Saving the Well
Once upon a time, in a vast desert, there was a small village that depended on a single well for water. The well was not only a source of life for the villagers but also for the travelers who passed through the desert.
One year, a really bad drought hit the village. The plants died, animals moved away, and the well’s water level started to drop. The villagers grew worried, knowing that they needed the well to live. Among them was a young boy named Amir. He noticed that while everyone was worried, very few were taking action to save the precious water.
Amir decided to make a difference. He started by using less water for his daily needs and collected rainwater in pots. He also suggested planting drought-resistant (抗旱) plants around the well to keep the soil wet and reduce water evaporation (蒸发). At first, only a few villagers took him seriously, but as the well’s water even got lower, more started to listen.
Amir taught the villagers how to create small basins around the plants to catch more rainwater and how to cover the ground with stones and leaves to reduce evaporation. He also organized teams to clean up around the well and dig small channels to direct any rainwater into the well.
As the weeks passed, the villagers noticed a change. The water in the well didn’t go down as much, and the plants around it began to grow well. The efforts to save water paid off, and the village was able to make it through the drought.
1. What happened to the village one year?2. A lot of villagers took action to save the precious water at the very beginning, didn’t they?
3. Where did Amir collect rainwater at first?
4. When did the villagers start to take Amir’s suggestions seriously?
5. How did Amir and the villagers direct rainwater into the well?
6. What can you learn from the story?
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【推荐1】A nine-year-old boy touched the hearts of officers at the Chengguan Town Police Station after he donated (捐赠) 80.3 yuan. He hoped to help out Hubei General Hospital.
Ma Yunhu, a third-grade pupil at a primary school in Ningxia, visited the police station on February 9th with his mother, and gave away all his pocket money to the officer Ma Xiaojun.
“I want to donate my pocket money to the doctors and nurses at Hubei General Hospital because they really work hard in fighting against the COVID-19 (新型冠状病毒肺炎),” the boy told the police officer.
Officer Ma was moved when the boy said the police would help him, as his teachers had told him police officers are believable.
Officer Ma later gave the boy’s donation to the hospital by the Internet. “Thank you, little boy! Although we don’t know what you look like, the doctors and nurses at the hospital have kept you in mind. We will try harder to defeat the virus as soon as possible,” they replied.
根据短文内容，完成表格，每空不超过三个单词。
A boy donated pocket money to a hospital in Wuhan | |
Who | Ma Yunhu |
Where | He went to a |
What he did | He |
How | Ma Yunhu gave the money to the police. Officer Ma gave the boy’s donation to the hospital |
What they said | They were moved and gave thanks to the boy. They would |
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Peter is thirteen years old. He is in Grade Seven this year. He likes to watch football matches. And he often reads newspapers. He does his best to know where and when there is going to be a football match. Now Peter is having lunch. He is listening to the radio ,too. He is very happy because there is going to be a nice football match on TV at four this afternoon. He wants to watch it very much. But he is going to have English and Chinese lessons. He thinks hard and finds a way. “Hello,Mrs. Black,”Peter says to his teacher on the phone. “Peter is ill in bed. He wants to ask for half a day’s leave(假期).”
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that,”says Mrs. Black. “But who’s that?”
“It’s my father , Mrs. Black”.
Answer the questions according to what you read.
1. How old is Peter this year?
2. What does he like to do ?
3. Why is Peter very happy?
4. What does Mrs. Black do ?(职业)
5. Does Peter’s father speak to Mrs. black?
【推荐3】I am Lucy. One day I sat under the tree. Things weren’t going well in my life, and I felt upset and disappointed(失望的). Then a little boy walked to me. He stood before me and said with great excitement, “Look what I found!”
In his hand was a flower. I tried to be polite. I smiled and waited for him to leave. However, instead of going away, the boy sat next to me, placing the flower in front of his nose and said, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s why I picked it. And it’s for you.”
I knew I must take it, or he might never leave. So I reached for the flower and replied, “It’s just what I need.” But he didn’t put the flower in my hand. He held it in the midair(半空中). It was then that I noticed that there was something wrong with the boy’s eyes.
I heard my voice quiver(颤抖) as I thanked him. “You’re welcome,” he smiled and said. Then he ran off to play. He had no idea how much difference he had made to me.
