walked into your yard without your permission and picked your strawberries?”
“I would say, better her than the bees.”
“The bees don’t take my strawberries.”
“But the birds do,” Doris continued. “That old lady only picks a few strawberries every year, and the only ones she picks are those you leave to the birds. Why don’t you pick some of your good strawberries and give them to her?”
“Are you crazy? What are you thinking?’
“Don’t you remember what happened when you were in hospital last year? She went to see you and gave you a pot full of chicken soup. When you give her the strawberries you can tell her that you still remember that.”
Molly was shocked. She had almost forgotten that little kindness because she was too angry. Then she picked a basket of good strawberries and went out. Through the window, Doris could see that the anger on Molly’s face changed into a bright smile.
1.Molly opened the door very hard because _____
A. she was very angry
B. she was very happy
C. Doris wasn’t friendly
2.Who was in hospital last year?
A. Doris B. Molly C. Molly’s neighbor
3.The underline word “shocked” in the passage means “_____”.
A. angry B. surprised C. upset
4.Which sentence is similar to the sentence “I would say, better her than the bees.”?
A. It’s better to let the neighbor pick the strawberries than to give them to the bees.
B. The bees are better than the neighbor.
C. The bees like strawberries more than the neighbor does.
5.From the last paragraph, we can infer(推断)what Molly did at last with a basket of good strawberries.
A. She called the police to drive the neighbor away.
B. She happily gave a basket of good strawberries to the neighbor.
C. She ate up the strawberries herself.
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was puzzled, and I thought, “Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about.” So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?”
“Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, “You don’t say!”
I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”
The foreigner said, “I don’t say that. Why do you think so?”
“Didn’t you say ‘you don’t say!’?” I asked again.
Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, “’You don’t say!’ means ‘Really?’ Perhaps you know little about English idioms.”
Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.
1. The writer began to talk about the Great Wall because ______.
A. the Englishman told him to do so
B. he tried to find a new and right topic
C. he couldn’t talk about his study any more
2.When the writer asked, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”,
the Englishman felt ______.
A. angryB. interested C. surprised
3.Here “You don’t say!” means ______.
A. “Stop talking!”
B. “really?”
C. “Look out.”
4.The story may happen in ______.
A. ChinaB. EnglandC. Australia
5.This is a story about ______.
A. nice trips
B. good manners
C. English idioms
It was a cold afternoon. Ginny and I were walking home after work when suddenly a young man asked us, "Do you want a hug（拥抱）?”He carried a sign in his hand which read "Free Hugo". I looked and noticed there were other young people with him. They all lifted their handmade signs high. The message was the same on all of them - Free Hugs!
"Sure!" Ginny smiled and hugged him with all the she had in her heart,
"WOW!" he shouted. "That is the best hug I've had all day!"
Then the young man looked at me and asked, 'How about a hug?"
"You got it!" I walked into his arms. We held a hug briefly（简短地）and parted at once.
Ginny and I stepped back and watched the "free huggers" hug those who them. All of the young people offered hugs to them.
Not all the people accepted their offers, but the fact was that those who opened their arms in return, walked away with on their faces.
I felt warmth in my heart. So warm that it seemed as if it were not a cold winter day. At that time, Ginny and I were going through times. We had little money and were heavily in debt(负债). We were stressed and , but that afternoon, for a short moment, we ___ all our problems because of a hug with love.
It took a simple hug to make everyone smile and make everything better.
1. A. out B. down C. round
2.A. strength B. feelings C. love
3.A. open B. warm C. strong
4.A. accepted B. attracted C. admired
5.A. kindness B. shyness C. smiles
6.A. busy B. lonely C. difficult
7.A. bored B. worried C. surprised
8.A. forgot B. solved C. met
– Can you tell me how to use a micro blog on my phone?
– ___________. But I have to finish my work first.
A. No problem
B. No way
C. Don’t mention it
Do you want to know ___________ in the future? A special mirror invented by the French scientists can help you.
A. what you will look like
B. what will you look like
C. how you will look like
