1 . The UN Environment (环境) Programme says that rising temperatures could mean the end of some migrating (迁徙) animals．
Migrating animals move through several environments as they travel away from the cold area in winter to warmer ones. Birds may fly from one part of the world to another, perhaps stopping at feeding grounds on the way. Whales (鲸) and turtles(海龟) travel through huge areas of ocean (海洋). A report says that changes in any one of the places where these animals stay can lead to some problems. "Obviously these animals have developed their traveling ways over thousands of years. But weather changes much greater over the next 25 to 50 years. And it is impossible for these animals to change their habits fast enough," said the report writer Dr.Robert Hepworth．
Turtles are hit hardest by rising temperatures. Scientists have found that at higher temperatures, Turtles have far more female eggs than male ones. In parts of Malaysia, Turtles are only giving birth to female babies. And some turtles are more probable to develop cancer (癌症) as the waters get warmer.
With birds, the main problem is the harm to important areas at the end of their travels or at resting places along the way. About one-fifth of immigration birds are now in danger because of these changes, including rising sea levels, land loss and more strong storms.
Some other animals are now in great danger. For example, the North Atlantic Right Whale is losing their food because of the changing ocean flows; The White-Nose Dolphin is out-competed（淘汰）by other kinds in warmer waters．
The report is not all bad news. Even with the temperature changing, protecting the environment can still help migrating animals return. "We need to start taking action all over the world. The clock is ticking. We should make full use of every minute." said Dr.Hepworth. And now some projects are already working! Whales are changing their feeding habits, finding new feeding grounds and new foods to eat．
1. Why does this rising temperature mean the end of some migrating animals?| A．They stop moving through several environments． |
| B．They can't suit the changes during their travelling． |
| C．Their travelling habits will be changed fast enough． |
| D．They keep flying from one part of the world to another． |
| A．The North Atlantic Right Whale may find new food． |
| B．Some turtles may develop cancer with the warm waters． |
| C．1/5 of migrating birds change their feeding habits． |
| D．The White﹣Nosed Dolphin may have only female babies． |
| A．It takes time to achieve the project． | B．It may be too late to save the world． |
| C．It's time to solve the problems at once． | D．It's important to stop animals from returning． |
| A．Ways to prevent world warming． |
| B．Steps to save the animals in danger． |
| C．Animals' competition(竞争) with other for food． |
| D．Effect(影响) of rising temperatures on migrating animals． |
| A．Popular Science． | B．Art Style． | C．Weather Report． | D．Teenage Problem． |
2 . It was a normal busy morning. At about 8:30 am, George, an old man in his 80s, arrived at Queen Alexandra Hospital, England, to have stitches removed (拆线) from his hand.
George told me that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:15. I weighed him, took his blood pressure (血压) and invited him to take a seat in the waiting area. I saw him looking at his watch and asked George if he had another doctor’s appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry.
George told me no, but that he needed to go to St Christopher’s Nursing Home to eat breakfast with his wife. He told me that she had Alzheimer’s disease (老年痴呆症).
As we talked, I asked if she would be sad if he was a little late. George replied that she no longer knew who he was and that she had not recognized him for five years.
I was surprised. “And you still go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?” I asked him.
“She doesn’t know me, but I still know who she is,” he answered with a smile.
I had to hold back tears back as George left. “That is the kind of love I want in my life.” I thought.
True love is neither physical, nor romantic. The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything , they just make the best of everything they have. Life isn’t about how to survive (存活) in the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
1. Why was George in a hurry when he was in the hospital?| A．Because he had to look after his grandson. |
| B．Because he wanted to see his wife on time. |
| C．Because he had another doctor’s appointment. |
| D．Because he didn’t feel comfortable. |
| A．she was often late, too. | B．she couldn’t recognize him |
| C．she knew George was busy | D．she didn’t want to see him |
| A．George’s wife couldn’t get to know him 5 years before. |
| B．George’s wife refused to get along with him 5 years before. |
| C．George’s wife no longer wanted to see him 5 years before. |
| D．George’s wife came to recognize him 5 years before. |
| A．People who are the most romantic. |
| B．People who have everything. |
| C．People who make the best of everything they have. |
| D．People who are physically strong. |
| A．Enjoy the moment in life | B．Love everyone around you |
| C．Learn to survive | D．Value the one you own |
3 . During my travels through the mountains of Greece I was only ever scared once, it was dusk and as I walked. I came across six large wolves that were feeding on the body of a dead animal. I had heard many stories about wolves as a child and it was this animal that I feared more than any other. The wolves before me were huge, at least 6 feet long and covered with thick grey fur.
