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Have you ever seen a carrot that looks like a nose or an apple that looks like a funny face?They may not look great,but they taste as good as the pretty ones.These strange-looking fruit and vegetables are called “seconds”.About 20-40 percent of what farmers grow is not so beautiful.Sadly,these “seconds” hardly ever arrive at your table, but often go straight into the trash can(垃圾箱). Why? It’s because supermarkets don’t want to buy them from farmers-- they believe their shoppers only love beautiful things.Because of these “seconds”, some farmers lose lot of money.
Wonky Market wishes to change this.We ‘re helping sell these “seconds”. Farmers can save them from the trash can,and you can get them at a lower price.
Send us photos of your delicious dishes that are made with our “seconds” to oneandonly@wonkymarket.com, and you may win our cookbook.
1. What are “seconds” according to this passage?| A．Fruit or vegetables with terrible tastes. | B．Broken paper boxes from the supermarket. |
| C．Boxes or trash cans with funny faces. | D．Fruit or vegetables with a strange looking. |
| A．It will teach the farmers how to grow fewer “seconds” . |
| B．Wonky Market lets their shoppers love beautiful things. |
| C．It’s good for both farmers and customers(顾客). |
| D．Wonky Market can sell “seconds” at a high price. |
| A．¥ 20 | B．¥ 25 | C．¥ 60 | D．¥ 75 |
| A．Shop at Wonky Market for a second time. | B．Send photos of food made with the “seconds”. |
| C．Buy at least six boxes at Wonky Market. | D．Save 20-40 percent of the money when shopping. |
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【推荐1】When Sammie Vance was just 8, she thought about a question: What breaks your heart? “For me, it’s seeing people who need a friend,” the seventh grader from Indiana, the US, told People magazine. “I’ve been lonely myself. I don’t want others to feel that way.”
Soon after a summer camp, Vance learned about buddy benches (伙伴长椅). These benches are seats at a school playground (操场). A lonely child can sit on it, which shows that he or she is in need of a friend.
“It would be really cool to have one at my school,” Vance said. Then she collected 725kg of bottle caps (盖) and found a company to turn the caps into benches. According to Vance, these benches cost much less than common park benches and are good for the environment.
Vance collected more bottle caps for benches at other schools, too. She also made a Facebook page for others to follow her journey (旅程). She was surprised that her small project (项目) had an impact (影响) on people around the world. She even got bottle caps from Germany, Australia and Israel.
Today, Vance has helped make 200 such benches in schools and neighborhoods. But she has no plans of stopping. “I just look forward to making a difference,” she said, “and calling on others to make a difference. ”
1. Vance decided to make buddy benches in her school because ___________.| A．she had to finish a school project |
| B．she didn’t want to feel lonely anymore |
| C．she wanted to help others find friends |
| A．It only has an impact on Americans. |
| B．It is an environment-friendly and helpful project. |
| C．It works with countries like Germany. |
| A．Buddy benches are more expensive than common park benches. |
| B．Vance has helped make 2,000 buddy benches. |
| C．Vance has many followers on her journey. |
| A．Rome wasn’t built in a day. |
| B．God helps those who help themselves. |
| C．A small action can make a great difference. |
| A．A girl sets up a special project to cheer up people. |
| B．Buddy benches are getting popular in the world. |
| C．Schools in the US are asking for more buddy benches. |
【推荐2】Are you looking for something fun and would you like to help others in your spare time? Then join us to be a volunteer! We’re a non-profit (非营利的) organization. We have volunteer jobs for all ages. Anyone, from twelve-year-old children to people in their seventies, can become a volunteer.
You can help people in many ways. Schools need help in taking care of children while their parents are working. Hospitals need volunteers to look after children while their parents are seeing a doctor. Animals lovers can help take care of dogs and cats without homes. There is something for everyone.
“As a volunteer, I don’t want to get anything. Seeing the children’s happy faces, I’m happy, too,” said Carla Domingo, an old woman of 62. “I often played computer games in my spare time before. Now I help older people learn how to use computers,” said another volunteer aged 18.
If everyone helps out a bit, we’ll have a better world to live in. Interested? Call us at 1-800-555-5756 or visit our website: www. activol. com.
