1 . English schools begin in September after a long summer holiday. There are two terms in a school year. The first term is from September to January, and the second term is from February to June. Most English children begin to go to school when they are five years old. When they finish high school, they are seventeen or eighteen years old.
High school students take only five or six subjects each term. They go to the same class every day, and they have homework for every class. After class, they do a lot of interesting things. After high school, many students go to college (大学). They usually have to pay (付) a lot of money. So they have to work after class to get money for their studies.
1. In England, summer holidays begin in _______.| A．September | B．January | C．February | D．July |
| A．five | B．seven | C．seventeen | D．eighteen |
| A．do housework | B．go to work | C．play sports | D．do interesting things |
| A．helping their parents | B．getting money for their studies |
| C．helping others | D．learning some useful things |
| A．cities | B．work | C．college | D．towns |
It’s good for everyone to keep healthy every day. Here are some things you can do to be healthy.
Get up early and go to bed early. Don’t watch TV or play computer games too late in the evening. You should (应该) go to bed before ten o’clock and then get up at about six in the morning.
Eat healthy food. It’s good to eat fruit and vegetables every day, because the healthy food is good for your health. And don’t forget to drink more water every day. Ice-cream and hamburgers taste good, but they can make you be fat. So don’t eat them too much. And you must eat a healthy breakfast on time every morning.
Do some sports every day. Don’t say that you are always busy, and have no time to play sports. That’s just an excuse (借口). In the morning, you can run for 20 minutes. After work, you can play ball games with your friends. Even (甚至) in the evening, you can take a walk. When you’re free, just do sports!
Good friends make you happy. They can tell you how to be healthy, too. And you can do sports with your friends. So make some good friends!
1. How many good ways (方法) are there to keep healthy?2. Why should we eat fruit and vegetables every day?
3. Can you go to school if (如果) you don’t have breakfast?
4. What should you do when you are free?
5. How can good friends make you feel?
3 . Trees are important and they can help us in many ways. However, some of them are in danger and need to be taken care of as much as possible. There are some ways to save trees.
Use paper wisely. We can save trees by using paper in a right way. What can we do? Use both sides of paper when doing homework. Borrow books to read when you needn’t buy them. Never throw old books away, but be kind to donate them to others who need them. In place of paper towels, use cloth towels.
Plant trees. To save trees, it’s a great idea to plant them. Spring is the best season to plant trees. If everyone around us does it, millions of trees will appear and make our world become green and beautiful.
Tell people to understand the importance of trees and help save trees. Try to write letters to government official(官员) and persuade(劝) them to use as little paper as they can.
1. How many ways are there to use paper wisely?| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．lead | B．sell | C．throw | D．give |
| A．All trees on the Earth are in danger. | B．Trees can make our world beautiful. |
| C．To save trees, never buy books. | D．Most people can’t understand trees. |
| A．why to save trees | B．how to save trees |
| C．where to find trees | D．when to plant trees |
My name is Tony. Here is my design for my dream home. It is a house made of glass and it has a garden. It is not far from the sea.
It is a smart house with a library. There are one thousand books in it! There is a big 3D TV in the living room. How cool it is to watch my favorite film on it! Moreover, there is one thing special: My house can keep itself clean! I don’t need to do housework any more.
The house is a green house. There is a garden in front of the house. Many flowers are in it. And a small lake is in the garden too. At weekends I can watch fish swim around by the lake.
There is also a mini airport (机场) in it so I can fly to other places in my plane if I want to go shopping or do some other things.
Does the house sound cool? Maybe in 20 years my dream will come true.
1. Where is the dream home?2. What is special about the dream home?
3. What can Tony do by the lake?
4. How can Tony go to other places?
5. What is this article mainly about?
5 . With the help of the Internet, shopping is not a difficult job. Just click your mouse to choose the goods（货物）you like, and the shopping is finished. You needn’t walk out of the room. It seems easy and quick. But there’s a trap（陷阱）online sometimes. If you are careless, it will bring you some trouble. You may find the colour of the products is different from what you want, or the size is too small or too big. And the products may not be good. The clothes you buy may be dirty or out of shape. And you have to pay for the delivery charge（运费）if you don’t want them any more. If you want to be different, you’d better not buy clothes online. Once you put on the clothes you buy online and go out, you will find many people wear the same clothes in the street. You may not be happy then.
1. Why is shopping online easy and quick?| A．Because the shopper will send the products to you. |
| B．Because the products are small and easy to carry. |
| C．Because you can’t buy lots of things online. |
| D．Because you needn’t walk out to buy things. |
| A．very careful | B．not careful | C．very helpful | D．not helpful |
| A．size | B．price | C．number | D．place |
| A．shoes | B．mobile phones | C．clothes | D．trousers |
| A．The disadvantages of online shopping. | B．The advantages of online shopping. |
| C．The clothes we can buy online. | D．The ways of doing shopping. |
Do you love street food? I’m sure you do! What makes the food sweet? Sugar, of course! Do you know anything about sugar? Most sugar comes from sugar cane (甘蔗). This kind of plant is very tall.
