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     "Christmas comes but once a year" is a familiar phrase, and indeed for many people the 25th of December
is the highlight of the calendar (日歷).
     But for one British man once a year is not enough. Andy Park, who is better known by his nickname
Mr. Christmas, has celebrated Christmas every single day for the last 14 years.
     The 44-year-old electrician claims to have eaten a full roast dinner every day for the last decade and a half,
munching over 5 000 turkeys, 117 000 Brussels sprouts, and around 30 000 roast potatoes in the process.
     He also sends himself a Christmas card every day and looks forward to unwrapping a present he has
bought himself each evening, while watching the Queen's Speech.
     Mr. Park estimates his festive love costs him ￡150 (1570 yuan) a week. This year, however, he says he
is short of money for his celebrations due to the global financial crisis.
     His Christmas habit is affecting more than just his wallet. Mr. Park was previously warned by his doctor
that his Christmas addiction could kill him. His habit has caused his weight to 121kg.
     So how did Andy Park's strong desire for Christmas begin?
     "I'll never forget the day it started," said Mr. Park. "The sun was shining, but I was just feeling fed up and
bored, so I went home and put the decorations up. Suddenly I was happy. I thought, this is fun. So I did it
again the next day, and the day after that."

1. What's the best title for this text?

A. Mr. Christmas
B. Habit and weight
C. Christmas celebrations
D. A strong desire for Christmas

2. Which of the following underlined words in the text has the closest meaning to "eat"?

A. unwrap.
B. munch.
C. claim.
D. estimate.

3. What problem does Mr. Christmas now have?

A. His festive love costs him 150 pounds a week.
B. He doesn't have enough money for Christmas.
C. He often feels fed up and bored with his celebrations.
D. His doctor warned him against celebrating Christmas.

4. We can learn from Mr. Christmas's habit that _____.

A. every coin has two sides
B. all roads lead to Rome
C. there is no smoke without fire
D. an early bird catches worms

     During my high school years, the most important thing was what I was wearing to the Friday night dance
and who I was taking. Although college was talked about, it was the least of my worries. When I was
graduating eighth grade and starting high school, my older brother was graduating twelfth grade and going
onto college. For my graduation, he gave me a card in which he wrote,"Enjoy your four years... they go by
fast." I remember not believing him then, but looking back... he was right. Those four years shaped who I
was as a person, pushed me to my limit and encouraged me to become an adult.
      However, I was so completely absorbed in my junior and senior years of high school, that when someone
spoke of college I brushed it off. I wasn't ready to leave my comfort zone of having all of my closest friends
together and knowing what every single day was going to be like. Studying was something I did only AFTER
 I nailed my half-time dance performance. I knew my parents wanted me to go to college, so I told them I
would go to community college (社區(qū)學(xué)院) and I didn't worry about my SAT (美國(guó)大學(xué)入學(xué)考試) scores.
      When my senior year passed and everyone graduated and went off to their own colleges, I started to wish
I had done the same. My friends were living away, meeting new people, discovering new places, and I was
living at home and driving to and from class every day. It seemed exactly like high school. I hated it! I thought
college was supposed to be different! Why didn't I take more time to research colleges and do the same? I
ended up loving college and wishing I had four years to enjoy the campus (大學(xué)校園) atmosphere instead of
two.
     My advice to anyone thinking about attending college is to think about it very seriously and look into all of
your choices well ahead of time. Now I have graduated and I am working full time and I would do anything to
go back to my high school days for a second chance!

1. Why didn't the author worry about his SAT scores?

A. He wanted to go to community college.
B. He had been admitted for his gift in dance.
C. He was well prepared for the exam
D. He believed his brother would help him

2. When in high school, the author _____.

A. drove to and from class every day
B. buried himself in his study all the time
C. enjoyed talking about future college life
D. lived in the school except on holidays

3. what did the author's brother mean by "Enjoy your four years... they go by Fast"?

A. He wished the author to have more dance.
B. He advised the author to value the years.
C. He encouraged the author to leave his comfort zone.
D. He suggested the author aim at a community college.

4. Talking of his high school years, the author feels  _____.

A. regretful
B. lonely
C. angry
D. pleased

     Almost a year after Michael Jackson's death, the spirit of King of Pop appears to live on a 4-year-old
Chinese boy, who is fast becoming internationally popular.
     Wang Yiming, who is known as Xiao Bao, has already been making waves across the world with his
dance moves.
     A favorite of Chinese media, Xiao Bao draws curious crowds whenever he breaks into a dance routine,
which his mother says happens almost every time he hears music. "When he was young, we just started
playing music to him andhe started moving round like this," his mother said. "When he was just a couple
of months old, we would let him listen to music and he would immediately stop crying and calm down,"
she told Reuters Television.
     Xiao Bao was born prematurely (早產(chǎn)), and doctors suggested moving his body to music would do
good to him, but his parents were surprised by how quickly and interestedly he took to the rhythm.
     Dancing since he was two years old, he has now mastered the moonwalk and other Jackson moves,
such as Beat It, Billie Jean and Dangerous.
     Before long, his passion turned into an obsession (著迷)-the family spends up t0 20 000 yuan a month
on dance training with a professional and outfits including tailor-made suits, hats and shirts.
     Xiao Bao is serious about his dancing career and says he will not mind becoming famous one day. But
his parents say that no matter how talented their son is, his schooling will be their first choice.

