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A
Parents often believe that they have a good relationship with their teenagers. But last summer, Joanna and Henry noticed a change in the older son. Suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents. "The door to his room is always shut,"Joanna noted. 　　Tina and Mark noticed similar changes in their 14-year daughter. "She used to cuddle up（蜷伏）with me on the sofa and talk," said Mark. "Now we joke that she does this only when she wants something. Sometimes she wants to be treated like a little girl and sometimes like a young lady. The problem is figuring out which time is which." 　　Before age 11, children like to tell their parents what's on their minds. "In fact, parents are first on the list," said Michael Riera, author of Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers. "This completely changes during the ten years," Riera explained. "They talk to their friends first, then maybe their teachers and their parents last." 　　Parents who know what's going on in their teenagers' lives are in the best position to help them. To break down the wall of silence, parents should create chances to understand what their children want to say, and try to find ways to talk and write to them. And they must give their children a mental break, for children also need freedom, though young. Another thing parents should remember is that to be a friend, not a manager, with their children, is a better way to know them.
1. "The door to his room is always shut" suggests that the son ______.
	A. is always busy with his studies	B. doesn't want to be disturbed
	C. keeps himself away from his parents	D. begins to dislike his parents
2. What troubles Tina and Mark most is that ______.
	A. their daughter isn't as lovely as before
	B. they can't read their daughter's mind exactly
	C. they don't know what to say to their daughter
	D. their daughter talks with them only when she needs help
3. Which of the following best explains "the wall of silence" in the last paragraph?
	A. Teenagers talk a lot with their parents.
	B. Teenagers do not want to understand their parents.
	C. Teenagers do not talk much with their parents.
	D. Teenagers talk little about their lives.
4. What can be learned from the passage?
	A. Parents are unhappy about their growing children.
	B. Parents have suitable ways to talk with their teenagers.
	C. Parents should be patient with their silent teenagers.
	D. Parents should try to understand their teenagers.
B
Modern Chinese use the solar calendar（阳历）as English people do. But at the same time, they use their own lunar calendar（阴历）. Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals: the rat, the ox, the tiger, the hare, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the chicken, the dog and the pig. This list lasts for twelve years and then starts again. 　　Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon. And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month. The new year always starts between January 21 and February 20. On the last day of lunar year, there is a big family dinner. All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal, they have to travel many miles to get home of their parents. Everybody is very happy. After the dinner, the children keep awake to welcome the New Year. 　　The New Year celebrations last for 15 days, from the new moon to the full moon. On the first day, children and unmarried people go to visit their elders.
5. If next year is the year of the monkey, what was the name of last year?
	A. It was the year of the horse.	B. It was the year of the hare.
	C. It was the year of the rat.	D. It was the year of the ox.
6. Suppose that next Chinese New Year's Day is on 15th February, when will people have their big family dinner?
	A. On February 15.	B. On February 16.
	C. On February 14.	D. On February 13.
7. The family usually have their family dinner at the home of ______.
	A. the married son	B. the married daughter
	C. the unmarried son	D. the parents
8. People celebrate the New Year ______.
	A. for 15 days
	B. from the new moon to the full moon in the first month of the lunar year
	C. from January 21 to February 20
	D. both A and B
9. From this selection we know that each Chinese month is measured by ______.
	A. the sun's revolution（旋转）
	B. the moon's revolution
	C. the earth's revolution
	D. both the earth's and the moon's revolution
C
A four- year old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just lost her mother. Her pink clothes are full of blood and her eyes look at something only she can see. 　　Every day we see pictures like this on our televisions. We see Iraqi（伊拉克的）children begging for food and water from American and British soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad（巴格达）. We see these children following parents, carrying bags of almost the same size as their small bodies as they escape（逃亡）from their homes in Baghdad. 　　　They show just some of the lives that have been turned upside down by ongoing war and the terrible price paid by Iraqi children. "Dad, why are the Americans fighting against us? Are we going to be killed?" Asks the son of Abu Singar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight- year- old son. He tries to make him fell safe by saying "The bombs（炸弹）are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right." Even though Abu knows it isn't always true, little else can be done. In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to try and let them escape from the sound of bombs. And all the schools are closed. Now things are worse, and the ongoing war makes it impossible to count the number who are hungry, sick, hurt or even dead.
10. What happens to the children in Iraq because of the war?
	A. The children will get better than before.
	B. The children beg for food and water from American and British soldiers.
	C. The children in Iraq go away from their homes in Baghdad.
	D. The children live in a most terrible life.
11. What does the word “ongoing” mean in Chinese?
	A. 正在进行的	B. 非正义的
	C. 虐待俘虏的	D. 未授权的
12.The father doesn't tell the true thing to his child because ______.
	A. he wants to make his child not feel dangerous
	B. he and his child are afraid to lose each other in the war
	C. he doesn't want his child to believe American soldiers
	D. he will lose his country and his home
13. The war in Iraq tells us that ______.
	A. the Iraqi people in the war are much hungrier and worse
	B. we should help the Iraqi people build their country again
	C. nothing can be done except fighting
	D. Both A and B
14. What would be the title for the report?
	A. Iraqi children during the war
	B. Sickness, Dead in Iraq
	C. American and England Fight against Iraq
	D. A girl in the War in Iraq