1 . Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some traditions are rather similar from one country to another: candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are some:
Argentina(阿根廷): In Argentina, as in many Latin American countries, one of the most important birthday parties is a girl’s fifteenth. When girls reach the age, they can have a huge party and dance first with their fathers, and then the boys at the party.
China: The birthday child receives presents from others. Friends and family members are invited to dinner, and noodles are served to wish the birthday child a long life.
Denmark(丹麦): A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in that house is celebrating the birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he/she is sleeping so he/she can see them immediately when he/she wakes up.
Holland(荷兰): The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also put flowers or balloons on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.
India: Indian children usually wear white to school. However, the birthday child wears colored clothes to school and gives out chocolates to everyone in the class. His/ Her best friend helps do this.
Japan: The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certainly, birthdays are more important than others, especially the third and seventh birthdays for girls and the fifth for boys.
1. The underlined part “the age” refers to “_____”.| A． 3 | B．5 | C．7 | D．15 |
| A．Presents are placed around the child’s bed. |
| B．Flowers or balloons are put on the child’s chair. |
| C．The birthday child wears colored clothes to school and gives out chocolates to everyone in the class. |
| D．The child wears new clothes to mark the special time. |
| A．birthday traditions in different countries |
| B．similar birthday traditions in some countries |
| C．children’s birthdays in western countries |
| D．the importance of children’s birthdays |
2 . Everybody wants to be healthy. You know food is very important. There are many healthy food. You can have more bananas, apples, oranges, tomatoes and lettuce, because fruit and vegetables are good for your health. But don’t eat too much chocolate. It’s good for you. Healthy food can make you grow well and keep strong. Remember there is a saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. Sports can also keep you healthy. Do some sports every day. Get up early and go to bed early, and you will have a healthy and happy life.
1. What kind of food do we need to keep healthy?| A．Bananas and apples. | B．Oranges and tomatoes. |
| C．Tomatoes and lettuce. | D．Fruit and vegetables. |
| A．good | B．bad | C．healthy | D．happy |
| A．You will be unhealthy. | B．You will be bad. |
| C．You will grow well and keep strong. | D．You will have a healthy and happy life. |
| A．We should eat more fruit and vegetables. |
| B．We should eat too much chocolate. |
| C．We should do more sports. |
| D．We should see the doctor. |
| A．Food is very important for our health. |
| B．There are many healthy foods. |
| C．Only healthy food can make you strong and healthy. |
| D．Healthy food and enough sports can keep us healthy and strong. |
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. |
4 . Sometimes it may seem difficult to improve our health. If so, the following may help you.
Eat breakfast every morning. Research shows that if you eat a meal in the morning, you may not become too fat or eat too much during lunch. Eating breakfast can help people feel better through the day.
Get enough sleep. Poor sleep can influence our memory（影响记忆力）and learning. It can also cause traffic accidents（导致交通事故）! Studies show that people who don’t get enough sleep seem to get into more accidents. So stay safe and get enough sleep!
Take a walk every day. Walking is an easy way to exercise. You’d better meet friends for a walk, not for a meal. As you walk, you will see the beautiful world around you. Once you try, you will find that adding a walk into your daily life is very easy.
Join social groups. Social groups can provide support. They might include sports teams, art or music groups. People in the group can offer advice and can help each other in difficult times. Also, being in a group keeps your mind busy. An active mind is a healthy mind!
Have a hobby. A hobby could be running, reading or making something with your hands. Hobbies help people to relax and rest. Hobbies bring us joy as well.
1. You may have a better memory and learn better if you ________.| A．eat breakfast every morning | B．have a good sleep |
| C．take a walk every day | D．join a social group |
| A．invite your friend to a meal | B．make something with your friends |
| C．become a member of a social group | D．have a hobby |
| A．If you have breakfast every morning, you’ll be fat. |
| B．All the traffic accidents are caused by poor sleep. |
| C．To join a social group helps you have a healthy mind. |
| D．Having a hobby is the best way to relax. |
| A．students at school | B．people who don’t like running |
| C．students who never have breakfast | D．people who want to improve health |
| A．Ways to improve your health. | B．Reasons for keeping healthy. |
| C．Good habits. | D．Breakfast and exercise. |
5 . 
Over time, the cuckoo (布谷鸟) has learned to get other birds to care for its babies. The cuckoo is an amazing bird. Most birds lay their eggs and look after them until their babies hatch out. Then they feed their babies until they are ready to leave the nest.
Some birds are not such good parents. Cuckoos lay their eggs in the nest of other birds and do not care for their own babies. They get other birds to act as the parents. The other birds raise the young cuckoos as well as their own babies!
If the cuckoo egg hatches first, the baby cuckoo will often push the other eggs out of the nest so that it can get all the attention of its new mother. The young cuckoo sometimes even push the other babies out of the nest. The young cuckoo has a loud cry and is often bigger than the other baby birds, it will take all the food and the space in the nest.
