Around the world people enjoy sports.   1   Many people like to watch others play games.   2   Often they
get very happy when "their" player team wins.
      Some of the sports are very interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has
spread (伸展/傳播) around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many
rivers. How fun it is to jump into a pool or lakes! And think of people in cold countries.   3  .
      Some sports or games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese Kongfu, for example,
has a very long history.   4   Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games
all the time. 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.
A. Think how many people love to skate or ski in Japan or Canada.
B. Sports help to keep people healthy and happy.
C. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch games.
D. But basketball and volleyball are rather new.

5. What is the best title of this passage?

A. People enjoy sports in the world.
B. Everyone should make friends after a game.
C. The history of the sports.
D. The ways of the watching games.

      Many children use the Internet to get useful knowledge and information, and to relax in their free time. But
some of them are not using it in a good way. Here are some rules to make sure you are safe and have fun on the
Internet.
      Make rules for Internet use with your parents. For example, when you can go on line, for how long and
what activities you can go on line.
      ※ Don't give your password (密碼) to anyone else, and never give out the following information — your
real name, home address, age, school, phone number or other personal information.
      ※ Check with your parents before giving out a credit card (信用卡) number.
      ※ Never send a photo of yourself to someone in e-mail unless your parents say it's OK.
      ※ Check with your parents before going into a chat room. Different chat rooms have different rules and
attract different kinds of people. You and your parents will want to make sure it's a right place for you.
      ※ Never agree to meet someone you met on the Internet without your parents' permission. Never meet
anyone you met on line alone.
      ※ Always remember that people online may not be who they say they are. Treat everyone online as
strangers.
      ※ If something you see or read online makes you uncomfortable, leave the site. Tell a parent or teacher right
away.
      ※ Treat other people as you'd like to be treated. Never use bad language.
      ※ Remember — not everything you read on the Internet is true.

1. The writer tells children to ________.

A. send their photos to him
B. make rules for Internet use with parents
C. believe everything they read on the Internet
D. give out their personal information.

2. It's good for children to _______ on the Internet.

A. give password to others
B. get useful knowledge and information
C. give out a credit card number
D. go into a chat room as they'd like to

3. What shouldn't be done when you are on line?

A. Using bad language.
B. Sending messages and e-mails.
C. Leaving the site if you feel uncomfortable.
D. Treating everyone online as strangers.

4. If your parents don't agree, never _______.

A. read anything on the Internet
B. relax in your free time
C. have a face-to-face meeting with anyone you met online
D. treat other people as you'd like to be treated

5. The best title for this passage is "_______".

A. How to Use Computers
B. Surfing on the Internet
C. Information on the Internet
D. Internet Safety Rules

      Fire can help people in many ways. 1.________ Fire can heat water, warm houses, give light and cook. But
fire can burn things, too. It can burn trees, houses, animals or people. Sometimes big fire can burn forests.
      2.________ But there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One
story from Australia tells about a man very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire
down.
     Today people know how to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But
matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might burn a house. A small
fire can become a big fire very fast. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with matches.
3._______. Fires need oxygen (氧氣). Without oxygen they will die. Cover a fire with water, sand or sometimes
with your coat. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it. 4._______. Be careless with fire, and it will burn
you.
A. You should also learn to put out fires.
B. Be careful with fire, and it will help you.
C. Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire.
D. But it can be very dangerous.

5. Which of the following is the main idea of this passage?

A. Fire can help people in many ways.
B. Fire can be both helpful and dangerous.
C. Fire can burn things and people.
D. We must be careful with matches.

      Early rising is helpful in more than one way.
      First, it helps us to have good health. We all need fresh air. It makes our health better to take morning
exercises. The air is never so fresh as early in the morning.
      Early rising helps us in our studies. In the morning we learn more quickly and find it easy to learn something
by heart.
      Early rising makes people able to plan the work for the day. We can't work well without a good plan. Just as
the plan for the year should be made in the spring, the plan for a day should be made in the morning.
      Early rising gives us enough time to get ready for our work, such as to wash our hands and eat our
breakfast.
      So the popular saying says, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

1. What does "early rising" mean? It means _______ early in the morning.

A. waking up
B. getting up
C. have breakfast
D. making a day's plan

2. Why does the passage advise us to take exercises early in the morning?

A. Because we can save much time.
B. Because we are not busy in the morning.
C. Because air in the morning is very fresh.
D. Because we don't need to prepare for breakfast.

