1 . Children’s Day is a happy day for children all over the world. They don’t need to go to school. They get a lot of gifts from their parents and friends. They also sing and dance to celebrate their festival.
In many countries, Children’s Day is on June lst, but in England, Children’s Day is on July 14th. In America, it is on October 31st.
In Japan, children have many festivals for them. March 3rd is Girls’ Day. Girls get beautiful toys from their parents on this day. May 5th is Boys’ Day. On Boys’ Day, boys eat rice cakes. November 5th is also a Children’s Day for young children in Japan. On this day, children wear their best clothes.
All the children love Children’s Day and enjoy themselves（他们自己）on this day.
1. How do children celebrate Children’s Day?| A．Don’t go to school. | B．Get lots of gifts. |
| C．Sing and dance. | D．Wear beautiful clothes. |
| A．Spring. | B．Summer. | C．Autumn. | D．Winter. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．March 3rd. | B．May 5th. | C．July 14th. | D．November 5th. |
| A．Children’s Day | B．Girl’s Day |
| C．Boy’s Day | D．American Children’s Day |
2 . How to Use the Dictionary (字典)
When you are reading something in English, you may often meet a new word. What’s the best way to know it?
You may look it up in the English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell you something about the word: the pronunciation (发音), the part of speech (词性), the Chinese meaning and also how to use this word. But how can you know where the word is in thousands of English words? How to find it in a dictionary quickly?
First, all the English words are in the alphabetical (字母的) order. In the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the letter A, then B, C, D, E... That means, if there are two words “do” and “put”, “do” will be certainly before “put”. Then if there are two words both beginning with the same letter, you may look at the second letter. Then the third, the fourth...for example, “pat” is before “picture”, “bald” before” balloon”.
Do you understand how to look up a word in a dictionary?
The dictionary will be your good friend, we can learn better from it. I hope you’ll use it as often as possible in your English learning.
1. What can’t we get from the dictionary?| A．The pronunciation. | B．The Chinese meaning. |
| C．How to use the word. | D．How to remember the word. |
| A．Find it out from an English-Chinese dictionary. | B．Find it out from a Chinese dictionary. |
| C．Find it out from computer. | D．Ask for the teacher. |
| A．How to find the words in a dictionary. |
| B．The English words are in the alphabetical order. |
| C．We can see the words beginning with letter A at the first. |
| D．The picture is in front of the “pat”. |
| A．You. | B．Zero. | C．Write. | D．Meet. |
| A．How to find a word quickly. | B．We can get something from the English-Chinese dictionary. |
| C．How to use the dictionary. | D．All of the above. |
3 . Here are five suggestions you can follow to improve your English, and the first one is the most important.
It’s Your Duty to Achieve Your Aims! Studying English is your own duty. It isn’t the duty of your English teacher or your parents. You must take an active part in your study! |
Get a Teacher or Attend a Class! It’s a little difficult to study English alone. It will be difficult to learn how to speak English if you don’t have an English teacher or someone else to talk with. |
Work Hard! You need to practice speaking English often. You should finish all of your homework, improve your vocabulary outside class and check the homework in time. |
Keep Studying! Don’t stop studying for a long time even during a summer holiday! To make great progress, you should study at least five hours each week. |
Make English Your Hobby and Have Fun! You can improve your English through some activities: Reading—choose English books that you want to read. English songs—choose your favorite English songs and sing them often. Movies—watch movies that are in English with subtitles in your language. Travel—traveling in English-speaking countries can help you with you English. |
| A．Suggestion 1 | B．Suggestion 2 | C．Suggestion 4 | D．Suggestion 5 |
| A．about two hours | B．less than four hours | C．at least five hours | D．at most five hours |
| A．情节 | B．字幕 | C．画面 | D．人物 |
| A．Reading English books. | B．Singing English songs. |
| C．Watching English movies. | D．Writing emails in English. |
| A．how to improve English | B．how to choose good English books |
| C．how to study English for pleasure | D．how to sing English songs well |
4 . All dreaming starts with sleep. When we sleep there are four stages（阶段）that we go through.
