1 . Sometimes you might feel it impossible to get on with your parents. But in fact, it isn’t as difficult as you think. Follow these ways, and then you’ll improve your relationship with them.
Spend more time with your parents. Your parents won’t always be around, so try to spend more time with them. This doesn’t mean just sitting in front of the TV together. Instead, you should do more activities with your parents together. By doing them, all of you will feel happy and relaxed.
Talk with your parents more often. In order to understand them better, you should talk with them more often. Try to learn more about their own childhood. In this way, you will understand them better.
Always listen to your parents. This may seem simple, but it’s often hard er than you think. Look at your parents when they are talking. Don’t interrupt them, and then speak clearly when replying to them.
Share your feelings with your parents. Sometimes your parents also want to learn more about you. Just do your best to open your heart to them. When possible, talk to them about something at school or what you really want to be in the future.
Make your parents feel proud (自豪的). There are always some ways to make your parents feel good about you. By work hard, you can do well at school or win prizes in games. They will think how lucky they are to have you and be more willing to talk about you in front of others.
1. Who is the passage written for?| A．Parents. | B．Children. | C．Old people. | D．Teachers. |
| A．By watching TV with them all the time. | B．By helping them to do chores. |
| C．By making up stories about them. | D．By spending more time with them. |
| A．注视 | B．关心 | C．打断 | D．失去 |
| A．Here are five different ways to help you get on with your parents. |
| B．It’s important to learn to share your feelings with your parents. |
| C．Your good grades or prizes usually make your parents feel proud. |
| D．To improve the relationship with your parents, you should do everything for them. |
| A．When to talk to your parents. |
| B．How to get on with your parents. |
| C．Why should we study hard at school. |
| D．How to make your parents feel proud. |
2 . Nearly all of us have an unpleasant habit, whether we realize it or not, and we want to get rid of it but didn’t know the proper ways. Here’s some advice on how to get rid of bad habits.
◆Make a list.
Write down all the reasons why you want to stop a certain behavior—how it’s hurting you and why getting rid of it. Look at that list often. That will be helpful.
◆Join other activities.
It’s wise of you to do something else when you want to stop your bad habits. If you get angry easily, for example, you can practice deep breathing or go for a walk.
◆Give yourself a reward.
Before you get rid of a bad habit, decide what you’ll do to celebrate it if you achieve your goal.
◆Keep off bad habits.
If you are fat and want to lose weight, keep junk food out of your house. If you are a heavy smoker, keep away from smoky bars or friends who like smoking.
◆Be patient.
Bad habits develop over years, so you probably won’t be able to get rid of them quickly. In fact, people often give up several times before being successful, so you should be patient.
◆Find support.
Don’t be afraid to ask for support from friends, family or other people who have the same bad habits as you. When you talk to others, they might be able to give you some advice or encouragement that you normally wouldn’t get from yourself.
1. How many suggestions are offered to help you get rid of bad habits?| A．3. | B．4. | C．5. | D．6. |
| A．Look at that list. | B．Practice deep breathing. | C．Go for a drink. | D．Go out to celebrate. |
| A．Action. | B．Research. | C．Reason. | D．Hobby. |
| A．Travel. | B．Technology. | C．Education. | D．Health and Life. |
| A．We all Have Bad Habits | B．How to Develop Bad Habits |
| C．Learn to Give up Bad Habits | D．Keep Bad Habits out of Your Life |
3 . The Earth we live in is facing a big challenge. The air and water have been polluted seriously. Resources (资源), specially water resources are also gradually becoming less and less. Therefore, let’s take action together to protect the beautiful blue planet.
What is World Water Day?
People, animals and plants all depend on water. This day is about encouraging people to take action to fight the world water crisis (危机). The main focus of this day is to help achieve the goal of having clean water for everyone by 2030.
The water crisis situation
Although over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, the freshwater resurces for human use are not abundant.
Many people in developing countries drink polluted water. One in four children’s deaths in the world is caused by lack ( 缺乏) of clean water. Over two billion people live in countries that don’t have a good enough water. It will be more dificult to find the safe drinking water, and half of the world’s population could be living in areas of water lack by 2025.
Infuence of water resources shortage
Because of the lack of water resources, it is hard to find the safe, clean water for drinking. People drink dirty water instead, which can cause deadly diseases. It has effect on the children’s education. Many children have to walk far every day just to collect water for their family. Without water, people can’t keep clean, so diseases spread.
How can we help?
Use less water in your daily life. For example, have shorter showers and turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. Tell your friends and family about the importance of protecting and saving water for the life of our planet. Support charities that help bring clean water to people who need it.
1. World Water Day focuses on the goal of ________.| A．providing clean water for everybody | B．the freshwater resources for human |
| C．water problems in developing countries | D．protecting the world water crisis |
| A．don’t drink enough water | B．drink clean water instead |
| C．have polluted water | D．collect water for their family |
| A．Clean. | B．Dirty. | C．Rich. | D．Poor. |
| A．To solve the pollution problem. | B．To introduce World Water Day. |
| C．To face a big challenge. | D．To protect the water resources. |
4 . Are you bored with your everyday life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18, because after that it’s too late!
Try at least one kind of team sports
Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can’t just think of yourself. You have to work well with others. Other advantages of team sports like football and baseball are that they keep you fit, and they are also interesting. Teams usually have great social life, too. You’ll go to lots of parties and make many friends.
Collect something
One of the best hobbies for young people under 18 is collecting things. You could collect stamps, or you could collect things that make you remember what you have done, like tickets for movies you’ve seen or letters from your friends. The best way to remember the things you collect is to have a special album (集物簿) to put your collection in and to write what each thing means to you.
Camp out in the garden
If you don’t have your own garden, find a friend who has one! You will need two or three friends, a small tent, sleeping bags and warm blankets. Take lots of food and drinks with you into the tent and play games until it gets dark, eat all your snacks. You will need a torch or something else, or you won’t be able to see all your snacks.
1. What should you do in team sports?| A．Just think of yourself. | B．Work well by yourself. |
| C．Work well with other people. | D．Play better than others. |
| A．Stamps or some albums. | B．Tents or sleeping bags. |
| C．Some snacks. | D．Stamps, tickets for movies or letters. |
| A．To have a special box. |
| B．To put them in an album and write their meanings. |
| C．To write down the prices. |
| D．To talk about these things with others. |
| A．Knives. | B．Bin. | C．Covers. | D．Basket. |
| A．Sports and Hobbies | B．Skills to Have in Life |
| C．Way to Cheer Yourself up in Everyday Life | D．Collecting Things in Life |
5 . Around 130 million books come out in the human history. A reader will read at most 6, 000 books in his life. Most of them won’t be so much fun or very unforgettable. Books are like people. We meet many but fall in love with a small part of them.
Maybe we will only remember about thirty books. They will be different for each of us, but they affect (影响) us in similar ways.
________ When we see a bird flying in the sky, we have a great feeling, but we may find it hard for us to use words to show our feelings and finally we just say, “That’s so nice.” However, a good writer can describe it wonderfully.
Great writers build bridges for us so that we can talk with each other. They depict the similar experiences of us, and show us what we can share with each other and how we can help each other.
Great writers also help us to feel. By reading a book, we meet someone. Probably she is very beautiful, young, smart but dying, and we feel sad about her pain (疼痛) and the unfairness (不公平) of the world. Or maybe she is poor but hard-working, and we find the spirit to face the difficulties in life through her story.
1. What do the first two paragraphs tell us?| A．A person should read as many books as possible. |
| B．A person should read at least 30 books in his life. |
| C．A person can read many books and remember all of them. |
| D．A person may read lots of books, but he only remembers some of them. |
| A．Books make us become great writers. |
| B．Books make us show our feelings better. |
| C．Books make us become smarter than others. |
| D．Books make us want to learn about lots of things. |
| A．保护 | B．描述 | C．隐藏 | D．训练 |
| A．①②③④/⑤ | B．①②/③④/⑤ | C．①②/③④⑤ | D．①/②③④⑤ |
| A．Why should we read books? | B．How can we choose good books? |
| C．How many books should we read? | D．Whose books are the best in the world? |
6 . What’s the best thing to eat on a summer day? Quite a few people would say ice-cream. Yes, eating ice-cream with some fruit is a great way to cool down. But think twice before you eat. If your body is hot from playing sports, it’s not the best time to eat ice-cream.
If you eat ice-cream when your body is hot, it may give your stomach some problems, and you can get diarrhea (腹泻). You can eat some ice-cream after you cool down a little or have some tea. Just try not to eat too much at a time.
After dinner is another time people shouldn’t eat or drink anything cold. Drink something hot after you eat, and your stomach will digest (消化) your food better. If you love fruit, summer is a great time for you. Go to the market and pick out the best fruit of the season. If you want to stay cool, oranges, bananas, pears and watermelons can help.
In summer, germs (细菌) grow very fast and make your food go bad quickly. Try hard to keep yourself and your home clean in summer. You should eat clean and fresh food. When you want to eat a cold dish, put some vinegar (醋) to kill the germs. If you can’t finish your food and want to eat it again next day, make sure you heat it enough to kill the germs in it. And when you put food in the fridge, make sure to keep the cooked food away from the uncooked food.
1. If you ________, you may get diarrhea.| A．eat too much food | B．eat ice-cream when your body is hot |
| C．eat some fruit after dinner | D．drink lots of hot tea after dinner |
| A．Fruit | B．Ice-cream | C．Uncooked food | D．Cold tea |
| A．Vinegar can kill germs. |
| B．Ice-cream can’t make people cool down. |
| C．Germs can stop food going bad quickly. |
| D．When you want to eat the food you can’t finish, you needn’t heat it. |
| A．How to Cool Down | B．Some Useful Fruit |
| C．Delicious Ice-cream | D．Eating Right in Summer |
7 . Everybody wants to succeed, but how can we be successful? We must keep working hard to achieve our goals and it always begins first with baby steps. Why do we call them baby steps?
