I’d like to share a little story with you about something that happened when I was four. I remember it clearly. Our loving family dog was nearing the end of his life. My father picked him up and put him in a little bed we had made for him. Our dog, my friend, whom we had cared for, bit (咬) my father when he tried to help him. How could he? Why? I couldn’t understand it. I didn’t like him anymore.
I hadn’t thought about that story for a long time, but something that happened last week brought it back to me. I went to speak with a friend. When I knocked on the door, I met an angry look and a few unkind words. When the door was slammed (砰地关上) in my face, I stood there shocked(震惊的), and suddenly, I was reminded of my dog biting my father 20 years ago or so. The same feeling of hurt brought that story back.
Both stories taught me something the next day. You see, when I got up in the morning and was told my dog had died, it became clear to me that he must have been in great pain. For him to have bitten a family member, he could not have been himself. Much the same for the other story when I learned that my friend had just lost his job the day before.
We are all living in our environments, our opinions and feelings. And all of those things can cause you to say and do things that can’t be understood by those who are not in the same situation with you.
If you meet someone either acting out of character or in a way that doesn’t seem to fit the situation, put out your hand and be patient when you think it is least possible for him to do so. You may turn around a story that has a sad ending simply by your actions.
1. How old was the writer when his pet dog was nearing end of his life?2. Did the dog bite the writer’s father when he tried to help him?
3. What made the writer bring back the story of about 20 years ago?
4. Why did the writer’s friend say unkind words?
5. What does the story mainly tell us?
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【推荐1】Love is a two-way street
A father sat at his desk and looked at his bills when his young son rushed in and said, “Dad, because today is your birthday and you’re 40 years old, one for each year!” When the boy started making good on his word (履行诺言), the father shouted, “don’t do it now. I’m too busy!”
The boy soon fell silent as tears fell from his big blue eyes. Feeling sorry, the father said, “You can finish later.” The boy said nothing but quietly walked away, “Come and finish the kisses now, Andrew!” But the boy didn’t respond (回应).
Unfortunately, a few days later after the father’s birthday, the boy had an accident and died. His father wrote: “If only(要是……，该多好), Icould tell him how sorry and sad I am for my thoughtless words, and could be assured that he knows how much my heart is hurting.” He regretted not accepting the boy’s kisses and now he had lost the chance forever.
Love is a two-way street. Any loving act must be warmly accepted, or others will take it as a“NO” and it can leave a scar (伤痕). If we are too busy to give and receive love with love to those who are close and precious to us. If we don’t receive love, our life will lose its true meaning. Nothing is more important than accepting love from those who are near and precious to us.
1. What did the boy want to do on his father’s birthday?2. Why did the father refuse the boy?
3. How did the father feel after his son’s death?
4. When did the boy have an accident?
5. What is the most important thing according to the writer?
Once there was a monkey. He lived a happy life in the forest. One morning, he went to a village. He saw a basket of red apples in a house. He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest. He tried to eat them, but he hurt (弄痛) his teeth. These apples were made of wood (木头), but they looked beautiful. The monkey really loved them.
At noon, the monkey got hungry. He wanted to pick some bananas to eat but he had the apples in his hands. He couldn’t let go of (松开) the wooden apples to reach for the bananas. He was afraid to lose the beautiful apples.
The monkey walked along through the forest with his hands full. But he became unhappy, because he was tired and hungry. Finally, in the evening, he threw away (扔掉) the wooden apples and went to look for his meal. He became happy again.
It’s OK to give up something that seems beautiful but useless.
1. Where did the monkey live?(no more than 3 words)2. How many apples did the monkey take?(no more than 1 word)
3. When did the monkey get hungry?(no more than 2 words)
4. Did the monkey throw away the wooden apples finally?(no more than 3 words)
5. What do you learn from the story?(no more than 11 words)
【推荐3】Whether your garden is on a city windowsill or in a big backyard getting kids involved in tending to plants can be a powerful teaching tool for subjects like science, math and reading. Here’s how your garden can grow responsibility, kindness and other values in your kids.