1. What Xiao Bao's mother said suggested that _____.

A. she didn't expect her son to take up music
B. Xiao Bao had a strong love for music
C. she taught him music when Xiao Bao was young
D. she was very sad at the beginning

2. How did Xiao Bao's parents feel when they saw his reaction to music?

A. Amazed.
B. Happy.
C. Angry.
D. Anxious.

3. We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. his parents taught him the moonwalk
B. he began to perform on stage at two
C. moonwalk moves were first done by Jackson
D. his parents found him hard to please

4. The underlined word "outfits" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to _____.

A. clothes
B. shoes
C. bags
D. tools

     A middle-aged stranger visited us late on a dark rainy night when my father was working the night shift
(a job for a period during the night). The stranger asked if he could wait under the eaves of our roof for the
rain to stop. Then he disappeared, and we started hearing footsteps and creaking boards in the attic (the space
or room at the top of a building, under the roof, often used for storing things). Was the stranger inside our
house? My whole body couldn't help but stiffen. In my mind's eye, I could imagine the stranger pushing
through the attic door and approaching US.
     We immediately called Jerry, our neighbor, for help. He searched everywhere, but the visitor was nowhere
to be found. As Jerry looked in the garage, he found the stranger lying underneath the car. Jerry exclaimed
with fright, "You are not allowed to enter the house. Get off the property right now."
     We were determined to leave the house immediately. As we drove away, we saw the man blocking our
way on the road and staring at us. We had to change the direction to avoid meeting him. After that, I never
saw the stranger again.

1. The text is mainly about _____.

A. the neighbor Jerry
B. a strange dream
C. a strange visitor.
D. footsteps in the attic

2. Based on the text, which of the following statements is true?

A. The family hit the stranger with their car.
B. The stranger pushed through the family's door.
C. Jerry was hurrying back from the night shift.
D. The author's father wasn't at home that night.

3. Why did the family leave their house on a late, dark night?

A. It was raining hard and the eaves of their roof were broken.
B. There was a ghost wandering around the house.
C. They did not feel safe in their house.
D. The stranger was still somewhere inside the house.

4. The text was written in order of _____.

A. time
B. space
C. importance
D. age of the family

     Bobby Quails was shopping when he received a text message: Fire on Beechmont, one-story house, child
trapped inside. "I was picking out gifts for the family our engine house adopted for Christmas," remembers
Quails, who has been fighting fires in Memphis for 24 years. "I had this sinking feeling as I got in my car and
headed over."
     The last time Quails had been on Beeehmont Street was to install smoke detectors (感應(yīng)器) at the Bateman-
Tubbs home. He'd been on a secret task to see if they needed extra help during the holidays. There he discovered
that the four Bateman-Tubbs children were sleeping on bare mattresses (床墊), and he found two of the boys
playing outside in 30-degree weather with no shoes or coats.
     Quails learned that Leonard Tubbs was doing his best to make ends meet laying floors while Kimberly
Bateman stayed home with the kids.
     "When Bobby told me his team wanted to be Secret Santas and buy my kids toys, at first I thought we didn't
need any help," Bateman recalls. "It really touched me. I told him what the kids really needed was warm clothes,"
     That's exactly what Qualls was shopping for on December 9, 2010: winter jackets for Christopher, seven;
JoJo, four; Madison, one; and two-month-old Charles. While driving over to Beechmont Street, he dialed
Bateman's cell phone. She answered on the first ring, screaming, "The house is on fire-JoJo's trapped inside!"
     By the time Quails reached the house, the family had gotten out, but their home was severely damaged; His
coworkers had found JoJo hiding under a pile of clothes in a back bedroom. He had stopped breathing and had
been given CPR and rushed to the hospital. Quails learned that JoJo was now on life support and might not make
it through the night. He rushed to the hospital with Lt. Mark Eskew, who placed a stuffed teddy bear in a
firefighter's suit on JoJo's bed.
     "I just kept praying my little boy would open his eyes," Bateman recalls. "There was nothing else I could do.
They were pumping black and thick liquid out of his lungs and stomach for days."
     After a few days, though, JoJo regained consciousness, and the tubes were taken out of his throat. While he
began to slowly recover, the local newspaper and TV stations got hold of the story, and the Secret Santa Plan of
Quails and his fellow firefighters, snowballed. Before long, the fire station was overflowing with boxes of toys,
food, towels, and clothes. People called, wanting to donate furniture and appliances (電器) too. By December
23, Bateman and Tubbs had moved their kids into a new rental home. By Christmas Eve, JoJo was ready to
leave the hospital, and the firefighters were ready to deliver the family their very own Christmas miracle.
     "These guys aren't just firefighters," says Bateman, "they're our guardian angels. If they hadn't installed a
smoke detector that first day they came to our house, we wouldn't have known when the fire started. Then they
went the extra ten miles to give us a Christmas."

1. What did Quails do after he received a text message?

A. He drove to the burning house.
B. He hurried to the fire station.
C. He went to pick out gifts.
D. He went shopping in Beechmont.

2. Who saved JoJo out of the burning house?

A. Bobby Qualls.
B. Leonard Tubbs.
C. Kimberly Bateman.
D. Firefighters.

3. We can learn from the story that _____.

A. JoJo is a naughty child
B. smoke detectors are very useful
C. Tubbs' home is filled with gifts
D. the fire was caused by the bare mattress

4. The author wrote this story mainly to _____.

A. encourage people to install smoke detectors
B. advise people to take good care of their children
C. ask people to give gifts to the firemen
D. praise the firemen for their good deeds