1 . Hi! I’m Lingling. I’m 12 years old. I live in Beijing with my parents. My dad is a doctor and my mum is a teacher.
My dad loves tea very much. He always drinks it after dinner. Sometimes, he asks me, “Lingling, how about having a cup of tea with me?” I always refuse because I don’t think it’s fun and I don’t like its bitter taste (苦味).
This evening, dad makes the tea again. I sit next to him and watch. Dad puts some tea leaves in a cup. Then he puts hot water into it. The tea leaves open slowly. Then the water turns brown little by little. It’s like a beautiful Chinese painting.
I take a cup and try (品尝) the tea. It is a little bitter at first. But when I have it again, I find the tea tastes great. I like it.
I think life (生活) is just like a cup of tea. Things around us are like the hot water and we are like the leaves. The leaves can only let out a great taste through hot water. In life, we will go through (经历) difficulties and face bitterness in the beginning, but we can always find happiness.
1. What does Lingling’s dad do?| A．A doctor. | B．A teacher. | C．A hotel manager. | D．An actor. |
| A．怀疑 | B．负责 | C．重视 | D．拒绝 |
| A．Put hot water into the cup. | B．Put some tea leaves in a cup. |
| C．Watch the water turn brown little by little. | D．Wait the tea leaves open slowly. |
| A．Lingling is thirteen years old. |
| B．Lingling’s father always drinks tea after dinner. |
| C．Lingling doesn’t like the tea after she has it again. |
| D．Lingling thinks things around us are like tea leaves. |
| A．Why tea is bitter. | B．How to make tea. |
| C．Lingling’s family life. | D．Lingling’s tea time with her father. |
2 . (One day, Gulliver was caught in a storm and his ship hit a rock, then broken. He was washed to the beach by the sea wave and soon fell asleep. When he woke up, he found himself in Lilliput and a lot of people were around him and all of the people he saw were just the same size as mice.)
The emperor spoke in such a high voice. His followers and all the ladies wore rich and beautiful clothes. The ground where they were standing looked like gold and silver cloth.
The emperor and I communicated with each other but neither of us understood a single word. I tried words from my languages—French, Spanish, Italian and Latin. No one could understand my words, even the emperor’s cleverest followers.
After about two hours of useless communication, the emperor, his wife and their servants decided to leave, and only six strong guards (卫兵) were left around me. This was to stop me from running away and later, they would think up ways to kill me.
These six guards were trying to give me some punishment. To scare them, I put five of them in my pocket. Then I pretended (假装) to eat the sixth man. The poor man shouted terribly when he saw my knife in my hand. But I only cut the binding (捆绑物) around his hands. Then I put him on my feet and let him go. I lifted the other five men out of my pocket and put them gently on the ground, too.
The people and soldiers were very surprised at what I did. They told the emperor about it quickly. After hearing this, the emperor ordered his men to make a bed for me to have a rest and they had to put six hundred of theirs together to make one for me. It seemed that they changed their idea of killing me.
(Adapted from Gulliver’s Travel)
1. Gulliver tried many languages except ________.| A．French | B．German | C．Spanish | D．Italian |
① Gulliver and the emperor couldn’t understand each other.
② Gulliver only cut the binding around one of the guard’s hands.
③ Gulliver was washed to the beach and found himself in Lilliput.
④ There were six guards around Gulliver to stop him from running away.
| A．①③②④ | B．③①④② | C．①④②③ | D．④②①③ |
| A．huge and kind | B．rich and huge | C．little and short | D．strong and scary |
| A．he was so strong that they weren’t able to kill him |
| B．there was a lot of heavy work for him to do |
| C．he didn’t hurt them and they considered him as a kind person |
| D．he asked all the guards not to kill him |
| A．Poor and clever. | B．Wise and poor. | C．Rich and clever. | D．Wise and kind. |
3 . Online classes in space got lots of attention among Chinese students. The “classroom” in space station is about 400 kilometers away from the earth. As a special “teacher”, Wang Yaping is regarded as “the most beautiful astronaut”.
