( ) 58. What does the word “charge” mean in this passage?

A. 变化 B. 付钱 C. 给……钱 D. 向……要价

( ) 59. How much did the man charge for the cure for old age?

A. one dollar a bottle B. twenty-five dollars a bottle

C. ten dollars a bottle D. fifty dollars a bottle

( ) 60. What does this passage really mean?

A. The cure for old age is very useful and not so expensive.

B. The man is not honest, and neither is his assistant.

C. The cheaper the medicine is, the more people will buy.

D. The two men are very honest, and they’d like to help people live forever.

B

Films in Grand Movie Theater this week

Harry Potter Ⅲ

American film

Director (导演): Alfonso Caron

Stars: Daniel Redcliffe, Rupert Grint, Amma Waston.

Time: From Monday to Wednesday, at 6:00 pm.

Ticket price: $4.5 Kungfu Hustle

Chinese Hong Kong film

Director: Zhou Xingchi

Stars: Zhou Xingchi, Yuan Hua,

Liang Xiaolong.

Time: From Wednesday to Friday, at 9:00 pm.

Ticket price: $5

A World Without Thieves

Chinese film

Director: Feng Xiaogang

Stars: Liu Dehua, Liu Ruoying, Ge You, Li Bingbing

Time: From Friday to Sunday, at 6:30 pm

Ticket price: $6 (Half on Sunday for children) Troy

American film

Director: Wolfgang Peterson

Stars: Julian Glover, Brian Cox, Nathan Jane

Time: From Tuesday to Saturday, at 9:30 am

Ticket price: $5.5

( ) 61. There will be ________ in Grand Movie Theater this week.

A. one Chinese film B. two Chinese films

C. three American films D. a lot of foreign films

( ) 62. If a man with his child goes to Grand Movie Theater on Sunday, they

will pay ________ for the film.

A.$12 B. $9 C. $6 D. $5

( ) 63. If you are free on Friday morning, you can see the film ________.

A. Kungfu Hustle B. A World Without Thieves

C. Troy D. Harry Potter Ⅲ

( ) 64. You can see three films either on ________ or on ________.

A. Wednesday, Friday B. Tuesday, Wednesday

C. Thursday, Friday D. Saturday, Sunday

( ) 65. From the poster, we know ________ is a director and actor in the film.

A. Alfonso Caron B. Feng Xiaogang

C. Wolfgang Peterson D. Zhou Xingchi

C

Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. “I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?” he said to mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.

Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is “OK”, but he often gets “You can do better than this.” Mum knows what it means. She tells me “You can do better than this” means “Extremely bad” in China.

In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is “Please be nicer tomorrow”. Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.

But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spend more time on homework than I did when I was 6th grade in the US! Yet his parents and teachers didn’t think he worked hard enough.

Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.

( ) 66.Why did Ted come home with a letter last Friday?

A. Because the teacher wanted to visit his mother.

B. Because he did something wrong.

C. Because the teacher was happy with his progress.

D. Because the teacher thought he was too lazy.