Jenny was new in this city. She didn’t have any friends. And her classmates didn’t seem friendly to her. Sometimes she complained to her mom, and her mom always said that Jenny could get used to that and that everything would be OK.
A card arrived on Monday. Come to Melissa’s 10th birthday party! Jenny was excited to receive the card. She didn’t know Melissa very well, but she was glad to think that Melissa wanted to be her friend. Jenny put the card into her schoolbag. After dinner, she showed it to her mother. “It’s a swimming party, Jenny” her mother said. Hearing that, she grabbed (抢) it and read each word aloud. She stopped when she read where it would be: the Elm Street Pool.
Jenny didn’t even have a bathing suit. She liked skating. She played baseball. She was very good at playing chess. But in her mind, swimming was for ducks, and she wanted no part of it.
“This might be a good time to learn to swim,” her mother said. “I can take you to the pool every day after school. Really, you might even like it.”
Even the idea of swimming scared Jenny. And right then, in her own swimming pool, she felt like she was drowning (溺水). However, when she thought that she could make a lot of friends, she decided to have a try.
1. What does the underlined word “complained” mean in Chinese?| A．抱怨 | B．炫耀 | C．解释 | D．祝贺 |
| A．Worried. | B．Happy. | C．Angry. | D．Unhappy. |
| A．Why Melissa was going to have the party. | B．Where the party was going to take place. |
| C．What the people would do at the party. | D．When the party was going to take place. |
| A．She wasn’t able to swim. | B．She didn’t have a beautiful dress. |
| C．She wasn’t Melissa’s good friend. | D．She didn’t know the way to the party. |
| A．Jenny didn’t have any hobbies. | B．Jenny would go to the party with her mom. |
| C．Jenny would learn to swim for the party. | D．Jenny’s father would teach her to swim. |
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【推荐1】82-year-old Luo Yingjiu works at a zoo on Fenghuang Mountain in Enshi, Hubei.
Every day Luo gets up very early and cleans the houses of the animals.
In 1989, Luo started the zoo. He saved most of the animals from markets and other places. The tickets were cheap, but few visitors wanted to see the animals because most of them were old, weak or ill. The Asian black bear Guaiguai is already 19 years old now.
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From: https://www.globaltimes.cn
根据短文内容，从下列选项中选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
| A．Then Luo travels downhill to get food for the animals. |
| B．Animals know who is friendly. |
| C．He saved it 17 years ago in a restaurant. |
| D．Because his dreams came true. |
| E．And he is the only worker in the zoo. |
| F．The four workers have a lot of work to do. |
| G．However, things were quite different in the past. |
“No building comes without carvings, and carvings make buildings more valuable,” goes an old saying in Minnan, an area in southern Fujian Province. The saying is about brick carvings(砖雕), which were an important part of the old red brick buildings in the area.
The carvings were once commonly found on either side of the main door of Minnan’s buildings. However, with development, the number of ancient red brick buildings has dropped, and Minnan’s brick carvings have gradually faded(消褪), said Wu Jiandong, a young master brick carver from Fujian’s Quanzhou City.
The 42-year-old has learned the traditional technique and now combines it with modern tastes to develop his own style of brick carving. Wu said that he hoped to be able to help the traditional craft (手工艺) continue through innovation(创新). “Market has changed in recent years, and so has our thinking,” Wu said. “We must add modern tastes to help pass down and develop traditional craft.”
People in Minnan love tea, so Wu created sets of carved brick tea decorations(装饰), including tea plates, teacups, tea pots and other items. They have been widely received by local people and foreign visitors.
Earlier this year, a pendant(挂件) was bought by an overseas Chinese man from the Philippines. The customer told Wu that he would hang the pendant in his office as a reminder of the buildings and the moon of his hometown.
Because of the market’s praise of his work, Wu will be able to pass down the craft and further develop his pieces, and the popularity of short videos has also given him new hopes and ideas of spreading Minnan’s brick carvings.
The art form originated during the Song Dynasty and flourished(繁荣) during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is now an important part of national cultural heritage. Wu hopes more young people could join him to develop the traditional craft.
1. The writer begins with the passage by _______ in Paragraph 1.| A．asking questions | B．using a saying | C．listing numbers | D．sharing a story |
| A．see...as | B．separate...from | C．turn...into | D．connect...with |
| A．felt doubtful about his own work | B．realized the importance of market change |
| C．created many old styles of brick carvings | D．had no idea about spreading brick carvings |
| A．To call on us to pass down and develop the traditional art. |
| B．To compare traditional art pieces with modern art pieces. |
| C．To ask more people to buy the brick carving pendants. |
| D．To invite people to visit Mannan’s red brick buildings. |
“A garbage collector?”his mother asked .She was very surprised.“That’s not a pleasant job. Why do you want to become a garbage collector?”
“Because then I’d only have to work one day a week,”John answered.
“Only one day a week?”his mother said,“What do you mean?”
“Well,”John answered,“I know that the ones who come to our house only work on Wednesday, because I only saw them on that day.”
