Do you know “guo nian hao” means “Happy New Year”? But in China, New Year isn’t the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is a big festival in China. It means the beginning（开始）of a new year. In the Spring Festival, people welcome the new year and say goodbye to the old year.
People often do many things for the Spring Festival. They clean their houses. They buy new clothes. They make a big dinner.
During the Spring Festival, we can see some red things. In China, red is the symbol（象征）of good luck. Some people love to wear red clothes. Lanterns are red. Children can get red envelopes（红包）. Their parents or grandparents always put some money in red envelopes. Children are always happy when they get red envelopes.
1. In China, the Spring Festival is New Year.2. For the Spring Festival, people often do many things.
3. All the people love to wear red clothes during the Spring Festival.
4. Parents or grandparents always put some cards in red envelopes.
5. This passage is about the Spring Festival.
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【推荐1】A holiday connected with a math constant (常数) may not seem very exciting. But Pi (“π”) Day, celebrated every year in the US on March 14, is an exception. That’s because the celebrations may start with math activities centering around Pi, widely known as 3.14. But they always end with a piece or two of delicious pies!
The first Pi Day celebration was organized by Larry Shaw from San Francisco’s Exploratorium Museum. On March 14, 1988, he asked co-workers to join him in eating fruit pies. They had such a good time that museum officials turned Pi Day into a celebration to be held each year. Visitors took part in special activities and ate free delicious pies. As the news of the fun event spread, schools, libraries, and universities around the US also began to celebrate Pi Day. In 2009, the US made March 14 as the National Pi Day.
Today, Pi Day is celebrated in many creative ways. Every March 14 and March 15, women television forecasters (天气预报员) around the country dress in purple. The activity, known as “Dress for STEM” began seven years ago after a photo of hundreds of forecasters wearing the same dress, though in different colors, became famous on social media. The weather scientists decided to repeat the fun activity every year to encourage more girls to learn science, technology, engineering and maths.
March 14, which also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday, holds a special meaning for Princeton, New Jersey. This is where the great scientist spent the last twenty years of his life. The city celebrates the two special occasions (特别的事情) with a number of events, including pie-eating, pi-recitation, and Einstein look-alike contests.
1. Who made efforts for something about Pi?| A．Zhao Kuangyin. | B．Zu Chongzhi. | C．Li Siguang. |
A． | B． | C． |
| A．To let more people know about the weather. |
| B．To remind people to pay attention to their clothes. |
| C．To encourage more girls to learn subjects related to Pi. |
| A．Albert Einstein was born in Princeton, New Jersey. |
| B．Albert Einstein’s birthday is on Mach 15. |
| C．People in Princeton show great respect to Albert Einstein. |
| A．Good news to all basketball fans! At 11:30 a.m. on December 29th, there is an exciting basketball game on CCTV-5. |
| B．I found a yellow schoolbag on the playground. Whose is it? Call Lily at 784-7402. |
| C．Look at this photo. It is a photo of my pen pal. The girl in red is Susan. She is from Canada. What a lovely girl she is! |
| D．Sun Lan is a girl from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. She likes making friends, especially with foreigners, because she wants to improve her English. |
| E．Attention! The music festival is coming. As a music fan, don't miss it. It's on December 15th. |
| F．The Fresh Fruit Shop is just near Central Park. The address is No. 105 Main Street. You can find all kinds of fruits here. |
| Dear Lucas, My new school is great! We usually have many activities at school. It's December now. We have a soccer game and a book sale on the 12th and the 18th. And we have a two-week holiday at Christmas, from Dec. 20th to Jan. 3rd. On weekdays, I get up at 6:00 am. We start school at 9:00 am and go home at 4:00 pm. In the evening, after dinner, my parents watch TV. I like listening to my CDs. I also tidy my room because my mum goes crazy if I don't. Sometimes my friends come to my home play with me or I go to their houses on school nights. At the weekend, we often go to the library. On Sunday I go to see my uncle and aunt. Life is different in summer! We have six weeks in July and August with no school. Can I come to China for my holiday? Please write back soon. Love, Simon |
