1 . 请阅读下面非连续性文本，按要求完成所给任务。

A new study shows that sitting for a long time without exercise is worse than smoking and heart problems.

Scientists at the University of California find that just 10 minutes’ exercise is enough to improve memory (记忆力) — 10 minutes of slow walking, yoga or tai chi.

Do much exercise in school

Doing exercise is good for health and study. Scientists say that children are more active when long hours of sitting is broken by exercise. And children should get an hour of exercise a day. But only half of that is done at school.

Have enough sleep every night at home

A 14-year-old girl suddenly died when she played with her mobile phone. She had a lot of late nights because of playing with her mobile phone.

Children aged 8 to 11 spent about 3.6 hours a day on TVs, mobile phones or computers, 1.6 hours or more than 2 hours. Many teachers say that smart phones make it difficult for students to concentrate (集中精力) on lessons. It is mainly because of too little sleep and too much screen time. So spend more time on sleep and less time on the screen.

1. What do scientists at the University of California find?
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2. What exercise can make children improve their memory? (One or two examples are OK.)
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3. How often should children exercise according to (根据) the passage?
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4. Why did the girl suddenly die?
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5. What’s the main reason for students concentrate on lessons difficultly?
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6. Do you have a good living habit? What is it?
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2 . Do you know that many teenagers around us like to do volunteer work in their free time? They think that it’s a great way to spend time.

Jerry’s busy weekend (in Grade Eight)
Saturday	9: 00 a. m.—11: 00 a. m. worked at an old people’s home (read stories, sang songs)
Sunday	3:00 p. m. —5:00 p. m. worked at a science museum (worked as a guide)

If you have an interest in volunteering, or if you would like to do something to help others, you will find that volunteering is a good choice (选择).
·Volunteering can make you feel good.
It gives you a chance (机会) to meet with new people. And when you volunteer with a willing and open heart, you will receive many thanks from others. That helps you to grow and be happy at the same time.
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When you volunteer, you get to learn not only from other volunteers, but also from the people you are helping. After all, everyone can learn something from the life experiences of others.
·Volunteering can make a great difference to others.
For example, when you volunteer to help disabled people, they feel happy. When you help at an animal hospital, animals there get care and love.
•Volunteering can help you find what you might be interested in when you grow up.
For example, if you have an interest in becoming a vet (兽医), working at an animal hospital helps you learn what it is like to work with animals.
As you can see, volunteering is good. It can make the world a better place.
1. How long did it take Jerry to volunteer during the weekend?
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2. What did Jerry volunteer to do at the old people’s home?
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3. Where did Jerry work on Sunday?
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4. Please finish filling in the “______”
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5. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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3 . When I take a walk around the park, I often see many people walking with dogs. Perhaps a dog is one of the most useful animals in the world. People keep dogs for different reasons. In the past many people kept dogs mainly for their safety. But now more and more people keep dogs as their friends. For a child, a dog is a friend when he has no other children to play with. For young people, a dog is their friend when they are alone at home. For old people, a dog is their child when their own children grow up and leave home. Now you can see the reasons why people keep dogs.

1. What was the main reason for people to have dogs in the past?

A．To make money.

B．To make them safe.

C．To help them work.

2. What do many people walk with in the park?

A．Pigs

B．Goats.

C．Dogs.

3. What do young people regard a dog as?

A．A friend.

B．A teacher.

C．A child.

4. What is a dog for a child?

A．A smart teacher.

B．A helpful brother.

C．A playing partner(伙伴).

5. Why do old people keep dogs?

A．Because dogs can help to do the housework.

B．Because dogs can make them safe.

C．Because they regard dogs as their children.

4 . 请阅读下面短文，按要求完成所给任务，并将答案写在答题卡上。

In today’s world, almost everyone knows air pollution is harmful to people’s health.

Making a loud noise in public is also a kind of pollution. It not only influences others but also does great harm to people’s hearing. People who work and live in noisy conditions often get hearing loss. Cars and machines also produce too much noise. Such pollution makes people feel uncomfortable and unpleasant, and it can even cause them to become sick or deaf.

Examples Many of the workers who print newspapers and books lose their hearing. Quite a few people living near airports also have hearing loss.

News Recently, it was reported that many teenagers in America can hear no better than 65-year-old people do, because these young people always listen to loud pop music.

What can you do to reduce noise?

Avoid going to the noisy places. Do not often go to the noisy business district and karaoke hall to “receive” noise and so on, in order to reduce the harm of man-made noise as far as possible.

Prevent the noise of household appliances. When buying household appliances, we should choose those with good quality and low noise. Try not to collect household appliances in a room, and refrigerators had better not be placed in the bedroom.

________ “Silent villas” have been popular abroad, but due to the national conditions, our country is not able to follow suit, so we can only create a quiet environment in our own home.

Turn your phone speaker (扬声器) off. Many people are used to playing the mobile phones when they take the subway or wait for the friends. When you watch videos or play games, please turn your phone speaker off and don’t disturb others in public.

Nowadays, many countries are trying to solve all sorts of environmental problems from 2020, including noise pollution. With less noise, our work will be finished efficiently. Then we can do more things we like. With less noise, our health will be better. We can enjoy our life happily. Let’s move!

