1 . Many people in China eat rice every day. lt is a big part of the Chinese diet. People also use rice to make rice noodles, rice milk, rice cake, rice paper and so on. Rice grows in rice paddies, You can find rice paddies in many places. There can be thousands of rice plants in one paddy. Each plant is called a stalk(茎). Each stalk of rice has several hundred grains of rice on it. That’s a lot of rice!
When farmers grow rice, they must take good care of it, so the plants can grow well. Here are some conditions. Rice needs good soil, a lot of sun and a lot of water. Rice also needs space to grow. This is why farmers usually plant rice stalks in rows. Then each plant has enough space around. Temperature is also very important. Rice grows best in warm places.
The first step to grow rice is preparing the land. It must be level(平坦的). When the land is ready, farmers plant the rice seedlings(秧苗) and cover them with water. After the rice seedlings start to grow, farmers move the little stalks to bigger fields. Then they watch and wait. It takes about three to six months for a rice plant to become ready. Then the rice is harvested by the farmers, so people can eat the rice.
1. Rice is a big part of the ________ diet.| A．German | B．Australian | C．Italian | D．Chinese |
| A．水田 | B．高山 | C．沙漠 | D．河流 |
| A．Because rice needs good soil. | B．Because rice needs a lot of water. |
| C．Because rice needs space to grow. | D．Because rice needs a lot of sun. |
| A．In hot places. | B．In warm place. | C．In cool places. | D．In cold places. |
| A．People feed on rice. | B．People use rice to make many different kinds of foods. |
| C．The steps of growing rice. | D．The steps to grow rice and conditions of growing rice. |
2 . When a baby is one year old, there is a fun activity. People call it “Zhuazhou”. It is an activity on a baby’s first birthday in China.
On that day, parents usually put a small table on the bed. On the table, there are some books, pens, rulers, food, toys and so on. Then parents put their baby at the table and the baby can take anything on it.
If a baby take a book, people will say he or she will be good at writing. If a baby girl takes a kitchen utensil (厨具), people will say she will be a good wife. When a baby takes a cake or a toy, people will say he or she will know how to have a good time in life.
For example, my father took a book from the table on his first birthday. After that, my grandfather called him “Wenhao”. Now my father is a writer, and he writes a lot of good books.
1. Parents have the activity “Zhuazhou” when their baby is ________.| A．one week old | B．one month old | C．one year old | D．two years old |
| A．the baby | B．the table | C．the bed | D．the book |
| A．Because his grandfather thought the name is interesting. |
| B．Because his father loved reading books very much. |
| C．Because his father took a book from the table on his first birthday. |
| D．Because his grandfather wanted his father to be a good son. |
| A．be a good cook | B．like eating delicious food |
| C．have a busy life | D．look after her family very well |
| A．An activity “Zhuazhou” | B．How to be a writer |
| C．The future job of a child | D．How to celebrate a baby’s birthday |
3 . Some ants (蚂蚁) make their homes under a stone. If the weather is warm, you may see many ants under the stone. If the weather is cold, many ants will be in their house under the ground.
Most of the ants are workers. They are very busy. They look for food and take care of the young ants. Each family of ants has a queen ant (蚁后). The queen ant doesn’t work. She is important because she lays eggs (产卵). These eggs will become new ants.
There are many kinds of ants in America. One kind of these is very strong. People are afraid of it and animals are afraid of it, too.
These ants move in groups. They eat all the animals on their way. They can kill and eat elephants. When the ants come near, people leave their homes. But people are sometimes glad after the ants pass through, because they will see no other insects (昆虫) or snakes.
