第一节 阅读下面语言材料，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
We asked the students in Grade 8 in our school about their free time activities. Here are the results.

1. In the class, fifty-five per cent of the students exercise . ()
A. every day
B. once a week
C. twice a week
D. three or four times a week
2. What per cent of the students watch TV three or four times a week? ()
A. 100%.
B. 60%.
C. 30%.
D. 5%.
3. Twenty per cent of the students . ()
A. eat fruit every day
B. eat junk food once a week
C. do homework three or four times a week
D. play basketball twice a week
4. Where can we find the text? ()
A. In a storybook.
B. In a school newspaper.
C. In a sports newspaper.
D. In a travel guidebook.

1. A 2. B 3. D 4. B

B
Many old people in China exercise in parks, dance in squares or spend time with their grandchildren. But 65-year-old Zhao Wenying from Zhejiang, has a different life. She is a Rubik's Cube (魔方) player.
"After 30 years of teaching, I didn't know what to do then," Zhao says. "The Rubik's Cube gave me a new start." She learnt about the game from her 8-year-old granddaughter. Zhao was very interested, so she started to learn it. At first, she learnt it very slowly. She watched the lessons online and spent over four years learning it by herself.
When she was watching *Super Brain* on TV, Zhao fell in love with blindfolded cube-solving (蒙眼解魔方). However, it's difficult for people in their sixties to learn it. Zhao asked a Rubik's Cube teacher for help. Although she ran into a lot of difficulties, she never gave up. Now she keeps the world's fastest record for blindfolded cube-solving for people over age 60.
Many people think Zhao will stop to have a rest, but she wants to pass BI level first. "You must have dreams and keep learning to make them come true through hard work," she says.
At first, some of Zhao's friends asked her to live an easy life and her family also worried about her health. But now they all support her after they see that the Rubik's Cube brings happiness to her life.
5. What did Zhao Wenying do in her sixties? ()
A. She went back to school.
B. She began a new hobby.
C. She danced in the park.
D. She looked after her granddaughter.
6. What can we know about Zhao Wenying from Paragraph 2? ()
A. She stopped teaching because she was bored with it.
B. She taught her granddaughter to play Rubik's Cube.
C. She played Rubik's Cube very well from the beginning.
D. She spent over four years learning Rubik's Cube by herself.
7. How did Zhao learn blindfolded cube-solving? ()
A. By herself.
B. On the computer.
C. From a teacher.
D. From the world-record keeper.
8. What does the text mainly tell us? ()
A. A slow bird makes an early start.
B. He who laughs last laughs best.
C. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
D. One is never too old to learn.

5. B 6. D 7. C 8. D