Many people do not like to stay at home on holidays. They want to go out to see something different or do something exciting. So people from the country go to the city and people from the city go to the country for holidays. During the holidays, trains, buses and planes are all very busy. It is very hand to buy train tickets or air tickets. Many people take cars or buses for travelling.
Last May Day my family went to the country by car for our holiday. There was too much traffic on the road, so we had to move very slowly. It took us about an hour to get out of the town. After some time, we came to a farm. It was clean and beautiful. The animals were very cute. We thought it was a nice place for a picnic, so we stopped and took the food, fruit and drinks out of the car. We sat down under a big green tree and began to eat. Suddenly a strong wind blew and soon it started to rain. We had to run back to our car and had our picnic in the car. Then we drove back home. What a bad trip it was!
1. Many people don't like to stay at home on holidays because__________| A．they have much money |
| B．the weather outside is always pretty cool |
| C．they want to see something different |
| D．they don't want to rest |
| A．a beach park | B．the country | C．the city | D．a village |
| A．interesting | B．relaxing | C．awful | D．exciting |
| A．there are few tickets |
| B．many people want to go by train or plane |
| C．it's cheap to take a train or plane |
| D．it's fun to take a train or plane |
| A．蓝色 | B．刮起 | C．吹气 | D．卷起 |
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Naturally, American schoolchildren enjoy holidays. And they get a lot of them each day. They have some national holidays such as Thanksgiving Day and Presidents’ Day off from school.
Besides going trips with their parents.
Students who are not excited about summer camps or outdoor adventure may take part in courses in computer game design, filmmaking and photography during the holidays.
| A．The traditional school trip to a foreign country is always popular. |
| B．Besides, students get longer breaks in the spring and during the summer holidays. |
| C．They also have a lot to offer students who aren’t usually interested in traditional P.E. activities. |
| D．American students enjoy taking part in different activities during the holidays. |
| E．American schoolchildren spend their holidays in different ways. |
【推荐2】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. | |
Because of COVID-19, our travel ways are changing. Recently, some people took part in a study about travel ways. The result shows that being safe is the most important for travelers in 2021.
★Getting back to nature
A large number of people are choosing to get back to the natural world.
★Staying with loved ones
To keep safer, more people would like to travel together as a family or a group of friends. This style of vacation is called “pod travel”.
★
Staycation is the new word. We can use it to describe a vacation that we take at home or near our home. One in five want their travel place to be within driving distance of home.
| A．It saves money and time. |
| B．Traveling nearby or staying at home. |
| C．The air is fresh and it isn’t crowded with people. |
| D．Now let’s take a look at three travel trends in 2021. |
| E．People like to stay with strangers because of differences. |
| F．According to the study, 85% of people want to travel with family or friends. |
Your friend’s birthday is coming . You may want to send him or her a gift. Mother’s Day is coming. You may want to send her a gift. You may also want to send your father a gift on Father’s Day...Giving gifts is common in our life. Here are some do-it-yourself gift ideas.
Make a photo frame(框架). You can make a photo frame by yourself. Then you can put your family photo in it. It will be a good gift for your parents. They will like the gift very much.
Learn to do a needle craft, for example, crossing-stitching(十字绣). Don’t buy anything too complex--you don’t have much time! A small easy cross-stitching is enough.
Bake (烘烤) some cookies for your friends or parents. lf you don’t know how to bake them, you can ask an adult for help. You can package them in pretty boxes or baskets. You also can put dry cookies in a glass jar（罐子）as a gift.
Write a poem, letter, or song for your friends or parents. You can explain why he or she is special to you in the letter or song.
1. The write tells us _________ gift ideas in the passage.
| A．three | B．four | C．five | D．six |
| A．简单的 | B．昂贵的 | C．复杂的 | D．特别的 |
| A．buy some in the store | B．ask an adult for help |
| C．put them in boxes | D．send a glass jar as a gift |
| A．You make a photo frame |
| B．You do a cross-stitching |
| C．You can bake some cookies |
| D．You draw a picture |
| A．Do-it-yourself Gift Ideas |
| B．Making a Photo Frame |
| C．Popular Gifts for Parents |
| D．Poem, Letter and Song |
When people hold the Olympic Games, they always make an emblem (会徽). The emblem of the Athens Olympic Games this year is a white circle of olive branches(橄榄枝) in the sky.
