Roberta woke up early the next morning. Then she woke up Phyllis and Peter. “We’re in the new house. There are no servants here. We must help Mother now,” whispered Roberta.
Carefully the three children lit the fire and filled a kettle (水壶) with water. They hung the kettle above the fire.
“Mother isn’t awake yet. Let’s go outside and sit on that flat stone,” said Roberta. “Perhaps we will see a train go by.”
When Mother came out at eight o’clock, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis were all fast asleep in the sunshine. They had put the kettle on the fire at five o’clock: three hours ago. All the water had boiled away (烧干). Now there was a hole in the bottom of the kettle. The fire had gone out.
“Never mind,” laughed Mother. “We can boil some water in a pan. And I’ve found the dinner.”
She led them into the kitchen and pointed to a door.
“Last night, I thought this was a cupboard. It was so dark. But look,” she said.
Mother opened the door and the children saw a little room with a table in the middle. On it there was roast beef, bread and butter, cheese and an apple pie.
“Apple pie for breakfast,” cried Peter. “What fun!”
It was a wonderful breakfast. Everyone was very hungry.
“It feels like dinner because we were up so early,” said Peter, as he passed his plate for more apple pie.
When the children had finished, they helped Mother put everything away in the right place.
Then Mother said, “I’m tired. I’m going to lie down for a while. Go out to play but please be careful.”
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis looked at each other. They were all thinking the same thing.
“Let’s go down to the railway,” cried Roberta.
“Listen!” said Phyllis. “I think I can hear a train.”
Peter asked, “Do you think it’s going to London?”
“Father is in London,” replied Roberta. “Let’s go to the station and find out.”
—Taken from The Railway Children
1. When did the children get up?2. What happened to the kettle when the water boiled away?
3. How did the children like the breakfast?
4. What is “the same thing” they were thinking?
5. What are the children like in your eyes? Why do you think so?
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【推荐1】Maria is a girl of seven. She begins to go to school this week. It’s Sunday today. Her father Mr. Green doesn’t go to work. Maria wants to go to the park. She gets up at six thirty and asks his father to take her there. After breakfast, they go to the bus stop. They want to take a No.8 bus to the park.
In the park, many boys and girls are playing. The boys are playing basketball. The girls are dancing. Maria’s good friend, Jane, is reading some picture books. She is seven years old, too. They are very happy in the park.
1. Does Maria’s father have time today?2. How do Maria and her father go to the park?
3. What is Jane doing in the park?
4. Do you like playing in the park? Why or why not?
【推荐2】Xiao He is from Guangdong, China. He lives in Heyuan, a small city in Guangdong, with his grandparents and sister. His parents leave home and work in a factory(工厂).
There is a famous school in the city. Xiao He and his sister study there. Every day, they get up at 6:30 am. They have to eat quickly for breakfast in the morning, because they can’t be late for school. Then they ride a bike to school. The school is far from their home and it often takes them about 45 minutes to walk there. There are many rules in their school. Students have to do morning exercises at 8:00 a.m, and they can’t bring music players to school. The teachers are strict there, too. But Xiao He loves his school and his head teacher, Mr. Bai. Mr. Bai teaches English, and he can speak English well. Xiao He thinks strict rules help him grow up better.
1. Who do Xiao He and his sister live with?2. Where is their school?
3. How do they go to school?
4. What do they have to do at 8:00 a.m. ?
5. What does Xiao He think of the school rules?
It was Friday evening. Bobby was listening to music. He is going to be a singer when he grows up. “Come on, Bobby. We have to go to watch your brother’s soccer game,” Mrs. Brown said, taking her car key.
“Mom, we have to go now? Today is Friday. I just want to relax after school. Soccer is very boring for me and I can’t stand it. And it’s so cold. I really don’t want to sit there for hours,” Bobby said.
Mrs. Brown said, “This morning, your brother Nick told me that you and I were his good luck charms (护身符). He wanted us to be there.”
Bobby thought, “Nick says rock music is too noisy, but every time I played rock, he listens happily. Mom is right. I should be there to support (支持) him.”
