1 . Sometimes we may forget something easily. Don’t worry. Here is some advice to help improve your memory.

My first advice is to review what you learned often. After you learn something, you need to review it right away, then two days later, then a week later, then two weeks later, and then a month later. After a month, you will find that you can remember it easily.

My second advice is to mark the important parts of your book. It will help you focus on the most important parts. It is always easier to remember only the key points. Also, this will make reviewing easier. When you open your book, the colored parts will show you the most important parts at once, and you needn’t read every word again.

Another piece of advice is to review at a proper time. One good time is in the evening. Review what you have learned before going to bed. It will be kept in your mind deeply. Another good time is in the morning because you have just rested and your brain is fresh and clear. So it’s easy to remember the important information in the morning.

Remember all the advice above, and your memory will be better and better.

1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．What we forgot.	B．What we believed.
C．What we learned.	D．What we imagined.

2. How can we make reviewing easier?

A．By opening the book often.	B．By marking the key points.
C．By reading every word aloud.	D．By remembering all the information.

3. Why is it easy to remember the important information in the morning?

A．Because our brain is fresh and clear in the morning.

B．Because we can spend more time on it in the morning.

C．Because it is very quiet in the morning.

D．Because we are cleverer in the morning.

4. What does the text want to tell us?

A．Why we should review what we learned often.

B．How we can find the important parts of our book.

C．When we should review what we learned.

D．How we can improve our memory.

5. The passage is written to ________.

A．teachers

B．parents

C．students

D．workers

2 . 根据短文内容，用符合语义及语法规则的词填空，每空一词。

English is rich in expressions that come from animals. Today we will talk about the wolf.

Wolves are important animals in the traditions and stories of America. Before the Europeans arrived at north America in the 1500s, wolves often meant being brave to native Americans.

However, in English, wolves are not to be trusted. Perhaps wolves attacked (攻击) too many people or ate too many farm animals. Whatever the reason, wolves were killed in many places. So many wolves died that they almost became endangered. They also became known as bad animals.

To begin with, there is an expression “lone wolf”. If we call somebody a lone wolf, he isn’t a bad person, but he may like to do things by himself. In fact, he sometimes makes you think he doesn’t want to be around people because he dislikes them.

Now, let’s move on to the home. Parents tell their children not to wolf down their food. In other words, the child eats too quickly and without care. And if someone says a child was raised by wolves, that child has bad manners and is behaving like a wild animal.

By the way, there is popular expression about wolf from a very old story: a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A wolf in sheep’s clothing describes someone who acts and looks nice on the outside but is bad on the inside. It tells us not to be fooled by appearances (外表).

1. Wolves often meant being ________ to native ________ before the Europeans arrived at north America.
2. In English, perhaps because wolves attacked too many people or ate too many ________, they are not to be trusted.
3. If someone likes to do things by himself, we can call him “________.”
4. “Wolf down their food” means someone eats too ________ and without ________.
5. A wolf in sheep’s clothing describes someone who acts and looks nice on the ________ but is bad on the ________.

4 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

In many countries, people are encouraged to buy electric cars. It is said that driving an electric car is good for the environment. But is that true? The University of Minnesota recently studied emissions (排放物) from different cars. The scientists found that sometimes, electric cars are more harmful than petrol (汽油) cars.

Surprising? Well, please pay attention to the word “sometimes”. Electric cars are supposed to be clean. The problem lies in the power that is used to charge them. If the power comes from wind or solar energy, electric cars will cause little pollution. However, if the power is produced from coal, they will be very harmful. According to the study, emissions from these cars kill about 3,000 people a year. However, pollution caused by petrol cars only leads to 880 deaths a year.

In fact, sales people are not lying when they say electric cars are clean. However, they are right only when the power used to charge their cars is also clean.

So how clean electric cars are depends on what its electricity comes from. In France, more than half of the power comes from nuclear (核) stations. Electric cars there should be as clean as they are marketed to be. In many developing countries, however, electricity mainly comes from coal. India, for example, depends on coal for 61 percent of its power. Only two percent of electricity comes from nuclear energy. In countries like India electric cars are not clean at all.

