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What is the hottest English word of 2013? It’s “selfie”, according to Oxford dictionaries. Selfie is a photo that one takes of oneself, according to the Oxford online dictionary. People usually take selfies with a smartphone(智能手機(jī)) and send them to a social media website.
The word was first used in 2002. In the past 12 months, its frequency (出現(xiàn)頻率) in the English language has increased by 17,000 percent, said Oxford dictionaries. Now, almost everybody knows it.
“Almost every day, I take a photo of myself at school, and save it in my Qzone (QQ空間),” said Huang Xu, 13, from Hunan. These photos record her happy and sad moments.
Pop stars also take a lot of selfies. Li Chunping, 14, from Harbin, is a big fan of Yang Mi. “She has used many selfies to tell us what’s going on in her personal life,” said Li.
What makes people love selfies? Some people say it’s narcissism (自戀). “The rise of the selfie is a perfect symbol for our narcissistic culture. We’re crying out: Look at me!” said US psychiatrist(精神科醫(yī)生) Carole Lieberman.
Young people are using selfies to make friends online, Jonathan Freedland wrote in The Guardian. “The usual purpose of taking a selfie is to share online. They express a human need to connect with others,” wrote Freedland.
Huang Xu agrees with that. “During summer vacation, my classmates and I shared many selfies online. Hair or clothes were not our interests. Through these photos, we got to know each other’s holidays and feelings,” said Huang Xu.
小題1:According to the story, a “selfie” is _____.

A．a(chǎn) person with a smartphone

B．a(chǎn) smartphone which can take photos

C．a(chǎn) photo taken by oneself

D．a(chǎn)n English dictionary

小題2:When was the word “selfie” first used?

A．More than ten years ago	B．In 2013
C．When smartphones appeared	D．Nobody knows

小題3:We can tell from the story that _____.

A．only famous people enjoy taking selfies

B．a(chǎn)ll people love selfies because of narcissism

C．people love to share selfies online

D．US psychiatrist Carole Lieberman hates selfies

小題4:We put the sentence “But some people don’t see it that way” at the beginning of _______.

A．Paragraph 4

B．Paragraph 5

C．Paragraph 6

D．Paragraph 7

小題5:What is the best title of this passage ?

A．Selfies and narcissism	B．Selfies and sharing
C．Selfies and smartphones	D．Selfies, the hottest word in 2013

You’re on the school bus. But as soon as you turn the corner, you find yourself at the end of a very long queue. It’s another traffic jam! It is stop-start for the rest of your journey. Meanwhile, at the same time in Antarctica(南極洲), snow covers the land. A group of emperor penguins crowd together to keep warm, using stop-and-go movements to protect themselves from the winds. Can you see the connection?
Emperor penguins move like cars in traffic jams to keep warm, that’s according to new research by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marina Research in Germany. A penguin only needs to move 2cm in any direction for its neighbor to do the same thing. These movements then flow(流動(dòng)) through the whole group of penguins like a “traveling wave”.
These waves also help smaller crowds join bigger groups, keeping more and more of their friends warm. A single Antarctic “traffic jam” has thousands of penguins. Interestingly, the technology used for studying road traffic jams was used to study the penguins. This included studying time-lapse(延時(shí)) videos. Scientists also discovered that unlike on the road, these waves can be made by any penguin and in any direction.
With temperatures usually dropping below –50℃, and winds reaching speeds of up to 200km/h, these traveling waves are very important for penguins to keep warm.
These penguins can also teach us a lesson. In big groups, they learn to be orderly and patient, and to never crash into each other. These are skills we should all learn from them when we are on the road!
小題1:Emperor penguins get together to _____.

A．keep warm

B．play games

C．learn from each other

D．cross the road

小題2:In a traffic jam on the road, __________.

A．drivers can drive fast	B．drivers can drive carelessly
C．cars are not moving fast	D．cars will stop working

小題3:From the passage, we learn that a “traveling wave” _____.

A．is caused by a traffic jam on the road

B．is caused by the strong wind in Antarctica

C．is formed by the movement of the penguins

D．is made by just one or two penguins

小題4:If a penguin is in a group, it _____.

A．needs to move orderly	B．can move as fast as it likes
C．will not leave others behind	D．should move as slowly as it can

小題5:The last paragraph wants to tell us that _____.