“ Athens is developing a spirit of peace(和平).” An officer said, "While in Athens, the world should be at peace. We hope the peace is not just for a short time. We would like the message from the Athens Games to help countries come together and solve(解决) their problems."
Four years from then, the Olympic Games will be held in Beijing ,China. And China has already made a seal (印章) as the emblem of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The emblem has a single Chinese character on a red seal and means "Chinese Seal、Dancing Beijing(中国印.舞动的北京)”. Below it, there are the words "Beijing 2008". The character in the emblem is "Jing". It means "capital'' of China and it is also like a runner or a dancer. The running figure(人形) on the emblem shows the spirit of the Olympics--faster, higher and stronger.
1. In which country was the first modern Olympics held?
| A．Greece | B．China. | C．Australia, | D．France. |
| A．A picture. | B．An emblem. |
| C．A flag. | D．A map. |
| A．War, | B．Luck. | C．Danger. D Peace. |
| A．100. | B．104. | C．108. | D．112. |
| A．history and friendship |
| B．faster, higher and stronger |
| C．running and dancing |
| D．peace, friendship and development |
【推荐3】One day in Ben's house Jack says to Ben, "Ben, you have got so many good books. Can you let me have a book to read at home? "
Ben doesn't like to give a book to his friend, and he says, "Why do you want to take my book home? You can read it here in my house. "Jack is very disappointed（失望的）, but he doesn't say anything.
Next Saturday, Ben comes to Jack's house and says, "Jack, you have a good garden-knife. I have to work in my garden tomorrow. May I use it for two days? "Jack answers, "Why do you want to take my garden-knife home? You can work with it here in my garden. "
1. Jack wants to borrow a __________from Ben.| A．knife | B．book | C．pear | D．bike |
| A．at school | B．in his house | C．Jack's home | D．in Ben's garden |
| A．like to lend him | B．like to buy |
| C．want to borrow | D．want to read |
| A．spoon | B．garden | C．book | D．garden-knife |
| A．Ben has one at home |
| B．Jack wants to use it |
| C．Jack doesn't like to lend it to him, either |
| D．Ben can work with it in Jack's garden |
SpaceX made history two months ago by launching the world's most powerful rocket to Mars.
Falcon Heavy,the 230ft rocket, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral-the same station where NASA sent man to the moon almost 50 years ago.
There were no humans on the Falcon Heavy-but it's not without a passenger.Founder of SpaceX. Elon Musk, sent one of his Tesla Car along for the ride with a human shape model called “Starman” sitting on the driver's seat.
For now.the world is very excited by the successful launch of the rocket .Elon musk suggested the space trip could just become the greatest firework show ever seen .If it went wrong.the rocket actually managed to lift off.
Why is there all this excitement?
Watching live streams of an electric car floating in spare, while the extra engines that carried it there softly land themselves back on Earth.it's hard not lo feel that we re living in the future.
Where is all this leading?
Falcon Heavy is a great piece of work ,by the researchers at SpaceX. It's not the most powerful rocket ever made, and NASA's Space Launch System will beat it when it finally launches.But it runs very cheaply,for a rocket; the fact that it can be re-used, at relatively little expense. could launch an exciting future of much more regular space launches.
The set of Mr.Musk's own car in the rocket is a sign of the real reason This launch is such a big deal: it is being done by a man with talent, and the strong wish to make people talk about him and what hes doing.There s no reason for the car to be going to space except for a talking point-indeed, the rocket could carry some important scientific instruments instead-but when viewed as a show for a private space company which hopes to be the future of personal space travel, everything becomes more reasonable .The idea behind that plan is that it makes such space trip much cheaper, since private companies can develop and build the rockets.The companies can then increase the money they may earn with other private satellite launches and other work, cutting down the cost of space travel.
1. What did the rocket carry to space?| A．A car with nothing. | B．A car with a human driver. |
| C．A car with a model. | D．A car with a human passenger. |
| A．They are excited about it. | B．Few of them know about the space trip. |
| C．They don't like the idea of the space trip. | D．They are worried about the high price of the space trip. |
| A．NASA | B．Falcon Heavy. | C．SpaceX company. | D．Mr Musk's own car. |
| A．test his new car. | B．help carry important scientific tools. |
| C．raise the price of the private space trip. | D．let more people know about him and his work. |
| A．science research | B．news report | C．adventure story | D．book review |
【推荐2】With the development of economics (经济), the problem of left-behind children (留守儿童) has become a serious social problem. More and more people have realized we should do something to help them.