I sat there and wondered how he managed to see a sad woman under the tree. Perhaps from his heart, he had been blessed（保佑）with true sight. I realized that there were so many beautiful things around me and I had never seen them.
From then on, I decided to try my best to discover and enjoy the beauty in my life.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. How did Lucy feel when she sat under the tree?
2. What did the boy think of the flower in his hand?
3. Why did Lucy take the flower?
4. When did Lucy notice that there was something wrong with the boy’s eyes?
5. What can we learn from the passage?
【推荐1】We sometimes say the lion is “the king of the jungle” because it is stronger and more dangerous than the other animals. It can run faster than most other animals and it can hunt better. The lion is the highest animal in the land food chain. In the sea the shark is at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than most other sea animals. It can also use its big teeth to catch other sea animals and eat them.
What is at the top of the world’s food chain? Humans are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the cleverest. We could not run faster than most animals, so we invented cars and now we can move fastest. We could not fight better than lions, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the best.
People’s inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, many years ago, in Inner Mongolia, people used guns to kill a lot of wild wolves. The wild wolves usually eat wild rabbits. But in recent years, the number of wild rabbits is becoming bigger and bigger because the number of wild wolves is getting smaller and smaller. The wild rabbits competed for the grass with the sheep and cows. Much of the grassland became desert because it was seriously destroyed by the rabbits.
Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger, too! If we protect animals, we are protecting ourselves.
1. Which animal is the king of the jungle?2. Why are people at the top of the world’s food chain?
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(三)请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
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At just 14 years old, Ryan Hickman from San Juan Hills High School, US, attracts a lot of eyes with a beach clean-up activity. On April 20th, 2024, he and many volunteers started a five-week activity to pick up trash from five beaches along the Southern California coast and even some beaches in Mexico.
“The trash ends up in the ocean, and animals are eating it,” Ryan told The Orange County Register. “Picking up a piece of trash may save a turtle’s life.” He has collected about 2 million bottles from beaches, lakes and rivers since 2012.
Ryan first learned about the influence of pollution at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center (PMMC,太平洋海洋哺乳动物中心) in Laguna Beach, which has been saving and protecting sea animals for more than 40 years. Watching sea animals improve inspired him to think about what he could do to help to save them.
From a young age, he has developed a love for recycling. He kept collecting trash and bottles for a long time. One day, Ryan knew from the workers in PMMC that saving sea animals needed money. “Why not sell them?” he thought. In 2017, Ryan handed a $10,000 check (支票) to the PMMC after picking up 50,000 pounds of trash and more than 200,000 recyclable bottles.
Ryan has also traveled worldwide, speaking to kids about caring for our planet and oceans. He hopes every kid can do something.
He said, “It’s meaningful. __________________________________________________________________.”
1. Did the five-week beach clean-up activity start on April 20th, 2024?2. How many bottles has Ryan collected since 2012?
3. What did Ryan do to help save the sea animals?
4. Finish what Ryan said. (about 30 words)
The world is in great need of fresh water. About 97% of water on Earth is salt water. Man can only drink or use the rest which comes from rivers, lakes and the underground (地下). The number of people in the world is becoming larger and larger, so we need more and more fresh water. Now water shortage (短缺) becomes a big problem. And people are trying their best to find more ways to get fresh water.
Then what can we do about it? Scientists have found some ways to turn salt water into fresh water. One important way is to boil (煮沸) sea water at a high temperature. In this way, we can make a lot of fresh water. But it often costs too much. And heating is not the only way to get fresh water. People also have other ways, such as digging deep wells (井), keeping rainwater (雨水) and protecting rivers from being polluted.
Which way is better? I think to get the most fresh water with the least money is the best. And most importantly, everyone should take part in saving water. And it’s not difficult. We should just try not to waste any water in our everyday life.
1. Where does the fresh water that people can drink come from?2. Why do we need more and more fresh water?
3. How many ways to get fresh water are mentioned (被提及) in the passage?
4. Who should take part in saving water?
5. As a student, do we need to save water in our daily life?
A five-year-old girl in London was fined（被罚款）＄194 for selling cups of lemon juice. She cried and said: “I did a bad thing.”
Her father, Andre Spicer, said his daughter set up a table on a street near her home. She wanted to sell her lemon juice to people who were going to a music festival. She just wanted to put a smile on people’s faces.
