Our children's health and mobility are at risk.Thirty years ago,66 percent of all children walked or bicycled to school.
Shockingly,today only 13 percent do! In North America,most students go to school on the school bus.Some students
also walk or ride bikes to school. In other parts of the world,things are different. In Japan, most students take trains to
school,although others also walk or ride their bikes.In China , it depends on where you are.In big cities,students usually ride bikes to school or take buses.And in places where there are rivers and lakes,like Hongshanhu and Kaishandao,
students usually go to school by boat.That must be a lot more fun than the others.

棍據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,回答下列問(wèn)題。

1. How many students walked or went to school by bike thirty years ago?
                                                                                
2. How do most students go to school in North America?
                                                                                
3. How do most students go to school in Japan?
                                                                                
4. How do the students in big cities go to school in China?
                                                                                
5. How do you go to school every day?
                                                                                

     In Singapore, many middle school students spend a lot of their time on their studies. Good education
is often regarded as a ticket to success in their future. So, many of these students try their best to get a
good mark in their examinations. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are a big headache.
Sometimes, some of them are even made to go to remedial(補(bǔ)習(xí)的) classes after school.
     Schools run programmes outside school hours. The students can take part in sports and games, music
and dance, hiking and rock-climbing, etc. They are also very active in community  service (社區(qū)服務(wù)) .
In their spare time, most students like to listen to pop music, Hollywood blockbusters (大片) ,Hong
Kong and Singapore movies are very popular among them. They understand IT very well. Some of them
also spend their free time surfing the Internet, e-mailing their friends, playing computer and video games.
     They sometimes go to cafes, fast-food restaurants, shopping centers and big bookstores.
So, it looks like life as a middle school student in Singapore is not easy but it is rich and colorful.

1. Many students want to get good education to be _________ in the future.
A. popular
B. successful
C. comfortable
D. generous
2. _________ go to remedial classes after school in Singapore,
A. All of the students        
B. None of the students
C. Not all the students        
D. Most of the students
3. In the school, the students can't _________ outside school hours.
A. have sports                    
B. dance
C. go hiking                      
D. go to a restaurant
4. According to the passage, most students in Singapore like _________.
A. Hollywood blockbusters
B. writing to their friends
C. talking to their friends
D. having exams
5. The meaning of the underlined sentence in the passage is _________.
A. the middle school students' life in Singapore is easy
B. the middle school students' life in Singapore is amazing
C. the middle school students' life in Singapore is boring
D. the middle school students' life in Singapore is hard, but it's interesting

     A new survey of 100 hard-working mothers shows that they spend about 70 hours a week doing chores and looking after their families.
     They spend more than ten hours a day cooking, cleaning the house, getting children ready for school and helping with homework. Cooking takes up (占用) about one hour and nine minutes a day. Doing the laundry takes about 61 minutes. Mothers also spend about 55 minutes getting children ready for school, about 53 minutes putting them to bed and about 47 minutes helping with homework.
     However, 30% of those mothers with children under 16 get less than six hours’ sleep at night. 83% are not happy because they have less than an hour of their own(自己的) time every day. Only 17% are happy with this kind of life.

1. In the survey, mothers spend about 70 hours a week _________.   

A. going shopping
B. doing chores 
C. looking after their families
D. Both B and C

2. It takes mothers _________ to cook every day.   

A. about 69 minutes
B. about 55 minutes
C. about 47 minutes
D. about 10 hours

3. In the survey, _________ mothers with children under 16 sleep less than six hours at night. 

A. 100
B. 70
C. 83
D. 30

4. From the survey, we know that _________.   

A. no mothers like this kind of life
B. a few mothers are hard-working
C. most mothers want to have more time to do their own things 
D. all mothers would like to work harder

     Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel close to someone.lt is nice to have a friend to talk, to
laugh, and to do things with. Surely, there are times when we need to be alone. We don't always want
people around. But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.
     No two people are the same. Sometimes friends don't get along well. That doesn't mean they no
longer like each other. Most of the time they will go on being friends.
     Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very sad. We miss them very much. But we can call
them and write to them. It could be that we would never see them again. And we can make new friends.
It is surprising to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.
     Families sometimes name their children after a close friend. Many places are named after men and
women who have been friendly to people in a town. Some libraries are named this way. So are some
schools. We think of these people when we go to these places.
     When we have friends, we will be very happy. Being happy helps us stay well. Or it could be just
knowing that someone cares. If someone cares about us, we take better care of ourselves.

