1 . Mobile phones have become popular for both adults and teenagers. Today most of the teenagers own a mobile phone.
Parents have realized that mobile phones are useful for their children as they make the children safer. Teenagers spend most of their time outside and so parents are always worried about their whereabouts (行踪). With mobile phones, parents feel comfortable and they no longer need to wonder if their teenager is going to be late or is having a problem. Teenagers are allowed to call their parents and ask for help if they are in trouble.
But this can also add up costs of their mobile bills. As we know, teenagers enjoy talking on the phone and sending messages to their friends, and parents may end up paying high bills. Another disadvantage is that teenagers lose their mobile phones quite often. So they need to be responsible and use their mobile phones carefully. Most parents agree that though teenagers want to have a mobile phone, they should use them safely.
When children use mobile phones, the following things should be noted:
☆ No mobile phone use should be allowed during class.
☆ No ringing mobile phones or loud ring tones.
☆ Headphones should be offered to the teenagers.
Teenagers use mobile phones. | |
| Advantages | Mobile phones make the children safer. |
| Parents can know | |
| Parents can know if their child is going to be late or is having a problem. | |
| Teenagers can call their parents and ask for help if they are in trouble. | |
| Disadvantages | Using mobile phones |
| Teenagers | |
| Teenagers | |
| No ringing mobile phones or loud ring tones. | |
| Teenagers should use headphones. | |
2 . Only humans speak by using words. But all kinds in the animal world can communicate in one way or another. Maybe you have heard about the way bees dance around to send messages to each other and the way dogs bark in different ways to give warnings, to be friendly or to be playful. But did you know about infrasonic communication used by elephants? This is how it works:
Humans hear low sounds like thunder (雷) rumbling (隆鸣) in the sky. But we don’t hear sounds lower than this. However, animals such as elephants and hippos (河马) can hear much lower sounds than humans can. And what’s more, they can make those low sounds as well, and they use them to communicate with each other. This is known as infrasound.
The amazing thing about infrasound is that it travels over several kilometers. Higher-level sounds like the one people can hear, don’t travel well through walls, leaves, trees and so on, which is why we can’t hear sounds from more than 100 meters away. But infrasound is much stronger and things like grass and trees have no influence on it. Therefore, it can travel much further. Elephants can hear infrasonic calls from four kilometers away!
There have been reports of people watching groups of elephants feeding or resting and then the elephants suddenly all stopped what they were doing for no reason at all. They obviously heard a warning call from a long way away, but the people didn’t hear a sound. In places like a zoo or wildlife park where you can get nearer to animals, it is a bit easier to sense when infrasonic sounds are made. When you stand near mother elephants with their babies in a zoo, you may notice slight rumbling in the air every few minutes—not loud or strong, but clearly noticed. This is infrasonic communication—the mother elephants “talking” to their babies.
1. Do animals communicate in the same way?____________________________________________________________
2. What is infrasound like according to the second paragraph (段落)?
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3. Why can infrasound travel further?
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4. What kind of sounds can people hear easily?
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5. How do elephants talk with each other?
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3 . Now students’ English handwriting gets worse and worse. That makes their teachers feel worried. Is your English handwriting beautiful? If not, here is some advice to help you.
Using paper with lines can keep you writing straight instead of up or down when you write English words or sentences. Those lines on the paper can help you to write words in the right size. Be sure to use the lined space completely. And make sure those capital letters (大写字母) are written properly.
If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little. For some kids, going slower makes the handwriting clear. If you write too quickly, it’s hard for you to stop where you should, and even worse, you may make more mistakes.
When you hold your pencil the correct way, writing is much nicer. Some kids press down really hard when they write. That makes the handwriting not nice. Try to be relaxed and don’t hold the pencil so hard. Let your writing appear nice and clean. If you do so, people will guess you are a student with a good habit.
Drawing can improve your handwriting. You need to use the skills to control your pencil better while you are drawing pictures. Even though you have no chance to draw at school, you can practice by yourself at home.
