I am Jim Hawkins and my story begins many years ago, when my father worked at the Admiral Benbow inn.
One day a tall man with a scar (疤痕) on his face arrived. He opened the door of the inn, singing the song I know so well:
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
“A glass of rum,” he said when he came inside.
“This is a pleasant inn,” he said, “Do you have many customers (顾客)?”
“Not many,” my father answered.
“Well, this is the place for me. You can call me ‘captain’.” he said. The he asked a man to carry his large sailor’s chest to his room. “I’m a simple man,” he told my father, “Rum and bacon and eggs is all I want. Here are four gold coins to start. Tell me when I have to pay more.”
During the day he went to the cliffs with his telescope (望远镜) and in the evening he sat by the fire drinking rum and water. He asked about sailors every day. We soon understood that he wanted to avoid them. When a sailor visited the inn, the captain was always very quiet. One day he asked me:
“If you see a sailor with one leg, tell me as soon as he arrives.”
When the captain drank too much rum, he sang sea-songs and told the other customers terrible stories about his violent life at sea.
He stayed month after month, but he didn’t give my father any more money. My poor father was too frightened to ask. Everyone was frightened of the captain and his stories. The only person who was not afraid of him was the local doctor and magistrate, Dr. Livesey.
“If you keep drinking rum like that, you will very soon be dead,” he warned the captain.
1. According to the passage we can know Jim’s father is ________ the captain.| A．afraid of | B．interested in | C．bored with | D．worried about |
| A．he enjoyed the rum of the inn | B．he enjoyed the scene around the inn |
| C．he wanted to meet his friends | D．he wanted to keep away from sailors |
| A．Jim’s father is poor. | B．The captain became quiet after drinking too much. |
| C．Dr. Livesey is a doctor | D．Many customers visited the inn. |
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Lesein Mutunkei grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. When he was young, he loved football, climbing, and many other outdoor sports.
Over the next years, Lesein started to learn about deforestation (滥伐森林). “If I don’t do anything about it, I won’t be able to do what I love to do,” the boy thought. At the age of twelve, Lesein thought of an idea: he could grow trees.
One day, the school would take a trip to Amboseli National Park.
Lesein dreams of growing a forest (森林) of Trees for Goals in each country in Africa. He also wants football stars to start growing trees.
| A．Now he is working hard for his dreams. |
| B．Soon they grew about 1, 000 trees around Nairobi. |
| C．If he scored a goal in a football game, he would grow a tree. |
| D．Lesein spoke to his teachers about growing trees in the park. |
| E．He also liked to have a picnic in the countryside with his family. |
【推荐2】In the mid-1830s, a young Englishman named Marcus Sandys worked in India. He enjoyed eating a local food which always came with a delicious sauce （酱）. It tasted like nothing he had tried in England. Before he returned to England, he did his best to find out what the ingredients （原料） were. They included red onions, garlic （蒜）, vinegar （醋） and salted fish.
Once home, he met with two chemists who owned a shop close to his home.
He gave them the list of the ingredients and asked them to make the sauce for him. The two chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins found all the ingredients and mixed them together. They tasted it and described the sauce as terrible! It was poured into a barrel （桶）. Mr. Lee and Mr. Perrins waited for Marcus to come and get the barrel, but he never did.
A couple of years later, the two chemists remembered the barrel. They decided to see what the mixture tasted like. They couldn’t believe it! It was delicious! They decided to sell it in their shop. They called their sauce Lea & Perrins.
It takes time to produce such a delicious product. The process begins with keeping red onions and garlic in vinegar for at least 18 months. During that time, the two vegetables soften. Fish called anchovies from Spain are placed in salt for a similar period of time. When ready, the red onions, garlic and anchovies are mixed together in a barrel. The mixture is kept there for six more weeks. In the end, it’s heated to kill bacteria （细菌）.
Lea & Perrins can be found in most home kitchens and restaurants. It’s sold in over 130 countries worldwide now.
1. Marcus tried to find out what ingredients were in a delicious sauce ________.| A．before he left India | B．before he left England |
| C．because two chemists wanted them | D．because he wanted to make it himself |
| A．Upset. | B．Angry. | C．Worried. | D．Surprised. |
| A．sauce | B．vinegar | C．fish | D．vegetable |
| A．He didn’t enjoy living in India. |
| B．He made lots of money by selling Lea & Perrins. |
| C．He liked the food in England better than that in India. |
| D．He didn’t take the sauce Mr. Lee and Mr. Perrins made for him. |
| A．tell the life stories of two chemists | B．introduce the history of a popular sauce |
| C．encourage readers to buy Lea & Perrins | D．show how easy it is to make Lea & Perrins |
By the middle 1940s, Dr Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful writers of children’s books. He had a strong desire to help children. In 1954, Life magazine gave a report about school children who could not read. The report said many children’s books weren’t interesting. Dr Seuss decided to write books that were interesting and easy to read.