Stage One is the lightest stage of sleep. In this stage of sleep someone can be awakened by low sounds or slight touch. Stage One sleep happens through-out the night. It often reappears as a transitional state of sleep following arousal（刺激）during the night. When Stage One does reappear during sleep, it only lasts thirty seconds to one minute. Young adults spend ten to fifteen minutes a night in Stage One sleep.
Stage Two sleep may have some of the slower eye movement Stage One, but in general Stage Two sleep is free of any eye movement. Another feature of stage two is arousal. Since Stage Two is a deeper sleep than Stage One, it will take more arousal to awaken a person from this stage of sleep.
Stage Three sleep as well as Stage Four is usually referred to as a slow wave sleep, which basically means a slow frequency（频率）of brain thought. There are no visual eye movements in this stage. Again in Stage Three it takes even more arousal then Stage Two sleep, to awaken a person from this state of sleep. Most of the dreams remembered take place during stage Three Sleep.
Stage Four sleep is the deepest of sleep. This is where the body and mind gets the most rest. Brain frequencies increase slightly in Stage Four sleep. In this stage of sleep people begin their dreams. When a person is dreaming you can visually tell by the movement of the eyes. Scientist measure deep sleep by “R. E. M.” which simply means “rapid eye movement”. What they measure is the amount of time your eye moves in Stage Four sleep and also brain activity along with frequency. Once again much more arousal is needed to awaken a stage four sleeper.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。1. How long does Stage one sleep last for young adults?
| A．About a minute. | B．About a quarter. |
| C．About an hour. | D．About a night. |
| A．Eyes don’t move in stage 2 sleep. |
| B．Stage 1 sleep is lighter than stage 2 sleep. |
| C．Stage 3 sleep is referred to as a slow wave sleep. |
| D．Stage 4 sleep is the deepest of sleep. |
| A．Stage 1 sleep. | B．Stage 2 sleep. |
| C．Stage 3 sleep. | D．Stage 4 sleep. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．What does dreaming start with. |
| B．What your dreams are telling you. |
| C．What stages of sleep we go through. |
| D．What kinds of dreams do we have. |
5 . Facial recognition（脸部识别）cameras are everywhere, including in your smartphone. Many people use this technology to unlock their phones, open doors or pay quickly, but there is a problem—everyone is wearing masks. What a hassle!
Now, the companies have improved their technology. Facial recognition technology can now recognize（认出）people even if they are wearing a mask. Beijing-based tech company Hanwang has announced a software（软件）which can correctly recognize 95 percent of people wearing masks, Engineering Technology (E&T) reported. What’s the secret? It’s all about your eyes. Marios Savvides, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, US, studies facial recognition technology. “As we get older,” he said, “our faces change shape, but not the area around our eyes. It stays the same—even if we put on weight.”
Facial recognition software is about more than just unlocking your phone. It’s about public safety. For example, you don’t need to take an ID card, which can be lost or stolen. It also means that virus（病毒）isn’t spread by touching things. Touchless check has become very important because of COVID-19.
More than that, facial recognition can be used to fight against crime（犯罪）. Hanwang’s technology is used by police in the places like government buildings, subway stations and airports. Similar technology is used by the United States Air Force and other governments.
Huang talks about one big weakness of this technology. “It fails when people wear both a mask and sunglasses. In this situation, all of the key facial information is lost,” Huang said to E&T.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What does the underlined word “hassle” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
| A．habit | B．mistake | C．rule | D．trouble |
| A．the voice | B．the eye area |
| C．the shape of faces | D．the facial expressions |
| A．was invented by the company Hanwang |
| B．can’t work when your ID card is stolen |
| C．provides a better way for safety checking |
| D．has been widely used in American schools |
| A．the new technology still needs to be improved |
| B．the new technology can’t store key facial information |
| C．Huang Lei is worried about the new technology’s cost |
| D．the new technology doesn’t work if people wear sunglasses |
| A．Prevent from Virus | B．Fight Against Crime |
| C．Unlocked with Faces | D．Recognized by Eyes |
6 . Traffic lights are very important for us. I think you can know this. They can help buses or cars to go regularly (有规律地) on the roads, But do you know how they were born?
