Lucy, a nine-year-old little girl, grew up in a small village near a forest. She liked feeding birds bread and knew a lot about them.
One summer morning, she was listening to birds’ joyful singing when she heard a sharp whistle （哨声） not far away. It wasn’t a friendly bird’s whistle but a whistle of a person.
“Hello, little girl,” a young man greeted cheerfully. Lucy looked up into a face of a tall young man carrying a gun. Then the young man explained that he was a scientist, who collected birds.
“Do you put them in a cage?” Lucy asked. “No,” he answered slowly, “I shoot them and keep them with special chemicals （药剂）. I have over 100 different kinds of birds from all over the United States at home.” Lucy felt surprised to hear that. “I have been looking for a heron （苍鹭） not far from here. It’s a tall, white, strange bird with long thin legs. It often lives at the top of a tall tree. Have you seen it? I will give ＄10 to the person who shows me where the white bird is.” said the man.
Lucy’s heart began to beat fast. She knew that strange white bird! She had seen it on the other side of the forest. She remembered how the white bird came flying through the golden air every morning. But Lucy decided not to speak a word. She would not tell the bird’s secret and give its life away. They were good friends. So Lucy shook her head and the young man had to go away disappointedly.
1. Where did Lucy grow up?2. How did the young man keep the birds?
3. What does the heron look like?
4. Why did Lucy’s heart begin to beat fast?
5. What was Lucy’s decision at last?
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Sammie Vance, 14, knows there’s nothing worse than feeling left out. For years, she’s been helping kids who feel lonely make friends by running Buddy Bench (友谊长凳) Program. The idea is that anyone at school who is feeling lonely can sit on the “buddy bench”. That lets other kids know someone needs a friend.
Sammie got the idea at summer camp in 2017. She thought it would be cool to have a buddy bench in her school, so she presented the idea to her teachers and her parents. To reduce costs and be environment-friendly, Sammie decided to make the bench out of recycled material. So she asked her community to collect bottle caps. Finally, they collected more than 1,200 pounds of bottle caps, which were made into three benches by a company called Green Tree Plastics.
Before long, Sammie was helping other schools get benches. She has given away more than 200 benches to schools and parks all around her country, and in Mexico and Australia. Her work continues to spread kindness far and wide.
Sammie says the effort has helped her deal with personal challenges. She says: “
2. Why did Sammie decide to make the bench out of recycled material? (不超过10个词)
3. What would Sammie say in the last paragraph? (不超过5个词)
This is such a heart-warming piece of news in the cold winter. Some days ago, the temperature was only—6 in Kaifeng, Henan. Someone ordered 50 cups of warm porridge through Meituan App and noted “Please give the porridge to those sanitation workers who are clearing snow on the road nearby and those delivery (递送) men who are delivering food.” When the porridge shop owner received the order, he was moved by the note and provided 60 cups.
The story didn’t end here. As soon as the food delivery man got the big order, he shared it with his workmates so that they could also get paid. Finally, Meituan returned the money to the porridge buyer, Mr. Zhang and gave him a reward of 500 yuan. Although he had to raise his newly-born baby and pay for his house every month. Mr. Zhang said he would surely continue delivering love.
The kind help also encouraged many other citizens in Kaifeng. This summer, volunteers are sending cool drinks every day.
Similar stories have happened in many other places in China. Outdoor worker in different cities are able to enjoy free and caring help. Lots of “love posts” are providing “coolness” in hot summer and “warmth” in cold winter. Just as a citizen of Kaifeng said “I feel deeply moved and warm in heart.”
In fact, we get love and give love every day. Love delivery makes our life better and more beautiful.
1. How did Mr. Zhang order the porridge?2. How many cups of porridge did the shop owner provide?
3. What did the delivery man do when he got the big order?
4. Was Mr. Zhang rich?
5. How do you feel after reading this passage?
【推荐3】Soapy was a homeless man looking for somewhere to stay during the winter. He was thinking about doing something bad, so the police would send him to prison.
First, he planned to eat in a restaurant without paying, but the waiter looked at his clothes and would not let him in. Then he broke a store window and waited for the police. When a police officer arrived at the store, he did not believe Soapy did it because Soapy did not run away.
Then Soapy passed by a church, and heard people singing. Soapy was moved and decided to become a good man. Just then, he felt a hand on his shoulder.
“What are you doing here?” asked a police officer.
“Nothing,” replied Soapy.
“Then come along,” said the officer.
“Three months in prison,” said the judge the next morning.
1. In which season did the story take place?2. What did Soapy break?
3. How many bad things did Soapy succeed in doing?
4. How long would Soapy stay in prison?
CHINA TO THE RESCUE（救援）!
The China International Search and Rescue Team（CISAR） was set up in 2001 and is now made up of several hundred rescue workers and about 20 sniffer dogs. The team brings help and hope to those whose lives are changed by a storm, flood, earthquake, or any other natural disaster.
