The Lost Boys are very happy to have a “mother” called Wendy. Wendy cooks for the boys and mends their socks and trousers. She’s very busy, but she likes being their mother. She doesn’t worry about her mother and father, but she worries about John and Michael. They are starting to forget their old life. Perhaps this is because there are so many exciting adventures（冒险）in Neverland.
One night, for example（例如）, the Indians（印第安人）attack（攻击）their house underground. Some of the Indians go into the holes in the trees and can’t get out again. The other Indians have to pull them out like corks from bottles.
Another day Peter saves（救）Tiger Lily, an Indian princess, from Captain Hook. The Indians become Peter’s friends after that. They protect（保护）the Lost Boys from the pirates（海盗）.
But this is their last evening on Neverland. Wendy puts John and Michael and the Lost Boys to bed. She starts to tell them their favourite story. Usually Peter puts his hands over his ears because he doesn’t like this story, but tonight he sits and listens with the others.
In this story, Mr Darling and Mrs Darling have three children, says Wendy. “These children have a nurse called Nana. One evening Mr Darling puts Nana outside in the yard because he is angry with her. That night the children fly away,” Wendy continues, “to Neverland. Now, just think about the unhappy parents without their children. The mother always leaves the window open for her children to fly back.”
“You’re wrong about mothers, Wendy,” Peter says angrily. “They lock the window. They forget you. They put another little boy in your bed.”
Suddenly, John and Michael both cry together: “Wendy, let’s all go home.”
At last Wendy and the children fly back to London and Mr and Mrs Darling adopt（收留）the Lost Boys.
—Taken from Peter Pan
1. The Indians become Peter’s friends after he________.| A．saves Tiger Lily from Captain Hook | B．gives them back their gold |
| C．gives them windy to be their mother | D．saves the Lost Boys |
| A．Hook is very angry with them | B．that their mothers forget them |
| C．they cannot join the lost boys | D．these children have a nurse called Nana |
| A．The pirates. | B．The Lost Boys. | C．The Indians. | D．John and Michael. |
| A．Peter Pan wants to fly back to Wendy’s home with the Lost Boys. |
| B．Wendy mends the socks and trousers for the Indians. |
| C．Peter Pan often puts his hands over his eyes when others speak. |
| D．Wendy cooks for the boys and tells them their favourite story. |
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【推荐1】On the evening of June 21st, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes walked into the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. When hotel workers saw him, they telephoned the manager, for they didn’t see a bicycle in the hotel hall in the past, though they lived in “the kingdom(王国) of bicycles”.
Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia. The trip started last December in New Delhi, India.
When Robert Friedlander was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He wanted to finish his trip in Pakistan.
1. The best headline(标题)for this newspaper article is ________.| A．The Kingdom of Bicycles | B．A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an |
| C．Marco Polo and the Silk Road | D．An American’s Trip on a Bicycle |
| A．he asked to see the manager | B．he came into the hall with a bike |
| C．the manager had to know about all foreign guests | D．the manager knew about his trip |
| A．China, India and Pakistan | B．India, China and Pakistan |
| C．Pakistan, China, and India | D．China, Pakistan and India |
| A．The stories about Marco Polo. | B．The famous sights in Xi’an. |
| C．His interest in Chinese silk. | D．His childhood dreams about bicycles. |
| A．clever | B．friendly | C．hardworking | D．strong-minded |
When Wang Haiyan was young, her favorite toys weren’t Barbie dolls. Instead, she started learning to make shadow puppets(皮影) from her father at 13. Now 43, Wang has spent 30 years practicing and spreading the art.
Shadow puppetry is a form of theater that uses puppets made from leather(皮) or paper, accompanied(伴奏) by music and singing. It was invented during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC—AD 24). It tells us about folk tales and historical stories, passing down culture and customs over thousands of years.
Shadow puppetry is all about creating the puppets and performing with them. Wang’s hometown of Hua county, Shanxi, is known as the birthplace of the folk art.
Puppet—makers must follow 24 steps to make the puppets including washing the leather, carving(雕刻) and painting, according to Wang. Carving is the most difficult part.
“We have a special carving skill—moving the leather under the knife,” Wang said. It took Wang three years to master this skill. She used a brick(砖块) to strengthen her left hand while practicing. It takes about 3,000 carves to make a shadow puppet. “The complex (复杂的) steps make it hard to hand down the folk art,” she said.
