Emma and Hannah are 13–year–old school girls from Minnesota,USA.They are good at making new thing s and both of them are also good at sales.They are selling charms(小裝飾物) made out of bottle caps.

    The girls came up with the idea last summer when they saw charms were popular with kids.

They talked with their parents about the idea.Since then they have sold enough charms to buy a bike for Hannah.

    The girls collect bottle caps and then clean them.They find some interesting pictures on the Internet or on paper,and then glue them onto the inside of the caps.There are different kinds of pictures,“Peace signs are popular with girls,and single–letter charms are popular with boys whose names start with those letters,”Emma and Hannah said.

    Now,charms can be found everywhere at Dakota Hills Middle School in Eagan.“Students put charms on purses,backpacks ,and their lunchboxes,”said Emma.Emma and Hannah also have a shop on the Internet.They hope they can sell their charms to more kids.They’re thinking about selling their charms at the Eagan Market Festival next summer.

    Their business is not only for getting money.At their Valentine’s sale,20%of the income( 收入) went to charity.

    1.What are Emma and Hannah?

      A.They’re waiters.                    B.They’re sellers.

      C.They’re students.                   D.They’re charm makers.

    2.When did the girls begin to sell the charms?

       A.About a year ago.                 B.About two months ago.

       C.Nearly fifty days ago.              D.Nearly five weeks ago.

    3.Which of the following may NOT be on the charms?

      A.Pictures.          B.Signs.        C.Letters.          D.Numbers.

4.What do Emma and Hannah hope to do now?

      A.They hope to become rich people.      B.They hope to give money to charity.

      C.They hope to sell more charms.        C.They hope to sell charms in every school.

    5.Which of th following is TRUE?

      A.The two girls love their parents and money.

      B.Boys like charms with signs.

      C.They won’t sell charms next smmer.

      D.The charms are popular with students.

用所給動詞的適當(dāng)形式填空：（15分）

1.She ought_____________(not catch) that bus because it’s often late.

2.His action attracted the famous __________(France) writer’s attention.

3.The war has led to _____________(lose) of many people’s lives.

4.“It has been the __________(nine) take!” The director shouted angrily.

5.Zhou Xun ___________(win) several awards for the Best Actress over the past few years.

6.Which is ____________(far) place you have been to?

7.By the time we got to the airport, the plane_____________(take )off.

8.________________(make) greater progress, working hard is the key.

9.The old scientist devoted all her time she had to ___________(develop) the western parts of China.

10.Who draws _____________(bad),Tom, you or Jim?

11.Rubbish had better_________________(not throw) here and there.

12.At the scene of the crime, no one wants to say anything to break the __________(silent).

13.While she was doing her homework, her parents ___________(quarrel) with each other.

14.Young girls should learn to protect ___________(they) from all kind of danger.

15.Today, holding the Olympic Games ____________(consider) as a rich prize for a country.

Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar for his adventure film Life of Pi at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California February 24, 2013.

　　Life of Pi shows a young Indian named Pi, who finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells their zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few animals. Only Pi escapes from the storm and floats in a lifeboat with a giant Bengal tiger.

　　“I really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this unbelievablejourney with me,” Lee said in his speech. The film also won three other Oscars, for best original music, best cinematography(電影藝術(shù)) and best visual(視覺) effects. It won more awards than Lincoln and Argo which were also among the hottest nominees.

　　Coming from China's Taiwan, the 58-year-old Lee won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001 for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and another for Best Director in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. He is the only person of Asian to win the directing award and one of the rare people who won that award more than once.

In an after-ceremony interview, Lee said he believed Asian films would come to the main stage of the world sooner or later. "I was born in Asia and grew up with Chinese education. It is natural for me to put Asian thinking into Western things." The film, which cost 120 million U.S. dollars, has earned nearly 600 million dollars worldwide. Lee said most of the earnings came from outside China. Lee said he felt warm that he won the award on the day of the Lantern Festival, a Chinese traditional festival on which families get together to solve puzzles on lanterns and eat Tang Yuan. He wished everyone a happy new year of the snake and everybody gets lucky.

1.What kind of film does Life of Pi belong to?

A．Comedies.                             B．Tragedies.

C．Detective films.                         D．Adventure films.

2.So far, how many Oscar directing awards has Ang Lee won?

A．One.                                 B．Two.

C．Three.                                D．Four.

3.How do Chinese people celebrate the Lantern Festival?

A．Families get together and have rice dumplings.

B．Children make lanterns out of big orange pumpkins.

C．People solve puzzles on lanterns and enjoy Tang Yuan.

D．Children go to the display of lanterns and receive red packets.

4.What can we know from the passage?

A．The 85th Academy Awards was held in Hollywood, California this year.

B．Pi was a young American who had an adventure trip with a tiger in India.

C．Lincoln and Argo won more awards than Life of Pi.

D．Asian films have come to the main stage of the world.

5.Which of the following about Life of Pi is true?

A．It was a great success as it won four Oscars.

B．It earned nearly 600 million dollars in China.

C．It describes Pi’s escape from a terrible earthquake.

D．It is the only successful film Ang Lee has ever made.