I travel a lot, and I find out different “styles” of giving directions every time I ask“How can I get to the post office?”
In Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions because most streets don’t have names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, “Go straight ahead and turn left at the hotel. The post office is across from the bus stop.”
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are no towns or buildings in many places.Instead oflandmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile.”
People in Los Angeles, California have no idea of distance. They measure (测量) distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask, “Oh,” they answer, “It’s about five minutes from here.”
It’s true that a person doesn’t know the answer sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, “Sorry, I don’t know.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers, “I don’t know.” People believe in that “I don’t know.” is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
1. Why do Japanese people use landmarks in their directions?| A．Because they have no ideas of distance. | B．Because there are no towns or buildings. |
| C．Because most of the streets have no names. | D．Because people don’t know the answer. |
| A．排除 | B．代替 | C．包括 | D．使用 |
| A．People there usually say ,“Sorry, I don’t know the way.” |
| B．Local people often give a right answer. |
| C．People there have no idea of distance. |
| D．Visitors may lose their way. |
| A．“Turn left at the traffic lights and you will see a school.” |
| B．“It will take one day and a half.” |
| C．“Turn south and then walk 300 meters.” |
| D．“Go along Autumn Street and turn right at the crossing.” |
| A．Asking the Way in Different Places | B．Getting Lost in Yucatan |
| C．Travelling in Different Places | D．Where is the Post Office? |
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【推荐1】Mike and his family like to go on a camping trip on Sundays. This Sunday they plan to go to the South Hill for a camping trip.
In the morning, Mike gets up at six o’clock. He puts some bread, eggs and fruit in a basket, and takes it to the car. His sister, Helen gets up at a quarter past six. She takes four tins of juice with her. Their mother, Mrs Brown has some chocolates. Their father, Mr Brown takes a big tent and puts it in the car. Oh, the little dog is running after them. It wants to go with them, too. They are all very happy.
1. Mike and his family like camping trips .| A．正确 | B．错误 |
| A．正确 | B．错误 |
| A．正确 | B．错误 |
| A．正确 | B．错误 |
| A．正确 | B．错误 |
Many people like travelling, so do I!
So if you want to travel, choose your favourite way and enjoy yourself.
| A．I think each of them has advantages and disadvantages |
| B．Have you ever visited New York |
| C．I like travelling too |
| D．But some people prefer to travel by sea |
| E．However, when we talk about the ways of travelling |
| F．The train to some people is just like a big moving party |
【推荐3】Mrs. Miller goes to London, she doesn’t know London well and she can’t find her way. She sees a man at a bus stop .”I can ask him the way ”She says to herself.” Excuse me, can you tell me the way to King Street?” The man smiles pleasantly. He doesn’t understand English. He speaks German .He is a traveler.(游客)He puts his hand in the pocket and takes out a book. He opens a book and find a phrase (短语).He reads the phrase slowly “Sorry ,I don’t speak English.”
1. Mrs Miller goes to ________| A．France | B．England | C．China |
| A．way | B．people | C．time |
| A．an American | B．a German | C．a Japanese |
| A．to see friends | B．learn English | C．visit the city |
| A．He can’t speak English well. | B．The man tells Mrs Miller the way . |
| C．The man find the way in the book. | |
Thanks for your letter. I’m glad to hear you can come on Sunday. When you drive over to my house, it’s easy to find the station. It’s a little difficult after that, so here are some instructions (说明): Drive past the station. You can’t turn left into Garden Road, so go across the traffic lights into New Street. There’s a football ground on your left. Go straight ahead, past the bank, and turn left into Green Road. Turn left again into High Street. River Street is the first on the right. My house is on the right, across from the school.
See you on Sunday!
