1 . On October 16th, a piece of news attracted a heated discussion on the Internet. An untied big black dog suddenly bit(咬) a 2-year-old girl in Chengdu. Although the mother and a brave woman cleaner tried so hard to protect the little girl, it still caused serious injury(伤害) on that poor girl. Actually, one man guard was nearby but didn’t give a hand on that day.
After it happened, some animal experts said that dog owners should pass a test. This would mean that if a person wanted a pet, they would have to study how to best care for, train and control a dog. Some people believe that training owners properly, as well as their dogs, can help prevent dog aggression(预防攻击). This way, it can better protect little kids away from crazy dogs. Others say that dog owner tests are unnecessary and it would be too difficult to make the dog owners clear about the tests. What’s more, cats and other pets also fight and cause trouble, so why is it only for dogs?
As far as I know, life is equal both for humans and animals. What is truly important is that both sides shouldn’t hurt each other or even cause death. If so, it is terrible, isn’t it?
1. A ________ helped the mother to fight against the dog.| A．man cleaner | B．woman cleaner | C．man guard | D．woman guard |
| A．saving a kid | B．preparing a test | C．passing a test | D．saving a dog |
| A．an untied dog bit the mother and caused serious injury |
| B．all the people agree that dog owners should pass the test |
| C．some think that the tests for dog owners are not necessary |
| D．the test has nothing to do with the dog owners |
| A．serious | B．surprising | C．funny | D．happy |
These days, electric cars are becoming more popular than gas-powered cars（燃油车）. But according to a Research Center, more than half of the U.S. adults don’t want to stop using gas-powered cars. They say electric cars are expensive and charging（充电）them is a problem. We asked some younger people about their ideas.
Electric cars are better for the environment. Some people think electric cars are expensive. But their prices are coming down. Anyway, I think we’re going to run out of gas at some point. This will make electric cars a necessity（必需品）. Finally, many electric cars are smaller and easier to park.
—Henry, 17
I don’t think all cars should be electric. First of all, charging stations are less common than gas stations. This makes electric cars a lot less convenient for long trips. Electric cars are also more expensive than gas-powered cars.
—George, 18
I think we should all have electric cars. This is good for the environment and allows us to breathe better. Cleaner air also means there will be fewer animals dying. Some electric cars are more expensive. But they need less maintenance（维护）than gas-powered cars.
—Cathy, 18
1. How many U. S. adults didn’t plan to stop using gas-powered cars?| A．Some. | B．A half. | C．More than half. | D．Almost all. |
| A．The number of charging stations and the low temperature. |
| B．The number of charging stations and the low environmental cost. |
| C．The low temperature and the high price. |
| D．The number of charging stations and the high price. |
| A．Henry and George. | B．Henry and Cathy. |
| C．George and Cathy. | D．Only Henry. |
| A．In a sports magazine. | B．In a travel book. |
| C．In a newspaper. | D．In a fairy tale. |
3 . During the May Day holiday, many people want to find dazi (搭子) or activity partners (活动伙伴) on Xiaohongshu or Weibo for travelling. The activity of finding dazi is a new way of social contact (社交交往) for young people.
The idea of this activity is easy to understand. It helps people to find someone who has the same hobby (爱好) as them and it doesn’t take much time. With one or a few dazi, people have more fun in the activities they are interested in.
A girl called Ge Jinyuan, is a high school student from Shandong. She likes talking with her meal dazi when she is having lunch. “We love to share our ideas on the food,” said the girl. “If my meal dazi doesn’t come to school one day, I will be sad.”
“It takes a lot of time to make friends with others. But it doesn’t need much time to have a dazi,” said another girl Shi Zhimin, a student from Shanxi. Ge Jinyuan also has the same idea. She doesn’t want to spend too much time making friends, so having a dazi is good for her. She can feel relaxed and then has more time to study.
Also, ________________. “Once, my game dazi and I did something wrong when playing the game EggyParty, but we worked together to turn the tide (扭转局势). By playing the game together, I find I like working with others now!” Shi Zhimin said.
Dazi is usually helpful but it can be dangerous. People may lie on the Internet. For example, a young and beautiful girl on the Internet may be an old, short, and heavy man in real life. So think twice when finding Dazi.
