Every day we communicate with others—often with symbols or gestures(手势). Here are some of the most common gestures.
Shaking Hands
Shaking hands has been done since at least the second century BC. It’s a symbol of trust. Nowadays we usually shake the right hands. But in the old time, people also shook left hands. The world record for handshakes is held by a man from New Jersey, who shook 11,000 hands in a single day.
Thumbs(大拇指) Up
The thumbs up sign is thought to come from contests in Rome. There people decided whether the fighter would live or die by thumbs up or thumbs down. In fact it came from an old English saying “Here’s my thumb on it” which was used to seal a bargain (达成交易). Businessmen held their thumbs up and extended them, until the two touched each other.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Rochambeau, or rock, paper, scissors is played all over the world to solve some difficult disagreements. A judge in Florida ordered people in a case to use this game to solve it. In Indonesia, it is earwig(蜈蚣), human, and elephant. The earwig drives the elephant mad. The human killed the earwig, and the elephant killed the human. If you know why it is called Rochambeau, please let me know. It’s still a mystery.
OK
The real history of this sign is lost. Some people think it refers to American president Martin Van Buren. He was often called as “Old Kinderhook”. Others say it is the bad handwriting which made OR—standing for “order received” into OK.
1. In old days, if people shook hands, that means they ________ each other.| A．loved | B．believed | C．protected | D．respected |
| A．面对 | B．展示 | C．延伸 | D．掩盖 |
| A．Shaking Hands and OK | B．Shaking Hands and Thumbs up |
| C．Thumbs up and OK | D．Rock, Paper, Scissors and OK |
| A．Most people know how gestures came into use. |
| B．The sign of Thumbs up came from the contests in India. |
| C．In Indonesia, a lot of people were killed by elephants. |
| D．Some people use Rock, Paper, and Scissors to solve problems. |
| A．the history of some daily symbols and signs |
| B．ways to make people trust you |
| C．importance to using right gestures |
| D．the how bad handwriting made OK |
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【推荐1】Body language can show a person’s true feeling and thought.
Arms
Head
Legs
Your legs will move around a lot more than usual when you are nervous or telling lies. Maybe you don’t realize that.
Posture
| A．When you want to show you’re confident, raise your head. |
| B．A good posture makes you feel better about yourself. |
| C．It’s honest and doesn’t tell a lie. |
| D．How you hold your arms shows how open you are to others. |
| E．But quieter people keep them close to their bodies. |
【推荐2】There is one language that is used in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and, short and tall, thin and fat. It is everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand, although you can’t hear it. It is sign language.
When you wave to a friend who is across the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone, you are saying, “I want to be friendly”, but you are not using speech. You are using sign language. When you raise your hand in class, you are saying, “Please ask me. I think I know the correct answer.”
Babies who can’t talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic holds up his hands. He is using sign language. By sign language you can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have conversations under water.
Today, there are special TV news programs for deaf people. The newsreader tells the news in sign language. At the same time, the words appear on the TV screen. The actors in the Theatre of Deaf don’t spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together , it means sandwich. They can make a roof with their hands when they want to show a house. One finger in front of an actor’s mouth can mean quiet.
1. Sign language is _______.| A．a special language used in a few countries |
| B．a way to express one’s ideas without words |
| C．only used by the deaf |
| D．difficult to hear |
| A．raise your hand |
| B．put one hand onto the other |
| C．smile to the person |
| D．make a roof with your hands |
| A．Finger signs instead of hand signs are used only. |
| B．There are schools, colleges and universities for the deaf in the USA. |
| C．A policeman wants to have a chat with you if he holds up his hand. |
| D．Even babies are using sign language. |
| A．Raise your hand in class. |
| B．Communicate with a person behind a closed window. |
| C．Put hands together to mean sandwich. |
| D．Shake one’s head to mean disagreement. |
| A．an introduction to sign language |
| B．the importance of sign language |
| C．a famous priest in France |
| D．how to use sign language |
【推荐3】We are Chinese but we are learning English now, because English is very important in the world. But there are some interesting things in Englishspeaking countries. Do you know what they are? They are some parts of their bodies.
Englishspeaking countries, people often use some parts of their bodies to show what they want to say. If you know something, you can nod your head. If you don’t know, shake your head. When children laugh at others, they will put their thumbs(拇指) on their noses or make a face. If you don’t agree with somebody, put your thumbs down. But if you agree with somebody, put your thumbs up. When you celebrate success, you can show a “V” with your fingers. You can also keep your fingers crossed when you wish somebody good luck.
