Spring Festival is coming. You will buy new clothes and a lot of food. There are always some old clothes you don’t want. And there is always some food you can’t eat. What can you do? Send them to the two places.
Wall of Kindness (友善之墙)
You can see Wall of Kindness in many cities now, like Shanghai, Beijing, Xiamen and Qingdao. People hang (悬挂) their old clothes on the wall. Poor people can take them away. You can always see jackets, sweaters, trousers and coats on the wall.
Share Fridge (共享冰箱)
China has its first Share Fridge. It’s in Shanghai. There is a lot of food in it, like cakes. The food is from some restaurants and stores. People don’t need to buy the food because it’s free. They can take it home.
1. The underlined word “them” refers to (指的是) ________.| A．clothes | B．cakes | C．fridges |
| A．some birthday cakes | B．an English book | C．a pair of old trousers |
| A．China has its first Share Fridge in Xiamen. |
| B．People who need the clothes on the wall can take them away. |
| C．People have to pay for (为……付款) the food in Share Fridge. |
| A．helpful | B．tidy | C．healthy |
| A．Wall of Kindness | B．Share Fridge | C．Do something for others |
Many students are not very healthy now. Most of them know it is good for them to play sports. But when they have time, they always don’t want to exercise. Some of them only watch sports games on TV. Allen is a 15-year-old boy. He likes basketball, but he never plays it. He thinks it is difficult for him. He likes many basketball players like Yao Ming and Kobe, but he doesn’t do sports like them.
Many boys and girls don’t like vegetables or fruit, either. They like eating junk food (垃圾食品) very much. But eating vegetables and fruit is good for our health. Students need to eat them every day. So if you want to be healthy, you should eat vegetables and fruit and exercise every day!
Task 1：Finish the chart according to the article. Fill in each blank with no more than 3 words.
Stay healthy
| Many students don’t like playing sports. They only watch sports games 1._______. Allen is one of them. He is 2._______. He likes basketball, but he never 3._______. |
| Many boys and girls like eating junk food. Eating vegetables and fruit 4._______ our health. Students need to eat vegetables and fruit and 5. _______ every day. |
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Task 2：Answer the following questions.
6. Who knows it is good to do sports?
7. Does Allen play basketball? How do you know that?
8. How can students stay healthy? Explain your reason(s) in about 20 words.
3 . American children like to celebrate their birthdays. They usually celebrate them with a party. They ask their friends to their parties. They don’t have parties on the right dates of their birthdays if they come on a school day. They may hold (举办) it at the weekend.
Today many children like two kinds of parties. One is at home. Parents decorate the house with balloons and coloured paper. They make a special birthday dinner. The children play games. The other is away from home. Some are at a special restaurant. The children eat pizza and ice cream. The waiters also sing and say happy birthday to the children. Some are at a park, or at a cinema, or in some other places.
There is a cake with candles (蜡烛) at every birthday party. When the candles are lighted (点燃), everyone sings the special birthday song Happy Birthday.
Many people don’t have birthday parties when they are not young. They say they would like to forget how old they are. But they do like to keep the happy birthday parties of their childhood in mind (记忆).
1. If Tom’s birthday is on February 10th, Wednesday, he may have the party on ________.| A．February 9th | B．February 10th | C．February 13th |
| A．Only one. | B．Two. | C．Three. |
| A．take...off | B．put...away | C．make...beautiful |
| A．some children spend their birthdays at a cinema |
| B．the children’s birthday candles are very special |
| C．many children don’t want to spend their birthdays |
| A．Birthday presents for children |
| B．Birthday parties in America |
| C．A special birthday party |
4 . Overweight (超重) is one of the biggest health problems now. Being overweight affects more than how you look. Too much fat can kill you.
What’s worse, overweight children turn into overweight adults. If you’re obese now, you probably will 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. Did you list any healthy snacks? One study of eating habits showed 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 picked a healthy snack—fruit. So, think about your snack choice again.
Get outside to exercise
Jim, a player on his school football team, had a weight problem not long time 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 athletic, fit and 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 |
| A．苗条的 | B．虚胖的 | C．健康的 |
| A．A few years ago, Jim was fat. |
| B．Eating an apple a day is good for our health. |
| C．Being overweight only affects how we look. |
①Try to get up early.
