Nowadays, people around the world are working to help our planet. Let’s see how the four young students made a difference.

Saving Pandas When Jack was 11, he started a group to teach kids about pandas. He also sold toy pandas to raise money to save pandas in danger. “I hope to let more people care about pandas.” Jack says.

Growing Right Kathy, 14, set up a group to tell people about growing right plants in right places. She also wrote a book to help people learn how to grow different kinds of plants in their own areas.

Making Electricity (电) Linda is 12 years old. She made a machine called Super E last year. It makes electricity in a way that is good to the environment.

Cleaning Up Patrick, 13, joined the Ocean Heroes (英雄) Camp last year. He started a program and picked up plastic (塑料) waste around near the lakes with his friends. They wanted to to fight plastic pollution.

1. Who started a group to teach kids about pandas?

A．Jack.

B．Kathy.

C．Linda.

D．Patrick.

2. How old was Linda when she made Super E?

A．11.

B．12.

C．13.

D．14.

3. Where is the passage most probably from?

A．A travel guide.

B．Sports news.

C．A school magazine.

D．A painting book.

My name is Helen. I come from New York, the USA. Three weeks after my twenty-four birthday, I started to work at a children’s hospital in California.

When I went to work on the first day, I was happy but a little nervous. I said to myself, “Will the children like me? Can I do the job well?” I didn’t know what I should say when I saw the children for the first time. I walked into one of the patients’ (病人的) rooms. There were three little boys in it. They smiled (微笑) at me and said hello to me. Then I said hello to them, too.

During the next two hours, I talked to them and played games with them happily. I found it was not so hard to get on with the children. That day, I talked with a boy called Bruce for a long time. He got a serious illness (疾病), I asked him, “Are you happy here?” He answered, “Yes, but I wished I weren’t ill.” He told me that he liked his school and wished to go to school again. I said I would try my best to help him.

Luckily, Bruce got well half a year later. Now Bruce is healthy and he goes back to his school.

Now I’m happy to stay with the children and see their happy faces.

4. How did Helen feel when she went to work on the first day?

A．Glad but nervous.

B．Happy and relaxed.

C．Afraid and nervous.

D．Afraid but happy.

5. What does the underlined word “it” refer to (指代)?

A．children’s hospital

B．the doctor’s room

C．the children’s room

D．the patients’ room

6. From the passage, we know Bruce ______.

A．hurt himself in an accident and stayed in the hospital

B．gives up hope and hates his school and parents

C．is well and now studying in his school

D．becomes healthy again after two and a half years

7. We can infer (推断) that ______.

A．Helen started to work at a children’s hospital when she was 23

B．Helen loves her job at the children’s hospital

C．Helen didn’t get on well with the children at first

D．Helen can make a lot of money at the children’s hospital

Life is always full of stress these days. How do you usually deal with (处理) your stress? Do you know doing housework is helpful in dealing with stress? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed.

“Doing some housework such as washing windows or cleaning the house is a good way to face our stress without taking any medicine,” says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist (心理学家) in New York. She often advises people who are under lots of stress to try doing housework every day. “While washing something,” she says, “you can imagine you’re washing away some trouble in your life.”

Do people all agree with her idea? Here are some ideas about it.

“Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life,” says Linda in France (法国). “Get me out of doing the housework and then I’ll really be relaxed.”

Gary is a single (单身的) father. “So, a man pays a psychologist $200 an hour for his problem about stress. However, he is just told to go back home and do some housework. I really don’t know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man!”

8. What does Carol Clark advise people under stress to do?

A．To take some medicine.	B．To call on a psychologist.
C．To do some housework.	D．To be as tidy as possible.

9. What does Linda think of doing housework?

A．It makes her relaxed.	B．It makes her helpful.
C．It makes her in good health.	D．It makes her under much stress.

10. What can we know from the last two paragraphs (段落) of the passage?

A．People have more and more stress.

B．Some people have different ideas from Carol Clark’s.

C．Doing housework is helpful in dealing with stress.

D．Most people have to do too much housework.

11. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Housework and stress.	B．The reasons for stress.
C．Work and life.	D．A successful psychologist.

Imagine this: It’s midnight. You’re very hungry after studying for a long time. Then you see a nice pie in the fridge (冰箱). Should you eat it? It seems that you shouldn’t for many reasons, because it may be bad for your brains (大脑).