| A．Lucas | B．Simon | C．Lucas' friends | D．Simon's uncle and aunt |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．For nine hours | B．For eight hours | C．For seven hours | D．For six hours |
| A．发狂 | B．高兴 | C．着迷 | D．糊涂 |
| A．He sometimes goes to see uncle and aunt. | B．He sometimes plays with his friends at home. |
| C．He sometimes watches T'V with his parents. | D．He sometimes goes to the library with friends. |
| High-tech pollution protection Technology company Dyson has invented headphones with a mask to help people avoid polluted air. Called the Dyson Zone, it connects(连接) noise-canceling(消除) headphones with a mask that sits just in front of the nose and mouth, providing users with cleaned air. The product(产品) is designed to fight against air and sound pollution. |  |
| ___________ On March 15, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution(决议) supporting bicycles as a tool for dealing with climate(气候) change. It calls on member countries to add bicycles to public transportation and encourages them to care about bicycle-sharing services(服务). The UN said transportation is the third-largest causes of carbon dioxide (CO2) , a greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Choosing the two-wheeled(两轮的) over a car just once a day can reduce a person’ s transportation carbon emissions(排放) by 67 percent, according to a University of Oxford study. |  |
| Planting forests for the future China’ s National Forestry and Grassland Administration of forest in 2021 brought out a report on March 11, showing China’ s land-greening plan in 2021. According to the report, 3 million hectares (公顷) of Chinese grassland were improved through grass planting, and 23, 900 hectares of farmland were changed into grassland. As much as 1. 44 million hectares of land were saved from becoming desert. |  |
| A．invention | B．laws | C．environment | D．Achievements(成就) |
| A．introduce a new invention | B．show how clever Dyson is |
| C．provide users with more air | D．protect people from pollution |
| A．Two-wheeled Solution (解决方法) | B．An Environmentally-friendly (环保的) Bicycle |
| C．Serious Climate Change | D．Cars vs Bicycles |
【推荐2】People and animals have worked together for thousands of years. Some dogs protect sheep from wolves, while others help cows find their way back home. Elephants are strong enough to help people do hard work. Cats hunt mice, stopping them from eating people’s food. People also train some animals to help in other ways.
 | Specially-trained monkeys can help people who can’t use their arms or legs. The monkeys can change CDs, get food and even brush hair for their owners (主人). |
 | Pigs use their noses to find delicious truffles (松露) that grow as deep as three feet underground. Truffles are one of the most expensive mushrooms in the world. |
 | Pigeons can usually return to their homes from any places, so people have used them to carry messages for thousands of years. |
 | You may know that some dogs can help their owners to see. But did you know that hearing dogs can help their owners to hear, making them notice the doorbells and people calling them? Dogs can also help policemen in a manhunt (追捕). Some are trained to find missing people. |
1. How many kinds of helpful animals are mentioned in the passage?
| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. | D．Seven. |
| A．get food | B．change CDs |
| C．brush hair | D．carry messages |
| A．dogs | B．cats | C．pigeons | D．pigs |
| A．cats | B．pigs | C．dogs | D．pigeons |
| A．Life of Animals | B．Helpful Animals | C．Animals in Danger | D．Training of Animals |
【推荐3】Do you want to taste the food you see on cooking shows? Well, that wish moved a step closer. Professor Homei Miyashita made a special TV screen. It is special because it is different from common screens in our daily life. You can enjoy the TV screen with your real tongue! It is called TTTV and it means “Taste the TV”.
Professor Miyashita said it could become “taste-a-vision”. He wants to create a screen we can use with more senses, from screens only with pictures and sounds to screens we can touch, smell and taste.
