[1]Parents always tell their kids to dream big. A 12-year-old girl in Texas, the US has taken that to heart. She dreams of becoming a NASA (美国宇航局) engineer by age 16.
[2]It may sound (4)①______, but Alena is not a common girl—she’s both clever and hard-working. She is also learning Spanish and Arabic by herself.
[3]Alena Wicker is now studying at her dream university. She shows great interest in engineering (4)②______ of her love for building things. She would love to build a rover (探测器) to go to space.
[4]Believe it or not, the story started with Lego. Ever since she was 4, Alena has loved playing around with different types of Lego and developed a great love for building things. Little Alena used to look at the stars and said seriously, “Mommy, I’m going to work for NASA. I’m going to go up there.”
[5]Alena is planning to write a children’s book and build a website (网站). “I’d like to encourage more girls to follow their dreams. Girls should also dream big and become whatever they want to be in the world.” she said.
[6] “(5)I won’t let anything stop me from achieving my dream. I have a goal and I am working towards it. No matter (4)③______ you’re planning to do, just go for it,” she says. “No one can hold us down. Just reach for the stars.”
1. What’s Alena’s dream? (Please answer no more than 10 words.)2. When did Alena begin to play with different types of Lego? (Please answer no more than 6 words.)
3. Why is Alena planning to write a children’s book and build a website? (Please answer no more than 12 words.)
4. Fill in each blank in the passage with a proper word.
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 into Chinese.
6. What’s your dream? What will you do to achieve your dream? (Please answer no more than 25 words.)
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【推荐1】Recently we did a survey of students' dream jobs in our class. Here's the report about my group members’ ideas.
Mary: I want to be a teacher when I grow up. I think I am very patient and I enjoy working with children. Now, I am interested in all the subjects and work very hard to learn them well. I can get along well with the teachers and make friends with students easily at school. I am sure the kids will like me.
Kate: I am slim and good at dancing and I would like to be a ballet dancer in the future. I spend most of my spare time on ballet training every day. After high school, I will learn dancing lessons in a college.
Mike: I would like to be a writer when I grow up. I like to share my wonderful stories with others. Now I keep reading and writing every day. I also send some of my stories to the magazines.
Lucy: I want to be a singer because I like singing very much. I practise singing every day.
People have their own dreams and work hard for them, because they all know it is not easy to realize them in the future.
根据短文内容补全表格，每空一词。
A survey of students’ dream jobs
Names | Hobbies or special skills | Dream jobs | How to realize them |
Mary | Enjoys working with 66 | A teacher | Works very hard to learn all the subjects well |
Kate | Is good at dancing | A 67 | Spends her spare time on ballet training. Will learn dancing lessons after 68 |
Mike | Likes sharing his 69 | A writer | Keeps reading and writing every day |
Lucy | Likes singing | A 70 | Practises singing every day |
Hello! I’m Andy. There are lots of volunteers around us now. They don’t do it for money. They do it only because they want to help others.
Now I want to be a member of a Volunteer Club. I want to do many things for people in need. I am good at Maths and Science. I can help students with their study. I can also help teach young students paint because I am good at drawing. And I like singing, so I can sing songs to make people happy. I can go to the Old People’s Home every two weeks. I can do the housework for them, for example, I can help them clean their rooms or do some washing for them. I’m glad to do something for them because I think they are old and they may feel tired if they do the housework by themselves.
I think helping others makes me feel happy and I want to help more people in the future.
1. Why do lots of people want to be volunteers?2. How often can Andy go to the Old People’s Home?
3. How do the old man feel if they do the housework by themselves?
4. What do you think of helping others?
【推荐3】Youngsters should always be passionate (热情的). We still remember that about 100 years ago, millions of brave people together founded the Communist Party of China. They devoted (献身) themselves into the development of our country. It’s they who brought us today’s peaceful life.
As modern young people, we all have our own dreams. And it’s our passion that drives us forward. I have a friend who loves music and often posts his own works on the Internet. He receives lots of followers and praises. He can not only develop his interest, but also have an influence on others. And I realized that millions of young people like him are now bravely chasing (追逐) their dreams.
