【推荐2】Be careful on A    1     1! When your classmates say “Your shoes are dirty!”, it may not be t    2    . And if they tell you to go to your teacher’s office, this may be a joke too.

April Fool’s Day(愚人节) is an interesting f    3     in some countries. On that day people play jokes on others and then s    4    , “April Fool!” It is a “for-fun-only” day, so people do not buy p    5     or have a day off.

April Fool’s Day started in France in the 16th century. At that time, New year’s Day was b    6     March 25th and April 1st.

Later New Year’s Day changed to January 1st, some people still celebrated it on April 1st, and others played jokes on them and called them “April Fools”.

Each c    7     celebrates April Fool’s Day in a d    8     way. In France, it is called “April Fish”. The French fool their friends by sticking paper fish to their fiends’ backs. When someone finds out this joke, they shout, “April Fish!” In England, it is bad l    9     to play an April Fool’s joke on someone after midday. Americans u    10     play small jokes on friends and strangers(陌生人).

【推荐3】The third Sunday in June is Father’s Day. It’s a day to show love and respect for fathers.

Mrs, John B. Dodd of Washington, the USA, first suggested the idea of a Father’s Day in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a s    1     day for her father, William Smart. Mr. Smart’s wife died in giving birth to her sixth child. After that, Mr. Smart had to bring up the newborn baby and his other f    2     children by himself. Mrs. Dodd realized her father’s selflessness as a single p    3    . She suggested that there should be a Father’s Day for all the loving f    4    .

On 19 June 1910, people c    5     the first Father’s Day in Washington. After that, in a lot of cities across the USA, many other people also began to celebrate Father’s Day. F    6    , in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson claimed the third S    7     in June as Father’s Day.

Father’s Day has now become a day to honour not only fathers, but also all men who act as fathers. Stepfathers, uncles and grandfathers are all honoured o    8     Father’s Day

On Father’s Day, some children give p    9     to their fathers to show their thanks. And fathers will certainly be happy to know t    10     their children love them.

【推荐1】根据课文内容填空。 （5分）
Amy is my     1     friend. She is a     2     of the Swimming Club. She is a very good     3    . We always     4     a good time at school. We often dress up     5     Halloween. We wear     6     costurnes     7     masks. We sometimes     8     our faces and people do not know     9     we are. It is    10    . This year, I will wear a tiger costurne.

【推荐2】请用适当的词完成下面的短文，并把所缺单词填写在短文下方的横线上。每个空只能填写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。

The May Day holiday is coming. I am going to enjoy     1    . On the morning of 1st May, I plan to get up     2     and help my father clean the car. Then I’m going to have breakfast     3     seven o’clock. After that, I am going to take a trip to the     4     with my family by car.

First, I am going to play volleyball with other visitors (游客) on the beach.     5    , I am going to go fishing and boating. My father is going to take lots of     6     and he is also going to go boating with me.     7     is my mother going to do? Oh, I guess (猜) she is going to help me     8     some shells (贝壳). And she is also going to take some exercise. My sister is going to draw some pictures     9     she likes drawing.

Oh, I     10     we can have a good time.

【推荐3】语法填空

In most countries, people usually eat    1    (tradition) food on special holidays. A special day in the United States is Thanksgiving. It began in the autumn of 1621 and now it is    2    the 4th Thursday in November every year. It is a time to give thanks for food and remember the first    3    (travel) from    4    (English). Most Americans celebrate the holiday by    5    (have) a big meal at home with their family. The main dish of this meal is almost always turkey, a large bird.

Here is one way    6    (make) turkey for a Thanksgiving dinner.

First, buy some bread pieces, onions, salt and pepper. Certainly, don’t forget to buy a turkey. How    7    (much) onions do we need? We need two onions. Cut up the onions. Then mix together the bread pieces, onions, salt and pepper.    8    is next? Fill the turkey with the bread mix and put the turkey in a hot oven to cook it    9    a few hours. That is it? No. When the turkey is ready, place the turkey on a large plate and cover it with gravy.    10    (final), cut the turkey into thin pieces. Now, it is time to enjoy the delicious turkey.

【推荐1】

Yuhang (余杭) in Hangzhou is known for making oil paper umbrellas for more than 230 years.

In 2015, Liu Weixue gave up a well-paid job as a designer to learn from his grandfather the a    1     of making Yuhang oil paper umbrellas. “I began to love it at a very young age, I wanted to bring it to life.” Liu said.“When it rains, someone uses the umbrella—that’s what I want to see.”

There are more than 70 steps to make a Yuhang oil paper umbrella. Making bamboo ribs(伞骨) and pasting (糊) papers are two i    2     skills among them. It takes no less than a week to make an umbrella. After learning the skills, Liu opened a studio (工作坊) and worked with local umbrella-making masters (能手).

Liu i    3     the umbrellas to win the hearts of young people. As the paper broke e    4    , he used a thicker paper. In a test, his umbrellas were opened and closed 1,000 times without breaking. He uses a l    5     kind of bamboo to make the ribs, so the umbrellas weigh less. As young people like hand-painted pictures, he invites painters to draw patterns on the umbrella covers.

