Traveling has been popular with people for a long time. Many of today’s travelers are trying to find an unusual experience or adventure. Hiking may be a good choice.
Instead of spending your vacation on a bus, in a hotel or sitting on the beach, you may want to try hiking. Hiking is a great way to travel. You will get close to nature and take exercise at the same time. Hiking is easy to do and doesn’t have to be very expensive. The basic equipments (设备) you need for hiking are simple: good shoes, clothes and a backpack. You can hike in the mountains, in a forest or along a river. You can also go for a hike in the city.
Hiking is fun and exciting, but you shouldn’t forget safety. Here are some basic tips for successful hiking:
Don’t hike alone.
Bring water, a good map and a mobile phone.
Wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun.
Answer the questions according to the passage.
【小题1】Is hiking a good way to get close to nature? _______________________ .
【小题2】What basic equipments do you need if you go hiking? ______________ .
【小题3】Where can you hike according to the passage? ___________________ .
【小题4】How many tips on hiking are there in the passage? ________________ .
【小题5】What shouldn’t you forget during a hiking? ________________ .

Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.

     Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.

     Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.

     "I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."

1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?

A. The Statue of Liberty.                 B. Superman.

C. His serf-portrait.                     D. A Greenwich Village modal.

2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?

A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.

B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.

C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.

D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.

3. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Nathan's work.                       B. Nathan's exhibition.

C. Nathan's art.                         D. Nathan's self-portrait

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Brick Artist                      B. The Brick Exhibition

C. Toy Bricks for Adults                  D. The Artist's Childhood

When I was a little girl, I lived with my grandparents in a small village(村庄).The life there was  41 , and I liked it very much. I had many friends and I liked playing with them  42 . After rainy days, there was much  43  in the river(河) near our house. I often went there to get  44  with my friends. I had  45 fun living there.
Now I live in a big city. I study in a school, but I  46  my life here. It’s too busy and it often makes me very 47 . Now the most interesting thing for me is to go to my grandparents’ home to 48 my vacation. Every time I can’t  49  to go there. I  50  a quiet life. I hope to live in a village when I’m older. 
【小题1】A. boring              B. relaxing         C. terrible
【小题2】A. with              B. from                 C. outside
【小题3】A. ice             B. water                C. food
【小题4】 A. fish             B. meat             C. chicken
【小题5】A. kind of             B. a little            C. lots of
【小题6】A. enjoy               B. dislike             C. improve
【小题7】A. dirty               B. tired                C. happy
【小题8】A. spend              B. describe         C. remember
【小题9】A. like              B. want                C. wait
【小题10】 A. order              B. need             C. think

Six years ago, Ann graduated（毕业）from college with a degree of Art. Now she is twenty-nine and works for a large computer company. She takes classes twice a week after work. She is learning to use the computer program PowerPoint. “I enjoyed the college, but my job doesn’t use the information I learned at college,” Ann says. “The course is helping me to do my job better.”

Ann’s sixty-year-old mother and father are taking courses in Art and Music. “We love these two subjects. Learning is so much fun,” they say happily. “It’s never too old to learn.”

1. Ann graduated from college when she was ??? .

A. twenty-nine???????? B. twenty-six?????? C. twenty-three?????? D. twenty

2.The underlined word ‘degree’ means ‘??? ’ in Chinese.

A.温度?????????????? B. 程度??????????? C. 学位??????????? D. 位置

3. More people are taking training courses after work in order to ??? .

A. improve their working skills??????? B. enjoy Art and Music

C. study computer programs????????? D. make more money

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Ann doesn’t want to use the information she learned at college.

B. People in the past usually stopped studying after graduating from college.

C. People can only get information from their teachers.

D. Ann’s parents are too old to learn Art and Music.