Basketball is still a young game. It&#039;s over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college wa...

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Basketball is still a young game. It's over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they couldn't play outdoors, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.
Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent（发明）a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors , and the court（球场）was not very large.
Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score , the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet（英尺）above
the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr.
Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.

（1）、How long is it since basketball was invented?

A、100 years B、Less than 100 years C、110 years D、More than 100 years

（2）、The students felt unhappy because _______.

A、they had little time to study B、they often got into fights C、they had much homework to do D、they couldn't play outdoors

（3）、Who asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game?

A、Some students B、Some teachers C、Some students'parents D、Some of his friends

（4）、When a student ________, he makes a score.

A、receives the ball. B、throws the ball to another student C、runs quickly with the ball in his hand D、throws the ball into the basket

（5）、Which sentence is right?

A、The students could go outdoors when the weather was bad. B、It was easy to invent the game C、Dr. Naismith had to use fruit baskets to throw the ball. D、The ball had to be thrown into the basket five feet above the floor.

举一反三

    Think of life as a game in which you are playing with five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit (精神) and you keep all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will jump back. But the other four balls, family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be broken. They will never be the same. You must understand that and try to have the balance in your life. How?
    Don't look down on your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different and each of us is special.
    Don't let other people set goals for you. Only you know what is best for yourself.
    Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
    Don't be afraid of difficulties. We learn how to be brave by taking chances.
    Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible. The quickest way to receive love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly (紧紧地), the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
    Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.
    Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is a treasure (珍宝) you can always carry easily.
    Don't use time or words carelessly. You can't get them back. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery (秘密), and today is a gift, that's why we call it “the present”. Life is not a competition, but a trip, step by step.

    You can see waste（浪费）everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don't agree with them.
    Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources（资源）, we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It is reported（据报道） that we will have no coal （煤）or oil to use in 100 years. Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
    In our everyday life, we can do many things to stop waste . For example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom and try not to order more food than we need. Little by little, everything will be changed. We can stop waste one day if we do our best to form（养成）the habit of saving.

      Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.
Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.
      For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war (战争). By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today--a person who is new in a job.
    About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn't have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundreds.
A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
      The Green Revolution (革命) is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的) scientists who had green thumbs.

阅读理解

Beijing Opera is my favourite. Bao Zheng always has a black face and Guan Yu has a red face in Beijing Opera. But many people don't know why.

I come from America and I have lived in China for six years. I like Beijing Opera very much. I think Beijing Opera is very interesting. I can learn a lot about Chinese history. Now let me tell you the art of Beijing Opera facial(脸部的) paintings(画).

In Beijing Opera facial paintings, different colours and patterns（图案） are for different roles. For example, a black face for fair (公正的) people. A red face is for brave(勇敢的) people. A white face is for bad people. Blue and green faces are for heroes(英雄). The gold face is for gods.

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Everyone in the world knows the Chinese tiger, the Indian elephant and the African lion. In America, everyone knows the Thanksgiving turkey. It's on the last Thursday in November. It's important to Americans the same as the Spring Festival is for us. The Thanksgiving turkey is a wild bird much larger than the chicken. When the American Indians helped the first Europeans find food for the first Thanksgiving meal, they brought turkeys because they were very usual. The farmers sell the turkeys to a processing plant(加工厂)that packages the bird to be sold at the supermarket. Mothers and grandmothers cook the turkey all morning for the Thanksgiving dinner. The turkey may be as large as 20 pounds or 10 kilos. One turkey can feed a very large family and still have some left over. When the turkey is cooked, the juice from the meat falls on bread to make it very delicious. There is always a fruit at the meal called cranberry. It grows in Alaska and has a bitter(有苦味的)taste so it's cooked with sugar. Vegetables include cooked corn, beans and sweet potatoes. There is a special kind of bread that is served called dinner rools(晚餐包). They're the size and shape of a small orange. The dinner ends with either apple pie or pumpkin pie.

Whether Americans travel throughout the world, this is the dinner they like to eat on Thanksgiving Day.

阅读理解

There are 520 boys and 500 girls in our school. The school made a survey（调查）about our favorite sports. Here are the results.

After seeing the results, the P. E. teacher advises us to join different sports clubs. He also encourages（鼓励）us to try some new sports. It may bring us some surprises.

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