After long and careful training, the team went on its first international rescue missions in 2003. That year, the Chinese team helped save lives after earthquakes in Algeria and Iran. It was the first time that a Chinese team had worked outside China, and the team won high praise for their bravery and skill.
Since then, the CISAR has completed many missions. The list of people to whom help has been given is long. The team treated more than 3, 000 people who were injured in the 2006 earthquake in Indonesia, helped 2, 500 wounded people after the earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, and spent several months giving aid to over 25, 000 victims of the 2010 floods in Pakistan（巴基斯坦）.
Rescue workers are trained to find people, treat injuries, and hand out food, water, and other supplies. They have to be able to do work that is difficult under conditions which can be very dangerous. After a disaster, there is usually no electricity or water, and there may be diseases and accidents. Rescue workers get to save lives, but they must also bury the dead. That means they have to be strong in both body and mind.
Rescue workers must have big hearts, too. It takes a lot of love and courage to risk one’s own life to save someone else’s. The members of the CISAR have plenty of both and are always ready to go wherever help is needed.
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| Rescue | Their first task was to help save lives who suffered from The team has helped many people in need. For example, they provided |
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| Difficult situations like saving the lives together with burying the dead | |
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I and many other people in Britain love charity (慈善) shops because we can find them on every street. The charity shops sell all kinds of things and they are very cheap.
Oxfam opened the first charity shop in 1947. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favorite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross Shop. There I always find children’s books, all 10 to 20 pence (便士) each. They are really cheap.
Most of the shop workers in charity shops are volunteers, although each shop has a manager and he gets some money. Every morning you see bags of things outside the shops. Some people bring and put them there without waiting for thanks. In fact, over 90% of the things in charity shops are from kind people.
All the money the shops get goes to charity work. Charity shops raise more than 110 million pounds every year. The money is for sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and many others. In a charity shop you can get cheap but nice things. You might even feel special while shopping.
If possible, let’s do something for charity together.
1. What do the charity shops sell? (no more than 6 words)2. Why is the writer’s favorite charity shop in his hometown the Red Cross Shop? (no more than 12 words)
3. How much do charity shops raise every year? (no more than 9 words)
4. 请将文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文题目。
There are many elderly people in Erdingford living on their own. Most of them find it difficult to go out and to look after themselves. Yet most of them love their homes and want to go on living in them as long as possible. Helping Hand is an organization and it helps such people to live independent lives in their own homes.
But our work depends on volunteers. They visit our clients (客户) and help them with daily activities, or just stay together with them for an hour or so. Some of the elderly clients we help have poor eyesight and often they need someone to read to them. Others just want to enjoy some friendly talks or playing cards or chess.
What you do for your client depends on three sides — you, your Volunteer Support Officer and the person you are helping. If you are not happy to do something, you can say no freely.
Working in Helping Hand is a win-win on both sides. On one hand, the volunteer can help to keep our elderly clients independent. On the other hand, volunteers learn so much from their clients’ life experience. As the 18-year-old volunteer Roy said, “I thought voluntary work would be a matter of doing little jobs for an old person I didn’t know, and then feeling glad with myself because I’d done something good. But it wasn’t really like that. It was more like a friendship: I learnt so much from Margaret about her generation (一代) , how things were in the past, and about life itself. And she took me seriously and always listened to what I said carefully. ”
1、2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第四段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Most elderly people in Erdingford want to live in
2. The
3. What did Roy learn from the voluntary work?
4.
5.
When I was seven years old, my family made me an ant farm. First, we put clean sand in a thin glass box. Then we waited for the ants to arrive.
After the ants were in the glass farm, they started to make tunnels (地道). I was amazed that each one knew exactly what to do. Each had its own job.
On the fifth day a tragedy (悲剧) happened. I put my face so close to the glass farm that I knocked it over. All the tunnels fell down. Although the ants remained alive after the earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was scared as I watched them give up building their tunnels to carry bodies to a corner of the farm.
My mother said that the ants were dying of sadness. They simply could not understand why their tunnels were gone.
Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world, but it taught me much more.
Over the years, I came to realize the importance of teamwork. Working together, the ants were able to make an amazing world for themselves. I also learned that they should be admired for their hard work.
But there was an even larger lesson that I did not realize until recently: Adversity (逆境) is a natural part of life, and must be accepted. Unlike the ants, we cannot give up when we are sad. We have to realize that if a tunnel is gone, we must build another.
Giving up, I say, is not a good choice.
1. How old was the writer when he had the ant farm?2. When did the tunnels fall down?
3. Why did the ants die?
4. What did the writer’s mother want him to learn about?
5. What did the writer realize over the years?
【推荐2】A famer had four lambs (羔羊). One was black, and the other three were white. The black lamb was always friendly to the others in the group. But the white lambs often laughed at him. They thought he was ugly. The farmer did not like him, either. He gave bad food to the black Iamb.
