Summer Fun at Happy Kids’ Learning Centre

Are you looking for something that can add color to your summer holiday? If yes, here are the summer courses that you cannot miss!

Children Can Cook

The course is to improve children's knowledge in the kitchen. They will learn basic cooking skills, kitchen safety, and how to buy proper ingredients （原料）and follow steps in recipes （食 谱）.Children can sit comfortably and eat what they have cooked at the end of each lesson.

Little Writers

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, children are introduced to famous stories and their writers. In the second part, they are taught to write their own stories. Children also get the chance to write other text types, such as poems and plays.

Acting for Fun

This is a course that lets children enjoy the fun of acting. Through acting and speaking in front of people, children will be more confident. Parents are welcome to watch the performance given by the children at the end of the course.

Watercolor Painting

This course teaches children the basic skills of painting people and animals. We encourage children to watch, imagine and create their own works.

1. How many parts are there in the writing course?

A．One part.	B．Two parts.
C．Three parts.	D．Four parts.

2. Which course should children take if they want to be more confident?

A．Acting for Fun.	B．Watercolor Painting.
C．Little Writers.	D．Children Can Cook.

3. What does the text encourage children to do?

A．Cook a meal for their parents.

B．Act with their parents in public.

C．Read more books during the holiday.

D．Attend activities at the learning centre.

In the 13th century, Marco Polo, the world-known Italian traveler, saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century. However, the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.

Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2,000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year 1,100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that, countries, rich in forests, such as Canada, Sweden, America, and Finland, became the most important ones in paper making.

Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated （使绝缘）from heat or cold with paper.

However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth some day in the near future. Every day people throw away about 2, 800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.

So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.

In short, we should keep a balance between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.

4. When did the Chinese begin to use paper money?

A．In the 5th century.	B．In the 6th century.
C．In the 7th century.	D．In the 15th century.

5. Why did Canada become an important country in paper making?

A．It had lots of forests.	B．It was a large country.
C．It was a very rich country.	D．It produced the paper inventor.

6. How many trees are needed to make one ton of paper?

A．10.

B．17.

C．2,800.

D．48,000.

7. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．How we can make useful things.	B．How paper boots are made.
C．How paper was invented.	D．How we can save paper.

A horse fair is an interesting place. There were young horses from the country, little Welsh ponies and many beautiful horses too. But there were also a lot of poor, thin horses, tired from hard work. I was very sad to see them.

At the horse fair there was a man with a gentle voice and kind grey eyes. He offered 23 pounds for me, but they refused. Then a man with a very loud voice came. I was afraid he was going to buy me, but he walked off. Then the grey-eyed man came back again and said,

“I'll give 24 for him.”

“Done,” said the salesman. “He's a quality horse and if you want him for cab work, he's a bargain.”

Half an hour later we set off for London, along country roads, until we came to that great city. There were streets to the right, and streets to the left. We went into one of the small streets, and then into a very narrow street, with small, old houses.

My owner stopped at a house. The door opened, and a woman, a little girl and a boy, came out.

"Is he gentle, father?"

“Yes, Dolly, as gentle as a kitten; you can pat him.”

Dolly, the little girl, patted my shoulder without fear. It felt so good! They led me into a comfortable, clean stable, and after a delicious meal I lay down to sleep, thinking “I'm going to be very happy here. ”

My new owner's name was Jerry. His wife was called Polly and they had two children, Harry and Dolly. The next morning they came to see me. I loved it when they patted me and spoke in gentle voices.

"Let's call him 'Jack', after the old horse, shall we, Jerry?” said Dolly.

“Yes, let's," said Jerry.

The first week of my life as Jack, the London cab horse was very hard. The noise and the people and the traffic on the streets scared me. But Jerry was a very good driver, and that helped a lot. Jerry soon found that I was ready to work hard and do my best, and he didn't whip me.

He kept me very clean, and gave me as much food as I wanted. But the best thing was that I had Sundays off.

8. A horse fair is a place for         .

A．people to learn to ride horses	B．people to sell and buy horses
C．horses to meet new friends	D．horses to learn new skills

9. What did the salesman mean by saying “he is a bargain.”?

A．The horse is well worth the price.	B．The horse is as gentle as a kitten.
C．The buyer is gentle and kind.	D．The buyer is a good driver.

