1 . Many years ago, there was a young girl named Pepsy. She thought she was bad-looking and didn’t feel like going out. But there were times when she had to go out shopping. She was unhappy and sometimes even angry when people looked at her face.
One night, a strange old woman came to Pepsy’s house. She said to Pepsy, “My child, let me help you. Put this magic (有魔力的) flower in your hair, and you’ll become beautiful.”
Pepsy did what the woman said. Something strange happened. Pepsy was surprised to see herself so beautiful in the mirror. She ran happily out of her house. She walked on the street and smiled at everyone. She became very friendly and nice, very different from what she was before. Almost all the people said, “Pepsy is so beautiful today!”
Finally, Pepsy returned to her house. But when she entered the house, she saw the magic flower on the floor. She left the flower there before she went out. She didn’t wear it when walking on the street!
根据短文内容判断正 (T)、误 (F)。
1. Pepsy didn’t like going out because she thought she was bad-looking.
2. At first when people looked at her face, Pepsy was angry.
3. The strange old man gave Pepsy a flower.
4. Nothing happened after Pepsy put the flower in her hair.
5. The passage tells us being confident (自信的) is more important for us.
2 . We make decisions every day. Everything we say and do is the result of a decision. Sometimes it’s not easy to make the right decision. If you have a big decision to make, you may feel afraid. But there are some simple things you can do to make yourself less worried. Keep reading to learn more about how to make decisions.
Write about your fears (畏惧). It may help you know about them and make a better decision. Start by writing about the decision you need to make. Describe or list everything that you are worried about.
Think about the worst situation. Once you write about the decision you need to make and why you have fears, take it a step further (深远). Try to think about the worst result for every possible choice.
Think about whether the decision you make will last for a long time. Once you think about anything that could go wrong think about whether you can change the decision later on. Most decisions can be changed, so don’t be afraid to make a wrong decision.
Judge the following statements true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
1. The writer thinks it’s always easy to make decisions.
2. The writer thinks writing about your fears can help you learn about those fears.
3. The writer advises readers not to think the worst result.
4. The writer thinks it’s important to make right decisions at first, because it’s hard to change them later.
5. This passage mainly gives us some advice on making decisions.
3 . I stood there listening to my father shout at the top of his voice. “Which one of you did this?” We all stared down at a step. There was a child’s handwriting in chalk there. Would he guess it was me? I was so scared. When he asked me, I lied, “Not me, Dad. “The others denied (否认) it as well. Of course, we all knew that one of us must have done it. But as the youngest and smallest of the three, I just couldn’t find the courage to tell the truth.
To find out who had written on the step, Father gave us each a piece of paper and a pencil. “I want each of you to write exactly what you see on the step. “I tried my best to write the words differently. I didn’t want Dad to be able to tell it was me.
He gathered up our pieces of paper and looked at them. “Since none of you will admit (承认) to having done it, then I will punish you all.” I stood there and said nothing. “I did it.” My sister stepped forward and said she had done something she hadn’t. She was allowed not to go out for a month.
I didn’t tell my dad it was really me until many years later. I always felt sorry because of it. That was the last time I let anyone take the blame (承担责任) for me.
根据短文内容判断正、误。(正确的填“A”, 错误的填“B”)
1. Father asked us gently who did it when seeing a child’s handwriting in chalk on the step.
2. Father gave each of us a piece of paper and a pen to find out who did it.
3. My sister admitted to having done it so that the other children could avoid being punished.
4. I still felt sorry about it even if that was the only time I didn’t take the blame for my mistake.
5. From this story, we have learned the writer has learned to take responsibility for himself.
Every living thing needs to reproduce（繁殖）. Reproducing means creating more members of your group. In order for plants to reproduce, they have to spread their seeds（种子）to other areas. Plants have developed all kinds of ways to do this.
The simplest way is gravity（重力）. Many seeds are inside of fruit. When fruit gets too heavy, it falls from a tree to the ground. Sometimes animals will pick up the fruit and drop it in another area. That helps move the seed even farther away. Apples spread this way.
Other plants use wind to spread their seeds. Dandelions（蒲公英）are a good example of this. Dandelion seeds are so light that when wind blows, it carries dandelion seeds to new places. Maple（枫树）seeds also use wind. Their seeds are connected with long, thin leaves that look like wings. When the seed falls from the tree, its “wings” help it fly farther from the tree.
Some animals help plants spread their seeds. The animals eat the seeds. While the seed is in the animal’s body, it stays whole. When the seed leaves the animal, it’s in a new place.