As I went near, the wolves left the blood-covered snow that surrounded the body and started walking towards me, one after another. They stopped about 20 meters from me and stared. The lead wolf raised his head into the air and took in a deep breath, as if he was smelling me. The animals looked both beautiful and frightening, but I knew I couldn't show them my fear. As I drew nearer, the lead wolf raised his head once more but this time let out a long, loud cry. The awful cry rang out across the silent valley. I had never heard a more frightening sound. I was almost certain it was a sign to be death.
Every moment I expected to see the pack of wolves’ dash at me. I knew my only hope was to pretend I had no fear. I walked past the line of wolves, like a general moving among his soldiers. They cried out loud again. But when they saw that their cry did not cause me to change my direction or make me run they feared to come after me, so they let me pass and returned to the dead animal.
If I had turned back or tried to run away when they marched out to meet me, I am certain the whole pack would have attacked me in a moment. But my show of false courage intimidated them and kept them back.
1. Why didn't the wolves attack the man？| A．They were no longer hungry when they saw him. |
| B．The man was already known to the wolves. |
| C．They were too far away to catch the man. |
| D．The man showed no fear as he passed by. |
| A．encouraged | B．scared | C．doubted | D．hurt |
| A．To show that mountains can be dangerous places. |
| B．To discuss the habits of mountain wolves. |
| C．To stress the need for courage when in danger. |
| D．To make people aware of the danger of wolves. |
| A．The wolves were friendly to the writer. |
| B．The writer knew wolves were dangerous in childhood. |
| C．The lead wolf asked the other wolves to stand in line. |
| D．The writer wasn't afraid of the wolves at all. |
| A．In Face of Fear | B．My Trip to Greece |
| C．My Mountain Travels | D．A Man without Fear |
4 . Do you know cold is not a serious illness, but it spreads(传输) very fast? Colds are caused by viruses(病毒). A sneeze(喷嚏) or a cough may take viruses from one person to another. Cold viruses can also be spread by objects, such as telephones or cups. When you have a cold, you will have a headache, a sore throat, a fever and so on. Here are some tips to stop colds from spreading.
1. Wash your hands a lot.
2. Don't sneeze or cough in front of others.
3. Have a rest if you don’t feel well, don’t study late at night —colds are always worse then.
4. Drink lots of water or juice.
5. Don't play sports or games for a while. It's really hard to run around with a running nose.
6. Don't have your friends come to visit someone who is sick.
1. ________may take viruses from one person to another.| A．Sneeze or a cough | B．Hands | C．Noses |
| A．have a headache | B．have your friends at home | C．have a fever |
| A．To eat a lot of food | B．To study late | C．To have a rest |
| A．流鼻涕 | B．鼻子在跑 | C．跑步时的鼻子 |
| A．What can I do for you? |
| B．Wash your hands a lot. |
| C．What can you do to stop colds from spreading? |
We’ll finally grow up someday, leaving our parents and facing the challenges in life. Parents may not be able to solve every problem for us. Instead, we should have enough life skills to deal with the problems that come our way.
This is what our countries to do now: Helping more students gain working spirit. To stress the importance of hardworking spirit education (劳动教育) among students of different ages. A guideline (指南) was released (发布) recently. The guideline calls for students to respect work. Students should learn basic life skills and form good working habits through such education.
The government has been trying to stress the importance of hardworking spirit education. But this has been overlooked (忽略) in recent years. Many teens do not value the importance of working hard and are uninterested in doing so.
According to a study of nearly 3,000 students that was done by Ningbo Evening News in March, only 22 percent of primary and middle school students help with everyday chores around the house.
Schools and families play an important role in teaching students about the value of working hard, the guideline says. Primary and middle schools should provide students with hardworking spirit classes every week. Schools can also hold activities to give students real - world work experience. For example, schools can teach children how to plant trees on Tree - Planting Day.
As children' s first teachers, parents should also encourage children to learn how to do chores at home. Students should master one or two life skills every year. These skills can include cooking, washing their own clothes and tidying their rooms.
