“The Big Apple”stands for New York City.

　　The phrase was first used in a 1909 book called“The Wayfarer in New York”It was used to show how rich New York is.

　　They said each city in America was an apple on a tree. But New York city, where most fans of their music lived, was“the big apple”. It was there they got the most pay.

　　In the 1970s, the city wanted to make itself more popular with tourists. It started to use an apple as its symbol.（象征）

　　Apples are also hot in the computer world. Apple Computer, a big company in America, uses a picture of an apple with a bite taken out of it as its logo. Some say that the bite（一口）means“learning knowledge”. Also,“bite”sounds similar to“byte（字節(jié)）,”a unit（單位）in computer science.

A．The apple can be used for city names.

B．“The Wayfarer in New York”came out in 1909.

C．New York people like eating big apples.

A．The use of“Big Apple”as another name for New York.

B．The Wayfarer in New York.

C．Jazz musicians.

(5) The word“hot”in the last paragraph（段落）means ________.

　　Kate has started a graph（圖表）to show the number of the bottles they have collected. This is the graph.

A．want to do something for their school

B．like empty bottles very much

C．want to sell them to buy balls

　　A visitor to India should remember that people there are impolite（不禮貌）to use the left hand for passing food at table. The left hand is used for washing yourself. Also in India, you might see a man shaking his head at another to show that he is disagreeing（不同意）. But in many parts of India, a rotating（轉(zhuǎn)動）movement of the head is to show agreement. In Bulgaria you shake your head to show“yes”, a nod to show“no”.

　　In Europe it is quite usual to cross your legs while sitting and talking to someone, even at an important meeting. But doing this could cause offence（反感）to a Thailander. Also touching the head of grown-up is just not done in Thailand.

　　Knowing about manners is useful when you are traveling, but you need to know the language used to express for ritual（禮節(jié)）.

A．not use your left hand to pass food at a table

B．use your left hand to pass food at a table

C．not use your left hand impolitely

(2) To shake your head means“Yes”________.

A．touching his head

B．crossing your legs while you are talking to him

C．shaking your head

A．only know its language

B．only know its manners

C．know its manners and its language

(5) You can infer（推斷）from the passage that ________.

A．the manners in Thailand are the same as in China

B．you should be careful not to cross your legs at an important meeting in Europe

C．you should not touch a grown-up's head in India

(2) The Shanghai Festival Ballet（芭蕾舞）will perform（表演）for_____ evenings.

(5) You can get ________ at Newton Theater during the interval（幕間休息）.

　　The Browns are the Smiths' neighbors. Mr. Brown's name is John. But when his neighbors talk about him, they call him Mr.“Going-to-do”. Do you know why? Mr. Brown always says he is going to do something, but be never does it.

　　 “I'm going to clean my house today,”he says, or “I'm going to wash my car tomorrow,”or“These trees in front of my house are too big. I'm going to cut them down next week.”But Mr. Smith knows his neighbor isn't going to do those things.

　　Mr. Smith often says to his only child Dick,“Are you going to do something? Then do it. Don't become another Mr. Going-to-do.”

(2) Who is“Mr. Going-to-do”?

(3) Why do people call John“Mr. Going-to-do”?

A．Because he is always going to do something.

B．Because he often says the sentence but never does it.

C．Because he is always busy.

A．Mr. Brown works harder than Mr. Smith.

B．It's easier for Mr. Brown to say than to do something.

C．Mr. Smith wants his son to learn from John.

　　Dick is six years old and begins to go to school this autumn. He studies hard and listens to his teachers carefully. He is polite（有禮貌的）and has a few friends. So they like him.

　　It's Saturday today. Dick, his sister Kate and his mother stay at home. His mother is doing some housework and he's watching TV and the girl is doing her homework. At ten, his father comes back with a bag of apples. The boy likes them very much and wants to eat some. His mother gives him four and says,“Go to wash them in the kitchen.”

　　Dick washes the apples and then gives them to his mother. The woman says,“Which apple do you want, Dick?”

　　“The biggest one, Mum.”

　　“What?”says his mother,“You should be polite and pick the little one.”

　　“Should I tell a lie just to be polite, Mum?”

A．Dick begins to go to school

B．Dick studies hard

C．Dick is a good boy

A．he's free

B．he wants the biggest one

C．he likes to do the housework

A．Dick doesn't want to be polite.

B．Dick wants to pick a little apple.

C．Dick wants to be honest（誠實的）.

閱讀理解

　　In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution（污染）. They join“environment clubs（環(huán)境俱樂部）”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean.

　　·No-garbage（垃圾）lunches. How much do you thrown away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school!

　　·No-car day. On a no-car day nobody comes to school in a car-not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember:

　　·Turn off the water! Did you know that some toilets can waste（浪費）twenty to forty m3 of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets.