1 . More and more people like bicycling and it is no surprise. It is fun, healthy and good for the environment. Maybe that’s why there are 1.4 billion bicycles and only 400 million cars on roads worldwide today. Bikes can take you almost anywhere, and there is no oil cost!
Get on a bicycle and ride around your community. You may discover something new all around you. Stopping and getting off a bike is easier than stopping and getting out of your car. You can ride bikes to work and benefit (受益) from the enjoyable exercise without polluting the environment. You don’t even have to ride all the way.
Folding (折叠) bikes work well for people who ride the train. Just fold the bike and take it with you. You can do the same on an airplane. A folding bike can be packed in a suitcase. You can also take a common bike with you when you fly. But be sure to look for information by getting on airline websites. Not all airlines are bicycle-friendly to travellers.
Health Benefits of Bicycling:
* It helps to prevent heart diseases.
* Bicycling helps to control your weight.
*A 15-minute bike ride to and from work three times a week burns off five kilos of fat in a year.
*Bicycling can improve your mood (心情).Exercise like bicycling has been shown to make people feel better, more relaxed and self-confident.
*Bicycling is healthier than driving.
1. From the passage, we know that bicycling is becoming very _____ .| A．surprising | B．exciting | C．expensive | D．popular |
| A．pollute the environment around | B．find something you didn’t notice |
| C．go everywhere and use a little oil | D．get off your bike and begin to work |
| A．get out of the car | B．take it onto a train |
| C．put it in your purse | D．go on airline websites |
| A．you can fold the bicycle | B．you will be friendly to others |
| C．you will be more relaxed | D．you may get fatter and fatter |
| A．Bicycling is enjoyable exercise for people. |
| B．Driving cars is healthier than riding bikes. |
| C．Riding a bike pollutes your community. |
| D．Common bikes are welcomed by all airlines. |
2 . I am used to walking home after school. One day, on my way home, I saw Xu Dong standing on the other side of the road. He was carrying a lot of books. I thought he must be a real nerd. As I went on walking, suddenly I saw several children running into Xu Dong. They were knocking his books out of his arms. They were pushing him so that he fell to the ground. I ran over to help him at once. As I was picking up his books, I saw tears in his eyes. I had to comfort him when I helped him stand up, I said, “The children are very naughty.” There was a smile on his face. And then he looked at me and said, “Thank you very much.”
From then on, we always went to school on foot and went home together. We cared about and helped each other. We talked together quite freely. Soon he turned out to be a pretty cool child. We became best friends.
In the next two years, Xu Dong became more popular so that all the classmates loved him. At the time of graduation examination, Xu Dong got the best grades in our school. He gave a speech for graduation.
As Xu Dong started his speech, he looked at me and said, “Graduation is a time to thank the persons who helped me, such as my teachers and classmates, but mostly my friends. Being a good friend is my best wish. I’m going to tell you a story...” I just looked at Xu Dong when he told the story of the first day we met. Because of his poor family, he wanted to drop out of school and carried all of his books home that day. He looked at me and gave me a little smile. He said with tears in his eyes, “Thankfully, my friend helped me in my most difficult time. I would never forget him.”
1. What does the underlined word “nerd” mean in the first paragraph?| A．书呆子 | B．书商 | C．搬运工 | D．讨厌的人 |
| A．they lived in the same village | B．they were good friends |
| C．he felt Xu Dong was poor | D．they lived near |
| A．study for a test | B．drop out of school |
| C．sell them out | D．gave them to his sister |
| A．picking up his books | B．helping him get the best grades |
| C．getting to know him | D．being his friend |
| A．Xu Dong and I | B．How to Make Friends |
| C．Thanksgiving | D．A Speech |
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| C．call2133730 | D．go to the Children’s Palace |
| A．Lisa’s Gym is open every day. |
| B．You have to work late as a waiter in the restaurant. |
| C．You and your friend should pay 80 yuan for the movie. |
| D．The movie will be on for a week. |
4 . Take a look around your school and you’ll find all kinds of great inventions developed by some really amazing minds. Here are just a few of the people who have helped make schools great.
James Pillans
The blackboard and colored chalks (粉笔)
This headmaster in Edinburgh, Scotland, was the first to use a blackboard and colored chalks in the 1800s. He used them to teach geography.
Anna Breadin
The school desk
This designer designed the first school desk. Her design included storage (储存)space under the table area for books and a folding seat.
John Lee Love
The pencil sharpener (卷笔刀)
The American inventor, John Lee Love, invented a simple portable (便于携带的)pencil sharpener which was known as the “Love Sharpener”.
Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
Crayons
Crayons were invented by cousins, Edwin Binney and C, Harold Smith. At first, they only had eight colors-black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow and green. Today, they come in hundreds of colors.
Douglas Engelbart
The computer mouse
This American inventor from Oregon invented the computer mouse. The name "mouse" came from the little tail that came out of the end of it.
