Bob visited Vancouver, Canada alone last year.He went there to give a talk on the environment.When it was over, he travelled to the Rocky Mountains and stayed in the Maple Leaf Hotel.He then took a short walk to look at the local plants in the forest.After a few hours, he knew he took the wrong way, but was sure he could get back to the hotel.
However, after walking for several hours the next day, Bob knew he was in trouble.“I had my mobile phone, but the battery (电池)was almost dead.I could probably make just one call.But I didn’t know the number of my hotel and I didn’t want to let my family worry about me,” said Bob.He went on walking for three more days.He knew which plants he could eat and he had little trouble finding them.
On the fourth day, he knew there was no hope and decided to call his family.“He was quite calm when he spoke to me on the phone,” said Shirley, Bob’s wife.“He seemed to be in control (操控)of the situation.” Shirley called the Maple Leaf Hotel at once.“That week lots of visitors went to the city to watch basketball games, and we thought Mr Rigsby went there too,” said the hotel owner.As soon as Shirley phoned, the hotel sent out some people to look for Bob.They found him about one hour later, and luckily he was quite unhurt.
“I will never go to the forest without a guide.I never want an experience like that again,” said Bob.
1. When the talk was over, Bob travelled to Rocky Mountains to ________.| A．watch football games | B．give a talk on travelling |
| C．find something to eat | D．look at the local plants in the forest |
| A．兴奋的 | B．惭愧的 | C．没电的 | D．充足的 |
| A．his mother | B．his wife | C．his sister | D．his daughter |
| A．He knew what he could eat in the forest. |
| B．He stayed in the forest for seven days. |
| C．He didn’t like travelling with others. |
| D．He was seriously hurt in the forest. |
| A．Travelling in the mountains | B．An early call | C．An enjoyable experience | D．Lost in the forest |
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Captain James Cook was a great explorer (探险家). Before he started exploring, maps of the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) were almost empty. He visited hundreds of islands across the Pacific Ocean and put them in the correct places on the map. He made maps of the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand. James Cook was born in England in 1728. His parents were poor farm workers. When James was 18, he found a job on a coastal ship. He worked on the ship until he was 27 years old, and then he joined the navy. He fought in Canada in a war against France, and he mapped some of the eastern coasts of Canada. In 1768, King George made him Captain (船长) of a ship and sent him to the Pacific. He was gone for nearly three years. When he returned, he was regarded as a national hero.
He started his third journey in 1776. On this trip he visited Hawaii. He was the first European to set foot on this beautiful island. Then he mapped the western coast of North America. After that he returned to Hawaii. Unluckily, there was some trouble between the Hawaiians and the white men and they started fighting. In the end, Captain was killed in a fight against the local.
1. He started exploring when ________.| A．he worked on a coastal ship | B．he was 18 years old |
| C．he was sent to the Pacific | D．he served in the navy |
| A．He made the first maps of the Pacific Ocean. |
| B．He went on three long important voyages in his life. |
| C．He was the first English man to reach Hawaii. |
| D．He was respected by his people. |
| A．his experience in Canada |
| B．his being the first European to visit Hawaii |
| C．his heroic death |
| D．his devotion to exploring on the Pacific Ocean |
| A．his return to England | B．a starting trip to Hawaii |
| C．exploring Canada | D．a fight with the local people |
【推荐2】A video about a 96-year-old granny is popular and it has brought inspiration to many people. The granny comes from Zhengzhou, Henan province. She sets up a street stall (地摊) to sell late-night snacks. Her daily life seems simple but busy. In the morning, she prepares vegetables for her snack business. She usually rests in the afternoon. At night, she sells late-night snacks from 11 o’clock to 5 o’clock the next morning. She has worked like this for more than 30 years.
Many people asked her why she spent so much energy running the night business. The granny said, “I like to keep myself busy and I would find something valuable to do rather than sit around at home.” Her children are worried about her. They have asked her to give up the night business many times, but she refused to stop because she found pleasure in it.
