Many people complain(抱怨) in their life. Do you ever complain? When you try a new dress on, but only find you are too “big” to put yourself in. Do you complain about your shape of body? Do you tell yourself “If I have time tomorrow, I will go to the gym.” But do you actually take action?
Karen always complained about her house. One day I asked why she didn't look for another house. Karen answered, “I will look for another one when I come back from vacation.” Sam hated his job. However, he loved taking photos, and was taking a two-year course to get a certificate (证书). Every day he complained about his work. I asked him why he didn’t give up his job and start a business of taking photos. His reply was , “When I finish my course, I will start a business.”
Here is another example. Harry worked for a company that allowed him to retire (退休)early, but at a reduced pension (削减的养老金). Now Harry became very weak and found it difficult to deal with his work. I was worried about his heavy work and its influence (影响)on his health. “Why don’t you retire, Harry? Do something that you want to do,” I said. “If I were older, I would get my foil pension.” “When the next summer comes, maybe I will,” Harry replied.
There is an old saying that says, “If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.” A year later, Karen is still living in the house, and she hates it. Sam is still complaining about his job and hasn’t finished his course. Harry is still working and his health is even worse. These people had a lot of stress in their lives that they could have reduced(本该可以减少). But all of them beat themselves by thinking “if or when”.
Life is too short for “ifs and whens”. The next time you find yourself thinking “if or when”, remember the saying, “If and When were planted, and Nothing grew”.
1. Karen planned to _________ a year ago.| A．look for another house | B．go to the gym |
| C．start a business | D．give up her job |
| A．He gave up his job. | B．He finished his course. |
| C．He didn’t love taking photos. | D．He is still complaining about his job. |
| A．to work hard and never give up | B．to always hope for the best |
| C．to take action right away | D．to look at the brighter side of life |
①=Para.(自然段)1 ②=Para.2 ③=Para.3 ④=Para.4 ⑤=Para.5
| A．①②,③,④⑤ | B．①,②③④,⑤ | C．①②③,④,⑤ | D．①,②,③④⑤ |
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A CCTV program reported that the food Chinese people throw away every year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. Do we have too much food? Absolutely not. According to the UN World Food Program, there were 925 million hungry people around the world in 2011, especially in developing countries. Six million children die of hunger every year.
Chinese people are well-known for being friendly and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food on the table. Luckily, a number of people have realized the importance of saving food. What should we do in our daily lives to waste less food?
1.Don’t order too much in a restaurant. Only order as much as you want to eat. If you cannot eat all the food you ordered, take the rest of it home.
2.Don’t leave any food in your bowls, while having meals.
3.Keep an eye on what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much, especially for vegetables and fruit.
1. What’s the real meaning of the underlined sentence?
| A．春种一粒粟，秋收万颗籽。 | B．谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦。 |
| C．吏禄三百石，岁晏有余粮。 | D．足蒸暑土气，背灼炎天光。 |
| A．6 million. | B．925 million. | C．200 million. | D．725 million. |
| A．Order more food in a restaurant. | B．Every time you eat, leave some food in your bowls. |
| C．Take all the food you ordered home. | D．Don’t store too much food like vegetables and fruit. |
| A．A number of people have realized the importance of saving food. |
| B．The food Chinese people throw away a year is enough to feed 200 million people for a year. |
| C．200 million children die of hunger every year. |
| D．Many Chinese feel that they lose face if guests have eaten all the food on the table. |
| A．Don’t waste food. | B．Chinese people are friendly and generous. |
| C．We can’t die of hunger. | D．Every grain is grown by farmers. |
| What do you need most? | Love | Money | Free-dom (自由) | Control | Something else |
| 40% | 18% | 28% | 10% | 4% | |
| Whom do you communicate with? | Oneself | Family members | No one | ||
| 27% | 55% | 18% | |||
| Can you communicate with your parents freely? | Yes | A little Difficult | No | ||
| 46% | 44% | 10% | |||
| Do you want to live with your parents or alone? | Living with parents | Living alone | No idea | ||
| 58% | 14% | 28% | |||
| What do you think of your parents’ working in cities? | Bad | Good | No idea | ||
