When children are faced with problems, they may not be able to deal with them. Children need to learn how to solve problems. You can help them to learn it. The best way is to take the time to talk about problems as they happen. Of course, this is not easy to do. Problems have a way of bursting upon (突然发生) someone at the worst time. But even if the time is not the best, you should try to help.
There are many things you can do to help children learn problem-solving skills. One of the good ways is to find out what made the problem happen. This is a skill that children won’t learn without help. A child may knock over a glass of milk at the dinner table, but he may not realize that the glass was too close to the edge. You can show the child what the problem is. Then it can be solved.
The next step for children is to learn how to solve the problem alone. This step takes courage. Some of them are so afraid of being wrong that they cannot solve problems. You can help them by talking about some possible answers. You and the child can decide which answer is the best. Let the children try it out. Now the children will see that problems can be solved, and you can praise them for choosing a good answer.
Another step to problem-solving is to help children see the laws of cause and effect (因果规律). If a glass is knocked over, it will fall and break. If children might like to write on the wall, the pencil always leaves a mark. Soon the children will see the link(链接) between cause and effect, and then they are on the road to growth. When children see someone else knock over a glass, they now know that it will break. When they see writings on the wall, they can tell how it got there.
The ability to solve problems is not easy for children to learn. It is not easy for adults either. It takes patience for you, and it takes practice for the child. But problem-solving can be taught. All you need is time and effort.
1. Children should learn to deal with problems.2. When problems happen, you needn’t help them. They should deal with them by themselves at first.
3. We should help children to learn problem-solving skills.
4. We should help children find out what made the problem happen.
5. Children should learn to solve problems alone without any help.
6. Another step to problem-solving is we should help children see the laws of cause and effect.
7. This passage is mainly to tell how to help children to deal with problems when they face them.
2 . Do you think you are fat? Do you want to be healthy? let’s do exercise together. we have three groups for you to join.
| Easy Level (水平)： Anyone can join this group to do exercise. We run or ride bikes in the park three times a week, usually on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, starting at five p.m and lasting (持续) for 30 minutes. |
| Medium Level: You can join this group if you’re not too young or too old. We exercise three times a week, but we do more sports than the first group. We can play basketball, football or go swimming. We will exercise for two hours a time. |
| High Level： If you want to join this group, you’d better ask your doctor first, because we do sports every day from Tuesday to Saturday, one and a half hours each time (每次), and there are many strength exercises. |
| A．Basketball. | B．Swimming. | C．Running. | D．Football. |
| A．The second or the third group. | B．The second group. |
| C．The first group or the second group. | D．The first group. |
| A．doctor | B．parent | C．friend | D．teacher |
| A．1.5 | B．4.5 | C．7.5 | D．10.5 |
| A．teach people how to do sports. | B．ask people to join the group. |
| C．tell people to live a healthy life. | D．help people learn more about sports. |
3 . A big company wanted to find someone to work for them. Lots of young college students came to ask for the job, but only a small part of them were left. And this time, the company didn’t plan to choose the right person as usual.
Here came the day when they took the final interview. A big box full of papers was placed on the way to the interview room, and a few papers were lying around the box.
The first student came. He hurried along the way to take the interview. “Who put this box in the middle of the road?” the student said to himself, but he did not try to move the box away. Instead, he passed around the box and continued his way.
The second student came along and did the same thing. Then another came, and another. All of them complained (抱怨) about the box but none of them tried to move it. What’s worse, someone even stepped (踩) on the papers and left without having a look at the things on the ground.
Half an hour later, a thin young man with glasses came. He was also among those who were left to take the interview. He saw the box and the papers around it. Without thinking twice, he stopped and began to pick up the papers and put them into the box. Then he managed to move the box to the side. To his great surprise, he found an invitation under the box. On it were the following words, “Congratulations, young man! You are the right person we are looking for! Would you like to join us?”
根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写(A)，错误的写(B)。
1. Many young college students came to ask for the job and they were all left.
2. The box full of papers was placed on the way to the interview room to help choose the right person.
3. All of the students complained about the box and nobody tried to move it except a young man.
4. At last the fat young man with glasses got the invitation of the company.
5. From this passage, we can know that sometimes helping others is helping ourselves.
A man has a cat. He likes her very much. At mealtime the cat sits at the table with him. The man eats with a knife and a fork, but the cat eats from her plate. Sometimes, when she finishes her dish, her master will give her a bit of his food. He shares his meal with her. One day the cat is not at the table at mealtime.
