At the age of 16, Einstein (爱因斯坦) was always busy playing with a group of naughty (顽皮的) kids. He failed his final exam. One morning, when Einstein was fishing with his friends, his father stopped him and said, “Einstein, you like playing so much that you failed your exam. I’m worried about your future.” “What are you worrying about? Jack and Robert also failed, but aren’t they still going fishing?” “My boy, you can’t think like that,” his dad said. “There is a fable (寓言故事) in our hometown. Listen to it now.”
“There were two cats playing on a roof (房顶). One cat was careless and fell down the chimney (烟囱) while holding the other cat. When the two cats climbed out of the chimney, one of the cats had soot (烟灰) on his face, while the other cat’s face was clean. Seeing the soot-faced cat, the clean cat thought its face must be dirty, so it quickly ran to the riverside and washed its face. The soot-faced cat saw the clean-faced cat and thought its face was also clean, so it just swaggered (昂首阔步) down the street and went on playing happily.”
“Einstein, no one can be your ‘mirror’. You have to think for yourself. If you just follow others, you will never learn.” Hearing this, Einstein walked back to his room. He decided to study and he didn’t care about what his friends were doing. This made him successful.
1. Einstein was an excellent student in school at the age of 16.2. Jack and Robert were Einstein’s friends and they might be not good at schoolwork.
3. His father told him a story of two cats just to stop him from playing with some naughty kids.
4. According to the fable, only one cat needed to clean his face.
5. From the passage, we’ve learned that success comes from hard work.
It’s nice to know that you are coming to our school next month. Here is what you want to know. My school is big and nice. Every day, I only have seven classes at school. The first class starts at 8 a.m. After my fourth class in the morning, I will have a lunch break (休息) from 12:00 to 1:40.
School is over at 4:30. After school, I often play basketball with my friends. I only like playing basketball. I don’t play other ball games.
My favorite class is history because it’s interesting. And this month—October, we will have History Day. I like my school very much and I can’t wait to meet you.
Yours,
Li Hua
1. Lisa will come to Li Hua’s school in October.2. Lisa usually has three classes in the afternoon at school.
3. Li Hua has a lunch break for one hour.
4. From the letter we know Li Hua’s favorite sport is basketball.
5. Li Hua tells Lisa about his school life in this letter.
When I was a baby, I jumped and ran around you and made you laugh. Whenever I was “bad”, you’d shake your finger at me and ask “How could you? ”—but then you'd give up, and played with me and I thought that life could not be any more perfect.
My house training was a long process, because you were terribly busy, but we worked on that together. We went for long walks, runs in the park and car rides. We stopped for ice cream. I took long naps in the sun waiting for you to come home at the end of the day.
Gradually, you began spending more time at work, and more time searching for your human friend. Later, you fell in love. She, now your wife, is not a dog person, but I still welcomed her into our home. I was happy because you were happy. Then your babies came along and I shared your excitement, I was excited by their pinkness, how they smelled, and I wanted to look after them, too. Your wife was afraid I would bite them. However, as they began to grow, I became their friend.
Now, you have a new job in another city and you and they will be moving to an apartment that does not let pets in. You’ve made the right decision for your “family”, although I wish I could be your family all the time.
I was excited about the car ride until we arrived at the dog house. There were many fearing and hopeless cats and dogs in the cage. You filled out the paper and said to the staffs there, “I know you will find a good home for her.” They said nothing. The children were in tears as they waved me goodbye. And “How could you?” were the only three words in my mind.
Is it better to live with hope or without hope? At first, whenever anyone passed my dog house, I rushed to the front, hoping it was you, hoping you had changed your mind and hoping this was all a bad dream.
My owner, I will think of you and wait for you forever. I hope you receive more faithfulness from your family than you showed to me.
1. Who tells this story?| A．A dog | B．A child. | C．A dog's owner. | D．A dog trainer. |
| A．He had a newborn baby | B．His wife did not like the dog. |
| C．He was moving into a new building. | D．He thought the dog was too dangerous. |
| A．hoped to live with another family | B．still loved it owner very much |
| C．did not want to see its owner again | D．was excited about the dog house |
| A．Get ready for changes. | B．Never ask for too much. |
| C．Always be positive about your life. | D．Be faithful to those who love you. |
4 . Once there was a young man who began to feel too good after he succeeded. He was so proud（自负的）that he felt he could do anything easily.