Andre Spicer said after she started selling her lemon juice, four government officers（政府官员） walked over to the table. He thought that they would ask them to put them away and go home, but they filmed them on a camera and read them something from a paper about not having a trade licence（交易许可证）. The officers then fined them.
But in the end, another government officer said sorry to them and said: “The fine will be stopped at once.”
1. Did the fine make the girl sad?2. Why did the girl want to sell her lemon juice?
3. What did the government officer do at last?
4. Do you think the government officer should fine the girl? Why or why not?
【推荐2】Joe, a Chinese American , got his doctorate in biochemistry （生物化学博士学位）in the US. He then went on to work as a scientist, under his real name, Xi Huang. But at the age of 40, he said goodbye to the successful and highly paid job to risk out full time into comedy.
In 2002 , Joe performed his comedy for the first time at a sports bar. Most of the audience （观众） had been drinking heavily and Joe had to shout over the noise they made and also from the ball games on TV. Only several people actually listened to him. But he wasn't①discouraged. Joe refused to give up, He took comedy classes, polished his jokes and his use of the English language, playing at any local clubs that would have him.
It wasn't easy for Joe to work full-time in the daytime as a scientist while at night writing jokes or on the phone looking （A）_____________ chances to perform. As he got experience in entertaining audiences , his confidence built. He kept improving and even began getting paid for his comedy.
In 2005, he met Eddie Brill, a talent scout （星探） for The Late Show with David Letterman which is famous as "Comedy Oscar" . With Eddie's help, Joe went to the program, where he achieved big success. And he had been in the big time ever since. Joe had also been on national comedy tours and had one of his biggest gigs （现场表演） in 2010 performing for 2, 400 reporters and top US officials. For Joe , what happened after that was amazing. He had a never-ending calendar filled with show dates and was also looking into producing a TV situation comedy.
②After becoming well-known in the US, he was invited to many universities in China to share his experience. And in 2011 , his autobiography（自传） The Tao of Humor came out. Joe never thought about becoming such a successful comedian when he first went to study in the US. One of his important motivations （动机） was that he wanted to put a more public face on the Chinese in the US. "There are already （B）_____________ Chinese scientists in America but not one comedian. " he once expressed.
On top of that, he went back to China where talk shows were just appearing. Now Joe is hosting a TV show called Is It True on CCTV.
1. 请在文中A、B两处的横线上分别填入一个适当的介词和限定词。（A）
2. 请根据短文内容,猜测文中①处单词discouraged的中文意思。
| A．幸运的 | B．沮丧的 | C．兴奋的 |
4. 请回答问题: According to the passage . what events won Joe the greatest success?
请根据短文内容,完成句子,每空一词。
5. Joe's first comedy performance wasn't
6. The
【推荐3】A little stream (小溪) ran down from a high mountain through many villages and forests. Then it reached a desert “I went through so many difficulties. I should have no problem crossing the desert.” she thought. As she started, she found herself slowly vanishing (消失) into the sand. After many tries, she still failed. “Maybe I can’t reach the ocean.” she said sadly to herself.
At this time, a deep voice said, “If wind can cross the desert, so can a river.” It was the voice of the desert. But the little stream answered, “That’s because the wind can fly, but I can’t.”
“That’s because you can’t give up what you are. Let yourself evaporate (蒸发) into the wind and it can take you across me.” said the desert. “Give up what I am now? No! No!” The little stream could not accept this idea.
“The wind can carry the vapor (蒸汽) across the desert and let it leave as rain. The rain will form a river again.” said the desert. “And whether you’ re a river or vapor your nature never changes.” After hearing this, the little stream went into the open arms of the wind. It carried her to the next stage of her life.
The course of our lives is like the experience of the little stream. If we want to go through difficulties to head for success, we should also change the way we are.
1题完成句子；2-5题简略回答问题。1. The little stream ran down from a high mountain through
2. What did the little stream want to reach?
3. Who gave the advice to the little stream?
4. What did the little stream do at last after hearing the advice?
5. What can you learn from the passage?
I was walking around in a big store, when I saw a shop assistant talking to boy of 5 or 6 years old. The assistant said, "I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll." Then the little boy turned to me and asked, "Uncle, are you sure I don't have enough money?"
