2 . What do you think will happen when the traditional culture meets modern technology? Yes, the dead words become lovely characters（人物）at once. How happy it is to enjoy these Chinese cartoons!

	Ma Liang is a poor boy who loves painting. He always uses his magic brush to fight against the bad people in the village. The cartoon The Magic Brush came out in 1955.
	A group of tadpoles（蝌蚪）are born. They try to find their mother that they have never seen. The story is very simple, but it needs complex（复杂的）technology to show the artistic style of ink painting. Little Tadpoles Looking for Mum was watched in 1961 first.
	The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven（1961—1964）is China’s first color cartoon. It is from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. It’s successful. Not only we but also many westerners like the great monkey Sun Wukong.
	To beat two bad persons, an old man grows 7 calabashes（葫芦）, and they change into 7 boys. They try their best to beat the bad. Calabash Brother（1986）is a masterpiece（杰作）of Chinese paper-cutting art.

1. _________ shows the artistic style of ink painting.

A．The Magic Brush

B．Little Tadpoles Looking for Mom

C．The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven

D．Calabash Brothers

2. The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven is _________.

A．the first film in China

B．only loved by Children

C．the first color cartoon in China

D．loved by everyone all over the world

3. What does the underlined words “paper-cutting art” mean in Chinese?

A．泥塑艺术

B．剪纸艺术

C．陶瓷艺术

D．刺绣艺术

4. Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Ma Liang punished the villagers with his brush.

B．Little Tadpoles Looking for Mum came out in 1964.

C．The Monkey King is from a Chinese novel.

D．Calabash brothers are born in a stone.

5. From the passage, we can learn something about ________.

A．famous people	B．Chinese inventions
C．traditional food	D．Chinese cartoons

3 . How to lead a balanced life

Many students suffer from stress in their daily lives. They are under stress because their lives are not balanced (平衡的). They pay too much attention to studying, dealing with peer pressure (同伴压力) and worrying about what others think, and not enough on other things. You may wonder whether stress is a serious matter. The answer is “Yes”. You should know that stress is a risk to your health. If you want to live a long and healthy life, you need to begin to protect yourself against stress from a young age.

Here are some ways to deal with stress and bring balance to your life:

● Be positive

One way to cancel out stress (消除压力) is through positive thinking. You should always look on the bright side of life, and imagine that you will have a happy and successful future.

● Learn to relax

Force yourself to take a break from your studies and worries about exams. You can do this by taking a walk, reading a book, going to a concert or seeing a film, or just sitting in a private place and being silent for a moment.

● Take up a hobby

Learn to paint, take up skating, or start playing a musical instrument. When you are busy with a hobby, you leave all your worries behind.

● Take care of your body

Stress is your body’s enemy. Taking regular exercise, eating a healthy diet and getting enough sleep are all the things that can help you.

● Laugh

Sometimes laughter is the best medicine for stress. Seeing a funny film or telling jokes with friends will often cheer you up when you are low.

根据短文内容，完成表格。

Information about stress
Many students suffer from stress.	● The reason why they are     1    . ● Stress is a serious matter.
Some     2	● Be positive	Cancel out stress through positive thinking.
	● Learn to relax	You can take a walk, read a book or go to a concert     3     from your studies and worries.
	●     4	A hobby can help you leave your worries behind.
	● Look after your body	Getting enough sleep is     5     you.
	● Laugh	Laughter is the best medicine for stress.

4 . We have been used to wearing masks (口罩) in public since February. About 300 million masks are used and then thrown away every day in China. Where do these masks go? You might think they just go in a rubbish bin. But that’s just the first stop on the masks’ journey.

After the masks are thrown into the bins, rubbish trucks empty the bins and take the rubbish to landfills (垃圾场). Next, the masks will be taken to rubbish incinerators (焚化炉) and burned. Burning masks might not seem to be very good for the environment. Won’t it cause pollution?

The answer is “no”, according to China Daily. The main material of most masks is polypropylene (聚丙烯). It’s non-toxic (无毒的). After burning, it changes into water and CO2.

In fact, burning the masks can bring some benefits (益处). The process of burning the rubbish can produce electricity. Burning one ton of rubbish can produce more than 400 kilowatt hours (度) of electricity. Some people make a prediction that there will be 162,000 tons of used masks in China this year. Burning all of them can produce more than 64 million kilowatt hours of electricity. This is enough to make an electric car drive about 370 million km, which is 9,250 times as long as the earth’s equator.

At last, the slag (残渣) from burning masks can be recycled to make bricks (砖块) or fill the roads.

1. How many masks are used and then thrown away every day in China?

A．More than 64 million.	B．About 300 million.
C．About 370 million.	D．About 9,250 million.

2. The first stop on the masks’ journey is ________.

A．electricity factories

B．rubbish bins

C．rubbish trucks

D．landfills

3. The main material of most masks is ________.

A．plastic

B．polypropylene

C．water

D．CO2

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．People are not used to wearing masks in public.

B．Burning masks won’t cause pollution.

C．There are 162,000 tons of used masks every month in China.

D．The process of burning the masks can produce electricity and bricks.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．How do We Burn Used Masks?	B．Where do the Used Masks Go?
C．How do People Produce Electricity?	D．Why do We Throw Away Used Masks?