One day, the young man asked a wise man（智者）to climb the mountain together. On the way, the young man kept talking about how good he was, but the wise man just listened to him without saying a word. At the top, the wise man asked, "Look! What do you see below? " "I see trees, farms, houses and people on the firm, " the young man said. "What do you feel?, " the wise man asked the other question. ''Everything is under me. I feel I am very powerful（强大的）, " the young man answered.
After a minute, he asked the young man to look up. "What can you see this time?" the wise man asked. "There are different birds and white clouds flying around high mountains, the young man answered. Then he asked the wise man's feelings. UI feel small and powerless, " the wise man answered. "If a person knows there is always the sky over his head, he can understand where he stands. "
The young man disagreed with the wise man. At last, he left angrily and still believed that he was the best.
Just after a few months, the young man lost everything. At that time, he felt sorry for what he said. From then on, whenever he began to feel too good, he looked at the sky. Then he remembered his right place.
1. Why did the wise man ask the young man to look up?| A．To ask him to enjoy the sky. | B．To make him know he is short. |
| C．To let him understand his place. | D．To make him become angry. |
| A．Because he wasn't good at all. |
| B．Because he was too proud. |
| C．Because the wise man didn't like him. |
| D．Because he didn’t look at the sky. |
| A．There is no great man in the world. |
| B．We can look at the sky to enjoy the clouds. |
| C．There is always someone better than you. |
| D．You can’t do anything well if you feel good. |
（①=Para.（自然段）1 ②=Para. 2 ③=Para. 3 /④=Para. 4 ⑤=Para. 5）
| A．①/②/③④⑤ | B．①②/③④/⑤ | C．①/②③/④⑤ | D．①/②③④/⑤ |
5 . The Chinese high-speed rails may stand out（突出）because of its scale（规模）. There are more than twice as many high-speed trains in China as the rest of the world. Cities like Beijing have several hundred high-speed trains stopping at the city every day, much more than any other big cities abroad. And every year when the Chinese Spring Festival comes, about 3 billion（十亿） trips take place within 2 weeks. It would be the same as every American taking 10 trips during Christmas, or every European taking 5 trips during Christmas. All the train tickets are gone within 10 seconds once they can be bought online.
The high-speed trains are really great. Firstly, China 5s technology on building the railway is leading the rest of the world and there is no sign that any other country could go beyond China in near future. Secondly, China's trains are based on Japanese, German and French models. At last, the scale of Chinese high-speed train is unthinkable to other countries, which has high-speed train network（网络）.
I had my first chance to ride the high-speed trains last week when I had a business meeting in Zhengzhou. The train was amazing. It is clean and the seats are huge. You can't even feel how fast the train is moving. If there were no windows, I wouldn't be able to tell when we were stopped or when we were traveling at 300 km/h. I had traveled on an Amtrak train before in the US, and hated how slow it was and how many stops there were. Chinese high-speed trains are of great difference.
I'm traveling again this week by train and I'm excited.
1. What's the main idea of this passage?| A．Chinese high-speed trains are amazing. |
| B．Different kinds of trains in the world. |
| C．My first chance to ride the high-speed trains. |
| D．How fast the Chinese high-speed trains are! |
| A．telling a short story | B．explaining die reasons |
| C．comparing some facts | D．following a time order |
| A．American people. | B．Train tickets. | C．European people. | D．Train trips. |
| A．He worries about it. | B．It needs to be improved. |
| C．An Amtrak train is better. | D．He thinks highly of it. |
6 . We see robots in our everyday life. They play us music, help us do housework and stay with us when we are alone. Now they can help us even more. Singapore is trying a new way to get people stay away from each other.
People in Singapore now see a yellow and black robot "dog" called Spot in the parks. Boston Dynamics, a US company, designed the robot. It has a camera to scan（扫描）the environment, so it knows how many people are in the park. The dog goes around the park and plays a pre-recorded message, telling visitors to stay away from each other.
There are many videos about Spot online. It can climb up stairs, dance to music, go through difficult areas and even open doors. The robot dog now works in only some of the parks in Singapore, but this is about to change. "It works very well. We are now thinking about putting a robot dog in every park in Singapore, " one of the officials（官员）says.
Thanks to technology, we are now seeing more robots doing different jobs. They make our life much easier.