In 1957, Dr Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat. He used less than 225 words to write the book. This was about the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read. The story was about a cat who tried to play with two children on a rainy day while their mother was away from home. The cat was very special and it could talk. The book was a great success. It was an interesting story and was easy to read. Children loved it. Their parents loved it, too. Today many adults(成年人) say it is still one of the stories they like best.
1. Theodor Seuss Geisel was famous for .
| A．his funny words and pictures |
| B．his social opinion |
| C．his ideas on serious subjects |
| D．his books written for children |
| A．问题 | B．愿望 | C．感激 | D．标准 |
| A．Dr Seuss wrote his first book for children at the age of 33 |
| B．Dr Seuss wrote less than forty children’s books over the years |
| C．Life magazine gave a report about adults who could not read in 1954 |
| D．And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street was loved by children and parents |
| A．Because Dr Seuss used 225 words to write the book. |
| B．Because it was about a cat trying to play with two children. |
| C．Because it was an interesting story and was easy to read. |
| D．Because the cat was very special and it could talk with children. |
【推荐1】Martin Luther King was born in Georgia, the USA. When he was a boy, he sang with other children in the church (教堂).
Little Martin knew that it was very important to love and be kind to others.
Although the church was very important to Martin, he was interested in other things, too. He liked sports very much. He was not tall, but he was very strong. The boys in his town often met at Martin’s house for a game of football or basketball.
Martin liked school and was a very good student. He went to college at fifteen. At first, he didn’t know what he wanted to study. He knew the black people didn’t have the same rights as the white people, and he also knew that the black people were not as happy as the white people. He wanted to work for the black people. He wanted to help the poor black people.
Later he really became a famous man. He was fighting for the men’s rights all his life. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was murdered on the evening of April 4, 1968.
1. Martin was from ________.| A．America | B．England | C．Japan | D．Australia |
| A．he didn’t like singing | B．he was not strong |
| C．he liked playing jokes on others | D．he liked football and basketball |
| A．to like sports | B．to go to the church |
| C．to love and be kind to others | D．to play tricks on others |
| A．he would not study again |
| B．he would work for the black people |
| C．all people were equally (平等地) treated |
| D．the black lived a happy life |
| A．Martin went to college at a young age. |
| B．Martin was a tall and strong man. |
| C．Martin has lots of different interests. |
| D．Martin wanted to help the black people live a better life. |
【推荐2】Recently, an elderly woman touched many people’s hearts. She was honored as a role model in China’s fight against poverty (贫穷). Her name is Xia Sen.
Over the past years, 98-year-old Xia Sen has given away most of her personal savings to help students from poor families in Danfeng, Shaanxi, and Shangyou, Jiangxi get an education.
Born in 1923, Xia was only 15 years old when she became a teacher in Yan’an. While teaching she kept learning. Years later, she went to work as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2006, Xia visited Xijie Primary School in Danfeng. The school was old and in bad condition. That made her very sad. She spent 20,000 yuan buying desks and books for the students.
In 2008, she took out 200,000 yuan and helped Zhaogou Primary School in Danfeng build a classroom building. It is a building with eight bright and clean classrooms, which is a complete change from what their old classrooms looked like.
Five years later, Xia used 1 million yuan of her savings to set up the “Xia Sen Scholarship (夏森助学金)” to help high school and college students from poor families in Danfeng and Shangyou. So far, at least 182 students have gotten help from the scholarship to pay for their education.
Some students who got Xia’s scholarship went to Xia’s home to visit her in 2018. To their surprise, Xia and her husband led a very simple life. “I was moved by Granny Xia and her husband,” one student said.
Though Xia and her husband have given away most of their savings to help the poor students, they always say that what they have done is far from enough. Xia often says her life is much better than her life in Yan’an. Now her only hope is that she can help more students.
1. What happened when Xia was 15 years old?| A．She left Yan’an. | B．She went to college. |
| C．She became a teacher. | D．She studied in Danfeng. |
| A．She gave away 20,000 yuan to it. |
| B．She gave talks to encourage its students. |
| C．She bought desks and books for its students. |
| D．She helped build a classroom building for it. |
| A．A role model | B．A big change | C．A big honor | D．An elderly couple |
1. Jack is a movie fan. He loves to get the news about the latest movies.
2. Linda is a mother of three. She loves cooking and wants to learn to cook different kinds of food for her family.
3. Carrie is a junior high school student. In her free time, she usually listens to rock music and watches TV. Her favorite TV shows are comedies but she can’t stand sports shows.
4. Peter loves talk shows. He wants to be a reporter and work in a TV station when he grows up. He would like to learn more about TV from the talk shows.