1. John_____at school.
| A．didn’t do any work |
| B．did much work |
| C．did very little work |
| D．tried to finish his work |
| A．a garbage collector |
| B．a doctor |
| C．a teacher |
| D．a worker |
| A．he knew it was an important and necessary job |
| B．he thought he would work only one day a week |
| C．he often saw some garbage collectors come to his house |
| D．the garbage collectors really work only one day a week |
| A．it was a rule |
| B．some garbage collectors told him so |
| C．his parents told him so |
| D．he saw them work only on Wednesday |
How long would it take you to run 5, 000 m? Li Yiben, 80 years old, ran 5000 m in 28 minutes and 6 seconds (秒). Li did it in a race in Huainan. Li was the oldest but he finished third.
“This is tough. I have never worked so hard,” said Li after the race. Li served in the military (在军队服役) when he was young. In 1968, he left the military. After he left work in 1995, Li spent more time running. In 1998, Li ran a 100 km marathon (马拉松赛跑) and he ran in the National Masters Athletics Championships (全国老将田径锦标赛) in 1999. One year later, he went to the Asia Masters Athletics Championships in India.
In the following years, Li kept running in many races. Running plays an important role in his life. “Running makes me feel younger, ” said Li.
1. What do we know about the race in Huainan?| A．It was a 5, 000 m race. |
| B．Li Yiben ran the fastest. |
| C．There were three women in Li Yiben’s group. |
| A．easy | B．difficult | C．boring |
| A．A Fast Old Runner | B．A Popular Sports Game | C．The Good of Healthy Habits |
【推荐2】A villager made his living by selling seeds（种子）in the market.He had ten bags with him,which he would carry to another village to buy seeds.Of the ten bags,one was broken.But the villager still carried it with all the other bags to get the seeds from another village.
One day,the broken bag thought,“I am just a broken bag with many holes.Why does my owner take me along to bring seeds?”It then asked the villager,“Why don't you throw me away?You know I am of no use.I drop all the seeds you put in me.”
The villager smiled,“I will tell you what good you have done to me and others.”Saying this,the villager took the broken bag outside and said,“Do you see all these tress?These trees are there all along the way from this village to the next,from where I buy seeds.These trees have grown from the seeds you have been dropping along the way.”
The villager continued,“These trees give cool shade to tired people on hot sunny days.They also give the cleaner air to humans and animals.Can’t you see you’ve done the world a great service?”
The broken bag was happy to lean all this.It realized that everyone has something good to offer to the world!
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. The villager took the bags to another village to ．
| A．buy seeds | B．sell flowers | C．plant trees | D．pick fruits |
| A．Clever. | B．Special. | C．Useless. | D．Ugly. |
| A．树荫 | B．木材 | C．植被 | D．屏障 |
| A．Happy. | B．Surprised. | C．Worried. | D．Bored. |
| A．It takes time for trees to grow. | B．Everyone is useful in the world. |
| C．If you smile to the world,it will smile back. | D．Make full use of a thing before throwing it away. |
【推荐3】“Are you listening, Simon?” Simon’s teacher asked. Simon smiled and shook his head. He hardly listened in class. Talking was so much better. He just wanted to be heard.
That evening, Simon felt a little bit sick. His throat really hurt. He had ice-cream and hot chocolate to make it feel better. The next morning, when he opened his mouth to say, “Good morning”, nothing came out. “Honey, you have lost your voice,” said his mother, “Can I stay at home?” He tried to ask, but words didn’t come out. Instead, his mother checked him for a fever and pronounced him good to go to school, even if he couldn’t talk. How awful!
When his classmates talked to him at school, he just shrugged（耸肩）. By the time the bell rang, almost everyone was looking at him as if he had grown a third eye. Simon sat in class, watching others talk to each other in groups. In math class, he could hold up fingers if the answer was less than 10, but that wasn’t fun. He decided to try to pay attention.
You know what? It wasn’t that bad. He could easily finish his homework that night. It gave him extra game time because his work was all done. The next day, even though his voice was coming back, he stayed quiet again. The third day, he could talk fine, but he listened and raised his hand to speak.
1. What did Simon use to do in class?| A．Ask questions. | B．Take notes. | C．Talk a lot. | D．Do his homework. |
| A．He had a fever. | B．He had a sore throat. |
| C．He couldn’t eat anything. | D．He couldn’t stay home. |
| A．Simon seldom kept quiet at school. | B．Simon didn’t get on with his classmates. |
| C．Simon looked strange because of illness. | D．Simon wanted to keep away from others. |
| A．An active boy called Simon | B．A difference that one day made |
| C．How to listen carefully in class | D．Raise your hands to answer questions |
In my local land of Italy, pasta and pizza were on everyone’s lunch table. Everyone who had such a lunch was fair-skinned (浅色皮肤) and spoke Italian.