But Wang has found a way to do so. In recent years, she has made shadow puppets based on some cartoon series and given a live streaming performance. She used colors like blue and purple that were hardly seen in shadow puppetry and added more sticks to the puppets to make the performance more lively. “I hope more and more young people enjoy shadow puppetry and pass it down,” she said,
1. Making the puppets includes the following steps except ________.| A．painting | B．carving | C．washing the leather | D．making bricks |
| A．Where shadow puppetry was invented. |
| B．What shadow puppetry is. |
| C．Why people like shadow puppetry. |
| D．When Wang began to learn shadow puppetry. |
| A．传承 | B．提高 | C．酷爱 | D．放弃 |
| A．She learned all by herself to make shadow puppets. |
| B．She didn’t master the carving skill until she was 43. |
| C．She expected more young people to spread shadow puppetry. |
| D．She was more interested in cartoon series than shadow puppetry. |
Thanks to an online activity and a stranger with a strong sense of romance and a strong will, an old box full of 70-year-old love letters was returned to its very first owner.
Twenty years ago, a woman named Cherry Vallance got the letters from her neighbor who found them in the top floor of his house and wanted to throw them away. Luckily, they ended up in Cherry’s house where they were once again forgotten until her daughter, Kim Rowe, discovered them again.
The letters were from 1948 and 1949 and were about the first romance between Norma Hall in Kent, England and Bob Beasley, a soldier fighting overseas. That was the only information she had, but Kim heard a lot of moving stories about people and things being found through Facebook years later. She posted the story online.
The Internet found Norma Beasley living in Lincoln, England. She was so surprised to find that her loved love letters still lived in the world, and that they were in the same old box.
The moment makes people smile and also full of tears, though. Norma says she hasn’t looked at the letters yet. Bob passed away late last year, and she is still not ready to face the letters alone.
1. The love letters have a history of ________.| A．70 years | B．20 years | C．50 years | D．only one year |
| A．Cherry Vallance | B．Kim Rowe | C．Norma Hall | D．Bob Beasley |
| A．the letters were dirty | B．the old box was very strong |
| C．the letters were kept well | D．the old box wasn’t very pretty |
| A．He moved to a new house. | B．He had left the world. |
| C．He lost his way home. | D．He went to another country. |
| A．Norma Hall isn’t Kim Rowe’s grandmother. |
| B．Norma Beasley is the owner of the love letters. |
| C．Norma Hall got married to Bob Beasley. |
| D．Norma Hall has lived in Lincoln since 1948. |
【推荐1】In the next few days, Mary spent almost all her time in the garden. The fresh air from the moor(沼泽) made her hungry, and she was becoming stronger and healthier. One day she noticed the robin (知更鸟) again. He was on top of a wall; singing to her. “Good morning! Isn’t this fun! Come this way!”, he seemed to say, as he hopped (跳跃) along the wall. Mary began to laugh as she danced along beside him. “I know the secret garden’s on the other side of this wall!” she thought excitedly. “And the robin lives there! But where’s the door?”
That evening she asked Martha to stay and talk to her beside the fire after supper. They could hear the wind blowing round the old house, but the room was warm and comfortable. Mary only had one idea in her head. “Tell me about the garden,” she said.
“Well, all right then, Miss, but we aren’t supposed to talk about it, you know. It was Mrs.Craven’s favourite garden, and she and Mt. Craven used to take care of it themselves. They spent hours there, reading and talking. They were very happy: They used the branch (树枝) of an old tree as a seat. But one day when she was sitting on the branch, it broke and she fell. She was very badly hurt and the next day she died. That’s why he hates the garden so much, and won’t let anyone go in there.”
“How sad!” said Mary. “Poor Mr. Craven!” It was the second time that she had ever felt sorry for anyone.
Just then, as she was listening to the wind outside, she heard another noise, in the house.
“Can you hear a child crying?” She asked Martha.
Martha looked confused. “Er - no,” she replied. “No, I think…it must be the wind.”
But at that moment, the wind blew open their door and they heard the crying very clearly.
“I told you!” cried Mary.
At once Martha shut the door. “It was the wind,” she repeated: But she did not speak in her usual natural way, and Mary did not believe her.
(adapted from The Secret Garden)
1. Why did Mary ask Martha to stay and talk to her after supper?
| A．Because Mary thought Martha might know the secret of the garden. |
| B．Because Martha knew things more than Mary. |
| C．Because Mary wanted to talk to Martha beside the fire after supper. |
| D．Because Martha had been to the garden before. |
| A．The robin was raised by Mary |
| B．Mr. Craven didn’t like people there. |
| C．Martha pretended (假装) not to hear a child’s cry. |
| D．Mary knew Martha was really the daughter of the Cravens. |
| A．The robin told Mary the truth. |
| B．Martha told Mary the truth. |
| C．The child told Mary the truth. |
| D．Mary tried to find the truth. |
【推荐2】“Mum,” Sarah said to her mother. “Why does everybody look so sad? You and dad never smile. And when Ben and I laugh about something at school, Mr Hewitt gets angry and tells us to stop. Ben says that Mr Hewitt is grumpy. That’s why he never laughs or smiles. But what about you and dad? Why do you never smile?”