Morgan is the father of traffic lights. He was born in the U. S. A. His family was very poor. He left school at the age of 14. He was smart. He always looked for better ways to do things, and he liked to make new things. At that time, every American wanted to have a car. The streets were full of cars. The traffic was bad. “Why not put three lights at each corner? They should be red, green, and yellow.” Morgan said, “Let them tell cars to go or stop.” So he made a timer (定时器) to change the lights. Now we have traffic lights.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Today ________ can help buses or cars to go regularly on the roads.
| A．Americans | B．traffic lights | C．Chinese | D．policemen |
| A．Canada | B．England | C．America | D．Japan |
| A．He studied at school. | B．He put three lights in the street. |
| C．He was away from school. | D．He bought a car. |
| A．Because he always looked for better ways to do things. | B．Because his family was very poor. |
| C．Because he wanted to have a car. | D．Because he was smart. |
| A．Story about Morgan | B．Traffic Lights |
| C．How Were Traffic Lights Born | D．Traffic Lights Are Important |
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 Fact 1 Researchers have found the key to communicating with cats. They say cats will appear friendlier to humans who use eye-narrowing (眯起眼睛的) facial expressions. • 3 • |  Fact 2 Sharks might have the healthiest teeth among all animals. Sharks have a fluoride (氟化物) coating on their teeth, and it keeps the teeth from becoming bad. That’s why most of our toothpaste has fluoride in it. • 8 • |
 Fact 3 Earwax (耳垢) is made by the body to protect the ears. It prevents dirty things from getting farther into the ear. Earwax normally comes out of your ear naturally, so it’s not a good idea to try to take it out yourself unless it is causing health problems. • ? • |  Fact 4 When you play back the voice messages that you record, you might find that they sound different from your speaking voice. That is because when we speak, we hear our own voice through our bones in our ears, while our recorded voice passes through the air instead. • 98 • |
1. What do Fact 1 and Fact 2 have in common?
| A．They talk about friendly animals. | B．They mention humans’ influence. |
| C．They both belong to Animal Facts. | D．They explain chemistry knowledge. |
| A．P15. | B．P35. | C．P63. | D．P87. |
| A．The air. | B．The bones in ears. |
| C．The earwax. | D．The teeth. |
| A．What a great surprise! Cats can narrow their eyes. |
| B．What a great book! I’ve learned some ways to protect sharks. |
| C．I understand now why most toothpaste has fluoride. |
| D．It helps me realize the importance of communication. |
| A．Scientists. | B．Doctors. | C．Teachers. | D．Students. |
Coconuts grow on trees. The word “coconut” comes from the old Spanish（西 班牙语）for “bogeyman（鬼怪）”. Early people from Spain thought coconuts looked like the terrible heads of bogeymen!
Coconut trees grow in hot countries, especially near beaches. Maybe you’ve seen them on your holidays! When it is picked from the tree, a coconut looks like a big green ball. Inside the green fruit is the coconut we know. It’s covered in a hard, hairy shell, and the inside is made up of white flesh and coconut milk.
If you are strong enough to break a coconut open, you’ll find a world of goodness （精华）! The flesh is full of important fats, which give us lots of energy（能量）. The coconut can be dried and added to other foods. It makes delicious ice cream, too. Even the milk inside the coconut is full of goodness. It has calcium（钙）, which makes your bones strong, and that would help you to climb the tree to reach the coconuts!
The coconut tree must be one of the most useful trees in the whole world! You can use almost every bit of it. It provides food, drink and also oil for cooking or skin care. The hairy covering is used to make ropes. The empty shells can be used as food bowls. The leaves can be used to make baskets, and the wood can be used as firewood. Now that is a really helpful tree!
