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1Thomas Barnardo was born in Ireland in 1845. He was not very successful at school, but he wanted to help people. He moved to London and started to study medicine. London was full of poor children at that time. Barnardo decided to help and opened a school for poor boys. The school was popular, Barnardo was a good teacher. He had a lot of ideas and all his ideas needed money.In 40 years he raised £3,250,000. It was huge amounts of money! Barnardo made friends with rich and important people, he wrote letters and made speeches. He started a club for Young Helpers with 34,000 teenage members who raised money for the poor children. He also sold photos of children before and after they received help. These pictures made his work famous, and showed people their money was really making the lives of poor children better.Barnardo opened not only schools, but homes for boys who had nowhere to go. Barnardo and his staff went into the streets looking for children who needed help. The boys learnt to make shoes and brushes, and earned money by carrying messages (there were no telephones then). In 1873, he opened his first home for girls—and later there was a Girls’ Village to help many more. It had 70 houses with 1,000 young women.Barnardo was so busy that he did not become a doctor until 1876. His next idea was to pay people to take care of homeless children so that they had families. He helped many more go to Canada and Australia (but not everyone thought this was a good idea). When Barnardo died in 1905, he had helped thousands and thousands of people and made their lives happier.99. Where did Barnardo study medicine?__________100. How was the school that Barnardo opened for poor boys?__________________________________________101. What did Barnardo do to raise some money for the poor children?___________________________________102. Did Barnardo open homes for poor children besides schools?__________________________________________103. How many young women were there in the Girls’ Village?_____________________________________________104. Why did Barnardo pay people to take care of homeless children?__________________________________________105. What do you think of Barnardo?_______________________________2More than 200,000 members of Beijing’s driving associations（协会）are being asked to leave their cars at home at least one day a month in the hope of improving air quality in the capital. Their aim is to reduce traffic jams and noise, and improve air quality as well. More than 100 Beijing-based drivers’ clubs started the work on Monday.―I love driving, but I’m ready to make more blue-sky days in Beijing,‖ said Lu Chuan, a film director and a former environmental ambassador (大使) who helped raise public awareness of pollution problems in China. Lu said he planned to make improvements to his car to make it more environmentally-friendly. He also plans to ride his bicycle and walk more often in the futureThere are more than 2.6 million motor vehicles in Beijing and the number is increasing by more than 1,000 a day, said Du Shaozhong, from the Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau (环保局). Motor vehicle emissions (排放) are the main cause of Beijing’s air pollution, Du said. According to the city’s environmentdepartment research, Beijing’s vehicles give out 3,600 tons of pollution each day. The ―no-car day‖ activity comes as Beijing tries to achieve 238 ―blue-sky days‖, or days with good air quality this year, five days more than last year.Beijing started the program called ―Protecting the Blue Sky‖ in 1998, when the city had only 100 days of blue sky.While the city has seen a big increase in the number of blue-sky days by moving chemical factories away from the city, it still faces many difficulties to improve its air quality. Most of them have a lot to do with air pollution caused by motor vehicles. The city has removed 4,000 old polluting buses and 30,000 polluting taxis from service this year and replaced them with vehicles meeting new, state emission standards (国家排放标准).The ―no-car day‖ was first introduced by 34 French cities that started the world’s first ―no-car day‖ on September 22, 1998.1.How often are members of Beijing’s driving associations asked to leave their carsat home?__________________________2.Lu Chuan agrees to help make more blue-sky days in Beijing, doesn’t he?__________________________3.What’s Lu’s plan to protect the environment besides making improvements to hiscar?__________________________4.What is the main cause of Beijing’s air pollution now?_________________________5.How many ―blue-sky days‖ did Beijing achieve last year?_________________________6.Why has Beijing removed 4,000 old polluting buses and 30,000 polluting taxisthis year?__________________________7.What do you think the writer of this passage tries to tell us?_________________________3It was midday when I got the call that my grandfather was not well and his condition was rapidly getting worse. My family did not know how long he had left. People had been visiting him throughout the day and were basically saying good-bye.I knew I had to get to the hospital to tell him how much I loved him. When I got to the hospital, I hurriedly searched for his hospital room. I walked to my grandfather’s bed and quietly whispered, ― Hello, Grandpa.