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A School Trip

Dear parents, The school is planning a school trip for students in Grade 9. We decide to have an exciting activity in the mountains and the village there. Eleven teachers will be there to take care of the children. So don’t worry. The kids try to enjoy themselves together. Parents need to pay $15 for the trip. Let us know if you want your children to go before April 15th. Important information: Parents should send and pick up the children at school. Date: Sunday, April 18th Time: 8:30 am-5:30 pm Lunch: Free. Things needed: A water cup and an umbrella. Make sure that the children wear comfortable clothes and sports shoes. If you have any questions, call us at 210-7528 for more information.

判断下列各题是否正确，正确的填A，不正确的填B。
1. Eleven teachers will take care of the students during the school trip.
2. Parents need to pay $10 for the school trip before April 15th.
3. A water cup and an umbrella will be needed for the school trip.
4. The school trip will last for ten hours.
5. The students don’t need to wear sports shoes.

【推荐2】Cindy is a student in Class 2, Grade 7 in Red Star School. She will have exams（考试）from January 8th to 9th.Let’s look at the timetable（时间表）.

Days	Subjects	Time
		From	To
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020	Chinese	8:30 a.m.	10:00 a.m.
	History	10:30 a.m.	11:30 a.m.
	Science	1:00 p.m.	3:00 p.m.
	P.E.	3:30 p.m.	4:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 9th, 2020	English	8:30 a.m.	10:00 a.m.
	Math	1:00 p.m.	3:00 p.m.
	Spoken English	3:30 p.m.	4:15 p.m.

1. How many exams does Cindy have on Wednesday?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Five.

D．Seven.

2. When does the English exam finish?

A．At 8:30 a.m.

B．At 10:00 a.m.

C．At 3:30 p.m.

D．At 4:15 p.m.

3. What exams last（持续）for an hour?

A．History and P.E.

B．Chinese and English.

C．Science and Math.

D．PE and Spoken English

4. Which of the following is RIGHT?

A．Cindy is a student of Grade2 in Red Star School.

B．Science is the first exam on Thursday afternoon.

C．Cindy has exams on Wednesday and Thursday.

D．All the exams finish at 4:30 in the afternoon.

5. ________takes the shortest（最短的）time of all the exams.

A．P.E.

B．History.

C．English.

D．Spoken English.

【推荐3】阅读下面的短文，从短文后边的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项补全短文，选项中有一项为多余选项。

New high school students in the US have more to worry about than their tests. Often, high schools are up to 10 times larger than middle schools!     1    

In the past, American kids knew that high school would bring bullying( 霸 凌 ) from older students. Young students felt lonely and down.

    2    Schools are creating “teams” to make students feel welcome. Teams are made up of a few students from each grade. Teachers choose team leaders to act as role models(榜样). Within a team, older, students protect and advise the younger students, who will do the same for others later. The teams stay together for all four years of school. Some teams even create their own flags! At orientation (新生训练), students get to know the members of their team.     3     During orientation, experts guide students through “trust games”. In one popular game, a student is blindfolded(蒙起眼睛的) and led by a partner through some obstacles (障碍物). In this game, students have to find out about the interests and hobbies of their teammates.

Students can go to their team members with questions, problems and even friendship.     4    

A．This way, high school doesn’t seem so scary.

B．Students become small fish in a very big pond.

C．These activities help students get close to each other.

D．Orientation may go on for as long as one week.

E．Nowadays, things are improving.

【推荐1】①Over the past forty years, cars have become less polluting. Many people now drive electric cars (e-cars). And there are fewer emissions (排放) from cars. However, cities such as London and Los Angeles are still fighting air pollution. Using cleaner cars is a good step, but is this enough?

②A survey shows that more than 40 percent of the cars only have one person inside. But a car trip takes a lot of electricity (电). In the U.S, more than 60 percent of electricity still comes from fossil fuels (化石燃料). So if all of us were to use e-cars, the emissions would only be cut down by 25 percent.

③And there are other things to be worried about. Roads and other systems for cars need a lot of space. About 24 percent of London’s land (土地) has been used to build these systems. In many U.S. cities, this number can be as high as 40 percent. The World Health Organization advises cities to create at least 9 ㎡ of green space for each person. However, in many fast-growing cities around the world, each gets less than 2 ㎡ because they have to use more land for roads and parking.

④So, using cleaner cars is not enough to make our cities better. In fact, cities need much fewer cars. People should have different ways to get around. Studies show that people will get out of their cars if they have more and better ways to choose. Only then will our cities become faster and greener.

1. Why would the emissions only be cut down by 25 percent?

A．Because 100 percent of the cars only have one person inside.

B．Because more than 60 percent of electricity still comes from fossil fuels.

C．Because a car trip takes a little electricity.

D．Because many people now drive electric cars (e-cars).

2. The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 1 refers to “________”.

A．driving cars	B．stopping emissions
C．fighting air pollution	D．using cleaner cars

3. In American cities, about ________ of the land has been used because of cars.

A．24%

B．25%

C．40%

D．60%

4. The writer of the passage is trying to advise people to _________.

A．drive cars less	B．build more roads
C．use more cleaner cars	D．stop using fossil fuels

5. The structure (结构) of the passage may be ________.

A．

B．

C．

D．

【推荐2】Taking a bus or subway, making payments online, or just walking — these daily activities can help turn China’s deserts into forests if you are using Ant Forest.