If the cuckoo lay around 25 eggs each year in the nests of other birds. This means that many other birds spend all their time looking after young cuckoos instead of their own babies. Some birds have learned to recognize the cuckoos’ eggs and they push them out of their nests. But the cuckoos have also found ways of fooling (欺骗) the other birds. They can change their eggs to make them look just like the other birds’ own eggs.
1. What has the cuckoo learned?| A．Making a wonderful nest. | B．Singing songs. |
| C．Catching food quickly. | D．Getting other birds to care for its babies. |
| A．They will look after them until their babies hatch out. |
| B．They will do nothing but leave them in the nest. |
| C．They will push the eggs out of the nest. |
| D．They will eat all the eggs. |
| A．Lay eggs. | B．Eat eggs. | C．Get out of the eggs. | D．Push eggs. |
| A．push the other eggs out of the nest | B．fly to find its own parents |
| C．help to warm the other eggs | D．do nothing but wait for food |
| A．The young cuckoos look like the other babies in the nest. |
| B．No birds can recognize the cuckoos’eggs and push them out of the nest. |
| C．Some birds can recognize the cuckoos’ eggs and push them out of thenest. |
| D．It’s impossible for cuckoos to lay eggs in the nests of other birds. |
6 . ①Walk or drive to work? Which way is lower in carbon（碳）? To be friendly to the environment, you may choose to walk. Have you ever tried to live a low-carbon life through your diet（日常饮食）?
②A new study from the University of Oxford has looked into the health and environmental influences of 15 foods common in western diets. Among these, plant-based（基于植物的）foods included fruits, vegetables, nuts and potatoes. It also studied animal-based foods, including red meat, chicken, milk products, eggs and fish.
③According to the study’s lead researcher, Michael Clark, “Choosing better and greener diets is one of the main ways people can improve their health and protect the environment.” That is to say, plant-based diets are much healthier for us and kinder to the environment.
④To get this result, researchers compared the influence of eating another portion（一份）of each food with the increased risk of a few illnesses. They also find out the environmental harm for each animal-based food and each plant-based food.
⑤By using this method, the study found that red meats were the most unfriendly foods to the environment. Keeping farm animals produces a large number of methane（甲烷）that keeps 30 times more heat than CO2. As well as making the earth warmer, eating too much red meat is known to increase the risk of a few illnesses, such as heart trouble.
⑥Plant-based diets can give us the same health benefits in a much greener way. According to the study, without eating or using meat and milk products, global farmland use could be cut down by more than 75% and still feed the world.
⑦Speaking to the Guardian, Tim Benton of Chatham House said, “If we can give people reasonable official advice of what a healthy and green diet is, the world and its people would be in a much better place.”
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1. Which one is animal-based food?
| A．Milk products. | B．Fruits. | C．Potatoes. | D．Vegetables. |
| A．Many people choose to walk to work. | B．Plant-based diets are healthier and greener. |
| C．The more we eat, the better the environment is. | D．15 foods common in western diets are not healthy. |
| A．The harm of CO2. | B．The risk of heart trouble. |
| C．A reason for keeping animals. | D．Two disadvantages of red meats. |
| A．问题 | B．方式 | C．益处 | D．状况 |
| A．Teaching farmers to plant vegetables correctly. | B．Offering doctors new methods to treat patients. |
| C．Guiding people to lose weight by doing exercise. | D．Giving official advice on health and environment. |
7 . Nobody wants to lose, but we must accept that losing is a part of life. After all, we can’t win all the time. However, we can learn something valuable from every failure（失败）. This may help us succeed in the future. So we must know how to be a good loser.
We must not be afraid of losing. When we lose, just take it with a smile and look on the bright side of it. Failure can’t be avoided in our life. Edison failed 10,000 times before he invented the light bulb（灯泡）. When he was asked how he felt, he said that he hadn’t failed 10,000 times but had learned 10,000 things which didn’t work. We must know that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved success although they failed many times.
Losing is not very disgraceful. We must accept our failure and learn to take advantage of it. Remember that it can be helpful. Take action to walk out of it. When we lose, think about what we did and how we can improve. If someone else can help, we’ll be lucky enough. Maybe he or she has been through the same experience before. Many people enjoy helping others solve problems. This can save us a lot of time in learning how to avoid the same mistakes in the future.
We should face our failure when we lose. There is only one winner in every competition. Some win, while some lose. That is a usual way of life. If we offer our congratulations（祝贺）to the winners and share in their happiness, we won’t feel sorry for our failure.
In a word, being a good loser will help us to succeed in life. It might be painful at the beginning, but there are many advantages. Good losers set examples to us, and most importantly, they finally win.
