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Beijing (Xinhua): When she appeared on stage, singing a Japanese song, hundreds of excited teenagers crowded around shouting, "Curarpikt (酷拉皮卡)！It’s Curarpikt!"
At the Beijing Comic and Animation Expo last week, that’s exactly who Shi Jia was. The Senior 1 girl was cosplaying (角色扮演) "Curarpikt", a character from the popular Japanese comic book Hunter X Hunter (《猎人》)by Yoshihiro Togashi.
"I cosplay Curarpikt because I like him," said the pretty 15yearold girl. "I’m moved by his sad story and I’m attracted by his courage and personality."
In the adventure comic story, Curarpikt, a handsome and kindhearted boy, struggles to become a hunter so he can capture(掳获)the people who killed his tribe(部落).
Shi has read all the comic books and is a big fan of the animated series(动画片)of Hunter X Hunter. Then last year she saw a real "Curarpikt"in a cosplay show.
"I had watched cosplay shows before but only for fun," she explained. "It’s really exciting to see young people wearing the makeup and costumes of characters that you’ve read about and are familiar with."
"But that time I just fell in love with cosplaying, probably because I like Curarpikt so much. I thought I could play the character better, so I decided to have a go."
Shi bought some cloth and asked a tailor to make a Curarpikt costume for her. She was delighted to find out there was a cosplay show in Beijing in October.
"It’s a great way to spend the national holiday. Posing on the stage for all the comic book fans, I knew I was doing something I had always wanted to do," she said.
But she never talks about her hobby with her parents.
"They think it will distract me from my studies. I don’t want to upset them,that’s my secret hobby," she said. "It’s also why I don’t dye my hair for cosplaying like all the others."
小题1:What’s cosplay according to the passage?

A．When cosplaying, comic fans wear costumes and pretend to be their favourite comic characters.

B．Cosplay is a kind of performance in which you play a Curarpikt.

C．Cosplay is a character from the popular Japanese comic book Hunter X Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi.

D．When cosplaying, some funny teenagers play some characters in the animated series.

小题2: Shi Jia cosplayed Curarpikt ______.

A．in order to attract her fans

B．because she liked animated series

C．because she was greatly attracted by that role

D．because it’s her secret hobby

小题3:The underlined word "distract" means_____.

A．get rid of	B．keep out of
C．give courage to	D．draw away attention of

小题4:Which of the following is wrong?

A．Curarpikt was created by a Japanese cartoonist.

B．Shi Jia’s parents were in favor of her performance.

C．Shi Jia cosplayed Curarpikt successfully.

D．Cosplay is popular with some teenagers.

Xinhua News: March 10 ^th , 2014
Malaysian Airlines says there is still no information on the location of its flight MH370, more than 24 hours after it lost contact with ground.
The airline spokesman said early Sunday that rescue(拯救) teams have “failed to find evidence of any wreckage(残骸).”
The flight, a Boeing 777-200, lost contact with ground control at 1:20 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday when it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam(越南).
On board were 227 passengers from 14 countries, including 154 Chinese and 12 Malaysian flight crew(机组成员).
A team of 93 staff(职员) from the airline arrived in Beijing late Saturday night. The spokesman said they were here mainly to take care of the relatives of those on board the missing flight.
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The flight’s name 小题1:
What happened to the flight 小题2:
The number of passengers on board 小题3:
Did the rescue teams find any wreckage? 小题4:
What will the 93 staff do? 小题5: of those on board the missing flight.

Beijing, June 10 (Xinhua) --- Torrential (倾泻的) rains that troubled southern China for days have killed 66 people and resulted in 12 missing by 6:00 p.m. (Beijing time) on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. “Floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 294,800 hectares of crops, completely destroying 53,000 hectares of them,” said an official with the ministry. The floods have torn down 48,000 and damaged 94,000 houses in southern China, and forced about 591,000 people to move from their homes, the official said.
From Wednesday to Saturday, continuous torrential rains, mudslides and floods hit Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Fujian, affecting more than 8.97 million people. The disasters have caused an overall economic loss of more than 2.9 billion yuan, according to the ministry. The ministry has sent rescue teams to the disaster areas to assist relief work. In Guangdong, heavy rains have killed 18 people and left four missing by 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, according to local authorities. A total of 1.72 million people were affected in the province.
Floods have damaged 49 roads in the seriously affected Meizhou City, of which 29 remained closed to traffic by 7:00 p.m. The number of people who died in floods in Guangxi has reached 13 and one remained missing by Sunday, according to local civil affairs authority. More than 1.97 million people have bee n affected after the floods caused by continuous heavy rains hit some 40 counties since Wednesday.
According to the local civil affairs bureau, 9,200 houses were knocked down and 75,181 hectares of crops were affected, resulting in 529 million yuan in direct economic losses. There are fewer rainstorms and the rain belt is moving out of Guangxi, but the water levels in major rivers will keep rising in next few days, according to the latest forecast of the region’s meteorological bureau on Sunday afternoon.
小题1: The underlined phrase “torn down” (para. 1) is closest in meaning to _______.

