Today is March 12th. I get up early in the morning. After breakfast my cousin Linda takes me to Mike’s birthday party. Mike is Linda’s good friend, but I don’t know him. Of course I don’t know where his house is. Oh, Linda knows the way to his house. At about eight o’clock we get to Mike’s house. Mike is very friendly, and I like him very much. I have fun at his party. And I know a lot about Mike’s family. His parents are teachers, but they don’t work in the same school. Mike has two sisters, they are Susan and Alice. They both like sports. And they both have pen pals in China. Who do you know is Alice’s pen pal? Her pen pal is Zhang Xuefeng, He’s your cousin. Isn’t it interesting?
Yours.
Helen
1. __________ knows the way to Mike’s house.
| A．Helen | B．Wen Qian |
| C．Linda | D．Mike |
| A．father | B．sister | C．cousin | D．friend |
| A．four | B．five | C．six | D．seven |
| A．cousin | B．brother |
| C．friend | D．pen pal |
| A．Helen takes a taxi to Mike’s house |
| B．Helen doesn’t have pen pals in China |
| C．Helen has fun at mike’s birthday party. |
| D．Helen isn’t happy at the party |
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Best friend looking out for you
最好的朋友
When I was young, I was very scared of dogs. But my grandma said dogs were our friends. She told me a story that she heard from her parents.
Long ago, Jim’s father gave him a dog as a gift for his seventh birthday. Jim named the dog Brownie. Soon, Jim and Brownie became very fond of each other.
There was a river near Jim’s house. He often went there fishing with his friends. One day, Jim took Brownie to go fishing. He wanted to show Brownie his fishing skills. After waiting for a while, he suddenly felt a big force from under the water. Believing it must be a very big fish, Jim got very excited. He tried his best to pull the fish up out of the water, but it wouldn’t move. Because of the strong pull, Jim lost his balance and fell into the water. Sadly, he didn’t know how to swim. He cried and struggled in the water for a while but soon went down.
As Jim woke up again, he felt the warmth (温暖) on his face. Brownie was licking (舔) his face non-stop. He was trying to wake him up. Then Jim found himself lying on the river bank. On his shirt, there were some big holes (洞). Seeing that, Jim smiled and hugged (拥抱) his best friend at once.
根据短文内容选择正确答案。
1. When did Jim’s father give Jim a dog as his birthday gift?
| A．At the age of eight. | B．At the age of nine. |
| C．At the age of seven. | D．At the age of six. |
| A．by the sea | B．in the pool | C．by the lake | D．by the river |
| A．力量 | B．能量 | C．暴力 | D．蛮力 |
| A．The writer. | B．The dog. | C．Jim’s father. | D．Jim’s mother. |
| A．it is dangerous to go fishing | B．don’t be scared of dogs |
| C．dogs are our friends | D．it’s important to learn to swim |
Susan, the US
My best friend is Fanny. She is clever and interesting. We always look after each other. The first week we met, I got sick and she looked after me every day.
Betty, England
My best friend is Ana. She is honest and serious. We were born in the same city in England. Then I moved to America with my family. I thought I would never see Ana again. When I went to college in New York, Ana and I shared the same room!
Ken, Japan
I love to spend time with Daisuke because he is funny and smart. We enjoy talking about the funny things we did when we were children, and tell the same stupid jokes over and over again.
Lilly, Australia
Linda is a very confident girl and she is really kind. Some people may wonder why Linda and I are best friends because we are totally different, but I think this is why we are such good friends.