1. Why are people in many countries encouraged to buy electric cars? Because they think electric cars ______________________________________ the environment .
2. How are electric cars whose power come from wind or solar energy?
If the power of electric cars comes from wind or solar energy, it will cause ______________________________________.
3. How many people may be killed a year by the emissions from the cars whose power is produced by coal?
Emissions from the cars whose power is produced by coal can kill about ______________________________________ people a year.
4. According to the passage, in which country the electric cars are cleaner than many developing countries?
Electric cars from ______________________________________ are cleaner.
5. Where may power of electric cars come from? (至少写出文中提到的两种能源)
______________________________________.

5 . 阅读表达。

These days, “Double Reduction” policy is made to reduce pressure on Primary and middle school students in China.

The first piece of good news is that there are fewer exams for students. First and second grades in primary schools don’t have any written exams. As for junior school students, they needn’t take weekly or monthly tests anymore.

①students, go, can, home, with, parents, their. This is because primary schools and junior high schools now need to offer an after-class service. ②They should offer the service at least five days a week for two hours. Students can stay at school until their parents get off the work.

1. 请在文中找出与 stress 同义的词。
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2. 请列举一个“双减”政策带来的好处。
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3. 请根据文章内容回答：
Do junior school students need to take weekly or monthly tests?
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4. 请将①处的单词连词成句。
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5. 请写出文中②句划线的单词 They 指代的内容。
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6 . ①Second, doing housework can help us develop a hardworking spirit and increase our labor skills. In the future, these excellent qualities will be useful to us.

②Labor education has received more and more attention in recent years. As students, doing housework is the best form of labor. Here are some reasons.

③Lastly, the purpose of getting knowledge is to have the skills we will need in the future. The more skills students have, the more competitive they are.

④First, teachers often ask students to clean the classrooms at school. This is because what the school teaches is not only knowledge, but also how to meet the needs of society.

1. The right order of this passage should be ________.

A．④①②③

B．④①③②

C．②④①③

D．②④③①

2. What does the underlined word “Labor” mean?

A．义务

B．劳动

C．德育

D．高等

3. What’s the purpose of getting knowledge?

A．To get enough sleep.	B．To make our parents happy.
C．To know something about housework.	D．To have the skills we will need in the future.

4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Doing housework can increase our labor skills.

B．Doing housework is the best form of labor.

C．Doing housework can’t meet the needs of society.

D．Doing housework can help us develop a hardworking spirit.

5. The best title of this passage is ________.

A．The reasons of labor education	B．The ways of developing life skills
C．The reasons of getting knowledge	D．The ways of cleaning the classrooms

8 . 根据短文内容， 用符合语义及语法规则的词填空，每空一词。

There is a 24-hour smart bookstore in Guiyang, Guizhou. It has no workers. Visitors get into the bookstore via a facial recognition system(凭借面部识别系统) and they pay for things at the self-service checkout(自助付款台).

The 200 m² bookstore has nearly 10,000 books for all ages. It not only sells books, but it also serves as a library. Customers can stay there and read for free as long as they like without being disturbed(打扰) by anyone.

What’s more, it’s very safe to stay in the bookstore because of a remote monitoring and alarm system(远程监控和警报系统). “We keep an eye on the bookstore from a control room. As soon as we find a problem, we will act quickly to deal with it,” said Wang Ying, the store manager.

Since the bookstore opened in April 2022, it has been very popular. It receives hundreds of customers a day. People enjoy its quietness and convenience(便利) a lot. 26-year-old Chen Wentao has developed a new reading habit as a result of visiting the store. “It makes me feel easy to pick up a book and enjoy it here,” Chen says. “Unlike video games, reading brings me a sense of peace in the fast life.”

A number of old people have also been visiting the bookstore. For them, the bookstore is more than just a place to real. 69-year-old Luo Yinfeng usually comes to the bookstore to relax. “I love reading here. It is really good for the elderly to experience new technologies and keep up with the rapidly changing world,” she says.

1. Visitors won’t see any ________ in the 24-hour smart bookstore in Guiyang.
2. The bookstore not only sells books, but it also serves as ________ ________.
3. It is ________ ________ to stay in the bookstore because of its remote monitoring and alarm system.
4. After ________ the store, Chen Wentao has developed a new ________ habit.
5. The bookstore gives the elderly a chance to ________ ________ ________ the rapidly changing world.