You may know well what you are supposed to do or not to do in your own country. But do you know the customs in other countries? Here are some manners you should pay attention to.
Taking off your shoes or not
It's bad manners to take off your shoes at the door of a London dinner party. But in Asia if you don't take off your shoes before entering a home, you are not polite enough.
What you should do instead: If you see shoes at the door, take off your shoes. If not, keep the shoes on.
Talking over dinner
In some countries, like Japan, don't start talking while everyone else is having dinner. You'll meet with silence—not because your group is unfriendly, but because mealtime is for eating, not talking. Also don't talk in places like churches (教堂) in Europe.
What you should do instead: Keep quiet!
Knowing your right from your left
Some cultures in Africa and the Middle East still like to eat in traditional ways—using their hands. When people eat in this way, food is often offered for several people to share at the same time. That is why it's important to wash your hands before eating. While eating, you have to follow the rule: Eat using your right hand, and use your left hand to do other things.
What you should do instead: Follow the others and use your right hand. Even left-handed children in these cultures are taught to eat with their right hands. If you really can't, explain yourself to others before you eat.
1. How many manners are mentioned in the passage?2. What are you supposed to do if you see shoes at the door?
3. How can you behave well when having dinner in Japan?
4. There are some table manners in Chinese culture. Please give an example.
2 . Money makes the world go around, yet the best things in life are free. A penny saved is a penny earned, but you get what you pay for. You probably have your own ideas about spending money. Now is a great time to learn how to spend money wisely.
When you are considering buying something you want, run through this checklist first.
How much do you really want it?
Seeing a $25 gum ball (口香糖球) machine, Ben wanted it. But after thinking about it, he decided that it would be exciting only for a day or two. “Besides, it’s not possible for me to chew that much gum,” he said wisely.
Do you still want it a week later?
If the thing passes the “really wanting-it” test, try to wait for some time to see how strong the desire (欲望) is. This strategy works for grown-ups, too!
How will you pay for it?
After the first two steps, Ben found he really wanted a toy pirate ship (海盗船), but it cost $50. He had $22 in his pocket and gets $1.50 a week to spend. His mother helped him work out how many weeks he would need to save to get the ship: 19.
Are there ways to earn the money?
Ben agreed to wash the downstairs windows at a dollar each. So he got $10 for himself and sparkling (闪亮的) sunlight for the rest of the family.
Can you get it cheaper?
After deciding to buy it, it is necessary for you to look for less expensive ways to buy it: search for what you want on the internet or in shops and flea markets (跳蚤市场). Sometimes you can find the same thing at a much lower price. If these suggestions work well, they can save you a lot of money. You will be a really smart shopper.
Answer the following questions according to the passage above. (根据上面的短文内容，回答下列问题。)
1. Did Ben finally buy the gum ball machine? Why or why not?2. Why did Ben agree to wash the downstairs windows?
3. Where can you search for what you want if you want to buy something?
4. What is the passage mainly talk about?
3 . 亲爱的同学们，本学期我们学习了如何制作食物，并且知晓了如何按照指示语做事情。请根据下面的提示和要求，完成下面的strawberry smoothie (奶昔) 的制作。
A) Look at the pictures and match with the right phrases.
| A. cut the banana in slices B. clean the strawberries C. add some ice cubes (块) into the mixture D. enjoy the delicious smoothie E. put all the ingredients into the blender |
B) The following recipe (食谱) got dirty and in the wrong order, but your mother needs it to make the strawberry smoothie. Please write it in the right order for her.
Cold air swept across the north part of China in the first week of November. At the same time, a global (全球的) meeting on climate (气候) change was held in Scotland. There, leaders around the world tried to control global warming.
Why are we experiencing such a cold winter on a warming planet? The cold winter and global warming, two opposite facts, are not contradictory (对立的).
Global warming has changed Earth’s air condition and the weather. For example, in October, Li Nina affected China. It was caused by strong winds from the Pacific Ocean.
Another reason for the cold weather is the warming Arctic. It’s warming almost three times as fast as any other places on Earth.
Will the earth be much colder? It’s reported that a cold winter is likely. Northern China will probably see more snow, and southern China will see less rain.
1. Why did leaders hold a global meeting on climate change in Scotland?2. What caused Li Nina according to Paragraph 3?
3. What can you do to stop the global warming?
5 . Life in the future will be very different.
Houses will be greener because home appliances (电器) in the houses will use soar energy (太阳能). Fridges will talk to people and tell them what temperature to keep the food at and they will tell people when there isn’t enough food or drink.
Everyone will have robots at home. ________ For example, they will clean, they will go shopping when the fridge tells them to, they will help look after the children, they will drive parents to their place of work.
Every person in a house will own a computer. Students won’t go to school any more. Instead they will stay at home with a virtual (虚拟的) teacher. They will have lessons on their computers every day, including (包括) weekends.
I think people will have more free time. They will travel more, but they won’t travel by car. Everyone will use electric buses and trains with robot drivers. I think people will go on holiday to the moon in space rockets. People also will travel to other planets if they’re very rich. Space traveling will be the most popular kind of holiday in the future.
1. Choose the best sentence to fill in the blank “________” in Paragraph 3.| A．The robots will finally take people’s place on earth. |
| B．They will never know what will happen in the future. |
| C．Children can be good friends with the robots at home. |
| D．House robots will do lots of different things around the house. |
3. What will tell people when there isn’t enough food or drink?
4. Who will teach the students in the future?
5. 请将文中划线句子翻译成中文。
British people don’t like to say “no”, because they think it is rude. But this can be a problem for people from other countries. When you learn English, you learn to say things like “Yes, please.” and “No, thank you.” when somebody asks you if you want something. But real life is not always so easy.
