Are you the only child in your family? If so,  you are the most important in  your family. Parents arc the
closest people to you in the world. But a lot of middle school students have  a problem. They feel  they're
not as  close to  their parents  as before.   They  even don't think parents are fair to them.  Some students
complain that their parents often say a lot to them, but never listen to them.  Some say  their parents don't
allow them to play computer games when other classmates are doing that. Others say when they're making phone calls to friends,  their  parents like  to ask if they  are speaking to a boy or a girl.  These make them
very unhappy. Some students even decide to leave home because they're  afraid to tell their parents when
they have done something wrong, especially when they do badly in exams. Then they usually think running away is the only choice. But they don't know running away may bring them more problems. Problems are parts of life.  Here is some advice for you to solve your problems.
① Find a good chance to talk with your parents. Don't be afraid of telling them your feelings.
② Get help from others like good friends or teachers. 
③ Keep a diary to help you understand more about yourself and your feelings.
④ Show your parents you're growing up. Then they'll feel you're no longer a small child. If you follow the advice, you'll have a happy life and never think of running away.

1. According to the article, ________are the closest people to the only child.  

A. teachers        
B. parents
C. classmates      
D. grandparents

2. Which of the following is TRUE?  

A. Parents don't love their children now.
B. Middle school students don't have any problems.
C. Some students don't think their parents are fair to them.
D. Finding a good chance to talk with parents is not useful at all.  

3. We'd better__________ if we have problems with them.

A. talk with our parents
B. quarrel with our parents
C. leave our parents
D. keep quiet

4. Why does the author advise us to keep a diary?

A. Because it's our homework.
B. Because it can help us practice writing.
C. Because it can help us understand ourselves better.
D. Because it will bring us success.

5. This article is about some middle school students'_________.

A. friends        
B. hobbies
C. parents        
D. problems

     When you think about running away, you probably imagine that there will be no more rules, no
parentto tell you what to do, no more fights. Sounds great and exciting, right? In fact,    1  but fun.
Kids who run away face new problems like not having any money, food to eat, a safe place to, sleep,
oranyone to take care of them.   
     People with no home and no money become ready to do anything just to meet their everyday needs.
Because of this,     2  that would be terrible even for adults. Run-away kids join in dangerous crimes
(犯罪) much more often than kids who live at home.  
     Kids who live on the streets often have to steal(偷) for a living. Many take drugs to get through
the day because they become so sad and feel that    3  . Some are forced(被迫) to do things they
wouldn'tnormally do to make money. The number of kids with HIV or AIDS and other diseases is
higher on streets, too, because     4  . This problem is attracting more and more attention.

A. running away is nothing
B. they often find them in risky situations
C. it may be natural
D. these kids are more easily to get affected(感染)
E. no one cares about themF. take good care of

     Sun Mei was 14 when she began working iri a small restaurant last year. Usually she works for 13 to 15 hours a day.
She welcomes people, serves tea, washes dishes and cleans the floor. She seldom has a day off. At the end of the day,
"I feel so tired," said Sun, "My family is poor. There is no money for me to go to school. "
     There are 250 million children in the world who are working in hard, sometimes dangerous conditions. India has the
biggest number of child workers in the world 44 million.
     Children do all kinds of work. Most of them work in the fields. They pick vegetables, clear grass and move rocks.
Some work in factories making clothes, glass, matches and many other things. Others sell things in the markets.
     Why do children work? Many children work to make money for their families to live on. Another reason is that
schools are too far away or there are no schools in the area at all.
     In China, there is a law called "Prohibition of Child Labour" 《<禁止使用童工規(guī)定 》). It says any company
mustn't hire children under 16 and anyone who introduces a child to work will be fined 5, 000 yuan.

1. What does "she seldom has a day off" mean?

A. Shc couldn't finish her work.
B. She never has a rest.
C. She hardly has a free day.
D. She seldom gets full pay.

2. Which country has the most child workers in the world?

A. China.
B. India.
C. Japan.
D. Korea.

3. According to the writer, why do children work?

A. Because they want to.
B. Because there're no places to study in.
C. Because they hate going to school.
D. Because they want to pay less money.

4. Which of the following things do child workers often not do?

A. Pick vegetables and clear grass.
B. Make clothes and matches.
C. Go to school.
D. Move rocks.

5. Which can be the best title for the passage?

A. Too Young to Work.
B. Sun Mei's Hard Life.
C. Children in China.
D. Child Workers in the World.

                                               
     A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing
(轟炸) destroyed (毀壞) her home and killed her mother. 　　
     Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children begging for
food and water from American and British soldiers a they move through towns and cities towards the capital,
Baghdad (巴格達(dá)). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same
size as their small bodies as they flee (逃離) their homes in Baghdad. 　　
     "Dad, why are the Americans striking (攻擊) us? Are we going to be killed?"asks the son of Abu Sinar, an
Iraqi engineer, Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son. 　　
     He tries to comfort (安慰) him by saying, "The bombs are far away from us. The Americans are fighting
the soldiers. We are going to be all right." Even though Abu knows this isn't always the truth. But what else
can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won't hear
the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed. 　　
     "All we can do is to listen to and hear the war," said Abu. "We, all the people and the children, have to live
in fear. We feel hopeless and helpless. We don't know where the next bombs are going? We can do nothing
but wait to be killed."

