Tom and his family lived in the countryside. They had to use an outhouse (户外厕所) near a river. It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter. And it smelled all the time. Tom hated the outhouse. He wanted to push it into the river.
One day, a heavy spring rain made the river rise. Tom decided it was time to make his move. So he got a large stick and used it to push the outhouse. Finally it fell into the river. That night, his dad told him that they were going to the woods after dinner. Usually, this meant Tom would get a spanking (打屁股). Tom asked why. The dad answered, “Someone pushed the outhouse into the river today. It was you, wasn’t it?” Tom answered yes. Then Tom thought for a while and said, “Dad, I read in school that George Washington cut down a cherry (樱桃) tree and didn’t get into trouble because he told the truth.” The dad said, “Well, son, George Washington’s father wasn’t in that cherry tree.”
根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的为“T”，错误的为“F”。
1. Tom and his family had to use an outhouse in the countryside.
2. One day the river rose because of a heavy summer rain.
3. Tom and his dad went to the woods for dinner.
4. Though Tom told the truth, he still got a spanking.
5. When Tom pushed the outhouse into the river, his dad was in it.
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1. Snape and Nettleship have something in common EXCEPT .| A．their jobs | B．their looks | C．their hobbies |
| A．沉着冷静的 | B．优柔寡断的 | C．脾气暴躁的 |
| A．Alice Liddell’s requirement. |
| B．His great interest in rabbits. |
| C．His experience of travelling. |
| A．proud | B．unsatisfied | C．surprised |
| A．purposes of writing fictional stories |
| B．introductions to famous writers’ childhood friends |
| C．characters of fictional stories from real-life persons |
1. ---Where is Tim?---______.
| A．China | B．in China |
| C．In china | D．In China |
| A．Jim | B．Steve |
| C．Hand | D．Tom |
| A．760-9176 | B．687-9716 |
| C．281-5248 | D．706-9671 |
—________.
| A．Mary | B．Paul |
| C．Tim | D．Lei |
| A．His father | B．Jim Green |
| C．Li Lei | D．Liu Yong |
【推荐3】Clara Daly was sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when she heard a worried voice over the loudspeaker, “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?”
Clara, 15 years old at that time, pressed the call button (按钮). An air hostess came by and explained the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger (乘客) seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the air hostesses couldn’t understand what he needed.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help blind and deaf people and she knew she’d be able to finger spell into the man’s palm (手掌). So she rose from her seat, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt (跪) by the seat of the old man named Tim Cook. Gently taking his hand, she signed, “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water.
When the water arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.
“He didn’t need anything. He was lonely and wanted to talk,” Clara said.
So for the next hour, she “talked” about her family and her plans for the future. Cook “told” Clara how he had become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she “looked attentively at his face with such kindness”, a passenger reported.
“Clara was amazing,” an air hostess said in an interview. “You could tell Cook was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel.”
1. What was the air hostesses’ problem?| A．They had a very difficult passenger. | B．They couldn’t understand the passenger. |
| C．They didn’t know the passenger’s name. | D．They didn’t have what the passenger wanted. |
| A．Because she happened to learn some ASL. |
| B．Because she had helped people like Cook. |
| C．Because she thought she might know Cook. |
| D．Because her grandfather had the same problem. |
| A．Because he was hungry and thirsty. | B．Because he needed someone to talk to. |
| C．Because he was afraid of taking planes. | D．Because he was interested in Clara’s story. |
| A．Beautiful and lovely. | B．Outgoing and friendly. |
| C．Patient and caring. | D．Brave and strong-minded. |
【推荐1】Jack rubs (揉) his eyes when he prepares warm milk. Like other people looking after babies, he is tired. It is 5:30 a.m. and he hasn’t had much sleep. Jack sits next to a baby elephant, smiles and makes sure the baby elephant finishes its breakfast.
Jack is a keeper from an elephant rescue (救援) center. Unluckily, many elephants meet problems, so they need rescuing here. For one thing, hunters kill elephants for their ivories (象牙). For another, people build homes and plant fields where elephants used to live. Hungry (饿的) elephants walk into the villages and fields to look for food. They often cause serious damage (破坏), so farmers kill them. As a result, some elephants often have to leave their babies behind.
When a baby elephant loses its mother, it’s also in great danger. Because it needs its mother’s milk for about four years. Without milk, the baby has no chance to live. Research shows that elephants, like people, have feelings. If the mother elephant dies, the baby elephant often becomes sad and ill.