The granny said nothing is easy in the world. She has no expectations about how much she can make from her business. “When more people buy my snacks, I make more money, and when fewer people buy them, I make less money. This is what business is all about,” she added.
The granny said most young people are working hard for their dreams, and the old should learn from the hard-working young.
1. The granny comes from ________, Henan province.| A．Fuzhou | B．Zhengzhou | C．Xuzhou | D．Hangzhou |
| A．five | B．six | C．nine | D．eleven |
| A．keep herself busy | B．sit around at home |
| C．chat with her neighbors | D．buy late-night snacks |
| A．限期 | B．抱怨 | C．期望 | D．烦恼 |
| A．Practice makes perfect | B．Two heads are better than one |
| C．Knowledge is power | D．It’s never too late to start |
【推荐3】Jong May Urbonya, a 28-year-old American girl, was born in China, and later schooled from elementary through high school in the US. She has now returned to China and opened her own business.
Urbonya’s parents worked as teachers in China from 1987 to 2000. Then her family moved back to the US that year. When living in the US, she was interested in Chinese TV shows and ancient historical dramas (戏剧). However, watching historical dramas also produced some “side effects”. “When I was little, I would put my sheets (床单) around my arms, and walk around the house, just like an ancient Chinese princess,” she said.
The love for Chinese culture brought her back to China. In 2012, Urbonya studied Chinese dance in Beijing. She learned different types of Chinese dance and she loved ancient Chinese dance most. She said, “At that time, I began to have a dream to show my ideas and my knowledge of Chinese culture to the world.”
This April, Urbonya started a company in China. She wants to promote (宣传) traditional Chinese culture through videos. In one of her videos, she walked in the Summer Palace, wearing beautiful Hanfu and tasting traditional Chinese food. In another video, she performed Chinese dance.
Her videos are very popular all over the world. “I’m so happy that people love my videos. My love for Chinese culture is coming from the bottom of my heart.” she said.
1. What can we know about May from the first paragraph?| A．She was born in the U. S. | B．She lives in America now. |
| C．She has her own company. | D．She got education in China. |
| A．Urbonya kept watching historical drams. |
| B．Urbonya found it difficult to learn Chinese. |
| C．Urbonya developed an interest in TV shows. |
| D．Urbonya loved dressing like a Chinese princess. |
| A．Having her own dancing show in China. |
| B．Introducing Chinese culture to the world. |
| C．Learning more about ancient Chinese dance. |
| D．Showing people her love for Chinese dramas. |
| A．By shooting videos. | B．By making Chinese food. |
| C．By studying beautiful Hanfu. | D．By opening a dance company. |
| A．Urbonya’s career in Chinese dance. |
| B．Urbonya’s companies around the world. |
| C．Urbonya’s dream of being a Chinese princess. |
| D．Urbonya’s love for Chinese traditional culture. |
Johanna loved strawberries. They were her favorite fruit. Last Saturday, she went to a farm to pick some. It was her first time. Before that, she had always bought strawberries at the store.
When Johanna arrived at the farm, she was surprised. Strawberries did not grow on trees! They did not even grow on big bushes. They grew on something like vines (藤). And there were so many of them.
Johanna was given a basket. She could pick as much as she wanted. The more she picked, the more she would have to pay. She wasn't sure how much to get. She started filling her basket. She ate some strawberries while picking them. They were so big and juicy! And the sun had made them sweet.
The basket was quickly filled. Johanna took it to the farmer to pay for it. She handed him a ten-dollar bill (钞票) and got back one dollar. “How cheap!” Johanna thought.
When she got home, Johanna quickly cleaned the strawberries and put them in the fridge. Some, she could use to make jam (果酱). Others, she could eat fresh or with sugar on top. She thought about crushing (压碎) some over some ice-cream, or freezing some for later use. There were so many things to do with strawberries, and they were all delicious!