1. Who is Susan’s best friend?
| A．Ana. | B．Fanny. | C．Linda. | D．Daisuke. |
| A．Ana. | B．Lily. | C．Susan. | D．Betty. |
| A．Australia. | B．The US. | C．England. | D．Japan. |
| A．Confident and kind. | B．Funny and smart. |
| C．Honest and serious. | D．Clever and interesting. |
| A. In many ball games, the most important person is the one who carries the ball. Such a person is the leader and he makes sure that a job gets done. B. Birds feed on worms. A bird will go hungry if it cannot catch worms. The bird that gets up early is sure to get some food, so the early bird catches the worm. C. Your feet become hot when you run. But when you are forced to sit in one place, your heels stay cool. When someone keeps you waiting, you can say he is cooling your heels. D. Some people seem to know what’s going on behind them, as if they had eyes in the back of their heads. “Eyes in the back of your head” describes the ability to notice everything happening around you. E. You don’t know what will happen if you wake up a sleeping dog in the street, so it would be much smarter to let sleeping dogs lie. F. People may get their feet into the water slowly when they start to lean swimming. “Get your feet wet” means trying to do something for the first time. G. Fish live in water. A person who is in a strange or uncomfortable environment may feel like a fish out of water. |
【推荐1】Sam’s birthday is this Saturday. His parents want to have a party for him. Sam has many good friends. He wants them to come to his party. So he wrote some invitations (请柬) to his friends. This is an invitation to John. Let’s read it！
From: Sam
To: John
Day: Thursday
Dear John,
We are going to start to prepare for it at half past five in the afternoon. My parents will cook a big dinner for us. Are you free this Saturday evening? Would you like to come to my home for my birthday party? After dinner, we will have a home-made birthday cake, and then play some fun games together. I’d like all my friends to come, and we’ll have a good time. Best wishes！
Yours,
Sam
1. Sam wrote the invitation to John ________.| A．on Thursday | B．on Friday | C．on Saturday |
| A．at 4:00 p.m. | B．at 4:30 p.m. | C．at 5:30 p.m. |
| A．dinner | B．lunch | C．breakfast |
| A．sing and dance | B．play football | C．have fun games |
| A．to give John a big surprise |
| B．to invite John to come to the birthday party |
| C．to tell John who will go to the party |
【推荐2】Kids’ birthday party are more fun than adults’ (成年人的) parties. You don’t have to be serious. And there are a few things for parents to remember when they want to have one for their kids.
Make a list (清单). Each kid wants different kinds of parties. Write down all your child’s ideas on a piece of paper and then get things ready according to (根据) the list.
Make invitations. Make sure you won’t have the party at the same time as your child’s soccer game. Make sure you write down the name of each guest, so you will know the number of the things you have to prepare, such as chairs and plates.
Buy something. If you go to a party store, they will have everything you need, and you won’t have to go to different stores to get everything ready.
You need to decide whether (是否) to buy a cake or make one. Decide what kind of food to have. Make sure to get the food ready on time. You could have some drinks, such as Coke and juice. Having a small bottle of cold water is a good idea, too, especially (尤其) during hot weather.
1. If you don’t want to forget to do things for the party, you should ________.| A．invite everyone | B．make a list | C．buy many things |
| A．They want to enjoy both the game and the party. |
| B．More children will come to enjoy the party. |
| C．Fewer children will come to enjoy the party. |
| A．A party store. | B．A supermarket. | C．A restaurant. |
| A．plan party drinks | B．invite guests | C．plan party games |
| A．Why to organize a birthday party for kids. |
| B．When to organize a birthday party for kids. |
| C．How to organize a birthday party for kids. |
About five weeks ago, I noticed the skin of our pet lizard was growing dusty. It worried me. I reported the strange surface on the skin of the lizard to my husband and children the next morning. Seconds later, our lizard appeared from its tank with its old skin flowing behind it.
I didn’t think about it much until a morning last week when I knocked my favorite teapot off the table. It burst into hundreds of pieces. As I swept up the mess, I wondered why we had been breaking so many things over the months.
It started three months ago. It was my husband’s birthday. He had just lost his job. The uncertainty was starting to wear on us, so I wanted to do something special.
“Let’s make a cake for Dad!” I cried.
My kids screamed with joy. We were busy making the cake happily for most of the day. Candles on the cake! Balloons on the walls! Flowers on the table!
Two hours before my husband came back home from another job interview, my daughter climbed up to grab a glass from a high shelf. It fell and crashed beside the cake. Tiny pieces of glass were everywhere. She cried loudly as I threw the cake away. My husband had banana pudding for his birthday.
Three days ago, the light in our living room suddenly went out. After several hours of unsuccessful attempts to fix it, my husband suggested watching the Michael Jordan documentary series The Last Dance.
The sadness of Jordan’s retiring from his beloved basketball to play baseball and what had pushed him to make such a hard decision really surprised me. As I watched him take off his basketball uniform and replace it with a baseball uniform, I saw him leaving behind the layer that no longer served him, just as our lizard had. Neither of them chose the moment that had transformed them. But they had to live with who they were after everything was different. Just like us. I realized that we had to learn to leave the past behind.
