1 . Last week, I asked my students what the future would be like. Let’s look at some answers.
 Tom | In the future, I will have many robots at home. They can be helpful in many ways, like cleaning the house, cooking dinners and playing with me like human friends. |
 Kate | The teacher asked us an interesting question last Wednesday. I think in the future people will go to work by plane because it is more convenient. |
 Frank | I think there will be no need for students to go to school in the future. They can stay at home and learn things from the teachers on the computers. I usually use my computer to find information online. |
1. The teacher asked the students the question ________.
| A．last Monday | B．last Tuesday | C．last Wednesday | D．last Thursday |
| A．clean the house | B．make dinners | C．play with him | D．make money |
| A．By plane. | B．By car. | C．By bike. | D．By bus. |
| A．There will be more students. |
| B．There will be fewer teachers. |
| C．Students will have more homework. |
| D．Students will spend more time on computers. |
2 . You’re going to a foreigner’s party. You must be excited about it. Wait a minute! Do you know that kind of gift you can send to your foreign friends? Here are some tips.
★In some Western countries, some gifts like kites, chopsticks, or an erhu may be people’s favorites.
★Use beautiful paper to wrap the gifts. Remember not to use white, black or brown paper.
★For Japanese, gifts like tea or pens are nice. They don’t like big gifts.
★For Frenchmen, gifts like candy, perfume (香水), wine or books are perfect.
★British people and Americans like flowers, wine and chocolate, and you can relax and take it easy at their parties.
1. In some Western countries, ________ may be people’s favorite gift(s).A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．装饰 | B．衬托 | C．捆绑 | D．包裹 |
| A．Japanese | B．Frenchmen | C．Americans | D．British people |
3 . Parents often believe that they have good relationship with their children. But last summer Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their older son. Suddenly he seemed to talk far more to his friends than to his parents. “The door to his room is always shut,” Joanna noted.
Tina and Mark noticed similar changes in their 14-year-old daughter. “She used to cuddle up (蜷缩着) against me on the sofa and talk,” said Mark. “Now we joke that she does this only when she wants something. Sometimes she wants to be treated like a little girl and sometimes like a young lady. The problem is understanding which time is which.”
Before the age of 11, children like to tell their parents what's on their mind. “In fact parents are the first on the list,” said Michael Riera. “This completely changes during the teen years,” Riera explained. “They talk to their friends first, then maybe their teachers, and their parents last.”
To break down the wall of silence, parents should create chances to understand what their children want to say, and try to find ways to talk and write to them. And they must give their children a mental (心理的) break. For children, they also need freedom, though they are young. Another thing parents should remember is that to be a friend, not a manager, with your children is a better way to know them.
1. What does the sentence “The door to his room is always shut” suggest?| A．The son often feels upset and bored. | B．The son begins to dislike his parents. |
| C．The son is always busy with his study. | D．The son keeps himself away from his parents. |
| A．Their daughter isn’t as lovely as before. |
| B．They don’t know what to say to their daughter. |
| C．They cannot read their daughter’s mind exactly. |
| D．Their daughter talks with them only when she needs help. |
| A．Parents shouldn’t be angry with their children. |
| B．Parents should try to understand their children. |
| C．Parent are unhappy with their growing children. |
| D．Parents have to talk with their children face to face. |
4 . August Wilson was a famous American writer. He left school in the ninth grade. In the late 1960s, Wilson built a theatre and began to think of ways to make people know more about African-American life. He had the idea of a series (系列) of plays. Each of the plays showed how African-Americans lived.
The first play of this series was Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom about black musicians in Chicago in the 1920s. Other plays in the series like Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, were about the blacks in the 1910s; Fences, which was about a father and his son in the 1950s and The Piano Lesson, was about how a family sold their treasure in the 1930s. For the last two of these plays above, Wilson got Pulitzer Prizes.
King Hedley the Second, the eighth and the last play of the series, set in the 1980s.
Both the blacks and the whites like his plays, and his plays attract (吸引) anyone who is interested in African-American life.