The center’s job is to raise these baby elephants and send them back to the wild step by step. First, keepers take turns looking after the baby elephants because they don’t want an elephant to depend on one of the keepers too much. Then keepers take the elephants into the forest. This is an important part of the process because the elephants need to learn how to eat in the wild and communicate with others. When an elephant is four and no longer needs milk, keepers move it to the wild. This makes elephants become brave. It often takes them eight to ten years to get used to the wild.
At bedtime, Jack has to lie down and sleep with his baby elephant. Jack says that when he leaves the babies, they cry. Does he need an alarm (闹钟) to wake himself up? “Oh, no,” he says. “The elephants are my alarms.”
1. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．Jack gets up at 5:30 a.m. | B．Jack is warming milk. |
| C．Jack is looking after a baby elephant. | D．Jack is eating breakfast. |
| A．Because people kill elephants for their ivories. |
| B．Because people build homes and plant fields where they used to live |
| C．Because they want to make serious damage. |
| D．Because farmers are kind to them. |
| A．To keep baby elephants and send them back to the wild. |
| B．To protect farmers’ crops. |
| C．To prevent farmers from selling ivory. |
| D．To prevent hunters from killing elephants. |
| A．An Elephant Rescue Center. | B．A Lazy Keeper. |
| C．Jack and His Elephants. | D．Saving Baby Elephants. |
【推荐2】Wang Jinping, a 57-year-old woman from the Jidiao Island in Fujian, won the honor of “Most Beautiful Doctor in 2020”. For 34 years, Wang has been the only village doctor on this small island, providing medical services to the villagers.
The island is very small and develops very slowly. Over the years, many people have left the island to live a different kind of life in the cities. Now, there are only about 400 people, and nearly half of them are seniors over 65 years old. “I really worry about these old people. So I usually visit them at their home every 10 days.” Wang says.
Wang recalled that when she was a child, there was one or two village doctors in the village, but they left soon after they came because of the poor living conditions. The lack of medical care and medicine was a deep childhood memory for her on the island. When people were sick, they usually went up the mountain to collect some herbs (草药). Their mild (轻微的) illnesses might be developed into serious diseases in the end.
Today, with Wang’s help, the case is becoming better. If they feel unwell, they can get help from Wang as soon as possible. Wang is happy for that she is needed. She wants to do more for them in the future.
根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。
1. Wang became the only doctor on the island when she was _______.
| A．23 years old | B．34 years old | C．45 years old |
| A．Sick people. | B．Old people. | C．Homeless people. |
| A．They took a hot shower at home. |
| B．They lay on the bed to have a rest. |
| C．They found some herbs on the mountain. |
| A．Everyone on the island has a happy life now. |
| B．There are about 200 young people on the island now. |
| C．Wang provides medical services to the villagers every day. |
【推荐3】Bob and Frank worked as a salesman in a company (公司) together after leaving college. They were both hard-working. But years later, Bob became a sales manager while Frank remained a salesman.
Frank wrote to his boss because he thought the boss did not value hard-working workers, only raising those who tried to please him. He thought that it was not fair.
In reply, the boss said to Frank, “Go and find out whether there is anyone selling watermelons in the market.” Frank went, returned and said. “Yes.” The boss asked, “How much is a watermelon?” Frank went back to the market and returned. “$ 12 per (每) kilogram.”
The boss told Frank that he would ask Bob the same question. Bob went, returned and said, “Boss, there is only one person selling watermelons. $12 per kg. $100 for 10 kg. He has 100 watermelons in total. On the table are 58 watermelons, and the others are in the box. Every watermelon weighs about12 kg. All of them were bought from the south two days ago. They are fresh and sweet. They are selling well.”
Frank was surprised and and he realized the difference between himself and Bob.
You see, a more successful person sees more, thinks more and understands deeply.
根据短文内容判断正、误。(注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)
1. Frank and Bob worked in the same college.
2. The boss wrote Frank a letter because Frank was hard-working.
3. Bob found only one person selling watermelons in the market.
4. According to Bob, forty-two watermelons were in the box.
5. From the passage, we know that Frank was more successful than Bob.
Three-two-one, fire!
At the moment of 9:43 a.m., on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (卫星发射中心) in Sichuan Province, the last satellite of the third-generation network (第三代导航系统) was sent into space. It is the 55th member in the family of BeiDou. It belongs to China’s Beidou Narigation Satellite System (BDS北斗卫星导航系统). So far, 59 satellites, including the first four test ones, have been launched from Xichang. With the development of China, we have already owned three other famous satellite launch centers-Jiuquan, Taiyuan and Wenchang.