1. The guideline was released in order to _________.| A．teach students how to do chores at home |
| B．call for students to respect work |
| C．help students solve life problems |
| D．ask students to be more independent |
| A．Challenges in life. | B．Basic life skills. |
| C．The recently released guideline. | D．Hardworking spirit education. |
| A．Only 3,000 students help with housework. |
| B．Students pay no attention to work spirit. |
| C．About one - fifth of students help with housework. |
| D．Students are very dependent on their parents. |
| A．provide both guidance and chances for real work |
| B．hand out die guideline to every student |
| C．teach students how to plant trees |
| D．give parents homework |
6 . Personal computers and Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but the new technology will also let them communicate more with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
Email makes it easy to work at home. I spend most weekends and evenings at home. My working hours aren’t much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before email became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share ideas with a group of friends. Say you do something fun — see a great movie perhaps and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you use a telephone to call each one, you may tire of telling the story. With email, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and send it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
Email is also an inexpensive way to communicate with people who live far away. More than a few parents use email to communicate with their children at college every day.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and Internet offer another way of communicating. They don’t take the place of any of the ways.
1. The use of email has made it possible for the writer to________.| A．spend more time at the office | B．spend much less time working |
| C．have more free time with his child | D．work at home all weekends and evenings |
| A．The user can send much more information than the telephone. |
| B．The user can keep the communication as personal as possible. |
| C．The user can communicate with the friends faster than the telephone. |
| D．The user can send messages to a group of people almost at the same time. |
| A．方便 | B．信心 | C．自由 | D．忙碌 |
| A．Email is not an expensive way to communicate with people far away. |
| B．Computers and the Internet make communication more convenient. |
| C．Email makes it easier for people to live at home and work at the office. |
| D．Computers and the Internet are useful tools to keep good friendship. |
7 . China is a great country with the largest population in the world. In order to solve the population problem, our government carried out one-child policy (政策) before. When it is carried out for some time, many people not only see its advantages but also disadvantages.
From 2016, two-child policy is put into effect. In my opinion, two-child policy is good. First of all, two-child policy is the gift for some only child. For some families, maybe the parents are only child and they can also have only child. Besides the loneliness of their child, when their child grows up and they grow older, their child marry an only child girl, the burden (负担) on their child and his wife is too heavy. Their child and his wife have to take care of two couples. Usually, a young couple looking after an old couple is a little difficult. But if their parents have two children, they can share the burden of taking care of their parents. It would be much better. Secondly, two-child policy can guarantee (保证) the number of Chinese population.
All in all, one-child policy has been out of date. And two-child policy is needed and necessary. It can solve the problems of nowadays and the future.
1. Which country has the largest population in the world?| A．America. | B．Britain. | C．China. | D．Japan. |
| A．携带 | B．取消 | C．禁止 | D．实行 |
| A．solve the population problem |
| B．take care of two old couples |
| C．share the burden of taking care of their parents |
| D．argue that two-child policy should be put into effect |
| A．One-child policy has its advantages and disadvantages. |
| B．It's easy for a young couple to look after an old couple. |
| C．China is a great country with the largest population in the world. |
| D．For some families, maybe the parents are only child and they also can have only child before 2016. |
| A．Two-child policy is needed and necessary. |
| B．Our government carried out one-child policy. |
| C．Two-child policy is the gift for some only child. |
| D．Two-child policy can guarantee the number of Chinese population. |
8 . Everybody is afraid of something. That’s what more than 1,700 kids told us when we asked them about fears and scary(害怕的) things. We gave kids a list of 14 scary things and asked which one frightened them most. Here are the top 5 answers from our survey: ① Scary movies and TV shows; ② Scary dreams; ③ Thunderstorms, hurricanes (飓风), and other horrible weather; ④ War and terrorism (恐怖行动); ⑤ Sounds heard at night.
But not everyone is afraid of the same thing. And what makes one person scared can be of no big deal for someone else. Plenty of kids said their biggest fear wasn’t on our list.
What is fear? Fear is a feeling that everyone has — it’s programmed into all of us — and that’s a good thing because fear is there to protect us. We’re born with a sense of fear so we can react to something that could be dangerous. The baby cries, and their mom comes over to comfort him or her, helping the baby feel safe and OK again.
