Last week our reporters asked how people prefer to shop．People were asked where they preferred to shop，what they bought，and about advantages and disadvantages．

Larry is a twenty-seven-year-old engineer．He buys all his food，clothes and other things he needs in the shops near his home．He likes the friendly shop owners and the fresh food．However，he says there are two main problems．First，buying things from small shops costs more money．Secondly，he can't find the tracks he reads in the small bookstore near his home．He has to go to the big bookstore downtown（市中心）．

Jan is a thirty-year-old mother of two children．She and her husband both work as teachers．They like to shop at the mall with their children because it's safe and clean．There are always interesting things for the whole family to see．Another advantage is that the prices are good．Malls also have many more kinds and sizes of everything than mall shops．Jan says that the main disadvantages are that the mall is always crowded，and it's so big that children can easily get lost．

Roger is a twenty-year-old student who prefers to shop on the Internet．He thinks the main advantage is that he can shop at any hour of the day or night．Besides this，he can buy fascinating（吸引人的）things from all over the world．According to Roger，the biggest difficulty is that it isn't safe to buy things on the Internet．Last year，someone stole his credit card（信用卡）number and bought things with it．Also，once he paid for things and never received them．

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1．Larry thinks the shop owners are very            ．

2．From the passage we know that the big bookstores downtown are           from Larry’s house．

3．Jan's family like to see           at the mall．

4．Both Jan and her husband work in          ．

5．Roger thinks buying things on the Internet is not          ．

“Visitors to the 2010 World Expo（世博會）in Shanghai will be able to go sightseeing in super cool cars with no drivers，” Shanghai city officials（官員）said recently．

When a prototype（樣品）of the six-seat car was shown to the public，it interested many people．“The car will help visitors feel what high technology is and help them enjoy the tour of the World Expo site（場所）．” said a professor from Tongji University．The prototype，4.5 meters long，1.7 meters wide，and 1.6 meters tall，runs along a white line．The car costs around 300,000  yuan and can reach a top speed of 50 kilometers per hour．

According to the researchers，visitors will be able to drive the car anywhere in the World Expo site by pressing a button．If they want to get off or stop the car，all they need to do is just to press the button again．

“People can rent one of  these cars for a whole day or just take a ride in it from one place to another，the professor said．About 400 to 500 of these cars will be made for the Expo in 2010．The cars will have radar（雷達(dá)）to help them get around．They will mainly use solar batteries and labium（鋰）batteries．As they have no need of drivers and oil，these cars will help save energy and human labor and cause no pollution to the environment．

1．________ people can take the car at a time．

A．Four                    B．Five                     C．Six                       D．Seven

2．From the 2nd paragraph，we can know the car _______．

A．is 4.5 meters long and 1.6 meters wide         B．runs along two white lines

C．costs about 30,000 yuan                              D．can reach a top speed of 50 kph

3．People can ________ when they want to get off or stop the car．

A．tell the car                                               B．a(chǎn)sk other visitors to help them

C．drive the car out of the white line                 D．press the button themselves

4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the last paragraph?

A．The car will not pollute the air．               B．The car will use a little oil．

C．The car can help save energy．                D．The car can help save human labor．

5．The best title of the passage is “_________” ．

A．Tour the 2010 World Expo                       B．What is high technology?

C．Cool cars with no drivers                                   D．Rader first used in cars

When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I’ve lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison. I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr. Clark wouldn’t let that happen.
Mr. Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.
Mr. Clark was selected as Disney’s 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr. Clark said, “You’re all going.”
On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn’t want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and created a bestseller based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003, Mr. Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit orphanages （孤兒院）. It was the most amazing experience of my life. It’s now my dream to one day start a group of women’s clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.
【小題1】Without Mr. Clark, the writer _________.

Many textbooks are not written in the kind of English that we speak，every day．In fact，sometimes the reading is so difficult that it almost seems like a foreign language．In a way，it is the language of science．You should not expect to be able to read a difficult science passage the same way you read an interesting story，you should not expect to read it easily and all at once．Instead，you may have to read it several times through，catching on the meaning of difficult words，going back over difficult sentences，and finally putting the whole thing together．Do not be discouraged if the whole passage doesn't make sense to you at first．You  need to pick it apart patiently until you can understand it．

These are the steps to follow when you' are reading something difficult:

1．Start to read normally until you run into a sentence that doesn't make sense to you．

2．When a sentence doesn't make sense，go back and read it again more slowly．

3．Look for any words you don't know in the sentence．Try to understand their meanings using word parts and context clues（上下文線索）．If necessary，look them up in the dictionary．

4．Look at the next few sentences to see if they explain more about the sentence you are working on．Do not read very much farther ahead until you understand what is being said．

5．Finally，read the sentence again．Try to put it into simpler words．

6．Read through the passage once．Try to understand all the hard parts well．Then read the whole passage once more at a usual speed．This helps you to put all ideas together．

The steps sound a lot harder than they are．It is really just the normal way good readers understand anything that is difficult to read．After you have done the best you can this way，you should always feel free to ask for help from your teacher，if you have one．

1．The underlined phrase" run into" means__________

A．work out         B．come across      C．look into         D．pass by

2．From the passage，we can know _________

A．we should look up new words before reading

B．it is sometimes difficult to read a science passage

C．the six steps are helpful in learning spoken English

D．interesting stories help readers to improve their English

3．The passage m mainly about _________

A．steps of studying science                     B．difficulties in reading science

C．ways of reading science passages                   D．researches on science and English