So bobby and Mrs. Brown drove to the soccer pitch (比赛场).
1. When was Nick’s soccer game?2. Is Bobby going to be a soccer player or a singer in the future?
3. How was the weather that night?
4. What does Nick think of rock music?
5. How did they go to the soccer pitch?
My name is Lola and I’m going to tell you what happened to me last week.
I love eating chocolate very much. I like all kinds of chocolate and white chocolate is my favorite! Last Monday, I bought some bars (块) of white chocolate. Before bedtime, I ate three bars.
The next morning I had a bad stomachache. Mom told me to stay in bed so that I could feel better. I didn’t go to school and spent the morning in bed. Before lunch, I felt a little better. Mom was at work and Dad was visiting my grandparents. So I ate five chocolate bars secretly (偷偷地).
When Mom arrived home from work, I was feeling really terrible. She took me to Dr. Sarmiento, our family doctor. After a careful check, Dr. Sarmiento asked me what I ate. I told him about the chocolate.
“That is not healthy, Lola! If you eat too much chocolate every day, you’ll have serious health problems,” Dr. Sarmiento said. Then he prescribed (为……开) me some medicine. Mom was very angry and she prescribed me a different thing: no more chocolate!
1. What kind of chocolate does Lola like best?2. Why didn’t Lola go to school last Tuesday?
3. How many chocolate bars did Lola eat in total?
4. Who took Lola to the doctor?
5. Did Lola get some medicine from Dr. Sarmiento?
Having a month off from her job, 24-year-old Stefani Shamrowicz from America decided to take a trip to help clean up the environment. She drove across the country and spent 23 days picking up126 bags of trash (垃圾).
Stefani collected anywhere from one to sixteen bags at a time. She once became discouraged (气馁的) when she felt she wasn’t doing enough. “There was a place that had an ocean of trash and pushed out four bags. But then I broke down because it felt like four bags didn’t do anything,” said Stefani. But she continued to just do what she could. Her monumental (值得纪念的) day was the sixteenth day because she collected 100 bags in total in Ohio.
Stefani shared what she did online and a lot of people got interested. They donated (捐赠) $10 a bag for Stefani to clean up in their names. The person’s name was written on a bag and when the bag was filled, Stefani posted a picture on her Instagram, thanking the person for helping clean up the city she was in. Some people even cleaned up the city in person and sent Stefani pictures of bags of trash they picked up. And once when Stefani was walking on the beach in Florida, and she started doing a bag, two women saw her and started helping her fill the bag. This surprised Stefani a lot.
Now Stefani is back home and returns to work. But she has so many good things to say about her special road trip. “There is trash everywhere, so I’m just happy to be able to make a difference everywhere I go,” she said.
1. What did Stefani decide to do during her one-month holiday?2. How many bags of trash did she collect most at a time?
3. How were other people influenced by Stefani? (give one example)
4. What do you usually do to protect the environment? Write 30 words or more.
Some people set off firecrackers on New Year’s Eve. Do you know the story of firecrackers?
Long time ago, a monster came out on New Year’s Eve every year. When the monsters came out, villagers always hid in their houses.
On that night, it came again. It went to the first house. Suddenly it heard a noise: BANG! The noise was too loud that it scared the monster. The monster saw the fire in the house, but it didn’t know where the noise was from. The monster felt afraid, and it ran away.
The villagers went to the first house. They saw a lot of bamboo pieces in the fire. They soon realized what happened. The owner and his family lit some bamboo to warm themselves. The bamboo cracked in the fire and made a loud noise. The noise sounded like BANG. The BANG sound scared away the monster.
Later on, people invented firecrackers and made them on New Year’s Eve. It became one of the traditions at the Spring Festival.
1. When do people set off firecrackers?2. What did villagers always do when the monsters came out?
3. Where did the monster go on that night?
4. How did the monster feel when he heard the noise?
5. Why did the owner and his family light some bamboo?
Dreams are often mysterious. One day a man named Zhuang Zhou had a very interesting dream. He dreamed of becoming a beautiful butterfly. Flying around, he could do anything he wanted. How happy and carefree（无忧无虑的）he was! He forgot that he was a man.
