1 . March, 2013, the H7N9 virus (病毒)hit Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and so on. It seemed that most people who were infected(被感染) with H7N9 had the common flu. Some people suffered from a fever or a cough.
Don’t be afraid—it’s not easy to be infected with the virus. Here is some advice to help you protect(保护) yourself when it comes.
Wash your hands. You need to wash your hands with soap and hot water before you eat, after you use the toilet(厕所), and after you touch animals, because your hands may carry viruses.
Cover your nose and mouth. When someone (某人) sneezes(打喷嚏) or coughs, flu viruses can travel as far as one meter through the air, so you’d better stand a proper distance (距离) while talking to someone who has a cold. And always cover your mouth and nose with a piece of paper when you sneeze or cough, and then clean your hands.
Wear a mask(口罩). Some doctors say that masks can stop the flu as much as 80%, but if you don’t wash your hands often, it’s no use wearing a mask. And it’s necessary to wear the mask in the groups of people.
Do sports often. Exercises will help make your body strong enough to resist the virus.
1. When did the H7N9 virus hit Shanghai?| A．In 2014. | B．In 2015. | C．In 2012. | D．In 2013. |
| A．Some people who were infected with the H7N9 virus had a toothache. |
| B．You should cover your mouth and nose with a piece of paper when you sneeze or cough. |
| C．Some doctors say that masks can stop the flu as much as 100%. |
| D．It’s very easy to be infected with the virus. |
| A．Four. | B．Three. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．抵抗 | B．传播 | C．感染 | D．接受 |
| A．It tells us how to wash hands. |
| B．It tells us why we should use masks. |
| C．It gives us some advice on how to protect ourselves when the H7N9 virus comes. |
| D．It tells us what H7N9 virus is. |
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| November 8, 2015 Dear Cindy, I’m sorry to hear that Bird Flu (禽流感) is very serious in some parts of the world and some people have got the flu. We must take good care of ourselves and keep away from the disease. Could you tell me what people in China do to keep away from it? Please write to me soon. Yours, Betty |
| December 2, 2015 Dear Betty, I think Bird Flu is very bad. Many chickens, ducks and birds in our country got the disease. Some of them died, but some birds flew away and they might carry germs to other places. This is a serious problem. We must do something to solve it. Let me tell you what people have to do to keep away from the disease. * Do morning exercises every day. * Open the windows in the morning. * Wash hands very often. * Eat more vegetables and less meat. * Go to bed early. I think these are good for our health. Do you think so? Yours, Cindy |
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. From the letter we know Cindy comes from _______.
| A．Canada | B．the USA | C．China | D．Japan |
| A．whether (是否) Cindy got Bird Flu | B．how to keep away from Bird Flu |
| C．when Bird Flu began to spread | D．how Bird Flu spread in Cindy’s country |
| A．we don’t have better doctors or nurses | B．Bird Flu is serious |
| C．some places are still poor | D．birds with the germs will carry germs to other places |
| A．解决 | B．分析 | C．通告 | D．治愈 |
| A．washing hands very often | B．going to bed late every day |
| C．eating more vegetables and less meat | D．opening the windows in the morning |
3 . Many people can’t get good and enough sleep because of the stress of working and studying. Do you often wake up in the night? Can you get up easily on time? Do you feel tired after getting up? Can you put your heart into the class? Do you feel sleepy during the daytime? If your answer is yes, that means you get a bad night’s sleep.
But how to get good and enough sleep?
First, never drink coffee before bedtime. Second, don’t eat too much. Third, you’d better take a shower before going to bed. Fourth, go to bed and get up at the same time every day.
Another way is to count numbers (数数) in your heart. It can give you fast sleep. Lying on the bed for long doesn’t mean you will have good sleep. It’s important for us students to get good and enough sleep. Less than eight hours is not enough. Let’s keep a good sleep habit.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1. The passage shows us ways to get good and enough sleep.
