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When Chinese people talk about the mouse, they are likely it as greedy and dishonest. It mainly comes from a Chinese folk story about the cat and the mouse.

One day, the mouse and the cat made an appointment to attend a competition held by the Jade Emperor. It would decide the zodiac animals. However, the mouse did not wake the cat up and at last won by riding on the ox’s back. So the mouse ranked first on the 12 Chinese zodiac signs, and because of that, people think the mouse betrayed his friend.

Probably not! Human culture is funny. There are always different ways to look at the same thing.

In another folk story, people treated the mouse as a great hero. It's said that the mouse created the world by taking a bite of heaven, bringing light to humans. It helped people survive by stealing firewood and grain seeds（种子）. As a result, many people respect the mouse by offering food and praying for success.

Since mice live together in societies and have many babies with a high survival rate, the also represent cooperation（合作）and reproduction. With all these qualities, it's believed that people born in the Year of the Mouse are smart and good at making money.

Perhaps we need to find a new understanding for other things—animals, ideas or even.

1. Who did the mouse betray in the passage?

A．The ox.

B．The cat.

C．Jade Emperor.

D．The cat and the ox.

2. What can we know from Paragraph 4?

A．The mouse created the world by stealing something.

B．The mouse took people's grain seeds secretly.

C．The mouse did many things to save humans.

D．The mouse can never be a hero.

3. What's the Chinese meaning of the underlined phrase “survival rate” in Paragraph 5?

A．增长率

B．出生率

C．死亡率

D．存活率

4. Which saying can be used as the writer s opinion?

A．Where there is a will, there is a way.

B．Each coin has two sides.

C．God help those who help themselves.

D．A friend in need is a friend indeed.

【推荐2】Mrs. Brown is very fat. “Don't eat meat or cakes,” her doctor says to her.

“I’m going to stop her eating them, doctor,” her husband says.

The next morning, Mrs. Brown makes a nice cake, and her husband eats half of it. After he goes out, Mrs. Brown cuts a very small piece of cake and eats it. It is very good. She cuts a bigger piece and eats it. In a few minutes she finishes the cake. “My husband is going to be very angry,” she says, “what am I going to do?”

She makes another cake very quickly, eats half of that and leaves half on the table. Her husband comes back later. He sees the half of the cake on the table and he is very happy.

1. Why does the doctor tell Mrs. Brown not to eat meat or cakes?

A．Because Mrs. Brown likes them.

B．Because Mrs. Brown tells the doctor to say so.

C．Because meat and cakes can make her fatter.

D．Because meat and cakes are not good food.

2. Mrs. Brown makes another cake because________.

A．she is good at making cakes

B．Her husband likes cakes

C．She wants to eat more cakes

D．She doesn't want her husband to be angry

3. How many cakes does Mrs. Brown eat?

A．One.

B．Half a cake.

C．One and a half.

D．Two.

4. What will probably happen according to the story?

A．Mr. Brown will never eat cakes.

B．Mrs. Brown will not make cakes anymore.

C．Mrs. Brown will become fatter.

D．Mr. Brown will ask Mrs. Brown to eat meat.

【推荐3】Mr. Brown is 80 years old. Every morning he goes for a walk in the park. And he comes home at twelve thirty for lunch. But today a car stops at his house at twelve. Two policemen help him get out. One of them says to Mr. Brown’s daughter, “The old man can’t find his way in the park. He asks us to take him home by car.” The daughter thanks the policemen. Then she asks her father, “ Dad, you go to that park every day. But today, you can’t find the way. What’s wrong with you?” The old man smiles like a child and says, “I can find my way. I don’t want to walk home.”

1. Every morning, Mr. Brown often comes home at          .

A．twelve	B．eleven thirty
C．twelve thirty	D．twelve fifteen

2. Today Mr. Brown comes home         .

A．by car

B．by bike

C．by bus

D．on foot

3. The policeman says Mr. Brown          .

A．doesn’t want to walk home

B．can’t find his way home

C．knows the way

D．is ill in the park.

