Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are in the shape of a full moon on the Mid-Autumn night. They carry people's wishes to the families they love and miss.
There are many traditional folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang'e is the most touching. Chang'e was Hou Yi's beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang'e. However, a bad man, Pang Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not at home. Chang'e refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad the he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang'e could come back.
After this, people started the traditional of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families.
1.What food do people usually enjoy on Mid-Autumn night?
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2.Are mooncakes in the shape of a full moon on that night?
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3.Which story is the most touching about Mid-Autumn Day?
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4.What happened to Chang'e after she drank all the magic medicine?
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What is bird flu? When birds, wild or domestic (家养的), catch a flu, they may pass the virus to each other. The most dangerous viruses can kill birds within hours.
People may catch the disease when handling birds or their waste. Scientists now worry that migratory wild birds might pass the disease to domestic birds. This could put more people in danger.
Since 2003, more than 120 people have caught bird flu in Southeast Asia. Half of them have died.
In the past several weeks, China has reported three outbreaks (爆发) of bird flu that have killed 3,800 chickens, ducks and geese.
What is bird flu? | It’s the flu caught by 1. and can be 2. the virus to each other and people. |
Southeast Asia | 3. people have caught bird flu. |
China | 4. outbreaks there have killed 5. domestic birds. |
Now lots of teenagers like smoking. It's a big problem. Some of them smoke, just for fun and some think smoking looks cool. Others smoke because there are many people around them that smoke.
As we all know, smoking is harmful, especially to students. Some teenagers even steal money so that they can buy cigarettes. Besides, smoking does harm to brains and it can influence studies. Finally, it is bad for health because it can cause diseases.
Therefore(因此), we should protect ourselves from smoking. First, we should learn more about the danger of smoking. Second, we should keep away from people who smoke.
1.Now some teenagers like smoking because_________.
A. smoking is good for them
B. their parents want them to do so
C. they think it is fun
2.Smoking is harmful to_________ .
A. brains B. legs C. eyes
3.The writer of the passage wants teenagers________.
A. to smoke B. not to smoke C. not to keep away from smoking
Long long ago, a very foolish thief wanted to steal the bell on his neighbor’s door, so he walked up to the door, held the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
“I must do something about the noise,” he thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the door of his neighbor’s and held the bell again. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor ran out. “Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson(教训),” the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell.“Why did he come out just then?”he wondered.
1.The thief was trying to get ___________.
A. his neighbor B. his neighbor’s doorbell C. some cotton
2.The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be __________ for him to steal the doorbell.
A. safe B. difficult C. dangerous
3.The best title of the passage in Chinese is “__________”.
A. 亡羊补牢 B. 智子疑邻 C. 掩耳盗铃
What would you do if a stranger gave you some medicine and said it would keep you thin or help you do well in exams?
This happens sometimes. The strangers want to give you drugs(毒品). A drug can change the way your mind or body works.
Liang, 16, was a good student before he tried drugs. One day, some friends told him it would be fine. After taking drugs only one time, he found it very hard to stop. Liang began to spend all his time and money on drugs. In the end, he stopped going to school and started stealing.
In China, drugs are becoming a big problem for teens. About one million people were using illegal(违法的) drugs last year, and 72% of them were young people. There were 10,000 drug users under 16.
Teenagers don’t know much about drugs, they just want to try them. Never try them, even if you are curious(好奇的).
1.According to the passage, drugs can ______.
A. help you do well in exams
B. keep you thin
C. change the way your mind or body works
2.About ______ young people under 16 use drugs in China now.
A. two thousand B. two million C. ten thousand
3.Some teenagers take drugs because ______.
A. they want to try them B. they are not good students C. they have to
4.The underlined word “it” in the fourth paragraph means ______.
A. stopping to steal B. taking drugs C. starting to steal
5.How can we keep ourselves away from drugs?
A. Don’t be nervous. B. Never try them. C. Talk to drug users.
Every day cars kill or hurt many people on roads.Sometimes the drives drive too fast or do not drive carefully enough. Some of them____traffic rules and cause accidents.
According to some researchers,it is usually the pedestrians(行人) who cause the accidents. A lot of road users are very____. They walk or run across the____in front of the cars. Some do not take the trouble to____the green lights and simply cross the roads against the red lights.
Many people think accidents often happen in____roads in large cities,but this is not always true____,Tokyo is one of the world’s largest cities and probably one of the busiest cities; However, there are____accidents to pedstrians.The reason is that the police there are very____and the pedstrians are very careful. Pedstrians never cross the roads against a red light and they____follow the traffic rulers.
Do you know alcohol(酒精) is another main cause of traffic accidents? It delays(延缓) people’s response. Those who have drunk alcohol are____in making decisions. They need a few more seconds to react. Drinking alcohol is especially dangerous for motor car drivers. It is not only drivers who may have accidents after drinking but also drunk pedestrians may put their livers in danger as well.
1.A. Make B. break C. follow
2.A. tired B. cheerful C. careless
3.A. bus B. park C. road
4.A. turn on B. wait for C. set up
5.A. busy B. wide C. clean
6.A. In fact B. By the way C. For example
7.A. very few B. so many C. only some
8.A. kind B. polite C. strict
9.A. even B. never C. always
10.A. slow B. active C. excited