1. When did Wilson leave school?| A．In the 1960s. | B．At the age of nine. |
| C．After he became a writer. | D．When he was in the ninth grade. |
| A．The Piano Lesson & Fences. |
| B．Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom & Fences. |
| C．The Piano Lesson & King Hedley the Second. |
| D．King Hedley the Second & Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. |
| A．Only the blacks like Wilson’s plays. |
| B．There are eighty plays in Wilson’s series. |
| C．Fences was about black musicians’ life in America. |
| D．A series of Wilson’s plays are about African-American life. |
5 . Around the world, people live in homes of many shapes and sizes. In some countryside, people live together with their family in a huge house with gardens or backyard. On the other hand, the buildings in cities are usually very close together.
A home can be any kind of building—large or small. Some people even have homes on boats, in tents or in caravans that can be moved around. Caravans are mobile homes. They are pulled by either a car or a huge truck. Some of them are holiday homes. We can see many families staying together in these caravans.
In the past, rich and important people built strong castles (城堡) to keep their families safe. The castles were built on hill tops with high walls and some even had moats. Moats were deep and wide ditches (壕沟) filled with water. They made it difficult for enemies to attack.
Today, we have different ways of protecting our homes. Some homes are installed (安装) with video cameras and an alarm system. These will help to alert (向……报警) home owners if someone tries to break in.
Homes are important to all the people. Everyone needs a home where they feel sheltered and safe.
1-2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第四段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. 完成句子：The buildings in cities are usually very _______. (单选)
| A．close together | B．large | C．small | D．big |
| A．Car | B．A car or a huge truck | C．Truck | D．Castles |
| A．Rich people | B．Important people |
| C．Rich and important people | D．All the people |
| A．Some homes are installed with video cameras and an alarm system. |
| B．These will help to alert home owners if someone tries to break in. |
| C．Everyone needs a home where they feel sheltered and safe. |
| D．Today, we have different ways of protecting our homes. |
| A．家对所有人很重要。 |
| B．家是所有人的。 |
| C．重要的是家人。 |
| D．家人对所有人很重要。 |
| We’ve moved! Please come to the party in our new house. 8:00 pm. on November 5 Betty and Jack Add 31 Station Street Tel: 342-1525 E-mail:betty12@email. net | Must Sell $275 Best washing machine Only 6 months old Owner going abroad Call Mike Green Add: 10 Park Street Tel: 342-2691 E-mail:mikegreen @hotmail. com | Smith’s Book Club New and old books Good coffee and tea Open every day 10:00 to 22:00 Add:15 North Street Tel: 342-7391or 342-7350 E-mail: smith15@yahoo. com |
| A．he wants to buy a new one | B．he will go abroad |
| C．he wants to buy a new house | D．there’s something wrong with it |
| A．8 hours | B．10 hours | C．12 hours | D．20 hours |
| A．read some books | B．go to a family party |
| C．drink some good coffee | D．buy a washing machine |
7 . Sun Ruifeng, a mother in Beijing, changed some of her plans for her 8-year-old son’s summer vacation. At first, she looked for an English tutoring course (辅导课程), but in the end, she changed it to a swimming training class.
On July 24, 2021, Chinese government introduced a set of guidelines (指导方针) for primary and junior high schools. The document asks them to give students less and easier homework and improve the quality (质量) of education and after-class services. For example, children below the third grade should have no written homework. And homework for junior high school students should take no longer than 90 minutes to finish.
The document also says students should have no tutoring courses on weekends, national holidays or during winter and summer vacations.
Many parents think the new moves (举措) are great. “Subject learning is enough at school and we hope to improve the children’s overall (整体的) quality of life during holidays,” a parent from Guangzhou said. However, there are also some worries. A parent from Shanxi said that she worried about what her son would do after school if both parents had no time to stay with him.
According to the guidelines, primary and junior high schools should offer after-school services, including homework tutoring, sports, arts, reading and interest groups. Now, nine cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Guangzhou, have followed the guidelines. Later, more cities across the country will follow them.