根据表格内容，选择最佳答案。
1. What subject did James Pillans teach?
| A．History. | B．English. | C．Geography. | D．Physics. |
| A．Anna Breadin. | B．James Pillans. | C．C. Harold Smith. | D．Douglas Engelbart. |
| A．Edwin Binney and John Lee Love were cousins. |
| B．John Lee Love invented a simple pencil sharpener. |
| C．The “Love Sharpener” was invented by a German. |
| D．The first school desk didn’t have a folding seat. |
| A．Red. | B．Green. | C．Black. | D．White. |
| A．Australian | B．American | C．British | D．French |
5 . I grew up poor-living in a big family with six brothers, three sisters, my father and a wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was very happy and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still afford a dream.
My dream was sports. By the time I was sixteen, I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour baseball and hit anything that moved on the field. I was also lucky: my high school coach was Ollie Jarvis who not only believed in me, but also taught me how to believe in myself. One special incident（事件）with him changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and I was offered a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—money for dates with girls, money for a new bike, new clothes, and I could begin to save money for a house for my mother.
Then I realized, to do that work, I would have to give up summer baseball training. When I told coach Jarvis, he was as angry as I expected him to be. "You have your whole life to work." he said, "Your time for playing isn`t long. You can't afford to waste it”.
I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his disappointment in me.
"How much are you going to make at this job, son?" he asked.
"Three point five an hour." I replied.
"Well," he asked, "is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?"
That simple question made me understand the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal for the future. I practiced hard that summer, and within the year I was chosen by a famous team to play baseball, and was offered $ 20,000 a year.
Later, I was given a baseball scholarship to the University of Arizona, which led me to an education. In 1984, I began to play the Denver Bronces for $ 1.7 million a year, And Certainly, I bought my mother the house of my dream!
1. When did the writer want to take a part-time job?| A．When he decided to buy his mother a house. |
| B．When he graduated from junior high school. |
| C．When he found it difficult to play baseball well |
| D．When he thought his big family was too poor |
| A．His coach | B．His mother. | C．He himself. | D．His teammates |
| A．to buy a house for his family is the dream of most young people |
| B．trying to become a sport star is the easiest way to realize a dream |
| C．something we want now often has to give away to a long term long goal |
| D．to succeed without help from others is impossible for the young |
| A．Part-time Job | B．A House for Mom |
| C．A Strict Coach | D．A Priceless Dream |
6 . In a cold winter, a couple had to move out of their big house because of bankruptcy(破产). The husband worked day and night but with no care of his wife. So she thought, “He doesn’t love me anymore. He just thinks about his work.”
One day, she wanted to take a shower, but her husband stopped her at the door. He said, “Let me take it first, OK?” “Why not let me take it first?” she asked. “I’m tired, dear. You take it later, OK?” She was very sad.
On a rainy day, she found nothing to do and turned on his computer. After a few minutes, her eyes were full of tears ... It was his diary:
Today, I was quite sad. She asked me why I was always taking the shower first, and I said I was tired. She was unhappy. I wasn’t as rich as before! We moved to the small house and it was very cold. I found that if one person took the shower first, the bathroom could get a little warmer. So I always rushed to the bathroom first. When she took the shower, the bathroom could get warmer, at least 1°C. I can’t give her more, but at least I can give her 1°C love.
1. The woman thought her husband didn’t love her because ________.| A．he didn’t have enough money | B．he always worked with no care of her |
| C．he just thought about the money | D．they moved out of their big house |
| A．with tears in her eyes |
| B．sadly on a sunny day |
| C．to find out the person with whom her husband talked on the Internet |
| D．to find out the reason why her husband wanted to take the shower first |
| A．he wasn’t as strong as before | B．he wanted to sleep earlier |
| C．he wanted to make the bathroom warmer | D．he couldn’t stand the cold winter |
| A．the woman had no job | B．the woman didn’t love her husband any more |
| C．the man would become rich again | D．the man loved his wife very much |
7 . Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The program works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.
The eye-recognition (眼睛识别) program has already been tested in shops and banks in the USA. Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.
Eye-recognition is a course of recognizing iris (虹膜), which includes the following steps. First, a kind of machine needs to collect different examples of one’s iris from his eyes and store them. Second, when this person goes to the bank to take out money, this machine will have iris feature extraction (采集). Then, this machine will compare the examples kept in it with iris feature extraction. Once the examples and the feature extraction are the same, this person will be identified, and he will take out the money from the bank successfully.
However, scientists are also working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We have already had machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your finger. Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, and don’t get dirty like hands or fingers, and even twins have different eyes. So the eye-recognition program can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. However, some other programs may only be 51% correct now. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.
In the future your computer will be looking at you in the eye, So smile!
