1 . The earth is a ①['bjuːtɪfl] place. There are forests and rivers, mountains and fields. Some places are very hot, and some are very cold. There are many different plants. Some are large. Some are small. All the plants need sunshine and water. ②There are different animals on the earth. Some live on the land. Some fly in the sky. Some live under the water. There are also many people like you and me on the earth. The Earth provides us with air, water and food. ③It is our home.
But there is a lot of pollution today. We burn (燃烧) things to make energy (能量). This pollutes (污染) the air. We put the rubbish into the sea and under the ground. ④This may pollute the earth and kill animals and plants. We must stop doing these things. It is ⑤i________ for us to protect the earth for our future.
1. 词汇：根据音标['bjuːtɪfl]在①处填入正确的单词2. 对②处句子的划线部分进行提问
3. 根据文章内容回答问题：Are there any animals under the water?
4. 根据上文判断③处It指代什么：
5. 将④处的句子翻译成汉语。
Every April, there is a special day when people remember and honor their ancestors. It is called Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Qingming Festival. This year, the day falls on April 4th.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival. It began over 2000 years ago. A well-known poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu describes the day, “(1) Rains fall heavily as Qingming comes, and passersby with lowered spirits go.”
Tomb-Sweeping Day (2)_______ a public holiday on the Chinese mainland since 2008. On this day, families bring flowers, food and wine to their ancestors’ tombs. They put food like cakes and fruits in front of the tombs. After that, they sweep the dirt off the tombs and remember their dead family members.
Why do Chinese people do this? That’s because people think that visiting tombs during Qingming Festival is to show respect to their dead family members.
However, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only about this. During that time, the weather is getting warmer. So Tomb-Sweeping Day also means finally being able to garden and enjoying outdoor activities in China. Families often get together for outings or to fly kites at this time.
1. When did Tomb-Sweeping Day begin?2. 翻译(1)处画线句。
3. 请在(2)处空格处填入一个适当的词让句意完整。
4. Why do people visit tombs during Qingming Festival?
5. What do your family often do during Qingming Festival besides visiting tombs?
3 . Most people drink tea in the world. But tea does not mean the same thing to different people. In different countries, people have different ideas about drinking tea.
In China, for example, tea is often offered when people get together. Chinese people drink it at home or in tea houses at any time of the day. They often use hot water to boil（煮沸）tea leaves.
Tea is also important in other Asian countries. People in these countries have a special way of offering tea. They hold a tea ceremony（仪式）in their houses when important guests come. It is very old and full of meaning. Everything must be done in a special way in the ceremony. There is even a special room for it in their houses.
In the United States,people usually drink tea at breakfast or they drink it after meals. Americans usually use tea bags to make tea. This way is faster and easier than the way of making tea in the teapots. In summer, most Americans drink iced tea. They like to put some ice in their tea.
1. What do Chinese people often use to boil tea leaves?（根据短文内容，简要回答问题）
2. Chinese people drink it at home
（根据短文内容，填入恰当的词）
3. In the United States, people have a special way of offering tea.(判断正误T/F)
4. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.（请把文中画线句子译成汉语）
5. Give a proper title to the passage.（请给短文拟一个恰当的标题）
4 . In ancient times, people usually wrote from right to left in vertical columns(竖列). But now, we write from left to right in horizontal (横行). Why did this change? (A)This has to do with the writing tools and habits that people had at that time.
Before paper was created, people wrote on bamboos. They wrote from top to bottom on one piece and then another. These bamboos were connected together into one long passage and rolled up. People usually held it with their right hand and opened it with their left hand. Therefore, it is more convenient to start writing from the right-hand side.
In 1917, linguist(语言学家) Qian Xuantong wrote a letter to the New Culture Movement leader Chen Duxiu. He suggested writing Chinese from left to right. He said that if we used our right hands to write, it would be easier to begin from the left and more comfortable to read. (B)然而，他的想法并没有被广泛接受.
In the early 1950s, famous overseas Chinese businessman Chen Jiageng and Chinese writer Guo Moruo raised this advice again. They thought that the area seen from left to right was much wider than the area seen from up to down. In this way, writing and reading sideways will reduce eye fatigue(疲劳).
Gradually, newspapers, magazines and books were printed in horizontal rows. And people began writing from left to right instead of writing from right to left. Now people have been used to writing from left to right in rows.
