The Red Bicycle is a storybook about a bicycle’s journey from North America to the countryside in West Africa. The full name of the book is The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle, and was written by Jude Isabella from Canada.
Leo wants a bike, not just any bike but a red one. He makes money by doing part-time jobs until he has enough money to buy it. He loves his new bike and names it Big Red. He rides Big Red everywhere for many years until he is finally too big for it. Because he has taken such good care of the bike, it looks almost new. He wants to give the bike to someone who really needs it, and will love it the way he does. Leo learns about a charity that sends donated (捐赠的) bikes to people in Africa.
When Big Red arrives in Africa, the bike finds a new owner, a young girl named Alisetta. She learns to ride Big Red and uses it to help her family on their farm. She also rides Big Red to the market to sell goods that her grandmother made. She earns money so her sister can go to school. Alisetta earns enough money to buy another bike. But while she is gone, Big Red is destroyed by a pig. A worker from a hospital then takes Big Red, repairs it, and turns it into an ambulance (救护车). Then, a young woman, named Haridata, uses the bike to bring sick people to the hospital.
What a wonderful journey the bicycle takes and what a useful life it has. The Red Bicycle is a great story. It will inspire children from around the world to help others and do something as simple as donating their bikes to charity.
1. What is The Red Bicycle about?| A．Leo’s journey from North America to West Africa. |
| B．A bicycle making a difference to many people’s lives. |
| C．Jude Isabella’s travel experience in Canada. |
| D．A global journey on a red bicycle. |
| A．He gets it from a charity. | B．He borrows it from others. |
| C．He receives it through a donation. | D．He buys it by saving money. |
| A．It is brought to patients who need it. | B．It is damaged by her sister. |
| C．It is turned into an ambulance. | D．It is fixed by Haridata. |
| A．It’s better to give than to take. |
| B．Everything is good for something. |
| C．We should make the most of what we have. |
| D．Donating things to charity is hard. |
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【推荐1】In the U.S., about 30 million children and teens take part in some forms of organized sports, and more than 3.5 million injuries happen each year. Almost one-third of all injuries from childhood are sports-related injuries. More than 775,000 children, aged 14 and younger, are treated in hospital emergency rooms for sports-related injuries each year.
Obviously, some sports are more dangerous than others. For example, contact sports such as football can be expected to result in a higher number of injuries than a noncontact sport such as swimming. However, all types of sports have a potential for injury, whether from the collision (冲撞) with other players or from overuse or misuse of a body part.
Most of the injuries happen as a result of falls, being struck by an object and collisions during unorganized or informal sports activities. Some are caused by poor training practices, or not warming up enough.
There are two kinds of sports injuries. Acute injuries happen suddenly, such as sprained (扭伤) ankles. Chronic injuries happen after you play a sport or exercise over a long period of time.
Sports injuries are first treated with R-I-C-E: Rest, Ice, Compression (pressure on the injury), and Elevation (raise the injured area above the heart). Doctors will treat more serious injuries with medications, by limiting movement, or by recommending operations, physical therapy, and rest.
You can prevent many kinds of sports injuries by following safe exercise habits.
1. How does the writer show us the seriousness of sports-related injuries in Para 1?| A．Through numbers. | B．By giving examples |
| C．Through conversations. | D．By comparison and contrast. |
| A．effect | B．impression | C．possibility | D．exchange |
| A．Peter sprained his shoulder while swimming. |
| B．Tom was hit in the head by a ball while playing football. |
| C．Sam fell onto the road and hurt his knees while jogging alone. |
| D．Jim has played basketball for many years and now his back often aches. |
| A．Safe exercise habits. | B．Causes of sports injuries. |
| C．Treatments of sports injuries. | D．Injuries caused by doing sports. |
【推荐2】Our teenagers are lonely. A new study by Harvard’s Making Caring Common (MCC) shows just how that feeling has been common and become serious during the past year when we had to keep the social distance. One year’s online learning and life in the bedrooms rather than the classrooms or dorm rooms can make teenagers feel lonelier than before. Teenagers have been more likely to be influenced by loneliness than older adults.
Experiencing loneliness is certainly sad, but it is also perilous. Researchers found that 63％ of the young were suffering from bad sleep, anxiety, and poor health during the lockdown(活动限 制 ) and that nearly a quarter had started or increased some bad habits, including smoking, drinking and staying up late to deal with their feelings.
About half of the young people in the study, who said they had felt lonely, explained that over the past weeks not one person had taken more than just a few minutes to ask how they had been lately. It made them feel they had no one who really cared about them. Their parents thought they had much free time after lessons and it seemed that they only worried whether their children could perform their schoolwork at the level they once did. They didn’t know the problem.
Sian Leah Beilock, the president of Barnard College, explains that young people depend on social media, which makes them especially weak to social media’s harms. She also suggests that fewer close friends may explain some of the feelings of loneliness. She reports that in 1985 the average American had three close friends with whom they could share important things about their lives. In 2004, that number had dropped to just two friends. And in 2019. one in five millennials(千禧一代) had no friends at all.