1. When do the volunteers help others?| A．At weekends. | B．In their spare time. | C．On weekdays. | D．In the evenings. |
| A．money | B．computers | C．everything | D．nothing |
| A．animals | B．children | C．computers | D．older people |
| A．in a newspaper | B．in a storybook | C．in a picture book | D．in a textbook |
“Please help me find the Rh-negative blood (熊猫血) for my father!” Miss Huang from Wuhan asked for help on Changjiang Daily on July 21, 2020.
“An old man with Rh-negative blood is in great danger. We need such blood for his operation!” Shen Jian who works in the Wuhan Blood Center called out the volunteers in their public QQ groups.
By July 22, the five volunteers donated 1,600 ml of Rh-negative blood after passing examinations. The doctor had an operation on the old man soon.
| A．The doctors had to put off the operation. |
| B．Just three percent of people own Rh-negative blood. |
| C．It brought much trouble to the doctors who were having the operation. |
| D．He checked their information on the computer and called them one by one. |
| E．As soon as he finished working, he went to donate 400 ml of blood as well. |
| F．Her father was over 70 and he was in a serious situation when she took him to the hospital. |
【推荐1】When I was a child, my family was big. Our house was in the countryside, so my mother and my grandmother always planted many kinds of vegetables in our yard.
At that time, meat was a little expensive, and we didn’t have enough money to eat it every day, so if meat was on the table for dinner, it was a special dinner.
We usually ate rice, many kinds of soup and other side dishes (小菜) for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Every meal was the same.
I would like sweet food, and I didn’t like vegetables, like most children. But if I took some vegetables off my plate, my mother would say “Don’t do that. You can’t eat the meal without vegetables. If you really don’t want this meal because of the vegetables, don’t eat dinner”.
I didn’t have any choice (选择) . I had to eat vegetables. However, I really wanted sweet food like chocolate and ice cream, so I often bought them, but I could never buy enough because my mom didn’t give me enough money. Luckily, I like vegetables and all kinds of fruit very much now. I think I have a healthy eating habit.
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1. When the writer was small, he lived in the ________.
| A．city | B．countryside | C．town | D．garden |
| A．happy | B．rich | C．busy | D．poor |
| A．The writer liked to eat vegetables. | B．The writer liked to have meals. |
| C．Mother asked the writer to eat sweet food. | D．Mother wanted the writer to eat vegetables. |
| A．Sweet food. | B．Vegetables. | C．Books. | D．Pictures. |
| A．Working habits. | B．Sweet food. | C．Eating habits. | D．Vegetables. |
【推荐2】Better Time for Teenagers to Keep Healthy
| Things to do | Brushing teeth | Drinking milk | Going to bed | Eating fruits |
| Common time | After getting up or before sleeping | During breakfast | Around 23:00 | After meals |
| Time from experts’ suggestion | 3 minutes after meals | Before sleeping | Around 21:00 | An hour before meals |
| Advantage | To reduce germs(细菌) in the mouth | To keep bones strong and help sleep well | To be good for a deep sleep | To keep the body strong |
| Warm tip | Brush the tongue while brushing teeth | Avoid drinking it when having a stomachache | Sleep for at least 8 hours every night | Wash carefully before eating them |
| A．before sleeping | B．during breakfast | C．3 minutes after meals | D．at around 23: 00 |
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．Drinking milk; eating fruits | B．Going to bed; brushing teeth |
| C．Eating fruits; reducing germs | D．Drinking milk; reducing germs |
| A．5:00 | B．6:00 | C．7:00 | D．8:00 |
| A．Some experts suggest washing fruits carelessly an hour before meals. |
| B．To brush the tongue after meals is good for a deep sleep. |
| C．Teenagers with a stomachache had better avoid drinking milk. |
| D．Teenagers should sleep for more than 8 hours every night. |
【推荐3】Overweight (超重) is one of the biggest health problems now. Being overweight affects (影响) more than how you look. Too much fat can kill you. What’s worse, overweight children turn into overweight adults (成人) . If you’re obese now, you will probably grow into an obese adult. But here’s good news. You can fight overweight.
Change your eating habits
You are what you eat. Kids like snacks. Have you listed any healthy snacks? One study of eating habits shows that soft drinks are the first in the snack list. Next, kids choose salty snacks, like chips. What’s more, the list is full of junk food from No. 3 to No. 11. Finally, No. 12, kids pick a healthy snack — fruit. So, think about your snack choice (选择) again.
Get outside to exercise
Jim, a player on his school football team, had a weight problem not long ago. He could never get anyone to play with him. So his father and he started playing football for a few minutes every night. Ten minutes turned into an hour or more. In just a few years, the heavy kid became healthy.