After a period of tests in space, this new satellite has started to work with other Beidou satellites together. It is designed to work for at least 12 years. So far, China has completed the third-generation network of China’s BDS. It was a new milestone in the nation’s space research work. The launch showed our country has completed our largest space-based system. It’s one of four global navigation networks; including the United States’ GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and the European Union’s Galileo.
BDS has been widely used as public resources in our daily life. It has been shared by the whole world. It will offer more services around the world. BDS is the common wealth of the development of human beings.
1. How many members are there in the family of Beidou?| A．4. | B．55. | C．59. | D．114. |
| A．记录 | B．事业 | C．里程碑 | D．起点 |
| A．China | B．the United States | C．Russia | D．the European Union |
| A．The last satellite of BDS was launched at 9:43 pm, June 23rd, 2020. |
| B．The new satellite is designed to work for at most 12 years. |
| C．BDS is shared only by China as public resources. |
| D．So far, China has completed the third-generation network of China’s BDS. |
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The last Monday in March is an important day in China. It is a day for school safety education. This year, the day falls on March 25. It helps students learn more about safety and make sure they are safe. What are some accidents at school? How can you keep yourself safe? Take a look!
The main accidents at school are stampedes(踩踏), earthquakes and fires.
A stampede always happens in crowded places. When students around you begin to push, stand there and try to hold onto something. If you fall down in the crowd, put your hands around your head. Move to one side, and bend(弯) your body and legs.
Earthquakes happen all over the world. When you feel everything is moving, quickly get under a desk and hold on, according to China Earthquake Administration(地震局). If you are outdoors, find a place away from buildings, trees, and power lines(电线).
When there’s a fire, leave the classroom quickly. It’s better to put something wet over your mouth and nose. This way, you won’t breathe in smoke. Many people die in a fire, not because of the fire, but smoke. It makes them cough and they can’t breathe. That’s very dangerous! So when you want to get out, you should make yourself lower to the floor. Then you can breathe some fresh air.
1. This year, school safety education falls on ________.| A．March 5 | B．March 15 | C．March 20 | D．March25 |
| A．school safety | B．traffic accidents | C．forest fires | D．family rules |
① put your hands around your head
② bend your body and legs
③ move to one side
| A．①--②--③ | B．①--③--② | C．②--③--① | D．③--②--① |
| A．quickly get under a desk and hold on | B．begin to push |
| C．put something wet over mouth | D．find a place near buildings and trees |
| A．don’t push when there is a fire |
| B．accidents sometimes happen in schools |
| C．smoke is also very dangerous in a fire |
| D．you should take a look first in fire |
【推荐3】As COVID-19 broke out and spread in the world, many countries are changing their social habits in order to reduce the risk of spreading the Novel Coronavirus.
 | France is famous for its romantic greetings. They touch each other’s cheeks and make a kissing sound. But now, this habit may be coming to an end. They are advised to simply look into a person’s eyes as a greeting. |
 | Australians are quite casual when it comes to greetings. “G’Day, mate”, a handshake, and a smile will be enough. But now the Australian government asks Australians to take a pat on the back instead of a handshake. |
 | In Brazil, chimaeras (马黛茶) is a special drink that is commonly shared among a group of close friends. When sharing chimaeras, the tea is passed around in a metal cup, sometimes with a straw (吸管), and people take turns drinking from it. But to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, Brazil announced that citizens should not share straws. |
1. The purpose of changing social habits is to ______.
| A．change the eating habits | B．ask people to stay at home |
| C．reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 | D．change the way of greeting |
| A．use separate straws | B．pat on the back |
| C．look into a person’s eyes | D．touch each other’s cheeks |
| A．novel | B．poster | C．textbook | D．newspaper |
【推荐1】When does a teenager become an adult? In many countries, it happens on your 18th birthday, but in some parts of the world, you have to do something special to enter the world of adults. On the island of Papua New Guinea, the Niowra tribe lives near the Sepik River, which is full of crocodiles(鳄鱼). The people believe that crocodiles made the earth and its people. When it is time for teenage boys to become men, a"crocodile ceremony"takes place.