| 20% | 39% | 41% | |||
| What’s your happiest place? | School | Home | Friends’ homes | ||
| 48% | 34% | 18% | |||
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。
1. The survey was done to________.
| A．make left-behind children go to school |
| B．know how to make children happy |
| C．know about children in villages |
| D．care about left-behind children |
| A．love | B．money | C．control | D．freedom |
| A．live with their grandparents |
| B．live in big cities |
| C．live with their parents |
| D．live in villages |
| A．48. | B．102 | C．144. | D．156. |
| A．over 40% of the children have difficulty talking to their parents freely |
| B．about 1/3 of the children think their parents' working in cities is bad |
| C．most of the children dream of making money with their parents |
| D．about half of the children have no one to talk with |
【推荐3】Do your parents check your short massages? Answer your phone? Read your diary? If so, you must be sad. How to solves these problems. Here are three ways that may help you.
Get Their Trust (信任)
Trust is the key to getting more space from your parents. If you don’t tell them the truth and break their rules, they won’t trust you anymore. For example, if you tell your dad you are reading books in the library but then he finds that you and your friends are playing computer games instead. He won’t trust you next time.
Share More Things with Them
The reason why many parents check their children’s massages is that they want to know more about their children. They choose the wrong ways, so result may be terrible. The best way to solve this problem is to share more things with them. When you have dinner with your parents, you can share something interesting that happened in school or ask them for some advice about friendship. All of you may feel better.
Use the Right Way to Speak out your Mind
If you follow the above suggestions, but your parents still check your massages or read your diary, it’s time for a heart to heart talk. Say something like this, “Mom, dad, you taught me to be respectful to others, and I think I’m old enough to make decisions by myself.”
1. How many ways does the writer give us?| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．Love | B．time | C．pressure | D．trust |
| A．Because they want to have dinner with their children. |
| B．Because they want to know something interesting about their children. |
| C．Because they want to know more about their children. |
| D．Because they want to give their children some advice. |
| A．尊敬的 | B．和平的 | C．敌意的 | D．高尚的 |
| A．how to get their parents’ trust |
| B．share something interesting with their parents |
| C．the way to avoid parents checking their short messages |
| D．use the right way to speak out their mind |
【推荐1】①Kids spend a lot of time on homework. Some people think that too much homework is necessary and helpful, because homework helps students practice what is taught in class. Is that really right?
②Statistics show that 33% of 14-year-old students report spending 2 hours or more on homework daily. Isn’t that too much? As a 9th grade student, I have thousands of assignments(布置) every week. As a result. I’m busy with homework every day. More often than not, I have to stay up until midnight, doing my homework. Certainly, this is harmful to my health as a developing teenager. Too much homework results in less sleep, more stress and having bad influence on my school performance because everyone knows that no good sleep leads to no good grades.
③So why do teenagers have so much homework? One of the answers is that teachers often have children cover materials at home by themselves that they do not discuss during school time at all. The teacher’s reason is that there aren’t enough hours in the day and he/she wants students to learn more. But being taught how to do something by a piece of paper just isn’t the same as being taught by an actual human being. The teacher can explain things in a different way if a student doesn’t understand how to do something, but homework can’t! When it comes to get knowledge, it is teachers rather than homework that counts.
④Statistics even show that kids who take part in an extra curricular(课外的) activity have less stress. The only problem is that kids have less time for such extra curricular activities. Homework takes away most of our free time to spend with friends and family.
⑤ Too much homework can cause stress depression(抑郁), lower grades, and less time to do extra curricular activities or hang out with friends, so teachers, could you please not get so excited about homework next time?
1. The writer explain there’s too much homework for students by ________ in Paragraph 2.| A．showing a story | B．having a speech | C．giving an example | D．making a survey |
| A．family | B．homework | C．textbooks | D．teachers |
| A．students have less time to study at school |
| B．hanging out with friends leads to bad grades |
| C．teachers would like to give students more homework |
| D．it’s boring for students to have extra curricular activities |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
If money was everything，all millionaires(百万富翁)would have true love， true friendship，good health and a long life. However，this is not always true.
Nothing else is more pleasant than the three words which are “I love you”. But can love be bought？I’m afraid not. Love means to give，not to take. To every person，health and long life are probably the most precious(宝贵的)things. Well，can health and a long life be bought with money？The answer is “No”.
