John Brown，an office worker, Lives in Washington, and he inherited(继承)$1,000,000 when he was 23. He didn't feel happy at all. His college friends were looking for their first jobs，but he didn't have to. John decided to keep living a simple life like everyone else. He didn't tell any of his friends and gave$100，000 of his money to a charity that helped poor children to live better lives. Today he is 36. He still wears cheap shoes and clothes and owns a small car only，but he is much happier.
Up to now John has helped 15 children from poor countries all over the world，$200 a month for each. The child does not receive the money in cash(现金). The money pays for the child's school expenses，food，medical care and clothing. John receives a report each year on the child's progress. They can write to each other，but usually the children do not speak English.
When John first heard about these children，he wanted to help them.“It was not anything special,”he said，“Until I had the chance to go to these countries and meet the children I was helping，I did not know anything about the type of life they had.”
Once John went to meet a little girl in Africa. He said that meeting was very exciting.
“When I met her，I felt very happy，”he said，“I saw that the money was used for a very good plan . It brought me closer to the child in a way that giving money alone cannot. ”“I want to do everything I can. I will go on helping those children in need.”he added.
1.How do you know that John Brown lives a simple life though he is a millionaire?(1分)
2.Why did John say that the meeting with the lithe girl was very exciting?(2分)
3.If you have a lot of money，would you like to donate some of it to help the poor? Why or why not?(3分)
1.It'll take three hours if everything goes ______(顺利).
2.The listeners lost themselves in this ______(歌手)sweet voice.
3.In 1998，she graduated from a university and took up ______(写作)poems as a career.
4.He felt too ______(懒惰)to get out of the bed.
5.With the development of science and technology，people's living ______(条件)are improved.
6.If you get hungry，there's some cold chicken in the ______(冰箱).
7.Apple is to fruit as piano is to______.
8.一Sadly，wars have made many people ______.
一what a pity! We must provide some special places for them to live.
9.一Tom often goes to school without breakfast.
一Oh，he must change the ______. It's bad for his health.
10.一People think highly of Tan Dun's music.
一Yes，he has _____ in mixing different kinds of music to make a new type of music-music without boundaries.
Why think of road safety? It is because of the accidents that happen every day on the road. These accidents mean losing life or wealth and more than traffic jams. So if people aren't educated on the importance of road safety，the situation can't be avoided.
Accidents have many causes .The simplest is people slipping down on the road caused by a banana skin .Without meaning any harm，a person may throw away the banana skin on the road. When a person steps on，he or she will slip down ending in broken bones and sometimes even more dangerous. So people must take care and throw them in a bin. In some countries，the offenders are路seriously punished. The second cause is careless crossing in busy road instead of crossing along zebra crossings. One should keep to the sidewalk of the road while walking and the vehicles(车辆) must keep to their lanes(车道) in busy streets.
Also, there are many causes for the accidents about vehicles. One is trying to overtake. Another is not noticing the signals. “Stop, look and go” is the basic rule, it will save vehicles from accidents. Riding two or three side by side is always dangerous. Very often the cause of accidents is the failure of the brake system which means the owner of the vehicle does not have the machine checked regularly.
Road safety is a matter of education in which schools can share responsibility. Through class meetings, children can be taught the importance of following the rules of the road. As soon as the bell goes, children rush out and accidents do happen. Therefore, teachers must feel it their duty to control the traffic near the school. The police can help schools at rush hours.
To make people aware of road safety, media(媒体) can play a useful role. The newspaper, the wall poster and the cinema and now the TV can deliver information. There may be talks over the radio by the police officials or advertisements about being careful on roads before films or TV programs.
1.What does“offenders” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. people who step on banana skins
B. people who throw banana skins on the road
C. people who walk on zebra crossings
D. people who keep their lanes while driving
2.How many causes for the accidents about vehicles are mentioned in Paragraph 3?
A. two B. three C. four D. five
3.According to the article, schools should take actions to help kids on roads. Which one of the following statement is not mentioned?
