Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Starting from this month, you won't be hearing the word "NBA" on sports programs on CCTV. Instead, sport hosts will give the full Chinese name when they refer to the NBA - National Basketball Association. You also won't hear any other English abbreviations on CCTV's Chinese programs, such as GDP (gross domestic product) or WTO (World Trade Organization). You will hear their Chinese translations. CCTV received a notice from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, telling it to avoid using English-language abbreviations in their reports to protect the "purity" of the Chinese language. A few other TV stations also received the notice. Fu Zhenguo, an editor of People's Daily, is one of the people who proposed the change. "Using English in a Chinese-speaking environment is against Chinese law," he said. "Using English on Chinese TV programs is unfair to people who don't understand English. It will have a bad language influence on kids and teenagers." But some experts have a different opinion. Liu Yaoying, a professor at the Communications University of China, said the move shows cultural conservatism . "If Western countries can accept some Chinglish words, why can't the Chinese language be mixed with English?" Liu said. A lot of people have criticized the move, saying that it will cause problems for them. "I understand what CD, VCD and DVD mean when I hear them. But I won't know what the TV programs are talking about if I hear those products' full Chinese names," a person wrote in a BBS post. Following the same post, another person wrote jokingly: "I'm not listening to my MP3 now. I'm listening to my Moving Picture Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3. Some people also question why CCTV is keeping its logo, since it is also an English abbreviation.

1. What does NBA stand for?
2. What about GDP?
3. And WTO?
4. Will those acronyms be used on CCTV?
5. Why not?
6. Who said that?
7. Was CCTV the only one to be told that?
8. How many other places got the message?
9. Is speaking English in China illegal?
10. Will acronyms have a good influence on children?
11. Where does Fu Zhenguo work?
12. And Liu Yaoying?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. National Basketball Association
2. gross domestic product
3. World Trade Organization
4. No
5. to protect the "purity" of the Chinese language.
6. the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television
7. No
8. A few
9. Yes
10. No
11. People's Daily
12. Communications University of China

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Robert lives in a small town. Five years ago, when he was nineteen, he finished middle school. He didn't like any subjects except playing when he was at school. Of course he learned nothing and the bosses wouldn't use a man like him. He has to stay at home, but doesn't do any housework, only watches TV or lies on bed. It makes his parents angry. They want him to study something, he always think it difficult and doesn't listen to them. One day Robert was walking near a bookshop while some young men were talking about the writers. He heard the publishing house pays the writers a lot. He became interested in it. As soon as he got home, he began to write. But he couldn't write anything. At last he bought a book and copied a story. Then he posted it to the publishing house. He waited for nearly half a year, but didn't get any answers. He had to ask an editor on the telephone, "Have you read my story yet, sir?" "Yes," said the editor, "I had read it before you were born! "

1. How old is Robert?
2. When did he get done with middle school?
3. How old was he then?
4. Was he good at school?
5. What was his favorite class?
6. What did he like?
7. Did he learn a lot?
8. Where does he live
9. Does he have a job?
10. Why not?
11. Does he help around the house?
12. What does he do?
13. How does his mom and dad feel?
14. What do they want him to do?
15. Why doesn't he?
16. What does he decide to try?
17. Where'd he get that idea/
18. What enticed him to try it?
19. Did he give something to a publisher?
20. Was it plagiarized?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 24
2. five years ago
3. 198
4. no
5. he didn't like any of them
6. playing
7. no
8. a small town
9. no
10. the bosses can't use him
11. no
12. watches TV
13. angry
14. study
15. it's difficult
16. writing
17. some men were talking about writers
18. he heard they are paid a lot
19. yes
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Once upon a time, there lived a Daddy bird. This was a very normal bird. It did not sing pretty songs. It did not have colorful feathers but it did have thing that made it stand out from the other birds.

It had a very long tail feather. And with this long tail feather, the bird could do wonderful tricks. He could fly in circles and fly at super-fast speed. Daddy bird lived on a quiet street, at a yellow house. Its nest was on top of a basketball pole that the kids who lived in the yellow house had outgrown.

The bird was a daddy bird and had two baby birds in its nest. One of the baby birds had a long tail feather like the daddy bird. The other baby bird did not. Instead, it had wings with many colors like the mommy bird.

This bird family lived at the yellow house all summer long. The mommy and daddy birds came back for many summers and had many more baby birds but only one, the very first baby bird, had a long tail feather and could do tricks like daddy bird.

1. What lived?
2. What kind of bird?
3. Did it sing songs?
4. But did it have colorful feathers?
5. What made it stand out?
6. And what could it do with that?
7. What kind of tricks?
8. Like what?
9. And what else?
10. Where'd he live?
11. In what?
12. And where was the nest?
13. What kind of basketball pole?
14. Did it have any children?
15. How many?
16. Were they like the daddy?
17. What was the different one like?
18. Like whom?
19. When did they live there?
20. Did they come back?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. a Daddy bird
2. a very normal bird
3. No
4. No
5. It had a very long tail feather.
6. tricks
7. wonderful
8. He could fly in circles
9. fly at super-fast speed
10. on a quiet street
11. a yellow house
12. on top of a basketball pole
13. One that the kids who lived in the yellow house had outgrown.
14. Yes
15. two
16. One was, one was not.
17. it had wings with many colors
18. the mommy bird.
19. all summer long
20. Yes