1 . It’s said that dogs are man’s best friends. But for Frikkie Von Solns, his best friend is a lion.
The lion’s name is Zion and he is 16 years old. He was born in a zoo because his mother was there when she gave birth to him. Zion was taken away from his mother because his father might kill him.
Frikkie got Zion legally (合法的). He took him home and brought him up. When Zion was very young, Frikkie had to feed him every four hours. In order to take good care of Zion, Frikkie even shared a bed with him at times.
“I have learned so much from Zion,” Frikkie said. “For me, it is a special experience to grow up with a lion. Zion is a gentle (温和的) big cat. He has never hurt a human. I trust him.”
Frikkie often takes Zion out for a walk. Before they go walking, Frikkie always takes off his shoes because Zion doesn’t like the noises the shoes make.
The friendship between Frikkie and Zion is really special. But as normal people, we should be careful when we get close to lions and other wild animals.
根据语篇内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的为“T”，错误的为“F”。
1. Zion was taken away from his mother because he was too weak to stay in the zoo.
2. Frikkie had to feed Zion six times a day when he was a baby.
3. Frikkie take off his shoes before he and Zion take a walk because Zion hates the noises from the shoes.
4. From the text, we can know Frikkie is a zookeeper.
5. The text is about a special friendship.
When I was young, I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking and I was playing with my younger brother Tony. Suddenly I ran to my mother and said: “Tony fell from the open window!” She was very worried and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said: “Don’t worry, I’m just joking.” My mother shouted at me, “If you do it again, I’ll hit you.”
Another day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning I swam fast and I called out “help!”. All my friends came to help me. However, they found that I was joking. But half an hour later I wasn’t joking. I was so fast, soon I got tired and couldn’t swim on in water. I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to help me.
In the end they found I was telling the truth. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best lesson in my life. From then on I haven’t joked on anyone.
1. The writer liked to play jokes on people he knew when he was young.2. Tony fell from the open window when the writer was playing with him.
3. At first, all his friends didn’t come to help him because he was joking.
4. When the writer called his friends for help for the second time, they came and saved him immediately.
5. The story tells us that if someone always tells lies, others won’t trust him.
3 . Word Banker English-Chinese is a kind of software（软件）which allows users to practice their Chinese vocabulary in several different ways. Although the program isn’t the most convenient one you’ve ever used, it can help improve your Chinese vocabulary.
The program’s interface（界面）isn’t very attractive so many people don’t like it when they first see it. Also, it can sometimes be hard to operate（操作）. Each function（功能）holds a window, but if you close the window, it will take you back to the main menu or close the program. But if you continue using the program, you will find there are several useful exercises in it. Users can read a word or phrase（词组）in English and then click（点击）on the matching word in Chinese, hear the Chinese word spoken and choose the matching English word, or see the English word written and then type（打字）the Chinese word. The program allows users to practice not only their vocabulary, but also their reading, listening and spelling skills. Once users know a word, they can save it so that it stops appearing in the exercises. The program also allows users to practice vocabulary by seeing the English and Chinese words and hearing the Chinese spoken. The “Help” provides good instructions for users to use. Nothing is perfect. Word Banker English-Chinese has many advantages and certain disadvantages as well. We can use it according to our needs.
1. Who will be interested in Word Banker English-Chinese?| A．Native English speakers who want to learn Chinese. |
| B．Native English speakers who want to improve their English. |
| C．Native Chinese speakers who want to improve their Chinese. |
| D．Native Chinese speakers who want to learn English. |
| A．It’s hard to use sometimes. |
| B．Users can only practice vocabulary and reading. |
| C．There are few useful exercises for users to practice. |
| D．There are no instructions in the program. |
| A．吸引人的 | B．流行的 | C．干净的 | D．便宜的 |
| A．How to learn English. | B．What Word Banker English-Chinese is |
| C．How to learn Chinese. | D．What we can get from the program |
| A．introduce a software | B．stop people from using a software |
| C．ask users for help | D．announce the close of a program |
4 . Gever is a computer scientist from California. In 2005, he started a summer program for children called Tinkering School. The idea was that children can learn important skills for life by building things together. Gever and his team help the children to think big and create plans for new things they want to build. Children have made fantastic things since the school started. They have made a rope bridge, tree houses, wooden motorbikes and boats.
