1 . I hired a man to help me repair an old farm house. His first day on the job made him mad—a flat tire (轮胎) made him lose an hour of work, he cut his finger with a knife and his old truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in silence.
On arriving, he invited me to meet his family. As we walked towards the front door, he stopped at a small tree and touched the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door, his face was full of smiles and he hugged his two children and gave his wife a kiss.
Afterwards, he walked with me to the car. We passed the tree. I was so curious that I asked him about what I had seen earlier. “Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied. “I know I can’t help having troubles on the job, but one thing is for sure. Those troubles don't belong to my children and wife. So I hang them in the tree every night and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning, I pick them up again.
“The funny thing is.” he smiles, “when I come out to pick them up in the morning, there aren’t as many as those hung up the night before.”
1. What didn’t happen on the man’s first day of repairing the old farmhouse?| A．One of his tires had no air. | B．His finger was cut by a knife. |
| C．He couldn’t start his old truck. | D．He arrived an hour earlier. |
| A．Sorry. | B．Curious. |
| C．Worried. | D．Bored. |
| A．The man’s children and wife. | B．The man’s children. |
| C．The troubles on his job. | D．The trees. |
| A．The man invited the author to meet his family. |
| B．Seeing his children and wife, the man was very sad. |
| C．Once the man met troubles on his job, he hung them in the tree and never took them again. |
| D．What the man did was very funny. |
| A．He liked planting trees. |
| B．He was always late for work. |
| C．He always worried about his job. |
| D．He loved his family very much and never brought troubles to them. |
2 . I LOVE FOOTBALL. I started playing when I was nine years old, and football got me through difficult periods. It helps make me who I am today. And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from achieving that dream, without realizing it.
My romance with football started when my dad drove me, kicking and screaming, to join a league. I didn’t want to be there at first. I was naturally weak and small. Fear turned to awe (敬畏) when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a huge and strong guy. And he was really strict and old-school.
Coach Graham used to drive me hard. I remember one practice in particular. “You’re doing it all wrong, Pausch. Go back! Do it again!” I tried to do what he wanted. But it wasn’t enough. “You owe(欠) me, Pausch! You’re doing push-ups after practice.
When the practice was over, one of the assistant coaches came up to me. “Coach Graham drove you pretty hard, didn’t he?” he said.
“Yeah.”
“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re doing badly and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”
That conversation has been with me closely my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s willing to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but those who always push you hard in your life are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-respect. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Coach Graham knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to make it stronger: You give them something they can’t do; they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating.
When Coach Graham first got hold of me, I was a weak kid with no skills and no physical strength. But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today. I really felt thankful to Coach Graham for what he had done to me, though it surely didn’t feel good at that time to do so many push-ups after practice.
根据上文内容判断正(T)误(F)1. In the writer’s eyes, Coach Graham was strict and wise.
2. The writer believes that those who are quite strict with you actually think ill of you.
3. The writer was thankful to Graham because the coach encouraged him to do better.
4. From the passage, we can learn “Never offer to teach fish to swim”
5. Coach Graham knew the method to teach kids how to build self-respect.
3 . On January 27, in order to win the new pneumonia Resistance War（抗击新型肺炎战）, the Ministry of Education issued（教育部公布） a notice on putting off the start time of school in spring 2020. It was said that school should not start before March. The exact start time of school will depend on situations and further notices.
However, many parents are very worried that putting off the start of school may affect（影响） children’s studies. If they have such a long winter vacation, children will not learn any knowledge, read books or study at all. They may forget what they have learned before. Staying at home for a long time will make them keep eating, sleeping and playing, which seriously affect their physical and mental health.
In short, the close of school influences learning and develops bad habits, so how should we avoid these problems? Local education departments have also issued a notice, that is, to organize online teaching and create a network platform（平台）, where necessary courses will be shown every day, and online teaching will be given by excellent teachers of the subject, and students can learn at home through computer or mobile network.
It should be said that such a method is very good. It can not only keep students indoors and not worry about the infection（感染) of the disease, but also make them study at home, improve their learning ability, and truly achieve “no suspension of classes”. Both the platform itself and the recorded lesson resources are more useful, and are welcomed by parents and teachers.