Love,
Ann
1. The letter is from ______.
| A．Linda | B．Ann | C．Maria | D．Lisa |
| A．tomorrow | B．on Saturday | C．on Sunday | D．next day |
| A．on foot | B．by bus | C．by car | D．by taxi |
| A．easy | B．difficult | C．hard | D．happy |
| A．near the station | B．next to the bank |
| C．across from the school | D．on New Street |
Thank you very much for your email. I know you’d like to visit the National Museum in our city. It is a big and famous museum. Let me tell you the way to it. Take your car from your house and drive along Hongxing Street. Turn left at the third turning(岔路口), not the last one. You’ll see a park on your right. The museum is opposite the park. It is open from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm every day. There are lots of old things and paintings in the museum. I hope you can have a nice time there. But don’t take a camera. You can’t use it in the museum. There is a supermarket next to it. You can buy some souvenirs（纪念品）in it.
Yours,
Jerry
1. Betty will go to the National Museum ______________.| A．by bus | B．by taxi | C．by car | D．by bike |
| A．last | B．third | C．second | D．first |
| A．It is in front of the park. | B．It is on the right of the park. |
| C．It is opposite the park. | D．It is next to the park. |
| A．You can buy some souvenirs in the museum. |
| B．The museum is open for eight hours a day. |
| C．You can go to the museum at the weekend. |
| D．Betty wants to go to the National Museum. |
| A．This email is from Betty to Jerry. |
| B．You can’t see any paintings in the museum. |
| C．You can take photos of the things in the museum. |
| D．The museum closes at half past five in the afternoon. |
I travel to many places, and I find out different “styles” of giving directions (指路) every time I ask “How can I get to the post office?”
In Japan, people use landmarks (地标) in their directions because most streets don’t have names. For example, the Japanese will tell you, “Go straight ahead and turn left at the hotel. The post office is across from the bus stop.”
In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are no towns or buildings in many places. So when giving directions, people will also tell you the distances (距离). In Kansas, for example, people will say, “Go north two miles (英里). Turn east, and then go another mile.”
People in Los Angeles, California have no idea of distance. They measure (测量) distance in time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it’s about five minutes from here.”
Sometimes people don’t know the answer to your question. What will they say? A NewYorker might say, “Sorry, I don’t know.” But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers “I don’t know.” People there think that “I don’t know” is impolite, so they usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A visitor can get very, very lost in Yucatan!
1. Why do Japanese people use landmarks in their directions?| A．They have no idea of distance. | B．Most streets there have no names. |
| C．There are no towns or buildings in their places. | D．They don’t know the way at all. |
| A．“It will take one day and a half.” |
| B．“Turn south and then go three miles.” |
| C．“Turn left at the traffic lights and you will see the hotel.” |
| D．“Go along Autumn Street and turn right at the crossing.” |
| A．have no idea of time | B．measure distance in miles |
| C．may say, “It’s half an hour from here” | D．never answer “I don’t know” |
| A．It’s a place in the USA. | B．People there are all impolite. |
| C．Visitors may lose their way there. | D．Visitors can find their way easily there. |
| A．Giving Directions in Different Places | B．Getting Lost in Yucatan |
| C．Travelling in Different Places | D．Sorry, I Don’t Know |
Hello, I’m George. I’m 14. I’m in Yali Middle School. I’m in Class Eight. I come to school at 7:30. I have four classes in the morning and three classes in the afternoon. My teachers and classmates are nice to me. I like them. After school, I like to play basketball with my friends. It’s relaxing. Basketball is my favorite sport. I have five basketballs. And I like to watch basketball games on CCTV-5. My favorite (最喜欢的) basketball player (运动员) is Guo Ailun. Danny is my cousin. He is in my class, too. He and I have the same hobby. He loves basketball, too. His favorite basketball player is LeBron James. He has four basketballs. They are from (来自) his father. He wants to be a basketball player one day. Danny can play volleyball, too. He has three volleyballs. He plays it with his classmates three days a week (周). He says it’s an easy and interesting sport.
