For the youngest students, going into school each day can sometimes be a little terrible. So it can be very
Tanner is a nine-year-old boy. He is in the
Tanner once met a little boy on his way to school, and the boy cried loudly. Tanner gave him a high five and the boy went to school
The head of the kindergarten, Heather Walton, thinks Tanner’s greeting is
2 . Bags of Love
Last year, I worked in a middle school near my mother’s house, and I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her do some housework and buy some food.
After the first week, I noticed that the food was eaten up (吃光) very quickly. Then I began keeping an eye on my mum. To my surprise, I found that she would put some of the food into a paper bag and go out with it at about nine every morning. And finally, I decided to follow her. I saw her taking the food to the street children. She would also spend a lot of time talking and playing with them.
One day, I talked to a neighbour and found out that my mum was famous in the area. The children were very friendly with her and even thought of her as their own mother. Then it hit me—why wouldn’t she want to tell me about it? Was she worried that I would stop buying food if I found out?
When my mum got home, I gave her a big hug (拥抱) . I told her she didn’t need to keep it a secret from me. And she told me something about the children. Some of them lived with an old lady in a small house. Others slept on the street. For years, she was helping the poor street children by giving them food. After she told me everything, I was so moved by how selfless (无私的) she was. She helped others in need. As her son, I was so proud of my mum.
I continued (继续) to buy food for my mum after that. But I always added (增加) one more bag for her other children.
1. After the first week, the writer noticed that ________.| A．the food was put into a big box | B．his mum followed the children |
| C．the food was eaten up quickly | D．his mum stopped buying food |
| A．old grandma | B．own mother | C．new neighbour | D．dear teacher |
| A．He was proud of her. | B．He was confident in her. |
| C．He was angry with her. | D．He was worried about her. |
| A．make friends with the children | B．get a hug from his mother |
| C．become famous in the area | D．help the poor street children |
One day in our social studies class, our teacher told us that nearly half the children in Africa don’t have enough to eat. They live in small houses and most villages there don’t have a
This made me think about all the things I have in my life. There is no way to
Our teacher told us that we can help them by
For the next two months, my friends and I worked really hard. We brought our unused things from home and
Soon we raised $250. Our teacher helped us send
| A．park | B．school | C．hospital | D．bank |
| A．compare | B．explain | C．offer | D．show |
| A．respect | B．protect | C．invent | D．enjoy |
| A．making | B．lending | C．raising | D．saving |
| A．customer | B．volunteer | C．stranger | D．manager |
| A．sold | B．printed | C．ordered | D．caught |
| A．picked | B．turned | C．tried | D．gave |
| A．her | B．him | C．it | D．them |
| A．spoke | B．read | C．called | D．sang |
| A．happy | B．sure | C．creative | D．popular |
4 . During the European colonization (殖民) of North America, many native languages were given up. As a result, many children were stopped from using their own languages. Today, there are about 180,000 Inuit people in the world and fewer than 40,000 can speak Inuktitut, one of the dialects (方言) spoken by the Inuit.
There are about 65,000 Inuit living in Canada. Miali is a 40-year-old student at University of Calgary who is majoring in (主修) International Indigenous (本地的) Studies. She has spent much of her life fighting for Indigenous rights. As one of the few people who still speak Inuktitut, she shows great interest in spreading the language to keep it from dying out completely.
Asking why this is important is just like asking why water is important, said Miali. “We need it, and there’s an innate (天生的) need inside us searching for a part of ourselves we can identify with (认同). I want to give people their language, and allow them to understand something they’ve been searching for.”
Miali has been teaching others in Inuktitut for 10 years now. She dreamed of taking her task even further, so in 2021, she started an online course to teach the language to anyone who wants to learn it, no matter where they live. She offers the course through her business, Allurvik, which also sells a variety of Inuit-made products and services. She even makes videos in both English and Inuktitut.
Miali believes that speaking their native languages helps them connect to their ancestors and land. This connection is grown in their culture helping them understand who they are and how they fit into their communities. She’s pleased to be able to use technology to bring her language to anyone in the world.
“Many people want to learn Inuktitut but don’t have the supports in place,” she said. “All I want to do is to make Inuktitut a little more available, especially to the Inuit people who want to learn and anyone else who’s interested in it. I hope my work also encourages others to make Indigenous languages more widely available.”