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1. Last Saturday was the first time for Johanna to ______.
| A．eat strawberries |
| B．grow strawberries |
| C．make strawberry jam |
| D．visit a strawberry farm |
| A．The farm was so big. |
| B．Strawberries grew on vines. |
| C．One of her friends was also there. |
| D．There were so many people there. |
| A．Small but sweet. |
| B．Small and sour. |
| C．Big and sweet. |
| D．Big but sour. |
| A．1 dollar. |
| B．9 dollars. |
| C．10 dollars. |
| D．11 dollars. |
| A．What Johanna would do with the strawberries. |
| B．Who Johanna would give the strawberries to. |
| C．How to make strawberry jam. |
| D．How to clean strawberries. |
1. Jane lives in .
| A．England | B．New York |
| C．Paris | D．USA |
| A．Jane likes reading storybooks. |
| B．Jane likes drawing big pictures. |
| C．Jane likes learning English. |
| D．Jane likes doing her homework. |
| A．nice | B．clever | C．nice and clever | D．lazy |
| A．She draws pictures. |
| B．She has supper. |
| C．She does her homework. |
| D．She does some reading with her grandma. |
| A．At 8:00. | B．At 9:00. |
| C．At 8:35. | D．At 9:35. |
【推荐3】Gift-giving is different from culture to culture and person to person.
When people give gifts, sometimes color is important. For example, for many Chinese people around the world, red is a lucky color, and people often like to wrap gifts in red. However, do you know that in South Korea, red is a color of death? That is why you should not wrap your gifts in this color if you are giving a gift to a person there.
What about Western countries? In Western countries, the color of wrapping paper is not really important. But color does matter when giving flowers, especially roses. You should not give red roses to a Western person you don't know very well because they are a symbol of love. You could give yellow roses instead, as these are a symbol of friendship. You could also send pink roses as gifts to say thank you.
What other things should you remember when giving gifts to someone from a different culture? Well, one thing you should keep in mind is the person's religion(宗教). When choosing a gift for a Muslim(穆斯林的) or Jewish(犹太教的) friend, you should never get food including pork, or things made from pigskin. Another thing that you should not get for a Muslim person is alcohol(酒).
1. In which country do people think red is the color of death?| A．Japan. | B．The US. | C．South Korea. | D．The UK. |
| A．By giving them yellow roses. | B．By giving them red roses. |
| C．By giving them some food. | D．By giving them products made from pork. |
| A．In China, people often like to wrap gifts in pink color. |
| B．In Western countries, people care about the color of wrapping paper. |
| C．We cannot give a Muslim friend a bottle of alcohol as a gift. |
| D．We can give a Jewish friend some pork as a gift. |
| A．Gift-giving is connected with cultural differences. | B．When people give gifts, color is important. |
| C．How to choose gifts for different people. | D．How to send gifts to others. |
【推荐1】Before people knew much about the ways of birds, it was thought that they didn’t have to be taught like children, but that they knew everything they needed to know straight from the eggs. That is, they were said to act from instinct（本能）alone and not at all from thinking, as we do.
Another belief that people had was that birds of a kind were carbon copies: that they looked exactly like each other, all acted in the same way, and all sang the same song.
But since we began to study birds more closely, we have found these things are not true. We find that birds learn things by being taught, as we do. Also, they find out how to do things themselves, and they are not all alike, as so many machines.
More than this, we see that they don’t look or act exactly like each other. For when we know one robin well, we can tell him from any other robin. And no two of a kind sing exactly the same song.
A bird is a genius in many ways. One is by the way it acts when it can’t do as it is used to doing. I saw a robin once who wished to build a nest but couldn’t find mud（泥）to put into it. It was as dry as a desert, and there were no streams near. Now a robin’s nest must have mud, and the bird seemed having no idea for a while but at last thought of a way to get it. She went to a bathing dish that the people of the house kept filling with water for the birds, jumped into it, and got her legs very wet. Then she flew to the road, and walked around like a soldier. In a short time, her legs had a good coating of mud, which she careful picked off with her mouth, and took it to the nest she was building. She repeated this action many times until she had as much mud as she needed.
A bird often shows sense by the way she repairs a nest that has been thrown out of place. Sometimes she will add a new straw（稻草）. One bird, whose nest broke a little, put so many straws above that they made a little tent over it.
1. In the first paragraph, what does it mean that it was thought that “birds knew everything they needed to know straight from the egg”?| A．They know everything. |
| B．They learn how to hunt quickly. |
| C．They have to be taught like children. |
| D．They are born knowing everything. |
| A．What the ways of birds were in ancient times. |
| B．How different kinds of birds learn about the new world. |
| C．What people knew about birds before they began to study them. |
| D．What different kinds of birds look and act. |
| A．To show us how the bird builds its house. |
| B．To show us how the bird lives alone. |
| C．To show us how people take care of it. |
| D．To show us the bird can solve the problems by itself. |
①The robin got her legs wet. ②People filled a dish with water.
③The robin flew to the road. ④The robin flew back to its nest.
⑤The robin made its legs full of mud.
| A．②①③⑤④ | B．①②③④⑤ | C．②①⑤③④ | D．①②③⑤④ |
【推荐2】The airport in Boswell is twenty-one miles from the city. The banks and business offices are in the center of the city. Read the notes from the diary of Mr. Reg Smith.
| March 2019 15 Mon. 35 Australian students visiting Boswell want cheap holidays. 16 Tues. Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant arriving from Sydney need 2 overnight stops. 17 Wed. Mr. Nagashima from Tokyo arrives for two days' business trip. 18 Thurs. 65 German students need two days in a cheap hotel. 19 Fri. 20 Sat. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, from New York City, arrive by air. 21 Sun. 22 Mon. Mr. and Mrs. F. Ray need a small inexpensive hotel for two days. |
1. Mr. Reg Smith is probably________.
| A．a headmaster | B．a travel manager | C．a traveler |
| A．Australia | B．Japan | C．Germany |
| A．Tuesday | B．Wednesday | C．Thursday |
| A．107 | B．65 | C．35 |
| A．Sunday | B．Thursday | C．Saturday |
| A 4-DAY TOUR OF GUILIN Price Adults & children over 15: ￥1, 500 Children under 15:￥800 Including: ★ Round-trip plane ticket between Guangzhou and Guilin ★ Bus service around Guilin ★ Three nights' stay in good hotels ★ Best tour guide service |
| Place to go ★ The first day—The Li River: You will enjoy the natural beauty of the Li River by taking a boat. Plenty of dramatic hills are around you. ★ The second day—Yangshuo: A wonderful place for sightseeing and a place without pollution. ★ The third day—The Silver Rock: A nice experience to see the amazing stones. ★ The fourth day—Other places of interest and shopping |
| Business hour Monday—Friday（9:00 am—8:00 pm） Saturday and Sunday（9:00 am—4:00 pm） Tel: 020-82831111 |
| A．The Li River | B．Yangshuo | C．the Silver Rock | D．other places of interest |
| A．meals | B．hotels | C．the tour guide service | D．the bus service |
| A．at 10:00 on Tuesday morning | B．at 4:00 on Thursday afternoon |
| C．at 4:30 on Sunday afternoon | D．at 10:30 on Saturday morning |
| A．￥1, 500 | B．￥800 | C．￥2, 300 | D．￥3, 800 |
| A．encyclopaedia | B．advertisement | C．report | D．notice |
The new railway line will be controlled by the Beijing' s West Railway Station from July 1， 2006. The most important part of the line， the Qinghai-Tibet Railway， has been completed.
The Qinghai-Tibet part of the railway is the world's highest railway. About 960 kilometers of the train tracks are 4，000 meters above sea level. The highest parts reach 5，072 meters.
The railway is the world' s longest plateau railroad which is 1，956 kilometers long， from Qinghai's capital Xining to Lhasa in Tibet. The Golmud-Lhasa part is 1，142 kilometers long and goes across the Kunlun and Tanggula mountain ranges.