“Ah! Where is my cat?” asks the man. His wife says, “Can’t you eat without her?”
So the meal begins without the cat. Before lunch is over, the cat rushes into the room and jumps into the chair quickly. She has two mice in her mouth, and before anyone can stop her, she drops(扔下) one into her own plate, and the other into her master’s plate.
“Dear me!” cries the woman, “A mouse is in your plate!”
“Hush(安静)!” says her husband. “This shows that she is a nice cat. She knows what friendship(友谊) is. She wishes me to share her dinner as I often share mine with her.”
1. The master loves his cat very much.2. The cat always shares her food with her master.
3. One day the cat is not at the table at mealtime.
4. The cat hurries(匆忙) home with three mice in her mouth when the master and his wife are having lunch.
5. The story tells us the cat also loves her master.
5 . Tahiti is the largest island of the French Polynesia in the South Pacific (太平洋). It covers 1,045 square kilometers and has a population of 183,600. The weather there is neither too hot nor too cold. It’s always warm and humid (潮湿的).
Tahitian people are very friendly and welcoming. They welcome visitors with music, dance and flowers. The Tiare Tahiti flower, which can only be found in Tahiti, is used for greeting arriving visitors and returning family. It’s popular for women and men to wear the flowers behind their left ears.
In Tahiti, there are always a lot of things to do and to see. Around the island are hundreds of places perfect for diving (潜水). In the waters, you can meet all kinds of colorful fish and many other living things that you can’t name. Feeding sharks is another exciting popular activity. You can stand in the water behind a safe rope to watch a shark trainer hand-feed the sharks, or enjoy this fantastic scene from the boat. If you want to find a place to swim, have a sun bath or admire the beautiful sunset, Pointe Venus Lighthouse, is a great choice. It is a black sand beach.
In the evening, you can have Tahitian food, Chinese food and French-style dishes at To’ata, a square with many small restaurants. All kinds of fruit juice can be found everywhere. Some hotels in Tahiti are built above the waters. Beautiful fish swimming below can be seen through the glass floor or coffee table. They are really wonderful places to relax and refresh you.
Tahiti, an amazing place to do everything or nothing at all, is waiting for you.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的用“A”表示，不正确的用“B”表示。
1. Tahiti, the largest island in the world, has pleasant weather.
2. Tahitian people use flowers to greet arriving visitors.
3. Visitors can feed the sharks by themselves.
4. Visitors can enjoy themselves in over-water hotels.
5. The passage is mainly written for scientists.
6 . What are you going to do if you are in a burning house? How will you escape? Do you know how to save yourself? Please read the following passage.
Escaping from a fire is a serious matter. Knowing what to do during a fire can save your life. It’s important to know the ways you can use and show them to everyone in the family, such as stairways and fire escapes, but not elevators.
From the lower floors of the buildings, escaping through windows is possible. Learn the best way of leaving by windows with the least chance of serious injury. The second floor window is usually not very high from the ground. Of course, it is safer to jump a short way than to stay in a burning building.
Windows are also useful when you are waiting for help. Be sure to keep the door closed, or smoke and fire may come into the room. Keep your head low at the window to be sure you get fresh air rather than smoke that may get into the room.
On a second or third floor, the best windows for escape are those that open onto a roof. From the roof a person can drop to the ground more safely. Dropping onto hard ground might end in injury. Bushes and grass can help to break a fall.
根据上文内容判断正 (T) 误 (F)
1. It’s important to know how to escape from a fire.
2. In a fire we can use elevators to come down.
3. Windows of any floor can’t be used when you are waiting for help.
4. Doors must be open so that you can get fresh air in a fire.
5. The passage may help save your life in a fire.
7 . Starting senior high school can be difficult. You may feel nervous because you don’t know where to go for class. Meeting new friends might make you nervous, too. Don’t worry. You are not alone. You are going to school with a group of students of your age, and we have several suggestions to share.
Stay clean. No one likes a classmate with a bad smell. So you need to shower every day, brush your teeth and wash your hair. Try to make yourself look tidy, whatever you wear.
