1 . At the age of 18, Lee became the youngest pianist (钢琴家) to win first prize (奖) in the International Chopin Piano Competition (国际肖邦钢琴比赛). For this, he became famous (著名的) as the “Chinese Chopin”.
“Winning that prize meant (意味) a lot to me as a pianist,” said Lee.
Lee started to learn to play the piano when he was seven years old. Usually, children start to learn to play the piano at a much younger age. But because of his amazing talent (天赋), he was quickly able to make up for (弥补) the lost time.
Lee remembers clearly the first time he went to meet his piano teacher. “My teacher said, ‘You are too old to start now.’ I said, ‘I’m not old. I really want to play the piano.’ After he watched me play, he said, ‘You are good. I will teach you.’” Lee told the media (媒体).
When a reporter asked Lee, “What advice (建议) would you like to share with other young pianists?”
Lee answered, “Music is a great gift. You should love it with all your heart.”
Actually, it’s true for all of us that the only way to success (成功) is to love what we do.
根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写“(A)”，错误的写“(B)”。
1. Lee is a famous Chinese pianist.
2. Winning prizes means nothing to Lee.
3. Children usually begin to learn to play the piano at a much older age than Lee.
4. It took Lee 11 years to become the youngest pianist to win first prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition.
5. From the passage we know that if we want to get success, we should love what we do with our heart.
2 . Fast walking is good exercise. A study shows that fast walking become the most popular exercise in China andmany people walk more than 5000 steps(步) a day. The results of the study are from QQ users. 49% of the peoplechoose fast walking as their favorite exercise, over 23% choose running and more than 14 % choose riding bikes.
Fast walking and running are easy, cost little and work well, so they are popular. And many people like to doexercise outside. They don’t want to go to gyms(健身房). It’s best to walk fast for at least 10 minutes at one timeand walk up to 6000 steps every day.
The study also shows that people in Guiyang, Guizhou love sports most. Everyone there walks 5941 steps everyday. People in places with better environment(环境) and air like do sports more.
阅读短文，判断正误。正确的写“A”， 错误的写“B”。
1. Many people in China walk more than 5000 steps a week.
2. About half of QQ users choose fast walking as their favorite exercise.
3. Many people like to do exercise at home.
4. The writer thinks it’s bad for people to walk fast for more than 10 minutes at one time.
5. This passage is about health and sports.
3 . I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small when she played basketball with boys on the playground. The school was across the street from my home and the girl who likes playing basketball is called Laura. Laura was too short for a basketball player. However, in the sea of children, and yet to me, she stood out from them all. She shot the basket（投篮）and the boys always tried to stop her, but no one could.
She told me, “I want to go to college but my parents don’t have money for me. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship（奖学金）. If were good enough, I would get a scholarship.” I often saw her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone. She could practice shooting the basket over and over again, always until dark. Many basketball clubs refused her and the only reason was her height. Her father told her they were wrong. They just did not understand what a dream was. He told her that nothing could stop her but one thing—her own attitude（态度）. Next year, she was accepted to a college and she succeeded. As her father told her: if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
根据短文内容判断正、误。（注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂”A”，错误的涂”B”）
1. Laura’s school is opposite to my home.
2. Laura’s basketball shooting always made no other boys stop her.
3. Many clubs refused Laura because of her weight.
4. At last, Laura went to a college with her parents’ money instead of a scholarship.
5. As long as we keep on trying and never give up, our dream will come true one day.
4 . Life in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will happen. But what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then. People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travel. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep, so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead they will eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do dangerous and hard work. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
根据短文内容判断正（A）误（B）。
1. In the future there will be fewer people.
2. Every family will have at least a computer in the future.
3. In the future people will have to work for more hours than now.
4. People may not eat meat as much as they do today.
5. This passage is about the imagination (想象) of people’s future lives.
5 . Blind boxes have become popular in China these days. When you buy one, you never know exactly what you’re going to find inside. Some people think this is the reason that makes them fun to buy.
However, blind boxes can encourage risky behavior. If you really want the toy from a blind box, you might not get it in the first box that you buy. So you buy another box, hoping that you will get the toy you want. Then you buy another, and another. Pretty soon, you’ve spent all your money. That sounds like gambling(赌博) to people.
It’s okay to buy a blind box once in a while. But we have to be careful not to get addicted(上瘾的) to the feeling of gambling that blind boxes provide. Part of growing up is learning self-control. If you can stop yourself from spending all your pocket money on things like blind boxes, you will be better prepared to keep yourself away from risky behavior as an adult.
根据短文内容，判断正误（T/F）。
1. You never know what’s inside a blind box when you buy one.
2. You can get what you want from the blind box all the time.
3. It’s impossible for you to spend all your money on blind boxes.
4. Learning self-control can help us stay away from risky behavior.
5. The main idea of this passage is to tell us not to buy blind boxes.
6 . China began to build the Qinhuangdao-Shenyang High-Speed Railway (HSR) in 1999. It is the first HSR line in China. Now the high-speed rail network in China is the largest in the world. So far there have been about 1,700 kilometers of HSR in service, along with trains of an average (平均) speed of 220 km/h.
Chinese government had spent $300 million building the largest and fastest HSR system in the world by 2020. It’s said that the trains can run 400km/h and create new business for China and other countries through the Belt and Road (一带一路).
