1 . Since 12th May, a computer virus (病毒) named WannaCry has infected (感染) more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries, according to Reuters.
WannaCry is spread by using a weakness in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Once the virus gets into the computer, it locks all the papers and asks the user for money to unlock them. At first, it asks for $300, but if the user doesn’t send the money in 72 hours, the price doubles. Papers are locked forever if the user doesn’t pay in seven days.
The virus has brought bad results. For example in the UK, the virus left the country’s National Health Service in a mess. Some hospitals had to cancel (取消) patient appointments (预约), reported The Telegraph. In China, the virus has hit thousands of computers, according to Qihoo 360. One of the most hard-hit groups in China was university users. Many students’ graduation papers were locked. They felt nervous and frightened. Also many gas stations were seriously hit, and the payment system didn’t work.
WannaCry is the latest example of a cyber security (网络安全) problem. Matthew Hickey (who set up the security company Hacker House) said, “The attack is not surprising. It shows that many organizations do not use updates (更新) fast enough.” According to a survey, nearly half of the people said, “We are not satisfied with the way software updates work.”
As China Daily wrote, “We can’t completely protect our computers against these kinds of viruses, as this cat and mouse game will continue forever. The best choice for most users is to take care online and always install (安装) software updates.”
根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）误（F）。
1. If your papers are locked by WannaCry, you need to pay $ 600 to unlock them in 3 days.
2. Matthew Hickey thinks the attack on computers is very surprising.
3. Not all the people are pleased with the way software updates work.
4. From the last two paragraphs, we can know that we should take care online and update software fast enough.
5. According to the passage, the writer shows the bad results by comparing numbers.
2 . I LOVE FOOTBALL. I started playing when I was nine years old, and football got me through difficult periods. It helps make me who I am today. And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from achieving that dream, without realizing it.
My romance with football started when my dad drove me, kicking and screaming, to join a league. I didn’t want to be there at first. I was naturally weak and small. Fear turned to awe (敬畏) when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a huge and strong guy. And he was really strict and old-school.
Coach Graham used to drive me hard. I remember one practice in particular. “You’re doing it all wrong, Pausch. Go back! Do it again!” I tried to do what he wanted. But it wasn’t enough. “You owe(欠) me, Pausch! You’re doing push-ups after practice.
When the practice was over, one of the assistant coaches came up to me. “Coach Graham drove you pretty hard, didn’t he?” he said.
“Yeah.”
“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re doing badly and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.”
That conversation has been with me closely my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s willing to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but those who always push you hard in your life are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.
There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-respect. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Coach Graham knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to make it stronger: You give them something they can’t do; they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating.
When Coach Graham first got hold of me, I was a weak kid with no skills and no physical strength. But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today. I really felt thankful to Coach Graham for what he had done to me, though it surely didn’t feel good at that time to do so many push-ups after practice.
根据上文内容判断正(T)误(F)
1. In the writer’s eyes, Coach Graham was strict and wise.
2. The writer believes that those who are quite strict with you actually think ill of you.
3. The writer was thankful to Graham because the coach encouraged him to do better.
4. From the passage, we can learn “Never offer to teach fish to swim”
5. Coach Graham knew the method to teach kids how to build self-respect.
3 . Are you happy most of the time? Or do you easily get angry sometimes? Everyone has a different temperament. It is usually believed that both genes and environment may influence people’s temperaments in different ways. Scientists have found that the season of the birth also plays a role.
Scientists from Budapest, Hungary, studied 400 university students. In the study, the students needed to finish some questions to know which of four kinds of temperaments they most had. From the questions, scientists found that the students always answered something like “My mood often changes for no reason.” and “I love to deal with new projects, even if it is risky.” These answers were then connected with their birthdays.
They discovered that people born in summer easily change between sad and happy moods compared to people born in winter. Those who always feel positive are mostly born in spring and summer.
The study also found that those born in fall less probably had a mood of depression which may easily drive them to cry, while those in winter were not easier to be angry.
Scientists said that this was probably because the seasons had an influence on certain chemicals in the human body. And the chemicals are important to control people’s moods even in adult life. “It seems that when you are born may increase or decrease your chance of developing certain mood disorders.” scientist Xenia Gonda told the Telegraph.
根据上文内容判断正（T）误（F）
1. Ages probably may influence people’s temperaments according to paragraph 1.
2. The underlined word “depression” most probably means sadness.
3. The answers to the questions of the study were matched with their birthdays.
4. People born in winter get sad or happy more easily.
5. The best title of this passage is “The Influence of Genes”.
4 . Dads have Father’s Day. Moms have Mother’s Day. Kids have Children’s Day. But, do our grandparents have a special holiday? Yes, they do!
The Double Ninth Festival（重阳节）is a special day for older people in China. This holiday is on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. On this holiday, younger people usually show love and respect to older people.
There are many ways in which Chinese people express their respect. When an older person enters a room, everyone stands. People are introduced from the oldest to the youngest. When we present a book to an older person, two hands are used. Young people always offer their seats to older people on a crowded subway or bus.
