The famous Chinese mathematician(數(shù)學家) Hua Luogeng was born in Jintan County, Jiangsu province in 1910. When he was young, life was very difficult for his family. Still, the boy took great interest in math.
In the summer of 1931, he was fortunate(幸運的) enough to become an assistant in the Math Department(系) of Qinghua University, where he spent every moment he could find working and studying, and he finished his compulsory(必修的) math course all by himself in only 13 months!
Between the years of 1936 and 1938, he was further studying in Cambridge University in the U.K. In 1950, together with his family, he returned to China from the USA. He said, “I’m Chinese, and I’ll do my best for my motherland.”
So he did. He devoted(貢獻) all his life to the math study and won the great fame(榮譽) for our country.
He died for heart trouble in 1985 while lecturing in Japan. People will always remember him as a great scientist.
【小題1】 Which of the following is not true?
Hua Luogeng is a famous Chinese mathematician.
Hua Luogeng died in China.
Hua Luogeng was born in Jingtan County.
Hua Luogeng comes from Jiangsu.
【小題2】 The word “assistant”in this passage means “____” in Chinese.
幫手    B.服務員    C.助教     D.教授
【小題3】Hua Luogeng was ____ in 1937. Which of the following cannot be chosen?

JOLIN Tsai (蔡依林), a famous singer, has become an English teacher! But she is not staying in a classroom to give you talks in English. Instead, she has published (出版) a new book, "Jolin’s English Diary Book". It came out in Taiwan in March. Jolin is helping you learn English in a light hearted way and give you useful words for life outside your textbooks.
　　"I hope it’s a happy English book," she said, "When you learn English in a fun way, you will keep on doing it." This certainly doesn’t mean just reciting (背誦) words. Jolin has a lot of clever ways of learning. She likes to listen to English songs or find friends to talk to in English. She has been good at English since Grade 3 in primary school (小學). Because of this, she hosted (主持) news programme on the radio herself.
　　Jolin knows it’s important to put English to good use. So, in her English diaries, she wrote something about her everyday life, like study, fashion (時尚), travel and family. After each diary, she gives you lots of notea.You can use them often, too! Jolin also asks you to keep diaries like hers.
【小題1】 When did Jolin Tsai publish "Jolin’s English Diary Book" ?

A funny thing happened to my sister Tina last month. She lives in Japan and teaches English. In Japan, people don’t usually wear their outdoor shoes in the house or in school, and a lot of buildings have places for shoes. So her school ahs a special place for shoes.      【小題1】         
Tina teaches English in the evening. One Friday, she went to school, and she put her shoes in the shoe box—as usual. Then she had an interesting spoken English class with her students.   【小題2】       But to her surprise, her shoes weren’t in the box. There was only one pair of those there, and they weren’t her hoes! She had to get home in a hurry.     【小題3】         
On Monday, at her next English class, her shoes were in a shopping bag on her desk! There was a note that said, “I’m so sorry. I took your shoes by mistake!”    【小題4】      Somebody felt a lot of shame!

More than a hundred years ago, an American produced a game. He called it indoor tennis. The Americans were not interested in it at first so he sent it to his London friends and it became very popular in Britain.The game was then played across the dining room table, or on the floor with the net hung between two chairs. The balls were made of cork or rubber.The bats were made of wood.
A few years later a hollow ball like the one we use today was invented. The game then quickly spread all over the world. An Englishman once made a bat covered with rubber. He first played the game in England and called it “ping-pong”. “Ping”was the sound of the bat when it hit the ball. and “pong” was the sound of the ball when it hit the table.
【小題1】Who invented the game of ping-pong?
A  A Chinese  B An Englishman  C An American  D We don’t know
【小題2】The game was first known as_________.
A ping-pong tennis   B  table tennis
C outdoor tennis     D indoor tennis
【小題3】What did the British think of the game?
A Moving  B Interesting  C Terrible  D Well
【小題4】In the early days the ball was ______________.
A hollow       B covered with rubber
C made of cork and rubber  D made of plastics
【小題5】The name of ping-pong has something to do with_______.
A sound  B size  C history  D  place