1. Where is the writer from?| A．The USA. | B．Australia. | C．China. | D．Paris. |
| A．Head. | B．Foot. | C．Nose. | D．Finger. |
| A．Nod your head. | B．Make a face. |
| C．Put your thumbs up. | D．Shake your head. |
| A．On. | B．In. | C．Up. | D．To. |
| A．You have a good time. | B．You have a good luck. |
| C．You are successful. | D．You have a good trip. |
【推荐1】You may think,salt is just a simple cooking material that gives our food a little extra taste.
Do you think rubbing salt in the wound will be useful?
Early humans got the salt they needed to stay alive from the animals they killed . But the improvement in farming led to a diet low in salt . So, humans needed to find other sources . Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucky while those who did not had to trade for salt.
Salt also played an important part in population movement and world exploration. Explorers understood that if they could keep food fresh , they could travel longer distances .
A person might also be called "salt of the earth" .
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| A．However, salt is much more than that. |
| B．It means that you can depend on or trust the person . |
| C．So they used salt to preserve food and explored the world. |
| D．That would be painful and would make the wound more serious. |
| E．In fact , people used salt as a method of payment in the ancient world. |
| Hot Dog The 1600s — A German called Johann Georghehner created the “dachshund” sausage(香肠). “Dachshund” is a German small long thin dog. The 1860s — The very first hot dog — the “dachshund” sausage in a roll — was sold by Germans in New York. It became popular in the US later. 1871 — Charles Feltman, a German, started the first Coney Island hot dog stand. It made hot dogs known to more people. 1893 — Chris Ahe started the American tradition of eating hot dogs at baseball parks, making hot dogs more popular. 1901 — A New York painter, Tad Dorgan, saw the red hot “dachshund” sausages sold on streets. He wanted to draw a picture of it, but he wasn’t sure how to spell “dachshund”, so he simply wrote: “Hot Dog”. It is widely believed how Hot Dog had its name. 1949 — The first vegetarian (素食) hot dogs came out. | Hot Dog Fun Facts World record for eating hot dogs: 73 in ten minutes. Hot dogs were one of the first foods eaten on the moon! About 150 million hot dogs are eaten by Americans each July 4th. About 21 million hot dogs were sold at American baseball parks in 2010. New Yorkers eat more hot dogs than any other city population in the US. |
1. The passage mainly shows us ________.
| A．how to make hot dogs | B．what the history of hot dogs is |
| C．how to sell hot dogs | D．what people like hot dogs for |
| A．Tad Dorgan | B．Charles Feltman |
| C．Chris Ahe | D．Johann Georghehner |
| A．New Yorkers like eating hot dogs most in the World. |
| B．Germans eat about 150 million hot dogs each July 4th. |
| C．A world record says someone ate 73 hot dogs in 10 minutes. |
| D．About 21 million hot dogs were sold in America in the 1860s. |
Xi’an celebrates the first-ever China Hanfu Day on April 18. There were catwalk shows and traditional music concerts held by people wearing traditional Chinese clothing. Hanfu fans from all over China gathered there to take photos and put them online for a Hanfu photo competition, which lasted until May 18.
The national holiday is on the third day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar as China Hanfu Day, which is said to be the birthday of the Yellow Emperor (黄帝). In ancient China, this day was also known as Shangsi Festival (上巳节). It is organized by the central Committee of the Communist Young League (CCCYL,中央共青团)in cooperation (合作)with anime video site bilibili. com. Its purpose is to encourage young Chinese to take pride in traditional clothing, as well as classic Chinese culture.
Hanfu is the traditional clothing of the Han people who lived in China before the Qing Dynasty. It has been around for about 3,000 years and changed greatly across different dynasties. However, some of its major characteristics have remained. One characteristic is the appearance of the front of the clothing. There are two parts that overlap (交叠) on the front, which is called “jiao ling (crossing collar)”. Another major characteristic of Hanfu is that it usually uses ribbons(系带) instead of buttons (扣子), sometimes decorated with a few buttons.
“China is becoming a leading power in the world, and the Chinese public feels more confident about its traditional culture,”Chen Chuyu, leader of a Beijing-based hanfu institution, told People’s Daily Online. “Wearing traditional clothing might be an interesting way of showing how they feel about this.”
1. Hanfu fans from all over China take photos and put them online because ______.| A．they were proud of Chinese culture | B．they wanted to win the Hanfu photo competition |
| C．they wanted to go back to the Han Dynasty | D．they wanted to try the clothes from the Han Dynasty |
| A．About 18 days | B．About a month | C．About 3,000 years | D．About two months |
| A．The characteristics of Hanfu | B．The history of Hanfu |
| C．Introduction of Hanfu | D．The changes of Hanfu |
| A．The Hanfu Day was supported by anime video site bilibili.com. |
| B．The day was celebrated to encourage Chinese to be proud of Chinese culture. |
| C．Hanfu is different from the common clothes today. |
| D．Hanfu remains almost the same as in the Han Dynasty. |
| A．In a science book | B．In a history book | C．In an online advertisement | D．In a magazine |
【推荐1】Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century. He not only wrote stories, but also wrote articles about living conditions of Chinese people.
