People have backbones(脊梁).So do cities. For Beijing, a city with 3, 000 years of history. Its backbone is the central axis(中轴线).
The central axis is the “line” that separates(分开) the eastern and western parts of Beijing.At 7.8 kilometers long, it runs from Yongding Gate in the south to the Bell Tower and Drum Tower in the north.Along the axis, there are many important buildings, including Tian’anmen Square, Jingshan Park, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven(天坛）, and so on.
The central axis has influenced(影响) the city for hundreds of years. Its building started in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and continued during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today, modern buildings run along the central axis.They include the National Stadium in the north, and Beijing Daxing International Airport in the south.
Why the central axis? It shows important ideas from traditional Chinese culture. Ancient people saw the center of places as important. When building cities, they put royal palaces(皇家宫殿) in the center. Other important buildings were built around the center.
Beijing was not the first city to use a central axis. During the Three Kingdoms period(220-280), the city Yecheng had a street running from the east to the west. It separated the royal palaces from common people’s living and business areas. In Chang’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty(618-907), there was a wide street from the north to the south.
判断正（A）误（B）。
1. Beijing has more than 5, 000 years of history.
2. The Temple of Heaven is in the eastern part of Beijing.
3. The central axis of Beijing started in the Ming dynasty.
4. The idea of the central axis comes from traditional Chinese culture.
5. Chang’an is the first city to use a central axis.
Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.
A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.
I make a card with forty squares (方框), and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV when the others are doing the chores.
My son likes the game very much. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem with me.
1. Everyone in the writer’s family used to like doing the chores very much.2. The writer’s family began to do the game one year ago.
3. According to the passage, the chores written in the squares are difficult and boring.
4. The writer made this game to make her children do chores happily.
5. The writer wrote this passage to the parents.
It was cloudy. A boy was walking through the countryside. He saw that an angel（天使）between the clouds soon disappeared（消失）after singing a beautiful song.
The boy thought it must be the door to heaven（天堂）. To him, it was exciting to see what was there. So he started building a great big tower of wood, up to the sky. However, when the tower was very tall, it fell down. He tried building it with earth, but he still filed. He sat down and cried loudly.
The angel returned. The angel sang again, and the boy listened carefully. The meaning of the song was that you could get to heaven if you were confident. At once, his heart became filled with confidence. This time, he built it with rocks. He was surprised to find the tower didn’t fall. He finally jumped onto it and climbed along it. He suddenly knew that he was able to open the door to heaven only if he believed he could do it.
1. The angel was singing a beautiful song between the clouds.2. The boy failed twice before he got to the sky.
3. The boy felt surprised when the tower fell down.
4. At last, the boy built the tower with earth.
5. The story teaches us nothing is difficult if we have confidence.
Over the past 48 years, Liu Shide has never stopped doing volunteer repair work on roads in his village. Liu is from Xinhe Village in Heilongjiang. and he is over 80 years old.
Liu began the work in 1972 when he found the villagers had problems walking on the road, especially（尤其）on rainy days. He even spent several months building a 500-meter-long road so that people could get out easily. He often started his work in the early morning and got back home late in the evening.
“My family asked me to stay at home because of my old age,” Liu said. “But I just want to do something that can make it easier for everyone to get out.”
“For me, it is good exercise and it can keep me healthy,” he added. “I will go on repairing the road as long as I am still strong.”
1. Liu Shide is an old man of more than 80.2. To make the villagers get out easily, Liu built a 500-meter-long road.
3. Liu spent eight hours on his work every day.
4. Liu’s family asked him not to repair the road because of his poor health.
5. Liu thinks repairing the road is good exercise and can make him healthy.
5 . The coldest and most difficult place to live in is Antarctica（南极洲）in the world. Antarctica is the land of snow and ice near the South Pole（南极）. Most people do not think there is much life in the icy water around it. They are wrong.
Antarctica’s seas are full of life. There are many kinds of fishes, water birds, seals and whales. They eat the plant life in the sea and the smaller water animals. Some whales, for example, eat more than a ton（吨）of food every day.
The most famous animal of Antarctica is the penguin（企鹅）. It walks around the icy beaches as if it were a movie star walking down the street.
根据上述内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的在答题卡上将“T”涂黑，错误的在答题卡上将“F”涂黑。
1. Antarctica has much ice.
2. Around Antarctica there is little life.
3. Some whales eat lots of food every day.
4. The most famous animal of Antarctica is the whale.
5. There are many kinds of fishes, water birds, trees and flowers in Antarctica.
When you are in Hong Kong, you must be very careful in the streets, because the traffic drives on the left. It is different from that in other areas of China.
