1 . Sometimes we may forget something easily. Don’t worry. Here is some advice to help improve your memory.

My first advice is to review what you learned often. After you learn something, you need to review it right away, then two days later, then a week later, then two weeks later, and then a month later. After a month, you will find that you can remember it easily.

My second advice is to mark the important parts of your book. It will help you focus on the most important parts. It is always easier to remember only the key points. Also, this will make reviewing easier. When you open your book, the colored parts will show you the most important parts at once, and you needn’t read every word again.

Another piece of advice is to review at a proper time. One good time is in the evening. Review what you have learned before going to bed. It will be kept in your mind deeply. Another good time is in the morning because you have just rested and your brain is fresh and clear. So it’s easy to remember the important information in the morning.

Remember all the advice above, and your memory will be better and better.

1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．What we forgot.	B．What we believed.
C．What we learned.	D．What we imagined.

2. How can we make reviewing easier?

A．By opening the book often.	B．By marking the key points.
C．By reading every word aloud.	D．By remembering all the information.

3. Why is it easy to remember the important information in the morning?

A．Because our brain is fresh and clear in the morning.

B．Because we can spend more time on it in the morning.

C．Because it is very quiet in the morning.

D．Because we are cleverer in the morning.

4. What does the text want to tell us?

A．Why we should review what we learned often.

B．How we can find the important parts of our book.

C．When we should review what we learned.

D．How we can improve our memory.

5. The passage is written to ________.

A．teachers

B．parents

C．students

D．workers

2 . 根据短文内容，用符合语义及语法规则的词填空，每空一词。

English is rich in expressions that come from animals. Today we will talk about the wolf.

Wolves are important animals in the traditions and stories of America. Before the Europeans arrived at north America in the 1500s, wolves often meant being brave to native Americans.

However, in English, wolves are not to be trusted. Perhaps wolves attacked (攻击) too many people or ate too many farm animals. Whatever the reason, wolves were killed in many places. So many wolves died that they almost became endangered. They also became known as bad animals.

To begin with, there is an expression “lone wolf”. If we call somebody a lone wolf, he isn’t a bad person, but he may like to do things by himself. In fact, he sometimes makes you think he doesn’t want to be around people because he dislikes them.

Now, let’s move on to the home. Parents tell their children not to wolf down their food. In other words, the child eats too quickly and without care. And if someone says a child was raised by wolves, that child has bad manners and is behaving like a wild animal.

By the way, there is popular expression about wolf from a very old story: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A wolf in sheep’s clothing describes someone who acts and looks nice on the outside but is bad on the inside. It tells us not to be fooled by appearances (外表).

1. Wolves often meant being ________ to native ________ before the Europeans arrived at north America.
2. In English, perhaps because wolves attacked too many people or ate too many ________, they are not to be trusted.
3. If someone likes to do things by himself, we can call him “________.”
4. “Wolf down their food” means someone eats too ________ and without ________.
5. A wolf in sheep’s clothing describes someone who acts and looks nice on the ________ but is bad on the ________.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

In many countries, people are encouraged to buy electric cars. It is said that driving an electric car is good for the environment. But is that true? The University of Minnesota recently studied emissions (排放物) from different cars. The scientists found that sometimes, electric cars are more harmful than petrol (汽油) cars.

Surprising? Well, please pay attention to the word “sometimes”. Electric cars are supposed to be clean. The problem lies in the power that is used to charge them. If the power comes from wind or solar energy, electric cars will cause little pollution. However, if the power is produced from coal, they will be very harmful. According to the study, emissions from these cars kill about 3,000 people a year. However, pollution caused by petrol cars only leads to 880 deaths a year.

In fact, sales people are not lying when they say electric cars are clean. However, they are right only when the power used to charge their cars is also clean.

So how clean electric cars are depends on what its electricity comes from. In France, more than half of the power comes from nuclear (核) stations. Electric cars there should be as clean as they are marketed to be. In many developing countries, however, electricity mainly comes from coal. India, for example, depends on coal for 61 percent of its power. Only two percent of electricity comes from nuclear energy. In countries like India electric cars are not clean at all.