Lu Xun was born in 1881. In 1898, his grandfather was put into prison for taking money. His father became seriously ill. From that time on, his family were no longer accepted by their relatives and friends. These early experiences greatly influenced his writing. In 1902, he went to study in Japan. He showed a talent for writing and translating. He even wrote several books. He returned to China in 1909 because he was in need of money. After working for several years as a teacher in Beijing, Lu Xun again returned to writing. In 1918, he wrote his famous short story Diary of a Madman. It was the first Chinese novel published using the everyday language that people spoke, which helped make it a great success. This, together with his novel The True Story Of Ah Q(1921), made Lu Xun a leading Chinese writer. Lu Xun still worried greatly about China’s future. In 1926, he moved to Shanghai and gave up writing stories. He then only wrote articles which called on people to fight against the government. For this, the government stopped him from publishing any more books.
He died in 1936. Lu Xun’s importance and influence have grown. Today some of his works are included in school textbooks and his works are read by millions of people around the world.
Choose the best choice according to what you read.1. Which of the following greatly influenced Lu Xun’s writing according to the passage?
| A．The people he met in Japan. | B．The experiences in his early life. | C．Working as a teacher in Beijing. |
| A．It was based on Lu Xun’s diary. |
| B．It was the first novel using everyday language. |
| C．Its story took place in modern times. |
| A．The success of Diary of a Madman. |
| B．The True Story of Ah Q. |
| C．The first Chinese novel. |
| A．Funny stories. |
| B．Articles about himself. |
| C．Articles calling on people to fight against the government. |
| A．Some of his articles were about living conditions of Chinese people. |
| B．In 1898, his father was put into prison for taking money. |
| C．Lu Xun only wrote stories all his life. |
Poem 1 To know the value of one week, ask editors (编辑) of weekly newspaper. To know the value of one hour, ask lovers who are waiting to meet. To know the value of one minute, ask the person who missed he train. To know the value of one second, ask the one who was saved in an accident. Time waits for no one. Treasure every second you have. Act now, day and night. Make progress more or less. Each day is a new life. |
Poem 2 Enjoy every second in your life. Once you get older, the days go by so much fast. Seize time, don’t let it pass you by. Seize time, live as there is no second try. Nothing should stand on your way. Slow down time, get on your way. Time goes by, in a rush of days. Seize time, here and now. | Poem 3 Time went before. No stopping. Time came after. Keep moving. Time is grain for farmers. Time is wealth (财富) for workers. Time is life for doctors. Time is knowledge for students. Time is money for business. _________ Therefore, seize this day! |
| A．The person who missed the train. |
| B．The person who was saved in an accident. |
| C．The person who is waiting to meet his loved one. |
| A．By raising a question. |
| B．By giving an example. |
| C．By giving an opinion. |
| A．抓住 | B．牢记 | C．约定 |
| A．Time brings the truth to light. |
| B．Time is everything for all of us. |
| C．So what does time mean to you? |
| A．They all tell us how to spend time. |
| B．They all tell us the importance of time. |
| C．They all tell us to spend more time thinking. |
Do you know black boxes?
Black boxes are flight recorders placed in an aircraft for the purpose of making it easier to know how the accidents happened in flight.
An airplane actually has two black boxes. The flight data recorder catches the information, which can discover whether human error or instrument problems contributed to an accident. The cockpit (驾驶舱) voice recorder records pilot voices and cockpit sounds.
The black boxes are not black. They are painted bright orange to help with their recovery after accidents. The outside is with stripes of reflective tape (反光带). The black boxes are usually placed in the tail of a plane where they are more likely to survive a crash. A flight data recorder is required to store at least 25 hours of flight information. A cockpit voice recorder is required to record at least 2 hours of audio information.
For the black boxes to survive a crash, they are built to be waterproof, fireproof, shockproof, heat and pressure and corrosion resistant (耐腐蚀). The black box must be able to hold 3, 400 times the force of gravity, when the airplane goes down at the speed of about 500 km/h. It must also survive flames up to 1, 100 degrees Celsius for one hour, and the boxes should be able to give out a signal once per second while put under 6, 000 meters of saltwater for at least 30 days.
How is data from black boxes picked up? It needs special skills to physically bring the black boxes back. Investigators may need to clean and dry the black boxes and download data from them. It takes time to download and get the information from data. If the storing units go wrong, it will take longer time, either days or months.