At Tinkering School, children get all kinds of materials like wood, metal, plastic, nails and ropes. They get lots of real tools too, such as knives, hammers(锤子) and power drills(电钻). Tinkering School has been around for many years now, but nobody has ever had a serious injury in all those years. This is because there are strict health and safety rules they must follow. The children always learn how to use the tools safely and they must wear the right clothing and protection at all times.
Gever’s ideas have worked very well. A lot of children have gone to his summer schools over the years. In 2011, Gever decided to create a ‘real’ school, called Brightworks, in San Francisco. The school is very small —it only has 20 students aged 6 to 13. Brightworks is based on the same principles(理念) as Tinkering School.
Since it started, Brightworks has been written about a lot. Most of those articles have been very positive(积极的). They have praised the quality of the school. They have found the children are more active than at many other schools. But there have also been critical (批评的) voices. Some people have said that children are not learning enough at Brightworks. They feel that students and teachers are just ‘playing around’ all the time.
The students at Brightworks seem to love their school. We spoke to 12-year-old Tina Cooper. She has been a student at the school since last October. “Since I started here. I’ve never sat in a ‘normal’ class with a teacher,” she told us. “But it’s been a very exciting experience. I’ve worked hard at my new school for eight months now, and there hasn’t been one single moment when I found it boring.”
1. Which can best describe Tinkering School or Brightworks?| A．A place you can walk around freely. |
| B．A space with new ideas and practice. |
| C．A factory full of materials and tools. |
| D．A family you will never leave behind. |
| A．train children to follow strict rules |
| B．provide children with famous schools |
| C．help children create new fantastic plastic things |
| D．lead children to learn by doing hands-on activities |
| A．the school is not safe enough for kids |
| B．children are taught how to protect themselves |
| C．children have never had an accident or injury |
| D．there isn’t any safety information mentioned there |
| A．Brightworks has influenced students like Tina |
| B．critical voices brought bad results to the school |
| C．there hasn’t been one single boring moment for all |
| D．the students there often stand in a class with a teacher |
| A．choose the best schools for parents |
| B．let the readers listen to different voices |
| C．praise Gever’s thoughts about education |
| D．draw much attention to Gever’s school |
5 . Our house was across the street from a big hospital, so we rented our empty upstairs rooms to patients. One evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly sick-looking man.
His face looked terrible, it was swollen (肿胀的) and red. Yet his voice was pleasant. He told me that he came for treatment and that he’d been looking for a spare room since noon, but no one would give him one because of his face.
For a moment I hesitated (犹豫), but he said he would be happy to just sleep on our hallway. I agreed.
The old man had a huge heart inside his tiny body. He told me that he fished for a living to support his daughters and his disabled wife.
He didn’t complain while telling me his story. He was grateful that he didn’t feel any pain from his disease, which was seemingly a form of skin cancer (皮肤癌).
The next morning, he said, “Can I come back and stay the next time I need treatment?” I told him he was welcome to come again.
On his next trip, as a gift, he brought a big fish. In the years that he stayed with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us gifts like these.
My neighbor warned me that could lose potential (潜在的) renters by putting up the old man after he left the first morning.
Maybe we did lose renters once or twice. But if only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with appreciation.
1. Why didn’t the people give the man a spare room?| A．Because the man was poor. |
| B．Because it was dark in the evening. |
| C．Because there were too many outpatients. |
| D．Because his face was sick-looking. |
| A．he wondered how the old man found him |
| B．he was happy to accept the old man |
| C．there were no empty rooms upstairs |
| D．his decision was not an easy one |
| A．He could sleep on the porch. |
| B．He supported a large family. |
| C．He didn’t care about his wife’s life. |
| D．He was grateful to have skin cancer. |
| A．The neighbor wanted gifts from the old man. |
| B．The neighbor didn’t want to see the old man’s face. |
| C．The neighbor might do something bad to the old man. |
| D．The neighbor didn’t see the kind soul inside the old man. |
| A．Never judge others by their appearance. |
| B．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
| C．A kind word is like a spring day. |
| D．No attention is paid to those who are always complaining. |
6 . Do you have true friends? Do you want to know better between you and your friends? There are three different kinds of friends: “pest friends”, “guest friends”, and “best friends”.
