Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can make water hot and house warm, give light and cook food. But fire can burn things, too. It can make trees, houses, animals and other things catch fire. If some people can’t run away from fire, it can kill them. Sometimes a big fire can burn forests and destroy many tall buildings. Today people know how to make a fire with matches（火柴）. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. The match can burn a piece of paper and then it can burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with fire.
1. Fire is also very harmful, isn’t it?2. What can fire do?
3. What will happen to people if they can’t run away from fire?
4. Who likes to play with matches?
5. How can a match burn a house?
6. What must people do with fire?
2 . The fourth Thursday of November is Thanksgiving Day（感恩节）. It is a holiday in the USA. Usually family members and friends get together for a dinner. People sometimes drive their cars a long way for a family reunion. Many people also take Friday off to make a long weekend holiday as most Americans do not work on Saturdays and Sundays. Thanksgiving Day began in 1621. When the first English settlers（定居者）reached the New World, they did not have enough food. But the American Indians helped the white men and taught them how to farm. In the autumn after the English settlers came to America, they had a good harvest. They were so pleased. They decided to invite their Indian friends to dinner to thank them and God for their help. To most Americans today, Thanksgiving Day is even more important than Christmas or New Year’s Eve.
1. Thanksgiving Day is a holiday of ________.| A．England | B．India | C．America | D．the world |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．had a hard time | B．lived happily |
| C．knew how to farm | D．often had dinner together |
| A．冲突 | B．团聚 | C．分离 | D．婚礼 |
| A．hated | B．were afraid of | C．were helpful to | D．left |
| A．Christmas Day is more important than Thanksgiving Day |
| B．Thanksgiving Day is as important as Christmas Day |
| C．New Year’s Day is as important as Thanksgiving Day |
| D．Thanksgiving Day is more important than New Year’s Eve |
3 . People are busy working every day, so they do not have enough time to do exercise. As a result (结果), many people become too fat. To keep our bodies healthy, we have to do exercise every day.
There are many kinds of exercise. Bending (弯腰) and stretching (伸展) help us move easily. Before we play ball games or swim, it is better for us to do bending and stretching first. This kind of exercise is sometimes called “warm-up exercise”. Running is also good exercise. If we cannot run fast, we can jog. Jogging means running slowly. Before we run or jog, we must do warm-up exercises. And we should not run or jog in busy streets. The air there is often dirty. Some people like weight lifting (举重) because it can make their bodies strong. We also need to do some warm-up exercises before weight lifting.
1. ________ makes many people too fat.| A．Eating or drinking every day | B．Having no time to do exercise |
| C．Doing more exercise | D．Reading at home |
| A．run | B．jog | C．work | D．Both A and B |
| A．Playing ball games | B．Swimming |
| C．Bending and stretching | D．Weight lifting |
| A．Because it can make them work well. |
| B．Because it can make them thin. |
| C．Because it can make their bodies strong. |
| D．Because they don’t like other exercise. |
| A．Jogging means running quickly. |
| B．Busy streets are not good places for running. |
| C．Weight lifting can help us move easily. |
| D．We shouldn’t do warm-up exercises before swimming. |
It’s good for everyone to keep healthy every day. Here are some things you can do to be healthy.
Get up early and go to bed early. Don’t watch TV or play computer games too late in the evening. You should (应该) go to bed before ten o’clock and then get up at about six in the morning.
Eat healthy food. It’s good to eat fruit and vegetables every day, because the healthy food is good for your health. And don’t forget to drink more water every day. Ice-cream and hamburgers taste good, but they can make you be fat. So don’t eat them too much. And you must eat a healthy breakfast on time every morning.
Do some sports every day. Don’t say that you are always busy, and have no time to play sports. That’s just an excuse (借口). In the morning, you can run for 20 minutes. After work, you can play ball games with your friends. Even (甚至) in the evening, you can take a walk. When you’re free, just do sports!
Good friends make you happy. They can tell you how to be healthy, too. And you can do sports with your friends. So make some good friends!
1. How many good ways (方法) are there to keep healthy?2. Why should we eat fruit and vegetables every day?
3. Can you go to school if (如果) you don’t have breakfast?
4. What should you do when you are free?
5. How can good friends make you feel?
My name is Tony. Here is my design for my dream home. It is a house made of glass and it has a garden. It is not far from the sea.
It is a smart house with a library. There are one thousand books in it! There is a big 3D TV in the living room. How cool it is to watch my favorite film on it! Moreover, there is one thing special: My house can keep itself clean! I don’t need to do housework any more.
The house is a green house. There is a garden in front of the house. Many flowers are in it. And a small lake is in the garden too. At weekends I can watch fish swim around by the lake.
There is also a mini airport (机场) in it so I can fly to other places in my plane if I want to go shopping or do some other things.
Does the house sound cool? Maybe in 20 years my dream will come true.