Then he woke up from his dream and found he was a man. “Who am I, indeed（到底）?” he asked himself.
“Am I Zhuang Zhou or the butterfly?”
Finally, he said, “Maybe I am a butterfly. In my dream, I became a man and my name was Zhuang Zhou.”
Zhuang Zhou lived more than 2,000 years ago. We also call him Zhuang Zi. Zhuang Zi loved nature and he wanted to have freedom （自由）. He thought that people and animals should be treated equally（平等地对待）. There are many interesting stories about him and animals.
One day, Zhuang Zi and his friend took a walk along the river. Zhuang Zi said, “Look at the fish. How happy they are!” His friend asked him, “You are not a fish. How do you know they are happy?” Zhuang Zi smiled, “But you are not me. How do you know that I don’t know the fish’s feelings?”
Is Zhuang Zi’s question a difficult one? What do you think he was- a man or a butterfly?
| Zhuang Zhou | |
| His dream | *He dreamed that he became a *He found that he was a man *He thought he might be living in the role of a butterfly. |
| His thought | *He loved nature and he wanted to be *He thought people and animals should be treated equally. |
| A story about him | *The story *He thought the fish were happy. *His friends thought he couldn’t know how the *He said that his friends didn’t know him either. |
【推荐2】Two friends, Jim and Stew, joined a big sales company together just after graduation. Both of them worked really hard.
Three years passed and the company’s boss promoted (提拔) Stew to sales executive (主管). Jim did not get any promotion.
Jim thought it was unfair because he thought he was more hard-working than Stew, but he wasn’t promoted. The boss knew that Jim worked hard, and in order to show the difference between him and Stew, he asked, “Go and find out if there are people who are selling watermelons in the market.”
When Jim returned and said “yes”, the boss asked, “How much per (每) kilogram?” So Jim went back to the market and then returned to say the price — $12 per kg.
Then the boss asked Stew the same thing. Stew went to the market, and when he returned he said, “At the moment there is one person selling watermelons. $12 per kg, $100 for 10 kg. Now he has 340 watermelons in stock (有存货). On the table there are 48 watermelons, and each of them weighs about 15 kg. Watermelons were bought from the south two days ago, so they are fresh.”
Hearing this. Jim realized the difference between him and Stew. He knew that he could learn a lot from his friend.
Successful people are more observant (善于观察的). They think and see the future, while most people see only tomorrow.
Answer the questions according to the passage.
1. Why did Jim think it was unfair when Stew was promoted?
2. Did the boss ask Jim to go to the market first?
3. According to the fourth paragraph, why did Jim return to the market?
4. Who got more information about the watermelons?
5. What does the writer want to tell us in the story?
It was a summer afternoon in the countryside. Wan Bo, a university student, was painting
“Why not try to make one by ourselves?” said Wan Bo. “You are good at making things and I am interested in painting.”
“Actions speak louder than words,” Tang Qi said. Then, the two young men began to collect some information about it. During those days, watching videos about carving (雕刻) and shaping wood into horse shapes on the Internet became an important part of their life.
Several months later, a wooden rocking horse appeared. (A) They felt so excited that they put the picture of it on the Internet right away. To their surprise, it attracted lots of people’s attention and some even hoped to order one. The two young men thought it might be a good chance. They sent some forms to the customers to make a s
Their hobby has now become a successful and busy business.
1. 根据读音完成单词2. 写出文中(A) 处画线句子的同义句
They felt excited
3. 根据句意及首字母补全单词
4. 将文中(B) 处画线部分组合成完整的句子
5. 请在文中找出与下面英文释义相符的单词
6. 将(C) 处画线句子译成英语
7. What’s your hobby? Would you like to start a business with the hobby?
“Imagine that your home is on fire. You’re allowed to save one thing. Your family and pets are safe, so don’t① _______ about them. What is the most important thing you have? It can be any size. ”
Linda Sue wrote a book The One Thing You’d Save. In it, a teacher named Ms. Chang invites her students to ② _______ of the question above. She wants to challenge her class to name the most important thing to them. Some students know the answer right away.