Being patient is hard for many children, but it can be important for their future. It can also help kids stay calm in stressful situations. You know good stuff comes at the end of a growing season — like yummy fruit or pretty flowers — kids have to wait for it. For instance a carrot seed can take between 70 and 80 days to mature (成熟). When kids develop a garden, for longer-growth plants they can create a garden journal to record the progress of their seedling with words drawings or photos.
Studies suggest that kindness can help kids develop empathy (同理心). “Being kind helps children develop positive relationships,” scientists say. “It can also help them manage feelings of anxiety and depression.” When kids realize that a garden is full of living things that need their help to grow, they would like to pay more attention to caring about them. Let kids plant garden helpers like thyme and tansy, which both keep away bad bugs. Kids can also release good ladybugs which eat aphids (蚜虫) on plants like roses.
Children who see themselves as more responsible often feel better about themselves. And learning to take responsibility for their choices teaches kids how to choose between right and wrong. Looking after any kind of garden — even a small window box — need constant (不断的) hard work to make sure that the plants grow well. Allow kids to be in charge of a single container or a small part of a bigger garden for which they’re totally responsible.
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【推荐1】Sam traveled to the city state of Singapore with his parents last winter holiday. The city state is not big, but it’s clean and beautiful. The sky is blue. Trees and gardens are almost everywhere. It’s no wonder (难怪) that people call it “the Garden City.” They visited many places. S.E.A Aquarium, or South East Asia Aquarium (东南亚水族馆), was his favorite. He got to know a lot of sea animals there. He also had a happy time at the Singapore Zoo and Universal Studios (环球影城). What a wonderful holiday!
1. When did Sam travel to Singapore?He traveled there
2. What is Singapore like?
It is
3. What are everywhere in Singapore?
4. What do people call Singapore?
They call it
5. Which place was Sam’s favorite?
[1]Parents always tell their kids to dream big. A 12-year-old girl in Texas, the US has taken that to heart. She dreams of becoming a NASA (美国宇航局) engineer by age 16.
[2]It may sound (4)①______, but Alena is not a common girl—she’s both clever and hard-working. She is also learning Spanish and Arabic by herself.
[3]Alena Wicker is now studying at her dream university. She shows great interest in engineering (4)②______ of her love for building things. She would love to build a rover (探测器) to go to space.
[4]Believe it or not, the story started with Lego. Ever since she was 4, Alena has loved playing around with different types of Lego and developed a great love for building things. Little Alena used to look at the stars and said seriously, “Mommy, I’m going to work for NASA. I’m going to go up there.”
[5]Alena is planning to write a children’s book and build a website (网站). “I’d like to encourage more girls to follow their dreams. Girls should also dream big and become whatever they want to be in the world.” she said.
[6] “(5)I won’t let anything stop me from achieving my dream. I have a goal and I am working towards it. No matter (4)③______ you’re planning to do, just go for it,” she says. “No one can hold us down. Just reach for the stars.”
1. What’s Alena’s dream? (Please answer no more than 10 words.)2. When did Alena begin to play with different types of Lego? (Please answer no more than 6 words.)
3. Why is Alena planning to write a children’s book and build a website? (Please answer no more than 12 words.)
4. Fill in each blank in the passage with a proper word.
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 into Chinese.
6. What’s your dream? What will you do to achieve your dream? (Please answer no more than 25 words.)
The word “zhiyin” which means close friends, comes from the story of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi in the Warring States Period.
Boya was good at playing guqin. One day, he was playing music on his way home on the boat. To Boya’s surprise, Ziqi, a woodcutter who happened to pass by, could understand exactly what he wanted to express through his music. After a long talk, they became good friends. Since Boya had to return to his state, they agreed to meet again in the following year.
Unfortunately, when getting back to visit Ziqi, Boya heard that his friend had died from a disease. Boya was so sad and in front of ziqi’s tomb (墓), he played again the music he had played when they first met. The feeling of the music was so strong that it was as if the rivers and the mountains were crying. When finishing playing, Boya broke guqin into pieces. From then on, Boya never played again.