Humans do not shed skin as easily as animals. The beginning of change is upsetting. The process is tiring. Damage changes us before we are ready. I see our lizard, raw and nearly new.
Jordan said that no matter how it ends, it starts with hope. With our soft, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.
1. Which of the following best describes the pet lizard in the passage?| A．Its tank was very dirty. | B．Its old skin came off. |
| C．It had a strange illness. | D．It got lost from the tank. |
| A．My daughter climbed up, fell and hurt herself. |
| B．My daughter made the birthday a terrible mess. |
| C．My husband only liked eating the banana pudding. |
| D．My husband was unhappy because he lost his job. |
| A．getting into a new habit | B．looking for a new job |
| C．saying goodbye to the past | D．giving up an opportunity |
| A．To prove a theory. | B．To define a concept. | C．To develop the theme. | D．To provide the background. |
【推荐1】Recent years, a new kind of restaurant is becoming popular. People who go there can not only enjoy their meals, also can enjoy playing computer games and have fun with their family and friends on line. A-li is the restaurant’s name. It is in Hangzhou, and it’s about fun and food.
In A-li, there are no waiters or waitresses around you. The screens have replaced (取代) them. You can order the food you want by touching the screen in front of you and runners will bring it to the tables. You can also play video games with the people at the next table. The screens can show music videos, movies and so on. But mainly they are used to show video games.
It’s an interactive (互动的) restaurant where you will control your meal and your fun. The service is fast and the runners know clearly where to go. There will be no waiting for a waiter, and no misunderstandings (误解) in the kitchen. Different kinds of food are served at any time of day. A-li is a place which hosts “room games”, where every table in the restaurant can have a video game competition at the same time.
The owner of the restaurant hopes that A-li can make it easy for people to be interactive, have fun and enjoy a delicious meal.
1. What can’t people do in the restaurant?| A．Enjoy their meals. |
| B．Play computer games. |
| C．Have fun with their family and friends. |
| D．Chat with the waiters and waitresses. |
| A．touching the screen in front of them | B．calling the restaurant |
| C．asking the waiters or waitresses | D．asking the runners |
| A．The waiters. | B．The waitresses. |
| C．The runners. | D．The customers themselves. |
| A．it’s a restaurant where there are no waiters or waitresses |
| B．different kinds of food are served at any time of day |
| C．it’s an interactive restaurant to have fun and enjoy a delicious meal |
| D．it’s in Hangzhou |
| A．A restaurant without waiters or waitresses. |
| B．A new kind of restaurant called A-li. |
| C．A new kind of kitchen. |
| D．How you order food in the restaurant. |
【推荐2】International Museum Day is celebrated on May 18 each year. Here are some special museums that you must see.
 | Sweet Museum, Russia Do you love candy? Don’t miss the sweet world in Russia. You can find different kinds of sweet food here. But they are just models! Look, how big the lollipops(棒棒糖) are! People can ride on them. Want to taste the ice-cream? Be careful—the ice-cream balls are lights! |
 | Museum of Failure, Sweden There are more than 100 failed products in the museum. Some of them come from the world’s most successful companies, like the Newton computer from Apple. Maybe success stories are similar and kind of boring, but we can find interesting stories in failures and learn something from them. |
 | Cancun Underwater Museum, Mexico It’s a secret garden under the sea. You can either dive(潜水) or take a glass boat into it. Down here, sea animals live around 400 sculptures(雕塑). Each sculpture tells a story and it’s made of special material, which is good for the sea life. |
 | Museum of Broken Relationships, Croatia Some relationships end—with lovers, with dreams and with cities. This special museum has a collection of objects from people around the world who want to lock their memories. Each of the object shares stories of their past relationships. |
| A．Russia | B．Sweden | C．Mexico |
| A．Sweet Museum | B．Cancun Underwater Museum | C．Museum of Broken Relationships |
| A．lollipops | B．sea animals | C．stories |
【推荐3】Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two children, Mike and Liz. The whole family are all busy, so they often leave notes for each other. Read these four notes of today and answer the following questions.