Of course, except for learning at home, it is also necessary to teach children about health knowledge, especially how to keep away from touching virus and other knowledge popularization; at the same time, it is also necessary for children to do some physical exercises or some games, which is good for physical health at home.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案1. Parents are worried about putting off the start time of school because ________.
| A．children may be infected by virus | B．they don’t like the idea of online learning |
| C．children’s study may be affected | D．parents have no time to look after children |
| A．To keep playing online games. | B．To keep touching different people. |
| C．To do some physical exercises outside. | D．To teach children about health knowledge. |
| A．plan | B．stop | C．growth | D．change |
| A．Students would rather go to school. | B．The date of going to school is decided. |
| C．Online teaching will help students study. | D．Parents believe children can teach themselves. |
| A．A Special Way to Learn at Home | B．A New War with a New Chance |
| C．A Way to Keep Mentally Healthy | D．A Method to Make Parents Worried |
4 .
| Name: Grace Age: 91 | I studied skiing in my forties. On a skiing trip, I broke a rib（肋骨）.As the years passed, I developed bad backache. I could not breathe well. I tried an exercise program. For six weeks, I exercised three times a week, two to three hours a day. I did weight（重量）training, bike and breathing exercise. Finally my breathing improved and the backache disappeared. Exercise played an important role in my improvement. |
| Name: Robert Age: 80 | Since I retired（退休）in 1987, I have exercised five times a week. I strongly believed exercise stops me from illness. My present exercise includes bod strength（力量）work using weight machines（15-20 minutes every day）,two miles on a running machine（25-30 minutes every day）and five miles on a bike（20-25 minutes every day）. |
| Name: Lucy Age: 66 | I attended my first dance class 23 years ago. In the beginning, it was difficult to follow quick movements, but I tried to keep doing it for six weeks. Now I am still taking dance classes twice a week. My backaches disappeared years ago and I am full of energy. Dancing helps me in making better decisions and feeling warm outside in winter! |
1. Grace does all the following exercise EXCEPT __________.
| A．breathing exercise | B．bicycle |
| C．dance | D．weight training |
| A．difficult | B．boring | C．tiring | D．useful |
| A．sixty | B．sixty-five | C．seventy | D．seventy-five |
| A．has a bad backache now | B．began dancing many years ago |
| C．takes dance classes twice a month | D．stops attending dance classes now |
| A．Grace used to go skiing. | B．Lucy only dances in winter. |
| C．Robert retired at the age of 60. | D．Both Robert and Grace have backaches. |
5 . Welcome to my new school, No. 6 Middle School. It is big with many buildings. In the school you can see some beautiful trees and flowers. The teachers are in the office building and the students are in the classroom building. A big playground is behind the office building. After class students can play in it. The library is behind the classroom building and students can borrow some books from it. The food of the dining hall is very good and all of us like it.
1. What's No. 6 Middle School like?| A．It's old. | B．It's big. | C．It's hot. | D．It's small. |
| A．trees | B．flowers | C．buildings | D．A, B and C |
| A．It is behind the classroom building. | B．It is next to the dining hall. |
| C．It is behind the office building. | D．It is in front of the classroom building. |
| A．买 | B．卖 | C．借 | D．出租 |
| A．The teachers are in the classroom building. | B．There is a big sports hall in the school. |
| C．Students don't like the food in the dining hall. | D．The classroom building is in front of the library. |
Afternoon classes begin at one thirty. There are two lessons in the afternoon. They are over at three ten. Tom stays at school for another hour to play games, and he gets home at about four thirty.
Tom usually has supper at six. In the evening he does his homework. Sometimes he watches TV. He goes to bed at about ten.