Ants also help spread seeds. Some seeds have a special smell that appeals to ants. The ants bring the seeds back to their home, which of course is underground. They only eat part of the seed. They leave the rest of the seed underground. After that, the seed can start growing.
1. When fruit gets heavy enough, it will fall from a tree to the ground because of gravity.2. All plants can spread seeds by themselves.
3. Wind helps apple and dandelion seeds to fly farther to new places.
4. Some animals and ants eat seeds, and it is helpful for seeds to spread.
5. The passage is mainly about the relationship between animals and plants.
You may know about “junk food” like French Fries. But do you know about “junk sleep”?
Recently, a British (英国的) survey found that electronic products (电子产品) in teenagers’ bedrooms are affecting (影响) their sleep.
The survey was done among 1,000 British kids from 12 to 16. It found that 30 percent of them got just 4 to 7 hours of sleep every day. But doctors say they need 8 to 9 hours.
Almost a quarter of the kids said they fell asleep more than once a week while watching TV, listening to music or using other electronic products.
“This is very worrying,” said Dr. Chris Idzikowski, a British expert (专家). “We call it ‘junk sleep’. It means you don’t get enough sleep and the quality of the sleep is bad, too. If you don’t get good rest, you don’t perform well in school the next day.”
The survey found that 40 percent of the kids felt tired each day, with girls between 13 and 16 feeling the worst. Nearly all the teenagers have a phone, MP5 or TV in their bedroom. And many of them have all three. To keep students away from electronic products, our country has done something to stop students from playing them on weekdays.
1. This passage is mainly about electronic products.2. 200 of the children in the survey sleep only 4 to 7 hours a day.
3. “Junk food” and “junk sleep” are both bad in life.
4. Teenagers in the survey spend too much time on electronic products
5. Now our country has done something to stop students from playing electronic products.
6 . A jobless man wanted very much to have the position（位置）of “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR manager asked him questions and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test,” he said. “Give your e-mail address and I’ll tell you the date when you may start by email.” The man replied, neither an e-mail. “I’m sorry,” said the HR manager. “If you don’t have an e-mail, and anyone who isn’t living cannot have the job.”
The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do with only 10 dollars left. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He started to go early every day and returned home late, doing business like this. Five years later, he was one of the biggest food retailers（零售商） in the USA.
One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, “I haven’t got one.” His friend couldn’t believe his ears. “Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?” The man thought for a while and replied, “I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”
根据短文内容判断正、误。（注意：正确的填“A”，错误的填“B”）
1. The man did the cleaning for the test.
2. The man got the job because he didn’t have an e-mail.
3. The man thought of an idea to make money before he left Microsoft.
4. The man became one of the biggest food retailers in the USA because he worked very hard.
5. The story wanted to tell us nothing in the world is impossible if we work hard.
7 . A bird went to look for its happiness in a faraway place. It flew and flew when it suddenly saw a little dying flower, whose face was full of smile. Not knowing why, the bird asked the little flower, happiness is a hope in the heart.
The bird continued flying and saw a lame（跛足的）duck help a little duck find the way back home. Although it was disabled, it had a smiling face. “I’m happy because I can help others.” said the lame duck. So the bird saw it: happiness is a love in the heart.
The bird kept flying and suddenly saw a spider climbing up a wall. The spider fell off the wall halfway, but it kept climbing again and fell off again. Even so, the spider didn’t give up. The little bird asked the spider in surprise, “You failed again and again. Why don’t you have pain but happiness on your face?”
“As long as I keep making my efforts, I can climb up it. Because of this, I’m so happy.” said the spider. The little bird saw it: happiness is a faith（信念）in the heart.
So the little bird no longer looked for happiness because it had seen the truth: happiness is not in the faraway place but in your own heart.
根据短文内容判断正（A）、误（B）。
1. The bird first saw a little dying flower, whose face was full of smile.
2. A little duck couldn’t find the way back home because it was disabled.
3. The bird kept flying and suddenly saw a spider climbing up a hill.
4. The spider failed again and again but it didn’t give up.
5. From the passage, we’ve learned happiness is in the faraway place.
8 . Huang Shengen tied a small blackboard to his motorbike, together with all his teaching things and an alarm clock around his neck, and then started his ride.
53-year-old Huang has worked as a primary school teacher for 35 years in Yichun, Jiangxi Province. As the only teacher in Shaniping Primary School, which was closed because of COVID-19, Huang went to 7-year-old Zeng Yufen’s home. In the school, the girl is the only student living with her grandmother in a mountain village.
All primary school students were having online classes at home. However, Huang found that the network signal was poor at Zeng’s home when he took books to the girl at the end of February.