One of the biggest problems is that the children are all hungry for the love from their parents. Many of them can just get a call or a letter from their parents half a year, a year or even several years, which makes some children lost their parents’ faces. When they meet their own troubles, they have no one to talk with. Nobody gives them enough care.
Because of being too far away from their parents, the left-behind children’s study is the second biggest problem. From a survey (调查) about their study, only two percent of the children get good results, while ten percent of them are common and eighty-eight percent of them are poor. What a pity!
There are also many other problems of the left-behind children, such as having no ability to protect themselves, unhealthy lifestyles, spending too much pocket money and being crazy about Internet and so on.
In a word, to solve all the problems of the left-behind children needs the government, families and schools to try their best together.
1. How many problems are mentioned (提及) in the passage?| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．More than four. |
| A．Having no place to live. |
| B．Being crazy about the Internet. |
| C．Unhealthy lifestyles. |
| D．Not study well. |
| A．Some children lost their parents. |
| B．Some children couldn’t find their parents. |
| C．Some children can’t remember what their parents look like. |
| D．Some children can’t get any information about their parents. |
| A．All of the left-behind children aren’t good at study. |
| B．The left-behind children can see their parents often. |
| C．The left-behind children have much money. |
| D．The left-behind children problem is a social problem. |
| A．The Left-behind Children |
| B．What is Left-behind Children |
| C．The Problems of the Left-behind Children |
| D．How to help Left-behind Children |
Two new studies suggest that modern running shoes could increase the risk of injuries（损伤）to runners.
One study involved sixty-eight healthy young women and men who ran at least twenty-four kilometers a week. The runners were watched on a running machine. Sometimes they wore running shoes. Other times they ran barefoot（赤脚）.
Researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of Colorado did the study. They found that running shoes create more stress that could hurt knees, hips and ankle joints than running barefoot. They watched that the effect was even greater than the effect reported earlier for walking in high heels（高跟鞋）. The study appeared in an official scientific magazine.
The other study appeared in the journal Nature. It compared runners in the United States and Kenya. The researchers were from Harvard University, Moi University in Kenya and the University of Glasgow. They divided the runners into three groups. One group had always run shoeless. Another group had always run with shoes. And the third group had changed to shoeless running.
Runners who wear shoes usually come down heel first. That puts great force on the back of the foot. But the study found that barefoot runners generally land on the front or middle of their foot. That way they feel relaxed when landing and avoid hitting their heel hard.
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman led the study. He says the way most running shoes are designed may explain why those who wear them land on their heels. The heel of the shoe is bigger and heavier than other parts of the shoe, so it would seem more likely to come down first. Also, the heel generally has thick material under it to soften landings.
But the researchers do not suggest that runners immediately start running barefoot. They say it takes some training. And there can be risks, like running when your feet are too cold to feel if you get injured.
The study was partly supported by Vibram, which makes a kind of footwear that it says is like running barefoot. The findings have gotten a lot of attention. But the researchers say there are many problems. So they have tried to explain their findings on a Harvard Website.
1. Why do running shoes increase the risk of injuries to runners?| A．Runners usually land on the front of the foot first. |
| B．They’re much bigger and heavier than high heels. |
| C．They have a big effect on the way the runners run. |
| D．Runners always run in small size running shoes. |
| A．No one will run with running shoes in the future. |
| B．High heels’ design is better than running shoes’. |
| C．Runners won’t be injured if they run barefoot. |
| D．Most running shoes are designed improperly. |
| A．To explain why people like running with running shoes. |
| B．To show running without shoes is of benefit to runners. |
| C．To encourage all the runners to try to run barefoot now. |
| D．To help people know the feelings of running with shoes. |
【推荐1】If you give money to a stranger on the street, does that make you a nice person? Do you always offer to help someone struggling with heavy bags? Do you often donate blood?
You may consider yourself to be a nice person, but you're probably not as nice as you think.
This is a new study carried out by professors from the University of London. The study looked into whether there is a connection between nice people and their levels of health, wealth and happiness. During the study, participants（参与者）were given a list of "nice" activities and asked which ones they often do. The result was surprising-98 percent of us consider ourselves to be among the nicest 50 percent of the population.
"In most cases, people think of themselves as nice, but it is not as simple as that," study leader Jonathan Freeman told.