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．Staying up late | B．Eating before bedtime |
| C．Counting numbers | D．Drinking coffee |
| A．you are not interested in your lesson |
| B．you don’t like the teacher |
| C．you didn’t sleep well the night before |
| D．you have a bad cold |
| A．5 | B．6 | C．7 | D．8 |
| A．how to get good and enough sleep |
| B．when is the best time to go to bed |
| C．why don’t people have good sleep |
| D．we had better not drink coffee before bedtime |
Chinese netizens are again showing their skills for online humor by turning the image of a classic Hong Kong actor, Xu Jinjiang, into a “Chinese Santa”. The character, first played by Xu in the 1992 period comedy movie Royal Tramp(《鹿鼎记》), wearing a red hat and long beard, looks much like Old Saint Nick. While Chinese netizens enjoy the “Chinese Santa”, Westerners living in China are making it more interesting to celebrate Christmas.
As we know, in the US, families get together and decorate their homes with colorful lights and a tree. They have a big fancy dinner with turkey and pie. And on Christmas morning, they all sit under the tree and open their presents.
But here in Beijing, many foreign friends celebrate Christmas a bit differently. One of the things they like to do is to have a Christmas potluck dinner. This is a group dinner where each guest brings a dish they made at home. They bring dishes like mashed potatoes (土豆泥) and baked ham (烤火腿). It’s a fun way to get together and celebrate when they can’t all be with their own families.
Another thing they enjoy is playing a game called “white elephant”. This is a gift-giving game where each person brings a “mystery gift”. They take turns trading the gifts with each other—and if someone else gets a gift that they think might be good, they even have one chance to steal it! Everyone ends up with an unusual gift.
There is also an event called Santacon. It’s an all-day party where people dress like Santa Claus and go to different places in a big group. It’s a fun way to spend time with your friends and meet new people.
1. What does the “Chinese Santa” look like according to the passage?A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．what people in the US receive on Christmas Day |
| B．when people in the US exchange Christmas gifts |
| C．how people in the US decorate their homes |
| D．how people in the US celebrate Christmas |
| A．They go to a restaurant and have a big dinner together. |
| B．Everybody brings a home-made dish to share with others. |
| C．They get together to make dinner at a party. |
| D．They order some food and share it at a party. |
| A．Potluck dinner. |
| B．White elephant. |
| C．Mashed potatoes. |
| D．Holding a Santacon. |
| A．compare different ways of celebrating Christmas |
| B．show a kind of Santa Claus dress |
| C．describe a fun Christmas event |
| D．encourage Chinese people to celebrate Christmas |
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 . There are some very good inventions which, for one reason or another, don't become popular. These inventions should be better known, even though I think that some of them are crazy. Let's have a look at some of these inventions and see if you agree that they should be more successful.
The Australians had a great idea to stop people from drinking and driving. The idea was that if a driver wanted to start the car, she or he would have to blow into a bag first. If there was too much alcohol (酒精) in their breath. The car wouldn't start. It sounds like a great idea to me, but people said that they might need to drive the car in an emergency (紧急情况) even if they had drunk too much alcohol. Another idea I liked was an invention by a scientist who thought his children watched too much TV. He connected the TV to an exercise bike so that the electricity to power the TV was produced by the bike. If the children wanted to watch a lot of TV, they had to pedal (踩踏) very hard.
One of the strangest inventions I have come across is a bicycle which can cross rivers! The idea was that when you came to a river, you could inflate (充气) a huge plastic ball all around the bike. You would then get into the ball which would float on the river while you pedaled the bike inside the ball! Why not use a bridge instead?
One thing I would like is a baseball cap with a built-in radio, so you can listen to sport all day with your hands free. The Americans invented a kind of robot for sports fans. If you were watching your team on TV on your own, you could press a button (按钮) and the robot would do 'high-fives' with you! That's fantastic! I wonder if you have any wonderful ideas for inventions like these.