Of all the longest living people in the world， few of them are millionaires. True friendship can’t be bought either. In a word，Where money is worshiped(崇拜)，money can cause brothers to quarrel，lovers to hate，strangers to fight and so on. No matter how much money you have，it is still not enough to make you a happy person if you have no one to laugh with，no one to cry for.
1. According to the passage，which of the following do you think is right？
| A．Money is everything. |
| B．Money isn’t necessary. |
| C．Money is important，but not the most important. |
| D．With no money，with no success. |
| A．Only money. | B．Health and a long life. |
| C．Only friendship. | D．A，B and C. |
| A．If you haven’t much money，you can’t get more happiness. |
| B．You may live a long life even if you are poor. |
| C．Every year many people die in the world because their family is poor. |
| D．If you are rich，you will have less friendship. |
| A．have true friendship | B．die earlier |
| C．have good health | D．have true love |
| A．爱意味着给你，而不能带走。 |
| B．爱是可以得到的，不要走开。 |
| C．爱意味着奉献，而不是索取。 |
| D．爱是可以索取的，而不必付出 |
Read the newspaper carefully, we'll find different types of articles on the pages:
News stories — these stories are about events. Reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper Teenagers has lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers’ ideas.
Opinion writing — opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn't just facts. Here writers add their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back up their ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth. This is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. Go to “Speak Out” on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.
Advertisement — Don’t get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!
1. The underlined sentence means that the readers "_______".
| A．should understand interesting news stories |
| B．ought to know which kind of things to read |
| C．need to look at the school news first |
| D．must know the contents of all the news |
| A．reporters write different kinds of news |
| B．teenagers get interested in newspapers |
| C．readers can read newspapers in better ways |
| D．readers can’t read different news in newspapers |
Caterpillar(毛毛虫)and Alice look at each other in silence．Then they begin to talk．
Caterpillar：(In a tired,sleepy voice)Who are you?
Alice：(Rather shyly)I—hardly know,sir,just at present—at least I know who Iwas when I got up this morning．but l think I must have been changed several times since then．
Caterpillar：What do you mean by that?Explain yourself!
Alice：I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid．sir,because I’m not myself,you see．
Caterpillar：I don’t see．
Alice：(very politely)I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,for I can’t understand it myself．And being so many different sizes in a day is very puzzling(令人迷惑的)．
Caterpillar：It isn’t．
Alice：(Feeling uncomfortable)well，perhaps you haven’t found it so yet．But when you have to turn into a chrysalis(蛹)一you will some day,you know—and then after that into a butterfly,I think you’11 feel it a little stranger,won’t you?
Caterpillar：Not a bit．
Alice：Well，perhaps your feelings may be different．All l know is it would make me feel very strange．
Caterpillar： (At the top of his voice)You!Who are you?
Alice：(Angrily)I think you ought to tell me who you are first．
Caterpillar：Why?
(Here is another puzzling question．As Alice cannot think out any good reasons and Caterpillar seems to be very unpleasant,she turns away．)
Caterpillar：Come back!I have something important to tell you!
(Alice turns and comes back again)
1. Where may their talk take place?
| A．In a wonderland. | B．In the field. |
| C．In the tree. | D．Outside the hole. |
| A．Because she was too young to understand the changes. |
| B．Because being changed several times in a day made her feel puzzled. |
| C．Because she didn’t like her changes |
| D．Because she didn’t feel very well. |
| A．“Don’t be silly. You are still yourself.” said the Caterpillar. |
| B．“Don’t be angry. You think you’re changed, do you?” said the Caterpillar. |
| C．“Don’t be sad. You’ll grow bigger again.” said the Caterpillar. |
| D．“Don’t be afraid. You can go home now.” said the Caterpillar. |
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【推荐3】Once, a Chinese student went to study English in England. His family name is Sun. It is the same as the English word "sun".
England is a country with bad weather. It is often cloudy or misty（有雾的）, and it rains now and again, so the people there don't get much sunshine in the whole year.