When you give something to British people, they often say, “I’m all right, thanks.” When they say this, they mean that they already have everything they need, so it is a way to say no. Unluckily, saying “all right” is also a way to say yes. The same phrase (短语) can be used in different ways to mean both yes and no!
Manjit works in a tourist shop. “British people are difficult customers (顾客),” he said. “If you give something to them, they say, ‘Maybe later’ even when they plan never to buy it.”
Saying yes is not much better, said Manjit. “When they want to buy something, they sometimes don’t say yes. They say, ‘Sure!’ or ‘Why not?’ It’s so confusing (令人困惑的)!”
1. Do British people like to say “no”? Why or why not?2. What do British people usually say when they don’t want something?
3. What might a British man mean by saying “Maybe later” to a seller?
With the development of economics (经济), the problem of the left-behind children has become a serious social problem. More and more people have realized we should do something to help them.
The biggest problem is that the children are all hungry for the love from their parents. Many of them can just get a call or a letter from their parents half a year, a year or even several years. So some children can’t remember what their parents look like. When they meet their own troubles, they have no one to talk with. Nobody gives them enough care.
Because of being too far away from their parents, the left-behind children’s study is the second biggest problem. From a survey about their study, only two percent of the children get good results while ten percent of them are common and eighty-eight percent of them are poor. What a pity!
There are also many other problems of the left-behind children, such as having no ability to protect themselves, unhealthy lifestyles, spending too much pocket money and too much time on the Internet and so on.
In a word, to solve all the problems of the left-behind children needs the government, families and schools to try their best together.
1. What is the most serious problem of the left-behind children according to the passage?2. What does “left- behind children” mean in Chinese?
3. According to the passage, list at least two problems the left-behind children have.
4. Find the sentence with the similar meaning as “The left-behind children are far from their parents, so their study is the second most serious trouble” from the passage.
Have you ever asked yourself this question, “Which books I need to read? Fiction or Non-Fiction?” To help you answer this question, I would like to explain the differences between the two kinds of books.
A fiction book is something not happened in real life. It can be a novel, a fairy tale, a short story or a play. Fiction writers are usually good at imagining. For example, they always try to tell you something through a story; they make readers think about their ideas. They usually write about love, family or life in their books. When you read fiction, you see the world through a character’s eyes. Looking at the world from a different way helps you get opinions about things around you.
Non-fiction books usually talk about a truth or an opinion about real things. It mainly includes informational books, biographies (传记), research, or history. Non-fiction helps readers get knowledge (知识) about the world. This knowledge is helpful for reading fiction books. Also, reading non-fiction helps readers understand problems and find ways to solve them. You can also learn useful lessons from successful people in the book.
①Reading is a very good habit. ②Both kinds of books help you learn more about yourself and the world. They bring you a lot of happiness.
1. What do fiction writers usually write about in their books?2. What else can we know from the passage?
3. Which books do you want to read, fiction books or non-fiction books? Give your reasons.
4. 请将文中下划线句子①翻译成中文。
5. 请将文中下划线句子②翻译成中文。
9 . Hi! I’m Tina Smith and I’m thirteen years old. I live in Quebec with my parents, two little brothers, Peter and Mike, and a clever dog Blacky.
The city we live in is really beautiful. In winter it often snows and you can see the snow in the streets and on the houses. When the temperature（气温）is lower than thirty-five degrees（度数）below zero we don’t go to school but stay at home. It is very, very cold! Sometimes there are heavy snowstorms and you can’t see anything. There are often very cold winds and it is difficult to stay in the streets for a long time. That’s why we wear warm coats, hats and scarves not to freeze（冻结）.
I like winter when the weather isn’t very cold. Then we go outdoors, make snowmen, play snowballs, skate or ski. But sometimes I hope to live in a warm country.
任务—根据短文回答下面问题。
1. How many people are there in Tina’s family?
2. When do the students in Quebec have to stay at home?
3. Why can’t people sometimes see anything in winter?
任务二：划线句子翻译成中文。
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10 . Amazing China(《厉害了，我的国》)is a 90-minute documentary. It records the country’s great developments over the past seven years. The film hit China’s big screen on March 2,2018 and it soon became the country’s most popular documentary.
Amazing China introduces some of the most important developments that China has made since 2012. In the documentary, we can see the world’s largest radio telescope FAST. It took China five years, from 2011 to 2016, to build the telescope in the mountains of Guizhou Province. People called it Tianyan, which means “the eye of heaven” in Chinese. The documentary also shows us the world’s largest maritime drilling rig Blue Whale 2, and the development of 5G mobile technology.
Amazing China also records the stories of normal people, such as engineers who do building work, grass-roots officials who help poor people become rich, and workers who try to make use of new technology in their factories.
“This documentary not only shows what China has achieved,but also tells us about the hard-working people who made these achievements,” said Li Jianwen, a moviegoer in Qingdao, Shandong Province.
1. What is Amazing China mainly about?| A．The changes of people’s life. |
| B．China’s great developments. |
| C．The development of documentaries. |
| D．A new film of China. |
| A．A radio telescope. | B．A maritime drilling rig. |
| C．A 5G mobile. | D．A spaceship. |
| A．Amazing China was the most popular documentary in China in2018. |
| B．Blue Whale 2 is in Guizhou Province. |
| C．The people in the film are not hard-working. |
| D．Li Jianwen is proud of our country’s achievements. |