②Try to take more exercise.
③Try not to sit in front of TV or computer for too long.
④Try to eat more healthy food.
| A．②③④ | B．①②③ | C．①③④ | D．①②④ |
| A．one of the biggest health problems, overweight |
| B．how to fight overweight |
| C．the healthy food |
When you want to invite friends to a party, you’d better send them invitations. This is a good way to show your respect (尊重). Here are some ways of inviting friends to your party.
Mailed Invitation
The most traditional way to invite your friends is to mail invitations. You need to write down all the information about the party, such as the party time, place, clothes to wear, things to bring, phone number and so on.
Online Invitation
You can also invite friends to a party through the Internet. You can buy some online invitations, put pictures and videos in the online invitations and then e-mail them to your friends.
Phone Call
If you want to save more time, you can just make a phone call. In this way, you can tell them more about your party. And you can hear if they are interested in the party.
In-person (亲自)
An in-person invitation can let you talk to your friends about the party and know their interests. But when you talk to the friends, you may forget some important information. So, you’d better prepare an invitation for them, too.
1. How many ways of inviting friends to your party are mentioned (提及)? (根据短文内容回答问题)2. What’s the most traditional way to invite friends to a party? (根据短文内容回答问题)
3. Can you invite your friends in person if you want to save more time? (根据短文内容回答问题)
4. Look at the picture of the passage, it is probably a / an
5. Which way will you choose to invite friends if you have a birthday party? Why?
6 . Teenagers these days have a lot of worries. Sometimes you have problems with your schoolwork, and sometimes with your friends. This may let you feel unhappy. When you are feeling unhappy or forget how great you are, here are six ways to make you feel good about yourself.
• Look in the mirror and say to yourself, “I am a special person and there’s no one in the world like me. I can do anything!” It may not sound so good, but it really works!
• Do something nice for someone. Helping others always makes you feel good.
• Smile! Be friendly to people you meet. Look for the good things in your friends and family.
• Learn something new! Have you always wanted to decorate (装饰) your own room or learn how to swim? Go for it! New challenges (挑战) are fun and give you a sense of accomplishment when you have finished.
• Read and start a diary. Turn off the TV and let your imagination fly! Write down your thoughts, dreams or anything you want! Writing always helps to express (表达) your feelings.
• Stay with your family. We all need our family time. Talk with your mom or dad or even your cousin.
1. This passage may be taken from _________.| A．school rules | B．a magazine | C．a storybook |
| A．feel nice | B．be sure | C．feel special |
| A．挫败感 | B．成就感 | C．信任感 |
| A．Learn something new and go for it! |
| B．Keep a diary to express your feelings. |
| C．Stay alone at home as much as possible. |
| A．doing your best |
| B．always smile to your life |
| C．ways to feel good about yourself |
7 . What will life be like in the future? How will things change? Here are some ideas. Which ones will come true?
In the future, a change of weather won’t mean a change of clothes. We’ll wear a new kind of clothes. They’ll be warm when we’re cold and cool when we’re hot.
There’ll be no more light rain and cold wind in spring. The weather will be quite warm or even hot all year, with heavy rain and wind. The sea level will rise as well.
We won’t travel by bus or bike any more. Every family will have a small plane. No more expensive cars—it’be cheap to travel everywhere by plane, not only over land, but also over the sea or even into space. Maybe there’ll be traffic jams in the air.
Do you like long holidays? Well you’re going to like the future because machines and robots will do all the heavy and difficult jobs, and we’ll only do light and easy work. Working hours will be short so people will have long holidays.
1. According to this passage, we will wear _________ clothes in different weather in the future.| A．cold | B．warm | C．the same |
| A．hotter | B．cooler | C．better |
| A．everywhere | B．in the air | C．on the sea |
| A．Because they will have no jobs. |
| B．Because robots will do all the easy jobs. |
| C．Because they won’t need to work for a long time. |
| A．Life in the future | B．Clothes change in the future | C．Robots and traffic |
8 . Tom has a happy family. There are some rules in his family.
Keep healthy
Being healthy is important. Tom’s family play sports for one hour every day. Tom is in the school swimming club. And his parents run every morning.
