Sometimes children need extra help to learn at school. In some schools in England, volunteer tutors work with children who are struggling to learn and write. The tutors spend time with them, away from their class, to help them learn to love books and enjoy school. These children can then become more confident about school and learning.
Lorna is six years old and struggling with her reading and writing. This is a report from her tutor, Mrs Snow, who has been visiting her at school.
When I first started working with Lorna, she was very shy and didn’t really enjoy reading.
Her class teacher told me she was very quiet in class. During our lessons together we spent lots of time reading books. We also played word games to help with her spelling and writing. As time went on, Lorna began to relax and became more confident. She realized that reading and writing could be lots of fun!
Lorna even wrote a book by herself about Beauty and the Beast. She also drew some lovely pictures to explain it. What great progress!
Her favorite reading book was called Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. She was very happy every time we sat down to read it!
Her class teacher is very pleased with how well Lorna is doing. Lorna proudly tells her classmates about what she has done in each lesson. I think they all want to join in as well!
I am very pleased that Lorna is also spending more time at home reading with her mom and dad. They are all enjoying reading together. Lorna tells me that they have bought her a special bookmark to use in her reading books.
1. According to the passage, Mrs Snow is ________.| A．Lorna’s mother | B．Lorna’s class teacher |
| C．Lorna’s volunteer tutor | D．A visitor to Lorna’s school |
| A．who have some difficulty reading and writing | B．who enjoy reading and writing |
| C．who make progress in reading and writing | D．who give up reading and writing |
| A．confident – enjoyable – uninterested – proud | B．confident – proud – uninterested – enjoyable |
| C．uninterested – confident – enjoyable – proud | D．uninterested – proud – confident – enjoyable |
| A．ask children to have a volunteer tutor | B．encourage children to be volunteer tutors |
| C．show how volunteer tutors influence children | D．praise Lorna for her great progress |
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【推荐1】It was my first day at school. The teacher in my English class was Mr. Browne, a really tall man with a yellow beard (胡须). At the beginning of the class, he wrote on the blackboard in big letters: PRECEPT.
“Okay, so who can tell me what a precept is? Does anyone know?”
No one put up their hands. Mr. Browne smiled and wrote on the blackboard again:
PRECEPT=Rules about really important things.
“So, what are some really important things?” he asked us.
Many students gave their answers: rules, study, homework, family, parents, friends, our world...
“Okay,” said Mr. Browne, “but no one has named the most important thing of all.” we all looked at him, out of ideas. He then wrote down:
WHO WE ARE!
“Who we are! Right? What kind of people are we? Isn’t that the most important thing? Learning who you are is what you’re here to do.”
He turned around and wrote down:
Mr. Browne’s September precept:
When given the choice(选择) between being right or being kind, choose(选择) kind.
“Okay, so everybody, from now on, at the beginning of every month, I’m going to write a new precept on the blackboard and you are going to write it down in your notebook. Then we are going to talk about it and what it means.”
As I wrote down Mr. Browne’s precept, I began to find out that I was going to like school.
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1. What does the underlined word “PRECEPT” mean in Chinese?
| A．命令 | B．准则 | C．课程 | D．纪律 |
| A．Who we are. | B．Where we go. | C．What we do. | D．How we learn. |
| A．Mr. Browne was tall and has yellow hair. |
| B．The writer wrote the precept on his English book. |
| C．The writer liked Mr. Browne and his English class. |
| D．Mr. Browne told his students to choose being right not kind. |
| A．Strict. | B．Smart. | C．Quiet. | D．Lucky. |
| A．A special lesson. | B．A strict rule. | C．A hard question. | D．A kind choice. |
S: Excuse me, is this Class One?
T: Yes, come in, please.
S: Sorry, I'm late.
T: That's_all_right. What's your name?
S: My name is Sam.
T: Can you spell that, please?
S: Yes. S－A－M, Sam.
T: Nice to meet you, Sam. I'm your teacher, Ms. Gao. How old are you?
S: I'm thirteen. Which row am I in, Ms. Gao?
T: You are in Row 4 and this is your student card.
