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Dear Tiantian!

How are you? I’m writing to you at my school. It is a middle school. I am in a big class. There are about sixty students. My English teacher is Miss Gao. She is a good teacher.

We go to school from Monday to Friday. There are four classes in the morning and three in the afternoon. We play games at four on Friday after class.

I have some friends at school. One of my friends is from America. She speaks English and a little Chinese. I like to play with them. We often play basketball. It’s my favourite game.

Please write soon!

Love from

Lin Tao

1.Where does Lin Tao write this letter? He writes the letter______.

A.at home                B. at school                           C. on the farm

2.Lin Tao’s English teacher is_____.

A. Mrs Gao              B. Miss Gao                           C. Mr Gao

3. There are _____ classes all day.

A. four                  B. seven                              C. eight

4. _____ of Lin Tao’s friends is from America.

A. One                  B. Two                               C. Four

5. _____ is Lin Tao’s favourite.

A. Ping-pong             B. Football                      C. Basketball

 

When I was 16 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a smile.
It was the early autumn of my first year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away. As a result, no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and afraid to make friends with anyone.
Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart break. I couldn't talk about anyone with my problems. And I didn't want my parents to worry about me.
Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual. At that moment, a boy came into the classroom. I didn't know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me, without a word, only a smile.
Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy, lively and warm.
That smile changed my life. I started to talk with other students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.
One day I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn't remember smiling at me!
It doesn't matter because all the dark days have gone. I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think it lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.
11. Why was the smile an important gift?
A. Because the writer's old school was far away.
B. Because the writer didn't know who the boy was.
C. Because the smile didn't mean anything to the boy.
D. Because it made the writer feel happy, lively and warm.
12.The writer didn't talk to anyone in her new school about her problem because  .
A. she was always unhappy
B. she didn't have any friends there
C. she was in the first year at the junior high school
D. she didn't want her parents to worry about her
13. How did the smile change her life?
A. She started to make friends.
B. She became the best friend with the boy.
C. Her parents didn't worry about her any more.
D. She realized that she was lonely.
14. Where does she now think her feeling of unhappiness came from?
A. From her old school     B. From her parents.
C.. From herself.          D. From her classmates at the new school.
15. Who has become the writer’s best friend now?
A. The writer herself            B. The writer’s parents
C. The writer’s classmates     D. The boy with the smile

Tokyo, March 11, 2011

People left their houses near Sendai, northern Japan on March 11th. A man and child look out over destroyed homes after a tsunami(海嘯) and earthquake. Nuclear crises(核危機(jī)) in Japan’s power plants(核電站).

Could it have been worse?
More than a minute before the earth under their feet began to shake, many millions of Japanese people got cell phone alerts; TV networks interrupted (打斷,中斷) their broadcasts and turned to the latest announcement of Japanese government; loud speakers started suddenly to warn people of the coming tsunami; bullet trains came to a stop. The earthquake on March 11 was the first test of the nation’s earthquake early-warning technology (地震預(yù)警技術(shù)). However, in the fight of Man vs Nature, Nature won again. Hundreds, if not thousands of people, lost their lives in Japan. Scientists believe it is the fifth-strongest quake in the world since 1900 and the most powerful on record ever to hit Japan.
Lin tells of calm survivors
When the office began to shake, his friends were calm and still working. But the shaking became stronger. People shouted at him: “Run out of the building, now!” This was Lin Jia’s first experience of an earthquake. Lin, 26, has been in Japan for three months, working as a software engineer in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Lin stayed with others in a bus station all afternoon. Buildings were shaken by a series(系列) of aftershocks. He was nervous, but the people around him were so calm and organized that he gradually (逐漸) calmed down.
【小題1】What does the underlined word “alert” mean?

A．鬧鐘

B．警報(bào)

C．短信

D．鈴聲

【小題2】 How many ways of earthquake early-warning are mentioned in the passage?

A．2

B．3

C．4

D．5

【小題3】 Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Lin Jia has never met with an earthquake in Japan.

B．There have been five earthquakes in Japan since 1900.

C．The earthquake is the most powerful on record ever to hit Japan.

D．The local government warned people of the coming earthquake in some ways.

【小題4】 What is the most important after an earthquake according to the article?

A．Keep away from the nuclear power plants.

B．Running out of the building.

C．Keep calm and organized.

D．Get the cell phone alerts

【小題5】 Where does this article probably come from?

A．a(chǎn) newspaper

B．a(chǎn)n advertisement

C．a(chǎn) diary

D．a(chǎn) novel