How do we make sugar from sugar cane?
First, farmers cut the top of the plant and put part of the plant in the earth. This will grow into more sugar cane.
Next, workers make the sugar cane into big machines. One machine washes the cane. One machine cuts and turns the cane over and over. And one machine gets the sweet juice from the cane.
Then, workers make the juice hot and it becomes thick (浓稠的). The thick juice is called syrup (糖浆). Workers put the syrup into the crystallization tank (结晶罐). It turns to crystals (晶体). We need one more machine to dry the crystals. Now we have sugar.
Sugar can be brown or white. It can also be in different sizes. Then the sugar can go to the sweet factory (工厂). There workers use it to make sweets.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。（每小题答案不超过六个单词）
1. Where do most sugar come from?
2. What is the thick juice called?
3. How many machines do workers need to make sugar?
4. Is sugar in the same size?
5. Why do people send the sugar to the sweet factory?
7 . It’s December in the north of China. It’s snowy and really cold. You can see many children playing with snow. Look! Some of them are making snowmen. Some are skating on the river, because the water in the river freezes（结冰）. It’s a white world. How beautiful! But in Australia, the weather is hot in December. Jane and her family are swimming in the sea. They are having a good time. Jim and his friends are playing soccer near the sea. The wind near the sea is really cool to them. But in December we can’t do that in China. That’s because the seasons（季节）in China and Australia are opposite（相反的）in a year.
根据短文内容, 回答下列问题。
1. How is the weather in the north of China in December?
2. Why can some Chinese children skate on the river?
3. Where is the weather hot in December?
4. Who are swimming in the sea?
5. What are Jim and his friends doing near the sea?
8 . Beep! Beep! Barcode (条形码) makes it faster and easier to buy things in stores. This year, it is 50 years old!
On a Sunday afternoon in 1971, IBM engineer George Laurer thought of a code that could be printed on food labels(商标). Later it developed into the Universal Product Code, which was used by many grocery companies starting in 1973, according to The New York Times. Before this, cashiers (收银员) had to ring up prices by hand.
Today, barcodes are scanned over 6 billion times every day and used by 2 million companies worldwide. What information does a barcode hold? Where the product comes from, where it has been, its price... you name it. It can also help stores keep track of(追踪) their products. For example, if there are 10 boxes of milk and a customer buys one, it will be recorded so that the store owner knows there are nine boxes left. In the 1980s, libraries started using barcodes to keep track of books in this way.
The next generation of barcodes, such as QRcodes, can hold more information. They can tell customers if product has allergens (过敏原) or if it is organic (有机的). This provides customers with a greater level of trust in the products they buy.
1. How old is the barcode?2. How did the cashiers ring up prices before 1973?
3. Why did libraries start using barcodes?
4. What can the next generation of barcodes tell customers?
5. What does the passage mainly tell us?
There are many kinds of pollution on the earth: such as air pollution, land (土地) pollution and ①w________ pollution. What should we do to save the earth?
First, everyone should help to keep the air clean. Polluted air is bad for our physical health. So we must stop people and factories from polluting the air.
Second, we should not make too much rubbish. It needs more areas, so there will not be enough space for people to live. The land will then be polluted and fewer plants can grow.
Third, we should keep the sea and rivers clean. 鱼不能在污染的水里存活, and it may be ②i________ for us to enjoy so much seafood or swim happily in the sea in the future.
To make the earth a better place, everyone should learn to love our planet from now on. And everyone should play a part in saving the earth.
1. 根据首字母提示填单词，完成短文。①
2. 把文中画线句子翻译成英语。
3. What will happen if the land is polluted?
4. Why should we keep the air clean?
5. 给文章拟一个合适的英文标题。
10 . Why do people cry? Scientists say the body produces（产生）tears（眼泪）because it needs them. One kind of tears is for the eye, and the other is for the heart. They both work as cleaners. If something else like dust（灰尘）gets into your eye, tears also come into the eye to clean it out. If you are hurt by something, your strong feelings produce some poisonous chemicals（毒素）in your body, and at the same time, tears come out with them. If tears don’t help clean out these poisonous chemicals, they will do harm to the heart.
In the United States, men have heart problems more often than women do. Doctors say heart problems have something to do with the pressure（压力）of living and working now. Perhaps men have more of these illnesses because they do not cry enough. They need to cry more.
In fact, you can find many ways of reducing（减少）the pressure to keep fit. Crying is a natural（自然的）and physical（身体的）one.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. How many kinds of tears does the body usually produce?
2. What do tears do when dust gets into your eye?
3. Who has more heart problems, men or women?
4. Why do men have more heart illnesses?
5. Will you cry if you fail the exam? Why or why not?