1. How many (多少) classes does George have a day?| A．Five. | B．Six. | C．Seven. | D．Eight. |
| A．is George’s classmate and cousin | B．likes Yao Ming best (最) |
| C．can play volleyball and soccer | D．has eight balls |
| A．习惯 | B．爱好 | C．愿望 | D．目标 |
| A．Danny likes watching soccer games. |
| B．George thinks playing basketball is boring. |
| C．Danny’s father is a great basketball player. |
| D．George plays basketball with his friends. |
| A．We Have Basketballs. |
| B．I Like Playing Basketball. |
| C．I Want to Be a Basketball Player. |
| D．We Like Sports. |
【推荐2】“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy- they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” - Jeff Bezos.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife Mackenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to expect. Mackenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he persuaded me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I believed I would always be haunted(萦绕) by a decision to not try at all.
After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.
1. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?| A．The desire to follow his passion. | B．The strong support of his wife. |
| C．The increasing usage of the Internet. | D．A bookstore with millions of exciting titles. |
| A．He was a garage inventor. | B．He was in search of a good job. |
| C．He was more than thirty years old. | D．He was satisfied with his working condition. |
| A．Try to do it. | B．Guess it. |
| C．Take a picture. | D．Do quickly. |
| A．He got approval(批准) from his boss. | B．He wanted someone else to try the idea. |
| C．He might not regret if he failed the idea. | D．He might go back to his boss if he failed. |
| A．Cleverness and Kindness | B．The Starting of Amazon |
| C．Following My Passion | D．We Are What We Choose |
【推荐3】One day, we were hiking in the Oakland woods when my daughter noticed plastic litter in a stream. She looked at me and said, “Daddy, that doesn’t go there.”
What she said brought me back to a summer camp. On the morning of a visiting day, right before they let our anxious parents come running through the gates, our camp director would say, “Quick! Everyone, pick up five pieces of litter. You get a couple hundred kids each picking up five pieces and pretty soon, you’ve got a much cleaner camp.”
So I thought, why not use that crowd-sourced tidying model to the entire planet. And that was the inspiration（灵魂）for Litterati. The goal is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a picture of a cigarette using Instagram. Then I took another photo...and another photo.
And I started telling people what I was doing, and they started to join. We were becoming a community that was collecting photos. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who picked up what and when. So I built a Google map, showing where pieces were being picked up. And gradually, the community grew and the Litterati grew.
If you really want to create change, there’s no better place to start than with our kids.
A group of fifth graders picked up 1, 247 pieces of litter just on their schoolyard. And they learned that the most common type of litter was the plastic straw, wrappers from their own dining hall. So these kids went to their headmaster and asked, “Why are we still buying straws?” And they stopped. And they learned that separately they could each make a difference but together they created an influence.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a student or a scientist, whether you live in Honolulu or Hanoi this is a community for everyone.
1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 3 mean?| A．Cleaning up a place as a team. |
| B．Camping with family members. |
| C．Picking up litter while traveling. |
| D．Stopping littering wherever one goes. |
| A．downloading a Google map |
| B．telling stories to generous people |
| C．collecting photos on the Internet |
| D．picking up litter and spreading the idea |
| A．Rome wasn’t built in a day. | B．Many hands make light work. |
| C．Actions speak louder than words. | D．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
| A．The camp was organized to pick up litter. |
| B．The most common type of litter was waste paper. |
| C．The author built a Google map in order to call on more to join. |
| D．According to the author, to shape kids’ character at an early age is very important. |
| A．A Community in Progress |
| B．Create a Better World |
| C．One Piece at a Time |
| D．Photos Tell Stories |
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1. What does Ms. Zhao want to do?
| A．She wants to find another lady to share the apartment. | B．She wants to sell her apartment. |
| C．She wants to find a part-time translator. | D．She wants to sell some old things. |
| A．be excellent in English and Chinese | B．be a third-year or fourth-year Bachelor or a Master |
| C．have flexible working time | D．A, B and C |
| A．57222511. | B．60231994. |
| C．61408662. | D．57222061. |
| A．$380. | B．$350. | C．$570. | D．$320. |
| A．You can take your pet dog to live with Helen. |
| B．You have to learn more before working as a part-time translator. |
| C．There are two bedrooms in the apartment. |
| D．There is a good view outside the apartment. |
【推荐2】Not long ago, people thought babies were not able to learn things until they were five or six months old.