Handwriting is very important. Imagine you are a world-famous movie star or a well-known sports player, what do you do when your fans run up to you? Give them your autographs, of course.
1. If we write English words too quickly, they may ________.| A．be hard to read | B．be written properly |
| C．be more beautiful | D．appear nice and clean |
| A．how to write your English | B．how to write in the right size |
| C．how to hold the pencil right | D．how to make fewer mistakes |
| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 | D．6 |
| A．note | B．article | C．composition | D．name |
| A．Write English well, you’ll be famous. |
| B．Drawing pictures can help us write well. |
| C．It’s important to hold pencils in the right way. |
| D．We should make use of the lined space on the paper when we write. |
4 . Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van（住房汽车）.
A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded（拥挤）. A van hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to travel together.
Mr. Hargen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. There are seven seats in the van, and two of them are used to put things on, for a family of five must carry many suitcase（衣箱）when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home, the suitcase are put into the two seats. And then they can carry their grandparents.
Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the moutains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks.
All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.
1. From the passage, a van is also called .| A．a motor | B．a motor home |
| C．a motorbike | D．a big truck |
| A．sold their old house | B．moved to their grandparents’ house |
| C．built a new place for a van | D．sold their second car |
| A．a baby | B．much money |
| C．more than two kids | D．interest in vans |
| A．to travel with all the family members on holiday. |
| B．to do some shopping with all the family members. |
| C．to visit their grandparents at weekends. |
| D．to drive their children to school every day. |
| A．they can take people to another city when people are free. |
| B．they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays. |
| C．some people think motor homes are cheap. |
| D．big families can put more things in motor homes. |
It is everyone's duty to help animals to stop extinction (灭绝). As a student, there are so many things you can do yourself too! Please look at the following tips (建议) to help the endangered animals.
Send a letter to your local environment protecting center and show how you feel about the quick extinction of animals. Use the facts to write what you have found. Give some advice to the officers who make the strong rules to save animals.
Draw pictures and make a poster. Put this poster somewhere at school or where people will usually see it. Add some texts in the sign to make it clear why you care about the loss (丧失) of animals. It may encourage people to do something to protect the animals.
Avoid buying things that come from endangered species (物种). When you travel, be careful about what you buy. You shouldn't buy things made from endangered animals or endangered tree species from forests that the animals live on.
Watch your diet. Before eating meals, you should see if you will break a food chain. If you see somebody doing something bad for the food chain, please stop him at once.
1. Who make rules to save the endangered animals?___________________________________________________________________
2. Where should we put the poster?
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3. Is it right to buy a gift made of ivory (象牙) while travelling?
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4. Why should we watch our diet?
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5. What is the writer's purpose according to the passage?
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6 . Chen Yujie 15, studies at a boarding school in Ningbo, Zhejiang. She used to go back to her home in Cixi every week to get money from her parents. it was not a short ride home and the trips were tiring. Chen hoped her parents could put the money on a bankcard, so she didn't have to travel so often.
She decided to discuss it with her parents during TV time after dinner. “It's usually the most relaxing time for our family,” said Chen. She picked the right time. After a few turns of lobbying (游说),she made it.
For most teenagers like Chen, opening up to parents can be difficult—especially when it comes to important things. Therefore, they have to make sure the timing is right.
US magazine Highlights recently polled(对……进行民意测验) 1.521 kids age of 6-12 in the country about that.
American kids seem to know when their parents are most receptive (能接纳的) . Mealtime turns out to be their most favorite time to open up to their parents. Bedtime comes second, followed by time spent in the car.
Chinese teenagers seem to be similar. A survey organized by Qianjiang Daily, a newspaper based in Hangzhou, found that most teenagers in the city would choose mealtime to chat with their parents, mainly discussing the problems on their study.
So do you have anything to open up to your parents about? Choose a good time.
