In his lowest days when few people bought his records, Taiwan singer Steve Chou lived alone in Canada and did little. One day, he passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him. “My heart tells me that music is the thing I truly want to do, not for fame（名譽(yù)）or money,” Chou said. That’s how we luckily have such a music genius（天才）, who has since then composed（作曲）lots of hits for the pop music charts (排行榜). 

“Sometimes we need to get close to nature to look deeply into our souls and see what we really want to follow,” he said.

Recently he has made public his latest work Lovers Genesis. In this album（集）he explores human relationships in the Internet age. “Technology itself is a good thing, but it depends on how you’re going to use it,” is Chou’s advice to teenagers.

  Chou often gets his music ideas from trips. He has traveled to many places around the world and believes that learning a country’s language is the fastest way of experiencing the culture behind it.      

Chou has worked hard on learning English to push forward his music career(事業(yè)). He has flown to the UK to attend months-long English training schools three times. There he lives with local families and practices daily conversations.

  “So I could easily read the English instructions on recording machines and communicate with the local music producers,” said Chou, “The music reviews of the US or British singers that I appreciate（感激） could help me learn and grow with them.”

1.Which of the following about Steve Chou is the correct order?  

①. He made public his work Lovers Genesis.

②. He passed by a local CD store and heard a song that greatly attracted him.

③. He composed lots of hits for the pop music charts.

④. Few people bought his records.

A. ①②③④         B. ④②③①       C. ①③②④      D.④①③②

2.Why has Chou flown to the UK to learn English?

A. Because he wants to live in the UK.

B. Because his record company asks him to.

C. Because he wants to sell his album in the UK.

D. Because he thinks it will be helpful for his music career.

3.Steve Chou may agree with the following except that __________.

A. taking trips gives him some ideas of music

B. what we really want to follow is the most important

C. music is a thing that can bring him fame and money

D. in International age, technology itself is not a bad thing

4.What is Steve Chou like according to the passage?

A. Kind and helpful.                 B. Proud and confident.

C. Active and hard-working.       D. Calm and disappointed.

Future and Today

It is well known that everyone has his own dream as well as his own future. But do you know what future really is ? I have to say that future is now. That is to say we must treasure every minute now. If we want to have a bright future, we should know how important time is and use it well.

There is an old English saying: “Gain time, gain life.” Then what’s time? Time is something that we can’t see or touch, but we can feel it passing by. Time is always with us. When we are at table, time passes; when we play, time goes by unnoticeable. We always say “Time is money”, but time is even more precious(珍貴的)than money, because when money is spent , we can earn it back. But if time is gone away, it will never return. So, some of us even say time is priceless(無價(jià)的)

We should always remember: future is now. For us students, we should try our best to work hard in order to create a great future of our own. We should make the best use of every hour and be the master of today. We should do everything before us as well as possible. And never put off what can be done today till tomorrow。

As we all know, “Time and tide wait for no man.” If you waste today, you will regret tomorrow. So from now on, work hard. Tomorrow will be better, and your future will be brighter. Remember: “No pains, no gains.” Today’s hard work is the cause of tomorrow’s harvest

Title:  1.  and today

根據(jù)句意及首字母或漢語提示完成單詞。

1.If you go to the park in summer, you will enjoy v             flowers.

2.Tom，please throw the rubbish into the         （垃圾桶）.

3.You can’t see the words on the blackboard clearly. I can’t，e       .

4.If you agree with me，n        your head.

5.The students were s       the floor when Mr Wu came in.

6.The financial crisis (金融危機(jī)) made a great change to Americans’ e              lives.

7.With the help of my teacher , I have made great ________(進(jìn)步)in this term.

8.To tell you the ______(true), I felt sad when I missed the chance.

9.The police think the man in red is one of the ___________ (rob)

10.Our planet, Earth is becoming more and more crowded and _________ (pollute).

11.The teacher told us that light__________(travel) much faster than sound.

12.It’s necessary for us ______________(do)some exercise before the final exam.

13.We _____________ (run) outside when you called us at this time yesterday.

14.---Why not ________(buy) a toy car for your son .

    ---Good idea. He must like it very much .

15.Linda spends as much time as she can _____________(practice) reading English.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容及首字母提示，填寫所缺單詞，使短文意思完整。每空限一詞。

Air is very important to everything that lives. But the air we breathe is g  1.   dirty. People all over the world are looking for w  2.   to make it clean again.

Have you ever watched the smoke from chimneys(煙囪) r  3.   high in the air? Have you s   4.___ the smoke from cars and trucks on roads or the smoke from planes? The smoke is h  5.   to everyone, especially old people and children. If we want to keep well and strong, we need to breathe f  6.   air.

With more and m   7.   factories everywhere and more and more cars, trucks and planes, it is getting harder and harder to do with the air p  8.   .

Scientists have a 9.   found ways to stop or slow down some of the things that make the air dirty. They will not stop working u  10.  we have clean air again.

根據(jù)所給提示完成下列句子。

1.我認(rèn)為動作片中的一些打斗對人們有壞的影響，特別是青少年。

I think fights in action films ________________________ , especially teenagers..

2.他把他的一生都投入到保護(hù)環(huán)境上去了。

He ________________________________________ the environment.

3.在火星上，食物是以片劑的形式出現(xiàn)。

Food on Mars is                                                   .

4.你知道未來的火星生活是什么樣的嗎？

Do you know                                                         ?

5.讓機(jī)器人為我們做所有的家務(wù)真是太妙了。

It’s great to                                                          .

目前有不少學(xué)生擁有自己的手機(jī)，青少年俱樂部關(guān)于這個(gè)問題做了一個(gè)調(diào)查，并收集了關(guān)于學(xué)生擁有手機(jī)的優(yōu)點(diǎn)和不足，請根據(jù)調(diào)查的信息，談?wù)勛约旱母惺芎涂捶ā?/p>

要求：1.詞數(shù)80個(gè)左右，開頭已經(jīng)給出不計(jì)入總數(shù)。

      2.內(nèi)容必須包括上面的要點(diǎn)，自己適當(dāng)加入個(gè)人的觀點(diǎn)。

      3.條理清楚，語句連貫。

Now more and more students have mobile phones._______________________

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_____________.

---Natural disasters are dangerous!

      ---Yes,________ earthquake that happened in Philippines killed _______ number of people.

A. the; the          B. the; a           C. an; the       D. an; an

I haven’t had enough _______recently, so I’m always _______all day.

A．sleep, sleeping B．a(chǎn)sleep, sleepy   C．sleepy, sleep  D．sleep, sleepy

Would you like coffee, coke________ milk?

---__________________.Just some green tea, please.

A. and; none     B. or; none       C. and; no one    D. or; No one

---When did you arrive the day before yesterday?

      --_________2:30p.m.________3:00p.m.

A. From; to         B. At; at           C. Between ;and   D./;/