These levels of loneliness are heartbreaking. MCC suggests, as a nation, we first should focus on teaching the young to make meaningful connections between people and support them.
1. What is the finding of MCC’S study?| A．Every teenager has lonely moments. |
| B．Parent-child communication becomes less. |
| C．Teenagers care too much about others’ opinions. |
| D．Lockdown lifestyles increase teenagers’ loneliness. |
| A．Dangerous. | B．Funny. | C．Helpful. | D．Uncommon. |
| A．Their parents misunderstood them. |
| B．They found their schoolwork heavy. |
| C．They needed more care and attention. |
| D．Their online courses made them bored. |
| A．Teenagers are short of outdoor exercise. |
| B．Teenagers should make more close friends in real life. |
| C．Teenagers enjoy developing close relationships online. |
| D．Teenagers should avoid sharing important things online. |
【推荐3】While there are plenty of factors that go into how attractive you are to mosquitoes, new research has found the colors you’re wearing definitely play a role.
For the study, researchers from the University of Washington tracked the behavior of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes when they were given different types of visual and scent cues (气味信号). The researchers put the mosquitoes into small test rooms and exposed them to different things, like a colored dot (小圆点) or person’s hand.
The mosquitoes first detect that you’re around by smelling carbon dioxide from your breath, which pushes them to look for certain colors and visual patterns that could indicate food, the researchers explained. When there was no scent cue like carbon dioxide in the test rooms, the mosquitoes neglected the colored dot, no matter what color it was. But once researchers sprayed carbon dioxide in the room, they flew toward dots that were red, orange, or black. Dots that were green, blue, or purple were overlooked.
“Light colors are perceived as a threat to mosquitoes, which is why many species avoid biting in direct sunlight,” researcher Timothy Best says. “Mosquitoes are very likely to be affected by dehydration (脱水) which can even cause them to die, therefore light colors may represent danger and cause avoidance. In contrast, darker colors may copy shadows, which are more likely to absorb and preserve heat, allowing mosquitoes to locate a host.”
If you have the option of wearing lighter or darker clothes when you know you’ll be going into an area with lots of mosquitoes, you’d better go with the lighter choice. Dark colors stand out to mosquitoes, whereas light colors blend in. When you’re going into areas where these small insects are known to hide, you can use bug spray and wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers. Regularly get rid of standing water around your home and empty items that hold water such as bird baths, toys, and planters. Each of these protective measures will contribute to decreasing your likelihood of getting bitten. And, if you’re able to wear something other than red or dark colors, even better.
1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?| A．The result of the experiment. | B．The process of the experiment. |
| C．The purpose of the experiment. | D．The significance of the experiment. |
| A．Adored. | B．Located. | C．Ignored. | D．Approached. |
| A．A dry and clean yard. | B．A classroom painted in white. |
| C．A kitchen with delicious food. | D．A bathroom with dark walls. |
| A．How to protect plants. | B．How to keep the room tidy. |
| C．How to avoid mosquito bites. | D．How to choose summer clothes. |
【推荐1】Time in Advance by William Tenn
(Note: Don’t confuse the short story Time in Advance with the title of the volume of four stories that contains it, called Time in Advance.)
William Tenn is one of those science fiction writers who are well-known by dedicated fans and hardly known by casual readers. When asked to choose a favorite William Tenn science fiction short story, many would name The Brooklyn Project, which is almost a perfect short story. But I like character-driven stories, light-hearted humour and a twist that sneaks up on you, and science fiction author William Tenn delivered truly impressive humour and characterization in Time in Advance.
Time in Advance is the story of a man who’s about to commit a deadly crime — a crime for which he’s already paid his debt to society. Far from being a dark story of a cruel criminal secretly planning a secret murder, Tenn’s tale takes a light approach. The hero is aiming to commit an awful crime, and not only is nobody about to stop him…his criminal intentions make him a superstar. Cool concept, huh?
How many times have you read a story that starts off with a good idea? Time in Advance has almost perfect performance. The “what if” in this case is “What if people paid for the crime of murder before they committed it?” Tenn takes this idea and develops its arrangements with complete and thorough mastery.
Tenn shines at surprising endings — funny “aha” endings, such as in The Brooklyn Project. Time in Advance not only has that, it also has a “feel good” ending, something really lacking in science fiction today. Yes, the ending somewhat dulls the cutting edge of the social comment. But it works. I consider Time in Advance truly one of the best science fiction stories of all time.
1. Why does the book critic mention The Brooklyn Project?| A．To improve the sales of the book. | B．To introduce Time in Advance better. |
| C．To express the critic’s hatred. | D．To highlight its perfect plot. |
| A．It consists of four stories. | B．It’s William Tenn’s best known book. |
| C．It is sort of humorous. | D．It is casually written. |
| A．It is a dark story. |
| B．It’s a story of superstars. |
| C．Its hero does something beneficial to the society. |
| D．Its hero is a cold-blooded killer and does his crimes perfectly. |
| A．The mass media’s view about the book. | B．The meaning of “what if” in the book. |
| C．Ways to start off and end a science novel. | D．Features of the book’s beginning and ending. |
【推荐2】Science fiction writers create imaginary worlds. The way things work in your imaginary worlds will be based on actual science. So it’s important for you to be familiar with the scientific principles and inventions that are related to your creation. For example, if you’re writing about human living on a planet with zero gravity, then you need to know the effects of zero gravity on the human body.