Evening time is family time
They can’t watch TV or play computer games after dinner. The family usually sit (坐) on the sofa and talk. Tom always talks about his school and friends. Sometimes they take a walk together.
Always say “I love you” and “Thank you”
Tom says “I love you” to his parents in the morning before he goes to school, and in the evening before he goes to bed. His parents say it to him, too. When Tom helps his mother, she says “Thank you”. They show their love and thanks all the time (一直).
1. What club does Tom join?| A．The swimming club. |
| B．The running club. |
| C．The tennis club. |
| A．plays computer games |
| B．talks with his parents |
| C．takes a walk with his parents |
| A．Before he gets up. |
| B．At breakfast. |
| C．Before he goes to bed. |
| A．Tom’s father doesn’t exercise every day. |
| B．Tom can’t watch TV at home in the afternoon. |
| C．Tom always says “I love you” at home. |
| A．exercise and being healthy |
| B．how to talk with your parents |
| C．some rules in a happy family |
9 . China has accepted western fashion and technology as it has developed these years, but a lot of young people are turning to the past for their clothes choices and putting on traditional “hanfu”.
As the government encourages the renaissance (复兴) of traditional culture, hanfu is getting more and more popular with teenagers. Every year, we can enjoy different hanfu shows around the cities. These shows bring us back to the Han dynasty (朝代). We learn more about the history, culture and beauty from them.
Hanfu hasn’t been in the same style since the Han dynasty. However, this kind of clothes has something in common. They all have large soft robes (袍子), with sleeves that hang down to the knees, so the hands can’t be seen.
In modern China, the hanfu lovers are from history fans, cartoon fans to clothes fans.
“Clothes are the basic part of culture, so both the traditional clothes and modern clothes play the same role in culture,” said Zhang Jun, a famous reporter. “If the people and the country do not even understand our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other important parts of our culture?”
1. What clothes does the passage talk about?A． | B． | C． |
| A．China has accepted western fashion |
| B．China has accepted western technology |
| C．the government encourages traditional culture |
| A．History fans. | B．Clothes fans. | C．AI fans. |
| A．衣领 | B．衣袖 | C．拉链 |
| A．clothes are not the part of culture |
| B．it’s not necessary for us to wear hanfu |
| C．clothes help us understand our culture better |
10 . Look at the pictures. Can you guess what they are used for? Are they toys? Well, if you think so, think again. These cute “rabbits” are actually huabobo. It has been a popular traditional food in Shandong Province for more than 300 years.
Usually, huabobo is four or even six times bigger than mantou. It has become a necessary part of some important events. Local women use tools like knives, scissors and pens to shape the dough (生而团) into ducks, dragons, peaches, etc, before having them steamed. Then they color them. Their bright and beautiful colors are generally considered to express good wishes.
For example, huabobo in the shapes of rabbits and tigers is usually given to children to express the wish that a boy will be as strong as a tiger and a girl as lovely and clever as a white rabbit. And huabobo in the shape of man darin duck (鸳鸯) represents the wish that a newly-married couple will live happily together to an old age.
Huabobo is normally sweet in taste. The way to make huabobo has been passed down from generation to generation in Shandong Province.
Huabobo tastes good, but most huabobo shops only serve it locally. That detail caught the attention of Zang Chaiyuan, a 25-year-old girl from Yantai. She wanted to introduce huabobo to more people.
Zang’s love for huabobo has also led her to create new shapes. She also uses natural fruit and vegetable juice to color huabobo. What’s more, she has found a way to store huabobo for over two months, making it more convenient to send it to other cities.
Using her creative works, Zang has managed to breathe new life into the traditional huabobo, allowing more young people to understand and taste this traditional food.
1. What are the steps in making huabobo? Which is the missing part?
| A．serve it. | B．steam it. | C．cut up the dough. |
A． | B． | C． |
| A．Young people don’t like it anymore. |
| B．It is used more widely than mantou. |
| C．Now it’s easy for non-locals to taste it. |
| A．She makes huabobo more child-friendly. |
| B．She improves the way she sends huabobo. |
| C．She helps keep this traditional food alive. |
A． | B． | C． |