6 . Alexis is ten years old and lives in a small village on a beautiful Greek island. Like all children his age, Alexis has just completed Year 4 in primary school. But Alexis is different from other children his age. He doesn’t spend the summer on the beach or playing video games. In the busy summer months, Alexis spends his days in his family’s restaurant. In July and August, the restaurant is very popular with tourists from all over the world. Because he is the only person in his family who can speak English, it is his job to look after the tourists when they eat at the restaurant. He explains the menu to tourists and takes their orders.

Where did he learn his English? There is no school in Alexis’s village, and during the school year, he travels 12 kilometers every day by bus to a nearby village to go to school. Together with his classmates, two evenings a week, he attends English classes at a learning center in the same village. There is no bus service when his classes end, so his mother picks him up and brings him home. Alexis doesn’t mind. He enjoys learning English. He wants to be a journalist (新闻工作者) so he knows languages will be useful. He is very happy that he can help his family with their business and the tourists are very happy that they can order their meal in English. He’s also learned a lot about cooking and loves the food at the restaurant.

1. In the summer, Alexis spends his time ________

A．playing on the beach	B．playing video games
C．helping his family’s business	D．cooking dishes in a restaurant

2. How many people can speak English in Alexis’s family?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

3. Alexis goes to his English classes ________.

A．in the morning

B．in the afternoon

C．twice a week

D．three times a week

4. What does Alexis want to do in the future?

A．To report news.	B．To write a cookbook.
C．To open his own restaurant.	D．To open a learning center.

7 . What will our life be like in the future? I think life in the future will be more comfortable and easier.

First, children will have better education. In the future, children won’t have to go to school because they can study at home. They will learn everything at home through the online teaching. The online teaching will be free, so every child, poor or rich, will have a chance to study.

        Second, people’s health will improve. New medicine will help people live a healthier life. So people will live longer. They will live to be 150 years old.
        Third, people will not worry about the housing problem. People will build houses under the sea. Also, there will be many flying houses. They won’t fall down from the sky so it will be safe for people to live. Some people will even live on other planets.
        Fourth, nobody will be hungry. People will grow a lot of new kinds of crops(庄稼) that can provide enough food for everyone.
        Fifth, robots will do all the dangerous jobs. For example, they will put out the terrible fire. They will go to the space station. They will also work as scientists to explore the deep sea.

Life     1
Better education	Children will study at home through     2    . Every child will have a chance to study.
Healthier life	People will live to be 150 years old.
No worry about the housing problem	People will     3     in different places.
No hunger	People will grow many     4    . There will be enough food for everyone.
All kinds of     5	They will do all the dangerous jobs instead of people.

8 . 根据短文内容，完成表格，每空不超过三个词。

We sometimes say the lion is “the king of the jungle” because it is stronger and more dangerous than the other animals. Most other animals in the jungle run more slowly than the lion, so it can hunt better. The lion is the top animal in the land food chain.

In the sea, the shark is at the top of the food chain. Most other sea animals swim much more slowly than it. It can also use its big teeth to catch other sea animals and eat them.

What is at the top of the world's food chain? Humans are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the cleverest! We could not catch up with most animals, so we invented cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than a lion, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the best.

People’s inventions help a lot, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, many years ago in Inner Mongolia, people used guns to kill a lot of wild wolves.

The wild wolves usually eat wild rabbits. But in recent years, the number of wild rabbits is becoming bigger and bigger because the number of wild wolves is getting smaller and smaller.

The wild rabbits competed for the grass with the sheep and cows. Much of the grassland became desert because the rabbits destroyed (毁坏) it seriously.

Remember that we are a part of the food chain, we are in danger, too! If we protect animals, we are protecting ourselves. Luckily, people have paid much attention to such problems. We will do more things to keep the balance of ecosystem in the future.

1. ________
2. ________
3. ________
4. ________
5. ________

9 . 根据短文内容，简略回答所提出的问题。

Xian Xinghai is a very famous musician in China. He has written many great pieces of music. In his short life, he wrote nearly 300 songs and an opera.

Xian was born in Panyu, Guangzhou in 1905.Because his father died before he was born, Xian had to move from place to place with his mother. He began learning to play the violin when he was 20 years old. At first, his violin was so cheap and in a poor quality that he could not play it well. His friends laughed at him. However, Xian did not stop practicing and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he became the first Chinese student who studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he left, Xian became the school's best student and won several prizes for his talents.

The next year, be got back to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan’an to teach music at a college. Although there were no pianos in Yan’an at that time, Xian still wrote some of his most important music there, including The Yellow River Chorus, his most famous work.

In May 1940, Xian Xinghai went to the Soviet Union (苏联) to write music for movies. Life there was so hard that he got very sick. Later he died of a lung illness on October 30, 1945, aged only 40.

Xian Xinghai is such a great man and his music will live on in people’s hearts forever.

1. Was Xian Xinghai talented in the violin or the piano at first?
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2. When did Xian Xinghai get back to China from Paris?
______________________________________________________
3. What is Xian Xinghai’s most famous work?
______________________________________________________
4. Why did Xian Xinghai go to the Soviet Union?
______________________________________________________
5. How do you like Xian Xinghai?
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