10. Living and working in London with Jerry's family, how did Jack feel?

A．Tired and afraid.	B．Sad and helpless.
C．Curious but impatient.	D．Challenged but satisfied.

11. What is the text mainly about?

A．The start of a London-cab-horse life.	B．The chance of having a new owner.
C．The experiences of visiting a horse fair.	D．The disadvantages of working in London.

Facebook has developed a kind of AI (人工智能) translating between any pair of 100 languages without depending on first translating to English.

Facebook’s system was trained on a data set of 7.5 billion sentence pairs collected from the web across 100 languages, though not all the languages had an equal number of sentence pairs. “What I was really interested in was cutting out English as a middle man. Globally there are plenty of countries where they speak two languages that aren’t English,” says Angela Fan of Facebook AI, who led the work.

For some language pairs, the new system shows prominent improvements in translation quality. For example, translating from Spanish to Portuguese is extremely strong because Spanish is the second-most spoken first language worldwide, meaning the researchers can get a lot of data. Translation between English and Belarusian (白俄罗斯语) also is improved because the AI can translate Russian into English, which shares similarities with Belarusian.

While the system isn’t in use on the social network site, Facebook plans to put it to work soon to manage the 20 billion translations made every day when people click “Translate” on posts (帖子) written in more than 160 languages. “Future work will be done on other languages,” says Fan, “especially for languages where we don’t have a lot of data, like South-East Asian and African languages.”

The work “breaks away from the English-centric models and tries to build more different models,” says Shelia Castilho of the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland. “That’s pretty new and different. But it’s hard to know if the AI does a right translation work,” says Castilho. “The users may not know the other language, so they cannot judge the correctness of the translation.”

12. What’s Angela Fan’s purpose of doing the research?

A．To collect data of all kinds of people.

B．To make learning different languages easier.

C．To achieve her dream of becoming a translator.

D．To avoid using English as a middle man in translation.

13. Why is it easy to translate from Spanish to Portuguese by AI?

A．There is much data on Spanish.

B．Portuguese is similar to Spanish.

C．Researchers have a good knowledge of the two languages.

D．Spanish is spoken by the largest number of people.

14. What is Castilho worried about?

A．The safety of AI translation.	B．The correctness of AI translation.
C．The way of using Facebook.	D．The number of posts on the website.

15. What is the best title for the text?

A．Facebook AI Can Talk with the Users

B．Facebook Wants to Buy a New System

C．Facebook AI Can Translate Any Pair of 100 Languages

D．Facebook Has Lost Many Users

Human's Greatest Achievements

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, but the human race has lived on it for just 200,000 years. In that short time, we have achieved amazing things.

    16    The list is almost endless. The invention of the airplane has changed our lives. The discovery of antibiotics has saved the lives of millions of people. Can you imagine living without electricity? What about the printing press? Without the printing press, you wouldn't be reading this. In the last 50 years, there have been great achievements in communication, such as radio, TV, computers, the Internet, and smartphones.     17    

What about the arts? The arts have brought pleasure to many people, but are the Beatles and Bach more important than antibiotics?     18    

Finally, we must not forget humans’ early achievements.     19    We can't imagine modern life without cooked food and cars.

What are humans’ greatest achievements? To answer the question, we need to decide what we mean by “great”.     20    Or is it just something that makes us say “Wow” like the Great Wall? What do you think?

A．Do you think it is difficult to have great achievements?

B．Is it something that makes us rich or happy or save lives?

C．We enjoy these things every day because they are free to use.

D．They used fire for cooking and heating and invented the wheel.

E．Many of humans’ great achievements are in science and technology.

F．And is Mickey Mouse as important an achievement as going to space?

G．We could probably live without them, but life wouldn't be as interesting.

When my family moved to Ohio over the summer, I feared attending another new school and knowing no one because I was able to expect what was coming. I had bright red hair and big glasses. In addition, I was ____ and not very sociable. Boarding the school bus that first day, I felt like all ____ on me. I could hear the whispers, "She's huge!” Obviously, the kids on the bus had known each other well. I spent that first bus ____ in silence.

