1 . Most people have heard of the Great Wall of China, but not many people outside of China know about the Grand Canal. This man-made waterway—known in China as Da Yunhe is 1, 700 kilometers long and some parts of it are more than 2, 000 years old. It links (连接) the north of China with Hangzhou, a city in the southern part of the country. It’s the longest man-made waterway in the world.

The Grand Canal was built as a way to transport grain (谷物) from the rich land in China’s south to cities in the north. In fact, it’s not one canal, but a system of canals and rivers linked together. It’s still an important part of the transport system in China. Thousands of boats use it every day to transport grain and many other types of things.

Now the Chinese government is doing new work on the Grand Canal. It is making parts of it deeper, so bigger ships can use it. The canal will also help to move water. There is a lot of rain in the south of China, but not as much in the north. The canal will carry millions of liters of water from the south to the north.

The Grand Canal is much less famous than the Great Wall so not very many tourists visit it. But it’s possible to go on a cruise (游船) along some of the oldest parts of the canal. Passengers on these cruises see beautiful parts of China that other visitors don’t see.

根据短文内容，判断句子正 (T)、 误 (F)。
1. The longest man-made waterway in the world is 1, 700 kilometers long.
2. In the past, the most important purpose of the Grand Canal was to move water.
3. The Chinese government is making parts of the Grand Canal deeper.
4. The last paragraph is only about why few people outside China know about the Grand Canal.
5. Now the Grand Canal is used for different purposes.

2 . In the world, a five-day work week is common. However, in some places, people are exploring the idea of paying workers the same for working just four days a week. Some companies have been slow to try it. The results of last year’s experiment suggested the move may be good for both companies and workers.

Last June, 61 UK companies agreed to try giving their workers a four-day work week. They asked their workers to do as much as they usually did in five. The experiment turned out to be good for most companies. The number of days that workers were out sick dropped by 65%. About 57% fewer people left their jobs during the experiment. What’s more, the companies made more money—about 1.4%.

How did workers do more in less time? Some companies cut meetings, or made sure they were shorter. Others used technology to help workers get more done quickly. Some companies created “a focus time” so workers could work on just one thing without being interrupted (打扰).

In general, workers said the four-day work week left them feeling less tired. About 71% said they felt less “burnt out” with their new work hours. About 73% of the workers were more satisfied with the time they spent working. Workers reported that the extra day off allowed them to do more of what they loved.

Professor Brendan Burchell, who helped run the study, said, “A four-day week means a better life for so many people.” At the end of the experiment, 92% of the companies involved (参与) said they planned to keep the four-day work week.

根据文章内容，判断句子正 (T)、误 (F)。
1. The writer explains the experiment results by listing numbers.
2. The expression “a focus time” in the passage means “a time to take a break from work”.
3. Paragraph 4 mentions workers’ feelings about working four days a week.
4. We can know the four-day work week has been highly thought of from the last paragraph.
5. The purpose of this passage is to introduce different companies.

3 . There once lived a young man who thought himself to be poor. One day he went to a wise man to ask how to become rich. The wise man said, “Young man, you are already rich now.” “But where is my wealth?” the young man asked. “I am always looking for it.”

“It is with you. Your eyes are your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the beautiful things in this world. Your feet are your wealth. You can go to any place. Your mouth is your wealth. You can eat all kinds of delicious food…” the wise man said. “You call these wealth? But everyone has them,” the young man said.

“These are wealth. What you have now is not what someone else can luckily have. Are you willing (愿意的) to give your eyes to me? I’m willing to give you a lot of money to exchange for them,” the wise man said.

“No. I’m not going to do so! My eyes are important to me!” the young man said.

Everyone is rich. We should treasure our wealth, and take care of it. We should not overuse (过度使用) it because once it is gone, it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.

根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写（A），错误的写（B）。
1. The young man always thought he was rich.
2. The wise man thought wealth was with the young man.
3. The young man wanted to exchange his eyes for money.
4. The young man got a lot of wealth from the wise man.
5. The passage tells us that we should treasure what we have.

