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A. for        B. problems        C. with        D. interesting        E. how

Douyin is a short video and music video app (应用程序). It only comes on news app Jinri Toutiao. Zhang Yiming first started it in 2016. But     1     did Douyin become so popular these days? There are some useful and interesting videos on it. They are very short, from 15 to 30 seconds. The plot (情节) of a video is so     2     and close to life that people all like watching these videos.

In fact,     3     us teenagers (青少年), there are some bad things about the app, too. There are a few     4     with Douyin:

A. something        B. takes        C. learn        D. anything        E. videos

Firstly, it always     5     us too much time. You can easily become addicted (上的) to it. According to a survey (调查), many teenagers ever watched videos for nearly a whole afternoon or night. So they often forget to do their homework.

Secondly, there are a lot of meaningless (无意义的)     6    . For example, some students do some boring things and then post them on the app. You can’t really learn     7     useful by watching these boring videos.

So, isn’t it a waste of time? We should     8     useful things from the Internet.

Maybe we shouldn’t spend so much time doing boring things.

It’s 5: 00 p. m. Mike is driving his new car to his sister’s factory. He wants to pick up (接) his sister. But he doesn’t know the way. He stops in front of a bank. At this time he sees an old man near his car. Mike comes out of the car and asks the old man, “Excuse me. Where is the factory?” The old man says, “Yes, I know the way to the factory. I can go there with you.” The old man is now sitting in Mike’s car. Soon they come to a small house and the old man says, “Stop here, please!” Mike stops the car and says, “But this isn’t a factory at all.” “No,” says the old man, “This is my house. I want to get home before dinner. Thank you for taking me home. The factory is behind the bank. So go back to the bank and then turn left. You’ll see the factory. You can’t miss it.” After half an hour, Mike gets to his sister’s factory. It’s just behind the bank!

9. Mike wants to go to ________.

A．his sister’s factory

B．the old man’s house

C．a bank

10. The factory of Mike’s sister is ________.

A．in front of the bank

B．behind the bank

C．in front of the old man’s house

11. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Mike’s car is new.

B．The old man knows the way to the factory.

C．The old man doesn’t tell Mike the way to the factory.

12. How many people are mentioned (提到) in the passage (文章)?

A．2.

B．3.

C．4.

You want to know about life in the past, right? I can tell you. When I was a boy, things were different. I had to get up at six every morning. That was not very bad in summer, but in winter it was cold. And we didn’t have any hot water in the house. We had to wash in cold water. We didn’t have a bathroom (浴室).

My dad had some chickens. I had to feed them every morning and then I had to walk to school with my little sister. It was about two miles (英里) to school and about two miles back in the evening. But it was always longer in the morning when we were going to school. There was a bus, but we didn’t have any money. And we had to go to bed at eleven o’clock every night because I had too much homework and housework to do. We couldn’t watch TV because there wasn’t any. On Sundays we had to go to church (教堂) three times—morning, afternoon and evening. And we couldn’t play outside on Sundays. But it wasn’t all bad. We had some good times (时光).

We could go out and our parents didn’t have to worry about us. There weren’t so many cars on the roads then, so the streets were safe to play in. And there were not many robbers and thieves in those days. We had to work hard and we couldn’t buy all those things in the shops today. Life was hard, but it was simple (单纯的) and people were happier. I don’t think I’d like to be young today.

13. The writer usually went to bed ________ every night.

A．at six

B．at eight

C．at eleven

14. The writer walked about ________ every day.

A．two miles

B．three miles

C．four miles

15. Every morning the writer had to feed ________.

A．his father’s chickens

B．his lovely dog

C．his chickens

16. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．The writer had a little sister.

B．The writer and his sister never had any good times.

C．The write had to get up at six.

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       In our city, there is a big zoo.     17    
       There are some scary tigers and lions. They like eating meat and they eat much meat every day. There are also two big elephants and a baby one.     18     Children like to ride one of them. They eat much grass and bananas.
       In the zoo, we can see different kinds of bears (熊), brown bears, black bears and white bears.     19     They stand on their back legs and lift (抬起) their front legs to ask for food. They like cakes very much. How funny!
       Do you like pandas?     20     Her name is Lingling. She is very cute. She likes eating bamboo a lot. She is kind of shy. So don’t talk loudly (大声地) when you see her. She is very interesting and lovely.

A．They are very kind and friendly.

B．It is a symbol of China.

C．The bears are all slow and clumsy (笨拙的).

D．There is only one in the zoo.

E．There are a lot of different animals in it.

21. Do you need help at the old________（people）home?

22. There are eight ________ (hundred) people in the hall.

23. Please don’t be ________ (noise). The baby is sleeping.

24. We must not buy things _________ (make) of ivory.