Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Different people have different hobbies. For example, some people like reading, some people like swimming and some people like collecting something and so on. I have many hobbies, such as reading, skating, and traveling. I used to read books in my free time. I like reading because I could learn much by reading. At that time, reading was part of my life. Every day, I spent most of my free time reading books, newspapers and magazines. At night, I could hardly get to sleep without a novel in my hand. But later I found I could only learn from books by reading. I couldn't get knowledge from others. I needed a _ . Traveling is my hobby now. I can visit many different places by traveling. I can learn a lot about people, geography and history. It's very interesting. I have many good friends. They all have their hobbies. Ann studies very hard. So her hobby is reading all kinds of books. Tony loves working with her hands, and his hobby is gardening. He usually plants flowers and trees in his yard. Judy is a quiet girl. She likes knitting . She always knits sweaters for her dolls. We have different hobbies, but we are all good friends. (5)
1. Who is a quiet girl?
2. Does Tony like to read?
3. What does he like?
4. And what does Judy like?
5. What does she knit?
6. Does anyone like to read?
7. Who likes to travel?
8. What other types of things do people enjoy?
9. What does Tony plant?
10. Does he study hard?
11. Who does?
12. What is her hobby?

Numbered answers:
1. Judy
2. No
3. gardening
4. knitting
5. sweaters for her dolls
6. Ann
7. I
8. some people like reading, some people like swimming and some people like collecting something and so on.
9. flowers and trees
10. unknown
11. Ann studies very hard
12. reading

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Twenty years ago, Americans were a rare sight in China. But decades later, things have changed greatly. Americans are found in every Chinese province and region and in all walks of life. Much of this change is due to the increasing exchange and improving relationship between the two countries, but what attracts many here is China's rapid development and the huge opportunities that have arisen with that development.

Erik Nilsson has been working for the English newspaper China Daily as a reporter for five years since his graduation from Central Michigan University. Although his original plan was to become a conflict zone reporter in Latin America, he decided to stay at China Daily

Robert Brownell, a former IT engineer with Microsoft in Seattle, is now teaching in China and appreciates the different atmosphere in the school. His actions are a lot less restricted here than they would be in the U.S. "For good students, I can give them candy," he explains. "But in American schools, if you give food to students, they have to be sealed and tested. In China I can pat them on the back and raise my voice. But in America, everything is regulated so much, you just can't do anything."

Kodi Keith Avila, the 30-year- old Hawaiian is running a business English school, New York Minutes, in Beijing. Avila first came to China in 2007 on a scholarship program as a student of University of Hawaii. It was encouragement from his professor that finally convinced him to go to China. "He thought China would overtake other countries in trade, consumption and technology," Avila said."I saw many good opportunities for personal careers or business development in China. So many limousines Audi, Mercedes-Benz, so many businessmen and skyscrapers. One can get a business license in China as long as one has a good business plan"he told China Today.

"I came to China because I am interested in Chinese medicine. Learning Chinese language will help me learn Chinese medicine," Caponigro told China Today. She is not alone among Americans in becoming more and more fascinated with Chinese culture.
1. Who is Robert Brownell?
2. What does he do now?
3. Where?
4. Does Erik Nilsson work in China?
5. Where does he work?
6. And how about Kodi Avila?
7. Are American people living in China common today?
8. Why is that?
9. And what particularly draws many of them to live there?
10. Has it always been this way?
11. When was it not?
12. What kind of opportunity does Avila see?
13. Are there cultural factors that draw American people there?
14. What is an example?
15. And another example?
16. Where is Avila from?
17. And his age?
18. When did he first come to China?
19. Who influenced his decision?
20. What did he say his reasoning was?

Numbered answers:
1. a former IT engineer
2. teaching
3. in China
4. no
5. England
6. Beijing.
7. yes
8. the increasing exchange and improving relationship
9. rapid development and huge opportunities
10. no
11. Twenty years ago
12. personal careers or business development
13. yes
14. Chinese medicine.
15. different atmosphere in school
16. hawaii
17. 30
18. 2007
19. his professor
20. the China would overtake other countries in trade, consumption and technology

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER IX

Miss Amanda Hill, teacher in the Middleville High School, sat wearily at her desk. She was tired, as tired as she had ever been on any day of the fifteen long years in which she had wrestled with the problems of school life. Her hair was iron gray and she bent a worn, sad, severe face over a mass of notes before her.

At that moment she was laboring under a perplexing question that was not by any means a new one. Only this time it had presented itself in a less insidious manner than usual, leaving no loophole for charitable imagination. Presently she looked up and rapped on her desk.

"These young ladies will remain after school is dismissed," she said, in her authoritative voice: "Bessy Bell--Rose Clymer--Gail Matthews--Helen Tremaine--Ruth Winthrop.... Also any other girls who are honest enough to admit knowledge of the notes found in Rose Clymer's desk."

The hush that fell over the schoolroom was broken by the gong in the main hall, sounding throughout the building. Then followed the noise of shutting books and closing desks, and the bustle and shuffling of anticipated dismissal.

In a front seat sat a girl who did not arise with the others, and as one by one several girls passed her desk with hurried step and embarrassed snicker she looked at them with purple, blazing eyes.

Miss Hill attended to her usual task with the papers of the day's lessons and the marking of the morrow's work before she glanced up at the five girls she had detained. They sat in widely separated sections of the room. Rose Clymer, pretty, fragile, curly-haired, occupied the front seat of the end row. Her face had no color and her small mouth was set in painful lines. Four seats across from her Bessy Bell leaned on her desk, with defiant calmness, and traces of scorn still in her expressive eyes. Gail Matthews looked frightened and Helen Tremaine was crying. Ruth Winthrop bent forward with her face buried in her arms.
1. Who was crying?
2. Where does this story take place?
3. What employee there is mentioned by name?
4. What's her job?
5. How long has she been employed?
6. She was a blonde?
7. What then?
8. Was she wide awake?
9. How did she feel?
10. Did someone get detention?
11. Who?
12. Why?
13. What sounds could be heard after the detention was announced?
14. Was it otherwise quiet?
15. Was someone scared?
16. Who?
Numbered answers:
1. Helen Tremaine
2. Middleville High School
3. Miss Amanda Hill
4. teacher
5. fifteen years
6. no
7. it was iron gray
8. no
9. She was tired
10. yes
11. Bessy Bell--Rose Clymer--Gail Matthews--Helen Tremaine--Ruth Winthrop
12. because of the notes found in Rose Clymer's desk
13. he gong in the main hall
14. no
15. yes
16. Gail Matthews