5 . A young man went for a job interview (面试) in a big company. The boss found that the young man’s college grades were excellent. Then he asked the young man who paid for his education. The young man told the boss that his parents did and they worked as laundry (洗衣店) workers.

The boss noticed that the young man’s hands were smooth and perfect. He asked, “Have you ever helped your parents wash clothes?”

“No. My parents always make me study. Besides, they wash clothes faster than I do.”

The boss asked the young man to go back home and wash his parents’ hands. When he got home, he told his parents that he wanted to wash their hands. His parents felt surprised but happy. Then the young man began to wash their hands slowly.

He was in tears. He found his parents’ hands were so rough (粗糙的) and pale because of washing a lot of clothes in the cold water. There were also many injuries (伤口) in their hands. After washing their parents’ hands, the young man quietly washed the rest of the clothes.

The next morning, the young man went to the company again. The boss noticed the young man’s pale hands. He said to the young man, “Welcome to join us!”

根据短文内容判断正误。(注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂 “A”，错误的涂 “B”)
1. The boss was satisfied with the young man’s grades.
2. The young man’s hands were the same as his parents’.
3. The young man was deeply moved and washed the rest of the clothes.
4. The young man wasn’t accepted by the company because of his hands.
5. From the passage, we know we should be thankful for what our parents have done for us.

6 . Two traveling angels (天使) stopped to spend the night in the home of a rich family. The family were rude and refused to let the angels live in the comfortable room. Instead, the angels were given a small and cold room. As they were making the bed in the dark room, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, “Things aren’t always what they seem like.”

They left the next morning and they came to a house of a very poor family at night. The farmer and his wife were very kind. After sharing a little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night’s rest. When the sun came up the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife were crying. This was because their only cow that the poor family lived on was dead in the field.

The younger angel was angry and asked the older angel, “The rich family had everything, yet you helped him to mend his wall,” he continued, “the poor family had little but were friendly to share everything, and you let the cow die.” “Things aren’t always what they seem like.” the older angel replied, “When we stayed in the rich man’s room, I noticed there was lots of gold in that hole of the wall. But the owner didn’t know the secret. Since the owner was not kind and didn’t share his things with others, I mended the wall so that he wouldn’t get the gold for ever. Last night, when we were resting in the poor farmer’s house, the God who controls death came for his wife. I used the cow’s life to exchange the kind woman’s . Now you see, things aren’t always what they seem like.”

根据短文内容判断正、误。（注意：将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”）
1. The two traveling angels were not satisfied with what the rich family did.
2. The younger angel saved the woman’s life because of her kindness.
3. The older angel repaired the hole of the wall because he was helpful.
4. At last, the older angel told the younger angel why he did the things.
5. The story tries to tell us that sometimes things are different from what we see.

7 . One day, a baby snail (蜗牛) found that he had to carry a big and heavy shell (外壳) at any time. He asked his mother, “Why was I born with a shell? It grows so hard and heavy.” His mother said, “Because we don’t have bones (骨头) to support us. We move slowly, so we need a shell to protect us.”

The baby snail asked again, “The caterpillar (毛毛虫) has no bones, either, and she can’t move quickly. Why can she live without a shell?” The mother snail answered patiently, “That’s because she will become a butterfly. She can fly high into the sky which can protect her.”

The baby snail then cried, “We are so poor! We have no protection like that!” His mother smiled at him, “That’s why we have a shell. My dear, imagine if we don’t have the shell, what will happen to us? Our bodies will be dried out by the hot sun and we’ll have nowhere to sleep. What’s worse, we’ll die in the heavy rain and we can also be killed easily by other enemies. So we don’t depend on the sky. We should depend on ourselves.”

根据短文内容判断正、误。
(注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)
1. Either the snails or the caterpillars have bones.
2. When the snail grows up, it will be able to fly in the sky.
3. Some of the snails can become butterflies if they give up their shells.
4. When there’s the hot sun and the heavy rain, the snail can hide in the shell.
5. The story teaches us that we should control our lives on our own.

8 . Once there was a smart and rich man. He bought a big, beautiful house with a large garden full of fruit trees. But not everyone was happy for him. There was a jealous (善嫉的) man who lived in a small, old house next door. He always tried to make the rich man’s life hard. He threw rubbish in his garden and did many other bad things.