When the Chinese student arrives in London, a tall English policeman with a long face opens his passport to check it. The policeman is interested to find the Chinese name "Sun" in the passport. He thinks it is pronounced（发音）just like the English word "sun", so he said to the Chinese student, "I see your name is Sun. You are wanted here! "
The Chinese student is very surprised. -But after a moment the policeman begins to smile, "Mr. Sun, you've brought sunshine to England! So we don't want you to go away! "
1. The weather in England is __________.| A．cloudy | B．misty | C．rainy | D．A, B and C |
| A．Chinese students | B．rain | C．sunshine | D．their country |
| A．bag | B．passport | C．ID card | D．plane ticket |
| A．a nice name | B．a good passport | C．luck | D．much money |
| A．you are not welcome to come here | B．we don't like you |
| C．you want to have some names | D．we don't want you to go away |
| A．funny | B．bad | C．foolish | D．rude |
Suddenly Bob’s eyes opened wide—what was the sound in the next room? Bob heard the window being opened slowly. For a minute，Bob was so frightened that he could not move，and his body felt like ice. He knew that he couldn’t lose his head（惊慌失措）and began to think of the things he could do. Again he heard the sound of someone trying to climb into his home through the window.
Bob’s drums were standing in the corner near the TV. “Wait，maybe there is something I can do,”thought Bob. He beat on his drums as hard as he could. The sound was so terrible that Bob surprised even himself. He also surprised the man in the window，who ran away as fast as possible.How clever he was！
1. Was Bob afraid of being alone at home?
| A．Yes，he was. | B．No，he wasn’t. |
| C．Sometimes he was. | D．No，he didn’t. |
| A．He played the drums. | B．He watched TV. |
| C．He fell asleep. | D．He did nothing. |
| A．a friend | B．a stranger |
| C．an animal | D．a thief(贼） |
| A．He turned up the TV. |
| B．He called the police. |
| C．He beat his drums. |
| D．He asked his parents for help. |
| A．foolish | B．lovely. | C．funny. | D．clever |
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【推荐3】Social media has become a part of our lives. It is the communication tool that children have been brought up with, but it is still illegal(违法的) for a Canadian child under the age of 13 to have a social media page.
This is a shame when you consider the learning opportunities that social media offers. At our school, Vernon Christian Elementary school in Vernon, B. C. , I can see how it provides children with the chance to learn how to communicate properly and effectively. If they want their friends to follow them or re-tweet (转发) their messages, they must learn to write them creatively in an interesting and amusing style , attach (粘贴) pictures , and ask questions to invite a response. Students will learn a lot from the process.
Social media can also help students to sharpen up their writing skills. My students usually use the blog to keep a diary about something that interests them, and suddenly they appear to love writing.
So is it necessary to restrict (限制) students in the social media age? Not really. A survey has found that 59 percent of children have already used a social network by the time they are 10 , and 43 percent have messaged people they didn't know by the age of 12.
Of course, primary schools should care about the dangers of social media. Measures(措施) should be taken to protect students from the dangers. In our school , we have a social media platform with a teacher's dashboard (信息窗) where all activities can be managed. On one occasion, a boy wrote hurtful comments (评论) about a girl in a post message. After a discussion with him about why it is wrong to send hurtful emails, he was embarrassed and said sorry to the girl.
Over the past 23 years teaching in British Columbia, I have focused on computing. I therefore take notice of the bad effects of social media on primary students. However, social media offers learning and communicating opportunities to elementary students. More importantly, we cannot ignore(忽视) the fact elementary children are using social media. I strongly believe that exposing students to the social media will equip them to be wiser grow-ups in the future.
1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．The writer has made students learn a lot by using social media as a teacher. |
| B．All the students can't be allowed to use social media in British Columbia. |
| C．In Canada , children under 13 have rights to use social media pages freely. |
| D．The writer has paid less attention to primary students in using social media. |
| A．achieve | B．improve | C．form | D．practise |
| A．More schools will encourage students to use social media skillfully. |
| B．It is necessary to stop the students from using social media at school. |
| C．Social media at school will make great influence on students' future. |
| D．It is so important to keep school websites safe in Information Age. |
| A．will take the place of other learning styles slowly |
| B．can help students make a good habit of learning |
| C．will make students take less interest in learning |
| D．should be developed more widely among students |