1. 将划线部分(A)句译为汉语。2. Before paper was invented, people wrote on
3. 将划线部分(B)句译为英语。
4. Who first suggested writing Chinese from left to right?
5. Which is the best title of the passage?
| A．The habits and tools of writing in the ancient times. |
| B．The changing of writing from ancient times to the present. |
| C．The history of writing from left to right in horizontal. |
| D．The reason of writing from vertical columns to horizontal. |
5 . Born in the 2000s, what do you think of your generation(一代人)? Young, creative, connected, global, smart, maybe good-looking? But what do other people think about your generation?
Some adults worry that you’re more interested in the phone than the world around you. They see you as the “face-down generation” and wonder how you will deal with school, friends, and family.（A）当今的青少年忙于发信息、拍照片。 Are they serious enough to become successful in real life-or “TRL”, as you would say?
Other adults worry that today’s youth are spoiled(溺爱) and don’t want to face the challenges of adult life. Many children born in the 1990s and 2000s were raised by “helicopter parents” who were always there to do everything for them.（B）So today’s young people seem to prefer to live like teenagers even when they are 30 years old.
Does the face-down generation need a heads-up? Well, probably not. The fact is that many of today’s teenagers are better educated and more creative than past generations. They also seem to be willing to become leaders. More young people than ever volunteer to serve their communities. There are also brave young people such as Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for pushing girls’ rights to go to school.
So if you are one of them born in the 2000s, there’s reason to be hopeful about the future. Things are looking up for the face-down generation.
1. Mary was born in 2006, is she a member of the “face-down generation”?2. What do adults worry about today’s youth according to the passage?（列举两点即可）
3. 请将（A）处划线部分翻译成英语。
4. 请将（B）处划线部分翻译成汉语。
5. What do you think of your generation?（Your own opinion）
6 . YuJie is a 24-year-old girl from Beijing (A) 她每个月花大约3000元买东西, but she hardly（几乎不）goes to a shopping center. “Nobody needs a shopping center because we have the Internet. I can almost buy everything in my life on Taobao,” said Yu. Most online shoppers are students or white-collar workers. More women shop online than men. Clothing and home-use products are popular.
Online shoppers like November 11, the Singles’ Day shopping spree（狂欢）. In the past, it was just a day for the single（单身）, However, it is the biggest online shopping day in China now. Now there is a new way about online shopping called (B) the second kill. It will cost you very little money to buy expensive goods in short time.
Online shopping has many advantages. But sometimes when we get the product, it doesn’t look like what we think. So when you shop online, remember the following points: to begin with, (C) before buying, choose the products carefully and compare the prices of the same product. What’s more, shop on a secure PC（安全的个人计算机）. Third, when you find problems with the products, tell the shop worker quickly.
1. 将（A）处划线句子翻译成英语。2. Why does Yu Jie hardly go to a shopping center to buy things?
3. （B）处划线短语 “the second kill” means _________ in the passage.
| A．二次购买 | B．微商 | C．秒杀 | D．二次甩卖 |
5. Do you often go shopping online? Why?
Have you ever heard that a road goes through our building? In fact, there’s such a special light railway track in the city of Chongqing. It has been built through a hole in a 19-storey building.
Chongqing is a city in the southwest of China. (A)它是中国西南部四大城市之一。It lies along the banks of the Yangtze River. It’s 31,000 square miles in size but its population is up to 49 million.
The city is called the Mountain City because it lies around forests and hills. So we can know Chongqing is such a crowded city. It’s a great challenge for the city planners to make room for roads and railway lines. To avoid accidents they came up with the creative method.
A special railway station was built into the block of houses and set into the sixth to eighth floors. People can take Chongqing Rail Transit No.2 at their own Liziba Station.(B)You may think the noise from the station trouble the people living there. In fact, even though they live in rooms closest to the busy train station, they just can hear the sound like the noise from a dishwasher. It’s (C)_______ that the large noise from trains has been muffled（使降低）a lot.
Thanks to the way, the people don’t have to move. And the whole building didn’t have to be taken down to make way for the train tracks.
1. 根据短文内容，回答下面的问题。Why is the light railway track special in Chongqing?