The first kind of friend is simply acquaintances (熟人), and all you usually know about them is their names. You may meet this kind of friend at school, at work, or on the bus, but you don’t miss them when they’re not around. When this kind of friend does something bad, you don’t tell them. That is why they are called “pest friends”.
The second kind of friend could also be called “social partners”. They are closer than acquaintances, but not as close as true friends. You know their names, a little of what they like or dislike, and a little of their family histories; you usually have a few things in common, but you don’t talk about anything deep(深), such as your wishes or fears(害怕), and they don’t open up to you how they really feel.
The last kind of friend, the “best friend”, is the one you know the deepest. You’re like family, and know everything about each other. You have no problem staying at each other’s houses, and you share your deepest feelings and thoughts. They will correct you when you’re wrong, and though they may not be perfect(完美的), they at least will always care about you, and never do anything on purpose(故意地)to hurt you.
We all have our pest, guest, and best friends. We should value(重视) all friendships and remember, all best friends start out as just acquaintances.
1. If you and David are neighbors and classmates, and do things together, but don’t share your feelings, you are “________”.| A．pest friends | B．guest friends | C．best friends | D．not friends |
| A．how to make a best friend | B．how to learn from your best friends |
| C．what a “best friend” is | D．what a best friend can do for you |
| A．pest friends are important than guest friends |
| B．we miss our best friends when we’re not with them |
| C．a best friend hardly does something bad to you |
| D．a “pest friend” will never become your best friend |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Friendship | B．Love Your Friends | C．Three Types of Friends | D．My Friends |
7 . Searching for parking spaces has long been a headache for many office workers in many big cities of China. Parking near their companies for five days a week could cost them a lot of money. At the same time, prising, most of parking lots(停车场) in residential areas(居民区) remain idle during workdays. Now a new form of sharing has appeared in China—the shared parking space. It has become a huge market in some big cities.
In Qingdao, a coastal(海岸的) city in Shangdong, up to 10,000 personal parking spaces have been turned into shared ones with the help of “Airparking”, an online shared parking platform developed by a network company from Guangzhou.
Through a special app, users can either share or order a parking place. Owners who have idle parking spaces can share some information, including the parking position, license number and time limit(限制) on the platform. With the information, users can easily find the nearest place to park. The average(平均的) parking cost for shared parking is 4 yuan each hour, almost the same as the service cost in traditional parking spaces.
Qingdao is one of the Chinese cities that encourage shared parking. Some other big cites, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei, have also begun to try this idea. The Shanghai government, for example, has set up more than 6,500 shared parking spaces to encourage the public to use. Shared parking will be more and more helpful to the drivers.
1. In the first paragraph, the writer points out that ________.| A．we should set up more parking spaces in big cities |
| B．prices of parking spaces are rising quickly in China |
| C．it’s difficult to find parking space in big cities. |
| D．many people want to find parking spaces in residential areas during workdays |
| A．无所事事的 | B．停顿的 | C．闲置的 | D．懒惰的 |
| A．love the city | B．use a special app |
| C．pay more | D．share your personal information |
| A．15 yuan. | B．20 yuan. | C．25 yuan. | D．30 yuan. |
| A．it’s hard to find parking spaces in residential areas during workdays |
| B．Qingdao has fewer shared parking spaces than Shanghai |
| C．shared parking will probably become more and more popular |
| D．shared parking is more expensive than traditional parking service |
8 . Autism (自闭症) is disorder of the brain that happens in the first three years of life. It affects the brain’s normal development. Most autistic patients have difficulty talking with other people or doing things. However, some of the autistic people have amazing abilities. For example, some can memorize many things and some can do calculations (计算) really fast.
Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man is an example. The character in the film was based on Kim Peek, a man from the USA. Peek couldn’t switch on a light or put his clothes on by himself. But his memory was so amazing that he could remember almost anything. He could memorize every road, place and distance on maps. He could even remember almost every word in thousands of books. His way of reading was more amazing. Peek could read two pages at the same time in just eight to ten seconds. He read the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye.
Scientists still don’t know for sure why some autistic people have a special talent after they have done a lot of research. There is one possible explanation. When certain parts of the brain are damaged (毁坏) by autism, other parts of the brain might get stronger. Therefore, special abilities were born.
But not all people with autism have amazing abilities. In fact, autistic people with amazing abilities are rare and the abilities cannot be trained. According to research, only ten percent of autistic people show signs of a special talent.