1. Where can you find ants in warm days?| A．Under the ground. | B．Under the stone. | C．Inside people’s houses. | D．On the ground. |
| A．He lays eggs. | B．He looks for food. |
| C．He looks after the young ants. | D．Both B and C. |
| A．Because the queen ant lays eggs, and these eggs will become new ants. |
| B．Because the queen ant is stronger than all the other family members. |
| C．Because the queen ant finds food for all the other family members. |
| D．Because the queen ant does more work than the other family members. |
| A．People are not afraid of any kind of ants. | B．Big animals are not afraid of any kind of ants. |
| C．An elephant can kill and eat a kind of very strong ants. | D．One kind of ants can move in groups. |
| A．Ants | B．Lay Eggs | C．Queen | D．Ants in America |
4 . Hurricanes (飓风) are storms. They can cause terrible waves, wind and rain. They happen in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean most of the time
| Category (类别) Scientists divide (划分) them into five categories according to the wind speed. A Category 5 hurricane can destroy (摧毁) all the buildings. |
| Characteristic (特征) Hurricane Season usually comes on June 1st and ends on November 30th in the Atlantic Ocean, from May 15th to November 30th in the Pacific Ocean. |
| Danger It can cause flood when a hurricane comes with heavy rain. A hurricane has an eye. The eye means the center of a hurricane. After the eye passes, the wind and rain comes again. |
| Safety advice Stay inside during the hurricane, or you’ll be injured. |
| A．About 3 months. | B．About 4 months. | C．About 5 months. | D．About 6 months. |
| A．By wind speed. | B．By the degree of damage (破坏程度). |
| C．By the places of hurricanes. | D．By the time of hurricanes happening. |
| A．The speed of a hurricane. | B．The center of a hurricane. |
| C．The damage of a hurricane. | D．The height of a hurricane. |
| A．a tsunami (海啸) | B．a strong wind | C．an earthquake | D．a flood |
| A．Call the police. | B．Walk outside. | C．Stay inside. | D．Run after it. |
5 . Han Mei is a girl from Zhengzhou. She is eleven years old. She has big eyes and a small mouth. She is in Class Nine, Grade Seven. She likes blue. She is in a blue dress now.
Ma Hua and Ma Xia are from Zhengzhou, too. They are in Class Five, Grade Eight. They are twins. They are twelve years old. They both have long black hair. They are both tall. Ma Hua likes white and red. She is in a white T-shirt and a red skirt. Ma Xia likes green. She is in a green dress. Their mom is a Chinese teacher, but she isn’t in Ma Hua and Ma Xia’s school.
The three students are in Haitian Junior High School in Zhengzhou. They are good friends.
1. How old is Han Mei?| A．Ten. | B．Eleven. | C．Twelve. | D．Thirteen. |
| A．A white T-shirt. | B．A red skirt. | C．A blue dress. | D．A green dress. |
| A．双胞胎 | B．姐妹 | C．邻居 | D．兄弟 |
| A．Blue. | B．White. | C．Red | D．Green. |
| A．Han Mei’s mom. | B．Ma Hua’s mom. | C．Han Mei. | D．Ma Xia. |
6 . The giraffe is the tallest modern land animal. It can be over 5.5 meters tall. Its neck alone may be 1.9 meters long. Yet the giraffe has only seven bones in its neck, the same number as in the humans’. Even a small bird has many more bones in its neck than a tall giraffe. Each bone in a giraffe’s neck is very long, while the bones in a human’s neck are short. That makes the difference. A female giraffe gives birth to one baby at a time. The baby, called a calf (犊，幼崽) is about 1.9 meters tall at birth. By the age of eight it is full-grown (完全长大的). The giraffe eats mostly leaves. Because it has a long neck, it can reach the high leaves on the trees.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What does “giraffe” most probably mean in Chinese?
| A．鲸鱼 | B．长颈鹿 | C．大象 | D．河马 |
| A．as big as in a human’s neck |
| B．as big as in a giraffe’s neck |
| C．many more than in a human’s neck |
| D．much bigger than in a giraffe’s neck |
| A．A giraffe has only seven bones. |
| B．The giraffe is the largest animal on land. |
| C．It takes eight years for a giraffe to grow up. |
| D．Most of the leaves on the trees are eaten up by giraffes. |
| A．4.5 meters tall. | B．5.5 meters tall. | C．2.9 meters tall. | D．1.9 meters tall. |
| A．it will run away as fast as possible |
| B．it will run to eat the tiger |
| C．it will make the tiger bring it something to eat |
| D．it will stay at the place where they are |
7 . Do you want to know what our life will be like in the future? Let’s have a look. You may get a surprise.
You won’t go to the kitchen when you are hungry. You will give orders to the kitchen robot. The robot will cook the food for you in a few minutes. Then it will bring it to you.
In the kitchen you will find a special food machine. The food machine will tell you what your body needs. It will help you eat healthily. The food machine will be connected with the kitchen robot. The robot can get messages from the food machine.
After having a meal, you can go to your home office. You will work at home and you don’t need to go out to work any more.
You will have a special information screen. You can get any information on the screen. When you receive a message from a friend in other places, your information screen will be turned on automatically (自动地). Your friend’s face appears on the screen. Then you can talk to your friend easily.