One sunny day, the rich man woke up in a good mood. When he went outside, he saw a lot of rubbish under the apple trees in his garden. Instead of getting angry, he decided to clean it up. He cleaned his garden and moved all the rubbish away. Then, he took a basket and went to knock on his neighbor’s door.

The jealous neighbor heard the knock and thought, “I finally got him!” He opened the door, ready to argue with his rich neighbor. But to his surprise, the rich man handed him a basket of fresh apples, saying, “The one who has something good should share it with others. These are for you, my dear neighbor.”

Seeing that, the jealous neighbor’s face turned red and he couldn’t say a word.

根据短文内容判断正、误。
(注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)
1. Everyone was happy for the rich man because he bought a big, beautiful house with a large garden full of fruit trees.
2. The jealous man always made trouble for the rich man to make his life hard.
3. The rich man got in a bad mood when he saw plenty of rubbish in his garden on a sunny day.
4. The jealous neighbor saw a basket of fresh apples and felt a deep sense of shame.
5. From the story, we know it’s a must to fight back face to face.

9 . A long time ago, there lived an old man. He raised the finest horses in all the land. His family was happy and he was rich in friends, too.

One night, the man’s prized horse, a big black horse, was lost. The old man was sad. Friends came to say how sorry they were. The old man said only, “Why wouldn’t this be good luck?”

Months later, the villagers saw the black horse coming back, leading two white horses. The villagers were happy for the return of the old man’s horse and the addition (增加) of two more. The old farmer thanked them for their happiness and said quietly for all to hear, “Could this be a disaster (灾祸)?”

The old man’s only son loved horses, so it was natural for the old man to give his son the black horse. The old man began to teach his son to ride. Unluckily, the boy fell off the horse and broke his legs. No one knew if he could ever walk again. Everyone was sad, and came to tell the old man how sad they were. The old man just looked at them and said. “Why wouldn’t this be a blessing (福气)?”

In a few weeks, the enemies invaded (侵略) the land. The king sent his soldiers to enlist (征募) one young man from each family to fight against the enemies. When they reached the old man’s village, they took one son from each home. At the home of the old man, they found the disabled (残疾的) boy, and they did not take him. As a result, the son stayed away from the war and saved his life.

根据短文内容判断正、误。 (注意：考生将答题卡相应位置位置涂黑，正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)
1. The old man had a happy family and a lot of friends.
2. The black horse returned with two white horses after a few years.
3. The old man taught his son to ride the horse because he wanted him to be a good soldier.
4. The old man’s son wasn’t strong enough to be taken by the king’s soldiers.
5. The story tells us that everything has two sides, and good and bad might change each other.

10 . Long ago, in a small village of Wakefield lived two farmers, Harry and Peter. Harry was very hard-working while Peter was lazy. Every day Harry got up early and came home late, but Peter walked around for fun.

One summer there was no rain and the crops were dying. Harry thought “I must do something to save these crops, or they shall die.” With this problem in mind, he went out to find a river so that he could dig a canal (灌溉渠) to his field. He walked on and on, feeling tired and thirsty. After a long search, he found a river full of water. He was very happy. He started digging a canal to his field. Until it was noon his wife sent their daughter to bring Harry home for lunch. But Harry did not go. He did not want to leave his work unfinished. He completed his work late at night. He was very satisfied. He went home, had a good meal and fell into a sound sleep.

Peter did the same. But he was not at all determined (决心). He also started digging a canal to his field but he didn’t have his work completed. His field did not get enough water and all his crops died.

Harry’s field would be watered when it was needed. He had a good harvest because of his hard work.

So dear friends, please remember that hard work is the key to success.

根据短文内容判断正误。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”。
1. Harry was very hard-working while Peter was lazy in a small town.
2. Both Harry and Peter started digging a canal to the field, but Peter didn’t finish his work.
3. Harry’s field did not get enough water and all his crops died.
4. Harry completed his work when his daughter asked him to go home for lunch.
5. From the story we know that you won’t succeed if you don’t work hard.