2. 请将（A）处画线句子译成英语。
3. 将（B）处画线句子译成汉语。
4. 在（C）处填入一个恰当的词，使句意完整。
5. What’s the best title of the passage?（不超过7个词）
8 . Xi’an celebrated the first-ever China Hanfu Day on April 18. A There were shows which were held by people wearing traditional Chinese clothing—Hanfu. Hanfu fans from all over China gathered there to take photos and put them online for a Hanfu photo competition which ①_____ (持续) until May 18.
China Hanfu Day is on the third day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which is said to be the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. In ancient China, this day was also called Shangsi Festival (上巳节). B
Hanfu is the traditional clothing of the Han people who lived in China before the Qing Dynasty. It has a history of about 3,000 years. C And it has changed greatly so far. However, some of its main characteristics remain. For example, there are two parts that overlap (交叠) on the front, which is called “jiaoling”. Another main characteristic of Hanfu is that it usually uses ribbons (系带) instead of buttons (纽扣).
China is becoming a ②_____ (lead) country in the world, so the Chinese people feel more confident about Chinese traditional culture than ever before. D
根据短文完成下列各项任务。
任务一
1. A Hanfu has two parts that overlap on the front, which is called “jiaoling”. Picture ________ gives the best description.
A． | B． | C． | D． |
3. 段落三中划线部分单词的汉语意思是________。
| A．面料 | B．体系 | C．配饰 | D．特点 |
任务二
4. 根据①处括号内所给汉语在横线填入一词。
5. 用②处括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
9 . To be successful, do volunteer first
Perhaps you’ve walked past homeless people who are living on the streets. Or maybe you’ve come across stray dogs (流浪狗) and wished you could give them a home. So what can you do to help these people and animals? The answer is volunteering. Volunteering means spending some of your free time, your energy or your talent in helping others.
Dec.5 is International Volunteer Day. The United Nations (联合国) announced the special day in 1985. It calls for more and more people around the world to volunteer to help those in need.
People volunteer to help others in many ways. (A) free, away, traditional, to, give, your, is, time, the, way. Volunteers visit homes of old people and orphans (孤儿). Compared to traditional volunteering, skill-based (以技能为基础的) volunteering asks for certain professional knowledge or special training. For example, in China many children volunteer to become narrators in museums. They receive history and communication lessons before so that they can tell the stories behind a masterpiece (名作) to visitors. Besides, a person can volunteer to protect the environment, such as volunteering to plant trees and clear rubbish.
Although volunteering takes up our time, it shows our care for others. (B) When people benefit from your help, you will find your life becomes more meaningful and happier.
1. What do volunteers mean?Volunteers are those people
2. 将(A)处的单词连成一个陈述句。
3. What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “narrator”?
4. 将(B)处划线句子翻译成汉语
5. What volunteer work can you do?（至少写出2条）
10 . Have you heard of the word “hygge? It’s a Danish（丹麦的）word as well as a Danish lifestyle. There is no English word for the exact meaning of “hygge”, according to Oxford Dictionaries. It might be translated to coziness（惬意）in English, but it is more than that.
Enjoying beautiful music or having a movie night is hygge Lighting candles or making real tea in china cups—that’s hygge too. There’s nothing more hygge than sitting around a table with your family or friends, discussing the big and small things in life. (A)This lifestyle focuses on the idea of making simple daily activities special or meaningful.
(B)is, winter, a, Danish, for, people, hygge, the, fighting, way, of, cold. But it doesn’t have to be the only thing to do in the cold season. In Denmark, there can be up to 17 hours of darkness per day in winter, and the average temperature is around 0℃. As a result, people spend plenty of time indoors and focus on home entertaining.
Now the idea of hygee is travelling abroad and becoming a trend in some parts of the world too. In the UK and the US, there are more and more hygge-themed cookbooks and lifestyle guides, as well as Danish restaurants, cafes and bars. “The rest of the world seems to be slowly waking up to what Danes have been wise to for ages.” Helen Russell, author of The Year of Living Danishly, said.
1. 将（A）处句子翻译成汉语。2. 将（B）处词汇连成一个完整的句子。
3. 判断正（T）误（F）
According to Helen Russell, people in many countries have accepted the Danish lifestyle.
4. List one example of hygge in your life.（列出一个你生活中有关hygge的例子，不得引用原文）
5. 请给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题。（不超过7个词）
