1 . The aim (目的) of students who come to school is to study. But to study requires (需要) a right way, or you waste either the time or the money. The following are the ways of studying.
The best time for reading is morning, because in the morning, the air is fresh and the mind is clear. For that reason, we can get good results.
In studying we must have patience (耐心) . If we don’t know a text well, we must read it again. Before we read the next one, we should learn the first one.
When we are studying, we must put our hearts into the book, or we can get nothing from the book while we are reading.
We must always ask “whys”. If we don’t know it well, write it down and ask our teachers, parents, or friends. In any possible way, we must know it completely and what we’ve learned can be used well and made better. These ways are quite enough if we can keep them in heart and do so.
1. The passage tells us __________.| A．the importance of reading | B．to read in the morning |
| C．to have patience in studying | D．to pay attention to (注意) the ways of studying |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．the air is fresh | B．the mind is clear | C．it’s difficult to get good results | D．both A and B |
| A．possible to learn something from it | B．impossible for us to get something from it |
| C．easy to understand it well | D．better to get something from it |
| A．write down the questions | B．do with the new words |
| C．know the book well | D．get some questions to ask our teachers |
2 . Being a teenager can be hard, for you have to face a lot of difficult problems. Perhaps you’re dealing with higher expectations and the process of finding your place in the world. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the teen years. There are many things you can do to make a huge difference!
Understand that there is not a single way to enjoy your teen years. Everyone is different in their teen years. Some teens prefer to spend time with friends, while others prefer to study and work; some prefer to be quiet, while others are loud. Saying that there’s only one way to enjoy your teen years is wrong.
Develop your sense of self, focusing more on your own thoughts. For lots of people, the teen years are full of worries. Stop paying so much attention to them as many of them are based on what other people think instead of what you think. Go ahead and do what you want without taking others’ opinions seriously.
Work on your value. What you achieve in your teen years may decide chances in your adulthood, so offer some time to study and do your best. There are lots of things you don’t know how to address. Learn how to choose and improve your studying skills. It may not seem enjoyable, but it’s helpful later on in life.
Keep good relations with your family as much as possible. Family is one of the most important connections in your life. Family members, especially parents, probably worry about you during your teen years. You see them every day—why not make it nice to spend time with them?
1. Why is it necessary to help teens?| A．Because they are in need of high expectations. |
| B．Because they may lose themselves in this world. |
| C．Because they have many problems to face. |
| D．Because they are too weak to deal with lots of difficulties. |
| A．Spend more time with friends. | B．Consider others’ thoughts seriously. |
| C．Keep good relations with others. | D．Develop your sense of self. |
| A．Look for. | B．Deal with. | C．Talk about. | D．Learn from. |
| A．Family relationship. | B．The lack of life experience. |
| C．The decision among teen years. | D．Balance between study and play. |
| A．How to Make a Difference to the World? | B．How to Enjoy Being a Teenager? |
| C．How to Solve Difficult Problems? | D．How to Get Along with Teenagers? |
3 . The way we spend our time can be divided into three “bottles”. These are the necessary tasks bottle, the voluntary tasks bottle and the happiness bottle.
Every day, we spend time filling the necessary tasks bottle with useful things, like making money, doing housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another bottle with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing clothes for family. Those bottles are very important. If we don’t fill them each day, our family won’t run properly.
However, we often forget to fill the third bottle — the happiness bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness bottle sometimes empty at the end of the day? Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies by, and before we know it, it is time for bed. We all have days like that.
This is why each day we have to make an effort to fill our happiness bottle. I fill mine by going to the dancing class. And I always leave classes more happily than when I enter. This week, I had the pleasure of taking part in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We show our musical talent and practice music for charity. It was a time of fun, friendship and music-making. At the end of the evening, my happiness bottle was filled to the top.
Make sure to fill all the three bottles. Will your activities bring joy to your life? Or are the other two tasks eating up all your time? Try to find ways to achieve a balance between how you fill your three bottles. At the end of the day, hopefully we’ve done all we can to make sure that our happiness bottle is filled.
1. What does Paragraph Three mainly tell us?| A．Necessary and voluntary tasks are less important. |
| B．We need time to do something to make ourselves happy. |
| C．All the three bottles are filled to the top at the end of the day. |
| D．We require enough time to fill the necessary tasks bottle. |
| A．By practicing music for charity. | B．By staying with children. |
| C．By listening to some nice music. | D．By buying delicious food. |
| A．Why to find more ways to get happiness. | B．Why to make an effort to finish our tasks. |
| C．How to improve the way we spend our time. | D．How to join the activities to show our talents. |
| A．an ad | B．a guidebook | C．a history book | D．a magazine |
4 . Everyone has worries. How do you deal with your worries? There is always something you can do to help yourself feel less worried. Sitting there worrying is no fun and it won’t solve your problems. Grades at school are often a top worry for kids. If you worry most about grades, ask yourself these questions:
● Why are grades important? What do grades mean to me?