One winter day, the four lambs went out to eat grass. They went far away from home. Suddenly, it began to snow. And the ground was all white soon. They couldn’t find the way home.
When the farmer found that the lambs were not at home, he went out to look for them. There was snow everywhere. Suddenly, he saw something black. He went to it. Oh, it was his black lamb! And the white lambs were there, too. The farmer said excitedly, “Thanks to the black lamb, I can find you!”
1. How did the black lamb treat (对待) the other Iambs?2. What did the farmer give the black lamb to eat?
3. Why couldn’t the lambs find their way home?
4. When did the farmer go out to look for the lambs?
5. What can we learn from the story? (外貌，外表 appearance)
【推荐3】In spring, the mother pig took the little pig Lulu to the foot of the mountain. They planted some watermelons. When summer came, there were many big round watermelons in the field. ①
One day, the sun was burning (A)
When he got to the field, he was happy to find so many big green watermelons. He chose one of the biggest watermelons and picked it from the vine. Then he held it with his hands trying to lift it on his shoulder to carry it home. “Wow!(B) It’s so heavy that I can’t carry it!”
Lulu tried several times, but he failed.
③And he was soaked with sweat (汗流浃背). He wiped his sweat off and decided to have a rest. Suddenly he saw the monkey Pipi. He was playing with a hoop(圈). Lulu patted his head excitedly and said, “I’ve got it. The round hoop can roll. The watermelon is (C)
2. 将文中画线部分(B)改写为: It’s
3. 将文中画线部分(D)译成英语:
4. 在文中①②③选出能够填入“It was terribly hot on the ground”的位置:
5. 从文中找出两个表示 Lulu情绪的副词
【推荐1】In May 2001, I
Almost 10 years later, on February 21, 2011, I realized that my alarm had never
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Something happened in the first passage is about:
The two events that the writer mentions are:
The dates of the two events are:
The attitudes(态度) to the results of the two events are:
The time the writer arrived at World Trade Center on September 11, 2001:
【推荐2】It was over two months before Christmas when 9-year-old Mary told her father that she wanted a new bike. Her old Barbi bike was too old and it often needed repairing. As Christmas came nearer, her dream for a bike seemed to disappear, for she didn’t mention it again.
Then much to our surprise, on December 24th, she said that she really wanted a bike as the Christmas present more than anything else. We didn’t know what to do. It was too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents for our children, parents and also friends till midnight. So there was no time to buy the “right bike” for our little girl. Thinking that we might in this way make our child unhappy on Christmas, we felt guilty and sad.
Suddenly my husband came up with an idea. “What if I make a little bike out of the clay and write a note that she could trade in (交换) the model bike for a real one after Christmas?” So he spent the next five hours working on a small clay bike. On Christmas morning, we were very excited and waited for Mary to open the little box with the beautiful red and white bike and the note. She opened the box and read the note loudly. She looked at me and said, “So, does this mean I can trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made for me. I prefer to keep it rather than get a real one.” At that moment we thought we would have moved the God to buy her every bike on earth.
1. Did Mary want a new bike as her Christmas present?2. When did Mary tell her parents that she wanted a bike?
3. Why didn’t Mary’s parents buy her a bike?
4. What did the underlined word “guilty” mean in the second paragraph?
5. How long did Mary’s father spend working on a small clay bike?
6. What can we learn from Mary’s words in the last paragraph?
【推荐3】In ancient China, the State of Wu made an attack on the State of Yue. The king of Wu was badly hurt (A)________ soon died. His son Fu Chai became the new king Fu was very sad and angry and (B)he decided to fight back for his father’s death. He trained his army strictly until it was very strong. Three years later, he led his army against the State of Yue and caught its king Gou Jian, who was taken to the State of Wu.①
Gou Jian was put into a small black stone house which was full (C)_______ terrible smell and was made to raise horses. Gou worked hard and tried to keep himself quiet, but he never forgot his pain.② Gou secretly trained his army after he went back to his own state. In order to make himself strong-minded, he slept on firewood and ate a gall bladder(苦胆) before having dinner and going to bed every night. After a few years, his country became strong once more. Then Gou took hold of a golden chance to fight against Wu (D)他最终赢得了战争.
③ If one voluntarily(自愿) works very hard and voluntarily stands up to pains and difficulties in order to succeed, we might call him a “Gou Jian”,and his story is a “Gou Jian’s story”.
1. 在文中(A)和(C)的空处填适当的单词：2. 将文中画线部分(B)改写为：he decided to fight back
3. 将文中画线部分(D)译成英语：
4. 在文中①②③处选出能够填入 “Many years later, he was set free”的位置：
5. 从文中找出能说明本文主旨大意的短语：