A. schools invite the police to give talks
B. schools educate students in class
C. schools mange the traffic near school
D. schools get help from the police during rush hours
Clothing is a language. It tells us about individual people: their personality, their aye, their place in society and so on. If we want to know more about society，we can look at traditional clothing.
The continent of Africa has a long history and a rich culture，and this is shown in traditional dress . You often find three colours一red，gold and green in the clothing. The first colour stands for the blood of millions of people who suffered as slaves(奴隶); the second is for the rich resources of the African earth; and the third represents the grasslands of home.
The patterns(图案) on the clothing also have a meaning. A common pattern is in the form of a cross “×”, which stands for “unity”. Another pattern is a rectangular box, which represents “strength”.
Because clothing has a strong social meaning, people are very careful in choosing what to wear. It wouldn't be good to wear the wrong clothing, or to wear clothes in the wrong way. For instance, in Ghana, a woman should wear her waistband differently according to the importance of the social event.
Traditional dress also tells us about everyday life. African designs are famous for loose(宽松的) clothing. The climate, with the hot sun and wide temperature changes, requires that the clothes are comfortable for daily life.
Although many people wear western clothes, particularly in the big cities in Africa, traditional dress is very highly valued. This is because it has deep cultural meanings.
1.According to the passage，red .
A. represents the setting sun
B. stands for African unity
C. is chosen because it is a bight colour
D. is a reminder(暗示)of the sad history in Africa
2.According to the passage，which sentence is NOT RIGHT?
A. The rectangular box in the pattern represents“strength”.
B. Africa has a long history and a rich culture.
C. African dress has deep cultural meanings.
D. Afrian people seldom wear loose clothing because of the climate.
3.The passage is mainly about in Africa.
A. the history of clothes
B. modern fashion styles
C. the meanings of traditional dress
D. the materials used in traditional dress
In 1971，a plane crashed in the Amazon jungle in Peru. Only one person survived. She was a 17- year-old German girl called Juliane Koepke. When the plane crashed，Juliane fell through the trees and landed on the ground. She did not wake up for a day. When she did，she had a terrible headache and a bad cut on her arm，but she could walk. She stood up and started to look for help，Soon Juliane realized that she was by herself in the jungle. She needed to find her way to a town or village, but how could she do that? She knew that the aeroplane had crashed in the middle of the largest jungle in the world.
Luckily，Juliane knew something about the jungle. Her parents were scientists. They were studying the jungle in Peru，and that is where Juliane grew up. She knew that the most important thing was to find fresh water. When Juliane found a stream，she followed it in the direction that the water was moving. She knew that the stream would become a river，and there were often villages near a river. It wasn't an easy journey for her. She walked for days. She often had to walk or swim through dangerous water full of crocodiles. When the animals attacked her，she fought them with stick.
Rescue planes were looking for people who were still alive after the accident，but after ten days，they decided to give up. They knew that they would never find anybody. Two days later，Juliane Koepke waked out of the jungle，hungry and very tired，but alive.
1.Juliane knew something about the jungle because she .
A. was a very clever German girl
B. read a lot about the jungle from books
C. grew up in Peru where her parents studied the jungle
D. experienced a plane crash before
2.Juliane walked along the stream because .
A. rescue planes were looking for people near the river
B. she knew there were probably villages along the river ahead
C. she wanted to swim through dangerous water full of crocodiles
D. she loved to fight with the crocodiles in the river with a stick
3.The best title for this passage is “ .”
A. A Clever and Brave Girl B. The Largest Jungle in the World
C. A German Girl in Peru D. The Most Important Thing in the Jungle
Our warming planet is expected to face serious water crisis(危机)in the coming decades-which
means each nation's natural resource(资源)will be more important than ever.
1.According to the numbers，what's the world average(平均)of freshwater resource per person?
A. 244，973 cubic kilometers B. 241 cubic kilometers
C. 3，642 cubic kilometers D. 6，122 cubic kilometers
2.Which country or region(地区)has the most freshwater resource per year?
A. Brazil B. Guyana C. Iceland D. China
3.Which country or region appears twice on the top 5 lists?
A. Bhutan B. Seychelles C. Canada D. Suriname
