"That sounds like a very good idea," he answers. "Do you want to see the ads(广告) in the newspaper?"
"Let's go to the animal center. Many pets there need homes. Tomorrow is Saturday, so we can both go," she says.
The next morning the Browns meet Mr. Snow at the animal center. "We want to be sure that the pets here go to good homes," Mr. Snow says, "So I need to ask you some questions."
After they talk for a while, the Browns decide to get a small dog. It wouldn't need a big house or a big yard. A small dog would bark (吠) and warn (警告) them if someone try to break into (闯入)their house. After Mr. Snow gives the Browns a book on pet care, they choose one and want to take her home right away. But the animal doctor doesn’t check her yet. So Mr. Snow tells them to return on Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon the Browns go to the animal center. The animal doctor says, "Shadow has all of her shots (预防针). She will be healthy." The Browns thank the doctor and take Shadow home.
1. “The animal center ”in the reading means _____.
| A．a place to sell small dogs | B．a place to keep homeless animals |
| C．a place to study animals | D．a place to sell books on pet care |
| A．doesn't need to look after | B．can help them watch their house |
| C．eats less food than a bigger one | D．usually has a beautiful name |
| A．Shadow will not be easy to get ill | B．the Browns are not pleased with Shadow |
| C．Mr. Snow doesn't check Shadow at all | D．Shadow likes barking a lot |
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【推荐1】Qiu Shaochun is one of the most famous musicians in China. The 57-year-old man has given shows in more than 30 countries and areas, like Spain, France and Italy. Growing up in a Fujian village, Qiu would spend hours listening to fishermen. They made music by blowing leaves. He learned the skill from his father, a high school music teacher. Later, he studied erhu and became a successful erhu player. But he never gave up his dream of making leaf-blowing his career（职业 ）.When he joined the traveling theater company from Xiamen, his dream came true.
Qiu is trying to bring leaf-blowing to a higher level. Over the years, he has learned how to play three octaves（八度）on a leaf. He not only plays Chinese songs, but also well-known foreign ones.
“Leaves may be the oldest and simplest musical instrument in the world, ”he said. People learned to play the leaf more than 10, 000 years ago for fun and communication. Though any kind of leaf can be used as an instrument, Qiu prefers the leave of banyan.
He is now trying hard to spread leaf-blowing. Qiu was invited to give talks and shows at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, encouraging a group of 15 people to take up leaf-blowing as a hobby.
1. Who did Qiu learn the skill of leaf-blowing from?| A．His father. | B．An erhu player. | C．Some fishermen. | D．A theatre manager. |
| A．When he was 57 years old. |
| B．When he finished high school. |
| C．When he gave shows in Spain. |
| D．When he joined the theater company. |
| A．Fun and communication. | B．Learning a skill. |
| C．Making money. | D．Keeping Healthy. |
| A．To improve skills. |
| B．To collect banyan leaves. |
| C．To spread the art of leaf-blowing. |
| D．To encourage people to travel around the world. |
【推荐2】Dale Smith is thirty-two years old. He works at a radio station. His home is in the center of the city. He walks to his workplace every day. From Monday to Friday, he gets up early, usually at six o’clock. He needs to have a quick breakfast and then goes to the radio station before seven. People always listen to his program at that time. He works at the station for five years and he is never late for work.
Dale Smith likes his job and he also likes doing sports. On weekdays he usually runs for a quarter after work. On weekends he always joins his friends to play basketball in the afternoon. It’s his favorite sport. Sometimes he goes swimming with his family. He does a lot of exercise, so he is really healthy. As for food, he likes vegetables with rice best. He also likes chicken and he says it tastes good. He doesn’t like ice-cream. He thinks it is bad for his teeth. At night Dale often goes to bed early. He really has a happy life.