When online shopping became popular, Liu opened an online shop to sell umbrellas. It now has more than 80,000 followers. S    6    , he doesn’t hurry. To ensure quality, his studio makes only 1,000 umbrellas each year.

He hopes that he can enter local schools to teach students e    7     he knows on how to make this kind of umbrellas.

【推荐2】Fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词使其通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)

Augie Dobson, a 9-year-old American boy is proud of his ability to speak Chinese. He has been studying the language for three years from Shanghai Community International School.

Augie is one of a group of three and took part in a drama performance competition. It was organized to e    1     overseas students to understand Chinese culture.

Their play is based on Tang Dynasty (618—907) poet He Zhizhang’s “Hui Xiang Ou Shu”. Luckily, the play got the second p    2     at yesterday’s ceremony.

“Hui Xiang Ou Shu” means writing something after returning home. It describes an old man who left his hometown at a young age but feels like a s    3     when he returns a couple of years later.

Mrs Sun, a Chinese teacher in school said she tries to teach her pupils to sing and dance to the poem. Children are interested in singing poems rather than just reciting t    4    .

Students at Shanghai Community International School now learn an ancient poem every day. “It’s difficult b    5     I’m trying to remember,” said Augie.

The first prize went to drama “Kong Cheng Ji” performed by students at Dulwich College Shanghai. Kong Cheng Ji, tells of Zhuge liang during the Three Kingdoms period (220—280) . He had no army to protect and guard the city but m    6     to make the enemy’s leader Sima Yi believe that the city was full of traps and ambushes(埋伏). As a result, Sima gave up.

Li Zihao plays Sima in the drama. Li is a fan of chengyu, Chinese four-character idioms(四字成语) .

“I’ve downloaded an app about telling stories with chengyu, and he loves it. I think chengyu is a very s    7     and important part of Chinese culture. Four words alone can mean a lot, and chengyu shows the great wisdom of old Chinese people.” said his mother.

【推荐3】阅读短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。

Girl cuts for the gold

Do you like traditional Chinese paper-cutting? Ding Xiang, a student at Nongsishi Middle School in Xinjiang, is really good at it. At the     1     (eight) National Excellent Talents Competition last month in Beijing, the 15-year-old girl got the gold award for her paper-cutting skills.

At the competition, Ding cut a piece: Millennium Dream (《千年梦想》).     2     piece has two papers. One shows an ancient cave painting and the other a Chinese-made spaceship. Ding said she wanted     3     (show) three things with the piece: China’s long history, China’s rapid development,     4     her hope for the future of paper-cutting.

Ding     5     (begin) to learn paper-cutting in the first year of her middle school. She started to become more and more interested     6     it. The next year, she had     7     (much) schoolwork than before, but she didn’t give up. “I always find time for practicing every day. If I don’t have time during the day, I must practice at night,” Ding said. “It was a very long and hard time, but I enjoyed     8     (my).”

All the hard work has paid off. In two years, Ding’s     9     (skill) have improved a lot, and she has the gold award to prove it.

Ding said she has learned a lot from paper-cutting. “I have learned to observe (观察) things     10     (careful),” Ding told Yili Daily. “I have become more confident, too. It is a great help in my studies. Also, I have learned a lot of history from the art.”

【推荐1】根据短文内容和所给首字母或中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式，每空限填一词。

Have you heard of the Torch (火把) Festival of the Yi People (彝族) in Bijie, Guizhou? Dancing, singing and     1     (欢呼), the Yi people and visitors light torches and have fun around the bonfires (篝火). The Yi people across     2     (西南) China celebrates the festival on 24th of Lunar June every year.

The Yi people have looked up to fire for long. The early Yi people lived in high and c    3     places in the mountains. For them, fire was an important way to light, warm, and c    4     food. They even had a     5     (普遍的) saying “Everything you eat must ‘see’ fire.” For e    6    , before taking animal meat home, people used to light a small fire outside the door. Then they put the meat over the fire. They do it     7     (严肃地). They thought fire had the p    8     to drive away the filth (污秽) .

Today, the festival is more of a social event. D    9     this festival, people show and spread their happiness. It gets more people to understand Yi people’s life and     10     (传统). It attracts visitors from all over the world.

【推荐2】请将下面电子邮件的内容补充完整，每空不超过两个单词。

Hello, Erica! I love autumn. Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in this week. We are going to watch the moon tonight. My father is going to buy mooncakes and I like them. National Day is also in the autumn,     1     October 1. During the National Day this year, my mother and father are not going to work. They are going to have seven days off. We are going to do many things together. I like going to the National Day celebration. But the best thing in autumn is my birthday. It is in October. I will be fifteen     2     this year. Li Shi

Dear Li Shi, Thank you for your email. I love autumn,     3    . In Canada, we have an autumn holiday called Thanksgiving. Families always     4     on Thanksgiving. At Thanksgiving this year, I am going to go to my grandmother and grandfather’s house. My uncles, aunts and their children are going to be there, too. Have a good time on your birthday, Li Shi! On my birthday, I have a cake with candles. Everyone sings Happy Birthday, then I     5     out the candles. Will you have a cake on your birthday? Your friend Erica