So, the black boxes are very important to explain to everyone what happened during the flight.
1. What does the unlined word “recovery” in Paragraph 4 mean?| A．恢复 | B．找回 | C．保存 | D．覆盖 |
| A．Black boxes help us know how flight accidents happen. |
| B．It takes little time to download data from the black boxes. |
| C．Black boxes are painted black with stripes of reflective tape. |
| D．One black box is in the head of a plane and the other is in the tail. |
| A．the black boxes are strong enough |
| B．the black boxes can help the plane land safely |
| C．the black boxes can tell people the cause of the accident |
| D．the black boxes can hold a lot of information about the plane |
| A．how long black boxes work | B．how black boxes pick up data |
| C．what messages black boxes carry | D．what we know about black boxes |
【推荐1】Scientists will put some robot fish into the sea near Spain this year. These robot fish will help people find out the pollution in the water. If the robot fish are able to finish their work successfully, the team of scientists hopes they can use the robot fish in rivers, lakes and seas around the world.
The robot fish are about 1. 5 meters long. There is a detector (探测器）in their bodies. It can find the pollution in the water, and then the robot fish will eat part of it.
They can “swim” for eight hours in the sea freely and send back information to people on the beach. After their power(电能) runs down, they will go back to the beach by themselves.
There are five robot fish altogether. Each costs about 29,000 dollars. They are part of a three-year project between the engineering company BMT Group and University of Essex in southeastern England.
1. What can we know from the passage?| A．The robot fish will begin to work next year. |
| B．The robot fish will work in the sea near England. |
| C．The robot fish will help to find other fish in the sea. |
| D．The robot fish will find out the pollution in the water. |
| A．They will eat some small fish. |
| B．They won’t tell people where they are. |
| C．They will clean some of the polluted things. |
| D．They will take other fish out to the beach. |
| A．For five hours. | B．For eight hours. |
| C．For twelve hours. | D．For one day. |
| A．The robot fish can eat nothing but the water. |
| B．People have to help the robot fish in the sea. |
| C．The scientists try to make robot fish look like a fish. |
| D．The robot fish can go back to the beach without help. |
| A．The robot fish. | B．The pollution in the sea. |
| C．The pollution near Spain. | D．The work by the robots. |
【推荐2】Tim is eight years old. He has a three-year-old sister Jane. Tim's favorite subject is math and he is good at it.
Miss Black, their aunt, teaches math in a middle school. She often comes to Tim's home with some fruit. Today Tim's parents have to be in their clothes shop, so they ask Miss Black to come to look after Tim and Jane. Then Miss Black comes to Tim's home with a bag of oranges. She takes out some oranges and puts them on the table.
"How many oranges can you see on the table, Tim?"asks Miss Black.
"Six." answers Tim.
"Then can you divide them between you and Jane?"
"Sure, that's easy." He gives one to Jane and has five for himself. Miss Black is surprised（惊讶地）. "Jane only gets one while（然而）you get five. Are you really good at math?"
"Yes, I am," says Tim. "But Jane isn't. "
1. Who is Miss Black?| A．The children's aunt | B．Jane's mother. |
| C．Tim's math teacher | D．A friend of Tim's mother. |
| A．look after the children | B．ask Tim for help |
| C．buy fruit for the children | D．help Tim with math |
| A．辨别 | B．平分 | C．总结 | D．解释 |
| A．Tim's math isn't really good | B．Jane doesn't like oranges. |
| C．Tim wants to have more oranges. | D．Miss Black teaches math well. |
Many students don’t like the school lunch. They take their own(自己的) lunch to school. Their mothers may make hamburgers and salad for them for lunch. Some students take leftovers(剩饭菜) for lunch. But I don’t! The lunch is very cheap. For only $1.3, I can eat a lot of good and healthy food. Then I take my food to my lunch table and sit(坐) with my friends. Boys don’t sit with girls. We eat lunch and we like to talk(谈论) about sports and TV shows(电视节目). We also talk about school life(生活): our favorite subjects, our favorite teachers and our favorite days. After our lunch, we usually play games.
At school, I love lunchtime. For me it is the best time of my day!
1. Students don’t take __________ to school for lunch.
| A．salad | B．leftovers |
| C．hamburgers | D．fruit and vegetables |
| A．差的 | B．好的 | C．便宜的 | D．贵的 |
| A．favourite girls | B．favourite subjects |
| C．favourite teachers | D．favourite days |
| A．Steve doesn’t like school lunch. |
| B．Boys often sit with girls at lunchtime. |
| C．All the students take food for lunch to school. |
| D．For Steve, lunchtime is the best time of his day. |
| A．My School | B．My Favourite Day |
| C．My Classmates | D．My Lunchtime |