S: Thank you.
T: You're welcome.
1. Sam is in Class ________．
| A．1 | B．2 | C．3 | D．4 |
| A．Mr. Brown | B．Ms. Brown | C．Mr. Gao | D．Ms. Gao |
| A．eleven | B．twelve | C．thirteen | D．fourteen |
| A．good | B．new | C．old | D．bad |
【推荐3】Socrates(苏格拉底) is a famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher(哲学家) and educator. On the first day of school, Socrates told his students, “Today, we’ll only learn one thing, that is, to stretch(前伸) for your arms, and then try to swing them back.” He showed them and as a result, all the students laughed. “Sir, is it also learned?” one of the students laughed.
“Of course! You think this is an easy thing, but in fact, it is very difficult,” Socrates answered seriously.
Hearing this, all the students laughed even harder.
Without being a little angry, Socrates said, “In this class I’ll teach you how to learn this action well. After that, start today, and you will do it 100 times a day.”10 days later, Socrates asked, “Who still insists(坚持) on swinging his arms?” About 80% of the students raised their hands. 20 days later, Socrates asked again, “Who still insists on swinging his arms?” About 50% of them raised their hands. 3 months later, Socrates asked again, “Who still insists on the simplest action of swinging?” This time only one student raised his hand. He was Plato.
From this example, we can see that perseverance is the easiest but the most difficult thing in the world, because everyone can do it, but not everyone will do it. Only the one who can insist on an easy thing may make it!
1. What did all the students think of swinging arms back?| A．It was very interesting. | B．It was too simple. |
| C．It was so exciting. | D．It was very difficult. |
| A．Smiling at others. | B．Keeping doing something. | C．Doing sports. | D．Learning to swim. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Can You Think More? | B．Can You Be a Great Man? |
| C．Can You Be a Good Listener? | D．Can You Swing Your Arms 100 Times Every Day? |
【推荐1】Old Man Used His Own Money to Send 33 Strangers to College
A retired carpenter（退休的木匠）from Des Moines has helped send 33 kids to college since his death in 2005.
Dale Schroeder was a simple, honest man. He grew up poor and worked as a carpenter for the same company for 67 years.
“Went to work every day. Worked really hard. Was frugal（节俭的）,” said Schroeder’s good friend Steve Nielsen. “He had church jeans and work jeans.”
No one thought that he had saved up a large number of money.
Schroeder never married and had no children, so before he died, he went to his lawyer with a plan for his money. “He said, ‘I never got the chance to go to college. So, I’d like to help kids go to college’,” Nielsen told CBS News.
“Finally, I was curious（好奇的）and I said, ‘How much are we talking about, Dale?’ And he said, ‘Oh, just shy of $3 million’. I nearly fell out of my chair,” Nielsen recalled.
Schroeder left special instructions for his money: send kids to college.
“He wanted to help kids that were like him, and that probably would not have had a chance to go to college without his gift,” Nielsen said.
Schroeder ended up paying for 33 strangers’ college money.
The persons, who have named themselves “Dale’s kids”, got together earlier this month to honor the great man who changed their lives. They’re now doctors, teachers…
1. Dale Schroeder was a _________.| A．poor and lazy carpenter | B．manager of a company |
| C．poor and honest father | D．hard-working and frugal carpenter |
| A．Nielsen was surprised at the number of money Dale saved |
| B．Dale was not good at making chairs |
| C．the chair that Nielsen sat on was broken |
| D．Dale had an old chair |
| A．Dale was alive for 67 years. | B．Dale married, but had no children. |
| C．Dale once gave up the chance to go to college. | D．“Dale’s kids” honored Dale because he changed their lives. |
【推荐2】A bus arrived and an old woman got on it slowly. She wore no shoes.
A little boy pointed at（指）the old woman and said, “Look, Mum. She isn’t wearing shoes.” “Don’t point at others, Tom. It’s rude.” The mother said and then looked out of the window.
“She must have children,” said a woman in a fur coat. Her children should buy shoes for her.”