More TV means more fat
Nearly every American kid watches TV for 2 hours and 56 minutes every day — that adds up to 44 days a year of sitting. More TV (or more Internet surfing, or more computer games) means more fat.
Eat an apple a day, walk around the house, play with your family ... Do it today, and do it more tomorrow. It will help you a lot.
1. According to the passage, kids put ________ at the end of the snack list in one study of eating habits.| A．chips | B．ice cream | C．fruit | D．vegetables |
| A．苗条的 | B．虚胖的 | C．健康的 | D．瘦弱的 |
| A．When we watch too much TV, we will probably get too much fat. |
| B．A few years ago, Jim was fat. |
| C．Being overweight only affects how we look. |
| D．Eating an apple a day is good for your health. |
①Try to get up early.
②Try to take more exercise.
③Try not to sit in front of the TV or computer for too long.
④Try to eat more healthy food.
| A．②③④ | B．①②③ | C．①③④ | D．①②④ |
【推荐1】There are too many mysteries in the world that we haven’t discovered yet. Some of them are hidden in the places which are impossible to find. Others remain unsolved even up to this day. In s small town of Gryfino in Poland lies one of the world’s mysteries that have been known — a small group of pine trees (松树). These trees look strange in shape. From the lowest place, these trees grow with a 90° bend (弯曲) to the north, but then go back to grow straight up into the sky.
According to scientists, the pine trees there were planted many years ago. Though they are strange in shape, these trees are generally healthy. Most of them are very tall. Some even grow to nearly 15.24 meters. That’s about the height of a five-story building. There are many guesses about the mystery of the trees in the forest. Some guess that the special gravity (重力) in this area has caused the trees to bend to the north. But it seems that this guess isn’t proper, because gravity only pulls things down and doesn’t make them bend. Others guess that the heavy snow in the area weighs down the trees as they are small. However, if that is the case, how would they explain the fact that the other trees in this area are not the same?
The most possible explanation is that local farmers shaped the trees when planting them. In the past, it was common for farmers to shape their plants for special purposes. However, that is only one of the guesses from people. The secret behind the trees is still waiting for us to discover.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about the pine trees in Poland?| A．They look small in size. |
| B．They don’t grow so healthily. |
| C．They grow with a 90° bend to the south |
| D．They may be as tall as a five-story building. |
| A．Unbelievable. | B．Correct. | C．Interesting. | D．Valuable. |
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．Some strange pine trees in Poland. |
| B．How tall the pine trees in Poland are! |
| C．What the pine trees in Poland look like. |
| D．Why people in Poland planted the pine trees. |
A washing machine helps us to wash clothes fast. A printing machine helps us to print a lot of books, newspapers, magazines and many other things fast. Bikes, cars, trains and planes are all machines. They help us to travel faster than on foot.
The computer is a wonderful machine. It was invented not long ago. It not only stores(贮存) information (信息) but also stores numbers millions of times as fast as a scientist does.
Let’s study hard and try to use all kinds of machines to build China into a modern country.
1. Machines can help us to do things better and faster, so they_____.
| A．are difficult to make | B．are expensive |
| C．are important but not necessary | D．are very helpful |
| A．a little faster than | B．as fast as |
| C．much faster than | D．much more slowly than |
| A．study hard |
| B．try to use all kinds of machines |
| C．invent many machines |
| D．all above |
| A．print a lot of books | B．read more books |
| C．invent many machines | D．wash clothes fast |
【推荐3】Have you ever taken a color test? It isn’t like a normal test because you don’t pass or fail it. You choose your favorite color from a list and then a computer will tell you your personality（个性）. If you like red, you may like to take risks. If you like pink, you are a peaceful person.
Some large companies and universities use color tests to decide if somebody is going to be a harder worker. Some doctors use them to get a quick idea of the problem that a patient may have.
Choose your favorite color below. Then you will know what kind of person you are.
Color | Personalities |
| Red | Energetic |
| Yellow | Happy and relaxed |
| Green | Don’t like changes |
| Blue | Calm |
| Black | Stubborn（固执） |
| A．you may fail it | B．you will be a hard worker |
| C．you must pass it | D．a computer will tell you personality |
| A．always feel tired | B．is usually very calm |
| C．is always very happy | D．hates changes |
| A．Yellow. | B．Blue. | C．Green. | D．Red. |
| A．blue | B．pink | C．yellow | D．black |
| A．doctors, large companies and universities |
| B．doctors, patients and universities |
| C．doctors, teachers, large companies and universities |
| D．doctors, patients, large companies and universities |
【推荐1】Mr Darcy had been standing near enough for Elizabeth to overhear (偷听) a talk between him and Mr Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes, to force his friend to join it.