Respecting older people is a tradition in China. That's because the Chinese know that older people have knowledge and experience that young people can learn. Chinese people are proud of being old.
In western countries, however, older people seldom think they are old. They are called “senior” instead of “old people”. They’d rather do everything themselves. Even after retirement, they take on hobbies, part-time jobs and new activities to keep their body working well.
Westerners respect their older people. too. Usually, seniors take trains and buses for free. They are given discounts in stores and restaurants.
But western seniors don’t often live with their children-they live alone. For holidays, the family usually gather at the grandparents’ home, and a great smile and a warm hug for their parents are enough for grown children to show their respect.
根据文章内容判断正（T）误（F）
1. The Double Ninth Festival is a special festival for older people in China.
2. In China, people should be introduced from the youngest to the oldest.
3. Chinese people celebrate the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month.
4. Old western people prefer they themselves are called “seniors”, because they would rather live an active life like young people.
5. Old people live with their children both in China and western countries.
5 . A few days ago, I received a letter from my Aunt Loraine.
It was a handwritten letter thanking me for some Shanghai cookies I had sent her. Aunt Lorraine is ninety-one years old and she has wonderful manners. That is why she sent me the “thank you” letter. She also has wonderful handwriting. Her penmanship (书法) is smooth. It is a pleasure to read.
Aunt Lorraine was educated half a century ago. At that time, penmanship was considered an important skill. Now, it is the age of e-mail and social media. Few people have the time or hope to practice their penmanship or write letters by hand.
This is not good. in my view, good penmanship still counts. This is especially true in school. If you want to get good grades, keeping your writing clean and beautiful will be important. Your writing might be full of good ideas. However, terrible handwriting can turn an A into a B. Awful handwriting can get you a D!
Good penmanship has other advantages, too. Since it's a skill, it trains your brain and develops your learning abilities. It also helps you organize your thoughts. And, believe it or not, that slow process of pushing a pen along paper improves your reading, spelling and even your pronunciation of English.
Apart from all these educational advantages, good penmanship also has personal advantages. A beautifully written letter to a friend is something he or she will treasure forever. A letter that looks as if a chicken bad danced across the paper will be quickly thrown away. I have kept the letter from my Aunt Lorraine. It's a great treasure!
1. Why did Aunt Lorraine write a letter to the author?| A．To express her thanks. | B．To show her wonderful manners. |
| C．To make herself pleased. | D．To set a good example to the author. |
| A．Getting good grades on your writing. | B．Organizing your thoughts. |
| C．Making your writing full of good ideas. | D．Improving your English pronunciation. |
| A．a boring letter | B．a great treasure | C．bad handwriting | D．good penmanship |
| A．To express the importance of clean and beautiful handwriting. |
| B．To share her pleasure of hearing from her aunt. |
| C．TO talk about her experiences of practicing penmanship. |
| D．To encourage people to write litters by hand instead of e-mailing. |
6 . Hardship comes in different shapes and sizes: losing a job, bills overdue, illness, injuries or the death of a loved one.
Every kind of difficulty takes its toll. But few things in life are as heartbreaking as feeling cut off from the people we love.
Recently, while "sheltering in place" against the coronavirus, I've started reading to my grandchildren via Face Time before they went to sleep.
Mostly, I read to them because I love doing it. But I also do it for their parents' mental health. Besides having to stay indoors, they are forced to homeschool the kids, who can't go to school or to the park or play with their friends.
As a mother, I didn't do everything right. Far from it. But when my three children were small, most nights before bed, I would read to them.
There is something important — something comforting and healing — about the age-old ritual of reading to each other. Sometimes the words we read are so powerful that they will never be forgotten. But hearing them read is a different experience.
When we read to ourselves, we see the words with our eyes. But when someone reads to us, we just need to be still and listen. Sometimes, the voice and the love it carries mean far more than the words.
Today, I read the Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume, a book my kids loved long ago. Randy, 9, and Wiley, 7, thought it was funny. Elle, who's 5, usually prefers to read to me, but this time she just wanted to talk. Next, Randy played a song for us on his guitar, the very first song he has written. Finally, I Face Timed with Jonah, who is almost a year old. I read MOO, BAA, LA LA LA! He liked it so much that he gave me kisses over the phone, then we said goodnight.
Now, more than ever, while keeping a safe distance, we all need to hold on to each other.