1. The first paragraph (段) tells us _____.

A. no one needs friends
B. we always need friends around us
C. making friends is the need in people's life
D. we need to be alone

2. In the passage the writer doesn't tell us that _____.

A. people are unhappy when their friends leave them
B. people will never see their friends after their friends move away
C. people can know their friends in different ways
D. people like their new friends very much if they get to know them

3. People will not name a _____ after friendly people.

A. city
B. room
C. town
D. badthing

4. When people have friends they will _____.

A. feel happy and healthy
B. get a lot of help from their friends
C. take better care of themselves
D. A and C

5. The main idea of this passage is _____.

A. that people are all friends
B. that people need friends
C. how to get to know friends
D. how to name a place

                                                        Families and cars
     Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they
usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van (大蓬
貨車).
     A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded. A
van can hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go
on a holiday travel. They could all travel together.
     Mr. Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van.
Its sixth and seventh seats are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many things when
they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents' home, the things are brought into the two seats, and
then it can carry the grandparents.
     Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are
traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks.
All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why
motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)答問(wèn)題。

1. How many people can a van generally hold?
    ________________________________________________
2. What did Mr. Hagen and his wife do after they had a third child?
    ________________________________________________
3. What do Americans call vans?
    ________________________________________________
4. What do Americans usually use motor homes for?
    ________________________________________________
5. There aren't many parks for motor homes, are there?
    ________________________________________________

     Surveys show that about 90% of junior high school students use QQ. Their QQ spaces (空間) tell
a lot about their personalities.
     Three students are showing off their QQ spaces here. Let's see how different their QQ spaces are!
Cool and popular   12, Shenzhen:
     "Being cool" is my lifestyle. You can find only two colors in my QQ space: black and white.
     You can also find lots of cool things in my zone like magic tricks (魔術(shù)). I find popular magic trick
videos on the Internet and put them on my QQ zone. Magic trick fans leave messages in my zone. We
can discuss a trick and find out how it works. I also do magic tricks myself. It makes me popular with
girls.
dreamy poet  13, Beijing:
     I like dreams (夢(mèng)) and poems (詩(shī)歌). I've made my QQ zone a dreamy place.
    My QQ zone is pink, the color of a dream. You can read beautiful stories there. I collected (搜集)
them from other people's QQ zones. I also put touching (感人的) poems there. I hope my zone can
give visitors a warm feeling.
Call me an adventurer 13, Anhui:
     I love adventures (冒險(xiǎn)). I'd like to live a different kind of life. In reality (現(xiàn)實(shí)), it seems I can't.
But in my QQ zone, I make my dreams come true by playing games like QQ Farm. I'm so happy when
the vegetables and animals in my farm grow bigger. It's also exciting to "steal" (偷) vegetables from my
friends' farms.  

1. From the passage, we can guess "dreamy poet" must be a _____ person.

A. emotional (感情豐富的)
B. cool
C. wild

2. If you like magic tricks, you can visit _____QQ space.

A. Cool and popular's
B. dreamy poet's
C. Call me an adventurer's

3. "Call me an adventurer" wants a _____ life.

A. dangerous
B. different
C. relaxing

4. The underlined word "personalities" may mean _____.

A. 外貌
B. 性格
C. 表情

5. The best title (題目) of the passage may be _____.

A. My QQ space
B. My dream
C. I want to be cool

     In China, more and more middle school students are getting shorter sleeping time than before. Most
students sleep less than nine hours every night, because they have much homework to do. Some
homework 1.             (give) by their teachers, and some by their parents. Also, some students don't know
how to save time. They are not careful enough while they do their homework, so it takes them a lot of time.
2. Some students spend too much time watching TV or playing computer games. They stay up very late.
Some students have to get up early every morning on weekdays to get to school on time by bus or by bike.
It can be a long way from home to school.
      Schools and parents should cut down some of the homework so that our children can enjoy more than
nine hours of sleep every night for their health. For children, we should make best use of our time. When we
have enough time for sleeping, we will find it much better for 3. both our study and health.

1. 用give的適當(dāng)形式填空。
2. 寫出劃線句子的同義句：
                                                                                                       
3. 寫出劃線短語(yǔ)的反義短語(yǔ)：
                                                                                                       
4. Who else gives children some homework to do except their teachers?
                                                                                                       
5. How many hours of sleep every night is good for students' health?