People in the Song Dynasty built the Guqin Tai in Hanyang to the memory of the deep friendship between Boya and Ziqi. It became an important part of the local culture.
Zhiyin culture has new development in the new period. The famous ancient Chinese classical music piece Gaoshan Liushui was performed during the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province in 2016. The musical performance _________ showed the beauty of traditional Chinese culture, ________ expressed China’s willingness to develop its friendship with people from around the world.
1. What did Ziqi do for a living?2. What’s the Chinese meaning of the phrase “to the memory of” in Paragraph 4?
3. What did Boya do when finishing playing after Ziqi’s death?
4. Which of the conjunctions (连词) can be put in the Paragraph 5?
5. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 uses the rhetorical devices (修辞) of ________.
| A．simile (明喻) | B．metaphor (暗喻) |
| C．personification (拟人) | D．parallelism (排比) |
【推荐1】Use words with proper meanings and grammatical rules to fill in the blanks. (only one word for one blank )
Fifteen years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One day I went to pick up a passenger (乘客) at 2: 40 am. When I arrived there, I walked to the door and knocked.
After a while, the door opened. A small woman stood before me. She was more than eighty years old. By her side was a big bag.
When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address (地址), and then asked, “Could you drive through the city?”
“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.
“Oh, I know,” she said, “I’m on my way to a hospice (临终安养院). I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have much time left.”
I quietly turned off the meter (计程表). For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked, the neighbourhood where she had lived.
We drove to the address she had given me. “How much do I pay you?” she asked. “None,” I said.
“You have to make a living.” she answered.
“Oh, there are other passengers.” I answered.
Almost without thinking, I gave her a hug. She said, “You gave an old woman a moment of happiness.”
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3. When we got into the taxi, the woman wanted me to
4. I
5. The old woman felt
A Holiday in Australia
Dear Jane,
Yesterday we took a boat to a place called Kangaroo Island. We went very early in the morning. We wanted to have time to see everything.
Kangaroo Island is a national park and one of the few places in Australia where you can see rare animals living in the wild. We spent the morning watching koalas and kangaroos. We saw the babies coming out of their mothers’ pouches and feeding close by. It was amazing.
Later in the day we went on a trip to the Seal Bay (海豹湾). We walked on the beach and saw lots of Australian sea lions. They were swimming, eating fish and enjoying the sunshine! We took a guided tour. Our guide was great. He told us all about the Seal Bay. At night we went to the Penguin Centre (企鹅中心). We saw the penguins come out of the sea to sleep in their burrows.
We are staying on the Island for three days. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.
See you soon.
Mary
1. How did they go to a place called Kangaroo Island?2. What did Mary watch in the morning?
3. Are there plenty of Australian sea lions on the Seal Bay?
4. When did Mary go to the Penguin Centre?
5. What do you think of Mary’s trip?
【推荐3】My name is Kate. I’m a policewoman. My job is to help people give up drugs (毒品). I work as a policewoman because of an unforgettable experience that happened in my teens.
On my 14th birthday, some close family members had a party for me in a park. I received many gifts. My aunt gave me 100 yuan. I was excited and kept on thinking about how I should spend the money. Just after everyone sang Happy Birthday to me, ①突然，我看到一个小男孩正坐在树下哭泣。I wondered why he was sad and went to him with a piece of cake. “What’s the matter?” The boy looked up but said nothing. I passed him the cake and tried to talk with him. Several minutes later, I knew about his story. His parents both died of drugs a month ago, so he had to live with his uncle and missed his parents so much. He always felt sad and afraid. He didn’t know what he could do. What a poor boy! How terrible the drug was! I gave my money to the boy and told him to face the life bravely. ②From then on, I made up my mind to do something against drugs. Please value your life, and stay away from drugs!
1. Is Kate 14 years old now?2. How did the boy feel after his parents died?
3. What did Kate do for the boy after hearing his story?
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5. 将画线②处译为中文。