4. Mr. Brown’s daughter thinks         .

A．her father wants to go home

B．her father wants to have lunch early

C．her father doesn’t want to go to the park

D．something is wrong with her father

5. Mr. Brown has lunch         .

A．at home

B．in the car

C．in the park

D．at twelve

【推荐1】About thirty years ago, China was known as the “Bicycle Kingdom”. But the two-wheeled way of transportation became less and less popular later.

But these months you can see a revival(复兴) of bikes across China. More and more people choose to ride bikes instead of driving to schools, workplaces or parks. Some start-up companies（新兴公司） like Ofo and Mobike came up with the bike-sharing plans. They have brought the plans to people’s daily life and developed it to a new level.

Unlike other sharing plans around the world, China’s bicycles can be picked up and left anywhere. The bicycles are locked by the user after riding and then unlocked by the next rider by using a mobile APP and scanning(扫描)a QR code on the bike.

People can unlock the shared bikes by simply using their smartphones. The bikes have GPS and can be left anywhere in public for the next user. They’re popular among many Chinese people as they provide a good solution to the “last mile” problem, which means the final leg of a person’s journey.

China’s government praised Mobike and Ofo last month. They said that bike-sharing was a good way of cutting air pollution and traffic pressure.

根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。
1. China is always known as “Bicycle Kingdom”.
2. These months more and more people like to ride bikes to school or work instead of driving.
3. Just like other countries, China’s bikes can also be picked up and left anywhere.
4. The shared bikes are only popular among young people.
5. Shared bikes are helpful for solving the “last mile” problem.

【推荐2】Ladies and gentlemen, I returned to this year in a time machine. In the year 2500, we are able to travel through time to any year in the history of the earth. This year is your last chance your lifestyle to save the earth.

Beginning in the middle of the 20th century, a few people were worried about polluting the earth’s water and air, but most people did not change their way of life. Instead, they continued to pour(倒) dangerous chemical(化学物品) and other waste into lakes and seas, to drive more and more cars and trucks, and to cut down trees.

By the year 2200, the earth’s water was completely polluted. People could no longer drink water, and they had to use other types of liquids(液体). Scientists said that in the future there might be too many people on the earth. But not enough was done.

So by the year 2300, there were so many people that food became scarce. There was no water to grow food and all of the fish in lakes and seas died because of pollution. Terrible wars broke out between the rich and the poor. Scientists were working very hard to find another planet in space where humans could live.

By the year 2400, the air was too polluted for humans to breathe. So we had to leave the earth. But only the rich were able to leave. Where did we go? Nowhere. And everywhere. You see scientists did not find another safe planet, so now we must travel around the universe in our space ships. We are still looking for a place to call our home.

So it is up to you to change history. There is still hope. You must change your lifestyle now, before it is too late.

1. Which problem is NOT talked about in Paragraph 2?

A．Water

B．Air

C．Lifestyle

D．Food

2. The underlined word ‘scarce’ means ‘______’ in Chinese.

A．昂贵的

B．充足的

C．缺乏的

D．特殊的

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A．Only a few people changed their lifestyle in the 20th century.

B．There was no clean water for people to drink by the year 2200.

C．All the fish died because of the pollution by the year 2300.

D．We found a new home in another planet by the year 2400.

4. What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Stop polluting	B．Change or leave
C．Look for new home	D．Return to the earth

【推荐3】In the 13th century, Marco Polo, the world-known Italian traveler, saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century.     1    

       Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2000 years ago.     2     Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that, countries rich in forests, Sweden, America, and Finland became the most important ones in paper making.     3     The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be isolated from heat or cold with paper. However, there will not be any trees left on earth someday in the near future. Every day, people throw away about two 2800 tons of paper in our city.     4     This means that we’re cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.
       So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper.     5     When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.
       In short, we should keep a balance between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

Word Bank isolated       隔绝的 balance       平衡

A．Paper can be used in many ways.

B．It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper.

C．We can use china cups instead of paper ones.

D．But it was not made in Europe until the year 1100.

E．However, the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.