At the same time, we have to take up our social responsibility. No matter when a big accident happens, there are always armed police officers around the country fighting there. Among them, some are even 00s. In addition, it’s touching to see many people offer help online by donating money and clothes. Young people have a sense of responsibility to stand up in the face of difficulties at any time.
By being passionate and responsible, we should show the world that under the leadership of the CPC. Chinese youth will certainly shoulder the heavy task of national development.
1. Did millions of brave people bring us today’s peaceful life about 100 years ago?2. What does the writer believe youngsters should do according to Paragraph 2?
3. How does the writer feel about people donating money and clothes?
4. What spirit do you think Chinese youth should have, and why?
【推荐1】We go to school every day to become better people. How can we start to make big changes in our lives? Perhaps we can get tips from former US First Lady Michelle Obama. During a visit to China from March 20 to 26 in 2015.
The first lady encouraged Chinese students to aim high and get a good education. At Chengdu No.7 High School, she told students that having humble (卑微的) roots doesn’t matter as long as you have perseverance (毅力). Obama said her family was not rich. Like many Chinese students, her parents had big dreams for her. She felt the weight of her parents’ sacrifices (牺牲) on her shoulders and worked hard to make them proud. Persevering was not easy, though. Sometimes she had to wake up at 4:30 a.m. and study late into the night. "But whenever I got tired or discouraged...I would remember something my mother always told me. She said: ‘A good education is something that no one can take away from you.’”
Mrs. Obama also encouraged Chinese students to study abroad to open their eyes in a speech at Peking University. “As the Chinese saying goes: (A)It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books,” she said. It’s not enough to get good grades in school. It’s also important to have real experience with languages, cultures and societies that are different from your own, she noted. Studying overseas can also benefit (有益于) future international relations. (B)It can help young people from different counties work together to deal with shared problems like climate change, Obama said.
任务一：
1. 根据文章内容填上合适的单词，每空一词。
From the passage we can know when Michelle Obama was young, her family was poor, but she worked hard to be the
任务二：
2. 将文中（A）处划线句子翻译成汉语。
任务三：
3. 请从文中找出与Nobody can take away your good education.意思相同或相近的句子。
任务四：
4. 从文中找出（B）处划线单词“It”所指代的内容。
【推荐2】As a foreigner who has lived in China for several years, I always like watching Chinese cooking videos. But the videos I like the most show me more than just cooking.
My favorite food vlogger is Rose. Known as “African Li Ziqi”, she has got nearly 11.5 million followers and 160 million likes on her posts on Douyin! In most of her videos, Rose shows people how to make delicious Chinese meals and snacks. From making a fire to washing and preparing the ingredients（食材）, you can see dishes like a whole roast duck come to life. Once, she even posted a video to show how to make dumplings on Spring Festival Eve. That impressed me a lot!
Like many Chinese people, I think her videos special because she is so good at Chinese cooking, although she herself is not Chinese. She learned about Chinese dishes and Chinese cooking only after she married her Chinese husband, who is a cook, at the age of 20.
In her videos, sometimes you can also see her chat happily with the other villagers in Chinese, which shows a true connection to Chinese culture and society. Foreign members in a community always want to connect better with local people. And Rose shows us how this can be done, with her positive energy（正能量）. She is a real bridge between cultures. People in China see her as the foreign wife who most understands Chinese culture and society.
1. Who is the writer’s favourite food vlogger?2. How many followers does Rose have on Douyin?
3. Do Rose’s videos show people how to cook Chinese meals or African meals?
4. Why does the writer think Rose’s videos special?
5. What do people in China see Rose as?
1. A girl B boy C dog D father
2. A Eric B Frank C Brown D Bill
3. A for B of C at D in
4. A his B her C he D she
5. A is B are C am D /
6. A pencil B pen C schoolbags D pencils
7. A and B too C but D also
8. A at B to C in D under
9. A what B how C where D who
10. A these B they C this D that
【推荐1】One Saturday, Jay and his friends Mike and Tony were riding their dirty bikes on a cross-country path. They stopped to climb a tree and found a comfortable branch to sit on. At that time, Jay noticed something shiny on the ground.