1. Chen Yujie would like her parents to put her money on the bankcard instead of2. Chen Yujie's parents finally accepted
3. The fifth paragraph (自然段) mainly tells us the
4. In China, most children choose
5. This passage mainly tells us
7 . Most people think sleepwalkers (梦游者) walking around at night. But in fact, not all sleepwalkers walk. Some only sit up or get out of bed or act like how they often do during the day when they are sleeping! But most sleep walkers do get up and go around for a few seconds or half an hour.
Sleepwalkers' eyes are open, but they don't see the same way as they do during the day, and they often think they are in different rooms of the house or different places. Sleepwalkers usually go back to bed themselves and they don't remember it in the morning.
Scientists say that sleepwalking may sometimes happen when a person is sick, has a fever, is not getting enough sleep, or he has much stress.
There's no medicine for sleepwalking, but here are some ideas from doctors to help sleepwalkers:
·Relax at bedtime by listening to quiet music.
·Go to bed at the same time every day.
·Keep everything quiet when you are trying to sleep.
·Don't drink a lot in the evening and be sure you go to the washroom before going to bed.
Remember: don't shout to sleepwalkers when they're sleeping, or they can get confused (迷惑的) and scared.
1. When sleepwalkers are sleeping, ________.| A．all of them only sit up | B．all of them get out of bed |
| C．most of them walk the whole night | D．some of them act like how they do during the day |
| A．see | B．remember | C．walk | D．think |
| A．what sleepwalkers do | B．how sleepwalkers act |
| C．why sleepwalking happens | D．where sleepwalkers go |
| A．take the medicine on time | B．follow the doctors' instructions |
| C．try to sleep early | D．keep calm all the time |
| A．People who sleepwalk are easily scared during the day. |
| B．Sleepwalkers can't find the way to their beds. |
| C．Sleepwalkers should drink much before sleeping. |
| D．Sleepwalkers should listen to quiet music at bedtime. |
8 . Traffic is not just up set for drivers, but it can be dangerous for walkers and bike riders.
You might have been a pedestrian before when you were walking to school or to a friend’s house. If you are walking near traffic, always use the side walk. Avoid walking on the edge of the sidewalk. Walk closer to buildings just to give some extra room between yourself and traffic.
What if you need to get to a different side of street? Use something called crosswalk. This is a lane that protects pedestrians. There are traffic signals at a crosswalk that will tell you when it is safe to walk and when you should wait. Even if the sign says it is safe, always look in both directions to make sure a car isn’t coming.
Sometimes you might want to ride your bike to go to visit a friend or to school. There are some important things to remember when traveling by bike to stay safe from traffic.
Always wear brightly-colored clothing. If it is dark outside and you are wearing dark clothes, a driver may not be able to see you. Use reflectors on you bike. These are small pieces of plastic that can be fitted on your tires, front handles, and other areas of your bike. They reflect the light from car headlights so that drivers can see you.
Ride your bike in the same direction as the traffic. And don’t think that traffic lights and signals are just for those driving cars! They are important for you too. So always pay close attention.
1. If you are a pedestrian trying to get to the other side of the street, you should ________ to be safe.| A．walk on the edge of the sidewalk | B．use the crosswalk |
| C．walk closer to buildings | D．use the bike lane |
| A．When the sign is safe, just cross the road. |
| B．When the sign is safe, you should wait. |
| C．When the sign is safe, you also need to look in both directions to make sure a car isn’t coming. |
| D．Traffic lights and signals are just for cars. |
| A．A black jacket. | B．Brightly-colored clothes. |
| C．A dark helmet（头盔）and a suit. | D．A dark T-shirt and jeans. |
| A．反光镜 | B．保险杠 | C．货物架 | D．挡泥板 |
| A．To ask more people to use the sidewalk safely. |
| B．To show why traffic can be dangerous to people. |
| C．To tell us how to travel be bike to stay safe from traffic. |
| D．To introduce some ways to stay safe when you are around traffic. |
9 . Playing video games can be a fun way to relax. It is a way to spend time with friends in schools. Teachers use video games like Minecraft to encourage teamwork. But for some players, gaming is an unhealthy habit. At night, they are glued to a screen. Their schoolwork becomes worse. The video-game world seems like a friendly place. It seems friendlier than the real world.