The following day was even ____I did not notice that a few boys had tied a shoelace across the aisle（走道)and thus fell down on the bus, ____everything I was carrying. ___ I was embarrassingly gathering my supplies, I could hear the laughter, and then the ____ " That felt like an earthquake!" Anyway, I _____to find a seat. Looking out of the window, I ____ the tears welling up in my eyes.

I began _____the afternoon school bus ____, walking home instead. Then, _____, I started losing weight. And as I became _____with myself, I began making friends.

One of my newly-found friends also ____ with her weight, wanting to be a "perfect" cheerleader. She lived near my neighborhood so we would meet and _____together. This became a daily routine with talking and laughing _____the way—different from the lonely walks I had taken. My friend said that I didn't have to be ____and I just had to be me, and be happy with myself.

While I would not want to relive that time of loneliness, sadness and embarrassment, I am _____I made it through. Whenever I am struggling with any other problem in life, I always _____the proverb "This too shall pass. " If you can find a path with no challenges, it probably doesn't _____anywhere.

21.

A．outgoing

B．intelligent

C．friendly

D．overweight

22.

A．smiles

B．bags

C．eyes

D．stories

23.

A．lift

B．ride

C．drive

D．service

24.

A．worse

B．longer

C．funnier

D．duller

25.

A．missing

B．losing

C．leaving

D．dropping

26.

A．Though

B．While

C．Since

D．Because

27.

A．arguments

B．decisions

C．words

D．discussions

28.

A．determined

B．planned

C．pretended

D．managed

29.

A．kept away

B．took back

C．held back

D．put away

30.

A．missing

B．stopping

C．catching

D．searching

31.

A．on purpose

B．by chance

C．in reality

D．with excitement

32.

A．uninterestedly

B．uncertainly

C．unexpectedly

D．unfortunately

33.

A．concerned

B．happy

C．angry

D．disappointed

34.

A．fought

B．competed

C．dealt

D．lived

35.

A．run

B．study

C．play

D．walk

36.

A．along

B．across

C．by

D．in

37.

A．thin

B．perfect .

C．sociable

D．strict

38.

A．excited

B．upset

C．regretful

D．proud

39.

A．remember

B．create

C．write

D．borrow

40.

A．know

B．lead

C．end

D．stay

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Chongyang Festival is a     41    (tradition) Chinese festival. It is celebrated on the     42    (nine) of September in the lunar calendar (阴历).

The festival started as early as the Warring States Period (475-221BC). It has a history     43    more than 1,700 years. Among the numbers from zero to nine, nine is the     44    (high) odd number (奇数). People believe that two nines meeting together mean a long life. So it is a special holiday for Chinese people     45    (show) love and respect for their elders. They hold many kinds of     46    (activity) in honor of old people, wishing them good health and a long life.

The festival comes during the golden time of fall. On the day, people usually drink chrysanthemum (菊花) wine, eat special cakes     47    climb mountains. They also carry a kind of plant     48     is named the dogwood. People in ancient times     49    (believe) that plant could drive the illness away in winter and prevent them from     50    ( catch) by evil (邪恶的) spirits.

51. 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中 共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧ ）并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

One day when I was 7, my mother and I were doing shopping. I saw the dress and I liked it very much. But money was tight, or my mother said to me “Maybe next time. “May I buy the dress your daughter?" asked other customer. "Thank you, but we can't accept such a beautiful   gift,” my mother said. Then she told us her story. She has been homeless for three years. But for the kindness of strangers, she would not to have survived. "I feel luckily that I'm no longer homeless," she said. "That I've promised to do is repay the kindness. "After pay for the dress, she just accepted our thankful hugs.

52. 假定你叫李华。你班交换生Tom非常喜欢中文歌曲，但最近，他在参加你校“留学生中文 歌曲比赛（Chinese Song Contest for Foreign Students）”中失利。由于你电话联系不上他，请你写封邮件给他，内容包括：
1.安慰对方；
2.坚持训练；
3.鼓励他参加下次比赛。
要求：
1.词数：100个左右；
2.内容必须包括以上要点,可适当发挥。
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