Sheep always follow each other and never real...

Sheep always follow each other and never really think about where they are going. Perhaps fashion makes us iinto “sheep”. Maybe we should find our own way and not follow the crowd. Everyone wants to wear top brand clothing. However, we should remember that clothes designers(设计师) study what ordinary people wear on the street. Then they make clothes like ordinary people’s for everyone. Therefore, fashion really starts with individual(个人的) finding a new look. Then a company uses that look and then it becomes fashionable! That doesn’t mean you will. That is to say, a model might look very nice in a shirt but that doesn’t mean you will.

The same goes for mobile phones. Young people are always asking me when to change my mobile phones. Mobile phone companies are always putting new functions(功能) on their phones but do we really need all these extra functions? I use my phone to call people and to send messages to my friends. I don’t need a camera, Internet surfing or a calendar（日历） on my phone. Again, if you buy the latest phone, it will only be the latest phone for a month or so. Then something new will come out and you’ll be unfashionable again. You can’t keep up with fashion all the time, so you don’t need to follow the fashion.

1.The underlined word “sheep” means”________.”

A. people who always follow the fashion

B. a kind of animal which is white

C. honest people who want to be fashionable

D. black sheep which break laws

2.Clothes designers study what you wear on the street because______________.

A. they want to buy the clothes you wear

B. they like your clothes

C. they want to design fashion clothes

D. your clothes are ugly

3.If you have a model’s clothes on, you________

A. are sure to be beautiful　 B. may not look beautiful

C. will be smarter　　　　　　　 D. will become a model

4.The passage is written mainly to _________.

A. explain what sheep are

B. tell us to buy new mobile phones

C. tell students not to care about the clothes

D. tell us not to be “sheep”

5.What can we infer(推断) from the article?

A. Sheep which are out of date have been killed.

B. The writer is a person who always follows the fashion.

C. Fashion changes so quickly that we can hardly keep up with it.

D. Fashion only exists among those fashion models.

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Our monitor always helps other students with their lessons and he never ______ any bad words about others.

A. tells　　　　　 B. talks　　　　　 C. says　　 D. speaks

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After class we always have a ______ time _____ with each other.

A. lovely, chatting    B. really, to chat

C. easily, chatting    D. happily, to chat

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When we get together, we always have a great time ____ to each other. We usually talk about something interesting.

A. saying　　 B. telling　　 C. talking　　 D. laughing

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Mark never thinks about other people. He only thinks about _______.

A.he B.him C.himself D.his

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His parents always argue________each other________a small question．

A．with；with

B．about；about

C．with；about

D．about；with

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The cultures of the east and the west are really different from each other. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.

The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are started by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River while the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture gradually went overseas to Japan, mixed into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same system.

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the culture of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also crossed waters. When the colonists（殖民者）of England settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't differ from the European one a lot.

At the same time, the difference of the language system adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic（象形的）language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I'm using to write this paper.

Other factors（因素）like human race difference counts as well. But what's, more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.

1.Are eastern culture and western culture the same system or different ones on the whole?

________________________________________________________

2.How did the Chinese culture and Indian culture start?

________________________________________________________

3.Why doesn't the American culture differ from the European one a lot?

________________________________________________________

4.How many factors of culture differences are mentioned?

_______________________________________________________

5.What is the passage mainly about?

_______________________________________________________

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During all this time, I never stopped thinking about escape(逃跑).When I travelled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, "Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day."

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe(独木舟).Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn't I think carefully before I began to work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn't move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn't move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

In my sixth year on the island, I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

I kept food and tools at both of my houses, and also wild goats (山羊).There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learned to take food from me, and soon I had goats' milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn(玉米)fields. And so, many years went by.

1.Where might the man in the story come from?

A. America. B. China. C. England. D. Australia.

2.Why was the man unhappy for a long time?

A. He was alone on the island.

B. He couldn't make a boat by himself.

C. The canoe he made was too heavy to move.

D. The canoe was too small for a long journey.

3.This story is mainly about how the man 　　　 .

A. kept goats in the fields

B. escaped from the island

C. built houses by himself

D. kept himself alive on the island

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During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island (岛屿), I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole (洞) in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive.  A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

I kept food and tools (工具) at both my houses, and also wild goats (山羊). There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn (玉米) fields. And so many years went by.

1. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A. escape in it                B. get to the other side of the island

C. use it for food               D. go around the island

2. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.

A. keeping goats for milk        B. making clothes from animal skins

C. working in the cornfields      D. going fishing in the sea

3.Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A. Because it was too small for a long journey.

B. Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C. Because there was something wrong with it.

D. Because the writer was busy building a second house.

4.From the story, we can learn that _____________.

A. the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island

B. the writer had nothing to do on the wild island

C. the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed

D. the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom

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Jack’s parents are puzzled(困惑的). Every morning their two boys are nice to each other and they never argue(争吵).

“What’s going on?” asks their mother. “What are you two doing?”

“Nothing, mum” they say, and smile. She doesn't believe them. But what can she do?

One morning, the doorbell rings. It’s Holly. They open the door and go outside. Then they all wait. Falco walks into the sunlight. Jack wants Falco to fly again, but he doesn’t want him to go. Beating his wings, Falco flies up into the air. Nemo watches, too. But he doesn’t jump down.

Facol, the hawk, flies up into the big blue sky. He flies around for a while. Then suddenly he makes that familiar(熟悉的)loud strange cry and flies away over the house.

“It’s a good thing, Jack” says Jim.

“Falco can thank you for his new life,” says Holly.

Jack agrees with them. But he can’t say anything. He stands and looks up at the empty blue sky. Jack is soon free to go out and see his friends again. They sit in the park. They go swimming. They play football. And while they are walking around, Jack sometimes sees Damian and Damian’s group. Damian calls out, and throws something at him, but Jack ignores him. He isn’t interested in Damian. He isn’t important. And all the time Jack is watching and waiting. He is listening for a special sound.

Then one evening, Jack is sitting in his room looking out of the window. Jim is sitting on the bed playing.

It is a cool evening at last. A light wind is blowing. Summer is finally coming to an end. It is a quiet evening, too. Nobody is playing loud music.

Suddenly there is a noise in the back garden. Nemo jumps onto the fence(篱笆)，looks up at the sky, and miaows.

"What is he looking at?" thinks Jack.

And then he hears a cry. A strange cry. A familiar cry.

1.Facol is 　　　　 .

A.Jack’s friend. B.Jack’s brother. C.A cat. D.A hawk.

2.According to Jack’s mother, we know that 　　　　 .

A.she knows what the two boys are doing.

B.nobody knows what the two boys are doing.

C.Jack wants to tell his mother what has happened.

D.it is strange for her sons to be always friendly to each other.

3.The words “ignore” may mean　 　　　　 in Chinese.

A.在意 B.担心 C.忽略 D.打败

4.From the passage, we can learn that 　　　　 .

A.Jack has a loving heart for Facol.

B.Jack doesn’t like to be with his friends.

C.Facol flies back to Jack in the daytime.

D.Damian and Jack are the same kind of person.

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