‖I pulled up a chair and began talking to him. While I asked about his condition(状况), he told me, ― I’ll be fine. ‖ although we both knew that wasn’t true. Then he asked me with a smile how I was doing.I felt special when my grandpa wanted to know how I was doing. I knew I wasn’t there to tell him how I was doing. I made the decision that I had to show my thanks to him. I clutched his hand. From the expression on my face, he knew I had something important to say.Drawing nearer to him, I said, ― Grandpa, I have to tell you something.‖ By this time, the tears were streaming down my face. All of years of love that I had not let him know, had become free.I took a deep breath. In doing this, our eyes locked. Our eyes spoke more than words ever could. I burst out, ― Grandpa, I just want to let you know how much l love you. I hope you already know that; yet I just wante d to make sure. ‖He said smilingly, ― I know. Thank you for telling me that. All I have on this planet is my family and my love for them. If there is anything I could ask of you, I want you tobe good to your family. That’s all I want of you.‖ I promised him that I would.What I learned that day changed my life. From then on, I began telling people how much I love them, care for them, and respect (尊重)them.99．Who was badly ill at hospital?________________________________________________________ 100．Why did the writer go to the hospital?Because he wanted to ____________________________________. 101．What did Grandpa tell the writer when he was asked about his condition(状况)?He told the writer that____________________________________.102．― I’ll be fine.‖ shows Grandpa’s love to his family, doesn’t it?_____________________________________________________103．How did the writer feel when Grandpa asked what he was doing?He __________________________________________________. 104．What did Grandpa want the writer to do?He wanted him to _______________________________________. 105．What do you learn from the story?________________________________________________________4In 1998 a new game show came onto British television. It has become very popular. Towards the end of the first series, it had more than 18 million viewers (电视观众).The show has now started in America, Singapore, and Malaysia, as well as European countries. It’s called "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"Ten contestants take part in each programme. The person who answers a question in the shortest time is the first contestant. This contestant then plays for the million pound prize.The contestant must answer 15 multiple-choice questions. The questions come from a computer. It chooses them from a list of 2,500 possible questions. The contestant may leave the show at any time, and keep the money they have won.If they get the wrong answer, they fall back to either ￡1,000 or ￡32,000. Then the game is over. At any point, the contestant may use one (or more) of their three "lifelines". These are: 50:50--two of the four possible answers are taken away. Phone a friend--the contestants may speak to a friend or relative on the phone for 30 seconds to discuss the question.Ask the audience--the audience votes on the answer.Each lifeline may only be used once during a contestant’s whole game.1. What is the name of the new game show?2. Towards the end of the first series, how many people watched this programme on TV?Towards the end of the first series, ______people watched this programme on TV.3. When may the contestant leave the show?The contestant may leave the show ______.4. The show hasn’t become a very popular programme, has it?5. Who can play for the million pound prize?The person who can play for the million pound prize.5Bobby came from a poor family. He wanted to buy his mother a Christmas present, but he only had a dime (十分硬币). He walked from shop to shop and finally came toa flower shop. Bobby asked if he could buy just one flower for his mother as a Christmas present with a dime. The shop owner said, ―You just wait here and I’ll see what I can do for you.‖The shop owne r came out a little later with twelve beautiful roses. ―That will be ten cents, young man. I just happen to have some roses on sale for ten cents a dozen(一打). Would you like them?‖Bobby took the long box from the man’s hands and left the shop happily.As the shop owner returned inside, his wife asked, ―Who were you talking to and where are the roses you took out?