Surprisingly, a few years later, as I stood in the crowd waiting for lunch in a school in Brooklyn, the city I grew up after I came to the US, I realized things were no longer that easy. My classmates were so different. Some had fair skin (皮肤) and large blue eyes. Others had rich brown skin and dark hair. The food they chose was almost as different as the students. In front of me was a number of foods I couldn’t even name in my mother language. Worrying that I would pick out something terrible, I tried to ask the boy before me for some suggestions. Unluckily, between us stood the problem of language. Well, my school experience in Brooklyn feels like a century ago, but the lessons I have learned will be in my mind forever.
For the past three summer holidays, I have taken a part-time job in New York. People from different countries were just like the little girl in the crowd waiting for lunch. I often had to be a helper for the Italian-speaking ones. As I was working as a bridge of language connection, I always thought of the time before I learned English. I suddenly felt how lucky I was to be able to speak two languages.
In my work there, I’ve learned about different cultures that I didn’t know before. This work showed me a new world. I knew that it was impossible to learn that inside the four walls of a classroom. Walking through the streets of Brooklyn today, I will no longer feel difficult to understand this city’s sounds and smells. Instead, I enjoy the difference.
1. Where did the writer come from?| A．Italy. | B．Brooklyn. | C．New York. | D．England. |
| A．Time passed quickly. | B．The food was terrible. |
| C．People were very different. | D．English was very important. |
| A．The writer herself. | B．The writer’s classmate. |
| C．The writer’s Italian teacher. | D．A worker in the writer’s office. |
| A．It made her dream come true. | B．It allowed her to learn English. |
| C．It opened her eyes to a different world. | D．It helped find out her ways more quickly. |
【推荐2】It all started on a cold night while I was sleeping in my room. Suddenly I heard the sound of an axe (斧). Sleepy and tired, I got up to see what was happening.
It was an old man carrying wood. I wanted to know who the man was, so I put on my scarf and followed him till the end of my house. There was a long tunnel (隧道) which nobody entered. However, the old man did, and so did I. He then opened a huge iron door and entered a big room where it was bright and warm. I followed him and hid behind a curtain. Suddenly I saw something so frightening. It was a “man” made of fire that the old man called “Master Devil (魔王)”. The old man used the wood to keep “Master Devil” alive. Then they would make people do bad things. I wouldn’t let this happen, so I thought of an idea.
I secretly went towards the iron door and quietly opened it. The freezing coldness entered the room and destroyed (毁灭) the devil. I went towards the old man, after a fight with him, I tied him up with my scarf and handed him over to the police. I got great satisfaction from fighting against the bad.
Suddenly, there was a loud knock at the door and I woke up from my sleep.
1. What’s Paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．The background of the story. | B．Where the story took place. |
| C．The main characters of the story. | D．What the weather was like that night. |
| A．tired→nervous→satisfied→scared | B．sleepy→interested→scared→satisfied |
| C．interested→frightened→happy→tired | D．scared→interested→satisfied→sleepy |
| A．An Unexpected Visitor | B．An Amazing Dream |
| C．A Sleepless Night | D．A Life-Changing Event |
【推荐3】When I was a boy, I had the craziest bus ride to school every day. First I had to get up early, eat my breakfast and walk across a wooden bridge. Then I waited for the bus to arrive. When it got there, I climbed in. I was always one of the first ones on the bus.
Even though I lived only four miles from school, my bus ride would last about 45 minutes! First the bus went in the opposite direction for six miles, parked and waited for another bus, which we would then board. The new bus started up a long mountain road, stopping at every house to pick up more children. Finally, it arrived at the high school to drop off the older children before going to my school. It didn’t go straight there, but instead went down another road to pick up even more children. I usually got to school just before the first class bell rang.
Luckily, the ride home was different. This time, the children who were picked up last were the first to be dropped off. Since my house was along the way, I got dropped off after just 10 minutes or so. I remember I would run across that old bridge because I was so happy to be home again.
Looking back now, I can see my whole life here has been one long bus ride. It has been full of stops, starts, twists and turns. Some of the passengers are mean, but most are kind. Sometimes the scene has been beautiful and sometimes not so much. Sometimes the road has been smooth; other times it has been rough. Through it all, though, I know that one day I will be going home again. Do your best to enjoy the ride this life gives you.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?
| A．Bus ride to school. |
| B．Being thirsty for knowledge. |
| C．Waiting for the bus. |
| D．Preparation before going to school. |
| A．the opposite direction—a long mountain road—every house—high school—school |
| B．a long mountain road—the opposite direction—high school—another road—school |
| C．the opposite direction—a long mountain road—every house—another road—high school—school |
| D．the opposite direction—a long mountain road—every house—high school—another road—school |
| A．Because they both need interest. |
| B．Because they are both comfortable. |
| C．Because neither of them is always easy. |
| D．Because they both have a happy beginning. |
| A．Smooth. | B．Twist. | C．Mean. | D．Beautiful. |
| A．Don’t be afraid of a long journey. |
| B．No road is exciting to our homes. |
| C．Enjoy the life journey as much as we can. |
| D．Looking back is good for us to learn well. |
