Can you sing or dance? Do you ride a unicycle? Do magic tricks? Drink a glass of milk in ten seconds? Recite poems from memory? Well, you've got talent, my friend! And what better time to show it off than at the school talent show!
Middle school talent shows in the US happen every year. Whatever you're good at, you have five minutes to show the world. It's early in the school year, and kids can become little celebrities(名人). The shy boy who spends his evenings practicing Spanish guitar will surprise his classmates with beautiful music. The sporty girl on the soccer team will surprise the crowd with her sweet singing voice. Everyone has a chance to shine.
Almost anyone doing almost anything is allowed on a talent show, as long as your act isn't rude or illegal(违法的), it's a "go".
Of course, you must audition(试演) first, usually in front of a group of teachers. You will have a few weeks to practice your act and there will be at least one dress rehearsal(带妆彩排).
On the day of the show, all the students sit in the school gym, ready to cheer for the many skills of their classmates(and sometimes teachers, too).
Many of today's stars started their careers in school talent shows-Madonna, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake all showed their skills early in life. But, even if you're not Justin Bibber, you can become a star in your own right at your middle school talent show.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about middle school talent shows in the US?A.They happen at the beginning of every term. | B.A student has five minutes to show their skills. |
C.Shy boys and quiet girls can't take part in them. | D.Very talented students don't need an audition. |
A.your act is not very good | B.your act is rude or illegal | C.you are a new student | D.you don't have a funny act |
A.it's your right to shot off at the school talent show | B.many of today's stars also come to take part in the shows |
C.you can't become a famous star from a school talent show | D.the school talent show has been a first step for many famous stars |
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LOST If you find my book The History of Europe, please bring it to the school office. My name is on the book. Thanks a lot. Frank |
Trip to the North ★ Start out on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 17. ★ Come back on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18. ★ Walk along the river, camp (野营) in the mountains, play games and visit a forest (森林) park. Price: 40 dollars |
Clubs in September Book Club: Every Tuesday, 4:00 p.m. School Library Art Club: Monday, Sept. 12, 4:00 p.m. Classroom 102 Singing Club: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 5:30 p.m. School Library Dancing Club: Friday, Sept. 23, 5:00 p.m. Classroom 105 Price: 40 dollars |
1. Frank lost a book about ________.
A.art | B.music | C.history | D.science |
A.On Thursday. | B.On Saturday. |
C.On September 19. | D.On October 13. |
A.Five days. | B.Two days. | C.Three days. | D.Four days. |
A.Classroom 102 at 4:00 p.m. | B.Classroom 105 at 4:00 p.m. |
C.Classroom 102 at 5:00 p.m. | D.Classroom 105 at 5:00 p.m. |
A.Tom is a student in Classroom 103. |
B.Book Club will be open on September 20. |
C.Frank got his book from the school library. |
D.The students will ride their bikes during the trip. |
Summer School clubs | |
![]() | The Sports Club Do you like sports? Can you play table tennis? Come and join us! Time: at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday Place: School Playground |
![]() | The Computer Club Do you want to know a lot about computers? Welcome to the Computer Club! Time: at 4:00 p.m. on Monday Place: Computer Room |
![]() | The Music Club Do you like music? Can you sing? Let’s enjoy wonderful songs together. Time: at 7: 00 p. m. on Friday Place: Room 201 |
A.on Friday evening | B.on Monday afternoon |
C.on Tuesday afternoon | D.on Thursday afternoon |
A.there are four clubs in Summer School | B.the Computer Club is in Room 201 |
C.we can swim in the Sports Club | D.we can listen to many songs in the Music club |
【推荐3】In most parts of the world,many students help their schools make less pollution.They join"environment clubs".In an environment club,people work together to make our environment clean.
Here are some things students often do.
No-garbage lunches.How much do you throw away after lunch?Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again.Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school.