Professor Miyashita said his screen can copy food tastes. It works like an inkjet printer（喷影打印机）. Instead of ink, TTTV uses 10 different taste cartridges（墨盒 ）. These cartridges spray（喷洒）the tastes of food onto something on the TV screen. People can taste the thing on the screen to enjoy the taste.
The professor said, “The screen is invented to let people experience things like far-away world-class restaurants without leaving their own home.”A student at Meiji University tasted chocolate she saw on the screen. She said, “It’s sweet like a chocolate sauce（酱汁）.”
Professor Miyashita said that the screen could also be helpful for distance learning classes for cooks or could be used for tasting games and quizzes.
1. How is the TV screen different from others?| A．It can be heard. | B．It can be tasted. | C．It can be seen. | D．It can be eaten. |
| A．感官 | B．身份 | C．场景 | D．情感 |
| A．How the screen tastes. | B．What the screen is called. |
| C．How the screen works. | D．What the screen looks like. |
| A．Ordering food. | B．Fighting hunger. | C．Cooking meals. | D．Learning online. |
| A．To introduce an invention. | B．To advise an eating style. |
| C．To share a tasting game. | D．To describe a taste of food. |
English schools begin in September after a long summer holiday. There are two terms in a school year. The first term is from September to January, and the second term is from February to June. Most English children begin to go to school when they are five years old. When they finish high school, they are seventeen or eighteen years old.
High school students take only five or six subjects each term. They usually go the the same class every day, and they have homework for every class. After class, they do a lot of interesting things. After high school, many students go to college①. They usually have to pay a lot of money. So they have to work after class to get money for their studies.
Notes:1. go to college 上大学
1. In England, summer holidays begin in .
| A．September | B．January | C．June | D．July |
| A．five | B．seven | C．seventeen | D．eighteen |
| A．do housework | B．go to work |
| C．play sports | D．do interesting things |
| A．helping their parents | B．getting money for their studies |
| C．helping others | D．learning some useful things |
| A．cities | B．work | C．college | D．towns |
【推荐2】Found
A set of keys. There is a toy hear on it，too. If you lost it call me at 880-1167313. I'm from NO.2 Middle School.
Jack
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An old bike. It's black with a plastic（塑料的） basket. Its seat is yellow. If you find it, please return it to me. I live in the fifth floor in Building 2.
Miller
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I lost a novel（小说） written by Mr. Mo Yan. Its name is Frog. I want to find it. If you find it somewhere, can you give a phone to me? I'm from Class 6, Grade7.
Luis
1. If you lose a set of keys, you can call ________.| A．Jack | B．Miller | C．Luis | D．Mo Yan |
| A．set of keys | B．novel | C．old bike | D．plastic basket |
| A．a kind of animal | B．a kind of key |
| C．a kind of basket | D．a novel |
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. Dale is a ________．
| A．pen | B．pencil case |
| C．ruler | D．jacket |
| A．green and yellow | B．yellow |
| C．green | D．blue |
| A．white; blue | B．black; white |
| C．black; blue | D．blue; white |
| A．pen; jacket | B．jacket; key |
| C．key; pen | D．pencil case; ruler |
| A．Frank | B．Eric |
| C．Helen | D．Alice |
【推荐1】Mahalya is a student in Grade 8 at Lamberton Middle School in PennsyIvania,
US. Every afternoon at 2 o'clock , she runs to a store at her school. She is not running to buy snacks. Instead，she works as the storekeeper and helps count change (零钱) for customers.
“I didn't know that it took so much work. I didn't do anything like this,"Mahalya told The Seaeinel , a local newspaper. In fact, she and another 11 students work as the storekeepers at Bison Bargains , the school's first student-run store. It started on February 22，and it opens each school day during break time from 2 to 2:30 p. m. It mainly sells stationery and snacks.
Through this, students see what a business is like. Christian, a 14-year-old student, was really surprised by how hard it was to avoid making mistakes and do the transactions (交易). "It's a kind of challenge to learn all the information on the stock ( 供应物) lists and remember all the prices of the products, ”Christian told the newspaper.