5. Larry is 75 years old now. He is from the UK, but moved to Japan in 1965. Today he is still missing the life in the UK in the 1960s and often mentions it.
| A．Big Ideas A talk show about the most interesting things and places from cities to the countryside and from the south to north across China. |
| B．Rock The daily 30-minute comedy tell a story about rock bands. You can enjoy the funny comedies and rock music as well. |
| C．Media Watch It’s a talk show about TV, radio, newspaper and Internet. It talks about those who make the news and send it to our home, such as the reporters, editors and photographers. |
| D．The Changes of the UK Share your stories about life in the UK in the 1960s. You can have your own photos or videos. They can be funny or sad, big events or the small things of daily life. |
| E．Documentaries About planets and other things with six episodes and each one lasts 55 minutes. You can know more about the space. |
| F．At the Movies It’s a talk show about movies. It talks about the world of cinema every week and tells you what’s new on the big screen. And it has interviews(采访) with the famous actors and actresses. |
| G．Beautiful Cooking It used to be called Beautiful Girl’s Kitchen. It is a Hong Kong variety show on TVB. You can learn to cook all kinds of food from the shows. |
【推荐1】Hua Yuchen is a music teacher at Ganghua Elementary school in Wuhan. She has been fighting the virus as the volunteer for over a month.
“At first I had no idea what kind of work I was going to do,” Hua told China Daily. “But as I was born in Wuhan, I knew I must do something for my hometown, even though I’m just an ordinary person and cannot save patients as doctors do.”
She does a lot of work. She sends medical workers to and from work. She takes the temperatures of drivers on the highway. She unloads goods and broadcasts news at a hospital.
Hua said all of the volunteers were working hard. “There’s always someone who arrives earlier than me, does more work and leaves later,” Hua said. “We are just humans, no one can say they are not afraid. But the volunteers are brave enough to stand up and do what they can.”
“I’m happy, and every day I enjoy finding out where I am most wanted.” Hua said. She wants to share her volunteer experience with her students.
1. What is Hua Yuchen?| A．A doctor. | B．A teacher. | C．A worker. | D．A farmer. |
| A．Because her mother asked her to do so. |
| B．Because she wanted to travel to Wuhan. |
| C．Because she wanted to make more money. |
| D．Because she wanted to do something for her hometown. |
| A．Happy. | B．Boring. | C．Tiring. | D．Terrible. |
| A．She teaches music. | B．She broadcasts news. |
| C．She saves patients. | D．She takes patients’ temperatures. |
【推荐2】Debating（辩论）changed my life.
I grew up extremely shy and spent most of my time avoiding people looking at me. As for public speaking, it was always something that gave me high amounts of stress when I was in primary school. I didn’t have any friends and felt lonely, having no one to talk to.
After I became a junior high schooler. I decided that I was going to change that. At the end of a Monday, a poster of the school debate team caught my attention. I took a deep breath and walked the long hallway to the debate coach’s room, alone. Although I was scared to death, I introduced myself to the coach. Mrs. Brown. I was met with a warm smile and understanding of my fears. Little did I know, I was beginning one of the most important journeys of my life.
In the debate team, I met students from other classes. After several training classes, we became friends. It was the first time I made some friends. When the debates began, I didn’t want to lose friends I cared about, so I oflen pretended（假装）to agree with them or I just said “let’s agree to disagree”.
In another round, I only brought up some soft anguments. Mrs. Brown noticed this and she told me, “Alice, true friends have heated debates with each other and still remain friends after that. If a friendslip depends on winning or losing a debate about any subject, it isn’t much of a real friendship.” Then I started trying my best to prepare for all debates with my partners, coming up with arguments, and facing off against the opponents（对手）. Surprisingly, it brought us closer and helped me form a connection not only with my partners but also with my opponents.
Six years later, I can say that my strongest friendships started from arguing with strangers. They stood by me when I was going through hard times, and those moments shaped me into the person I am today.
1. How did the writer feel about public speaking in primary school?| A．Excited. | B．Confident. | C．Stressed. | D．Bored. |
| A．tried her best to beat other debaters | B．kept meeting students from other classes |
| C．went to training classes one after another | D．pretended to agree with others during debates |
| A．Real friends debate quite a lot when they are together. |
| B．Real fricnds debate with each other but remain friends. |
| C．Real friendships are usually built upon heated debates. |
| D．Real friendships depend on winning or losing a debate. |
And then he saw the next homeless man. He was shivering because of coldness. The young man now stopped for a second and gave his scarf to him. He then said goodbye to him with a big smile and went away in the snow. At that moment, I was in tears. I gave this young man my best wishes with love and blessings.
1. How many homeless men did the young man help in this passage?
| A．2. | B．3. | C．4. | D．5. |
| A．spring | B．summer | C．autumn | D．winter |
| A．hunger | B．coldness | C．illness | D．worries |
| A．Some money, his scarf and a candy. | B．His scarf, his coat and some money. |
| C．A candy, his hat and his coat. | D．His coat, some money and a candy. |
| A．sad | B．surprised | C．moved | D．interested |
