【正文】 Do you value wisdo。 Check what you love doing in your spare time. Do you enjoy reading books? Maybe you want to try your hand at writing your own. Do you like a hot coffee at the end of the day? Maybe your hobby could be trying to make it at home. Turn what you already love into a hobby. Hobbies let you explore interests outside of your line of work. They let you be creative and try all kinds of new things. Picking a different one can get your creative juices flowing again.s advice to cut the beard off. 14．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。s wife was so happy. She advised Stan to cut that beard off many times, but he never did it. Now a simple question made him do that.（1）Stan was very famous for his long white beard. （2）Stan never cared about Zak, his grandson. （3）At the very beginning, Stan39。 Stan spent a sleepless night. In the morning, he was so tired and unhappy that he cut his long beard right off! He lift his beard from under the quilt and put it above it. This also didn39。 Stan got into bed that night and pulled up the quilt. Then he remembered his grandson39。m not sure. I never care about that, said his grandfather, I39。s grandfather, Stan was very famous. Why? Because he had a very, very, very long white beard （胡子）.D.a warmhearted teacherB.Six months.（3）Cindy thinks her host sister is ________. A.Five months.Four months.Three months.D.BillB.Mike My host mother is a wonderful cook! She makes me all kinds of traditional Chinese dishes. They are tasty and I like them very much. Just like me, my host parents love to learn about different cultures. They often ask me questions about life in America.Cindy, Germany I spent three months with my host family （接待家庭） in China. It was a lifetime experience. I was able to experience Chinese living and culture, from basic Tai Chi to Beijing Opera. I even visited a famous traditional Chinese medicine hospital. Now I have a better understanding of Chinese culture.Joanna, Australiaadults have to face the difficult decisions12．閱讀短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。s difficult for her to make a decisionC.B.I realized my mother had a happy time in Brazil herself.（3）The writer most probably wants to tell us that __________. A.I thought my mother might want to go home with us.C.easy（2）Which of the following sentences can be put in the blank in Paragraph 3? A.unusualdifficultexcited My mother is now back with us. But I will never forget what the experience has really taught me. I39。 During my fourthgrade Christmas break, we flew to Rio to visit her. Looking at her large empty apartment. It was then I started to understand the difficult choices she had to make. She needed to think about both family and work. Faced with difficult decisions, she used to tell me, you wouldn39。 For almost four years, my mother would call us from Brazil every day. Every evening I39。ve done well and allowing you to skip（跳） a grade, but you39。 growing conditions11．閱讀理解 D.show the difficulties of growing bananasB.Which diseases can kill bananas.（4）The passage is written to ________. A.How diseases can easily kill bananas.B.t be as tasty as before.（3）What does Paragraph 5 tell us? A.Bananas will not be able to grow any more.D.More countries will start to grow bananas.B.D.The convenience of eating bananas.B.People39。 Diseases are another danger to bananas. Unlike other crops, the bananas we grow e from shoot cuttings（莖段） rather than seeds. This means that all banana plants have the same genotype（基因型）. In other words, if a disease is able to kill one plant, it could kill them all.t bananas grow more easily if it39。s biggest producer of bananas, will produce fewer bananas. By 2050, the fruit may die out.s bananas. They found that climate change has improved growing conditions in 21 of these countries. In the past 60 years, the average yield（平均產(chǎn)量） has reached tons of bananas per hectare（公頃）.t have to wash them before eating them. However, British scientists say that the fruit may disappear by 2050. It39。change the screen of MegahonyakuD.sell Megahonyaku to foreign visitorsB.will be sold on December 20thD.may be popular with the policeB.D.C.B.the Japanese can learn other languages easily（2）The third paragraph is mainly about the ________ of Megahonyaku. A.Japanese panies can receive foreigners betterC. needs. Megahonyaku also includes a touch screen that allows users to choose the language they need their speech translated into.（1）Panasonic has produced Megahonyaku so that ________. A. The machine was designed to be used in places like transport stations, airports and places of interest where quick and exact announcements are needed most. Around 30 Japanese organizations, including the police and guides, have been trying out Megahonyaku for about one year, but Panasonic says it will e onto the market on December 20th. Instead of selling these speech translators, Panasonic plans on renting （出租） them out for less than $183 a month on a threeyear agreement, and offering users future improvements and necessary services.s a megaphone that can translate Japanese into several other languages in real time. When a user speaks Japanese into the megaphone, it recognizes （辨認） and translates what is being said immediately, and outputs the words in English, Chinese or Korean. To help Japanese panies better deal with the increasin