A man once had a dream about the Black Forest in Germany. In his dream he was walking in the forest when two men ran out and tried to throw him to the ground. He ran off as fast as he could,but they followed him. He reached a place where he saw two road in front of him,one to the right and the other to the left. Which road should he take?He heard the two men behind him, getting nearer, and at the same time he heard a voice in his ear. It told him to go to the right,and he did so. He ran on and soon came to a small hotel. He was received there kindly and given a room,and he was saved from the two men. That was the dream.
Twenty years later he was really in the Black Forest and , as happened in the dream long ago, two men ran out and tried to throw him down. He ran off, and came to a place with two roads, like in the dreams. He remembered the dream and took the road to the right. He soon reached a small hotel , was taken in, and so was safe. His dream of twenty years before had saved his life.
【小題1】The Black Forest is ____________.

Mike is seven years old now and begins(開始) to go to school. His father is a driver and takes him to school in his car. Mike studies very hard(努力地) and all his teachers like him very  much.
One day, Miss White teaches the students to count from one to ten. Mike can count them. Miss White is happy and asks him, “How many people(人) are there(有) in your family, Mike?”
“Two, Miss White, ” Mike says.
“Who are they?”
“My father and mother.”
“Oh?” Miss White is surprised(吃驚地). She says, “But I think there are three people in your family—your father, your mother and you. Am I right?”
“No. I’m not at home now. I’m at school, you know!” Mike says.
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。
【小題1】Mike is           years old.
A. 6                     B. 7                      C. 8
【小題2】Mike’s father is a          .
A. teacher          B. doctor                   C. driver
【小題3】Mike goes to school          .
A. with his mother      B. with his classmates     C. in a car
【小題4】Mike is           now.
A. at school            B. at home                  C. in his father’s office
【小題5】The word “count” means (意思是)“        ” in Chinese.
A. 讀                B. 數(shù)                    C. 寫

Once there was a piano player in a bar(酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
‘I don’t sing,’ said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, ‘I’m tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!’
The waiter shouted across the room, ‘Hey, friend! If you want to get your money, sing a song!’
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent(天賦) he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
【小題1】The lady asked the player to sing a song because ______________.

Lang Lang, the young Chinese pianist, was born in Shenyang in 1982. He began to play the piano when he was 3. At the age of 5, he won first place in a piano competition in Shenyang. People thought he was a genius(天才). From then on, playing the piano became the dream of Lang and his parents.
When Lang was 9 years old, he and his father went to Beijing to study piano. His father even left his work. Although he endured(忍受) great pressure(壓力), Lang never gave up his dream of becoming a concert pianist. When he was 17, Lang became famous after he played in a great concert in Chicago, US.
Now 28-year-old Lang is famous all over the world for his great performances. He played at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He was also one of Times magazine’s 100 Most Influential(有影響力的) People in the World in 2009. He is one of the world’s great musicians.
【小題1】What does Lang Lang do?

In China，people born in and after the 1980s are called the post-80s generation(一代人)．Most of them come from single-child families．However，this generation is playing a more and more important part in China，and their image(形象) in people’s minds is changing．Han Han，a popular youth writer，is one of them．
Han Han was born in 1982 in Shanghai．His talent for writing was clear at an early age．When he was 17，he attracted the public’s attention with the article Viewing the People throughthe Glass．The article won first prize in the national New Concept Composition Competition．Later，Han Han again surprised the public by leaving high school．“I didn’t do well in Grade One of high school and failed to move up to the next grade．I tried my best to improve my studies，but failed，so I gave up．However，I am always learning，since learning and going to school are two different things,” Han Han said．
Han Han’s first novel Three Folded Gates sold very well in China．Later the book was translated(翻譯)into several languages and sold abroad．
In the following years，Han Han wrote a lot of books．All of them were welcomed by the market．In 2006，he started blogging (寫博客)and had great success．Today，Han Han’s blog has become one of the honest blogs on the Internet．
【小題1】The post-80s generation        ．