“Come, Darcy,” said he. “I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance.”
“I certainly shall not. You know how I hate it, unless I am particularly familiar (熟悉的) with my partner. Your sisters are engaged (订婚), and there is not another woman in the room who it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with.”
“I would not be so hard to please as you do,” cried Mr Bingley, “Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty!”
“You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,” said Mr Darcy, looking at the eldest Miss Benne.
“Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen! But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”
“Which do you mean?” and turning round he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he drew back his own and coldly said, “She is tolerable (可以容忍的), but not handsome enough to interest me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence (结论) to your ladies who are slighted (轻视) by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.”
Mr Bingley followed his advice. Darcy walked off; and Elizabeth remained with no very good feelings towards him.
1. Who was Miss Benne?| A．Mr Bingley’s sister. | B．Mr Darcy’s sister. |
| C．Mr Darcy’s friend. | D．Elizabeth’s sister. |
| A．Mr Darcy didn’t want to dance. |
| B．Mr Bingley wanted Mr Darcy to dance with Elizabeth. |
| C．Elizabeth was waiting for Mr Darcy to invite her to dance. |
| D．Elizabeth wanted to hear the talk between Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy. |
| A．Mr Darcy didn’t like dancing with girls. |
| B．Mr Darcy was a very self-proud young man. |
| C．There weren’t many beautiful girls at the party. |
| D．The girls were looked down upon by the men at the party. |
I am an American (美国的 ) girl. My name is Alice Green. I am a middle school student. I am fifteen. I have two brothers. They are middle school students, too. We go to school from Monday to Friday. We don't have any classes on Saturdays and Sundays. My father and mother are teachers. They always say China is great. I like reading. I am reading a Chinese book. I think it's very interesting. My brothers and I like playing football and basketball. What sports do you like?
Let's be good pen pals (笔友), OK? Please write to me soon.
Yours,
Alice Green
1. How old is Alice Green?
| A．13. | B．14. | C．15. | D．16. |
| A．They go to school from Saturday to Friday. |
| B．They go to school from Monday to Saturday. |
| C．They go to school on weekends. |
| D．They go to school from Monday to Friday. |
| A．Reading books. | B．Playing soccer and basketball. |
| C．Writing to pen pals. | D．Playing computer games. |
| A．Because she wants to come to China. |
| B．Because she wants to make a pen pal in China. |
| C．Because she likes reading Chinese books. |
| D．Because her mother asks her to do. |
【推荐3】At the age of 35, Johnson Barnes injured(损伤) himself when skating during a winter vacation. His doctors said he could never walk again. But a new technology(科技), the robotic exoskeleton(外骨骼机械装置), brought Johnson and other people like him a surprise —— it can work like our arms, legs or hands out side our body. Now Johnson can ask the machine to take him to the places he wants to go to and help him reach the things he wants to get.
Although the disable(残疾的) people still can’t do everything like a healthy man, the exoskeleton makes them believe they can do things by themselves and they will be better and better in the future. So they won’t see themselves as useless people and they don’t give up themselves. Most importantly, they will see the world with a loving heart and still play a part in making a difference to the world.
There are still some problems with exoskeleton, though. For example, they are not easy to use, and sometimes people with them fall down easily. What’s more, they are very expensive, costing about $100,000. It’s too much to a common family. But computers were also seemed impossible for a common family to use 40 years ago. We never know what will happen in the future.
1. When Johnson was 35, he injured his ________.| A．hand | B．leg | C．arm |
| A．the robotic exoskeleton can work like our arms in our body |
| B．there are already robotic exoskeleton working for humans |
| C．users can ask the robotic exoskeleton questions and the machine can answer |
| A．The disabled can’t do everything like a healthy man. |
| B．Disabled people are always useful and full of hope. |
| C．The exoskeleton may help bring out the best of disabled people. |
| A．The exoskeleton may improve the life of disabled people. |
| B．Computers will be impossible for a common family to use. |
| C．Users may not use the machine easily and sometimes fall down. |
| A．story book | B．sports show | C．medicine magazine |