A．penguins won’t move together if it is not very cold

B．traffic jams happen probably because people are impatient

C．penguins learn their skills from human beings

D．penguins are likely to crash into each other in a group

Mr. Green owned a few shops and was busy with his work. Once his wife had a fall and broke her leg. She was sent to the hospital and needed someone to look after her. They had several servants, but none of them could do the job. One of his friends brought a girl to Mr. Green. She looked beautiful and strong. Mr. Green liked her at the first sight, and wanted to hire (聘用) her.
When the girl went out of the room, the friend said, “I hear she’s a little foolish. You’d better ask her some questions. If she answers them well, you can hire her.”
Mr. Green agreed and called the girl in again. He asked, “What would you be a servant for?”
“My mother is often ill,” the girl said, crying, “I have to stop studying and find work. I want to get some money to buy some medicine for her.”
“Where’s your father, then?”
“He died last year.” answered the girl.
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that,” said Mr. Green, “And how did he die?”
“He went to London on business and had a high fever. The doctor couldn’t save him and he died in the capital.”
“How many times had your father been to London?”
“Three times.”
Mr. Green was happy. He thought that the girl was not foolish at all, but he wanted to have a last try. So he asked, “Which of the three times did your father die in London?”
The girl thought for a while and said, “I’m sorry I don’t know. When he died there, I was at school.”
小題1:Mr. Green owned some shops in       .

A．Canada

B．America

C．England

D．Australia

小題2:The girl cried because       .

A．she had a hard life

B．she hoped Mr. Green could hire her

C．her mother had broken her leg

D．she wanted to get some money from Mr. Green

小題3:Mr. Green's friend wanted him       .

A．to find out why she wanted to be a servant

B．to test her to see if she was foolish

C．to ask her some difficult questions

D．to know where her father had gone

小題4:The girl       before she came to see Mr. Green.

A．had done some housework

B．had taken care of sick people in hospital

C．had been to London three times

D．had studied in a school

小題5:From the passage we can see that the girl       .

A．was very clever

B．could understand all the questions well

C．finally worked for Mr. Green

D．was a bit silly

George worked in London. He wasn't married, and usually had his lunch, and sometimes his dinner, in small restaurants. One evening he decided to go to an expensive restaurant, and when he got in, he saw a large, heavy man whom he had not seen for several years sitting by himself at a  table. He thought for a few moments and then remembered the man's name. So he went up to him and said politely, "Hello, Mr Grey. How is your business?"
"Oh, it's not good at all," the large man answered.
George looked at the expensive food and wine on Mr Grey's table and was surprised. "It certainly doesn't look like what you said," he said.
"Well," Mr Grey answered sadly, "I'm afraid you are wrong. A few years ago I was doing very well, and I could afford to bring my wife to this place for dinner too."
小題1:George usually had his lunch in small restaurants because ______.       

A．he wasn't able to do some cooking

B．he had no wife

C．he liked to do so

D．there were only small restaurants around

小題2:______ one evening.

A．George was invited to dinner in an expensive restaurant

B．George invited some friends to have dinner in an expensive restaurant

C．George went to an expensive restaurant himself

D．George ate a lot of expensive food and wine

小題3:Mr Grey told George ______.

A．his business wasn't as good as before

B．his wife wasn't well at all

C．he hadn't seen him for some years

D．he was used to eating expensive food and wine

小題4:Mr Grey's wife ______.

A．often had dinner in small restaurants

B．a(chǎn)lways had dinner in expensive restaurants with her husband

C．knew George very well

D．used to have dinner with her husband in the expensive restaurant

小題5:When Mr Grey said his business wasn't good at all, George ______.   

A．didn't believe what he said	B．was not surprised to hear that
C．a(chǎn)greed with what he said	D．was asked to have dinner with him

Mr Clark was born in a small town of England. When he finished middle school, he found work in the police station and he has worked there      42 years and he'll retire(退休)this autumn. He tried to work hard in the past 42 years     he wasn't a lucky man and never caught a thief. He was often sorry for it.
Last weekend, when Mrs Clarke was cooking supper, she found there was no sugar. So she asked her husband      some in the shop near their house. He came in the shop and found a young man stealing some money from a woman's bag. He ran to the thief      , but the young man found and ran away at once. Mr Clarke ran after him. The thief ran into a blind alley（死胡同）and Mr Clarke caught him at last.
"Please give me a chance, sir,"said the young man."I never stole before."
"Who gives me a chance?" said Mr Clarke. "I'll soon retire and I caught a thief for the     time!" 
小題1:A．for              B．since             C．in
小題2:A．a(chǎn)nd              B．so                C．but
小題3:A．buys             B．buy               C．to buy
小題4:A．quickly          B．quietly           C．carefully
小題5:A．last             B. first               C．second