Baby steps are the first steps we take as an act of faith (信念). Faith is the most important in taking baby steps. We see others stepping out and we want to show our ability to walk by following them. As we grow, we continue our development by taking extra (额外的) baby steps. Sometimes we fall; sometimes we fail. After that, all steps become an act of faith; we just become more practiced. If you say to yourself “I don’t want to make a fool of myself” or “I’d better wait until I’m good at this”, you’ll probably never take the baby steps towards your goals and end up lying in self-pity.
As a culture, we focus on results. We think about every risk that must be taken to reach our goals. There are few people who are excellent performers of any tasks the first time they try them. They practice their skills and use their talents through baby steps before they are ready to prove (证明) themselves to the whole world. So take those baby steps to reach the goals.
As your steps become a walk, become more experienced, your baby steps become a walk, then a jump, and finally a sprint. That’s how our baby steps lead us through the marathon (马拉松) of life.
1. What does the writer mainly discuss in the passage?| A．The cause of cultural differences. | B．The power of faith in our life. |
| C．The abilities to achieve success. | D．The importance of baby steps. |
| A．An aim. | B．Support. |
| C．Faith. | D．Practice. |
| A．We can’t expect to succeed without working hard. |
| B．Adults should learn from babies in dealing with hard tasks. |
| C．We must make full of our skills in order to succeed. |
| D．Baby steps are the first steps we take as an act of faith. |
| A．Long jump. | B．Sudden stop. |
| C．Hard climb. | D．Fast run. |
| A．Baby Steps | B．Life Goals |
| C．Practice Makes Perfect | D．How to Succeed |
8 . Life is like a journey. On the way, we have happiness and sadness. Sometimes it is full of regrets. It’s not difficult for anyone around you to tell his regrets. When we get older, we look back and wish that we had made better choices. How can we avoid future regrets?
Make better plans. If you start to do something, you’d better make a plan before doing it. The earlier, the better. You will know what comes first and what comes last. You’ll also know what you should do and what you shouldn’t do. If changes happen, you will have more time to deal with them. |
Live a more active life. You can go around more often. More outdoor activities can keep you relaxed and active. You also need to show your kindness to others. “Thank you” can bring a smile to someone’s face. Learn to say “sorry” and don’t be angry with others. |
Find the right friend. A friend can make your life colorful and he or she may break your life as well. So you need to think twice when you choose a friend. When you get into trouble, ask friends for help. A little help may get you good results. |
Never fear failure. Everybody fails, even the greatest person. We should not fear failure, because failure is not the end of the road. We must take failure as a chance to learn and improve ourselves. |
1. What should you do before you begin to do something?
| A．Make a plan. | B．Live a more active life. |
| C．Find the right friend. | D．Forget failure. |
| A．Good results. | B．More outdoor activities. |
| C．The right friends. | D．Future regrets. |
| A．Because failure is not the end of the road. |
| B．Because everyone fails. |
| C．Because failure is necessary. |
| D．Because the greatest person often fails. |
| A．Did the writer help us make better plans? |
| B．Did the writer teach us how to succeed? |
| C．Did the writer want us to live happily? |
| D．Did the writer teach us how to avoid future regrets? |
9 . We know health is important in everyone’s life. Here are some ways to make them easy to get.
★Eat a balanced diet. Eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, some grains (谷物) and a little meat.
★Exercise twice or three times a week.
★Get enough sleep. It is best to get eight hours sleep a day.
★Keep yourself busy. This is good because it stops you from having bad habits. To keep yourself busy, you can walk around the house, spend time with your pet, do sports, or have a hobby.
★Go out and make friends. Spend time and have fun with them. Talk with them, but try not to talk about anything bad. You should stay with the people who are healthy.
1. How often should you exercise if you want to get health?| A．Every day. | B．Twice a day. | C．Three times a month. | D．Twice or three times a week. |
| A．eating a balanced diet | B．exercising more |
| C．keeping yourself busy | D．walking around the house. |
| A．Eating habit | B．Playing sports | C．Making friends | D．How to get health |
10 . A lot of people like taking a trip with no plans (计划). They think it is very exciting and has more fun. But in fact, it is not good. Making vacation plans is very important.
First, a vacation plan can make sure that everything goes well. If you visit a place but you don’t book (预订) a hotel, you may have no place to stay at night.
Second, you have lots of things to take with you for a vacation. You need to plan what things you have to buy and what things you need to put in bags. For example, you want to visit one place, but when you arrive at the airport (机场), you forget to bring your plane ticket! You may be late for the plane.
Third, making a vacation plan can help you save a lot of money. No one wants to spend more money than they want to. If you surf the Internet before you go on a vacation, you may find some cheap plane tickets and hotel rooms.
Next time when you go on a vacation, try to write down some plans. They can help you have more fun during your vacation.
1. The writer thinks that taking a trip without plans is ________.| A．interesting | B．relaxing | C．bad | D．exciting |
| A．Bringing your plane ticket | B．Booking a cheap hotel room |
| C．Taking many things with you | D．Making a vacation plan |
| A．why we must make a vacation plan | B．it’s important to have more fun |
| C．how we can make a vacation plan | D．what we must take during the vacation |