1. How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 | D．6 |
| A．You should press the button. | B．You have to pedal the bike hard. |
| C．You have to inflate a plastic ball. | D．You must turn on the power. |
| A．The writer doesn't like the invention of a bicycle that can cross the river. |
| B．you can watch matches by wearing a baseball cap with a built-in radio. |
| C．You can start the car after drinking if you have an emergency. |
| D．You needn't pedal the bicycle while you are inside the huge plastic ball. |
| A．举手击掌 | B．举高手掌 | C．挥手欢呼 | D．起立欢呼 |
| A．The reason why these inventions don't become popular. |
| B．These inventions should be more successful. |
| C．Everyone should have one wonderful idea like these inventions. |
| D．Some information about unusual inventions. |
7 . A yearbook is a tradition of high school life in the United States. The book contains (包含) the name, photo, and signature (签名) of each student in your final year, so that you can remember who you went to school with. A 15-year-old girl Catherine Cook and her brother David wanted more than this. They thought, "Why not have a yearbook online? You could learn about people's music tastes, the movies they like, and so on."
Catherine thought of the name—myYearbook.com, and the logo (图标). To advertise the site. Catherine and David wore T-shirts with the site logo to school and soon hundreds of their schoolmates became users of the site. She spent many evenings talking on the phone to programmers in India, and collecting ideas from her schoolmates. Then her older brother Geoff came up with the money to start up the website.
My Yearbook users can join in the fun by sending messages and "collecting" friends. They can watch the same videos from films and TV programs, and share music, photos, homework and study guides. Some teens feel they can't make friends more easily online. Chatting online helps some shy people not to feel left out.
Users can also make "Lunch Money" by doing activities on the site. They can then spend their Lunch Money on gifts, or donate (捐赠) it to charities. They have saved 0.3 km2of rainforest, cleaned up million kg of CO2, sent 22,000 books to Africa, and bought 20,000 kg of rice for people without enough food.
Running the website did not stop Catherine and David from finishing their schoolwork successfully, and going on to university where they still spent 50 hours a week on the site.
1. Who got the idea of setting up myYearbook.com?| A．Geoff. | B．Catherine and David. | C．A US high school. | D．Indian programmers. |
| A．They advertised the site through videos. | B．They offered chances to make money. |
| C．They made a phone call to every student. | D．They wore T-shirts with the site logo to school. |
| A．remember the school | B．run a site | C．learn more about each other | D．make money |
| A．It can be donated to charities. | B．It can be used to help people. |
| C．It can be made by doing activities at school. | D．It can be used to protect the environment. |
| A．The Cooks. | B．A yearbook online. | C．Lunch Money. | D．US high school life. |
8 . It might be fun to use your smartphone, but be careful. Too much screen time may be harmful to your health.
First, it is bad for your eyes. A researcher called Sarah Hinkley says the problem comes from the blue light that the screen gives out. Looking at a smartphone for a long time can cause eye strain（劳损）, headaches and dry eyes. So it is a good idea to take a break every 15 minutes when you are working at a computer or using a smartphone.
Second, screen use can do harm to children’s brains. A new study shows that using screens too much can affect（影响） how children’s brains grow. If children use screens for more than one hour a day, they might have lower levels of white matter in their brains. White matter is a key to the development of language and reading skills. So it is wise to cut down the time of children using all kinds of screens.
Third, using screens too much will affect your sleep. According to a study, about 95% of the people between the ages of 13 and 64 use electronics before bed, especially the young people under 20. Doctors say that the light from those electronics at night may make you excited before you go to bed. Then it’s hard for you to get enough sleep. So you’d better turn off smartphones, TVs, and all other screens an hour before your bedtime.
To keep healthy, doctors and researchers strongly advise that you shouldn’t use screens for long hours.