Wang Yaping was born in a small village in Shandong in 1980. She was good at all subjects, especially sports. Luckily, in 1997, she was enrolled by the Air Force, Changchun Flight Academy. Wang’s space dream started in 2003, when China sent its first astronaut Yang Liwei into space. She told herself, “China now has a male astronaut. When will there be a female one?” At that time, Wang was a pilot in the Chinese army. After having safe flights for 1,600 hours during nine years in the training center, Wang was a strong candidate (候选人) to become an astronaut in 2010. In 2013, Wang was sent to space by Shenzhou-10. She joined the team of Shenzhou-13 in 2021 and flew into the space for the second time.
However, it is difficult to be an astronaut. She has to experience a lot of pain that most people can’t stand and keep training all the time. Wang Yaping told Xinhua, “The space environment won’t change because you are a woman.” She pushed herself hard, getting the same training as men, including the pull-ups and barbells (杠铃). That finally made her dream come true.
“You are on the way to success as long as you stick to your dreams.” Wang Yaping said. Millions of students are encouraged and inspired by the most beautiful astronaut.
1. What does the underlined word “enrolled” in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．Refused. | B．Accepted. | C．Satisfied. | D．Sent. |
| A．How Wang achieved her dream. | B．How Wang gave a class. |
| C．What Wang’s dream was. | D．How students are encouraged by Wang. |
| A．In 1979. | B．In 1980. | C．In 1997. | D．In 2013. |
| A．Beautiful look. | B．Strong spirit. | C．Nice family. | D．Good luck. |
| A．The Most Beautiful Astronaut | B．The Special Online Classes |
| C．The Introduction to Science | D．The Life in Space Station |
4 . Hi. I’m Maya. I’m 13 years old. I’m from Canada. My best friend is Lisa. She is 14 years old. I call her “Big Sister”. We are in the same class.
I want to be a designer (设计师) when I grow up (长大). I like to design my room. I like pink, so there are a lot of pink things in my room. I have two friends in my room. They are Mike and Dora. Mike is in white and Dora is in red. They are my toys. I love them.
Lisa loves music and singing. She often sings some songs for us. She also likes animals, such as elephants, monkeys, rabbits and pandas. Pandas are her favourite animals. She often goes to the zoo with me.
Lisa is very kind. She often helps me with my Chinese. I like her a lot.
1. Maya and Lisa are ________.| A．sisters | B．cousins | C．pen pals | D．classmates |
| A．White. | B．Red. | C．Pink. | D．Green. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．Pandas. | B．Monkeys. | C．Elephants. | D．Rabbits. |
| A．Mike. | B．Dora. | C．Maya. | D．Her sister. |
5 . Time flies. My summer vacation ended in the blink of an eye, but one thing is still on my mind. From July 25 to 27, I worked as a volunteer at the Chengdu Research Base in Sichuan. I experienced the life of being a panda keeper.
My work included cleaning the pandas’ home,feeding the pandas and making food for them. The panda I took care of was named Jingke. When I went to feed him, he would stretch(伸出) one of his forefeet out on a shelf that hung on the fence and wait for his food. He would quickly grab the food as soon as I brought it to him. Can you guess what would happen next? Jingke would lie down and begin to eat. I could hear him crunching(嘎吱作响地咀嚼) on his food and see him twisting his body around like a dancer. It was really cute. This was one of the most interesting things I saw when I worked there.
When I fed Jingke, I touched his fur(皮毛). Most people think that pandas’ fur would be soft. But actually, pandas’ fur is very hard. It felt like I was touching needles. I looked at his teeth, too—they were sharp and big. No wonder the panda keepers told us that pandas are not only cute, but also dangerous.
I am happy to be so close to the pandas. This experience lets me know that it is not easy to be a panda keeper.
1. What is the meaning of the underlined phrase in Paragraph l?| A．瞬息万变 | B．眨眼之间 | C．长年累月 | D．一夜之间 |
| A．clearing the pandas’ home | B．feeding the pandas |
| C．training the pandas | D．making food for the pandas |
| A．hard | B．soft | C．comfortable | D．smooth |
| A．A panda lover | B．Keeping pandas |
| C．The pandas in Chengdu | D．My experience as a panda keeper |
6 . This is the sad story of Hamlet, young Prince of Denmark, whose father died two months before the story begins. Hamlet’s father was King of Denmark and Hamlet was his only son. The king died a strange death while he was sleeping in the garden of his castle. It was believed that he had been bitten to death by a poisonous snake. He was such a wise and kind man that he was loved by all the people in the nation. His son, Hamlet, of course, loved him far more than anyone else in the world.