Real vs. Pretend
The best way to get over a fear is to get more information about it. As kids get older, they understand more and start seeing the difference between what is real and unreal. So when William’s imagination leads him to think of witches(女巫), he can tell himself, “Wait a minute. They’re only pretend things. I don’t need to worry about them.”
The same goes for the dark. A kid’s imagination can start playing tricks when the lights go out. What’s under my bed? Is that a thief I hear? With the help of a parent, kids can get more comfortable in the dark. Using a night light or shining a flashlight under the bed to see that there’s nothing there can help kids fight that fear.
1. What is paragraph 2 mainly about?| A．The list of fears is not complete. |
| B．The things people fear are of no big fear. |
| C．Kids have more fears than people think. |
| D．People are afraid of different things. |
| A．having a sense of fear is not a bad thing |
| B．babies have a weak sense of fear |
| C．fear is not something that we are born with |
| D．not all people can react to dangerous things |
| A．Ugly | B．Usual | C．Unreal | D．Lovely |
9 . To stop more teenagers from becoming addicted（沉迷的） to the Internet, the Ministry of Education（MOE,教育部） sent a letter on April 20， 2018 to all parents in China. It calls on them to pay more attention to their children's online activities. Nowadays more and more teenagers become addicted to the Internet. A 17-year-old boy from Guangdong Province nearly died after playing online games for 40 hours. It shows how bad things can get when one becomes addicted to the Internet.
The MOE also sent a notice to primary and middle schools, asking them to manage students' Internet use. From now on, schools will pay more attention to their students' Internet use, as well as their use of mobile phones. Schools have been told to teach students how to avoid violent（暴力的） online content（内容）. As long as students show signs of being addicted to the Internet, they can get help from their teachers to give up their addiction.
To make better use of the Internet, experts suggest that students should limit（限制） their screen time to less than 1.5 hours a day. They can develop healthy hobbies, like reading or playing sports in their free time.
Many other countries are also taking action. The Australian government has called on schools to confiscate（没收） mobile phones during school hours. And in South Korea, there is a law that children under the age of 16 are not allowed to play online between midnight and 6 a. m.
1. Whom did the MOE send the letter to?| A．Parents. | B．Students. | C．Schools. |
| A．To leave mobile phones home before they go to school. |
| B．To hand in mobile phones when they are at school. |
| C．To develop healthy hobbies such as doing sports or reading. |
| A．Not allowing teenagers to play online. |
| B．Making a law to prevent children under 16 from playing online games during certain time. |
| C．Calling on parents to manage their children's online activities. |
| A．Surfing the Internet is harmful to students. |
| B．Chinese government tries his best to stop students using the Internet. |
| C．Action has been taken to prevent teenagers from being addicted to the Internet. |
| A．a novel | B．a newspaper | C．a science report |
10 . In Singapore, many middle school students spend a lot of their time on their studies. Good education is often regarded as a ticket to success in their future. So many of these students try their best to get a good mark in their examinations. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are a big headache. Sometimes some of them are even made to go to remedial（补习的）classes after school.
Schools run programmes outside school hours. The students can take part in sports and games, music and dance, hiking and rock-climbing, etc. They are also very active in community service（社区服务）.
In their spare time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood blockbusters(大片). Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular among them. They understand IT very well. Some of them also spend their free time surfing the Internet, e-mailing their friends, playing computer and video games.
They sometimes go to cafes, fast-food restaurants, shopping centers and big bookstores.
So, it looks like life as a middle school student in Singapore is not easy but it is rich and colorful.
1. What is NOT mentioned in the passage?| A．Schoolwork. | B．After-class activities. |
| C．Subjects. | D．Things to do in the spare time. |
| A．Because they have a lot of homework. |
| B．Because they have to go to remedial classes. |
| C．Because they want to get a good future. |
| D．Because they have many outside school activities. |
| A．Students are afraid of exams. |
| B．Students have a headache before an exam. |
| C．Students have too many exams. |
| D．Students are in poor health because of exams. |
| A．the same as spare time activities | B．remedial classes after school |
| C．sports activities | D．popular among students |
| A．The middle school students live an easy life in Singapore. |
| B．The middle school students’ life in Singapore is amazing. |
| C．The middle school students’ life in Singapore is boring. |
| D．The middle school students’ life in Singapore is hard, but interesting. |
