【正文】 areless peaceful, having a good manner, a business head but cold emotion active, outgoing, popular but selfish fascinating(迷人的), thoughtful, but doubtful active, selfconfident, wise but proud and angry kind, helpful, elegant but sad wide, clever, warm, unsatisfied but slick(圓滑的) confident, helpful, happy, but dressy realistic, loyal(忠誠的), practical hard, honest, simple, lucky but careless31. When a baby is born in 2008, we can say he or she is a little .A. pig B. rat C. tiger D. snake32. If we call a boy a little horse, when was he born? A. In 1998. B. In 2000. C. In 2002. D. In 2004.33. Mr Lu, our English teacher, was born in 1976, a dragon year. Can you choose the right description of his characteristics? A. He is a active, selfconfident, resourceful but proud and angry B. He is kind, helpful, artistic but sad C. He is active, outgoing, popular but selfish D. He is fascinating, thoughtful but dressy and doubtful34. If someone is brave, confident but careless, we can guess he was born in a year. A. rat B. dog C. horse D. tiger35. Which of the following is not True? A. In China, when me talk about “Shuxiang”, it means twelve animals. B. From the passage, we can know 2010 is a hare year. C. Shuxiang perhaps brings you good luck, but we shouldn’t believe it. D. A cock year always es after a monkey year.CMillions of words have been written about young people in the United States. There are reasons for this great interest in the ideas, feelings, and actions of youth.Today there are about seven million Americans in colleges and universities. Young persons under twenty —five make up nearly half of the American population. Many of these will soon be in charge of the nation. Naturally their ideas are important to everyone in the country, and it is necessary for old people to understand what they think and feel.College students today have strong opinions（見解） about right and wrong. They are deeply interested in making a better life for people, especially for the lives of their parents. It is hard for them to see what is right and good in the older ways. As a result, there is often trouble in American families. Your country may be meeting such problems, too.36. The writer shows his great interest towards .A. the trouble in some American families B. the youthC. older people D. the poor in the country37. It is necessary for old people to understand what young people think and feel because .A. about seven million Americans are youngB. twentyfive percent of Americans are young C. many of young people will bee important for the nationD. they often make mistakes 38 . According to the passage, old people must try .A. to understand their childrenB. to teach their children how to think and actC. to be strict with their childrenD. to write more about families39. The phrase “in charge of” is closest to .A. set up B. get on C. decide D. control 40. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. There are often disagreements between the old and the young in American families.B. There are some people in America who have not been given a fair chance .C. It seems that America is the only country in the world which has family trouble.D. People are usually interested in the ideas, feelings and actions of youth.DA teacher from a Western country has recently visited an elementary school in an Eastern country. In one class, she watched sixty young children as they learned to draw a cat. The teacher drew a big O on the blackboard, and the sixty students copied it on their paper. The teacher drew a smaller O on the top of the first O and then put two on top of it. The children drew in the same way. The lesson went on until there were sixtyone similar cats in the classroom. Each student’s cat looked exactly like the one on the board.The visiting teacher watched the lesson and was greatly surprised. The teaching method was very different from that in her own country. A children’s art lesson in her own country produced a roomful of pictures, and each is quite different from others. Why? What makes this difference? In a classroom in any country, a teacher teaches not only knowledge of history or language. But also the ideas.In some countries such as the United States and Canada etc, people think highly of individualismthe differences between people. The teachers think it very important to make each student different from others. Educational systems in these countries don’t ask students to memorize dull information. Instead, students are asked to work by themselves and find answers themselves. The students are helped to learn to have their own ideas even at an early age.But in countries such as China and Japan, the two peoples have similar history and culture. Perhaps because of this, people think highly of group goals rather than individualism. Students in China and Japan often work together and help each other in the classroom, The teachers teach and the students listen. The students are asked to memorize a lot. They have to learn the same textbook. They do the same homework and give the same answers.There are advantages and disadvantages of both educational systems. For example, one advantage of that in Japan is that students there learn more maths and science than American students by the end of high school. They also study more hours each day and more days each year than Americans. There is , however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, yet many students say that after an exam, they forget much of what they have learned. The advantage of the educational system in America is that students learn to think by themselves. The teaching method makes them be more creative. But there is also a disadvantage. When students leave high school,