Mental health experts have taken notice. In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) added gaming disorder to its list of diseases and health conditions. A person may have the disorder if gaming has done harm to his or her relationships with family and friends. Gaming may also disrupt his or her everyday activities.
Not all experts agree with WHO . They don’t think too much gaming should be called a disorder. They say people hooked on(对……入了迷) video games may have other mental health problems. These should be treated first.
Others think WHO made the right call .Clifford Sussman, who has worked with kids as young as 12, says they often have feelings of anxiety(焦虑). They feel lonely. They get angry when a parent stops them from playing games.
Playing video games excites the brain’s reward center. After a while, the brain becomes numb(麻木) to pleasure. You feel bored without a controller in your hand. So you play even more.
Sussman advises you should take at least a one-hour break after every hour of play. The brain need time to return to a normal condition. Young gamers who think they might have a problem should ask an adult for help. Sussman suggests you first answer a simple question: “Are you in control, or is the game in control?”
1. The underlined word "disrupt" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.| A．be valuable to | B．have a bad influence on |
| C．have nothing to do with | D．change in some way. |
| A．Too much gaming shouldn’t be called a disorder. | B．Parents are helped to young gamers. |
| C．A break is necessary during the long video games. | D．Kids hooked on video games age angry easily. |
| A．what excites the brain’s reward center | B．how the brain becomes numb to video games |
| C．what makes you hook on video games | D．how you feel without playing video games |
| A．anxiety | B．lonely | C．angry | D．happy |
| A．When they play the game, they are free from working.\ |
| B．When they play the game, the game excites their brain’s reward center. |
| C．When they play the game for a while, they will become numb to trouble. |
| D．When they don’t have a controller in hand, they will feel relaxed. |
10 . It is said that more than four million people die each year from smoking. That number is increasing.
Seven in ten of those deaths are in developing countries. These numbers are frightening.Yet people around the world continue to smoke. The Great American Smoke out has been founded for twenty-five years to show the dangers of smoking and provide support for people who decide to stop smoking. The American Cancer Society says all cigarettes damage the body. It warns that smoking even a small number of cigarettes is dangerous. It is not easy to give up smoking forever. However, doctors say they probably will live longer if they do stop smoking. They will feel better and look better. They also will protect the health of family members who breathe their smoke.
The American Cancer Society says there is not just one right way to stop smoking. Any useful way to stop smoking is worth trying. They may take long walks or spend time in places where smoking is not allowed. Also, they could eat a small piece of fruit instead of having a cigarette.
The American Cancer Society says the sooner smokers stop smoking, the more they can reduce their chances of getting cancer and other diseases. It says blood pressure returns to normal twenty minutes after smoking the last cigarette. Carbon monoxide ( 一氧化碳 ) gas levels in the blood return to normal after eight hours. After one day, the chance of heart attack decreases. After one year, the risk of heart disease for a non-smoker is half that of a smoker. Stop smoking before smoking stops you!
1. How many people die from smoking in developing countries each year?| A．2,600,000. | B．2,700,000. | C．2,800,000 | D．2,900,000 |
| A．to provide help for smokers | B．to show what harm smoking does to smokers |
| C．to offer advice to smokers | D．to make smokers aware of harm and give them help |
| A．They will probably live longer. | B．They will probably feel better. |
| C．They will probably look better. | D．All of the above. |
| A．It is not easy to stop smoking. |
| B．The chance of heart attack becomes less after you stop smoking. |
| C．It is more likely for a smoker to suffer from disease. |
| D．It is less helpful for a smoker suffering heart attack to stop smoking. |
| A．a newspaper | B．a science report | C．a sports magazine | D．a storybook |