No-car day.On a no-car day,nobody comes to school in a car---not the students and not the teachers!Cars give pollution to our air ,so remember to do such things :
Walk,jump,bike or run!Use your legs!It's lots of fun!
Turn off the water!Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty tons of water an hour?In a year,that would fill a small river.In environment clubs,students mend those broken toilets.
We love our environment.Let's work together to make it clean.
This is the end of our radio program ,Wish you have a good night ,This is Grace Brown.
根据短文内容,判断句子正(T)、误(F)。
1. In an environment club ,people work together to make our environment clean
2. Every week they will report the class that makes the most garbage to the whole school
3. On a no-car ,The teachers and the students don’t come to school by car
4. Some toilets can waste twenty to forty tons in half an hour
5. The passage is from a TV program.
American(美国的) students usually have six classes a day. There are four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon. Their morning classes begin at eight o’clock and finish at a quarter to twelve.
After lunch they don’t have a rest.
A.Their afternoon classes begin at one o’clock. |
B.In the evening they usually do their homework at home. |
C.American students start school in September. |
D.And then they have lunch at school. |
E.They usually have some clubs at school. |
【推荐2】Monday……oh, I don’t like Monday because I have to(必须) go back to school after the weekends(周末). Tuesday is not so bad. I usually(通常) play tennis with my friends after school. On Wednesday evening I don’t go out. I stay at home and do my homework. I like Thursday because the next day is Friday. I always go out on Friday---Maybe(或许) to the cinema(电影院). I love the weekends. On Saturdays I stay in bed until(直到) lunchtime, and I sometimes(有时) go to the shops in the afternoon. In the evening we go to a club(俱乐部)--- there are good bands(乐队) every Saturday. Then on Sundays I go to my friend’s house or she comes to mine. I usually visit(拜访) my grandmother for an hour in the afternoon. Then the weekend is over(结束) and it’s Monday……and I feel bad again!
1. The writer doesn’t like Monday because_______.A.Monday is the first day of the week. |
B.he just spend(度过) a happy weekend. |
C.Monday is the first school day of a week, |
A.he can play tennis with his friends. |
B.he has a P.E. class. |
C.he is free(空闲). |
A.Tuesday | B.Wednesday | C.Friday |
A.Stay in bed until lunchtime. |
B.Watch football games on TV. |
C.Go to his friend’s house. |
A.doesn’t like school very much. |
B.likes to stay at home. |
C.only likes Friday. |
How are you? I go to school five days a week. I have seven subjects—math, English, Chinese, art, history, P.E. and music. I have six classes a day—four in the morning and two in the afternoon. My favorite subject is math. It is very interesting. My math teacher, Mr. Wang, is very kind. He always helps me. He tells (告诉) me some good ways to do the exercises (练习题). I like art, too. I think it is relaxing. I don’t like music. I can’t sing well.
I am very busy at school, but I like my school life (生活). How about you? E-mail me at mary@gmail.com. I want to know your school life and favorite subject.
Yours,
Mary
1. Mary has classes a day.A.two | B.four | C.six | D.eight |
A.Interesting. | B.Boring. | C.Difficult. | D.Relaxing. |
A.Mary goes to school five days a week. | B.Mary’s favorite subject is Chinese. |
C.Mr. Wang is Mary’s math teacher. | D.Mary doesn’t like music. |
【推荐1】"Miss Smith! What rough (粗糙的) hands Mary Jessup has! "said Daisy Marvin, as she walked home from school with her teacher.
"In my opinion, Daisy, Mary's hands are the prettiest in our class."
"Why? Miss Smith, they are as red and hard as they can be. How they would look if she tried to play on a piano!" Daisy said.
Miss Smith took Daisy's hands in hers, and said, "Your hands are very soft and white, just the hands to look beautiful on a piano: yet they don't have one beauty that Mary's hands do. Shall tell you what the difference is?"
"Yes, please, Miss Smith." Daisy looked at Miss Smith, with eyes wide open.