3. We can work well with _______.

A. enough time
B. a good reading
C. clean hands
D. a good plan

      Li Ping is a Grade Eight student in Nanjing Sunshine Secondary School. The table below is his mid-term
self-assessment (自我評價). He draws faces to show his progress:
 

1. Li Ping thinks he did best in _______ in Unit 1.

[     ]

A. opposites
B. using a dictionary
C. a report
D. present perfect tense

2. What does Li Ping need to improve in Unit 1?

[     ]

A. Present perfect tense.
B. Using a dictionary.
C. A report.
D. Opposites.

3. Which do you think Li Ping does well in?

[     ]

A. Present perfect tense.
B. Passive voice.
C. Organizing information.
D. Favourite educational computer game.

4. What is Li Ping NOT very good at in Unit 2?

[     ]

A. Suffixes'ful'and'less'.
B. Past continuous tense.
C. Linking words.
D. My best holiday.

5. From the table we know Li Ping is weak in ________.

[     ]

A. Vocabulary
B. Main task
C. Study skills／Pronunciation
D. Grammar

      My Favourite Sweater
     My favourite sweater grew too small.
     I love that sweater best of all.
     My grandma made it when I was three.
     She made that sweater just for me.
     I picked the yarn (毛線), a special blue.
     The color of bluebells, wet with dew (露水).
     When I was three I was very small.
     But now I'm five and much too tall.
     I have a new jacket now that's green.
     So I gave my sweater to our cat Queen.
     Queen just had kittens (小貓) out in the shed.
     My favourite sweater is now their bed.

1. What is the most likely reason the sweater is the girl's favourite?

A. The girl's grandma made it.
B. The girl got it at the age of three.
C. The yarn is the color of the bluebells.
D. The cat Queen uses it for the kittens.

2. Why does the girl give the sweater away?

A. The girl is tired of the sweater.
B. The girl wants her grandma to make a new sweater.
C. The girl likes her new jacket better than the sweater.
D. The girl thinks the sweater is too small.

3. What will most likely happen to the green jacket?

A. The jacket will become too small.
B. The kittens will use the jacket for a bed.
C. The girl will sell the jacket.
D. The jacket will become the girl's favourite.

4. Read this line from the poem: "My favouite sweater grew too small." What does this line mean?

A. The girl likes small sweaters.
B. The girl's sweater become smaller than it once was.
C. The girl's grandma made a small sweater.
D. The girl become too big for the sweater.

5. Read this line from the poem: Queen just had kittens out in the shed. The word "shed" in this probably
    means "________".

A. the girl's sweater
B. the girl's jacket
C. the cat's house
D. the cat's sweater

     Typhoons are some of the worst storms, usually around the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. Most
happen in July, August and September.
     How does a typhoon happen? When lots of sea water gets hot in the summer sun, it evaporates into the air.
This makes the air hotter. When the air gets warm enough, it starts to move higher up into the sky. Then,
cooler air around it rushes in. It fills the space that is left. After the air gets warmer, it starts to move quickly,
making wind. The wind goes in circles, and it keeps moving higher in the sky. The warmer the air gets, the
quicker the wind moves. And when the wind moves faster than 30 meters a second, a typhoon begins.
     A typhoon has two parts, one is called the "eye". In the eye, the wind does not move so fast. The other part
is the wall of clouds around the eye. This is where the strongest wind and hardest rains are.
     Typhoons are very dangerous. In 2004, Typhoon Yunna killed 164 people in Zhejiang, and 24 people were
missing. In May 2006, Typhoon Pearl hit Guangdong and Fujian, and thousands of houses were damaged.
     What to do when a typhoon hits:
     ● Stay inside, close all the windows and stay away from them.
     ● Try to bring all of your things inside. Strong winds could even blow away your bikes!
     ● Listen to the radio or TV for important information.
     ● If you're told to go to a safer place, do so right away.

1. Typhoons often happen ________.

A. in the hot season
B. in the cold season
C. only in China
D. under the sea

2. Which picture can tell meaning of the underlined sentences "…, it starts to move higher up into the sky.
    Then, cooler air around it rushes in."?

3. When a typhoon comes, we cannot _______.

A. close all the windows
B. listen to typhoon news
C. stay outside with our bikes
D. stay inside the strong house

4. This passage is mainly about ________.

A. the knowledge of typhoon
B. the eye of a typhoon
C. the names of typhoon
D. the most dangerous typhoon Yunna

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The warmer the air gets, the slower the wind moves.
B. This year Typhoon Pearl killed 164 people in Zhejiang.
C. The strongest winds and harder rains are in the eye of typhoon.
D. A typhoon will happen when the wind goes faster than 30 meters a second.