1. What do the two examples in the text box show?
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2. Why is the hearing of teenagers in America worse than 65-year-old people?
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3. Please complete the missing subtitle (小标题).
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4. What are the advantages of reducing noise?
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5. Sometimes our teaching building may be very noisy because of many students. How can we keep our school quiet?
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The 2024 Spring Festival Gala official mascot (吉祥物), “Loong Chenchen”, was unveiled (公布) by the China Media Group before the gala. The name “Loong Chenchen” includes the Chinese character “Loong”, which translates to “dragon” in English. The dragon has held significant spiritual and cultural importance in China.The mascot “Loong Chenchen” shows great meanings of good luck, peace, health and happiness.

The mascot is designed difficultly, drawing ideas from China’s deep and rich traditional culture. For details, the design of the dragon claw (爪子) in “Loong Chenchen” gets ideas from the pattern of the Nine-Dragon Wall of the Palace Museum in Beijing. The pattern on the dragon stomach is from the cloud and thunder shapes in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The dragon fin is based on a Tang Dynasty(618—907) artifact (历史文物) which looks like a moving gold dragon.

The color of “Loong Chenchen” has traditional Chinese names, including “Chengxia” and “Chunchen”. “Chengxia” which means red or rosy clouds in English, stands for youth and vitality. The color of “Chunchen” is a symbol of spring, hope and growth.

The Spring Festival Gala or “Chunwan” is so popular that it has become an important part of the Lunar New Year celebrations, which is deeply loved by the Chinese people. During the Spring Festival, families throughout China will come together. Broadcasting on the Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve, the Gala is watched by more than one billion people. It symbolizes a time for family gatherings and the joyful beginning of the new year.

1. What is “Loong Chenchen”?

A．A mascot.

B．A festival.

C．A Chinese character.

2. Which of the following is NOT true about the dragon?

A．The design of its stomach is from the cloud and thunder shapes.

B．The design of its fin is based on a Western Zhou Dynasty artifact.

C．The design of its claw gets ideas from the pattern of the Nine-Dragon Wall.

3. What does the underlined word “vitality” mean in paragraph 3?

A．老态龙钟

B．慈眉善目

C．朝气蓬勃

4. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．The history of the Spring Festival Gala.

B．The popularity of the Spring Festival Gala.

C．The organization of the Spring Festival Gala.

5. Where can we most probably read this text?

A．In an animal magazine.

B．In a daily newspaper.

C．In a research paper.

7 . 请阅读下面的非连续性文本，按要求完成所给任务，并将答案写在答题卡相应的位置上。

Some schools in Zhejiang are encouraging students to learn more about their own family instructions（家训）. It is a part of students’winter vacation homework to learn about their family instructions.

What are family instructions?

Do you know what family instructions are? They are common beliefs（信仰）that family members follow. In ancient China, people passed down their family instructions from generation（一代）to generation.

The school has also published books about family instructions—The Family Instructions of Zhu Xi and Family Instructions of Yan Clan. “Family Instructions of Yan Clan” is the first book discussed on family education in China. The books include short conversations and pictures drawn by students.

Meng Yao,16, looked at her family instructions. One of them is “don’t take the wrong way”, a piece of advice that has been passed down for 100 years. Her father told her how her grandfather stuck to his “right way”—to become an engineer. It inspired（激励）her to go after what she loves.	Gong Zhenyue, 14, drew pictures for one of the books. She was impressed（感动）by one instruction. It says that parents should not only love their children, but also educate them. “It made me understand why my parents are strict with me,” she said. She made it her own family instruction.
Shen Duanjie, 14, from Hangzhou Gongyi Middle School, has also benefited（受益）from his family instruction—democratic and equal（民主、平等）. It makes him get along better with his parents.

1. What does the underlined word “It” refer to?
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2. What are family instructions?
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3. What is Mengyao’s family instruction?
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4. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
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5. What does Shen Duanjie think of his family instruction?
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6. Please tell us one of the family instructions in your family. What do you think of it?
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10 . 请阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在方框内的缩写文章中，填入与短文意思最符合的单词。每空一词。

Chinese’ Farmers’ Harvest Festival starting from 2018, falls on Autumn Equinox (秋分) each year. It is the first festival for farmers in China.

Now modern agriculture (农业) is developing very fast and people’s life is getting better and better. Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival shows that our government is paying more attention to agriculture and farmers’ life. It will encourage farmers in a great degree (程度) to develop further modern agriculture. China has a long history of agriculture. Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival, one of the Chinese cultural symbols, shows China’s long farming culture to the world. It also connects the excellent traditional Chinese culture with modern civilization (文明) and improves the cultural confidence.

Farmers are encouraged to think of their own ways for celebrating harvest. Some activities are held across the country. Also, local government usually holds all kinds of activities for the festival, such as folk culture performances, food tasting and so on.

Some people think the festival is the happiest time of the year, even better than the Spring Festival because they feel safe and hopeful for the next year. For other people, the festival is a time for sure to look back at the past and look forward to the future.

Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival starts from 2018 and it falls on Autumn each year. It is the first festival for Chinese farmers. With the fast     1     of agriculture, people are living a better life than before. Our government is paying more attention to agriculture and farmers’ life. It will     2     encourage farmers to develop further modern agriculture.     3     a Chinese cultural symbol, the festival shows China’s long farming culture to the world. It also connects the excellent traditional Chinese culture with modern civilization. Chinese people are now becoming more and more     4     about our traditional culture. During the festival, many kinds of activities are held to     5     harvest. Some people think it is the happiest time of the year because food gives people a sense of safety and hope.