They jumped down and went to take a closer look. It was a wallet with five hundred dollars inside. Mike immediately said, “Fantastic! We can divide the money into three parts, and we will each be closer to buying the newer bike we want.”
“Not so fast,” said Tony. “Jay was the one who found the first. He should get more than us.” “Are you crazy?” asked Jay, “We can’t keep the money. It isn’t ours.”
“Stop being such a supporter for honesty,” complained Mike and Tony.
“Whoever lost the money should learn a lesson about walking around with that much money,” added Mike.
“Let’s all go home and think about this,” said Jay. Mike and Tony agreed. Jay kept the money, and they decided to meet again after dinner.
Mike and Tony rode home most of the way together. They were to talk more without Jay. However, the more they talked, the more they saw Jay’s point. They also thought about how worried they would be if they had dropped and lost something that was important to them.
When they met after dinner, they all rode to the police station to hand in the wallet. The police officer was pleased to see what the boys did. He recorded Jay’s phone number.
The next morning a man called the police station to search for a lost wallet. He was happy to get his wallet back. He learned about Jay and his friends and decided to reward them.
Shortly after, the police officer called Jay. When Jay got to the police station, the police officer handed him a gift card for one hundred dollars at the local bicycle shop. Jay met up with Mike and Tony later that day and told them everything. They all realized that it was better to be an honest man.
1. Why did Mike and Tony want to keep the money Jay found at first?| A．Because they thought it was their own money. |
| B．Because they needed money to buy a new bike. |
| C．Because they couldn’t find the owner of the money. |
| D．Because they wanted to hand the money to the police later. |
①There were different voices about what to do with the money.
②Mike and Tony thought carefully about which was a better way.
③The three boys returned the to the owner through the police.
④Jay found some money with Mike and Tory when they were playing.
| A．④②①③ | B．④①②③ | C．④①③② | D．④②③① |
| A．found Jay had mere money |
| B．still decided to divide the money |
| C．slowly began to agree with Jay’s idea |
| D．suddenly felt worried about the money |
Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.
So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer. Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to give up a good job and spend his life making toys from trash, things that people no longer want or need! Mr Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. Upon graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.
But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using available materials.
Mr Gupta found the whole project so satisfying that he decided to leave his high paying job and focus his attention on designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but also full of scientific principles（原理）, so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.
When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr Gupta created a toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.
Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations based on cool science. Some young children have become so inspired（鼓舞） that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.
1. What are these educational toys made from?2. Did Arvind Gupta start building educational toys as soon as he graduated from the college?
3. Who did Mr Gupta build these educational toys for?
4. How are the educational toys designed by Mr. Gupta?
5. What did Mr Gupta do to introduce his educational toys?
6. How can these educational toys help the children in third world countries?
There is an old saying, “Take the time to stop and smell the flowers.” I think we should also take the time to plant flowers.
My grandma knew just how to do that. She grew flowers with earth, water and love. 4. Her back garden was filled with beautiful flowers. She would smile when she saw the sunshine down on them.
My mom and I used to walk around them and enjoy their smells. Beautiful butterflies flew among them. Grandma also cared for the wild flowers. She would ask me to water flowers in the fields behind her garden.
5.祖母不仅在花园里种花，而且在我们心里种花。Her delicious dinners made with love encouraged us. Her smiles and kisses were the sunshine that kept our love growing day after day.
“Take the time to plant a few flowers yourself,” Grandma always told me. She wished me to plant my wishes, gifts and pleasure. And she believed I would make the world brighter.
根据短文内容，用简要答语回答下面三个问题。
1. How did the writer’s grandma grow flowers?
2. Where would the writer’s grandma ask him to water flowers?
3. What did the writer’s grandma wish him to do?
将短文中划线的两个句子翻译成中文或英文。
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