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French kids can be editors for a day

Can kids make their own newspapers? They do in Paris. Student editors at a French newspaper for kids called Mon Quotidien, do every day.

The ten-year-old newspaper sometimes sells 200,000 copies every day. It gets more than one million dollars every year! This is much more than many other newspapers.

　　How do they decide what to put in the paper? All the adult editors working on the children’s newspaper agree that the paper should be simple to read. Kids should be able to finish it within 10 minutes. The paper covers(報道) kids’ favorite subjects like school life, animals and science. It also talks about big world problems.

In order to make the paper more popular with kids, adult editors invite students aged 10 to 15 to join them. They have meetings every Wednesday and Sunday. Adult editors, reporters and kids sit together and decide which topics should come out in the paper and on which page. Which topic.ruiwen.come out on the front page, world news or bears in the zoo? Often the kid editors and adult editors disagree. Sometimes, the adult editors have to give up because their little editors won’t give in. Usually the student editors stay in the newspaper office for three hours at each meeting. Any kid in France can call the newspaper if they are interested in being a one-day editor.

根據短文內容判斷下面句子的正(T)誤(F)。

( )1. The French newspaper Mon Quotidien has a history of 10 years.

( )2. The newspaper is for the kids to create and practice, not to earn any money.

( )3. The editors of the newspaper are all kids.

( )4. The children can finish reading the newspaper within 10 minutes because it’s simple.

( )5. When the kids disagree with the adults editors, the adults have to give in most of the time.

B

In the near future, people in some parts of the world will watch a new kind of television. It is called the high definition television(高清晰度電視機) or the HD-TV. The main difference between an HD-TV and a normal television is the picture. It is more clear and detailed. This is because the HD-TV has many more points and lines that make a television image. Every color television picture contains thousands of red, green and blue points. They all come together as an image in the eye of the person watching. The points are organized in lines that go across the television screen. There are more than five hundred lines in a normal television. The HD-TV has two times as many. To get this clear picture, you must have a big screen. Experts say people using a small screen will see little difference.

The HD-TV also has clear sound. It is like the sound on a CD. All these improvements make an HD-TV very costly. One kind in Japan now sells for more than twenty thousand dollars. A major problem with the HD-TV is its broadcast signal(傳播信號). The signal is bigger than normal because it carries more electronic information.

根據短文內容,選擇最佳答案。

( )6. What is the main difference between an HD-TV and a normal television? It is _____.

A. the picture B. the shape

C. the voice D. the weight

( )7. What is a color TV image?

A. It is made up of thousands of red, green, and blue points.

B. Points are organized in lines that go across the TV screen.

C. It is a black and white picture.

D. Both A and B.

( )8. How many lines does an HD-TV have?

A. Over 250. B. More than 500.

C. More than 1,000. D. About 250.

( )9. What should you do if you want to get a clear and detailed picture from an HD-TV?

A. You must have the bigger signal for the HD-TV.

B. You have to get a big screen.

C. You should have a compact disc player.

D. Both A and B.

( )10. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. The HD-TV sets are not popular now because they are too expensive for most people.

B. The signal for the HD-TV is not bigger than that for the normal TV.

C. In the future the HD-TV will cost 10 times as much as it costs now.

D. Only Japan can make the HD-TV.

C

The students in America usually begin high school at the age of 13 or 14. Some leave at the age of 16. But most finish the 4-year high school study. They do not get their first full-time job or begin college studies until they are 17 or 18 years old.

The high school day is about 7 hours long. Part of the day is made into classes of about 50 minutes long. The students have lunch in the middle of the day. American students study English, history, math, science, art and languages. Some also learn job skills. They can learn how to use a computer or how to mend a car. Other students may learn by working in an office, a hospital or other places one day a week.

Jean Wilton Anderson is 16 years old. She lives with her parents and two younger brothers in Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington D. C. Jean studies at Walt Whitman High School. There are about 1,500 students at the school. Most of them will go up to colleges.

Jean wakes up early every morning. She begins school at about 7:30. This is her third year of high school. Every day she takes classes to learn English, world history, physics and trigonometry(三角學). And she plays the violin in music class. School ends at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Yet, Jean stays 2 or more hours longer every day for sports. Jean arrives home at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. She eats dinner. Then she starts her homework. She also spends a lot of time talking on the telephone with her friends. Students in America have their way of talking. They use the word “like” all the time. Jean and her girlfriends wear blue jeans and shirts or sweaters every day. The boys at her school also wear blue jeans. But they like to wear blue jeans that are several sizes larger for them.

Like students of her age in most part of the country, Jean begins to drive a car. She does not have her car. She must use the family’s car. Most of the students in high school have their own cars. Many of them drive their cars to school every day.

根據短文內容,選擇最佳答案。

( )11. When the students in America finish their high school, they _____.

A. are usually 17 or 18 years old

B. try to find the full-time job

C. all begin their college studies

D. are ready to leave the country

( )12. Which of the following is NOT true about the high school?

A. The school day usually lasts 7 hours.

B. The students only have 5 subjects to learn.

C. Each class will last 50 minutes.

D. The students can learn some skills out of the school.

( )13. Jean Wilton Anderson _____.

A. has a four-people family

B. lives in the centre of Washington D.C.

C. has studied in her school for 3 years

D. drives her own car at the age of 16

( )14. On a school day Jean Wilton Anderson _____.

A. has to get to school before 7:30 in the morning

B. takes classes for 10 subjects in the school

C. does some sports and homework after class

D. spends hours on the phone with her classmates

( )15. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Students in high schools use the word “like” very often.

B. The boy students wear blue jeans as the girls.

C. Many high school students go to school in their own cars.

D. Boy students wear jeans of larger size because they grow fast.

D

A man fell out of his plane and fell back into it again. Two people rowed(劃) a small boat from New York to England in 56 days. One person was so big that he wouldn’t fit in any hospital room. Would you believe these stories? Well, they may sound strange, but they did happen. James Cornell has more strange but true stories like these in a book called Very Strange People.

Here is part of the contents(目錄) of Very Strange People. The contents lists the names of the chapters(章) or parts of the book. It also tells on what page each chapter begins.

Chapter Page

One A Dog’s Life ........................................ 3

Two A Bomb-Again Pilot ............................. 14

Three High Wire Act(走鋼絲) ........................ 33

Four Fat Men ................................................ 41

Five Over the Falls ........................................ 43

Six The Unending House ............................ 53

Seven Row, Row, Row Your Boat ................. 60

Eight The Tower Builder ............................... 85

Unlike many reference(參考) materials, the table of contents is not arranged alphabetically(字母順序). The chapters are listed in the order that they appear in the book.

根據短文內容,選擇最佳答案。

( )16. In 1918, Captain Hedley fell off his plane in the sky, soon he fell back into it again! You may read about this story in Chapter _____.

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6

( )17. One morning in New York City, people saw a man walking on a rope between two tall buildings. You may read this story in Chapter _____.

A. 1 B. 3 C. 5 D. 6

( )18. The Earl feeds his dogs better than most people do. This story may begin on page _____.

A. 3 B. 33 C. 1 D. 53

( )19. Sarah thought she would die as soon as her house was finished. So she kept on adding more and more rooms. Her story may appear on page _____.

A. 3 B. 43 C. 53 D. 85

( )20. Because of his great size, Robert could not enter any hospital room. Which story appears behind this one?

A. A Bomb-Again Pilot.

B. The Tower Builder.

C. High Wire Act.

D. Over the Falls.

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1-5 TFFTF 6-10 ADCDA 11-15 ABCAD 16-20 ABACD