"Well, Daisy, Mary's hands are very busy. They wash dishes; they make fires; they hang out clothes, and help to wash them, too: they are always trying to help her poor, hard-working mother."
Miss Smith continued, "Besides, they wash and dress the children; they mend their toys and dress their dolls; yet, they find time to bathe the head of the little girl who is so sick in the next house to theirs."
"They do good deeds (行为) to every living thing. I have seen them patting the tired horse and the homeless dog in the street. They are always ready to help those who need help."
"I shall never think Mary's hands are ugly any more, Miss Smith." Daisy said that with tears in eyes.
"I am glad to hear you say that, Daisy; and I must tell you that they are beautiful because they help others gladly and cheerfully."
"Oh, Miss Smith! I feel so ashamed of myself and so sorry, "said Daisy, looking into her teacher's face with shining eyes.
"My dear, beauty doesn't lie in how one looks but what he does."
1. What did Daisy think of Mary's hand at first?A.Warm | B.Ugly | C.Dirty | D.Soft |
A.Being patient. | B.Being good-looking. |
C.Being helpful. | D.Being hard-working. |
A.Mary's mother was lazy. | B.Mary lived a comfortable life. |
C.Miss Smith disliked Daisy. | D.Daisy understood beauty better. |
A.Busy Days | B.Cheerful Tears |
C.Shining Eyes | D.Beautiful Hands |
Hello, nice to meet you. My name is David and I'm a student at Beijing International(国际的)School. This is a photo of my family. These are my parents and my little sister is behind me. We're from America and we're in China now. My father and my mother are teachers in a university(大学)in Beijing. My mother is an English teacher, and she can speak Chinese. My father can't speak Chinese. My little sister is only three but she can dance.
1. ______ is at Beijing International School.A.David | B.David's sister | C.David's brother | D.David's parents |
A.Three | B.Four | C.Five | D.Six |
A.doctors | B.teachers | C.workers | D.managers |
A.David's sister. | B.David's father. | C.David's mother. | D.We don't know. |
A.swim | B.write | C.draw | D.dance |
【推荐3】May 19—the date when Xu Xiake began writing his travel notes—became China Tourism Day in 2011. Xu was a famous geographer and traveler of the Ming Dynasty. This year, the theme of China Tourism Day is “Experience Chinese Culture and Enjoy a Beautiful Journey”. Pingyao, a city with a long history in Shanxi, is the main venue(举办地)for the activities of China Tourism Day this year.
However, people’s travel habits have changed a lot because of COVID-19. In order to stay away from the illness, most people have accepted that they should not get together, not travel far, and should pay more attention to health. Traveling through new technical ways like VR(虚拟现实)has become a new way to see the world.
74.8 percent would choose to travel online according to the latest research. As many as 59.7 percent of people said that they had a good experience of online travel. 84.1 percent of people said it made their travel experience richer, and some of them added that online travel made them know the exhibits(展览品)better when they visited museums.
Traveling online has become popular since the outbreak(爆发)of COVID-19. “Through technical ways, online travel has been a new way of tourism industry(旅游产业)and VR technology has provided more possible ways of showing the content of tourism,” said Li Baiwen, a professor at the School of Tourism of Beijing Union University.
1. What can we infer(推断)from the passage?A.China has started to celebrate its Tourism Day since 2022. |
B.Xu Xiake’s travel notes were firstly published on May 19, 2011. |
C.There would be no China Tourism Day without Xu Xiake. |
D.Pingyao’s history may help itself become this year’s main venue. |
A.China celebrated its Tourism Day in Pingyao this year. |
B.COVID-19 has greatly changed people’s travel habits. |
C.Online travel offers better experience than traditional travel. |
D.Online travel has now become a new way to see the world. |
A.Helpless. | B.Surprised. | C.Hopeful. | D.Empty. |
【推荐1】Bikesharing is new for short journeys in cities. It is a good choice for the big cities to develop healthily.