Mrs Kent sighed. Why was Sarah always so happy and cheerful? She said, “Maybe there is nothing to smile about. Your father and I work very hard. We have no time for silly laughter. And why should Mr Hewitt smile? With thirty kids like you in class who talk all the time?”
Now Sarah sighed, too. She went to see her dad. “Dad,” she said. “Why are you always so sad?”
“I’m not sad, I’m just tired,” he said.
“But you never smile!”
“What is there to smile about?” he asked her.
And again Sarah sighed. Now she was starting to feel sad, too. “I’ll go and see Ben, he’ll cheer me up,” she thought. Ben was her best friend. And he always made her smile.
The next morning Sarah was walking to school when she saw Ben. “Ben,” she shouted. “I had a really strange dream last night.”
“Me too,” said Ben. “But tell me your dream first.”
“Well,” said Sarah, “it was a bit scary. There was a horrible man. He was dressed in black, and his head was like a skull. And he had huge empty eyes.”
“And big black tears were running out of his eyes and down his skull,” Ben added.
“And the skull was—hey…” Sarah shouted. “How do you know that? How do you know what happened in my dream?”
“Because I had the same dream,” said Ben. “Then the man said, ‘I am the Lord of Tears, and soon I will be the master of the world. Soon there will be no more laughter and no more smiles. Soon there will only be tears.’ And then I woke up.”
“I woke up when he said that, too,” said Sarah.
“But I also had another dream,” said Ben.
“And in that dream I heard a lovely voice. And it said, ‘Go and find the Lord of Tears. And take away the Mirror of Smiles.’”
“I had that dream, too,” Sarah shouted.
“‘Follow the setting sun. Bring back laughter and fun!’”
Sarah and Ben packed some food, a warm jumper each and their flutes to play along the way.
—Taken from The Lost Smile
1. How do Sarah’s parents feel at the beginning of the story?| A．Sleepy. | B．Happy. | C．Excited. | D．Sad. |
| A．Sarah herself. | B．Ben. | C．The Lord of Tears. | D．Mr Hewitt. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
a. Sarah met Ben on the way to school.
b. Sarah sighed too when her parents didn’t smile.
c. They packed some food, clothes and flutes along the way.
d. They told each other their dreams.
e. Mrs Kent signed because she had nothing to smile about.
| A．e—b—a—d—c | B．e—c—b—d—a | C．b—d—e—a—c | D．b—d—a—e—c |
When night comes, they stop under a big tree. The Tin Woodman cuts some wood and makes a fire for Dorothy. Dorothy and Toto eat some bread and the Lion goes into the forest to find something for his dinner. The Scarecrow collects some nuts for Dorothy’s breakfast. Then all of them lie down and sleep until morning.
The next day they set off again very early. They walk a few miles and then come to a big ditch. It’s very wide and very deep. There are a lot of sharp rocks at the bottom of it.
“How can we cross the ditch?” Dorothy asks her friends.
“We can’t fly over it,” the Scarecrow says. “And we can’t jump over it. So we must stay here.” The Lion looks at the ditch and says, “I can jump over it.”
“Can you?” the Scarecrow says. “That’s good. You can take us across on your back, one by one.” “Who wants to go first?” the Lion says.
“Me!” the Scarecrow says and he gets on the Lion’s back. The Lion jumps across the ditch easily. Then he jumps back and takes Dorothy and Toto. Finally he takes the Tin Woodman across the ditch.
Later in the afternoon, they come to a wide river.
“How can we cross the river?” Dorothy asks.
“Easy!” the Scarecrow replies. “The Tin Woodman can cut down some trees and build a raft. We can cross the river on that.”
“That’s a good idea,” the Lion says to the Scarecrow, “One would believe you had brains in your head, instead of straw!”
But it takes time to make a raft, and it’s very late when the Tin Woodman finishes it. So they find a cozy place under the trees where they sleep well until the morning. That night, Dorothy dreams of flying to the Emerald City and finding the good Wizard Oz, who would soon send her back to Kansas.
(—Adapted from The Wizard of Oz)
1. To take his friends across the ditch on his back, the Lion jumps ________ times.| A．four | B．five | C．six | D．seven |
| A．stop the Scarecrow from building the raft |
| B．encourage the Scarecrow to think like a man |
| C．praise the Scarecrow for his good idea |
| D．advise the Scarecrow to change the brain |
| A．The Lion goes to the forest to find some food for Dorothy as supper. |
| B．The Scarecrow is the first one to cross the ditch on the lion’s back. |
| C．The Tin Woodman spends little time building the raft because it is easy. |
| D．Dorothy flew to the Emerald City and found the good Wizard Oz. |