“People should learn to save money,” said a well-dressed man. “If she saved money when she was young, she wouldn’t be so poor now.”
Then all the passengers（乘客）on the bus stopped talking.
At the next stop, a young man got on the bus. He was listening to music. When he saw the old woman, he stopped moving. He carried his eyes from her feet to his own. He was wearing his expensive new trainers. He saved money for months to buy them.Unexpectedly, the young man took off his trainers and socks. He stood before the old woman. “Madam,” he said, “I see you have no shoes. Well, I have.” Carefully and gently, he put his socks and fine trainers on the old woman’s feet.
Just then the bus arrived at the next stop. The young man got off the bus and walked away, wearing no shoes in the snow. However, he was pleased to help the people in need again.
“Who is he?” One asked. “He must be an angel（天使）,” said another. But the honest（诚实的）little boy said, “No. He was only a man.”
1. What season was it when the story happened?| A．Spring. | B．Summer. | C．Autumn. | D．Winter. |
| A．令人意外地 | B．令人高兴地 | C．令人佩服地 | D．令人舒服地 |
a. The young man saw the old woman.
b. The passengers talked about the young man.
c. The young man gave Granny his own shoes.
d. The passengers talked about the old woman.
e. The young man saved money to buy the trainers.
| A．d-a-c-b-e | B．d-e-a-c-b | C．e-d-a-c-b | D．e-a-d-c-b |
| A．The young man took the bus to give shoes and socks to the old woman. |
| B．The well-dressed man will buy a lot of shoes for the old woman later. |
| C．The woman in a fur coat saved much money when she was young. |
| D．It was not the first time for the young man to help people in need. |
| A．rich | B．kind | C．poor | D．honest |
【推荐3】When I was very young, people in our village lived by planting fruit trees. My grandmother always took me to the orchard(果园) on the hill. At that time, they had to carry water from the river at the foot of the hill to halfway up the hill. Even though they worked so hard, the production(产量) of fruit was still low because it was short of water there.
One day, two young men led a group of workers to our village. They learned about our difficulties, and later, a canal project(灌溉工程) began to be built in my village. “Who are they?” I asked. “They are good men from our government,” my grandma replied.
Then, I moved to another city for my junior high school. During one summer holiday, I came back to my hometown with my parents. When we arrived there, we were surprised because everything changed. We saw the canal ran through every orchard. And my grandma told us that after the canal project was completed, villagers didn’t have to go up and down the hill to carry water anymore. And more and more people start planting fruit and the production increased a lot.
Thanks to the government’s canal project, it makes the development of our countryside better. Nowadays, people work hard to live in a big city. However, we should not forget our hometown. That is where we are from.
1. The difficulty of the villagers was that ________.| A．they didn’t have money to buy water |
| B．there wasn’t enough water in the orchard |
| C．they didn’t have machines to plant fruit |
| D．they couldn’t go to work in the big city |
| A．the villagers’ advice | B．a school’s research project |
| C．the government’s help | D．a company’s building plan |
① A canal project began to be built in the village to solve the water problem.
② The countryside changed a lot because of the canal project.
③ The writer moved to the city for his junior high school.
④ The villagers had to go up and down the hill to carry water.
| A．④③①② | B．④①③② | C．③②①④ | D．③①②④ |
| A．How has my village changed? | B．Who are the good men? |
| C．Why do people come back? | D．What does a hometown mean? |
【推荐1】Having worked as a village doctor in Henan village, Yunnan province, Yang Lianying has won praise from her community for her diligent work.
“My biggest hope is that villagers are healthy,” says Yang. Born in Mengzi, Yunnan, in 1980, Yang was a farmer for many years before she began to receive medical training in 2005.
Speaking about why she chose to become a doctor, she recalls a story when she was about 8 years old. Her mother suddenly fell ill. With no village doctor, her family had to travel to a faraway health center. It made her think that if she had a chance to learn medicine in the future, she would help patients like her mother one day.