To help them learn about business, they took a class. The class taught students how to use money and some simple business rules. The school did a survey on what products students would buy from a school store. In the future, they plan to sell things made by the students themselves. For example, students can sell their homemade pencil boxes and phone cases.
1. Mahalya runs to a store in her school to________.| A．buy some snacks | B．learn about customers |
| C．work as the storekeeper | D．learn about the information |
| A．文具 | B．餐具 | C．道具 | D．家具 |
| A．60 minutes. | B．50 minutes. | C．40 minutes. | D．30minutes. |
| A．teach students to learn from mistakes | B．help students see what a business is like |
| C．sell more stationery and snacks to students | D．start a class on how to use money in the store |
| A．The school's new program, a student-run store. | B．The results of a survey on the student-run store. |
| C．The reasons of opening a student-run store. | D．The rule of the student-run store. |
【推荐2】When you think of a museum, I bet you don't think of a place where children run around. But the Science Museum is different. It's noisy!
You can get to the Science Museum by going on the London Underground from Waterloo on the Jubilee line to South Kensington. When you walk out, take a look around you, and you could see it.
What to bring: at least two bottles of drink for the kids and 10 pounds to spend in the cafes. Entrance is free!
The most interesting part of coming here is to go to the kids' area, the Launch Pad on the 3rd floor. At busy times, you may have to wait in line, but staff will provide science. It should indulge(满足) you as you will learn about science in a funny way. There are also simulators(模拟装置) in the 3rd floor, so think of Floor 3 as a "fun floor".
If you want to learn about the museum, then go to the ground floor. They have some things which will interest you.
Overall, it's a fun experience for the kids and you may enjoy it too. It's also free to get in!
1. How is the Science Museum different from other museums?| A．It's big. | B．It’s free | C．It’s busy | D．It’s noisy |
| A．how to get to the Science Museum |
| B．when to visit the Science Museum |
| C．what to bring to the Science Museum |
| D．how to plan a trip to the Science Museum |
| A．buy your favourite drink | B．get some science toys for free |
| C．learn about science in a funny way | D．learn the underlined word "Overall" |
| A．另外 | B．总之 | C．因为 | D．相反 |
| A．a report | B．a piece of news | C．a review | D．an advertisement |
【推荐3】Earth Day is on April 22nd. People say thanks to the Earth and learn ways to keep the Earth safe and clean. But saying the Earth is not just for grown-ups. Kids are also taking an active part in it.
The American writer and filmmaker Lynne made a film called Young Voices for the Planet. It lists a lot of stories about different kids who help to keep our environment clean.
Team Marine, USA group of students at Santa Monica High School started an organization called Team Marine. They tell people why plastic bags are bad for sea animals and environment. In 2011, they successfully made lawmakers（立法者） in their city stop people using plastic bags.
Felix, 15 Germany In 2007, a 9-year-old boy, Felix, started a club Plant for the Planet. It encourages children around the world to plant trees in their own countries. Felix helped plant 25 million trees in Germany and 120 million trees worldwide.
Alec, 17, US When he was 12, Alec set up Kids VS Global（全球的） Warming. It teaches kid about weather change and ways to stop the world getting warmer and warmer. Alec travels widely to encourage people to help stop global warming. He has given more than 70 talks across the country.
Olivia, 13, US When Olivia was 11, she heard about the 2010 oil spill（漏油） in gulf of Mexico. She painted 500 pictures of birds to raise money for the clean﹣up. She raised more than $200,000 to protect（保护）birds and other wild animals.
1. Young Voices for the Planet made by Lynne is ________.| A．a book | B．a TV play | C．a film | D．a club |
| A．Team Marine | B．Felix | C．Alec | D．Olivia |
| A．raise money | B．plant trees |
| C．protect wild animals | D．help stop global warming |
| A．kids are saving the Earth | B．parents are planting trees |
| C．students are raising money | D．grow-ups are using plastics bags． |