1. How long does Dale work at the radio station?| A．From Monday to Friday. | B．For 32 years. | C．For 5 years. | D．For a quarter. |
| A．At 6: 00 a.m. | B．At 7: 00 a.m. | C．At 6: 00 p.m. | D．At 7: 00 p.m. |
| A．Basketball. | B．Volleyball. | C．Baseball. | D．Swimming. |
① vegetables ② rice ③ ice-cream ④chicken
| A．①②③ | B．②③④ | C．①③④ | D．①②④ |
| A．Dale lives in the center of the village. | B．Dale has a quick breakfast at his workplace. |
| C．On Saturday and Sunday, Dale always plays basketball with his friends. | D．Dale often goes swimming with his family on weekends. |
This term Mr White, Mary’s uncle, works in her school. He teaches Grade 2 history. He often tells Mary to follow the school rules and come to school on time.
Today Mary get up late again. When she comes to school, it is 8:15 . Her uncle is waiting for her at the school gate. “You are ten minutes late for the first class.” Mr White says angrily (生气地). “Why are you often late for class?” “Every time when I get to the street corner（街角）, I always see a sign(标志). It says ‘SCHOOL-GO SLOW!(慢行)’ ” says Mary.
1. Mary is a _______year student.
| A．fifth | B．second | C．first | D．three |
| A．She likes watching TV |
| B．She likes listening to music. |
| C．Her mother isn’t at home |
| D．She can’t get up on time in the morning |
| A．English | B．Chinese | C．math | D．history |
| A．8:10 | B．8:00 | C．8:05 | D．8:15 |
| A．drivers | B．Mary | C．students | D．teachers |
根据短文内容,选择正确选项。
1. How many (多少) balls does Barry have?
| A．9 | B．4. | C．11. | D．13. |
| A．The school soccer club. |
| B．The school volleyball club. |
| C．The school tennis club. |
| D．The school baseball club. |
相似的
| A．不同的 | B．熟悉的 | C．陌生的 |
| A．Soccer and volleyball. |
| B．Soccer and baseball. |
| C．Tennis and volleyball. |
| D．Tennis and baseball. |
| A．Barry is Kim’s brother. |
| B．Barry plays soccer every day. |
| C．Kim doesn’t have tennis rackets. |
| D．Kim has 2 green baseballs. |
【推荐2】I have three good friends. We like sports very much. My favorite sport is basketball. I have three balls. I think playing basketball is interesting. Jim and Tim think it is boring to play basketball. Their favorite sport is soccer. They play soccer every afternoon. They have four balls. Mary is a nice girl. Her favorite sport is volleyball. She plays it very well. It’s relaxing for her to play volleyball. But she has only one ball. Sports are good for us.
1. What’s Mary’s favorite sport?| A．Soccer. | B．Volleyball. | C．Basketball. | D．Tennis. |
| A．I. | B．Mary. | C．Tim. | D．Jim. |
| A．Yes, she does. | B．No, she doesn’t. |
| C．We don’t know. | D．Yes, he does. |
【推荐3】Clean the window
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building was only a few feet away from mine. There lived a woman. I could see her sit by the window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
Several months later, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear (不清楚的) through the dirty window. I wondered why that woman doesn’t wash her window. It’s terrible.
One bright morning I decided to clean my house, including washing my window. Then, in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看得见的). Her window was clean! I’d been watching hers through my own dirty window all the time. How often had I looked at and judged (评价，评判) others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own shortcoming (缺点、短处)?
1. The writer couldn’t see things clearly through the windows because ________.| A．the woman’s window was dirty | B．the writer’s window was dirty |
| C．the building was too far away | D．the writer was short-sighted (近视的) |
| A．my poor eyesight | B．a part of my body |
| C．my shortcoming | D．the window of my house |
| A．one should never judge others |
| B．one should not look at others’ window |
| C．one must judge himself before judging others. |
| D．one must help neighbors clean their windows. |
【推荐1】Mr. Smith is fifty years old. He began to teach in a middle school twenty-six years ago. He works hard and always comes to his office on time. He expects his students to be honest and is strict with them. Some of his students become famous people, but they still remember him and often write to him. Of course, the old man is proud of it.
This term he began to teach Grade One. Some of the new students knew him, but the others didn’t know him well. He told them how to be an honest person. He gave them several examples and said, “I hate telling a lie most.”