The trains running on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway have very good conditions. If the passengers feel hard to breathe， they will be provided with oxygen masks， because all of the trains have oxygen supplying equipments.
1. It will take people 48 hours by train to go to Lhasa from Beijing _________.
| A．from now on | B．next July 1 |
| C．from July 1，2006 | D．from July 1， 2005 |
| A．the railway is well-known |
| B．the railway is the highest |
| C．it is easy to operate |
| D．it was completed easily |
| A．960 | B．4，000 | C．5，072 | D．1，956 |
| A．氧气面罩 | B．望远镜 | C．热水 | D．药品 |
| A．Travel from Beijing to Lhasa |
| B．Qinghai-Tibet Railway |
| C．Train with Best Conditions |
| D．Well-Known Railway |
【推荐2】A six-year-old kid walked into a candy store with his dad and was surprised by so many candies on sale. “It's amazing. What should I choose?” he asked himself.
“Come on, son, we don't have much time. I have to attend an important meeting.” his dad said, “these are all my favorites and don't know what to choose. He picked up some bags and then put them back. He couldn't make up his mind.” Hurry up, son. We have no time. I'm very busy, “his dad said. So the boy ran around the store quickly again. His eyes moved from one bag to another, but all of the sweets looked so good and he hesitated, unsure of what to buy. Finally, the dad lost his patience. He caught his son by the hand and they walked out of the store empty-handed. The boy cried. He wanted them all, but ended up with nothing because he wouldn't choose just one.
Some of us are like that boy. The world is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available to us, but if we don't make a decision about our jobs education, relationships, marriage or other important things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the wrong choice. If we regret the direction that we take, is it too late to go back? We don't have to worry about this. How do we know whether it is good or not if we don't make a choice? The bigger danger is that we make no decision at all and end up going now here and doing nothing.
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1. Why couldn't the boy make up his mind?
| A．Because he didn't know what he liked. | B．Because all the candies were his favorites. |
| C．Because none of the candies looked perfect | D．Because his father didn't have enough money. |
| A．懊恼 | B．放弃 | C．犹豫 | D．欣喜 |
| A．Sad | B．Doubtful | C．Excited | D．Nervous |
| A．the boy | B．the candy store | C．the father | D．the candies |
| A．Make your decisions bravely | B．It's hard to make a right choice |
| C．Don't be afraid of making mistakes | D．Never regret what you have decided |
【推荐3】Different countries have different social customs. Now let’s read this passage to know more about the social customs in different countries.
France
French people greet each other with a handshake, but close friends kiss each other on cheeks（面颊）when they meet. They do this while meeting and before leaving.
South Korea
In South Korea, it is a sign of respect for people to bow while greeting each other. In South Korea, a bow is followed by a handshake. However, South Korean women do not shake hands with Western men. They bow slightly instead.
Brazil
Kissing women on the cheek is a common social custom in Brazil. In a formal situation, a handshake is often done to show respect. Men should shake hands when they meet. Once they become familiar（熟悉的）with each other, a light hug is often given to each other.
Ghana
In a social situation, it’s polite to greet everyone in the room. A handshake is used, and the palm（手掌）must directly touch the palm of the other one’s hand. It’s impolite to touch the back of the hand.
1. Two close French friends will kiss each other on the ________ when they meet.| A．palm | B．cheek | C．back | D．arm |
| A．Western men | B．Western women |
| C．Chinese men | D．Chinese women |
| A．touch the palm |
| B．kiss on the each other’s cheek |
| C．bow to each other |
| D．give a light hug to each other |
| A．Friends can give a light hug to each other. |
| B．People can give a nod or a kiss to others. |
| C．It’s impolite to touch the back of the hand. |
| D．Family members can greet each other with a kiss. |
| A．Social Customs in Different Countries |
| B．How to Behave Bravely |
| C．Bad Ways to Greet People |
| D．How to Make Friends |