Forget your fear and just talk to someone. Take a deep breath and find your voice. Introduce yourself and start a conversation about something you have in common. Sit in the middle of the classroom with many new friends around you.
Differences are not a problem. Everyone has his own opinion of the world and everyone believes in different things. You’ll find it good to have friends with different ideas. In this way, you can share and learn a lot more from each other.
Join clubs. What clubs can you join? You can join the ones with the after-school activities that interest you. Being in a club helps you be more social. If not, you will just go to class and then go home.
Ask others to join you. Are you sad being alone while others are playing happily? You will probably say “yes”. So remember to be kind to the people around you. If you see someone sitting alone, invite him to hang out or play games together.
根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。
1. Being clean is important, but you needn’t shower, brush teeth or wash hair every day.
2. Introduce yourself first and talk about something you have in common with new friends.
3. After school, being in clubs can make you more social than just going home.
4. Go away at once if you see someone sitting along in the classroom, or he’ll be unhappy.
5. The article is mainly about what you should do when starting senior high school.
Trees are useful to man in three important ways.
The first important way is that they provide man with wood and other products. Trees provide not only man with food, but also many animals with food. Without trees, many animals could not live on earth. It’s not easy for man to live on earth, either.
The second important way is that trees give us shade（阴凉）. On a hot summer day, people are eager（渴望）to have a rest under the tree after they have a long walk. You can imagine how important the shade of a tree is to man and animals.
The third important way is that trees help to prevent droughts and floods（防止干旱和洪水）. However, in many parts of the world, man hasn’t realized the third way. They cut trees down in large numbers. In the end, they find that they have lost the best friends they had.
1. Trees provide food for man and animals.2. In hot summer, trees give us shade to cool.
3. Cutting down trees in large numbers can’t cause droughts and floods.
4. The underlined word they refers to man and animals.
5. Protecting forests is protecting ourselves.
9 . Long long ago, there were birds in the forest. The birds were very beautiful. One day, a man saw them. He caught them and sent them to the king.
The king liked the two birds very much when he saw them. He hadn’t seen such beautiful birds before. He kept both of the birds in a fine place and ordered his servants (仆人) to look after them well. The servants gave them fruit and delicious food. They were the center of attention (关注).
One day, another man brought a monkey to the king. The king was happy to see the monkey. Soon the monkey was the center of attention. People didn’t pay their attention to the two beautiful birds. The younger bird felt sad and became angry, but the other one didn’t lose his hope. He was much smarter than his younger brother. He told his brother,“We shouldn’t lose hope for life. We should remember the bad days will be over.”
One day, the monkey made the king unhappy. So the king ordered his servants to send the monkey away. The bad days of the birds were over. They became the center of attention again.
The smart bird said to his younger brother, “Nothing is permanent(永恒的) in the world and one should never lose hope.”
1. How did the king feel when the man gave the two birds to him?| A．Happy | B．Afraid | C．Sad | D．Angry |
| A．No one looked after him any more. | B．People didn’t like the monkey |
| C．The servants didn’t give them food | D．The monkey was the center of attention |
| A．They must run away. | B．They should be hopeful |
| C．They couldn’t be happy any more. | D．They couldn’t get attention again. |
| A．Everything is permanent. | B．Be the center of attention |
| C．Always have hope for life | D．Be friendly to everyone |
10 . Shopping used to mean going to shops, but nowadays, you can shop without even leaving your home. Just sit in front of your computer, click(点击) your mouse and your things will be sent to your house in several days. You can also use your mobile phone to buy things you want. Nov. 11 was a big day for many people who like shopping online. On that day, many stores offer a big sale. The biggest Chinese online shopping sites are Taobao. com and Tmall. com.
Goods(商品) online are often much cheaper. Shopping online also saves you a lot of time. And you often have more kinds of goods online than in shopping centers. Another big advantage of online shopping is that it helps you get things easily from different cities, even different countries.
While enjoying online shopping, many people also have worries, especially for middle school student buyers. They often buy things that they don’t need. “Middle school students should pay more attention to their study. Searching for things to buy online wastes their time.” said teachers.
1. Nowadays, shopping becomes easier than before.2. Many people like shopping online on November 11.
3. Shopping online can’t save time and money.
4. Teacher think middle school students should pay more attention to their study.
5. This article is about disadvantages of shopping online.