I counted his money and replied, "You know that you don't have enough money to buy the doll, my dear." I asked him whom he wished to give this doll to. "I wanted to give the doll to my sister for her birthday. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there." His eyes were so sad while he was saying this.
"My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too. All was because of a traffic accident." My heart nearly stopped. The little boy looked up at me and said, "I told Daddy to tell Mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the store."
I quickly reached for my money and said to the boy, "I suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money/or the doll." He said, "OK, I hope I do have enough money." I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money. The little boy became very excited.
I left the shop, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed forever.
1. Where did the writer meet the boy?2. What did the boy want to buy?
3. What happened to the boy's family?
4. Why did the boy want to give his sister a gift?
5. Why did the writer add some money without the boy seeing?
Just before Christmas in 1944, a letter arrived at our house in Philadelphia. The postmark was from Tuskegee, Alabama, so we all knew who it was from. We quickly gathered around my mother as she opened it at the kitchen table.
My Dear mother,
I did not get the leave I expected for Christmas. I will miss all of you. Please leave the Christmas tree up until I make it back. I hope to be with you guys by March.
Love from your son,
Clifton
I was 17 years old at that time. My heart sank. I felt a profound sadness that my favorite brother would not be home for Christmas. He was one of the Tuskegee Airmen and was responsible for maintaining the airplanes flying off to fight in the World War II. My mother, being the optimist, said, “Well, it looks like we’ll get to have two Christmases this year!”
After Christmas, my sister and I worked together to make sure we could keep that Christmas tree looking as pretty as possible. This was no easy job. By mid-January, the tree branches drooped so low to the ground that they became a sliding board for the ornaments.
Each day, ornaments would come crashing to the ground and there were new pine needles all over the wooden floor. My sister and I had to took turns to keep sweeping them up. We repositioned the ornaments to the stronger branches on the tree, hoping they would stay on. Each time we freshened that tree up, my sister and I were full of thoughts about Clifton and how happy we would be to see him again. It made us feel that he was close by, even though he was hundreds of miles away.
On March 5, the doorbell rang. I ran to the door and gave Clifton a big hug. As he hugged mum, I could see he peek over her head at the Christmas tree.
“It’s beautiful,” he said. “Thank you.”
Clifton opened his present and told us all sorts of stories about his work in Tuskegee. That night as we slept, we heard a crash in the living room. We all ran to see what had happened. The tree had toppled onto the sofa and there were needles and broken ornaments everywhere. We all had a good laugh.
1. The writer’s family felt very________after they read the letter from Clifton.| A．sad | B．excited | C．nervous | D．satisfied |
| A．The ornaments always fell off. | B．The ornaments were so high in the air. |
| C．The sister liked to play on them. | D．The branches looked ugly without needles. |
| A．they wanted to make their house clean | B．they wanted to share the tree with Clifton |
| C．they couldn’t afford a new Christmas tree | D．they needed something to forget about Clifton |
【推荐3】There was a small village. There were only more than two hundred people in it. The village was in the south of a city.
The village was special because in this village everybody was wealthy. They all had beautiful houses and very nice clothes. They were good at business so they were rich.
A young man wanted to know why, so he came to the village one day. He walked for a long time but he didn’t find the reason. So he went to the market place and he started to talk with a businessman in a white shirt.
“Look,” he said, “the people in your village are very famous. You are all good businessmen. What is the secret?” “What is the secret?” answered the businessman, “The secret is this. We eat a lot of fish and the fish is good for our brains. It makes us clever.” “I see,” said the young man. “and what is the name of the fish?” “I don’t know,” said the businessman. “But if you give me $10, I can send you some.” The young man thought that was a good idea. So he gave the businessman $10 and left. Soon, the young man received a box. In a box, there were three fish.
After about a month, the young man met the businessman again. “Thank you for the fish,” he said, “but listen, $10 is too much for the three fish” “Ha! You see!” said the businessman. “The fish is beginning to have an effect（效果）. You are becoming clever.”
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. Where was the village?
2. Which word has the same meaning as the underlined word “wealthy” in Paragraph 2?
3. Who did the young man talk with at the market place?
4. How much did the young man pay for the fish?
5. What do you know about the businessman from the last two paragraphs?（一句话作答）