It’s predicted that the HSR network in China will reach 30,000 kilometers and it will be like a grid, which is mainly made up of 8 long-distance high-speed rail lines: four north-south HSR lines and four east-west HSR lines.
Except for the Qingdao-Taiyuan HSR, all HRS lines of the rail grid are longer than 1,000 kilometers.
Feng Hao, an expert (专家), says, “Many markets along the Belt and Road, especially in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Eastern European countries, are planning to build HSR lines. They look forward to getting help from China”.
根据短文内容，判断正（T）、误（F）。
1. The Qinhuangdao-Shenyang HSR is the first HSR line in China.
2. By 2030, the trains will run 400 km/h faster than that now.
3. The underlined word “grid” in Paragraph 3 means “网格”.
4. The expert Feng Hao says many countries refused to get help from China.
5. We learn about how to build HSR in the passage.
| A Letter From 2070 Hi, this is the year 2070. I have just turned 50, but I look like a person of 85. Because I don’t have enough water to drink. I’m afraid I don’t have much time left to live. I’m already one of the oldest people in this society. I remember when I was five years old. Everything was very different. There were lots of trees in the parks. I could enjoy a shower for half an hour. At that time, women had beautiful hair. Now we have to shave our heads to keep them clean without the use of water. I remember there were “Save Water” warnings(警告)in many places, but nobody paid attention. We believed water would last forever. Now, all the rivers and lakes are either dry or polluted. Water is much more expensive than gold. In the past, doctors suggested adults drink eight glasses of water a day. Now days, I am only allowed half a glass. People die young. When my son asks me about my childhood. I tell him about how pleasant it was to fish in the rivers and how healthy people were. When he asks, “Why is there no clean water now?” I feel very sorry. I belong to a person who turned a blind eye to all the warnings. I wish this letter could travel back in time and that it would make people living in the 2020s truly understand the importance of saving water. Best, Natalie |
1. According to the passage, a person who is 85 is one of the oldest people in society.
2. There used to be lots of trees and women used to have beautiful hair.
3. Now, water is much more expensive than gold because it will last forever.
4. The writer probably didn’t save water when he was young.
5. The article is written to give people advice on how to save water.
Maybe most of teenagers do not enjoy doing housework. We hate to do it. But I think it’s our job to do housework. Here is some advice for you.
Learn to do little things. Doing housework is really not as bad as it sounds. If we all do our parts of housework, it will seem much less tiring. We can do little things first. It will show that you are growing up.
Divide（分担） housework among the family. Your parents are also busy. They work all day and they have to keep the house clean. So it’s necessary to make everyone do housework. It will make everyone’s job easier.
Make it fun. If you can make housework a fun thing, that will be great. Most people think cooking can be fun if you put your heart into it. For example, if you cook a wonderful meal, your family or friends will be proud(骄傲的) of you.
1. The passage mainly talks about how most people learn to do housework.2. The writer gives us three pieces of advice on how to do housework.
3. In the writer’s opinion, if a teenager can learn to cook, it means he is growing up.
4. The writer doesn’t think it’s necessary for everyone to do housework in the family because it’s very easy.
5. Not all the people think doing housework is always boring.
9 . A young man went to the boss of a logging crew (伐木队) and asked for a job. “Let’s see you fell (砍伐）this tree,” replied the boss. The young man went straight and skillfully felled a big tree. The boss was surprised and said, “You can start on Monday.”
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday went by, and on Thursday afternoon the boss went to the young man and said, “You can pick up your wages (薪水) on your way out today.” The young man was very surprised. He replied, “I thought you would pay on Friday.” “Usually we do,” the boss said. “But we’re letting you go today because you’ve fallen behind. You’ve dropped from first place on Monday to last place today.”
“But I’m quite hardworking,” the young man argued. “I am the first to arrive, and the last to leave, and even work during my coffee breaks!” The boss asked, “Have you sharpened (磨快) your axe?” The young man replied, “No, sir. I’ve been working too hard to take time for that!”
Our lives are like this. We sometimes get so busy that we don’t take time to “sharpen the axe”. Working hard is not wrong. But we all need time to relax, to think, to learn and grow. If we don’t take time to relax, we will feel bored and lose our effectiveness (效率).
判断正（A）误（B）。
1. The young man began his work on Monday.
2. The workers on the logging crew usually got wages on Thursday.
3. The young man worked hard, even during his coffee breaks.
4. It took the young man a long time to sharpen the axe.
5. The story tells us a good beginning makes a good ending.
10 . U2 is the name of a band from Ireland. It’s one of the most famous rock bands in the world.
In 1978, a 17-year-old high school student, Larry Mullen, looked for some musicians to make a band. Finally, he found another three boys and they set up a band. The four boys named their band U2.
They traveled a lot and gave concerts in many countries. More and more people got to know them and love their music. Many of their songs, such as Beautiful Day and walk on, were popular. In the 1980s, the band became famous.
Now the four members of U2 are still good students and their music is still popular. People in the world still enjoy their music.
判断正A误B
1. U2 is a famous rock band in the world.
2. There are three members in the band U2.
3. The band became famous in 1978.
4. U2’s music is still popular in the world.
5. The article is about a rock band.
