All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer. 1. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the games. Often they get very excited when their player or team wins.
2. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump into a pool or lake, whether in China, Egypt or Italy! 3. Think how many lovers to skate or ski in Japan, Norway or Canada.
Some sports or game go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. Neither one is a
hundred years old yet. 4. Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game together they often become good friends. 5. One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and to lose with grace.
A. And think of people in cold countries.
B. Sports help to train a person’s character.
C. Not a few people participate in different sports competitions themselves.
D. Many people like to watch others play games.
E. People aren’t inventing new sports or games.
F. Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere take part in them.
G. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.
Someday a stranger will read your email without your permission or scan the websites you've visited. Or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.
In fact, it's likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission? It might be a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a policeman or a criminal. Whoever it is，they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen—the 21st century equal to being caught naked(裸露的)．
Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, though it's important to reveal(透露) yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. Actually few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs (面包屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are，where you are and what you like. In some cases，a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not， increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.
The key question is: Does that matter? For many Americans, the answer apparently is “no”．
When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey found a majority of people are pessimistic about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is “slipping away, and that bothers me”．
But people say one thing and do another. Only a small part of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths(收费亭)to avoid using the EZPass system that can track(跟踪) automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquits has run a series of tests that reveal people will submit personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50centsoff coupon(优惠券)．
But privacy does matter at least sometimes. It's like health：when you have it，you don't notice it. Only when it's gone do you wish you'd done more to protect it.
1.From Paragraph 2，we can infer________.
A．criminals are easily caught on the spot with advanced technology
B．people tend to be more frank with each other in the information age
C．in the 21st century people try every means to look into others' secrets
D．people's personal information is easily accessed without their knowledge
2.What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?
A．There should be a distance even between friends.
B．There should be fewer quarrels between friends.
C．Friends should always be faithful to each other.
D．Friends should open their hearts to each other.
3.According to the passage，privacy is like health in that________.
A．its importance is rarely understood
B．it is something that can easily be lost
C．people will make every effort to keep it
D．people don't treasure it until they lose it
Travel Information
1.It is said that the love story about Xu Xian and the White Snake happened on _____.
A. Dragon Tower
B. West Lake
C. Water Cube
D. Disneyland
2.If a person in Hangzhou feels like visiting Water Cube, he should call _____to get information.
A. 010-28315589
B. 0451-82187899
C. 0571-68345576
D. 0l0-28135589
3.Disneyland, which attracts a lot of tourists from home and abroad every year, is in _____ according to the travel information.
A. Beijing
B. Harbin
C. Hong Kong
D. Hangzhou
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the travel information?
A. Water Cube is special in design.
B. The price of a ticket for West Lake is the highest.
C. In Disneyland.you can't see any cartoon characters.
D.The price of a ticket for Dragon Tower is the lowest.
I grew up in Jamaica Plain. My best friend Rose and I used to dream about raising a family of our own someday and living next door to one another.
Our dream remained alive through school and beyond. Rose was my maid of honor when I married Dick. Later, Dick was stationed in Alaska and we moved. Rose was sad to see me leave, but wished me the best of luck. We remained in touch for a few years before we lost track.
I thought of her several times over the years. All of my children now have families of their own, and Dick passed away a few years ago. Basically, a lifetime has passed. Then one day, near my 80th birthday, I received a phone call “Hi Natalie, it’s Rose,” the voice on the other end said, “ I don’t know if you remember me, but we used to be best friends in Jamaica Plain when we were kids.”
We have spent hours on the phone catching up. Even after 52 years of separation our personalities and interests are still extremely similar. We both share a passion for several hobbies that we each picked up independently several years after we lost touch with one another. It almost feels like we are picking up right where we left off.
Her husband died a few years ago as well, but she mailed me several photographs of her family that were taken over the years. It’s so crazy, just looking at the photos and listening to her description of her family reminds me of my own: a reasonably large, healthy family. Part of me feels like we led fairly similar lives.
I don’t think the similarities between our two lives are a coincidence either. I think it shows that we didn’t just call each other best friend; we truly were best friends and even now we can be best friends again. Real friends have two things in common: a compatible(相容的)personality and a strong-willed character. The compatible personality is what starts the connection between two people.
A strong-willed character at both ends is what maintains the connection. If those two ingredients are present in a friendship, the friendship is for real, It can pass the tests of time and long distance between one another and will never disappear.
1.From the passage we may know that the author .
A. lived next door to Rose in her childhood
B.was Rose’s maid of honor when she was married
C.lost touch of Rose since she moved to Alaska
D. missed her friend although they lost contact
2.After 52 years of separation, they .
A.had a lot to talk on the phone
B. sent each other photographs of their family
C.they lived the same life
D. developed different personalities and hobbies
3. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to .
A. Rose’s description
B. coincidence
C. best friend
D. the similarities between our two lives
4.The author thinks that .
A. the similarities between their lives are coincident
B. although they’re not best friends, they have much in commom.
C. they both have a compatible personality and a strong-willed character
D. only those who have similar characters can be real friends
An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough money to buy the ticket for him to go back home. As he knew that it would take him only two days to get to England, he decided that he could easily spend the time without food. So he bought a ticket and got on the ship. The man closed his ears to the sound of the lunch bell. When dinnertime came, he didn't go to dinning room, saying that he was not feeling very well.
The next morning he still didn't have breakfast and at lunchtime he again stayed in his room. But at dinnertime he was so hungry that he went to the dinning room and ate everything the waiter put in front of him. He got ready for the quarrel (争执).
"Bring me the bill," he said. "The bill, sir?" said the waiter in surprise. "There isn't any bill. On our ship meals are included (包括) in the money for the ticket," said the waiter.
1.The story happened _____.
A.in England
B. on a ship from Norway to England
C. in Norway
D. on a ship from England to Norway
2.The traveler didn't go to the dinning room first because _____.
A.he had no money
B. he didn't feel very well
C. he didn't want to eat anything
D. he didn't hear the sound of the bell
3.The traveler went to the dinning room to eat something because _____。
A. his friend had given him some money
B. the waiter had asked him to change his mind
C. he learned that there was no bill on the ship
D. he was too hungry.
4.After the traveler finished eating, _____.
A.he had a quarrel with waiter over the bill
B. he drank a lot
C. he asked the waiter to bring him the change (零钱)
D. he came to know that travelers on the ship had free meals
仔细观察下面一幅图画，根据图画的内容，写一篇词数100左右的英语短文。
情景：假定你叫李华，家住香港。你和几个朋友约定星期六在中心公园聚会。现请你写封信邀请在学校居住的Brown女士参加，并根据下图告诉她来中心公园的路线。
参考词汇：have a gathering party(聚会)
这是一篇图画说明文，根据图画，指明路线，如何到达中心公园。注意观察图画，确定出发点、行走路线、目的地，灵活使用表达路线的表达语。
Dear Mrs Brown,
We are so glad that you're coming to join us on Saturday. Here is how you can find us.
Yours,
Li Hua