Have you ever done something foolish that made you feel so embarrassed（尷尬的）?
Well, that’s exactly how I felt. On a Saturday morning last autumn．I had gone to town to do some shopping and as I was on my way home，it suddenly began to rain. I at once ran into a nearby phone box since I didn’t have an umbrella．It was raining so heavily that I have to stay in the phone box until it stopped．
A few moments later，I saw a young man walk up to the phone box，wearing a yellow raincoat and holding a box. I didn’t want to go out into the rain，so I picked up the phone and pretended I was talking to someone. I thought the man would go away，but he didn’t. He just waited in the pouring rain，watching me wave my hands about and act as if I was deep in conversation.
Luckily，it began to stop after about ten minutes．“Okay，Mum，” I said loudly into the phone，“I’ll see you later Bye!” I put the phone down．picked up my shopping bag and walked out of the phone box “I’m sorry I took so long,”I said to the man．
“Oh, I don’t want to use the phone,”he replied．smiling．“I’ve just come to repair it. It’s out of order．you see.” I felt myself go bright red in the face and I hurried away with my head down，feeling a complete fool. That was certainly one of the most embarrassing moments of my life!
小題1:Why did the writer go to the phone box and stay there?
A. Because she wanted to wait for her friend there.
B. Because she wanted to phone her mother.    
C. Because it rained heavily and she had no umbrella with her.
小題2:What did the writer think what the young man wanted to do?
A. To repair the phone. B. To use the phone. C. To stay in the phone box.
小題3:How long did the young man wait for?
A. About five minutes． B. About fifteen minutes.  C. About ten minutes.
小題4:Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The story happened on a cold Saturday morning last summer.
B. The writer was telephoning to her mother when it rained．
C. It suddenly rained when the writer was on her way home after shopping.
小題5:Why was the writer embarrassed?
A. Because she did something foolish.      
B. Because she got all wet.
C. Because she made the man wait so long.

People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be pleased only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such a thing as genius,” Edison said. He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a thinker as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could usefully do with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand why anyone could not be interested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what idea he had about life. “Work,” he answered, “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
小題1:What is genius according to Thomas Edison?

A．Hard thinking.

B．Hard work.

C．Useful ideas.

D．Useful inventions.

小題2:How did Edison always deal with the secrets of nature after exploring them?

A．To write down what he had learned.

B．To carry out a new experiment.

C．To make them useful in life.

D．To share them with others.

小題3:What does the last sentence in the passage mean?

A．Edison was born to be a great inventor.

B．Edison was able to live another 100 years.

C．Edison was ready to make his 100th invention.

D．Life was too short for Edison to work for human beings.

My parents quarreled a lot, and I was really worried about it. I didn’t know who I should talk with about how I was feeling. So I asked Mom to allow me to stay the night at my best friend’s house. Though I knew I wouldn’t tell her about my parents’ situation, I was looking forward to getting out of the house. I was packing up my things when suddenly the power (電) went out in the neighborhood. Mom came to tell me that I should stay with my grandpa until the power came back on.
I was really disappointed(失望的) because I felt that we did not have much to talk about. But I knew he would be frightened alone in the dark. I went to his room and told him that I’d stay with him until the power was restored(恢復(fù)). He was quite happy and said.
“Great chance.”
“What is?” I asked.
“To talk, you and I,” he said. “To hold a one-to-one little meeting about what we’re going to do with your mom and dad, and what we’re going to do with ourselves and the situation we are in now.”
“But we can’t do anything about it, Grandpa,” I said, surprised that here was someone with whom I could share my feelings and someone who was in the same “boat” as I was.
And that is how the most amazing friendship between my grandfather and me started. Sitting there in the dark, we talked about our feelings and fears of life from how fast things change to how they sometimes don’t change fast enough. That night, because the power went out, I found a new friend, with whom I could safely talk about all my fears and pains, whatever they may be.
Suddenly, the lights all came back on. “Well,” he said, “I guess that means you’ll want to go now. I really like our talk. I hope the power will go out every few nights!”
小題1:Why was Grandpa happy to see the writer?