● How do I get ready for class? Do I go over my notes even when there isn’t a test?
● Do I have a good learning environment?
● Have I tried different ways of studying?
If your worry is about a fight with your friend, you might write down all the things you could do— write a note to him or her, invite him or her to watch a basketball game, say sorry to him or her and so on. Once you have a list of things to do, you could choose one thing that may get your friend back. You can ask for help when you’re worried. You can find someone to talk to, such as your parents, friends and teachers.
1. What do kids often worry most about?| A．Their habits. | B．Their friends. |
| C．Their grades at school. | D．Their schoolwork. |
| A．Why are grades important? | B．How do I get ready for class? |
| C．Why not give up studies? | D．What do grades mean to me? |
| A．What kinds of worries people have | B．Who is often worried |
| C．When people are worried | D．How to deal with worries |
5 . You may know about “junk food” like French fries. But do you know about “junk sleep”? Recently, a British survey shows that there are many electronic products (电子产品) in teenagers’ bedrooms. They are influencing teenagers’ sleep badly.
The survey was done among 1,000 British kids from 12 to 16. It found that 50% of them got just 4 to 7 hours’ sleep every day. But doctors say they need 8 to 9 hours.
Almost 25% of the kids said they often fell asleep while they were watching TV, listening to music or using other electronic products.
“This is very worrying,” said Dr. Chris, a British professor. “We call it ‘junk sleep’. It means you don’t get enough sleep and the quality (质量) of the sleep is low, too. If you don’t get a good rest, you won’t do well in school the next day.” The survey found that quite a few of the kids felt tired each day because of the junk sleep, especially girls between 13 and 16 feeling the worst. Nearly all the teenagers have a phone, an ipad or TV in their bedrooms. And lots of them even have all the three.
Dr. Chris suggested that parents should help their children keep away from electronic products, and teenagers should spend less time on the electronic products.
1. How many children often fell asleep while using electronic products? ________| A．About 200. | B．About 250. |
| C．About 500. | D．About 1000. |
| A．they are both high in quality |
| B．they are both bad for our health |
| C．they are both delicious |
| D．they are both helpful in our life |
| A．A few teenagers have electronic products in their bedrooms. |
| B．The survey found that boys between 13 and 16 feel the worst. |
| C．The doctors say teenagers of 12 to 16 need 4 to 7 hours’ sleep each day. |
| D．Teenagers won't do well in school the next day unless they get a good rest. |
| A．Junk food or junk sleep. |
| B．Enough sleep, active in class. |
| C．Fewer electronic products, less junk sleep. |
| D．Junk food, unhealthy life. |
| Solar Terms (节气) of 2022 The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms. Here are some of them. | |||
| Spring Equinox (春分) The 4th term March 20th～April 4th | Grain in Ear (芒种) The 9th term June 6th～June 20th | Beginning of Autumn (立秋) The 13th term August 7th～ August 22nd | Great Cold (大寒) The 24th term January 20th～ February 3rd |
| Everything begins to grow and flowers come out. Some birds fly back to the north. People always fly kites and go climbing. | It’s a long period of continuous rainy and cloudy weather. Farmers are busy sowing and working in the fields. | The leaves of trees start to fall, as the saying goes “one leaf falls, autumn arrives”, people can feel that the wind is getting cool. | It is snowy and cold. People wear thick clothes to keep warm. Children often make snowmen and do some winter sports like ice skating. |
1. Spring Equinox is the best time to ________.
| A．fly kites |
| B．pick up leaves |
| C．make snowmen |
| D．work in the fields |
| A．Sunny and hot. |
| B．Rainy and cloudy. |
| C．Snowy and cold. |
| D．Foggy and windy. |
| A．Spring Equinox. |
| B．Grain in Ear. |
| C．Beginning of Autumn. |
| D．Great Cold. |
7 . Antarctica(南极洲) is Earth’s southernmost and coldest continent. It is home to lovely penguins. Penguins are birds in black and white. They look funny when they are walking. But unlike most birds, penguins are not able to fly in the air. Penguins spend as much as 75% of their time underwater, looking for food.
A Russian man first found Antarctica in 1820. Later humans went there to explore. They wanted to know more about the beautiful land. They found there is ice and snow all through the year. The air is very clear and clean. It is very interesting that in summer the sun still shines even at nights.
However, Antarctica is a very cold place and the coldest temperature was once -89.2℃. If you put a basin of water in the open air, it will become ice in a few seconds. So there are few people living there.
Although the weather is bad, many scientists show great interest in Antarctica. Every summer, they go to Antarctica. They usually look for resources under the ice and study climate changes carefully there.
1. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?| A．Antarctica is the biggest of all the continents. | B．Antarctica is cold, but penguins like to live there. |
| C．Penguins like to find food on land. | D．75% of the land in Antarctica is covered with ice. |
| A．in the air | B．underwater | C．underground | D．on land |
| A．to travel to or around an area to learn about it | B．to go and find someone |
| C．to buy something from a place | D．to go to a cold place to hike |
| A．the penguins | B．the water | C．the cold weather | D．the bad air |
| A．know more about it | B．catch the penguins | C．get the ice | D．change the climate |
Parents always want the best for their kids. But everyone has their own way of parenting(养育之恩). Here are some popular parenting styles. Which one do you like best? | |
Tiger parents(虎父虎母) They are strict with their children. They want them to get the best grades in their class. They love their kids in their hearts. | Dolphin parents(海豚式父母) They just want their kids to be happy and healthy. They make sure their kids get enough sleep and exercise. |
Helicopter parents(直升机式父母) They worry too much about their children and “fly” over them like helicopter. Many people think these parents should give their children more freedom(自由). | Lawnmower parents(割草机式父母) Like a lawnmower that cuts grass, they get rid of(除去) all difficulties for their children. Their kids never learn to work out problems on their own way. |
1. Tiger parents treat their kids in a________ way.
| A．strict | B．kind | C．good | D．hard |
| A．get less freedom | B．face more difficulties |
| C．worry about your parents | D．get enough sleep and exercise |
| A．cut grass | B．get rid of all difficulties |
| C．never learn to work out problems | D．love their kids in their hearts |
9 . On December 21 this year, the day is Winter Solstice（冬至）. It is an important day in China. What is special on the day? The answer is that the daytime lasts（持续） the shortest and the night lasts the longest of the year in the northern hemisphere（北半球）. Its Chinese name “dongzhi” means that winter comes and the days get colder.
In China, it is tradition（传统） to eat dumplings（饺子）on this day. This tradition comes from a famous doctor named Zhang ZhongJing. On a cold winter day, Zhang sees people have frostbite（冻伤） on their ears. To help them, he makes a kind of food in the shape（形状）of an ear, just like the dumplings we eat today. After eating the food, people feel very warm and their frostbite go away. From then on, people start to eat dumplings on Winter Solstice.
Now, Winter Solstice gives family a chance to get together and share their happiness.
1. From the passage, people usually eat dumplings ________.| A．on the shortest night in the northern hemisphere | B．on December 21 every year |
| C．on Winter Solstice | D．on the longest day in the northern hemisphere |
| A．Zhang Zhongjing eats dumplings because of his frostbite |
| B．People have frostbite just like dumplings |
| C．After Winter Solstice, the days get colder |
| D．The tradition of Winter Solstice comes from warm（温暖的） place |
| A．families to get together | B．people to make food |
| C．families to eat moon cakes | D．people to have a trip in northern hemisphere |
| A．承担 | B．分享 | C．遭受 | D．理解 |
| A．the places of eating dumpling | B．the story of the famous doctor Zhang ZhongJing |
| C．the days of cold winter | D．the introduction（介绍）of Winter Solstice |
10 . My good friend Carlos invited me to his birthday party. He moved to Canada from Mexico when he was a baby, but his parents tried to follow some of the Mexican traditions. At his party I saw my first pinata (彩盒). It looked like an animal and full of candies. People put it on the ceiling (天花板). Carlos hit (打) the pinata until it broke. All the candies fell on the floor, and we had a great time eating candies. Everyone shared. It was fun!
Caros’s birthday party got me thinking about how kids in other places celebrate birthdays.
Did you know that in Vietnam, everyone’s birthday is on the same day? Kids do not celebrate on birthdays. Instead, on New Year’s Day (信封) with lucky money in them. What a great way to celebrate birthdays!
In South Africa, kids do not celebrate every birthday. However, on their 2lst birthday, their parents make a key. It can be made of paper or wood. Parents give their child this key. It is a sign from the parents that the child can know “unlock the door to their future life”.
In Japan, children get a new set of clothes on their birthdays. While in Italy adults (成年人) pull children’s cars—one pull for each year. In Denmark, adults put presents all around the child’s bed.
1. What’s in the Mexican “pinata” on Carlos’s birthday? ________| A．Candies. | B．Food. | C．Money. | D．Keys. |
| A．锁住 | B．开启 | C．关闭 | D．抓住 |
| A．Make a paper key. | B．Buy a new get of clothes. |
| C．Pull children’s cars. | D．Prepare presents around beds. |
| A．In Mexico. | B．In Japan. | C．In Denmark. | D．In Vietnam. |
| A．Different Birthday Presents | B．Birthdays Around the World |
| C．What Kids Get On Their Birthdays | D．What Carlos Did On His Birthday |