Before class was over, he told all his students to finish Exercise 8 in Unit 1. The next morning, as soon as he came into the classroom, he asked, “Who’s finished Exercise 8?”
A few students put up their hands. He shook his head and said, “Open your workbooks and see whether there’s Exereise 8 in Unit 1 or not?”
The students had a look at their workbooks and their faces turned red at once.
根据短文内容，判断下列各句正（T）、误（F）。1. Mr. Smith has taught in the middle school for more than thirty years.
2. Mr. Smith is strict with himself and his students.
3. Mr. Smith told his students not to tell a lie.
4. All the students know Mr. Smith very well.
5. The students felt sorry when Mr. Smith found their secrets.
【推荐2】The Guinness Book of World Records（《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》） is always full of amazing people and things. These amazing people show us their fantastic abilities.
 | My name is Paddy Doyle. I am a British. I can do 1,940 push-ups（俯卧撑） in one hour. I only use one hand and put the other hand on my back. I have done a lot of exercise to do this. But I feel it is worthwhile to get the record. |
 | My name is Bernd Schmidt. I am a German. I am 47 years old. I have the biggest mouth in the world! I can put a Big Mac hamburger in my mouth. It is 8.78 cm between my upper teeth and lower teeth! |
 | I am John Farnworth. I am 30 years old. I come from the United Kingdom. I am a soccer freestyler（自由式射手）. I can kick the football into the wall 28 times in 30 seconds! No one in the world is faster than me. |
 | I am Maxwell Day. I'm from London. I am 17 years old. I can turn my feet 157 degrees（度）. This is the largest degree that people can do so. In fact, I need to wear special shoes because my feet change direction on their own! |
1. _____________ can kick the football into the wall 28 times in 30 seconds.
| A．Paddy Doyle | B．Bernd Schmidt |
| C．Maxwell Day | D．John Farnworth |
| A．Paddy is quite good at doing push-ups |
| B．Bernd Schmidt never eats hamburgers |
| C．John Farnworth is also a basketball player |
| D．Maxwell can turn his hands 157 degrees |
| A．sports stars | B．football skills |
| C．amazing people | D．body secrets |
【推荐3】How much do you know about school life in Singapore?
In Singapore, many middle school students spend a lot of time on their studies. People there always think that good schooling is the ticket to success (成功). So, many of these students try their best to get good results in their exams. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are usually a big problem to them. Sometimes, a few even have to go to evening classes after school.
Schools have many activities outside school hours. The students can join in sports and games, music and dance, swimming and rock-climbing. They also join in community service.
In their free time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood movies, Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular, too. Some of them also spend their free time searching the Internet, e-mailing their friends, playing computer and video games.
They sometimes go to cafes, fast-food restaurants, shopping centers and big bookstores.
So life for middle school students in Singapore is not easy but rich and colorful.
1. What do people in Singapore always think is the ticket to success?| A．A good school. |
| B．Good schooling. |
| C．Doing much homework. |
| D．Having evening classes. |
| A．All of the students | B．Few of the students |
| C．A few of the students | D．Most of the students |
| A．Doing sports and playing games. |
| B．Listening to music and dancing. |
| C．Going swimming and rock-climbing. |
| D．Visiting the museums. |
| A．go swimming |
| B．write letters to their friends |
| C．talk to their friends |
| D．get good results in the exams |
| A．the middle school students' life in Singapore is easy |
| B．the middle school students' life ill Singapore is amazing |
| C．the middle school students' life in Singapore is boring |
| D．the middle school students' life in Singapore is hard, but it's interesting |
【推荐1】The car was invented just a century ago. You may know all kinds of cars’ names, but many people don’t know who was the inventor of the first car.
The first car was invented not by an Englishman, but by an American. His name was Henry Ford. Henry was born in a poor family. He was the eldest of the six children. When he was a boy, he became interested in watches and machines. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. Soon he had to work in a machine shop for two dollars and fifty cents a week.