1. According to the passage, people like finding dazi because ________.| A．they have the same idea about food |
| B．they want to spend more time with others |
| C．it helps people make friends from different places |
| D．it doesn’t take much time to find friends with the same hobbies |
| A．dazi sometimes may play games better than you |
| B．dazi sometimes may give you some big surprises |
| C．dazi sometimes may have different ideas about games |
| D．dazi sometimes may ask you to talk with others |
| A．Dazi: The New Way of Finding Activity Partners |
| B．Know the Culture (文化) of Dazi in China |
| C．Having a Dazi: More Fun, More Time |
| D．Dazi: A Dangerous Way to Make Friends |
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A． | B． | C． | D． |
4 . Since September, many schools have increased the number of PE classes from three times a week to five or even more. This is in response to (响应) China’s new standard (标准) on PE classes. The standard asks schools to make sure that 10 to 11 percent of all class time must be PE classes, third only to Chinese and math.
Along with easy exercises like running and long jump, the standard also asks schools to give students other popular sports to do.
Ma Jiajun, 17, from Jilin, set a new world record for “the most consecutive jump rope triples (连续三摇跳绳)” with 701 times. His teacher Chen Peng said that the school has always kept an eye on PE. With Ma as a role model now, students are more hard-working on not only jump rope but also other kinds of sports.
“At first tai chi was only needed during break time to promote Chinese traditional culture, but students gradually fell in love with it,” said Gao Yuxiang from a middle school of Shandong. Senior 1 students all need to do it, and there’s a tai chi contest every year for Senior 2 students. “Different from ball games, tai chi calms me down and eases my mind, getting me ready for the next class,” said Gao.
“I really enjoy hip-hop dance,” Ren Jianing, a high school student, said, “The class doesn’t need any experience, so anyone can sign up.” Every class they practice a part of the dance and in the next class put the parts together into a whole dance. “Our shirts are all wet after class even on the coldest days of winter,” said Ren.
1. How many kinds of exercises are mostly talked about in this passage?| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．According to the new standard, PE is even more important than math and Chinese. |
| B．With Ma as a role model, students are only hard-working onjump rope. |
| C．Students with no experience can’t sign up for the hip-hop dance class. |
| D．Tai chi may calm students down and get them ready for the next class. |
| A．Ren Jianing really enjoys hip-hop dance. |
| B．There is a tai chi contest for Senior 1 students. |
| C．Students may be hard-working in hip-hop classes. |
| D．Schools should try to provide fewer ball games. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．PE Gets More and More Important |
| B．How to be Healthy in PE Class |
| C．China’s New Standard on Classes |
| D．What was the PE Class Like |
5 . As we walk the “path (道路) of life”, we may sometimes wish to be alone with our own thoughts, for quiet moments of reflection can lead to personal improvement. However, when we want to be alone, we must be careful that we do not always jump into our own world. Social life is also important to all of us.
As we live in social groups, there are many benefits (益处) of friendship that we can enjoy. Generally speaking, close friendships have three “fruits”: they may comfort the heart, advise the head and help us achieve the goals we set for ourselves. Through friendship, we can become happier, wiser and more satisfied humans.
The first fruit of friendship is the peace that comes from sharing with friends our joy, sadness, success and failure. Here, friendship has a double advantage—happiness takes on a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved! Naturally, this kind of openness results from a close friendship. We know that our friends will both respect our feelings and treasure these moments of closeness.
The second fruit of friendship is the better understanding and judgement that may be achieved through conversations with well-meaning and wise friends. We often find it easier to recognize other people’s weaknesses than our own. As a result, if we are guided only by our own feelings, our judgements (评判) might be one-sided. On the other hand, our friends are better able to offer advice on important decisions that we all have to make. This helps make our thoughts clearer and brings us a more thorough (彻底的) understanding of our problems .
The third fruit of friendship is the help that a friend may offer in many different ways. Sometimes a friend is even known as our “second self”. There are so many things in life that can only be achieved with the help of friends. Friends may have many different ideas and skills.
Finally, it should be pointed out that enjoying the company of a crowd is not the same as being with friends. Friends should be carefully chosen and relationships carefully developed. In this way, we can better walk the “path of life”with the comfort, advice and help from our trusted friends.
1. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the “fruit” of close friendships?| A．Comforting our hearts with peace. | B．Achieving our goals with friends’ help. |
| C．Guiding our own feelings easily. | D．Understanding our problems better. |
| A．it is more difficult to realize other people’s weaknesses than ourselves |
| B．our judgements won’t be one-sided if we are guided only by our feelings |
| C．our friends are able to offer better advice on our important decisions |
| D．it gives us a chance to completely understand our friends’ problems |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．Walking the Path of Life | B．Understanding of Friendship |
| C．Advice on Making Friends | D．Improvements of Social Life |
From this autumn, middle schools begin to have labor education(劳动教育). Every week, students have at least one class to learn about cooking, keeping animals, growing plants and more. Chinese people didn’t think much about this in the past. According to a 2019 report, Chinese kids only spend 12 minutes doing labor activities like cleaning the room each day, while US kids spend 1.2 hours each day. How do young people feel about the new subject? Let’s take a look.
Wu Ruoxuan, 12, Tianjin
I like labor classes best because they make me feel happier! I am usually tired after a long day at school. However, after cooking or fixing something during the labor class, I feel much more relaxed and ready to face more difficulty!
Zhang Siyi, 12, Beijing
Our school has a long history of letting students grow plants and feel the joy of labor. This year, we planted sunflowers, tomatoes, potatoes, rice, cucumbers, and cabbages on the rooftop of the teaching building. It’s not easy! They have different needs. For example, cabbages need more water, and we need to clear away the grass for the sunflowers. Labor classes teach me important skills that we can use in daily lives.
According to the new standard(标准) for labor education, middle school students need to learn the following skills.
·Organize their rooms and classrooms.
·Cook three or four dishes.
·Fix some home appliances(电器).
·Take part in local labor activities such as planting and fishing.
Don’t be worried if you don’t have these skills. Start learning now!
1. Do Chinese kids spend 12 hours doing labor activities every day?2. Where do students in Zhang Siyi’s school grow plants?
3. According to Wu Ruoxuan and Zhang Siyi, what can labor education bring to students?
4. Do you think middle school students should have labor classes? Why or why not?
7 . One day we find that students hardly spend much time on sports. Is it because they aren’t interested in sports? No, they often say they have other more important things to do.
What are these important things? Exams! They have to spend much time on all kinds of exams at school. So many of them almost become bookworms(书虫). Books stop them from going out for sports. Because of the pressure from their parents and teachers, the students have to work harder and spend most of their time on books. They want to get good results and make progress.
So it is necessary for them to give all of their free time to their study and stop their school sports.
In fact, education can’t go without enough exercise, because a quick mind hardly goes along with a weak body. If you don’t have a strong body, you can never get anything or any great success in your life.
1. Because of ________, students can’t spend much time on sports.| A．no interest | B．exams | C．education | D．exercise |
| A．good father | B．strong body | C．weak body | D．good face |
| A．work day and night | B．not play sports |
| C．have enough sports after studying | D．spend the free time on the studies and give up the sports |
| A．The students don’t go out for sports because of the weather. |
| B．The students stop their school sports because they are busy with their study. |
| C．Without a strong body one can’t get great success in life. |
| D．Good grades also depend on physical exercise. |
8 . Are you happy every day? It’s hard to answer yes because everybody gets unhappy sometimes. When you fail the exam, you may feel unhappy. When you fight with your parents, you may feel unhappy. Our mood (情绪) is like the weather. We like sunny days. But we often meet cloudy days and rainy days. So how to have more sunny days in moods? Here are some suggestions.
Forget small things. You lost your favorite book. Your father didn’t buy you a birthday present. These are all small things. Forget them and don’t let them make you sad.
Think more about the good side of a thing. If you didn’t catch your bus and was late for school, don’t be sad. Anyway, you slept more than yesterday and maybe had a good dream.
If you are happy, a day will pass. If you are not happy, a day still passes. Then, why not spend a day happily?
