1 . We all live on Earth and enjoy our life every day. Do you know all the interesting facts about the Earth?
The Earth is not round.
Do you think the Earth is round? Well, the Earth is not completely round.
The Earth is really old.
Grandmas and grandpas are old, but the Earth is much older. Scientists think that the Earth is about 4. 5 to 5 billion years old.
Much of the Earth is water.
About 70% of Earth is water, and only about 30% of Earth is land.
Earthquakes happen all the time.
Earthquakes(地震) take place all the time. But most of the time, they are very small and human beings cannot even feel them.
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There are many mountains on Earth. Mount Everest is the most famous one because its peak is five and one-half miles above sea level. It is the highest.
There are more interesting facts about the Earth. Can you tell us some?
1. How old is the Earth?| A．4 billion. | B．4. 5 billion to 5 billion. | C．5 billion. | D．5 billion to 5. 5 billion. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．Mount Everest is on Earth. |
| B．Mount Everest is very famous. |
| C．Mount Everest is five and one-half miles high. |
| D．Mount Everest is the highest mountain. |
| A．Facts about Earth. | B．The earthquake! | C．Life on Earth. | D．Mountains on Earth. |
2 . Mid-Autumn Festival, which fell on Sept 10 this year, is one of the most important traditional Chinese festivals. A cultural show “2022 Adventures on Mid-Autumn Festival” staged（上演）by Henan TV led viewers on a journey to the palace of the moon at 7:30 pm, Sept 9! Here are three fantastic programs in it.
 | Missing You like Seeing You, a dance, was from the show. Performers brought the audience a love story between a craftsman and a girl during the Mid-Autumn Festival, while showing the beauty of Jun ware（钧瓷）at the same time. Jun ware, from Yuzhou, Henan, was becoming popular in the Song Dynasty. |
 | Fly up High with the Wind told the story of “Flight Pioneer” Wan Hoo, a scholar（学者）of the Ming Dynasty. He was lost in the “dream of flight”. Space flight is a shared dream of all humans. Follow the performance Adventures of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2022 to feel the romance of this unique festival. |
 | In this song Our Souls Together Heavenward Fly from the performance, children from different countries and races（种族）sang a song as one, expressed reunion and enjoyed the moon together. |
| A．7:30 am, Sept 9 | B．7:30 pm, Sept 10 |
| C．7:30 pm, Sept 9 | D．8:00 am, Sept 10 |
| A．the dream of space flight | B．a love story and the beauty of Jun ware |
| C．friendship among different countries | D．the history of the Mid-Autumn Day |
| A．Wan Hoo was the famous flight pioneer of the Ming Dynasty. |
| B．A cultural show “2022 Adventures on Mid-Autumn Festival” was staged by Hunan TV. |
| C．The song Our Souls Together Heavenward Fly was sung only by Chinese children. |
| D．Jun ware, from Yuzhou, Henan, had become famous in the Song Dynasty. |
3 . Do you know bamboo(竹子)? It’s always green in a year and it is everywhere in Bali. There are 1,450 kinds of bamboo around the world, but we only use seven kinds(种类) of them to make things. We can use bamboo to make things like beds, desks and chairs.
My father uses bamboo to build Green School in Bali. In Green School, all of the rooms are made of bamboo. There are a lot of bamboo things in the classrooms. Every classroom has a bamboo blackboard, some bamboo desks and bamboo chairs. But every classroom has no windows, doors or walls. It only has a bamboo roof(屋顶).
Green School is very nice. Students are from 40 countries(国家). They have math, English, art and music. In their free time, all students grow fruit and vegetables around the school. And they also keep pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. A lot of food comes from their hands.
Come and have a look at our Green School. It’s a nice school.
1. We can only use _________ kinds of bamboo to make things.| A．7 | B．40 | C．1,450 | D．14 |
| A．In Beijing. | B．In Yunnan. | C．In Bali. | D．In Lijiang. |
| A．windows, doors or roofs | B．desks, chairs or walls |
| C．desks, chairs or blackboards | D．windows, doors or walls |
| A．teachers’ | B．parents’ | C．students’ | D．farmers’ |
| A．Bamboo Room | B．School Things | C．Green School | D．Green Things |
China is a country with a very long history and it has pretty rich and valuable culture.
Chinese Food
Food plays an important role in Chinese culture. Different foods have special meanings. The most obvious (明显的) difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favorite drink and is popular in the market.
Chinese New Year
The Chinese calendar is called a lunar calendar (阴历). It is not the same as the one used in other countries. New Year’s Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of letting go of the old and bringing in the new. It has special food and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year’s Day sweeps away all the old year’s bad luck.
Chinese Zodiac (生肖)
The Chinese zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve-year cycle (循环). Each year is named after an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog and pig. For example, the year 2022 is the Year of the Tiger.
Chinese Language
Chinese is a complex (复杂的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4, 000 years ago and might even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character stands for a word and also meaning. Unlike English, there are no spaces in Chinese writing. Besides Standard Chinese, or Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects (方言).
1. What is one of the main foods in Chinese culture according to the passage？2. Which season is New Year’s Day in？
3. Is the year 2023 the Year of Rabbit？
4. How long did Chinese writing develop？
5. How many forms of the language do Chinese people speak？
Bing Dwen Dwen is the mascot（吉祥物）for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming popular all over the world. Here is some information about this cute mascot.