‖The man replied, ―This morning while I was preparing to open the shop, I thought I heard a voice. It told me to put aside a dozen of my best roses for a special present and I did so. Then, just a few minutes ago, a little boy came into the shop and wanted to buy a flower for his mother with a dime. When I saw him, I remembered my experience many years ago. That time I was a poor boy with nothing to buy a Christmas present for my mother. A man that I didn’t know stopped me on the street and told me that he wanted to give me ten dollars. When I saw that little boy tonight,I knew whose voice that was, and I put together a dozen of my best roses. ‖99. The story took place just before Christmas, didn’t it?100. Who did Bobby want to buy a present for?101. How many flowers did Bobby want to buy at first?102. Were the roses in that flower shop on sale?103. How did Bobby feel when he left the flower shop?104. What did Bobby make the shop owner think of?105. What can we learn from the story?6More than 90% of the world’s population is right-handed. But if you’re left-handed, don’t feel alone in a right-handed world. There are hundreds of millions of left-handed people there!What makes a person left-handed (or right- handed)?Scientists aren’t sure why some people turn out to be left-handed. But they have discovered that being left-handed runs in families. Since you get all your genes(基因) from your parents, you might be left-handed because your parents are left-handed. But genes can’t be the whole story because some kids have right-handed parents and still become left-handed.Getting hurt can also make a person a left-handed one. Sometimes right-handed people badly hurt their right hand and can’t use it any more. They usually learn to use their left hand and become left-handed. Left-handed people can also become right-handed if they hurt their left hand. So it works both ways.Are left-handed people more creative?For both right-handed people and left-handed people, the brain has two parts called hemispheres (半球). One hemisphere is on the right of your head, and the other is on the left. The right hemisphere controls movement on the left half of the body, which includes the left hand. And the left hemisphere controls movements on the right. Creative thought (writing a song, drawing a picture) usually happens on the right side of the brain. So if you’re left-handed, you’re believed to have a lot of creative thoughtgoing on. However, it may be not true. The two sides of your brain work together when you think. So using your left hand doesn’t mean that you only think with only one side of your brain.Do you fit in a right-handed world?Since most people are right-handed, many things are designed to be used on someone’s right hand. Now, many companies make left-handed things, including scissors and even musical instruments. It’s easier for left-handed people to enjoy the life than before.99. How many people are left-handed people in the world?100. Why can’t genes be the whole story?Because some kids _______________________________________.101. When can’t right-handed people use their right hand?They can’t use their righ t hand______________________________.102. What does the left hemisphere control?It _____________________________________________________.103. Which side of your brain work when you think according to the passage?_______________________________________________________104. Using your left hand doesn’t mean that you think with only one side of your brain, does it?_____________, _______________________________________.105. What do you think of left-handed people?I think _________________________________________________.7Watching news about the environment on TV can make us feel sad. The problems seem so big that it’s difficult to imagin e how individuals (个人) can do anything about them. Rebecca Hosking, however, thought differently.Rebecca is a wildlife camerawoman and she was filming a documentary (纪录片) for the BBC in the Pacific Ocean when she saw something that made her cry – hundreds of dead birds that had died because they had accidentally (意外地) eaten the plastic thrown into the sea. People throw tons of plastic into the sea each year! Beaches on Pacific islands that should have been some of the most beautiful places in the world were covered with plastic toys, drinks bottles, pens, cigarette lighters --- every plastic thing you can think of.Rebecca decided that she had to do something. Back at home she thought about what she could do to help solve the problem of throwaway plastic. In her hometown of Modbury, she asked local shopkeepers if they could do one thing to help. She asked them to stop using plastic bags in their shops.Plastic bags are used everywhere in Britain – every supermarket every corner shop. The numbers are amazing. Britain uses nearly 17 billion plastic bags each year. And the bags can take hundreds of years to break down because they are chemical rather than natural so each year the sea and the environment become more and more polluted.To Rebecca’s surprise, the s hopkeepers agreed and Modbury became the first plastic bag free town in Britain. Instead, shops offered reusable cotton bags or biodegradable (生物可降解的) bags.Other towns followed Modbury’s example and towns around Britain and around the world are becoming plastic bag free. It won’t solve all of the world’s environmental problems but it shows that people are becoming active and starting to think abouthow the little things in their daily lives can have a big effect. It also shows us that there is something we can do and that one person can make a big change with a strong enough belief.93. Did Rebecca agree that individuals could do nothing about the big environmental problems?94. Why did the hundreds of birds die in the Pacific Ocean?95. The beaches on Pacific islands are no longer some of the most beautiful places, are they?96. How many plastic bags do people in Britain use each year?97. What does the sentence "The shop is plastic bag free" mean?It means the shop _________________________________.98. What can you learn from Rebecca's story?8He almost didn’t see the old lady stand on the side of theroad, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he stopped his car and got out, walked towards her.Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn’t look safe.He said, ―I am here to help you, ma’am. Why don’t you wait in the car where it is warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson.‖Well, all she had was a flat tire (爆胎), but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for the jerk, and changed the tire. But he had to get dirty, and his hands hurt.As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She was grateful(感激的) for his help.Bryan just smiled as he finished the work. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened if he had not stopped. Bryan never thought about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give the person the assistance he or she needed, and Bryan added, ―And think of me.‖He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed home, disappearing into the twilight.99．Why did the old lady stand on the side of the road?Because she .100. No one had stopped to help her for the last hour, had he?. 101．What’s wrong with the old lady’s car?It had . 102．How did Bryan help the old lady with the car?He crawled under the car . 103．How did the old lady feel when Bryan helped her?.104．Did Bryan ask the old lady to pay for what he had done for her?. 105．What do you learn from the story?.9There was a man who had a little boy that he loved very much. Every day after work the man would come home and play with the little boy. He would always spend all of his extra time playing with the little boy.One night, the man had extra work to do, and he wouldn’t be able to play with his little boy. However, he wanted to give the boy something to keep him busy. So, looking around his office, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an idea. he tore(撕) the map up into small pieces. Then he put all the pieces in his coat pocket.When he got home, the little boy came running to him and was ready to play. The man said that he had extra work to do and couldn’t play at the moment. He took out all the pi eces of the map, and said, ―It is a map of the world. By the time you put it back together, my extra work will have been finished, and we can play together.‖ Surely this would keep the child busy for hours, he thought.About half an hour later, the boy ca me to the man and said, ―Okay, it’s finished. Can we play now?‖The man was surprised and said, ―That’s impossible. Let’s go and see.‖ And sure enough, there was the picture of the world, and every piece was in its place.The man asked, ―How did you do that?‖ The boy said, ―It was simple. On the back of the map was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world fell into place.‖93. How would the man always spend his extra time after work?The man __________________________________________.94. Why wasn’t the man be able to play with the boy one night?Because he ________________________________________.95 The man brought back a magazine and asked the boy to read, didn’t he?__________, _______________________________________.96. What did the man do to keep the boy busy that night?He _______________________________________.97. How much time did it take the boy to put the map of the world back together?It ________________________________________________.98. What do you think of the boy?I think______________________________________________.10Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe (成熟) or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns (角) had not yet developed. A century later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today—a person who is new in a job.Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.The expression comes from early 1900s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues growing long after your plants have died.The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural（农业的）scientists who had green thumbs.Green is also the color used to describe the powerful feeling, jealousy (嫉妒). The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature（生物）from outer space. It is an expression firstly used about 400 years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play ―Othello‖. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.93. What does a greenhorn now refer to?94. Is the person with a green thumb good at growing plants?95. Who works hard and helps to develop new kinds of rice and other grains?96. People don’t use green to describe people’s feeling, do they?97. When was the expression ―the green-eyed monster‖ probably firstly used?98.What kind of person with the green-eyed monster do you think he/she is?。