1. Why does Miali try her best to spread Inuktitut?| A．Because there are many Inuit in the world. |
| B．Because she wants to stop it from disappearing |
| C．Because she wants Inuktitut to be popular in the world. |
| D．Because she wants more Inuit people to speak their own language. |
| A．The time when Miali teaches Inuktitut |
| B．The places where Miali teaches Inuktitut. |
| C．The reasons why Miali works as a teacher. |
| D．The ways Miali provides teaching services. |
| A．Inuktitut is getting more and more popular. |
| B．Miali is trying to help people learn Inuktitut. |
| C．Miali wants more people to help teach Inuktitut. |
| D．Inuktitut is so difficult that few people learn it. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
work，help，play，outgoing，way，something，careful，after，improve，solve |
Volunteering (志愿) is becoming more and more popular now. It’s a wonderful thing
Volunteering doesn’t just help those groups, though. It also helps you in some
Volunteering helps your body and mind. When you volunteer, you’ll become friendlier and more
Our Food Club held a Charity (慈善) Food Fair on Saturday. When the club members learnt about it, many of them brought food to the fair. Money from the fair will be sent to the west of China, to help those poor
Mr. Johnson, our head
I was very
Tilly, a ten-year-old girl, saved about one hundred other visitors in 2004 in a tsunami, a huge ocean wave. She knew what was happening because she learnt about underwater earthquakes (地震) at school only a few weeks’ earlier, a newspaper reported.
“I was on the beach and the water started to go funny,” Tilly told the reporter from the newspaper. “There were bubbles (气泡) and the water went back suddenly. I knew there was going to be a tsunami (海啸). I told Mum,” she said.
Tilly’s mother and the hotel workers acted quickly. They cleared people from the beach just minutes before a huge wave reached the land. Luckily, no one died.
Tilly’s teacher was very proud of her. “She’s a very clever girl. It is very lucky that we learnt about this kind of tsunami in our science class just two weeks before Christmas,” he told the newspaper.
1. What did Tilly learn about at school?2. How did Tilly find there was going to be a tsunami?
3. Who cleared people from the beach?
4. Which subject do you like best at school? Why? Write 15—20 words.
Jenny and her brother Kim were students of Sunshine Middle School. They learnt that they should care about (关心) others in the school. This gave them a great idea! “Let’s start a club at school. We can call it the Care Club!” said Kim. Jenny liked the idea very much. Every evening, they planned what they would do the next day to show love to others.
One day, they helped a boy with his homework after school. Another day, they stayed after school to help a little girl learn English.
Later, the other students in the school started to join the club. So Kim and Jenny opened the club up to new members. They often gathered (聚集) together after they finished their homework. They had meetings every week and planned who they would help and what they would do.
1. What club did Jenny and Kim start?2. What did they help a boy with?
3. How often did they have meetings?
4. What club would you like to join? Why? Write 30 words or more.
9 . It was a beautiful late August morning. I sat on a bench across the street from the Beverly Public Library. With my notebook in hand, I began writing my love letter to the library.
We had dropped off our daughter, Natasha, at college yesterday. And our son, Rory, had graduated from college last May. They both do really well in their studies. They deserve most of the credit (称赞), but some of it must go to the Beverly Public Library.
When they were just babies, Rory and Natasha would crawl (爬行) around the Children’s Library in the Beverly Public Library. In the afternoons, they would go to Story Hour and make crafts in the craft room.
As days passed, we became very close to the librarians. We would even take part in their retirement farewell parties (退休欢送会). One of these was for our dear friend and children’s librarian, Nancy Bonne.
I remembered when Rory entered high school, he got a part-time job at the Children’s Library. His job was to check out books and prepare crafts. He worked with the same librarians who had once read to him during Story Hour. His experiences in the library not only helped him get into college, but also helped him pay for it.
I finished writing my love letter to the Beverly Public Library and placed my notebook back in my bag. When I stood up from the bench, a young mother and her child walked by. The child looked up to me and said, “I’m going to the library.”
1. Where did the author write the love letter to the library?| A．On a bench. | B．In his house. |
| C．In the craft room. | D．At the Children’s Library. |
| A．A student at a college. | B．A librarian in a library. |
| C．A doctor in a hospital. | D．A teacher at a school. |
| A．The same librarians. | B．Rory and Natasha. |
| C．A young mother and her child. | D．Nancy Bonne and the author. |
| A．The author liked taking notes as days passed. |
| B．We should be friendly to others in the world. |
| C．Reading in the library is my favourite hobby. |
| D．Many people like the Beverly Public Library. |
Li Wenjun is a 34-year-old Chinese teacher at a middle school in Lanzhou, Gansu Province. She taught in Xiwang Middle School for one and a half years. She went to work by bus every day.
When Li Wenjun first got there, she found many of her students had problems with their schoolwork. To learn more about her students, she prepared to interview (采访) them. She got a small notebook and a pen and sat down to talk to them one by one like friends and wrote down information about them. Her frankness (直率) soon opened the door to their hearts. They started to trust her and share everything in their hearts with her. In this way, she built a good relationship with her students.
Li Wenjun’s classes are very interesting, so all of her students like her. After class, she often asked students to go to her office and gave them some good advice on how to learn Chinese. With the help of Li Wenjun, all of her students improved their Chinese a lot. What a kind teacher!
1. What does Li Wenjun teach?2. How did she go to work every day?
3. What did she find when she first got there?
4. Did she build a good relationship with her students?
5. Why do all of Li Wenjun’s students like her?