1. What can we learn from every failure according to the text?| A．A way of life. | B．A valuable thing. | C．A general rule. | D．A secret of success. |
| A．He got help from others. | B．He happened to make it. |
| C．He avoided possible mistakes. | D．He saw the bright side of losing. |
| A．Bad. | B．Personal. | C．Dangerous. | D．Interesting. |
| A．Express the regrets. | B．Forget the failure. |
| C．Share in the winners’ enjoyment. | D．Join in another competition. |
| A．Ideas about How to Avoid Mistakes | B．Experience in Dealing with Problems |
| C．Advice on How to Be a Good Loser | D．Advantages of both Success and Failure |
8 . All aboard! Let’s take a ride on the world’s highest railway—the Qinghai-Tibet Railway（青藏铁路）. Sit back and enjoy the journey. Get ready for the trip of a lifetime.
We’re leaving Qinghai Station. The scenery along the way is some of the wildest in all of China. Keep your eyes open as we race through this beautiful land. You might see a rare Tibetan antelope（藏羚羊）from your window.
Before we begin our journey, let’s learn about this amazing railway. It’s truly one of the great engineering wonders of the 21st century. When it was completed on July 1, 2006, the Tibet Railway set nine world records, including the world’s highest railway at 5,072 metres above sea level, the world’s highest tunnel（隧道）at 4,905 metres, and the longest tunnel ever built on permafrost（冻土）.
As we travel higher, the air gets thinner and thinner. Soon there will only be 50 to 60 percent of the oxygen which we are used to breathing. But don’t be afraid. Each rail car has two separate oxygen systems. One system spreads oxygen throughout the train at all times. And each passenger can also get a personal oxygen mask just like those used in planes.
Here are a few more things to think about as our train leaves the station. The designers solved three main challenges when building this great railway. First, the high altitude（海拔）made the task difficult because there was no enough oxygen. Second, much of the railway runs across permafrost, a type of ground that keeps changing as the weather warms and cools. Finally, the railway goes through some of the most sensitive ecology（敏感的生态环境）in China. Great care was necessary to make sure of the smallest possible influence on nature.
All three challenges were met, making our trip possible. All aboard! The train to Tibet is leaving in fifteen minutes.
1. Where are the passengers?| A．On a bus. | B．On a train. | C．On a ship. | D．On a plane. |
| A．By telling a story. | B．By using a designer’s words. |
| C．By introducing its world records. | D．By comparing the present with the past. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．The changing ground. | B．The polluted air. | C．The dangerous animals. | D．The hot weather. |
9 . Many people are surprised when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network broke down, then the whole network stopped. So a few network systems had to be set up. It should be good enough to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, information could be sent through another part. In this way, a computer network system would keep on working all the time.
At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it, too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing” the Internet easier.
Today, it is easy to get online and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. Sending e-mails is more and more popular among young people. The Internet has now become one of the most important parts of people’s life.
1. How long has the Internet been used?| A．For about 10 years. | B．For about 20 years. |
| C．For about 40 years. | D．For about 60 years. |
| A．The other computers would wait. |
| B．The other computers would still work. |
| C．Some of the others still worked. |
| D．The other computers wouldn’t work. |
| A．Hospital. | B．Universities. | C．Banks. | D．The government. |
| A．They became cheaper and easier to use. | B．They became larger and larger. |
| C．People couldn’t buy them anywhere. | D．People could get information only from them. |
| A．People will die without the Internet. |
| B．All people should set up their own network. |
| C．People live easily without the Internet. |
| D．People will more and more depend on the Internet. |
10 . Anna and Sam are telling their friends about their countries. Let’s have a look.
| Dear Linda, Thank you for telling me about the cute pandas. Now let me tell you something about my country. There are three capitals in South Africa. It is the heaven(天堂) of birds. Every year, many people around the world come to watch beautiful birds. People can find about 850 kinds of birds here. Many of them only live here. Some birds fly here once a year. People call them migrants. These birds are from different places around the world. Yours， Anna |
| Dear Mike, My country, India, is in South Asia. It is not far from China. The flag of India has three main colours: orange, white and green. There are many different religions(宗教) and languages in India. The food here is delicious. And I think India songs are beautiful. Could you tell me some interesting places in Sydney? I want to take a trip there. Please write to me soon. Yours, Sam |
| A．pandas | B．kangaroos | C．lions | D．birds |
| A．火烈鸟 | B．候鸟 | C．飞鸟 | D．吉祥鸟 |
| A．Sam | B．Anna | C．Mike | D．Linda |
| A．To teach him a new language. | B．To come to visit his country. |
| C．To tell him some interesting places. | D．To tell him some delicious food. |
| A．Anna is from South Africa. |
| B．People can see many different kinds of birds in South Africa. |
| C．You can find different religions in India. |
| D．Sam plans to travel to Canada. |