The most common practices were giving directions to strangers, holding doors open and giving up seats on public transport. However, 3/4 said that they rarely helped people carry heavy shopping bags, and only 1/6 often gave money to strangers. Just 1/4 donated blood often or helped someone cross the road.
Though our thoughts of ourselves didn't match up with scientific research, this nicer than-others thought, according to Freeman, may actually do good to us. In the study led by Freeman, those who thought themselves as "nice" were likely（可能的）to be richer, healthier and happier. "Nice" people are almost three times more satisfied with their lives and make more money compared to the "not very nice" participants.
"Our study shows that participants who report that they are 'nice' scored higher on emotional intelligence（情商）, and it can help them deal better with stress and troubles in their lives," Freeman told The Independent.
1. What does the article mainly talk about?| A．"Not very nice people" must be unhappier. |
| B．Nice people must be richer and happier. |
| C．Nice people may be happier than the "not very nice". |
| D．The "not very nice" may be wealthier than nice people. |
| A．People are probably as nice as they think. |
| B．A new study about nice activities was carried out. |
| C．Most people consider themselves to be nicer than others. |
| D．People's thoughts of themselves didn't match up with scientific research. |
| A．Most of them always thought of themselves nice. |
| B．Only one in seven often gave money to strangers. |
| C．They sometimes offer to help someone struggling with heavy bags. |
| D．Just a quarter donated blood often or helped someone cross the road. |
| A．The study. | B．The stress. |
| C．Being nicer to others. | D．Having higher emotional intelligence. |
【推荐2】When children are speaking, let them learn to judge (判断) their own work. A child doesn’t learn to talk by being corrected all the time. If he is corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the differences between the language he uses and the language others use. Little by little, he makes changes to make his language like other people’s.
In the same way, children learn to do all the other things without being taught—to walk, run, climb or ride a bicycle. They compare their performances (表现) with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the changes. But in school we seldom give a child a chance to find out his mistakes and correct them himself. We do it all for him. We thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him work out with the help of other children if he wants it.
If it is a matter in math or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such daily work? Our job should be to help the children when they tell us that they can’t find the way to get the right answer. Let the children learn what all educated persons must learn, how to measure (估量) their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in their ways. School teachers can offer help if they ask for it. Some parents and teachers are worried that the children might fail to learn something that they will need to get in the world. Don’t worry! If it is important, they will go out into the world and learn it.
1. According to the passage, the best way for children to learn things is by ________.| A．being always corrected | B．following adults’ advice |
| C．doing as other people do | D．asking teachers all the time |
| A．teachers can’t correct students’ papers |
| B．teachers needn’t waste time teaching students in class |
| C．teachers ought to help students get on will with others |
| D．teachers should help students improve their learning ability |
| A．students can face any challenge easily | B．students can learn a lot in the real life |
| C．students can grow up without others’ help | D．students can always get their parents’ support |
Dangers of the ‘V’
Do you often make the V sign when taking photos? You might want to do so less often from now on.
Experts (专家) say that it is possible to use the V sign to copy (复制) someone’s fingerprints. Someone could take your photo, zoom in (放大) on your fingers, and then use AI technology (人工智能技术) to copy your prints.
Do you know?
Your fingerprints are unique. It means that no one else in the world has the same fingerprints as yours. Not even twins have the same fingerprints. The fingerprints on each of your fingers are also different.
Your fingerprints stay the same from birth to death. This makes fingerprints one of the best ways to identify (识别) people.
Does that mean you should not make the V sign in photos anymore? Not really. The fingerprints in your photos must be clear enough to copy. If the photo is taken from 1.5 meters or less away, it is possible to copy your prints. But if the photo is taken from over 3 meters away, your prints won’t he clear enough to copy. The photos we put online are usually not clear enough to copy. But still, you should be careful.
1. Accordingto Paragraph (段落) 2, why should we stop making the V sign in photos?| A．Because it looks ugly. | B．Because it is boring. |
| C．Because it is not cool anymore. | D．Because someone might copy our fingerprints. |
| A．take photos from 4 meters away | B．take unclear photos from 2 meters away |
| C．take clear photos from 1 meter away | D．take photos without showing our fingers |
| A．相同的 | B．唯一的 | C．清晰的 | D．可识别的 |
| A．we should not make the V sign in photos anymore |
| B．we should be careful when putting V-sign photos online |
| C．it is impossible to copy one’s fingerprints |
| D．we should not put our photos online at all |