1. What do we know about autism?| A．It is a disorder of the bones. | B．It happens all through one’s life. |
| C．It helps people memorize things better. | D．It affects the brain’s normal development. |
| A．He is a good friend of Raymond Babbitt. | B．He is a character in the film Rain Man. |
| C．He is an autistic patient from the USA. | D．He is scientist working on autism. |
| A．He can do some basic things like dressing himself. | B．He has a special talent in calculation. |
| C．He has difficulty reading books. | D．He has a very good memory. |
| A．Health. | B．Culture. | C．Sports. | D．Education. |
| A．Ways of dealing with autism. | B．Relationship between autism and talent. |
| C．Ways of training autistic people’s abilities. | D．Reasons for autistic people’s special talent. |
9 . Looking at the traffic and crowds in Guanggu Square, one of the busiest places in Wuhan, Hubei Province, Zhao Bin realized that the city had finally recovered from the pandemic (流行病，疫情).
Zhao is a food deliveryman in Wuhan. He and other local deliverymen worked day and night with no time off and often forgot about meals during the days when the COVID-19 broke out.
The virus (病毒) wouldn’t let him and the others have a rest. “People needed us,” he said.
During the pandemic, food deliverymen had searched all stores around to prepare orders because of the shortage (不足) of supplies in Wuhan. “It was the busiest time I had ever seen as a food deliveryman,” Zhao said. “It’s so tiring, but I feel what I did was valued.”
One of the biggest changes that Zhao Bin has noticed is that customers now show more respect and understanding toward food delivery workers.
“Before the pandemic, customers didn’t understand why delivery was late on rainy days.” Zhao said. “But after the pandemic, they text us to let us know it’s fine if we’re running late.”
Zhao loves taking pictures of people since he spends most of his time on the street. He said he took up photography as a hobby after working as a museum security guard. He believes no matter how heavy the daily work is, people still need dreams and hobbies. One of his wishes during the pandemic was to get a picture of people hugging on the street, he said.
And now, the dream has come true. “My beloved Wuhan is back,” he said.
1. What does the underlined word “deliveryman” mean?| A．接待员 | B．记录员 | C．快递员 | D．售票员 |
| A．Because he wanted to make more money. |
| B．Because he needed more food. |
| C．Because the people in Wuhan were too lazy to go out. |
| D．Because the virus made people in Wuhan need food deliverymen. |
| A．Exciting. | B．Boring. | C．Valuable. | D．Interesting. |
| A．Guanggu Square is one of the busiest places in Wuhan. |
| B．During the pandemic, there are enough food orders for deliverymen. |
| C．Customers didn’t use to understand why delivery was late on rainy days. |
| D．Zhao Bin has taken a picture of people hugging on the street. |
| A．Why a deliveryman worked so hard during the pandemic. |
| B．Which hobby a deliveryman had during the pandemic. |
| C．What a deliveryman did during the pandemic. |
| D．How people mistook a deliveryman during the pandemic. |
10 . Are you looking forward to a special trip? Have your vacation in a tree house! You can find them in the following places.
In India, there are tree house bedrooms from 10 to 25 meters up a tree. There’s a bamboo lift to carry you up. The electricity you see comes from the sun. And there are small roads to take a walk and natural swimming pools to swim in. You can visit your neighbour on a bridge made of rope. |
In Kenya, you can live in a tree house. It has two floors, and the rooms have big beds. The windows have colored glass, and the bathrooms have showers. There’s a small kitchen, too. The hotel serves food in your room! |
In Belize, you can live with birds under a Guanacaste tree that is about 30 meters tall. The birds make good neighbors because they eat the insects（昆虫）. So it’s a good place for bird watching. A river runs around the tree house on three sides. The clear water is good for swimming! |
The largest tree house for vacation is in Brazil. There are many tree houses, all connected by more than 8 kilometers of wood bridges. You can walk through the trees at about 25 meters high and see the wildlife. Your neighbor may be monkey! |
1. What do we know about the tree house in Belize?
| A．It has two floors. | B．It is connected by a wood bridge. |
| C．It’s a good place for birdwatching. | D．It’s from 10 to 25 meters up a tree. |
| A．In India | B．In Kenya | C．In Belize. | D．In Brazil |
| A．To ask for some help. | B．To protect the nature. |
| C．To compare different places | D．To introduce the tree house vacation |