The time it became the mascot
In 2019
The designer
Cao Xue
How the idea came out
It came from the traditional Chinese snack bingtanghulu. However, a simple snack couldn’t stand for a country by itself. Cao’s team tried many animals and plants and finally decided on a panda. “We don’t need to explain anything to, have it understood across different cultures,” said Cao.
What it looks like
The helmet（头盔）made of ice makes the mascot look fashionable. It looks like a spaceman. It waves its hands with two red hearts to show its kindness and love. The colorful lines around its head stand for both the ice tracks（冰道）and the fast 5 G signals. Bing Dwen Dwen wears a full body “shell”（壳）made of ice. It looks like an astronaut in a space suit, showing a perfect mix of winter sports and modern technology.
1. Bing Dwen Dwen became the mascot in ________ .| A．2019 | B．2020 | C．2021 | D．2022 |
| A．a panda | B．bingtanghulu | C．a plant | D．an astronaut |
| A．they wanted to introduce it |
| B．it is special and can introduce itself |
| C．it is fashionable |
| D．it is black and white |
| A．on its head | B．on its feet | C．on its hands | D．on its helmet |
| A．the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics |
| B．the skiing sports |
| C．a designer of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics |
| D．the mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics |
Susan King, Wang Ming and Tommy Black are good friends at the same school. Let’s know them.
| She’s Susan King. She’s twelve years old and shes from Cambridge. She likes blue best. Her telephone number is 886-3679. Li Zihan is her good friend and they often play football together. |
| His name is Wang Ming. He’s thirteen years old. He’s from Shanghai. His telephone number is 885-3769. His favourite sport is table tennis. Dogs are his favourite animals. |
| He’s Tommy Black. He’s eleven years old. He’s from London. He's twelve years old. He is in Class Four, Grade Seven. His favourite season is autumn. His telephone number is 883-3697 |
| A．Li. | B．Black. | C．King. | D．Wang. |
| A．Tommy Black. | B．Andy Green. | C．Susan King. | D．Wang Ming. |
| A．Table tennis | B．Basketball | C．Running | D．Football |
| A．886-3679 | B．885-3769 | C．883-3697 | D．883-3679 |
| A．friends’ favourite sports | B．three good friends |
| C．friends’ telephone numbers | D．friends from different schools |
7 . Most students do not enjoy doing housework. Some of them think that cleaning the bathroom or cooking dinner for their family is boring. However, if you try the following ways, you will find that housework is not as boring as you think.
◆Learn to do small things
You should learn to do small things, for example, you can do the dishes, sweep the floor or make the bed. Part of growing up is to be able to take care of yourself. Doing some small things around the house shows that you are becoming responsible (有责任感的).
◆Divide (划分) housework among the family
In fact, it’s too tiring for one person to do all the housework alone. It’s good to divide housework into different parts. All the family members will do the housework together. Dividing housework among all the family members will make everyone’s job much easier.
◆Make it fun
Cooking is one part of housework. Cooking can be fun if you put your heart into it. If you learn how to cook your favorite food, you will also get a feeling of satisfaction.
1. Most students think doing housework is ________.| A．easy | B．boring | C．difficult | D．interesting |
| A．be more friendly | B．become responsible | C．become more popular | D．grow up healthily |
| A．Because it is tiring. | B．Because it is difficult. | C．Because it is boring. | D．Because it is not exciting. |
| A．do small things | B．clean the bathroom |
| C．divide housework among the family | D．cook your favorite food |
| A．advertisements | B．newspapers | C．novels | D．stories |
8 . 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. |
9 . In the United States, every year, Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of November. Because Canada is to the north of the United States and is colder, the harvest comes earlier in a year. In Canada, people have Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday in October.
The harvest brings a lot of food to people. On Thanksgiving Day, people in Canada and America like to have a big meal with their friends and family just like Chinese people do at the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many Canadians and Americans put flowers, vegetables and fruits around their houses to say “Thank you” for the harvest. At a Thanksgiving Day dinner, many Canadians and Americans eat turkey, potatoes and pumpkin pies. These food are like the food of many years ago. They say “Thank you” for the harvest that comes every year.
1. Which country has the Thanksgiving Day like the United States?| A．Japan | B．China. | C．America. | D．Canada. |
| A．they like flowers | B．the harvest comes earlier |
| C．they have a big meal | D．they want to be different |
| A．Good morning. | B．Thank you. | C．Hello. | D．I’m hungry. |
10 . We all need to exercise. Doctors say it is good for us. It makes your heart and body strong. It also gives you more energy. And you will feel better about yourself. It’s best to exercise twice a week. Twenty minutes each time is enough.
There are many ways to exercise. You can walk, run, play sports, or swim. Many people go to special places to exercise.
They are called “fitness centers”. These places have a lot of equipment. Some people buy equipment for their families. But it is very expensive.
Exercising can be fun. Friends can exercise together at a fitness center. They can also play sports together. How do you exercise?
1. We should exercise ______.| A．every day | B．20 minutes a week | C．twice a week | D．twice a month |
| A．Dancing. | B．Swimming. | C．Playing sports. | D．Running. |
| A．Exercising is expensive. |
| B．Exercising is good for your heart. |
| C．Only doctors exercise. |
| D．It’s best to exercise three times a week. |