A report found that shared bikes started the nation's love for bikes again. The love is not only among young people born in the 1980s and 2000s, but also among people over sixty. Now they are choosing bikes instead of cars to make short journeys in cities. If you have a smart phone, the nearest bike equipped with GPS will be easily found through a certain app on your phone. It can also be unlocked through the app and left anywhere in public for the next user. The cost of riding depends on the time that you spend. Normally, every hour you ride, you just need to pay one yuan.
It is said that bikesharing will help improve the cities' environment. It not only helps solve the traffic problems, but also will help to make more use of space in cities. Take Beijing as an example. If more people choose shared bikes, an area of five Bird's Nest Stadiums (体育场)will be saved.
At the same time, there are some problems with shared bikes that people need to solve properly. For example, some people park the bikes in their home; some break up the bikes on purpose; and others even throw them into the river. Facing all these problems, everyone should raise their own awareness of protecting the bikes. We should not only enjoy them, but also value them and put them to good use.
Judge the following statements True (T) or False (F)
1. Old people love shared bikes besides the young.2. GPS are shared bikes equipped with.
3. One dallar does a one﹣hour riding on shared bikes cost.
4. You can leave share bikes in your home.
5. Bikesharing will help improve the cities' environment.
【推荐2】People surely meet lots of difficulties in life. But life is all about choices. You choose how you deal with different situations. You choose how people influence (影响) you. The key is: it’s your choice how you live life.
My friend Michael is always happy and always has something good to say. If someone is having a bad day, Michael will tell the person how to find the good side of the situation.
One day I asked Michael, “How can you always be so happy?” Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be unhappy.’ I choose to be happy. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be sad or choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.”
Soon after that, I left the big factory that I had worked in and started my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life.
Several years later, I heard Michael had a serious accident. He fell from a 10-meter-high building. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. I asked him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. “As I lay on the ground, I remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live.” Michael replied. “Weren’t you scared?” I asked. Michael continued, “When I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘He is a dead man.’ I knew I needed to take action. I told them “I chose to live and operate on me as if (好像) I am alive, not dead.” Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing thought.
I learned from him that every day we have a choice to live fully. What is your choice?
根据短文内容判断正误,正确涂(A),错误涂(B)。1. The writer thinks how we live life depends on our choices.
2. The writer used to work in a small factory.
3. Michael is always happy because he usually finds the good sides of different situations.
4. Michael finally lived after a serious accident only because of the skill of his doctors.
5. We can learn from the story that we can choose to live fully whatever we may meet.
【推荐3】Scientists are very interested in the Universe,and they always want to know more about it. Years ago they knew many things about the moon. They knew how big it is and how far away it is from the earth. But they wanted to know more about it. They thought the best way was to send men to the moon. The moon is about 384,000 kilometers away from the earth. A plane cannot fly to the moon because the air reaches only 240 kilometers away from the earth. But something can fly even when there is no air. That is a rocket(火箭)
How does a rocket fly? There is gas(气体) in the rocket. When the gas is made very hot inside the rocket, it will rush out of the end of the rocket, so it can make the rocket fly up into the sky. Rockets can fly out into space. Rockets with men in them have been to the moon. Several rockets without men in them have flown to another planet(行星) much farther away than the moon. One day, rockets may be able to go to any place in space.
1. Scientists knew ____________ the moon is.A.how far | B.how big | C.how old | D.both A and B |
A.space | B.universe | C.sun | D.moon |
A.there is no air above 240 kilometers away from the earth. |
B.there is no gas in the plane |
C.the plane is not strong enough |
D.the plane can not fly a long way |
A.keeping the air in the rocket fresh(新鲜的) |
B.Keeping the men in the rocket warm |
C.making the rocket fly up. |
D.cooking food for the men |
A.Realistic(现实的) | B.Imaginative(幻想的) |
C.Confident(有信心的) | D.Sad |