Hamlet was so sad that he never stopped wearing black clothes. There was something else that made Hamlet even sadder. His mother, Gertrude, married Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who was a brother of the late king.
After Hamlet’s father died, Claudius became King of Denmark and married Gertrude. Young Hamlet did not like him because he was not as wise and kind as his father. Hamlet did not in the least want his mother to marry such a man. He became angry with both of them and came to look down upon his mother as well as his uncle.
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．Hamlet’s father’s death. | B．Hamlet’s uncle. |
| C．Hamlet’s feelings after his father died. | D．Hamlet’s character. |
| A．Hamlet’s mother. | B．Hamlet. | C．Hamlet’s uncle. | D．The people in Denmark. |
| A．Last. | B．Coming late. | C．Old. | D．Recently dead. |
| A．His mother got married to a man he didn’t like. |
| B．His uncle was not as wise and kind as his father. |
| C．He didn’t become the king. |
| D．His uncle became the king. |
7 . Jerry is a world-famous mountain climber. He has climbed many high mountains in the world. Starting in 2015, he and his friends spent two years on an adventure（探险）in South America, covering 7,800 miles. He was even named Adventure of the Year by a famous geography magazine in 2018.
Although Jerry had achieved great success, he didn’t feel fulfilled. He asked himself, “Is it enough to climb the highest mountains? Am I doing something helpful? How can I turn my adventures into something that can help the world?”
Jerry learned that scientists need plants, rocks and water samples（样本）from the places far away to do research. But scientists can’t get there themselves as such places are hard to reach——only the bravest adventurers can make it. Jerry thought himself could do something to help. He then came up with an idea. He set up a team of top adventures to collect samples for scientists. By studying the samples, scientists could know more about the earth and find ways to protect it.
Recently Jerry and his adventurer friends have discovered a special plant life of Mountain Qomolangma. The samples they brought back have helped scientists how plants live in extreme（极端的）conditions.
For Jerry, this kind of adventure is most satisfying. “Such adventures had made us see life in a different way. Now, being the best climber isn’t important for me, what matters is doing something helpful while climbing the mountains. There is still much more we can do.” Jerry said to a newspaper.
1. What is paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．Jerry’s friends. | B．Jerry’s achievements. | C．High mountains. | D．A geography magazine. |
| A．Satisfied. | B．Lonely. | C．Patient. | D．Worried. |
| A．To make friends. | B．To help scientists. | C．To study plants. | D．To train scientists. |
| A．their hobbies | B．their friendship | C．their understanding of life | D．their living conditions |
| A．Dangerous Mountains Climbing. | B．Important Scientific Discoveries. |
| C．Plants Found on High Mountains. | D．Adventures Turned into Something Greater. |
8 . Boris, a foreign student at Communication University of China, often shares his experiences of Chinese culture on his vlog (视频博客).
In one video, for example, Boris shared how he had learned the Chinese word dongxi. He translated each part separately into “east west”. And he introduced one theory (说法) about how dongxi came to mean “things”. He told people that all marketplaces in ancient Chinese cities were set up along a single road that ran from east to west. So when you would say qu mai dongxi. you’d be saying, “I’m going to buy things.”
Some other videos show his reading Chinese poems and performing kung fu in Chinese traditional costume, which are quite welcome among his 40, 000 followers.
“Many of my followers are learning Chinese,” Boris said. “But sadly, they know little about Chinese culture and the country.”
Like many foreigners, Boris once believed that all Chinese could perform kung fu, flying onto roofs and walking over walls. He thought the country was not that developed. But after he got a scholarship (奖学金) to study in China in 2019, his view changed. “China has entered a new period, but many people’s impressions of China are still stuck in the1970s,” Boris said. “That’s why I started to shoot vlogs to share Chinese culture in 2019.”