1. How does the eye-recognition program work?| A．You type in your number. | B．You say your name. |
| C．You look at the machine. | D．You show your ID card. |
| A．Remembering smells. | B．Remembering fingerprints. |
| C．Remembering the shape of faces. | D．Remembering eyes. |
| A．The eye-recognition program can be up to 51% correct. |
| B．In Britain, 91% of people said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition. |
| C．Everyone’s eyes are different, and even twins have different eyes. |
| D．The eye-recognition program is widely used now. |
| A．You won’t have to remember a number when you take money out of a bank. |
| B．We have already had machines that can tell who you are from your voice. |
| C．Tell people how the eye-recognition program works and what advantages it has. |
| D．The eye-recognition program has already been tested in shops and banks. |
| A．You needn’t remember a number when you take money out of a bank. |
| B．Machines know you from your smell. |
| C．Computers can tell who you are by looking at your eyes. |
| D．Machines can tell who you are from your voice. |
8 . One day a big red hen(母鸡) plays with her chickens at home.After some time，she wants to eat something and she takes her chickens out to look for food.
When they eat，she finds a grain of wheat(一粒小麦)，so she asks her chickens to plant it next to their home.But no one wants to do it.The big red hen has to do it.
After a long time，they get a lot of wheat.She says to her chickens，“Who will take the wheat to the shop and get some flour(面粉)？” But they don't want to do it.So she takes the wheat to the shop and takes the flour home.
After she gets home，she says，“Who will make some bread with the flour？” They all say they don't have time and don't want to do it.
When she makes the bread，she says to her chickens，“Who wants to eat the bread？”
“I will，” they say.
“No, you can't. You don't do anything.You have to know “No pains，no gains(一分耕耘一分收获) .” She doesn't give any bread to her chickens and she eats all the bread.
1. What do the chickens find when they eat?| A．Some bread. | B．A grain of wheat. |
| C．Some flour. | D．Some tigers. |
| A．next to her home | B．on the farm |
| C．next to the shop | D．on the hill |
| A．She is free on Sunday. |
| B．She wants her chickens to do all the things. |
| C．She wants to get a lot of wheat. |
| D．She doesn't want to play with her chickens. |
| A．They are not at home. |
| B．She doesn't like them. |
| C．They don't do anything. |
| D．They don't want to eat it. |
| A．The big hen is good at finding things. |
| B．The chickens help the hen plant the wheat. |
| C．The hen doesn't like her chickens. |
| D．If you want to get something，work hard first. |
9 .
Friendship Shopping Center | |||
 | Brand(商标): Adidas Color: green, pink, black Price: ￥98 each, but￥180 for two |  | Brand: Nike Color: white, black, brown Price: ￥178 each and get a cap for free |
 | Brand: Li Ning Color: green, yellow, pink Price: ￥70 each and get a toy for free |  | Brand: Puma Color: black, blue Price: ￥80 each, but￥150 for two |
1. How much are two jackets?
| A．￥98. | B．￥150. | C．￥180. | D．￥140. |
| A．toy | B．cap | C．schoolbag | D．T-shirt |
| A．Li Ning. | B．Adidas. | C．Puma | D．Nike. |
| A．A pair of pants. | B．A T-shirt. | C．A jacket. | D．Shoes. |
| A．Two pairs of pants are ￥160. |
| B．Tina can buy blue shoes in the shop. |
| C．You can buy a dress in Friendship Shopping Center. |
| D．Joy buys a T-shirt and she gets a toy for free. |
10 . It was Day 1 of our vacation on Cortes, a beautiful island. “iPhone, iPhone, iPhone,” my son kept moaning. In front of him was a big window facing the blue ocean. And a cool gentle wind was coming in from the door. Clearly, he saw and felt none of it．
Back at home, I’d soon give up and hand the phone over to him after five minutes of listening to this kind of moaning.
But not here. Before we left, I had told my 10-year-old son the rule — no emails, no Facebook, no video games, and no iPhone. We came here to get away from them all. Here we were on our first day and already, he couldn’t stand it.
_______ I walked down the grass road to the beach and looked out to the sea. My 6-year-old daughter and my husband were drawing on pieces of wood. They were doing just fine.
On Day 2, we spent the whole morning digging for shells(贝壳). This time, my son joined us. He collected shellfish and other sea treasures. When we got back to our little wood house, I gave my son a book, and put him on the lovely garden chair. It was almost dinner when he looked up.
The next few days passed in peace.
On Day 6, my son was lying beside me on the beach, watching the sun going down. He was playing with the sand. And there was something shining in his eyes. I realized how time slowed down for both of us. It was exactly what I wanted. Finally, we were able to sit quietly without thinking about screens, phone calls and e-mail.
A week away from all the electronics and life is good.
1. The underlined word “moaning” means ________.| A．呻吟 | B．沉默 | C．跺脚 | D．生气 |
| A．They couldn’t use their electronics. | B．They must keep quiet and stay in the house. |
| C．They had to spend their vacation on an island. | D．They should collect as many shells as possible. |
| A．I felt really tired and went to bed. | B．I closed the door and stayed with him. |
| C．I just walked outside to leave him alone. | D．I gave him his iPhone and let him stay inside. |
| A．angry →surprised→proud | B．excited→peaceful→bored |
| C．worried→angry→hopeful | D．bored→peaceful→pleased |
| A．A Terrible Life on the Island | B．A Special iPhone for My Son |
| C．A Fight between Mother and Son | D．A Vacation Away from Electronics |