In the evening, he repaired watches for another dollar a week. The hard life made him strong and able.
At that time, there was another interest in the life of the young Ford. He wished of making a machine.
It could run without horses, so named horseless carriage. He overcame a lot of difficulties and in April 1893, the “horseless carriage” was invented at last. It was the first car.
Later Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company. He was really the first inventor of the car in the world.
1. Who really invented the first car?| A．A Chinese. | B．An Englishman. | C．A Russian. | D．An American. |
| A．only one hundred years ago | B．less than one hundred years ago |
| C．more than gone hundred years ago | D．long long ago |
| A．five brothers and sisters | B．six brothers and sisters |
| C．five younger brothers | D．five younger sisters |
| A．2.5 dollars. | B．1.5 dollars. | C．3.5 dollars. | D．3 dollars. |
【推荐2】Nate Damm went from Delaware to San Francisco in 2011. Did the trip take four hours? No. It took longer. Eight hours? No. Much longer. A few weeks? No. It took even longer than that. The trip took him over seven months. Why did it take so long? Damm walked across the United States. He walked more than 3,000 miles across 14 states.
Someone asked Damm, “Wouldn't it be faster if you just drove?” Well, arriving wasn't the point.
Damm grew up in Maine. He never traveled farther west than Pennsylvania. He often thought about traveling to other countries, but then he realized he didn't know much about the United States. So he decided to walk across the country. By walking, he felt more connected to the people and the land.
In the beginning, Damm walked about 13 miles a day. Then he started walking longer distances. One day in Colorado, he walked 41 miles.
At first, Damm used GPS (全球定位系统) to find his way, but the directions it gave him were often wrong. He bought a paper road map and found it was much better. He avoided major highways (主路); the smaller roads were safer.
Damm is not the only person to cross the United States on foot. About ten to twenty people do it every year.
1. Damm's walking trip in 2011 _______.| A．took over nine months | B．started from San Francisco |
| C．covered 14 states of the US | |
| A．the score | B．the opinion | C．the main goal |
| A．he was advised to do that |
| B．he found he knew little about the country |
| C．he found walking was good exercise |
| A．13 miles | B．31 miles | C．41 miles |
| A．GPS is not as good as a road map sometimes |
| B．Damm prefers major highways to smaller roads |
| C．less than ten people walk across the US every year |
This is the first time a human from H7N9 has been detected (确诊).Little research has been done on this unknown bird flu, and there are no vaccines (疫苗) against the virus.
The reported deaths were of an 87-year-old man who was found ill on Feb 19 and died on March 4, and a 27-year-old man who was found ill on Feb 27 and died on March 10.The third person, a 35-year-old woman from Chuzhou, Anhui province, is in hospital in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
It is still unknown how the three became ill, and experts said there is no evidence that they caught the illness from each other. There is also no evidence of anyone who stay closely with them being ill.
To be away from H7N9 and stay healthy, remember the following things.
1.Go to crowded places as less as possible, especially the elderly and children. Pay attention to personal self-protection.
2.Keep the air in door fresh. Often wash your hands. Cover the nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing (打喷嚏).Wash hands after cleaning the nose and mouth.
3.Eat clean food. Don’t put raw (生的) and cooked food together. And do not eat raw or undercooked meat, eggs and other food.
4.Do sports. Take more exercise, have enough sleep and rest, so that you can get yourself stronger.
根据短文内容, 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选择最佳答案。
1. How do people know about H7N9?
| A．People know H7N9 very well. |
| B．No people have heard about it. |
| C．People know little about it. |
| D．Only Chinese people know about it. |
| A．On February 19 | B．On March 10 |
| C．On March 4 | D．On February 27 |
| A．Shanghai | B．Nanjing |
| C．Putian | D．Chuzhou |
| A．夹生的 | B．煮熟的 |
| C．未煮过的 | D．在下面煮的 |
| A．Don’t go to crowed places. |
| B．Don’t mix raw and cooked food together. |
| C．Do more exercise to keep fit. |
| D．Close the window so that birds can’t fly in. |