The boys are taken to a hut called the "Crocodile Nest ".The hut is full of crocodile teeth and skulls. The boys are told to think of their crocodile"fathers and mothers".This helps them to be strong and brave during the ceremony. They stay in the hut for six weeks. As part of the ceremony: bamboo is used to make small cuts on their backs and chests. The Niowra say that if the boys think of their crocodile mothers and fathers, they don't feel the pain. The boys also play drums and even tell jokes during their time in the hut to take their minds off the pain. Amazingly, some boys sleep during the most painful parts of the ceremony!
The Niowra believe that this ceremony makes the boys stronger and braver. After the ceremony, the boys will have the marks of the cuts on their backs and chests for the rest of their lives. The marks are symbols of the teeth of the crocodile. The boys are now crocodile men and can survive living in the dangerous forest. When the boys finally leave the crocodile hut, there is singing and dancing, and the new crocodile men are given adult responsibilities in the village.
1. When does a teenager become an adult on the island of Papua New Guinea?| A．After they experience the crocodile ceremony. | B．After they do something special like playing drums. |
| C．As soon as they are eighteen years old. | D．After they live in the forest for six weeks. |
| A．It’s a hut for boys to have fun. | B．It’s a hut to keep crocodiles. |
| C．It’s a hut made of bamboo. | D．It’s a hut with crocodile teeth and skulls. |
| A．The boys stay with fathers and mothers. | B．The ceremony is so relaxing that the boys tell jokes. |
| C．The backs and chests of the boys are cut with bamboo. | D．It lasts for six days. |
| A．They are handsome men with marks of cuts. | B．They are stronger, braver and more responsible men. |
| C．They like living in the dangerous forest. | D．They are just the same as teenagers. |
【推荐2】Warwick New York Hotel
This hotel offers you stylish(时尚的) rooms in a quiet neighborhood, just a short walk from some of New York’s business streets. It’s small. Family-owned hotel with 16 rooms. They provide not only comfortable rooms but also warm smiles and friendly greetings.
The Westpark Inn
The Westpark has 90 rooms and is close to Manhattan tourist centers. The hotel’s rooms have been recently painted. On the Internet many travelers say it is below the usual standard(标准的) and should be avoided. If you want to save money, you may have a try.
The Affinia Hotel
The Affinia is a good choice for experienced business travelers, families and international visitors. The 80 guest rooms are stylish and modern with good furniture. Guests who need more space might like the hotel’s rooms. All the rooms have a kitchen.
The 60 Thompson
The 60 Thompson, with 100 beautiful guest rooms, is a stylish hotel in the heart of SoHo. Good use of darkwood and full-wall leather（皮革） headboards give the hotel warmth. Guests can enjoy fine food in the hotel’s Kittichhai restaurant and cocktails at Thom’s Bar.
1. Which of the hotels does NOT have stylish guest room?| A．The Affinia Hotel. | B．The Westpark Inn. |
| C．Warwick New York Hotel. | D．The 60 Thompson. |
| A．it’s a family-owned hotel | B．it offers comfortable rooms |
| C．its rooms are stylish and modern | D．it’s far from business centers |
| A．it has a bad position | B．it’s close to business centers |
| C．it is below the usual standard | D．its rooms have been recently painted |
| A．16. | B．80. | C．90. | D．100. |
| A．Mark is a worker and wants to save money. |
| B．Clement loves art and enjoys delicious food and wine. |
| C．Simon wants to enjoy family-cooked meals with his family. |
| D．David only likes walking to New York’s business street from the hotel. |
【推荐3】A tortoise（陆龟）was resting under a tree. When he looked up, he saw a bird sitting in its nest（巢）in the tree. The tortoise laughed at the bird and said, “What an old home you have! It is made of broken twigs（细枝）, it has no roof, and looks simple. What’s worse, you had to build it little by little on your own. Look at my house. It’s my shell, which I was born with on my back. I think my house is much better than your poor nest.”
“Yes, my house is made of broken twigs, looks old and is open to the wind and the rain. It is simple, but I built it myself, and I like it,” the bird replied.
“I guess it’s just like any other nest, but not better than mine,” said the tortoise. “You must be jealous（嫉妒的）of my shell, though.”
“Not really,” the bird answered. “My home has space for my family and friends; your shell cannot hold anyone other than you. Maybe you have a better house, but I have a better home,” the bird said happily.
根据语篇内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的为“T”，错误的为 “F”。
1. The tortoise didn’t like the bird’s home.
2. The bird took pride in his own house.
3. The tortoise helped the bird build its house.
4. The bird was jealous of the tortoise’s strong house.
5. The story tells us a home is more than just a house.