In 2008, Yang’s dream came true when she began to work as a village doctor, but she soon found out that it was not easy. Since Henan village lies in a mountainous area and villagers live far apart, she often has to hike long ways to visit them at home. Moreover, village doctors don’t make much money or have heavy work stress. So few young people would like to do that. Yang has to care for nearly 2,000 with only one other workmate.
But Yang keeps going. “Actually, I love this job and consider all the difficulties I meet as challenges. The villagers trust me. It’s a great pleasure to hear them call me doctor,” she says.
“Sometimes, I was really touched by the villagers, and maybe that’s what has helped me to keep doing this work,” Yang says.
1. The underlined word “diligent” means “________” in the first paragrap.| A．hard | B．dangerous | C．famous | D．easy |
| A．Paragraph 4. | B．Paragraph 2. | C．Paragraph 3. | D．Paragraph 5. |
| A．Yang Lianying’s hard life in the village | B．How to be a village doctor |
| C．The importance of being a village doctor | D．A great village doctor—Yang Lianying |
【推荐2】My father never kept anything for nostalgia (怀旧)—except once.
As the only sports fan in our family, I usually listened to Yankee games on the radio, dreaming of watching my heroes in person at Yankee Stadium (体育馆).
One winter, my father surprised me by suggesting we save up to go to Yankee Stadium.
I immediately washed out a jar (罐子) and stuck a label: YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960.
We contributed to the jar weekly, and by midsummer it was filled with money. By the end of August, however, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday and even some Sundays.
With only two weekends left in the season, I began to lose hope. He comforted me, “Well, don’t worry, Edwin. Things are sure to slow down and we’ll have a free Saturday.”
On the morning of the last game, I sat waiting hopelessly with no sign of my father when the door crashed open and my father yelled, “I’ve got tickets. We’re going!”
I could hardly breathe when we finally sat together, father and son, watching my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father it must have been a long afternoon trying to follow a game he didn’t understand. Several times I turned to look at him. All I could see was a face lined with tiredness from working all Saturday morning after working all week.
After the game, we kept saving money and went to two more games together.
On the second day of 1963, my father died suddenly while working. I threw away the jar.
After the funeral (葬礼), our house was filled with neighbours and relatives, but I didn’t want to talk to anybody. I walked upstairs to my parents’ bedroom, hoping, I suppose, to find some comfort from seeing what was his. As I looked through my father’s prayer (祈祷) book, something fell out. I picked it up. It was a yellowed ticket, which read, October 1, 1960, YANKEE STADIUM. My father, who saved nothing for nostalgia reasons, had decided to keep this, a memory of our afternoon at the ballpark. Carefully, I placed the ticket back into his prayer book, and slowly walked downstairs to begin the rest of my life without him.
1. The writer’s father kept the ticket to ________.| A．remind his son of his love after his death |
| B．use it just as a bookmark in his prayer book |
| C．keep a memory of the special moment with his son |
| D．show off to his friends that he went to a baseball game |
| A．Empty→Encouraged. | B．Sad→Serious. | C．Scared→Calm. | D．Lonely→Excited. |
| A．He was excited every time at the stadium. |
| B．He began to keep old things after the game. |
| C．He didn’t have enough money until the last game. |
| D．He worked long hours to support his family. |
【推荐3】On May 22, 2021, the whole nation was saddened by the news that Chinese scientist Yuan Longping died.
Dr Yuan Longping worked most of his life growing better rice. As a result of his research, Chinese people are no longer worried about getting starved. His great work also helped the world produce more and more rice.
In the 1960s, Yuan saw many people die of hunger every day. Since then, he has researched how to grow much better crops.
In 1964, he happened to find a natural hybrid rice（杂交水稻）plant that had great advantages over others. He then began to study the parts of this unusual plant.
In 1973, he started to develop a type of hybrid rice species（种类）. It produced 20% more rice per unit than common ones. The seeding（种植）was very successful in the following year. This progress made China the world’s leader in rice production.
More than 50% of China’s total rice fields grow Yuan’s hybrid species. People call him the “Father of Hybrid Rice”.
Yuan once said he had two dreams—to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops teller than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world to help solve the food problem of the whole world.