1. During the war, children are ______.

A. studying at school　　　　　　　
B. fighting at the front 　　
C. safer than their parents　　　　　　
D. in great danger

2. The children have to flee their homes because ______.

A. it is dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing 　　
B. their parents are not at home 　　
C. they want to get food and water 　　
D. they want to welcome the foreign soldiers

3. "Sleeping pills" are ______.

A. a place to keep children safe 　　
B. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war 　　
C. a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep 　　
D. a kind of food to make them strong

4. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because ______.

A. he doesn't want to tell him the real reason 　　
B. he doesn't want to tell a lie 　　
C. he doesn't know how to explain it clearly 　　
D. it isn't good to tell him why

5. Through the eyes of the girl in the picture, we can see ______.

A. she is looking for something　　　
B. she is thinking about something 　　
C. she is angry at somebody　　　　
D. she feels fearful, helpless and hopeless

     "I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the Internet." 
     "I often check my e-mail forty times a day." 
     "I often spend more than three hours during one time on the Internet."
     "I spend more time in chat rooms than with my 'real-1ife' friends."
     Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction (癮) called Internet addiction.
Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. Internet addicts lose control of the
time they spend on the Internet. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug (毒品) use.
     For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they
called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab:he was surfing the Internet for several
days straight.
     Studies show that about 6% to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the
teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time on the
Internet than in the real world of friends and family. Is "surfing the Internet" a hobby or an addiction for
you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms (癥狀):
     ●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend
hours on the Internet.
     ●You can't wait for your next online time.
     ●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
     ●You go out with your friends less and less.

1. What does the beginning of the passage tell us?

A. How to become an Internet addict.
B. What an Internet addict usually does.
C. Where to find an Internet addict.
D. Why to write this passage.

2. How does the writer describe the addicts of Internet?

A. It is something like making friends.
B. It is a way of producing drugs.
C. It is like taking drugs.
D. It is terrible to imagine.

3. Why do people worry about the teens?

A. The teens are wasting too much money.
B. They used to work on the Internet.
C. The playing field of the teens will disappear.
D. More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.

4. The example in the passage shows that _______.

A. Internet problems are more serious among college students
B. Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep
C. Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted
D. The police often help to find those Internet addicts.

5. What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage?

A. Don't be addicted to the Internet.
B. Go to family activities more often.
C. Do things as you have planned.
D. Stay with your parents as often as possible.

     Is the world too crowded? Well, that's a hard question to answer. It's all a matter of perspective (視角).
In Montana, you might drive for a mile in any direction and not see another human being. In Macao,60,000
people live in every square mile!
     What is true is that the world's population doesn't stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate
(比例). That's in part because in each generation (代) these are more people who then have children than in
the last generation.
     Five hundred years ago, the population of the world was about 460 million. In 1900,the world's population
was under 2 billion (十億). Right now it is doubling every 40 years. That means, if this rate of growth
continues, when you are a parent, there will be twice as many people on earth as there are now. Wow! Now
that's a whole lot of people! Soon the world's population will probably reach 7 billion. Some people worry
about that! But there is a lot of disagreement about just how many people on earth equals (相當(dāng)于) too many
people. But everyone agrees that the more people there are, the more resources (資源) the world needs to feed,
house and take care of all of them, and the more need there is to think carefully about how we live and use the
earth's resources.

1. From the first paragraph we can know that _____.

A. Montana is too crowded
B. Macao is too crowded
C. the world is too crowded
D. the world is not too crowded

2. The population is increasing fast partly because _____.

A. people live longer than before
B. there are less wars than before
C. medicine is developing faster than before
D. more couples now would like to have children than before

3. What was the world's population 100 years ago?

A. 450 million.
B. About 2 billion.
C. 40 billion.
D. 7 billion.

4. The writer thinks that with the population increasing, we should _____.

A. find more resources
B. use more resources
C. think about our ways of living
D. move to other places

5. From the passage we can learn that the writer _____.

A. thinks the world already has too many people
B. thinks the world can feed no more than 7 billion people
C. is not sure when the world's population will reach 7 billion
D. is not sure what the largest population that the world can feed is

Dear Ted,
     Drop it. Your roommates, as grown-ups, can do whatever they want with their time so long as it doesn't break school rules or violate (妨礙) other people's interests.
     Playing perhaps gives these students relaxation(放松) from hard study. If they play too often, have
little time to study, and they will reap what they have sown. but you will not. Reporting to the teachers
would only harm your good name in your dormitory. However you have rights to ask your roommates to
be quiet when you need sleep. If they aren't angry with you, they will stop talking. But be polite and
friendly. Perhaps, in return, join them in a game or two.
                                                                                                                                         Victor

1. According to the first letter, many college students enjoy _________.    
A. playing computer games
B. searching information on the Internet
C. sending e-mails
D. buying things online
2. Ted wants his roommates to _________
A. break their computers
B. sell their computers to teachers
C. stop playing computer games
D. play games in the day, not at night
3. According to the second Jetter, some college students _________    
A. can violate school rules or other people's interests
B. have their rights to quarrel with Ted
C. can relax themselves while playing games on the net
 D. can study even better if they play games on the net
4. Victor asks Ted to _________.
A. report to the teachers
B. harm his good name in the dormitory
C. quarrel with his roommates
D. learn how to get on well with others
5. In the second letter, the underlined part means __________.
A. 自食其果
B. 隨心所欲地做事
C. 回家種莊稼
D. 逃避責(zé)任