1. The passage mainly talks about _________.| A．what the robot dog looks like | B．people's everyday life |
| C．robot dogs in Singapore parks | D．the future life in Singapore |
| A．some houses | B．all houses | C．some parks | D．all parks |
| A．stay away from each other | B．climb up stairs of a building |
| C．live an easier and better life | D．go through difficult areas |
7 . ①From economy (经济) to technology, from sports to culture, China has made progress in many areas in the past seventy years.
②Over the past 70 years, China has achieved rapid economic growth.
③In 1978, China's GDP was 11th in the world. In 2001, China became a member of the World Trade Organization. Since then, the country has been doing more and more business with the rest of the world. Today China is the world's largest exporter（出口国）and the second largest importer (进口国). Since 2010, China has been the second largest economy in the world.
④In 2013, President Xi Jinping came up with the Belt and Road Initiative. In the past few years, more than 100 countries and international organizations have joined it. It has created more than 300,000 jobs in different countries.
⑤China has built the world's biggest high-speed rail network. The trains have attracted millions of travelers, as they are fast, comfortable and safe. And planes made in China are popular.
⑥China is also working on the development of AI (人工智能). China may become the center of AI innovation (创新) by 2030.
⑦Today, China is a sports superpower. Many Chinese athletes have become famous on the world stage, such as Yao Ming and Li Na. In 2008, Beijing held the Summer Olympic Games. It is also going to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics.
⑧More and more people around the world are becoming interested in Chinese culture. They visit China and learn Chinese. Also, China has set up 536 Confucius Institutes in more than 150 countries. A lot of foreign students are learning Chinese language and culture there.
1. Today China is ________ in the world.| A．the second largest exporter | B．the largest importer |
| C．the largest country | D．the second largest economy |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．invite visitors around the world | B．talk about Chinese culture |
| C．praise China for its great progress | D．encourage Chinese to work hard |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
8 . All around the world, people drink tea. But tea does not mean the same thing to everyone. In different countries people have very different ideas about drinking tea.
In China, for example, tea is always served when people get together. The Chinese drink it at any time of the day at homes or in tea houses. They prefer their tea with nothing else in it.
Tea is also important in Japan. The Japanese have a special way of serving tea called a tea ceremony （仪式）. It is very old and full of meaning. Everything must be done in a special way in the ceremony. There is even a special room for it in Japanese homes.
Another tea-drinking country is England. In England, the late afternoon is “Teatime”. Most of English have cups of tea then. The English usually make tea in a teapot （茶壶）and drink it with cream and sugar. They also eat cakes, cookies and little sandwiches at teatime.
In the United States people drink tea mostly for breakfast or after meals.Americans usually use tea bags to make their tea. Tea bags are faster and easier than making tea in teapots. In summer, many Americans drink cold tea—“iced tea”. Sometimes they drink iced tea from cans, like soda（汽水）.
1. The passage is about ________.| A．Chinese tea | B．why tea is important |
| C．the teatime in England | D．ways of drinking tea |
| A．all around the world | B．only in the United States |
| C．only in English-speaking countries | D．only in China and Japan |
| A．for breakfast | B．in a special ceremony |
| C．when they get together | D．only in tea houses |
| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
9 . Students all over the world like sports. There are many kinds of sports. Many students like to play them.
In China, students like playing ping-pong best. They often play it after class. They like basketball and volleyball, too. But they are busy at school, so they don't often play sports.
In America （美国）, students play sports every day. They often play basketball, but soccer is their favorite sport. They like swimming and running, too. They think sports are great.
In England （英格兰）, ▲ . Watching soccer games on TV is their favorite. They often play sports with their family or friends on Saturday and Sunday. They like sports very much.
Playing sports is good for our health and can let us be happy. Let's do sports !
1. What sport is not mentioned（提及）for the students in China?| A．Ping-pong | B．Basketball | C．Volleyball | D．Baseball |
| A．Basketball | B．Running | C．Soccer | D．Swimming |
| A．Students don't like sports. |
| B．Students love watching soccer games and playing sports. |
| C．Students don't like watching games. |
| D．There are sports games every day. |
| A．sports games | B．playing sports | C．ball games | D．Chinese sports |
10 . An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old. She couldn't run quickly, and she could not bite （咬）, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse. She jumped and caught the mouse. But the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.
Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young. "
1. The old cat couldn't _________.| A．jump | B．see | C．bite | D．catch the mouse |
| A．saw a mouse | B．hit the mouse | C．ate her fish | D．didn't kill the mouse |
| A．to keep a cat as a pet | B．to be kind to the old |
| C．not to use the cat to kill the mouse | D．not to remember what the old did |