1. How does the writer introduce the topic at the beginning of the passage?| A．By showing facts with numbers. | B．By giving an example. |
| C．By asking different questions. | D．By explaining a difference. |
| A．English. | B．Swimming. | C．Music. | D．Reading. |
①Offer after-school services.
②Increase the number of subjects.
③Improve the quality of education.
④Cut down the amount of homework.
| A．①②③ | B．①②④ | C．①③④ | D．②③④ |
| A．Parents have different opinions about the new moves. |
| B．It’s important for parents to spend time staying with their children. |
| C．Parents think subject learning can improve children’s overall quality of life. |
| D．It is necessary for schools to provide many kinds of subjects for students. |
| A．Students in Grade 3 in Shanghai have no homework. |
| B．Junior high schools in Shenyang can’t offer after-school services. |
| C．Primary school students in Beijing should finish homework at school. |
| D．Primary school students in Guangzhou now have less homework. |
8 . Apps can teach you things or let you have fun. The following are some apps that you may use in your daily life.
 | Calm Calm is an app that can help you relax and sleep better. It has a lot of features to help you relax. For example, it has calming sounds like ocean waves and rain. |
 | RunKeeper Sometimes the hardest part of exercising is getting started. If you want to get started, you’d better try RunKeeper. It is a good app that can help you exercise. Are you ready to start? If so, Run Keeper will always be with you. |
 | Pocket If you don’t have enough time to read news stories or watch videos, Pocket can help you save all of them online. Then you can read them or watch them when you are free. You can view them offline, too. Besides, it can also help you organize the things you have saved. |
 | Kindle Do you love to read? Do you wish that you could bring all of your books with you everywhere you go? Kindle allows you to do so. This app has over a million free e-books to download. With Kindle, you can read anything from comic books and novels to magazines and newspapers. |
| A．Kindle. | B．Pocket. | C．RunKeeper. | D．Calm. |
| A．read news stories | B．watch videos |
| C．organize the things you have saved | D．relax and sleep better |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
9 . What will the school life be like in the future? Here are four students’ ideas.
My school in the future will have a big swimming pool and two soccer fields. There will also be a cinema, a gym and a shopping center. My school has none of these now. And I think there will be more pleasant things for students to do in the future. Richard, from the USA |
I think there will be a music room in my future school. There will also be a room where I can relax and play computer games and a big playground where I can play all kinds of games and have fun with my classmates. Sonia, from Italy |
I think we will have three days off every week in the future. Besides the weekend, it may be a Friday or a Monday. What fun! I also think school will start later, at about 10 a.m, and finish earlier, at about 4 p. m. Wu Xia from China |
In my future school, I think the teachers will give us more freedom. And we won’t have to wear school uniforms. I really don’t like wearing them. And I hope we can have more free time to choose the things we like to do. Hanna, from Australia |
1. Richard is a student from ________.
| A．the USA | B．Italy | C．China | D．Australia |
| A．a big swimming pool and two soccer fields |
| B．a cinema, a gym and a shopping center |
| C．a big swimming pool, two soccer fields and a music room |
| D．a music room, a big playground and a room where she can relax and play computer games |
| A．2. | B．3. | C．4. | D．5. |
| A．Richard’s school has a cinema, a gym and a shopping center now. |
| B．Sonia is a student from Australia. |
| C．Wu Xia thinks school will start later and finish earlier in the future. |
| D．Hanna likes wearing school uniforms |
| A．School today | B．Students and Schools |
| C．Future School Life | D．Different Schools in Different Countries |
10 . My name is Sam. I’m tall. I have a round face and small eyes. I have a good friend. His name is Tom. He is short. He has red hair and big eyes. His favourite doctor is Zhong Nanshan, and he thinks Zhong Nanshan is kind and great.
Our Chinese teacher is Miss Zhang. She is from Shanghai. She is 25 years old. She has long black hair. She is Tom’s favourite teacher.
1. Who has big eyes?| A．Sam. | B．Tom. | C．Zhong Nanshan. | D．Miss Zhang. |
| A．A singer. | B．A doctor. | C．A player. | D．A teacher. |
| A．China. | B．Canada. | C．England. | D．America. |