A．knocked down

B．placed down

C．set down

D．torn open

小题2: In Meizhou city, 49 roads were damaged and by 7:00 p.m. only _______ roads can be used again after the repair work.

A．66

B．29

C．20

D．19

小题3: Which of the following statements is true according to the news?

A．Hubei is one of the provinces struck by the torrential rains.

B．The floods have caused a total loss of nearly 3 billion yuan.

C．13 people died in Guangdong province as a result of the floods.

D．The rain belt will remain in Guangxi in the next fe w days.

小题4: What’s the best title for this n ews story?

A．A Disaster.

B．Heavy rains.

C．A Flood.

D．Heavy rains in Southern China.

小题5: What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．The rainstorms are becoming stronger.

B．The water levels in major rivers are to go down soon.

C．The rainstorms are becoming less powerful.

D．In the next few days, rainstorms will stay in Guangxi.

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CHENGDU, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China’s top legislator Wu Bangguo on Tuesday met with foreign guests 1) __________ the 13th Western China International Fair (WCIF) on exchanges and cooperation.
Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, called on Bangladesh and Macedonia to 2) __________ cooperation with China on the development of western China.
While meeting with Abdul Hamid, speaker of the Bangladesh National Assembly, Wu said that China attaches 3) __________ to developing relations with Bangladesh.
Wu also met with Dmitry Mezentsev, chairman of the entrepreneur committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as well as the secretary-general-in-waiting of the SCO.
The SCO has become an important organization in safeguarding regional security and promoting common development, and China has made great 4) __________ to the SCO’s development, Mezentsev said, calling on member states to make joint efforts to promote the organization’s development.
The guests were invited to attend the 13th WCIF, which opened on Tuesday in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

Xinhua said the landslide not only _____ power and communications, it also caused death.

A．cut down

B．cut out

C．cut up

D．cut off

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I had no idea of the exact address of Xinhua High School ________I was outside its front gate.

A．when	B．after
C．until	D．because

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—Excuse me, how can I _______ Xinhua Street?
—Go along the road and turn left at the first crossing.
A.get B. get to C. come to

BEIJING, Oct. 8(Xinhua)——There are ten times as many Chinese newspapers and magazines than there were 30 years ago. That’s when the country adopted the reform and opening-up policy.
Figures from the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP)show there were 186 newspapers and 930 magazines in China in 1978. Today, the country has 2,081 newspapers and 9,363 different magazines.
In the meantime, official figures show China has some 600 publishing houses producing nearly 300,000 kinds of books. That’s a dramatic increase from the 105 publishers of the past that produced only 10,000 different books.
Rapid economic development and universal education since China adopted the reform has helped fuel the need for more information sources.
Under the market economy, hundreds of publishing houses and newspapers have taken steps to restructure management systems into corporations listed on the stock market.
The legal system overseeing the news and publishing industries in China has also changed over the last three decades. Since 1990 a law and five relevant(相关) regulations were adopted in 1990 to govern the sectors.
Since it started in 1993, digital publishing has flourished. Its industrial volume amounted to 20 billion yuan (2.93 billion U.S. dollars) in 2006. More than 500,000 kinds of digital books were produced last year alone in China, which is more than any other country in the world.
小题1:Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

A．Digital books take the place of common ones in China.

B．China has more newspapers and magazines.

C．More information sources are developing with the economy.

D．A law should be adopted to govern the publishing industries.

小题2:There are ten times as many newspapers and magazines because ________.

A．the publishing houses want to make more money.

B．there are more readers along with the bigger population.

C．economic and education have developed under the policy.

D．the legal system overseeing the publishing industries has changed.

小题3:Which is true according to this text?

A．The development of publishing industry in the past was out of control.

B．Hundreds of publishing houses have closed down and turned to stock market.

C．China adopted the reform and opening-up policy about 20 years ago.

D．China produces more digital books than any other country.

小题4: The underlined word “flourished” in Paragraph 7 probably means ________.

A．first appeared	B．fell down
C． well developed	D．successfully ended

小题5: You will probably read this text in the ________ column of XINHUA NET?

A．culture and education	B．entertainment
C．s cience and technology	D．business

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