In order not to disappoint her, Huang thought of the idea of a mobile classroom. He showed up at Zeng’s home the next day with a blackboard, a ruler and a box of chalks.
Every morning, Huang rode about 15 kilometers up the mountain road to Zeng’s home. After class, he played games with his student, and he also taught the student to draw flowers and the beautiful mountain village.
“I’m a teacher from a village, and my job is to teach her so that she might leave the mountain and live a better life in the future,” Huang said.
Judge the following sentences true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
1. Huang was 18 years old when he started teaching at the school.
2. Huang found it was hard for the girl to take online classes when he took books to Zeng Yufen.
3. There were many teachers in Shaniping Primary School.
4. Huang thought of the idea of a mobile classroom for Zeng Yufen.
5. This passage is about a great teacher from village.
9 . lt is becoming more and more important for scientists to closely monitor（监视） our ocean life. However, it is almost impossible since we can scare the animals. Now, thanks to SoFi, the Soft Robotic Fish（软机器鱼）, scientists may not only be able to keep a close eye on them, but also uncover undersea secrets that we haven’t known for centuries.
Built by MrTs（麻省理工学院的）Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the snow white romote-controlled （远程控制的） robot closely emulates real fish, with a soft tail that moves from side to side and two “fins”（鳍）. To make sure SoFi can freely move around the ocean and swim like a real fish, a hydraulic pump（水泵） moves water from one balloon-like part to the other through SoFi’s soft rubber tail.
Robert Katzschmann, a scientist from MTs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, says, “To our knowledge, this is the first robotic fish that can swim freely in three dimensions（维） for a long time.”
During the test in the sea, SoFi swam at the depths of 50 feet for up to 40 minutes at a time, taking photos. Sometimes the fish would swim near the strange-looking robot-fish, while at other times they appeared without noticing it.
SoFi now only records videos, the scientists also hope to make it more autonomous（自动的）in the future. “For us, this fish is magical,” says Robert. “We imagine someday it might help us uncover more mysteries from the amazing underwater world that we know so little about. ”
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
1. The underlined word “emulates” in the passage means “_______” in Chinese.
| A．观察 | B．喂食 | C．模仿 |
| A．strange-looking fins | B．snow white body | C．soft rubber tail |
| A．It swims with a soft tail that moves up and down. |
| B．It can swim at the depths of 50 feet. |
| C．It is an autonomous robot which now only records sounds. |
| A．often scares the fishes when it swims with them |
| B．can watch fishes in the ocean without causing any trouble |
| C．is the first robotic fish that can swim in water for days at a time |
| A．mysteries from the amazing underwater world |
| B．a scientist from MFT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
| C．the Soft Robotic Fish which is romote-controlled |
10 . Do you ever feel like your thoughts are going around in circles? One minute, you’re thinking about your homework. The next time, you’re thinking about your plans for the weekend.
Is it possible for us to slow our thoughts down or even stop them completely? It depends on your definition（定义）of “thinking”, according to Michael Halassa, a researcher at MIT, US. We go through each day in one of two states（状态）— we either realize that we’re thinking or we don’t.
However, our brains won’t stop thinking completely until we die. The brain never actually stops thinking. Most thoughts are actually in the background（在后面进行）without us noticing them and there’s not really a way to turn these things off. Human brains can process about 11 million pieces of information each second.
You can compare this to how a computer works. Even when you aren’t using your computer while it’s turned on, it is till running “in the background”. Your computer, much like your brain, keeps “thinking”, even if you’re not actively using it.
The phenomenon is considered as “thought-chatter”（思想聊天）. It describes the thoughts in and out of our mind at different times during the day.
Some thought-chatter can be enjoyable, such as daydreaming. Albert Einstein came up with his famous theory of relativity（相对论）while daydreaming at work.
But too much thought-chatter can make us feel too upset or worried. How can we solve the unpleasant influence? Thinking deeply and seriously can help us clean up some of this thought-chatter.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
1. The underlined word “phenomenon” means ________ in Chinese.
| A．现象 | B．氛围 | C．症状 |
| A．are thinking about one thing over and over again |
| B．are thinking about one thing after another |
| C．cannot think about a problem very clearly |
| A．Crazy. | B．Busy. | C．Awful. |
| A．Human brains can process about 11 million pieces of information each minute. |
| B．All the thought-chatter is as enjoyable as daydreaming. |
| C．Thinking deeply and seriously can reduce（减少）thought-chatter. |
| A．Human brains are thinking all the time. |
| B．The wiser you are, the better your brain works. |
| C．A computer can think like a human brain. |