1. What does the underlined word “starved” in paragraph 2 mean in Chinese?| A．挨饿 | B．受冻 | C．致贫 | D．衰老 |
| A．Yuan Longping succeeded in seeding hybrid rice in 1973. |
| B．Yuan’s hybrid rice is grown in all of China’s rice fields. |
| C．Yuan’s hybrid rice can provide all people in the world with rice. |
| D．Yuan’s hybrid rice made China the world’s leader in rice production. |
| A．How to grow rice. | B．What great dreams are. |
| C．The “Father of hybrid Rice”. | D．Different rice species. |
【推荐1】On January 27, in order to win the new pneumonia Resistance War(抗击新型肺炎战), the Ministry of Education issued(教育部公布)a notice on putting off the start time of school in spring 2020. It was said that school should not start before March. The exact start time of school will depend on situations and further notices.
However, many parents are very worried that putting off the start of school may influence children's studies. If they have such a long winter vacation, children will not learn any knowledge, read books or study at all. They may forget what they have learned before. Staying at home for a long time will make them keep eating, sleeping and playing, which seriously affect their physical and mental health.
In short, the close of school influences learning and develops bad habits, so how should we avoid these problems? Local education departments have also issued a notice, that is, to organize online teaching and create a network platform (平台), where necessary courses will be shown every day, and online teaching will be given by excellent teachers of the subject, and students can lean at home through computer or mobile network.
It should be said that such a method is very good. It can not only keep students indoors and not worry about the infection(感染))of the disease, but also make them study at home, improve their learning ability, and truly achieve "no suspension(暂停)of classes". Both the platform itself and the recorded lesson resources are more useful, and are welcomed by parents and teachers.
Of course, except for learning at home, it is also necessary to teach children about health knowledge, especially how to keep away from touching virus and other knowledge popularization(普及); at the same time, it is also necessary for children to do some physical exercises or some games, which is good for physical health at home.
1. According to the passage, the exact start time of school is _________.| A．on January 27 | B．before March | C．unsure | D．in two months |
| A．children may be infected by virus |
| B．children may not like online learning |
| C．children may have a long holiday |
| D．children's study and health may be influenced |
| A．Keeping away from health knowledge popularization. |
| B．Taking public classes by excellent teachers. |
| C．Teaching children about health knowledge. |
| D．Doing some physical exercises with friends. |
| A．the advantages of online teaching | B．the importance of online teaching |
| C．the ways of online teaching | D．the problems of online teaching |
| A．A New War with a New Chance | B．A Special, Way to Learn at Home |
| C．A Way to Keep Healthy | D．A Method to Avoid Virus |
| Dear all, My birthday party is at five o’clock on Saturday afternoon at my house. Would you like to come? Mike |
| Hi Mike, Thanks. I’d like to come. See you then. Jane |
It’s great to hear from you Mike, but I’m afraid I can’t come. I always watch my little sister play football on Saturday afternoon. Jack |
1. Mike’s party is at his house.
2. Jane doesn’t want to go to the party.
3. Jack has a little sister.
4. Jack always plays football on Saturday afternoon.
【推荐3】In the old days, the Olympic games were religious activities. Greece held the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C.. The Games lasted just for one day. Only men could be in the Games. Women had no right to take part in the Olympic Games until 1912.
The first modern Olympic Games were held in Greece in 1896. Just 241 men from 14 countries competed in 43 events in nine sports. Starting in 1896, the Olympic Games were held every four years except during the World WarⅠand Ⅱ. In the 2012 London Olympics, about 10500 athletes from 205 countries took part in 302 events.
The first Winter Olympic Games were held in France in 1924 to give athletes chances to compete in snow and ice sports. The Winter Olympics are held every four years, two years after each Summer Olympics.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子的正（A）与误（B）。
1. The first Olympic Games were held in Greece in 776 B.C..
2. The first Olympic Games lasted just for one week.
3. Women had no right to take part in the Olympic Games in the old days.
4. The first Winter Olympic Games were held in France in 1896.
5. The Winter Olympics are held every four years.