Then you have to figure out the exact rules of your imaginary worlds. And you have to follow them. If humans are able to breathe underwater in Chapter 1, your character can’t drown in a swimming pool in Chapter 3. The issue here is maintaining your readers’ trust. That means the reader is willing to pretend along with you. If you start out with an ordinary detective novel and then throw in someone breathing under water in the 6th chapter, you will pull the readers out of their imagination. The same thing happens if you change the rules halfway.
Part of your preparation work for the novel is to map out its worlds in great detail. You should decide the following issues: the history of the world, the geography, what possibilities it offers, how everything works in this new reality, and how all of these factors affect the way your characters think, feel, and react to things. You don’t have to tell your readers all the rules in the first chapter. But you have to let readers know enough to understand what’s going on. This also allows you to work out logical problems and contradictions before you start writing.
When you are writing, remember to make it feet real. You are inviting readers to visit a new world. They will want to be able to see, hear, feel, smell, and even taste what it’ s like. Whether your novel is about a world without disease or an undiscovered planet, help your readers feel like they’re actually there.
1. What’ s the relationship between actual science and science fiction?| A．Science fiction promotes the development of actual science. |
| B．Science fiction often reflects the development of actual science. |
| C．Actual science provides basic principles for science fiction. |
| D．Actual science limits the imagination described in science fiction. |
| A．Part of the preparation work for science fiction writing. | B．The different types of novels. |
| C．The detail in the first chapter of science fiction. | D．The reality of science fiction. |
| A．It is necessary to do some scientific experiments before writing science fiction. |
| B．Readers of science fiction actually pretend the writers’ rules are true. |
| C．The target readers of the passage are young scientists. |
| D．It is great to leave some contradictions in your science fiction. |
| A．How to do scientific research | B．How to write science fiction |
| C．What to expect from science fiction | D．How to raise interest in science |
【推荐3】In the dim light of an early autumn evening, Alexander, a hunter: known as much for his solitude as for his skill, ventured into the untamed (原始的) heart of the jungle. Each step he took was measured and careful, a respect for the ancient wilderness where every breath was a story, and man was but a fleeting shadow.
For years, whispers of a tiger, not just any tiger but one whose fur caught the last rays of the sun, had reached Alexander. A creature so splendid and fearsome, it was said to be more myth than flesh. On this day, as the shadows lengthened and the jungle whispered its age-old secrets, Alexander sought not just the tiger, but a confrontation with the very essence of the wild itself. As dusk settled, painting the world in colors of gold and shadow, the boundary between predator and prey seemed to dissolve. The air was heavy with anticipation, the kind that precedes storms and stories.
Then, in a clearing where the jungle seemed to hold its breath, the tiger appeared. It was as if the sun had woven itself into the fabric of its being, its fur a blend of flame and night. For a moment, the world shrank to the space between the hunter named Alexander and the legend made flesh before him.
Their gazes locked, a silent understanding passing between man and beast. Here was Alexander, a man who had walked through shadows to stand in the light of a legend, and the tiger, an embodiment of the wild’s untouchable majesty. In that eternal moment, Alexander saw not a prey but a sovereign of nature, a being whose right to wander the dusk was as undeniable as the setting sun.
With a respect born of countless sunsets and the silent tales they told, Alexander slowly lowered his rifle (步枪). The act was not one of defeat but of profound respect-a recognition of the bond that ties every living thing to the pulse of the earth. The tiger, its gaze still locked with Alexander’s, seemed to acknowledge this unspoken pact. Then, it turned and melted into the shadows, leaving behind a trail of twilight.
Alexander left the jungle that night without a trophy (战利品), but his soul was alight with a tale of fire and twilight. He had sought a legend and found a truth far greater: in the wild’s heart, where shadows and light dance, there lies a respect so deep it transcends the hunt. This encounter, a dance with the untamed, would echo in Alexander’s heart long after the jungle’s whispers faded into the dawn.
1. What was Alexander’s primary reason for venturing into the jungle?| A．To find a place to set up camp. |
| B．To hunt a tiger rumored to have a fur like the setting sun. |
| C．To escape from the challenges of modern life. |
| D．To meet other hunters and share stories. |
| A．He captures the tiger to prove its existence. |
| B．He shoots the tiger to claim his trophy. |
| C．He attempts to trap the tiger but fails |
| D．He lowers his rifle, choosing not to shoot the tiger. |
| A．complex language. | B．long sentences. |
| C．straightforward storytelling. | D．supernatural focus. |
| A．The thrill of the hunt is unparalleled. |
| B．True courage is demonstrated through dominance over nature. |
| C．There is a profound respect that exists between man and nature. |
| D．Technology has distanced man from understanding the natural world. |