Until now, Boris has posted more than 40 Chinese culture vlogs online. But making these vlogs is not easy. Take reading the poem Second Farewell to Cambridge by Xu Zhimo as an example.
“I can understand and read every word in the poem,” Boris said. “But to touch readers, I need to use proper feelings while reading.” So he needed to look for much background information and make his feelings suit each part of the poem.
Though shooting these vlogs takes lots of time, the young man feels proud that his vlogs have inspired many people. Boris said that he wanted to continue bridging the differences between two cultures. “This goal may not be achieved easily, but I will spare no efforts to do my part.”
1. Through the vlogs, Boris mainly wants to ________.| A．teach foreigners Chinese | B．introduce a Chinese university |
| C．sell Chinese products | D．share his experiences in China |
| A．translating it as a whole | B．knowing its cultural background |
| C．making up some sentences | D．comparing it with similar words |
| A．His hunger for new technology. | B．His wish to show the real China. |
| C．His interest in Chinese culture. | D．His dream to be a big vlogger. |
| A．meet the followers’ needs | B．express Boris’s love for poems |
| C．show Boris’s efforts at vlog-making | D．give an example of Chinese culture |
| A．say yes to Boris’s actions | B．build bridges by making vlogs |
| C．call for more help | D．achieve a common goal |
9 . Indonesia is my mother’s homeland and one of my favorite countries. Since I was young, I had learned a lot about the country and become interested in it. For a long time I had wanted to do something for the country and people there, and I thought volunteering (做志愿者) would be a good and fun way to do so.
I received the greatest pleasure from being with the children. Teaching my first English class in Aceh was exciting, but I was rather nervous. As time passed by, I learned how to be a better teacher. Teaching was actually the most enjoyable of my many responsibilities (责任).
Many children were shy at first. But when they relaxed, they would start talking and telling you a lot of funny things. I believed we were helping them build up their confidence.
For the children who are more in need, The Education Program (TEP) will collect donations (募捐) to help them.
As a volunteer, I had to visit the TEP children at home once a month and help them write a thank-you letter to their sponsors. This was a way for the children to communicate with their sponsors. Sometimes the sponsors would write back to the children. Seeing the children’s happy faces, I had a great sense of pleasure.
1. The writer believed volunteering would be a good way to ________.| A．play outdoors |
| B．get the greatest pleasure |
| C．learn more about Indonesia |
| D．do something for Indonesia |
| A．relaxed | B．nervous | C．unhappy | D．uncomfortable |
| A．to help them write a thank-you letter |
| B．to play with them |
| C．to help them with their study |
| D．to help them build up their confidence |
| A．领导 | B．发起者 | C．亲戚 | D．资助者 |
| A．When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher. |
| B．I learned how to be a better teacher at first. |
| C．I learned a lot from my experience as a volunteer. |
| D．The children in the poor area were brave and easy to talk to. |
10 . Clarkson is a big town. It sits near a large river, the Clark River. Every day, people take the boat from North Clarkson to South Clarkson to go to work.
Most people live in North Clarkson. There are many trees along the streets. When it is sunny, children run and play in the safe streets. North Clarkson is really a wonderful place to live in.
South Clarkson has some shops and factories. People don’t live there, but they come in the morning to work. There is also a big stadium. On Sundays, many people go to watch their favorite sports games.
At the weekend, the people from Clarkson enjoy walking along the bank of the Clark River. They also take small boats on the water and if there is a little wind, they fly kites in the large park.
1. What is Clarkson?| A．A village. | B．A town. | C．A city. | D．A country. |
| A．on foot | B．by bus | C．by subway | D．by boat |
| A．North Clarkson is a good place to live in. |
| B．People usually live in South Clarkson. |
| C．There is a big stadium in North Clarkson. |
| D．There are many factories in North Clarkson. |
| A．a place for games and sports |
| B．a place for students to study in |
| C．a place for people to live in |
| D．a place for meals or sleep |
| A．People from Clarkson are busy with their work |
| B．People from Clarkson take small boats to work |
| C．People from Clarkson have a good time on weekends |
| D．People from Clarkson don’t enjoy their work |