1. Tom comes from _________.
| A．England | B．Canada | C．America | D．Australia |
| A．two hours | B．half an hour |
| C．fifteen minutes | D．an hour |
| A．11: 50 | B．12: 00 | C．12: 10 | D．12: 20 |
| A．in class | B．at school |
| C．in a park | D．at home |
| A．six | B．four | C．eight | D．two |
I couldn't stop imagining who the giver might be．Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming（幻想 ）about the sender．My mother encouraged these daydreams．She'd ask me if I had been especially kind to someone．Perhaps it was one of my classmates Perhaps it was the old man who I once helped．As a girl，I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy that I had met．
A month before my high school graduation（毕业），my father died．I was so sad that I became completely uninterested in my coming graduation dance，and I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not．My mother，in her own sadness，would not let me miss （过） any of those things．She wanted her children to feel loved．In fact，my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia：lovely，strong and perfect．
My mother died ten years after I was married．That was the year the gardenia stopped coming．
1. The writer received on her birthday since she was 11．
| A．a white gardenia |
| B．a card |
| C．a card and soft pink paper |
| D．a gardenia and a card |
| A．happy | B．sad |
| C．worried | D．nervous |
| A．the writer didn't get a new dress for the dance |
| B．the writer probably joined in the graduation dance |
| C．the writer's father died ten years earlier than her mother |
| D．the writer's father received a gardenia on each of his birthdays |
| A．her classmate | B．the old man | C．the boy | D．her mother |
| A．what a gardenia meant |
| B．what a girl dreamed about |
| C．how a mother loved her children |
| D．how a daughter missed her father． |
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. |
| School Show | |||
| Name | Act | Time | Place |
| Li Xin | Chinese Kung Fu | Sunday 8:00 a. m. | In the auditorium (礼堂) |
| Lucy | English song | Friday 3:40 p.m. | Class Five |
| Mike | Play the piano | Tuesday 2:00 p. m. | In the music room |
| Tom | Paint | Monday 10:00 a.m. | Drawing room |
| Jack | Beijing Opera | Thursday 3:50 p.m. | In the auditorium |
1. You can ask(问) ______ to play the piano for us.
| A．Li Xin | B．Lucy | C．Mike | D．Jack |
| A．at 3 : 50 a. m. on Thursday |
| B．at 3: 50 p. m. on Thursday |
| C．at 2: 00 a. m. On Tuesday |
| D．at 8 : 00 p. m. on Sunday |
| A．Chinese Kung Fu | B．Beijing Opera |
| C．Paint | D．Play the piano |
| A．the auditorium | B．Class Five |
| C．the music room | D．drawing room |
| A．Lucy; at 3:40 p.m. |
| B．Mike; at 2:00 p.m. |
| C．Lucy; in the music room |
| D．Mike; in Class Five |
10 . I loved my mother’s desk since I was just tall enough to see above the top of it when mother sat doing letters. Looking at the ink bottle, pens and white paper, I decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.
Years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother, “But the desk,” she said again, “is for Elizabeth.”
I never saw her get angry, and never saw her cry. I knew she loved me, and she showed it in action. But as a young girl, I wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
They never happened and a gulf opened between us. I was “too emotional (易动感情的)”, but she lived “on the surface”.
As years went by and I had my own family. I loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family. I wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way that she did forgive (原谅) me.
I posted the letter and waited for her answer. It didn’t come.
It seemed that nothing happened. I couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to her.
I only knew that I had written it, and I could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
Now the present of her desk told me that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work, though she had never been able to. I cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside… a photo of my father and a one-paper letter, folded (折叠) and refolded many times.
Give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. Mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
1. The writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.| A．after mother died | B．when she was a child |
| C．before she became a writer | D．when mother gave it to her |
| A．was too serious about everything her daughter had done |
| B．was cold on the surface but kind in her heart to her daughter |
| C．cared much about her daughter in words |
| D．wrote to her daughter in careful words |
| A．deep understanding between the old and the young |
| B．part of the sea going far in land |
| C．free talks between mother and daughter |
| D．different ideas between mother and daughter |
| A．She read the letter again and again till she died. |
| B．For years, she often talked about the letter. |
| C．She didn’t forgive her daughter at all in her life. |
| D．She had never received the letter. |
| A．My Letter to Mother | B．Mother and Children |
| C．My Mother’s Desk | D．Talks Between Mother and Me |