Others come to their decisions more slowly. And some students change their③ ________ when they hear their classmates’ answers. As for the answers, some choose baseball cards or toy animals. One picks a sweater that has been passed down for generations (几代人). Another chooses a box of memories about...
Even Ms. Chang shares her own choice in the end. It is a really thought-provoking (引人深思的) question. As the students are trying to answer it, they discover more about one another and themselves.
The book is a collection of poems. The writer tells the story through narrative (故事体的) poems. What makes the book popular is that it leads people to think deeply.
The book uses black-and-white pictures to show the objects the students choose. When seeing the pictures, people may think of scenes of their homes, the classroom and more. The pictures offer wordless moments that encourage readers to think more before they move on.
Want to know what matters most to the students? Read this book.
1. What does Ms. Chang want to challenge her class to do? (no more than 10 words)2. Why is the book The One Thing You’d Save popular? (no more than 10 words)
3. How does the book show the objects the students choose? (no more than 5 words)?
4. Fill in each blank in the passage with a proper word. (no more than one word for each blank)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.
6. What’s the most important object to you? Why? (Write 20 words or more. )
The boy in the Striped Pyjamas (《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》) is a novel by Irish author John Boyne. This book describes World War II from a child’s eyes. A nine-year-old German boy, Bruno, grows up in Berlin. He loves his peaceful life, with his parents, sister and three best friends.
But after a visit from Adlof Hitler, Bruno’s father, Ralf, becomes the head of the death camp Auschwits. Bruno and his family have to move there. He sees the wire fence (电线围栏) around the death camp, and the prisoners’ (犯人) uniforms — “striped pyjamas”. In the camp, he meets a Jewish boy from Poland named Shmuel. The two become good friends.
It turns out that they share the same age and birthday. If you look deeper, the boys actually mirror each other. They are both naïve (单纯的) children, unware of (未察觉) the bad times they live in.
At the end of the book Bruno dresses in “striped pyjama” and sneaks into the camp to help Shmuel find his missing father.
After searching for a while and not finding anything, Bruno gets ready to sneak back home when the soldiers start gathering Jews for a “march”. They all enter a gas chamber (毒气室) and are never heard from again.
This story tells us that people aren’t born bad or evil, and we are all more alike than different. Bruno and Shmuel wanted nothing more than a friendship, but because of the horrible world they were in, even that was just a dream.
1. What is the book The boy in the Striped Pyjamas about?2. Who is the writer of the book The boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
3. What do the two boys have in common? (请列出至少三点)
4. What happened to the two boys in the end?
5. What can we learn from the story?
Gulliver managed to get away from the small men. He found a boat and tried to sail home. However, there was a great storm at sea. The strong winds drove his boat to an island.
Everyone on the island was very large. They were all more than 20 meters tall. A farmers found Gulliver and took him home to his daughter. Gulliver seemed very small to them, like a toy or a pet. The farmer’s daughter took Gulliver to town to show him around. Everyone in town was very surprised to see such a small people.
The Queen heard about Gulliver and bought him from the farmers. She gave Gulliver to the king as a present. The King enjoyed listening to Gulliver talk about his home country and his many travels. Their chairs, tables, knives, forks and plates were all much too big for Gulliver to use, so they built a small house for him to live in. Wherever the King and Queen went, they carried Gulliver with them in his house.
One day they went to the beach. While they were there, a large eagle picked up Gulliver’s house—with Gulliver in it—and carried him high up into the air. But the house was too heavy, so the eagle dropped it into the sea. Gulliver used his house as a boat until a ship found him. The ship took him home.
1. What was strange about the people on the island?2. What did Gulliver look like to the people on the island?
3. How did the people feel when they saw Gulliver?
4. What did the King often listen to Gulliver talk about?
5. What happened to the house with Gulliver in when the eagle carried it high up into the air?