Scientists have long known that eating late at night can make us fat. But now a new study has shown that late-night eating may also be bad for our brains—it might make a difference to our memories (记忆力).

“We believe that late-night eating may affect (影响) our learning by affecting the parts of the brain that control learning and memory,” Dawn Loh. PhD, a scientist at the University of California, said. “We believe the time of when we eat is the main cause of the bad memory.”

For the study, scientists did an experiment on mice. The mice could eat during the daytime or during the night. They had the same sleep and food. Then the scientists tested the brains of the mice and noticed that the mice eating during the night were not able to remember things well.

So think twice before the midnight snack—it might be bad for more than your body.

12. Should we eat at midnight according to the passage?

A．Yes, we should.	B．It depends on our family rules.
C．We don’t know.	D．No, we shouldn’t.

13. What does the underlined word “experiment” mean?

A．实验

B．运动

C．作业

D．零食

14. Why did the scientists do an experiment on mice?

A．To study the brains of different mice.

B．To find out what will happen to their memories if mice eat late.

C．To find out how much food mice need every day.

D．To show mice are not good at remembering things.

15. Which of the following could be the best title (题目) of the passage?

A．Eating snacks affects memory	B．Late-night eating hurts brains
C．Staying up late is bad	D．Keep away from snacks

16. Don’t t______ away rubbish everywhere!

17. My pen is b________. Could I borrow yours?

18. N________ of my parents is a teacher. They are doctors.

19. I lent my bike to Bill, but he didn’t r______ it to me.

20. Lily, don’t play with the ______ (刀). They are too dangerous.

21. They have made a ________ (决定) to build a big factory here.

22. I didn’t fall ______ (睡着) until twelve o’clock last night.

23. He is ______ (聪明的), but he is not very hard-working.

阅读下面短文，在没有提示的空白处填入适当的单词；或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。

The movie YOLO hit the big screen on the second day of the Chinese New Year in 2024. The movie is about     30     woman called Du Leying. She still lives with her parents in her 30s until she met a boxing coach (拳击教练) one day. The boxing coach just changed her life later.

Many people went into the cinema, because they expected     31     (see) what Jia Ling looked like after she lost 50 kilos for her role. In Jia Ling’s eyes, it is a warm-hearted story about learning to love yourself.

The movie YOLO teaches the     32     (important) of friendship, teamwork, and never giving up. It also     33     (tell) us that success (成功) comes from hard work. YOLO means “You Only Live Once”. In our lives, we must win once. All difficulties are challenges (挑战) to us. By meeting these challenges, we can truly grow and win.

从方框中选择适当的词填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有2个多余选项。

for   feeling   after   alone   lonely   grow   allow   several   when

Do you or your family have a pet? What kind of pet is it? Who will choose it? Who looks after it? Pets can make you much happier if you have the right pet. For most people, having a pet has     34     advantages (优点).

First, your pet can be your friend. You won’t feel     35     when you stay at home by yourself. You can play with your pet. For example, if you have a pet dog, you can play with it. You can also take it for a walk. You will never feel bored     36     you stay with your pet dog.

Second, you can learn how to care for others by looking     37     your pet. Lots of teenagers say that taking care of pets makes them     38     up as a person quickly.

Third, you can learn more about responsibility (责任). By feeding your pet and keeping it clean and happy, you will have a strong     39     of responsibility.

See? There are so many advantages of having a pet. If you don’t have a pet, why don’t you ask your parents to feed one? Maybe your parents will     40     then you will have your own pet.

46. 假如你是李华，上周六早上九点，你的笔友Peter给你打电话，但你没有接到。请给Peter写一封电子邮件，包含以下内容：

1. 解释未接电话的原因（当时你正在养老院参加志愿活动）；
2. 说明发送邮件的理由（你感冒了，嗓子疼）；
3. 介绍你在养老院的志愿活动情况（1~2条）和感受；
4. 谈论一下上个月你与父母争吵的事，因为你从不做家务，现在知道了做家务的好处（1~2条）。
要求：1、字数80左右；
2、必须包含全部要点，可适当发挥，开头结尾已给出。（不计入总字数）
Dear Peter,

You called me at 9 a. m. last Saturday, but I didn’t pick up.

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How are you getting on with your family and your study now? Could you please tell me about them?

Yours,

Li Hua