Ant Forest is a feature (功能) in the Alipay mobile payment app. It records users’ low-carbon (低碳的) activities — taking a bus to work instead of driving, for example — and gives users “green energy”. When the user’s green energy gets high enough, Ant Forest and its partners will plant a real tree for that person.

Last month, Ant Forest received the 2019 Champions of the Earth award, the UN’s highest environmental honor. It won the award by encouraging people to live greener lifestyles and protect the environment.

About half a billion people have used Ant Forest since it came out in August 2016. Ant Forest and its partners have planted about 122 million trees in China’s driest areas, including parts of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai and Shanxi. The trees cover an area of 112,000 hectares (公顷). This makes Ant Forest China’s largest tree-planting project started by a private company and Ant Forest also shows us how we can use technology to solve environmental problems.

1. What is Ant Forest?

A．It is a name for a group of special ants.	B．It is a game that can help people fight ants.
C．It is a forest for people to grow trees in.	D．It is a feature in the Alipay mobile payment app.

2. You can get “green energy” in Ant Forest by ________.
a. taking a bus     b. paying bills     c. walking     d. planting trees     e. opening the app

A．bde

B．abc

C．acd

D．bce

3. Ant Forest received the 2019 Champions of the Earth award because ________.

A．it helps people buy cheap things online	B．it is the first company to plant trees
C．it solved a big environmental problem	D．it encourages people to protect the environment

4. We can infer from Paragraph 4 that ________

A．The trees planted by Alibaba have fully covered China’s deserts.

B．Alibaba only plants trees in poor areas.

C．Alibaba has already planted millions of trees.

D．Ant Forest first appeared in August 2019.

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When Mrs. Klein told her first graders to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she thought how little these children, who lived in a terrible neighborhood, actually had to be thankful for. Since it was Thanksgiving Day, she knew that most of the class would draw pictures of turkeys (火鸡) or of Thanksgiving tables with lots of food.

What made Mrs. Klein surprised was Douglas’s picture. Douglas was so shy and likely to be found away from the others as they went outside for games. Douglas’s drawing was simply this:

A hand, clearly, but whose hand? The class was attracted by his picture. “I think it must be the hand of his mum or dad that brings us food,” said one student.

“A farmer,” said another, “because they grow the turkeys.”

“It looks more like a policeman, and they protect us.” “I think,” said Lavinia, who was always so serious, “that it is supposed to be all the hands that help us, but Douglas could only draw one of them.”

Mrs. Klein was very happy to see that the class showed so much interest in Douglas’ picture. When she had the others at work on another project, she went over to him and asked whose hand it was.

Douglas answered in a very low voice, “It’s yours, Teacher.”

Then Mrs. Klein remembered that she had taken Douglas by the hand from time to time; she often did that with the children. But that it should have meant so much to Douglas …

Perhaps, she thought, this was her Thanksgiving, and everybody’s Thanksgiving—not the material things we receive, but the small ways that we give something to others.

1. When did the story happen?

A．On Thanksgiving Day.	B．On Teacher’s Day.
C．After Thanksgiving Day.	D．Before Christmas Eve.

2. Douglas drew a picture of hand.

A．his mum’s

B．a farmer’s

C．his teacher’s

D．a policeman’s

3. What does the writer want to tell us?

A．Thanksgiving Day is popular.	B．Being a good teacher is important.
C．Painting is necessary in our life.	D．Giving is more meaningful than receiving.

【推荐3】My stepmother’s (继母) enthusiasm (热情), the strong wish and interest to do everything, made me move toward the success.

I was nine years old when she entered our home in the countryside of Virginia. My father introduced me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the guy who is well known for being the worst boy in this town. And he will probably start throwing rocks at you no later than tomorrow morning.”

My stepmother walked over to me, raised my head slightly upward, and looked at me right into my eyes. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are wrong. He’s not at all the way you said, but the smartest one who hasn’t yet found a way to give out his enthusiasm.”

That began a friendship between us. No one had ever called me smart, my family and neighbors had built me up in my mind as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.

She changed many things. She advised my father to go to a dental school. She moved our family into the town centre, where my father’s career could be more successful and my brother and I could be better educated.

When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand typewriter and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her belief and began to write for local newspapers and finally reached the goal she set for me. I wasn’t the only beneficiary. My father became the wealthiest man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.

1. What was the writer like in his father’s eyes at the beginning of the story?

A．Smart.

B．Stupid.

C．Rude.

D．Impatient.

2. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The stepmother praised the writer from the bottom of her heart.

B．The stepmother taught the writer to be a successful writer by herself.

C．People in the town noticed the writer’s cleverness at a very young age.

D．Without the stepmother’s help, nobody could find a job in her family.

3. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refer to (指的是) ?

A．Belief.

B．Enthusiasm.

C．Friendship.

D．The typewriter.

4. Which expression has the closest meaning to the underlined word “beneficiary”?

A．One who was a writer.

B．One who was thought highly of.

C．One who made a lot of money.

D．One who gained a lot from anybody else.

5. Which is the correct order of the things that happened to the writer according to the passage?
a. He became a writer.
b. He attended school in the town centre.
c. He was first introduced to his stepmother.
d. His stepmother bought a used typewriter for him.
e. His family and neighbors thought he was a bad boy.

A．a-c-b-d-e

B．e-b-c-d-a

C．e-c-b-d-a

D．c-e-b-d-a