A．Because he felt quite lonely.

B．Because he could discuss the problem with him.

C．Because he was afraid of darkness.

D．Because he had not seen him for a long time.

小題2:In which order(順序) did the story happen?
a. The lights came back on.
b. The writer went to his grandpa’s room and stayed with him.
c. The power in the neighbourhood suddenly went out.
d. The writer worried about the parents’ disagreement and wanted to leave his home.
e. The writer had a talk with his grandpa and started the most amazing friendship between them.

A．d-b-e-c-a

B．a(chǎn)-b-e-c-d

C．c-d-b-e-a

D．d-c-b-e-a

小題3:What can be inferred(推斷) from the story?

A．The lights would go out again.

B．The writer wanted to leave very much.

C．They would have more chats.

D．It would no longer be dark.

Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, “Don‘t play in the water on your way home from school!” On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. “I ‘ll tell your father if you come back wet again.” said his mother. “He will punish you, you know.”
The third day the little boy was dry when he came home.
“You ‘re a good boy today.” His mother said happily. “You didn’t play in the water.”
“No, ”the boy said unhappily. “There were too many older boys in the water when i got there this afternoon. There wasn’t any room for me at all.”
小題1:Bruno went to school __________ every day.

A．by bike

B．by bus

C．by car

D．on foot

小題2:The playground was between ____________.

A．two classrooms	B．the cinema and shop
C．Bruno’s house and school	D．the shop and Bruno’s

小題3:The little boy liked to play on the playground ___________.

A．when it snowed

B．when there was some water there

C．when the children played football there

D．When his father was busy with his work

小題4:Bruno was afraid of ______________ the most.

A．his father

B．his mother

C．his teacher

D．the older boys

小題5:That afternoon, the boy’s clothes were dry because __________.

A．nobody made room for him in the water.

B．there was no water on the playground

C．He took off his clothes before he played there.

D．He played in the water carefully.

This morning, I got a funny feeling. Today I had to give a report in my        , and I had been afraid to do so for a long time.
Mom came into the kitchen, asking , “Are you ready,         ?”
“ Yes.” I answered quietly.         in fact I wasn’t ready!
On my way          school, I could feel my heart beating. I hated this!
I went into Mrs. Owens’ class. She was smiling, and saying        to all her students as she did every morning.
“ Hi, Sam,” she said to me as I walked         the classroom.
“ Hi,” I said and quickly sat in my        . I looked at the clock. The time was near. Then Mrs. Owens started, “ Sam, it’s time for you to show yourself.” “Show         ? Oh, no!”
I got up slowly,          the ground as I walked to the front of the class. Then, I looked up, and everyone was looking at me. Mrs. Owens knew I was         , so she came beside me, and put her hand on my back.
She said to the class, “Sam has worked very hard on his         ,and I know it is a very interesting report.” Then she turned to me and asked, “Sam,          did you like best about your report on Hawaii?”
I thought about the fun things I         about surfing before, and I started to talk. I talked and talked        the whole class, and I was not nervous at all. It was great fun. It wasn’t frightening. The class cheered as I finished and Mrs. Owens was         .
In fact, I can do better than I think I can— if I try! I am proud of myself.

小題1:	A．class B．house C．party D．hometown

小題2:	A．friends B．classmates C．Owens D．Sam

小題3:	A．Then B．But C．So D．Or

小題4:	A．on B．from C．to D．in

小題5:	A．sorry B．hello C．goodbye D．thanks

小題6:	A．into B．out of C．a(chǎn)way from D．far from

小題7:	A．bed B．seat C．dinning room D．reading room

小題8:	A．me B．us C．myself D．ourselves

小題9:	A．looking after B．look over C．looking at D．looking for

小題10:

A．glad B．nervous C．a(chǎn)ctive D．happy

小題11:

A．dictionary B．magazine C．newspaper D．report

小題12:

A．what B．who C．where D．whom

小題13:

A．will read B．reads C．a(chǎn)m reading D．read

小題14:

A．in front of B．over C．beside D．near

小題15:

A．playing B．dancing C．singing D．smiling