1. How do coconuts get the name?| A．From their use. | B．From their size. | C．From their look. | D．From their growing places. |
| A．Balls. | B．Beaches. | C．Hot places. | D．Coconut trees. |
| A．It’s green. | B．It’s Small. | C．It’s soft. | D．It’s white. |
| A．The milk. | B．The flesh. | C．The hairy shell. | D．The outside skin. |
| A．The wood. | B．The leaves. | C．The empty shells. | D．The hairy covering. |
9 . How do you go to school every day? By bike or on foot? You can try a new way-taking a S-Cool Bus. The S-Cool Bus is a bike bus. Thomas Tolkamp made the bike bus. It’s interesting for kids to ride the bus together to go to school.
Also, it is very safe. The bike bus has a driver and eleven chairs for kids. There is also a roof on the bus. It makes kids comfortable (舒适的) on hot days or rainy days.
Riding the bike bus is a great way for children to get to school. Kids can learn about the streets and the city very well. For most parents, it can help them save a lot of time, because they only have to drive their children home after school.
The S-Cool Bus is getting more and more popular (受欢迎的) in some countries like Germany and France. Thomas Tolkamp says, “I hope people in more countries can use the bike bus. If so, we can save the Earth (地球) in many ways.”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. How many people can sit on the bike bus?
| A．9 | B．10 |
| C．11 | D．12 |
| A．刹车 | B．扶手 |
| C．车顶 | D．方向盘 |
| A．where kids can take a bike bus |
| B．why it is good to take a bike bus |
| C．what kids can do on the bike bus |
| D．how kids and parents use the bike bus |
| A．the bike bus is very safe |
| B．the kids can ride the bus only for fun |
| C．the parents can take their kids home on a bike bus |
| D．the S-Cool Bus is getting popular in most countries |
| A．it is interesting | B．it is safe |
| C．it can save time | D．it can save the Earth |
10 . The natural world is colorful with humans, plants and animals showing different colors.
Human skin can be many different colors and it changes with the sun, our feelings or our health for example. This is because of pigments (色素) , which reflect light and make what the eye sees as colors. So when we feel excited or angry, our heart can send more blood to the face and the pigments in the skin become red. This is why we have the expression that someone “sees red” when they are angry.
Plants also have pigments. Color is important for them to live on. The bright colors of flowers catch the attention of insects (昆虫) , which then carry their pollen (花粉) from one flower to another. Bees can see colors we cannot, and they follow these to the inside of the flower. Without bees visiting flowers in this way, many plants would die out.
Animals also use color for their own need. They protect themselves with different colors so as not to be seen by predators (捕食性动物). The snowshoe hare for example, a type of wild rabbit, changes color with seasons for this reason. During summer it is a brown color, and in winter it is white so that it can hide in the snow. However, some animals use color as a warning to make predators stay away. Bright colors such as yellow and red are often used in this way. Nature, however, is very clever, and predators also use colors to attract (吸引) the animals they feed on.
So, we can see that there may be many different reasons and uses for colors in the natural world. Some uses of color in nature remain unknown, but one thing is for sure, color not only makes our planet beautiful but it is also necessary for our planet to live on.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us that _________ is/are the cause that makes human skin change color.
| A．feelings | B．pigments | C．blood | D．sunshine |
| A．leaves | B．fruits | C．pollen | D．color |
| A．To hide in secret places. | B．To kill other animals for food. |
| C．To change color with the sun. | D．To protect themselves from danger. |
| A．Some animals like the bright colors. |
| B．The bees can help some plants to reproduce. |
| C．There is less blood in our face when we are angry. |
| D．The colors of animals can change along with the weather. |
| A．To describe animals’ ways of life. |
| B．To encourage us to study color in nature. |
| C．To introduce the uses of colors for life on earth. |
| D．To explain the importance of protecting our planet. |