1. What is the second paragraph (段落) about?| A．It’s about healthy food. | B．It’s about the kitchen robot. |
| C．It’s about a nice kitchen. | D．It’s about a robot which can do homework. |
| A．the kitchen robot | B．the food machine |
| C．the information screen | D．the computer |
| A．lose | B．send | C．get | D．allow |
| A．on the wall | B．on the screen |
| C．on the Internet | D．on TV |
| A．Our life in the future | B．A food machine |
| C．A special information screen | D．A kitchen robot. |
8 . There are many different kinds of animals in the zoo. We see the zoo keeper give them food to eat. They don’t have to find food by themselves. They can eat, walk and play all day. So many of us may think the animals are very happy. But most of them are sad, why? Because they are not free.
Animals like elephants, monkeys and tigers usually live happily in forests or mountains. Tigers, for example, run, jump, play with their children and they catch small animals for food, but now they have to live in small rooms in the zoo. Baby animals can’t sit together with their parents. Their life in the zoo is different from their life in the forests. Now many people think animals should go back to forests and mountains. I agree (同意) with them. Then the earth will be more beautiful.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. How do animals get food in the zoo?
| A．They find food by themselves. | B．The zoo keeper gave them food to eat. |
| C．They buy food from shops. | D．They cook food by themselves. |
| A．Eat | B．Walk | C．Play | D．All the above. |
| A．开心的 | B．难过的 | C．自由的 | D．饥饿的 |
| A．The animals in the zoo are very happy. |
| B．Elephants usually like living in forests or mountains. |
| C．Baby animals can sit together with their parents in the zoo. |
| D．Animals’ life in the zoo is the same as their life in the forests. |
| A．live in small rooms in the zoo | B．live in the zoo keeper’s home |
| C．play with their children | D．go back to forests and mountains |
9 . Many people love to drink coke. But they don’t know it has many other uses (用途).
You can use it to wash your hands and your clothes. When you wash something, you can put some coke into the water. Then you can wash it well.
Put some coke on the meat when you cook it. And you can cook chicken with coke, too. It’s very delicious and it’s my favourite food.
Coke is good for girls. Use it on your hair and your face, and you will find they are very smooth with coke’s help.
Your flowers may like to drink coke, too. If you give some coke to your flowers, they will be better and nicer.
So give coke a try. If something can’t do it, coke can.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. We can use coke to wash ________.| A．meat | B．vegetables | C．clothes | D．chicken |
| A．光滑的 | B．新鲜的 | C．神奇的 | D．柔软的 |
| A．thin | B．ill | C．strong | D．delicious |
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．A story book. | B．A science book. | C．A map. | D．A picture book. |
10 . Some of you may play Ant Forest. It is a game on Alipay. Users collect “energy” to make their “trees” grow. When the “energy” reaches a certain (某种) level, some organizations will plant a real tree in a desert area of China. To users, it’s an easy work, but it’s extremely (极其地) difficult to plant trees in deserts. However, there are some heroes in the deserts. They have been working hard on controlling the deserts. Bai Chunlan is one of them.
Bai Chunlan is a common farmer, born in 1953. She married when she was 18 years old. She lived in a village. The village was so poor and short of water. One day in 1980, the villagers decided to plant trees to control the desert with ten other families. Early in the morning, they went into the desert to plant trees. At noon, strong sun seemed to burn everything. They didn’t have time to think about themselves, because those young trees needed protection. The next spring, a heavy sandstorm destroyed all the trees. In 1997, her husband (丈夫) died from hard work. Her eldest son died of cancer in 2008. But Bai wasn’t disheartened (灰心丧气). She continued to fight against the desert. So far, only her family has planted more than twenty thousand trees. And now more and more people follow her to take part in the sand controlling.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What kind of game is Ant Forest?
| A．It’s a game that teaches people how to plant trees. |
| B．It’s a game that sells trees on the Internet. |
| C．It’s a game that encourages people to protect the earth. |
| D．It’s a game that teaches people how to save energy. |
| A．Poor. | B．Rich. | C．Quiet. | D．Noisy. |
| A．In 1953. | B．In 1971. | C．In 1980. | D．In 1997. |
| A．A flood. | B．A drought. | C．A big fire. | D．A heavy sandstorm. |
| A．Bai’s husband died because he worked too hard. |
| B．So far, the villagers have planted two thousand trees in their village. |
| C．Their trees were once destroyed by a heavy sandstorm. |
| D．At the beginning, eleven families planted trees in their village. |