Yet doctors in the United States say babies begin learning on their first day of life.
Scientists note that babies are strongly influenced by their environment. They say a baby will smile if her mother does something the baby likes. A baby learns to get the best care possible by smiling to please her mother or other caregiver. This is how babies learn to connect and communicate with other human beings.
One study shows that babies can learn before they are born. The researchers placed a tape recorder on the stomach of a pregnant(怀孕的) woman. Then, they played a recording of a short story. On the day the baby was born, the researchers attempted(试图) to find if he knew the sounds of the story repeated while in his mother. They did this by placing a device(装置) in the mouth of the newborn baby.
The baby would hear the story if he moved his mouth one way. If the baby moved his mouth the other way, he would hear a different story. The researchers say the baby clearly liked the story he heard before he was born. They say the baby would move his mouth so he could hear the story again and again.
Another study shows how mothers can strongly influence social development and language skills in their children.
Researchers studied the children from the age of one month to three years. The researchers attempted to measure(测量) the sensitivity(敏感) of the mothers. The women were considered sensitive if they supported their children’s activities and did not interfere unnecessarily. They tested the children for thinking and language development when they were three years old. Also, the researchers observed the women for signs of depression(沮丧).
The children of depressed women did not do as well in tests as the children of women who did not suffer from depression. The children of depressed women did poorly in tests of language skills and understanding what they hear.
These children also were less cooperative(合作的) and had more problems dealing with other people. The researchers noted that the sensitivity of the mothers was important to the intelligence(智力) development of their children. Children did better when their mothers were caring, even when they suffered from depression.
1. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the factor(因素) that influences intelligence development in babies?| A．The environment. | B．Mother’s sensitivity. |
| C．Their peers(同龄人). | D．Education before birth. |
| A．To prove that babies can learn on the first day they are born. |
| B．To prove that babies can learn before they are born. |
| C．To show mothers can strongly affect intelligence development in their babies. |
| D．To indicate early education has a deep effect on the babies’ language skills. |
| A．The children of women who did not suffer from depression. |
| B．The children of depressed mothers who cared little for their children. |
| C．The children of depressed but caring mothers. |
| D．Children with high communication abilities. |
| A．Scientific findings about how babies develop before birth. |
| B．Scientific findings about how the environment has an effect on babies’ intelligence. |
| C．A study shows babies are not able to learn things until they are five or six months old. |
| D．Scientific findings about how intelligence develops in babies. |
【推荐3】Can you imagine（想象）you can fish（钓鱼）in your home on a cold winter day? Now we are going to tell you about a special kind of house-ice fishing house. Staying in such a house, you can even do the fishing and watch TV at the same time.
In North America（北美）and North Europe（北欧）, many people like fishing on the ice in cold winter. But it's too cold to stay out in winter, so people think of making an ice fishing house. An ice fishing house is set（放置）on the ice. The ice must be strong enough to carry it. In the house, people can dig holes（挖洞）in the ice and begin fishing.
People can have a lot of fun in their ice fishing houses. Some houses look pretty. In the houses, there're enough things for everyday use. Some have a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom. After fishing, people can cook the fish and enjoy their dinner. How great!
Today, most of the ice fishing houses can move（移动）. They are made of light materials. Some ice fishing houses can move after fishing. Would you like to fish in an ice fishing house? You will like it!
1. People in ______ like fishing in the ice fishing house.| A．North England | B．North Japan |
| C．North China | D．North America |
| A．a garden | B．a balcony |
| C．a bathroom | D．a dining room |
| A．Watch TV and fish at the same time. |
| B．Dig some holes and fish. |
| C．Swim with their friends. |
| D．Cook the fish and enjoy their dinner. |
| A．It is made of ice. |
| B．It is light and you can move it. |
| C．It has some holes in the wall. |
| D．It is strong and heavy. |
| A．Fish on a cold winter day |
| B．Stay out in cold winter |
| C．Ice fishing houses |
| D．Enjoy dinner |