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根据短文内容选择最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. Which is not the reason why the author reads to the kids?
| A．She loves reading to kids. |
| B．She wants to hold on to her family. |
| C．She wants to help the kids' parents. |
| D．She wants to homeschool the kids. |
| A．Judy. | B．Jonah. | C．Randy. | D．Elle. |
| A．Serious. | B．Healthy. | C．Loving. | D．Talkative. |
| A．The author has been a good mother who always does things right. |
| B．The kids' parents are under great pressure to help them study at home. |
| C．Wiley loves reading and usually reads to her grandma. |
| D．Randy will be a musician when he grows up. |
| A．Bedtime Reading. | B．Special Homeschooling. |
| C．Safe Distance. | D．Kisses over the Phone. |
7 . Trip to Moonlight Island
| Day 1（Oct.4） 9:00 Meet at Red Star Airport ◇The Old Town ◇The Historical House 12:30 Lunch（The famous fish） ◇Windmill Park ◇Dolphin watching 18:00 Dinner（Rice noodles） ◇Rainbow Bridge | Day 2（Oct.5） 9:00 Breakfast（Bread and milk） ◇Rose Mountain 12:30 Lunch（A BBQ） ◇Waterside Farm ◇Back 18:00 End at Green Bush Airport Have a nice trip! |
| Cost:$200 each person *If you book（预订）the trip before Farmers’ Harvest Festival（Sept.23），you can get 20% off. *Kids under 9 are free. | |
1. Tourists will meet at Red Star Airport __________ on Oct. 4.
| A．at 8:00 | B．at 9:00 | C．at 10:00 | D．at 12:30 |
| A．bread and milk | B．a BBQ | C．fish | D．rice noodles |
| A．Windmill Park | B．Rainbow Bridge | C．Waterside Farm | D．Rose Mountain |
| A．$40 | B．$160 | C．$200 | D．$320 |
| A．by plane | B．by boat | C．by train | D．by car |
8 . Have you ever heard the phrase “You never get a second chance to make a first impression (印象)?” It may sound like an unusual suggestion, but it is true—the first impression someone has of you when meeting you for the first time will probably influence how that person treats you or reacts (回应) to you in the future.
What is even more interesting is that the brain takes in all the information to create that first impression in about three seconds. When you meet someone for the first time, by the time you have stated your name or shaken hands, the other person has already formed an opinion about the kind of person you are.
So how do you make a good first impression? All things grown-ups (成年人) tell you—such as being polite, and being well-dressed—are very important. However, the most important tool for making a good first impression is your face. Smiling, being responsive, and looking like you are happy will almost always leave a positive (积极的) impression on people, especially those who do not know you. Most people, generally speaking, are ready to smile back when they are smiled at.
Furthermore, smiling and being in a positive mood helps you to know and get a better understanding of new things. This means that you can possibly be friendlier to people you do not know and be more creative and able to solve problems more quickly. So if you ever need a reason to be happy, think about the wonderful people you might meet—and impress—with a cheerful smile.
1. The first impression someone has of you will probably influence how that person______.| A．treats you or reacts to you | B．likes you |
| C．refuses you | D．understands you |
| A．Paragraph 1. | B．Paragraph 2. | C．Paragraph 3. | D．Paragraph 4. |
| A．Shaking hands. | B．Stating your name. |
| C．Dressing nicely. | D．Wearing a smile. |
| A．Friendliness helps solve problems. |
| B．Being positive helps you find a way out. |
| C．There are many reasons to be happy. |
| D．Thinking of great people cheers you up. |
| A．The First Impression Does Count(重要) | B．Smiling Makes the First Impression |
| C．Manners Leave Deep Impressions | D．Impressions Decide Who You Are |
9 . My children are growing up fast. My daughter is 16 and my boy is already in junior high school. As they get bigger, our house seems to get smaller. So we want to sell some of our things in a yard sale(庭院拍卖会) and give the money to a children’s home.
We have already cleared out a lot of things from our bedrooms. We have decided to each sell five things that we no longer use. My son was quite sad at first. Although he has not played with his old toys for a long time, he still wanted to keep them. For example, he has owned a train and railway set since his fourth birthday, and he played with it almost every week until he was about seven. And he did not want to lose his toy monkey, either. He slept next to the monkey every night when he was a child. My daughter was more understanding, although she also felt sad to part with(出让) certain toys, and my wife wouldn’t like to lose her scarfs which were out of fashion.
As for me, I did not want to give up my football shirts, but, to be honest, I have not played for a while now. I am getting older, too!
1. The family decided to sell some of their things______.| A．to buy a bigger house | B．to make more space |
| C．to hold a yard sale | D．to become richer |
| A．four | B．six | C．fourteen | D．sixteen |
| A．Nervous. | B．Angry. | C．Happy. | D．Sad. |
| A．the son | B．the daughter | C．the father | D．the mother |
| A．popular stars | B．family life |
| C．healthy diet | D．shopping plan |
10 .
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1. You can ______ at Lisa’s Gym.
| A．watch a movie | B．play basketball |
| C．go to a concert | D．find a job |
| A．Wednesday | B．Thursday |
| C．Friday | D．Saturday |
| A．¥ 300 | B．¥ 180 | C．¥ 240 | D．¥ 120 |
| A．at 6:00 a.m. on July 23 rd | B．at 4:00 a.m. on July 24 th |
| C．at 6:00 p.m. on July 25 th | D．at 4:00 p.m. on July 26 th |
| A．2133730 | B．8124967 | C．2137330 | D．8124697 |