1. The blue light from your screens can cause ________.| A．eyestrain | B．headaches | C．dry eyes | D．all of the above |
| A．take a break every 15 minutes | B．have lower levels of white matter |
| C．use screens too much before bed | D．are the people from 13 to 64 |
| A．Using smartphones for long hours does harm to your eyes. |
| B．A lot of screen time affects children’s brain growth. |
| C．The light from electronics at night may make you excited. |
| D．People of all ages mustn’t use electronics. |
| A．a science magazine | B．a travel diary | C．a guide book | D．a novel |
| A．The ways to keep healthy. | B．The harm of using screens too much. |
| C．The ways to use screens. | D．The advantages of using screens. |
Life is competitive - some kids can do something faster or better than other kids. This might not seem fair, but all people are different and how well you can do something is different to others. This means there are “winners" and “losers", and lots of people are neither winners nor losers but in-between. You can choose to be a good winner or an even better loser whether you are competing against others or yourself. Being a “good” winner No one likes a “show off”. No one likes someone who takes all the praise for the efforts of a team. No one likes people who put others down to make themselves look good. To be a good winner you need to: ◆Be modest(谦虚的). ◆ Thank those who helped you for their efforts. ◆ Keep trying to improve your skills. ◆Aim for the next step up in whatever you are doing well. Being an even better loser Of course it’s disappointing to lose, especially if you are close to winning. Behaving badly or angrily, name-calling and going on about things being “unfair” won’t change the final result and will only make you look like a bad sport. And no one likes bad sports either. To be an even better loser you need to : ◆ Behave politely, nicely and kindly. ◆ Congratulate the other team. ◆ Keep any negative (消极的) thoughts to yourself - at least until you are away from the game. It’s Ok to let out your negative thoughts to your best friend or parents later. And if you don’t do very well in a game, try harder to learn for the next one. Improving yourself makes you a winner too. |
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
| A．We are either losers or winners. |
| B．We should face winning and losing properly. |
| C．We can do nothing about winning and losing. |
| D．We are always competing with others not ourselves. |
| A．Let out his anger to his parents at once. |
| B．Express his negative feelings in the game. |
| C．Try harder to improve himself in the next game. |
| D．Behave badly to his team members or competitors. |
| A．Going on improving our skills. |
| B．Telling our team members to aim higher. |
| C．Thanking our team members for their efforts. |
| D．Putting down others to make ourselves look good. |
| A．Tom keeps saying the game is unfair when he loses. |
| B．Jim encourages his teammates after their team loses. |
| C．Anna thanks her coach for what he has done though she fails. |
| D．Cindy shows her congratulations to other competitors even if she fails. |
| A．Telling us what we can learn from losing. |
| B．Offering advice on what we can do to win. |
| C．Encouraging us to become a winner instead of a loser. |
| D．Giving advice on how to deal with winning and losing. |
10 . Cait, 11, was trying to fall asleep when her 8-year-old brother, Doug, came into her room. He looked around, but seemed really out of it. Then Doug went back into the hallway and stood there looking straight up at the light. This was really strange. Cait didn’t know what to do. Just then, Cait’s father appeared and explained Doug was sleepwalking.
Not all sleep is the same every night. We experience some deep, quiet sleep and some active sleep, which is when dreams happen. You might think sleepwalking would happen during active sleep but a person isn’t physically active during active sleep. It usually happens in the first few hours of sleep in the period called deep sleep.
The truth is that not all sleepwalkers walk. Some simply sit up or stand in bed or act like they’re awake when, in fact, they’re asleep! Most, however, do get up and walk around for a few seconds or for as long as half an hour.
Sleepwalkers’ eyes are open, but they don’t see the same way they do when they’re awake. They tend to go back to bed on their own and won’t remember it in the morning.
You also might have heard that sleepwalkers can get frightened if you wake them up. That’s true, so what do you do if you see someone sleepwalking? You should call for a grown-up who can lead the person back to bed. And once the sleepwalker is tucked back in bed, it’s time for you to get some sleep, too!
| Word Bank tend 倾向于 frightened 受惊的 tuck 掖好被子 |
1. What does “out of it” most probably mean in Chinese?
| A．茫然不觉 | B．心满意足 | C．垂头丧气 | D．悠然自得 |
| A．During active sleep. | B．In the first few hours of sleep. |
| C．When dreams begin. | D．When we're trying to fall asleep. |
| A．①② | B．②③ | C．③④ | D．④⑤ |
| A．Wake them up. | B．Walk around with them. |
| C．Do nothing and get your own sleep. | D．Ask grown-ups to lead them to bed. |
| A．Teachers. | B．Doctors. | C．Parents. | D．Children. |