| 3:30 p.m. To Mike, Mr. Tyler rang. No football practice today. I’m going to Donna’s house to play and be back at 5:00 p.m. Liz |
| 4:00 p.m. To Liz, It’s your turn to walk the dog. I have to do my homework after school. Remember to play with Teddy when you arrive home. Mike |
| 6:45 p. m. Has anyone seen my tennis shoes? I’m in my bedroom doing my homework. Mike |
| 9:00 p. m. I saw your shoes this morning. They smelt terrible, so I put them outside the back door. Good night, dears! Mom |
1. When will Liz be back home?
| A．At 3:30 p. m. | B．At 4:00 p. m. |
| C．At 5:00 p. m. | D．At 9:00 p. m. |
| A．Practicing football. | B．Going to Donna’s house. |
| C．Playing tennis. | D．Doing his homework |
| A．In his bedroom. | B．Outside the back door. |
| C．In the living room. | D．At Donna’s house. |
| A．Mike’s mother | B．Mike’s brother |
| C．Mike’s football coach | D．the dog in the family |
The little cars of the future will cost less. Driving will be safer, too, since these little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour. The cars of the future will be fine for going around a city, but they will not be useful for a long way. Little cars will go 450 kilometers before they need to stop for more gasoline （汽油）. If big cars are still used with the small ones, two kinds of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be needed for the big, faster cars and other roads will be needed for the small, slower ones.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. There is much pollution in the air today because .
| A．people drive big cars |
| B．people drive little cars |
| C．small cars will go 450 kilometers before they need to stop for more gasoline |
| A．much smaller than the future one |
| B．as big as the future ones |
| C．bigger than the future ones |
| A．Big cars cost more. |
| B．Big cars are not useful for a long way. |
| C．The cars of the future will be smaller than today’s cars. |
| A．there will be fewer cars in the future |
| B．three kinds of roads will be built |
| C．future cars will be smaller |
| A．more and more people will go to cities |
| B．big cars run faster and little cars run slower |
| C．it looks more beautiful to have two kinds of roads |
Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?
A recent study suggests that what we are used to doing is not so good. Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this，some researchers did an experiment. Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food. As a result, it showed that the more photos they took, 67 . So, why not stop taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you?
Besides the scientific result, there are also some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. After posting the photos onto the Internet, one will not be able to control himself and check his mobile many times. “Does everyone like my photos? I hope a lot of people like them!” It seems that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are with real people.
So，next time you go out to have dinner with your family or friends, how about not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life with people around you. Trust me, it will be a wonderful time.
1. From the passage，what happens a lot at the dinner table nowadays?
| A．People talk about their Weibo or WeChat． |
| B．People learn from each other how to cook dishes． |
| C．People like taking photos with friends or families． |
| D．People take photos of food and post them before eating． |
| A．the less cheerful they became |
| B．the more interested they were in the food |
| C．the less delicious the food seemed to them |
| D．the more“liked”they got on Weibo or Wechat |
| A．The reasons for checking your mobiles. |
| B．The ways of posting the photos onto the Internet. |
| C．Some other bad influences of taking photos of food before meals. |
| D．The tips（提示）of making others like your photos on the Weibo. |
| A．We take out our mobiles and click when a dish comes. |
| B．Spending time taking photos of food makes the food less pleasant. |
| C．We check our mobiles from time to time during the meal. |
| D．Some people were asked to take photos before they could enjoy food. |
| A．Enjoy the life with real people instead of taking photos of food. |
| B．Remember to have dinner with our family and friends at home. |
| C．Take photos of delicious food and share them with others. |
| D．Take photos of food in order to have a wonderful life. |
A good reader may read at 1,000 WPM(每分钟…词 )when he looks for something for a report in the library. But once he finds what he needs, he may slow down to 100 WPM. A good reader may read newspapers and story books at 600 WPM. But he may read his science or maths books at 150 WPM. Just as a driver has a wide change of driving speed, so a good reader has a wide change of reading speed.
1. The writer thinks that a good reader can____.
| A．read at 1,000 WPM | B．read as fast as he can |
| C．change the reading speeds as he needs | D．spend more time reading |
| A．when he reads newspapers and story books |
| B．when he reads something most useful to him |
| C．when he is trying to work out a maths problem |
| D．when he is trying to find something for his report |
| A．The Importance of Having Fast Reading Speed |
| B．A Good Reader and His Reading Speed. |
| C．The Best Way of Fast Reading |
| D．The Difference Between Driving and Reading |