1. Where is the dream home?2. What is special about the dream home?
3. What can Tony do by the lake?
4. How can Tony go to other places?
5. What is this article mainly about?
6 . With the help of the Internet, shopping is not a difficult job. Just click your mouse to choose the goods（货物）you like, and the shopping is finished. You needn’t walk out of the room. It seems easy and quick. But there’s a trap（陷阱）online sometimes. If you are careless, it will bring you some trouble. You may find the colour of the products is different from what you want, or the size is too small or too big. And the products may not be good. The clothes you buy may be dirty or out of shape. And you have to pay for the delivery charge（运费）if you don’t want them any more. If you want to be different, you’d better not buy clothes online. Once you put on the clothes you buy online and go out, you will find many people wear the same clothes in the street. You may not be happy then.
1. Why is shopping online easy and quick?| A．Because the shopper will send the products to you. |
| B．Because the products are small and easy to carry. |
| C．Because you can’t buy lots of things online. |
| D．Because you needn’t walk out to buy things. |
| A．very careful | B．not careful | C．very helpful | D．not helpful |
| A．size | B．price | C．number | D．place |
| A．shoes | B．mobile phones | C．clothes | D．trousers |
| A．The disadvantages of online shopping. | B．The advantages of online shopping. |
| C．The clothes we can buy online. | D．The ways of doing shopping. |
7 . It’s December in the north of China. It’s snowy and really cold. You can see many children playing with snow. Look! Some of them are making snowmen. Some are skating on the river, because the water in the river freezes（结冰）. It’s a white world. How beautiful! But in Australia, the weather is hot in December. Jane and her family are swimming in the sea. They are having a good time. Jim and his friends are playing soccer near the sea. The wind near the sea is really cool to them. But in December we can’t do that in China. That’s because the seasons（季节）in China and Australia are opposite（相反的）in a year.
根据短文内容, 回答下列问题。
1. How is the weather in the north of China in December?
2. Why can some Chinese children skate on the river?
3. Where is the weather hot in December?
4. Who are swimming in the sea?
5. What are Jim and his friends doing near the sea?
8 . Beep! Beep! Barcode (条形码) makes it faster and easier to buy things in stores. This year, it is 50 years old!
On a Sunday afternoon in 1971, IBM engineer George Laurer thought of a code that could be printed on food labels(商标). Later it developed into the Universal Product Code, which was used by many grocery companies starting in 1973, according to The New York Times. Before this, cashiers (收银员) had to ring up prices by hand.
Today, barcodes are scanned over 6 billion times every day and used by 2 million companies worldwide. What information does a barcode hold? Where the product comes from, where it has been, its price... you name it. It can also help stores keep track of(追踪) their products. For example, if there are 10 boxes of milk and a customer buys one, it will be recorded so that the store owner knows there are nine boxes left. In the 1980s, libraries started using barcodes to keep track of books in this way.
The next generation of barcodes, such as QRcodes, can hold more information. They can tell customers if product has allergens (过敏原) or if it is organic (有机的). This provides customers with a greater level of trust in the products they buy.
1. How old is the barcode?2. How did the cashiers ring up prices before 1973?
3. Why did libraries start using barcodes?
4. What can the next generation of barcodes tell customers?
5. What does the passage mainly tell us?
There are many kinds of pollution on the earth: such as air pollution, land (土地) pollution and ①w________ pollution. What should we do to save the earth?
First, everyone should help to keep the air clean. Polluted air is bad for our physical health. So we must stop people and factories from polluting the air.
Second, we should not make too much rubbish. It needs more areas, so there will not be enough space for people to live. The land will then be polluted and fewer plants can grow.
Third, we should keep the sea and rivers clean. 鱼不能在污染的水里存活, and it may be ②i________ for us to enjoy so much seafood or swim happily in the sea in the future.
To make the earth a better place, everyone should learn to love our planet from now on. And everyone should play a part in saving the earth.
1. 根据首字母提示填单词，完成短文。①
2. 把文中画线句子翻译成英语。
3. What will happen if the land is polluted?
4. Why should we keep the air clean?
5. 给文章拟一个合适的英文标题。
10 . Why do people cry? Scientists say the body produces（产生）tears（眼泪）because it needs them. One kind of tears is for the eye, and the other is for the heart. They both work as cleaners. If something else like dust（灰尘）gets into your eye, tears also come into the eye to clean it out. If you are hurt by something, your strong feelings produce some poisonous chemicals（毒素）in your body, and at the same time, tears come out with them. If tears don’t help clean out these poisonous chemicals, they will do harm to the heart.
In the United States, men have heart problems more often than women do. Doctors say heart problems have something to do with the pressure（压力）of living and working now. Perhaps men have more of these illnesses because they do not cry enough. They need to cry more.
In fact, you can find many ways of reducing（减少）the pressure to keep fit. Crying is a natural（自然的）and physical（身体的）one.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. How many kinds of tears does the body usually produce?
2. What do tears do when dust gets into your eye?
3. Who has more heart problems, men or women?
4. Why do men have more heart illnesses?
5. Will you cry if you fail the exam? Why or why not?