根据材料内容，选择最佳答案。
1. How do you feel when you fail an exam?
| A．Happy. | B．Unhappy. | C．Sunny. | D．Cloudy. |
| A．It’s sunny. | B．It’s rainy. |
| C．Have a good dream. | D．Be late for school. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．You will feel unhappy if you lose your favorite book. |
| B．The mood is like the weather. |
| C．When you are not happy, a day won’t pass. |
| D．You will feel unhappy because you missed the school bus. |
9 . Challenging work that requires lots of creative thinking, planning and other skills in management might help your brain stay sharp as you age, a study in the journal Neurology suggests.
Some researchers from Germany invited more than 1, 000 retired（退休的）workers who were over 75 and tested the volunteers’ memory and thinking skills through some tests. Then, for eight years, the scientists asked the same group to come back every 18 months to take the same kinds of tests.
Those who had held mentally stimulating（刺激的）or challenging jobs before retirement did the best on the tests. And the losing of cognition（认知能力）was much slower than those with the least mentally challenging jobs.
“This works just like physical exercise,” says Francisca, who led the study. “After a long run, you may feel like you’re in pain, you may feel tired. But it makes you fit. After a long day at work, you will feel tired, but it can help your brain stay healthy.”
Besides, even unpaid or little paid work can help keep your brain fit. A waiter’s job, for example, that requires teamwork and decision-making, could be just as stimulating as any high-level office work. And “being a housewife requires high-level planning and thinking,” she says. “You have to organize the activities of the children and take care of everything at home.”
Of course, our brains can decline（衰退）as we grow older for many reasons, including other environmental or genetic（基因的）influences. However, continuing to challenge yourself mentally and keeping yourself busy can help.
1. The underlined word “sharp” in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.| A．忙碌的 | B．持续的 | C．锋利的 | D．敏捷的 |
| A．Our brains will stop declining if we keep doing challenging jobs. |
| B．Unpaid or little paid work can also help keep your brain stay fit. |
| C．The more tired you feel at work, the better it helps your brain. |
| D．The types of jobs we do can influence our brains as we grow old. |
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| A．①②;③④⑤;⑥ | B．①②;③④;⑤⑥ |
| C．①②③;④⑤;⑥ | D．①;②③④;⑤⑥ |
| A．our brain declines for different reasons |
| B．challenging jobs help our brain stay fit |
| C．challenging work requires creative thinking and planning |
| D．hard work and physical exercise help improve our cognition |
10 . After years of studying human nature, I have found something interesting. Whether you are a successful person or an ordinary(普通的)person depends on two things—curiosity(好奇心)and discontent(不满足). I have never known a successful man who is short of either. And I have never known an ordinary man who had both. The two belong together.
“The great man,” said Mencius(孟子), “is he who does not lose his child’s heart.” But most of us lose it. We stop asking questions. We stop challenging things. We just follow the crowd. Fortunately, curiosity and discontent don’t have to be learned. We are born with them and only need to keep them awake. How should you start? I think of one friend who couldn’t grow flowers well enough to satisfy herself. She was curious about how the experts did it. Now she is one of the experts, writing books on flower growing.
________ You don’t have any special ability? Most people don’t. You don’t have any time? That’s good because things are always done by the people with no time. Harriet Stowe, mother of six, wrote parts of Uncle Tom’s Cabin while cooking. You’re too old? Remember that Thomas Costain was 57 when he published his first novel, and that Grandma Moses showed her first pictures when she was 78.
However you start, remember there is no better time to start than right now, because you’ll never be more alive than you are at this moment.
1. At the beginning of the passage, the writer leads in the topic by ________.| A．showing a fact | B．giving an example |
| C．telling a story | D．asking a question |
| A．The great man never loses heart in face of difficulties. |
| B．The great man often encourages others to be brave. |
| C．The great man always takes good care of his child. |
| D．The great man stays curious and follows his heart as a child. |
| A．she was very curious about the lives of flower-growing experts |
| B．she wrote many books on flower growing and became famous |
| C．she kept learning and found the right ways to grow flowers |
| D．she was better at writing books instead of growing flowers |
| A．There might be many problems in getting started. |
| B．I advise you to think twice before you start. |
| C．It’s normal for you to lose confidence sometimes. |
| D．Most of us are just ordinary people in the world. |
