A．at 5 o'clock in the afternoon

B．for high price

C．at 9 o'clock in the morning

A．Face to Face and Romantic Dream.

B．Happy Family and China Music.

C．Chinese Mothers and Happy Family.

　　Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. One day he went to the cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He bought a ticket and then went in. But after two or three minutes he came out, bought a second ticket and went in again. After a few minutes he came out again and bought a third ticket. Two or three minutes later he came out and asked for another ticket. Then the girl in the ticket office asked him,“Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends do you meet?”Tom answered,“No, I have no friend here. But a big boy always stops me at the door and tears（撕）my ticket to pieces.”

A．it was the big boy's job

B．the big boy didn't like Tom

C．the big boy didn't know Tom

A．the little boy had a lot of money

B．the little boy knew nothing about the cinema

C．the big boy wasn't friendly to Tom

A．Tarn bought the tickets for himself.

B．Tom didn't go to the cinema before.

C．Tom was too young to make friends.

　　In Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹）, the capital of Holland（荷蘭）, there is an unusual children restaurant. Children run（經(jīng)營）it. From the manager（經(jīng)理）to the cooks and waiters（服務(wù)員）, all members（成員）are children from 6 to 12 years old. They themselves do all the work such as cooking and cleaning. These children are from Amsterdam. After learning, they may work in the restaurant for four weeks. All of them are willing to be there. They are very proud（為…驕傲）of their work .

　　A woman cook founded（建立）restaurant in 1983. She wanted to give the children a chance to learn something useful for others. And now she is the only adult（成年人）there, and her job is just to take care of the children.

A．can get only five dollars a day

B．just have lunch

C．like working there

A．go at once

B．ask for a table a few months before you eat there.

C．visit on Friday evenings.

　　Americans have their own ways of cooking. For example, baking（烘烤）is the most popular way of cooking food in America. A meal often has roast meat（烤肉）and other baked food. So Americans find it is not possible to live without an oven（烤箱）. American cooks pay attention to the balance（平衡）of food. In planning a big meal they try to cook meat, a few vegetables, some bread and often some sweet food. They also like to make the meal look beautiful. There are several different colors of food on the plate, so the meal looks beautiful and healthy.

A．Fast food in America

B．The importance of the Breakfast

C．American Cooking

A．Fast food in America

B．The importance of the Breakfast

C．American Cooking

A．a cup of coffee, an ice - cream and a beef sandwich

B．a fresh fruit and rice with chicken

C．a chocolate and a chicken sandwich

A．a beef sandwich and an ice-cream

B．an egg sandwich and a glass of coke

C．a fish sandwich and a cup of tea.

　　“Cool”is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meaning.

　　“Cool”can be used to express of interest in almost anything.

　　When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say,“It's cool.”You may think, “He's so cool,”when you see your favorite footballer.

　　We all maximize（擴大）the meaning of“cool”. You can use it instead of many words such as “new”or “surprising”. Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. paper was Just the one sentence, “It's so cool. Maybe he thought it was the best way to Show what he saw and felt.”

　　But the story also shows a scarcity（缺乏）of words. Without“cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility（可信性）.Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word“cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.

(1) We know that the word“cool”has had ________.

A．only one meaning

B．no meanings

C．many different meanings

(2) In the passage, the word“express”means“________”.

(3) If you are ________ something, you may say,“It's cool.”

(5) In the passage, the writer suggests（暗示）that the word“cool”________.

A．can be used instead of many words

B．usually means something interesting

C．may not be as cool as it seems

　　Bill Gates, the richest person of he world, is head of a software company（微軟公司）, Microsoft. Bill was born in 1955, and he wrote his first software at high school（高中）. When he was a student at Harvard University（哈佛大學(xué)）, he wanted to start his own company, so he left the university. After many years of hard work, Gates became the richest person in the world in 1998.

　　When Bill was in high school, his high school friend Paul Allen thought that the computer in the school was very slow. So they wanted to make it work faster. Gates and Allen wrote software for the computer. Then they left（離開）University early to start their own company called Microsoft in 1980, Gates went into business（商業(yè)，貿(mào)易）with IBM computers. He wrote software for IBM computers. IBM also helped Microsoft to sell the software to other computer companies.

　　In 1987, the company's software made Bill Gates the world's youngest and richest man at 31. Now his company makes, software for about 80％ of the world's computers.

　　Bill Gates can live an easy（舒適）life. But Gates says that he plans to work in his company for another 20 years.

A．at school

B．with an old high-school friend

C．with his son