1. Why are people in many countries encouraged to buy electric cars? Because they think electric cars ______________________________________ the environment .
2. How are electric cars whose power come from wind or solar energy?
If the power of electric cars comes from wind or solar energy, it will cause ______________________________________.
3. How many people may be killed a year by the emissions from the cars whose power is produced by coal?
Emissions from the cars whose power is produced by coal can kill about ______________________________________ people a year.
4. According to the passage, in which country the electric cars are cleaner than many developing countries?
Electric cars from ______________________________________ are cleaner.
5. Where may power of electric cars come from? (至少写出文中提到的两种能源)
______________________________________.

5 . Spring festival is coming soon, which means gift-giving season is also coming. According to Chinese culture, there are some taboos on gift- giving that you should know. Chinese people usually don’t give a clock to each other. A clock sounds as “Zhong” in Chinese. It means the end. It is unlucky, especially for old people. Remember not to give pears as gifts, either. A pear sounds as “Li” in Chinese that means separation (分离).

So what is a right gift? A “red envelope” with money in it is the most popular gift in China. During the Spring Festival, the elder people will give children red envelopes to show their love and wishes. The number of the money should be lucky. Some numbers have special meanings. For example, “520” means “I love you”; “666” means “everything goes well”; “888” means “wish you to be rich” and “1314” means “forever love”.

1. You’d better not give someone a clock as a gift because it means that ________

A．you’re an unlucky person	B．you are getting old
C．your life is coming to be to an end	D．you must leave your home

2. Which gift has the meaning of the “separation”?.

A．pears

B．clocks

C．red envelopes

D．money

3. The underlined word “taboos” in the first paragraph means “________” in Chinese.

A．纪律

B．禁忌

C．秩序

D．方式

4. The number of money “888” means ________.

A．“I love you”	B．“forever love”
C．“everything goes well”	D．“wish you to be rich”

5. The writer writes the passage to ________.

A．show people how to spend the Spring Festival

B．tell people the activities of Chinese traditional festival

C．ask people to give others some expensive gifts

D．help people choose the right gifts during the Spring Festival

6 . This is a picture of our school library. The library is big and nice. It has 40 chairs. The chairs are blue. I like the color. Some pictures of the school are on the wall. The library has 30 bookcases. They have the same color as the chairs. Many books are in the bookcases. My favorite books are about animals. But my deskmate, Jenny, likes books about computers very much. There are so many students reading there. They all love reading. They look so happy!

1. How many chairs are there in the library?

A．Twenty.

B．Thirty.

C．Forty.

D．Fifty.

2. What’s on the wall?

A．Some maps.

B．Some clocks.

C．Some lights.

D．Some pictures.

3. What color are the bookcases?

A．White.

B．Blue.

C．Yellow.

D．Green.

4. What are Jenny’s favorite books about?

A．Animals.

B．Maps.

C．Computers.

D．Sports.

5. A lot of students ______ in the library.

A．read books

B．play games

C．watch movies

D．eat food

10 . 根据短文内容，用符合语义及语法规则的词填空，每空一词。

What’s six and seven? Yes, it’s 13. And that’s the age (年龄) of Jimmy, my pen friend in the USA. He’s a middle school student. And here is a picture of his room.

You can see a bed, a desk and a chair in the room. The bed is yellow and you can see Jimmy’s hat and quilt on it. The desk is blue and white. There are some books, a pencil box and a blue pencil on it. In the pencil box are two pens. One is black and one is red. What color is Jimmy’s chair? Well, it’s brown. What is under the chair? Ah, it’s his baseball.

Jimmy has a clock. He has a watch, too. Can you find his watch in the picture? It’s on the quilt.

Do you think Jimmy is tidy?

1. Jimmy is ________ ________ old.
2. Jimmy’s ________ and ________ are on the bed.
3. There are ________ ________ in the pencil box.
4. Jimmy’s baseball is under his ________ ________.
5. Jimmy’s ________ is ________ the quilt.