If this is the first time you have come to Hong Kong, you must look to the right side and then the left before you cross the street. If the traffic lights are red, the traffic must stop. People on foot can cross the road carefully. But if the traffic lights are green, the traffic can go. People on foot mustn’t cross.
When people go to or come back from work in the morning or evening, the streets are very busy. Traffic is the most dangerous, especially for the children.
When you go by bus in Hong Kong, you have to be careful, too. You must always remember the traffic moves on the left. Have a look first, or you will go the wrong way.
In Hong Kong, there are many big buses with two floors. You can sit on the second floor. From there you can have a good view. It’s very interesting.
1. The traffic drives on the right in Hong Kong.2. People on foot can cross the road when the traffic lights are red.
3. In Hong Kong, the traffic is the most dangerous when people go to or come back from work.
4. If you want to have a good view in a bus, you can sit on the first floor.
5. If you are waiting for a bus, you should stand on the left side of street.
7 . Peter was nine years old. One day his friend Tom said to him, “I am going to have a birthday party at home on Sunday. Peter, can you come?”
Peter asked his mother, and she said, “Yes, you can go.”
Before Peter went to the birthday party on Sunday afternoon, his mother said to him, “You must be polite. Don’t ask for food. Wait until someone gives it to you.”
“All right, mum.” Peter answered. Then he went to Tom’s house.
There were a lot of children at the party. They played for an hour, and then Tom’s mother gave them some food, but she forgot to give Peter any. He waited for a moment, and then he held his plate up and said loudly, “Does anyone want a nice clean plate?”
正确的写A，错误的写B。
1. Tom had a birthday party on Sunday.
2. Peter’s mother asked Peter to be polite at the party.
3. There were few children at the party.
4. Tom’s mother forgot to give Peter any food.
5. Peter wanted to give the nice clean plate to someone that needed it.
8 . Our reporter asked people what they were doing on July 20th, 1969 when man first walked on the moon. Here is what they said:
Kate Jones, waitress
I remember that day very well. I was fifteen years old. It was a hot and humid day, and I was with my family in the mountains. We were having a picnic. We didn’t see the moon landing when it happened, but we were thinking about it. We saw it later on the TV news.
John Bates, postman
I was eighteen years old. It was a very exciting day. I was watching TV at home when the astronaut walked on the moon. His name was Neil Armstrong. I remember he could jump really high because people aren’t so heavy on the moon. When he returned, he became a national hero in America, and famous all over the world.
Paul Robinson, doctor
I was twelve. I remember the day, but I don’t remember what I was doing. I remember I wanted to go to the moon, too. My dream was to become an astronaut and fly in a rocket. I wanted to see the earth from the moon.The astronauts on the moon said that the earth looked very beautiful from there.
Linda Brown, clerk
I was working that day. I was twenty then. I didn’t see the man land on the moon because I was busy. Of course I knew about it. I read about it in the newspaper the next day. I thought it was amazing. Maybe one day people will travel to the moon for vacations!
Mark Green, teacher
I was only seven years old then. My parents talked about it, and I learned about it later in school, but I don’t remember the day. I was too young to remember. Maybe I was having fun in the playground with my friends when it happened.
阅读理解，正确的答案写“A”， 错误的写“B”。
1. The waitress Kate Jones was having a picnic with her friends in the park when man first walked on the moon.
2. The postman John remembers that he was watching TV at home, but the doctor Paul doesn’t remember what he was doing when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
3. The clerk Linda saw the man land on the moon while she was working that day.
4. Mark, the teacher, can remember clearly that he was having fun in the playground with his friends when it happened.
How many hours do you sleep each day? Olympic champion Ms. Gu’s answer is at least 10 hours a day. She always sticks to(坚持) it. In a recent video, she said that she slept 14 hours one night, from 8 p.m. to 10 a.m. the next day! Good sleep may lead to her success. From a young age, both she and her mother paid much attention to sleep. Ms. Gu said sleep is good for brain and body development. Before falling asleep, she reviews(复习) what she learned during the day while lying in bed.
Students in China are getting more sleep. In April 2021, the Ministry of Education advised that middle and high school students should go to bed before 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., respectively(分别地). Even if they don’t finish their homework, students should go to bed on time. Sleep is important to us. A good sleep gives us energy and makes us feel better.
1. Ms. Gu always sleeps at least 10 hours a day.2. The writer thinks good sleep may be one of the reasons for Ms. Gu’s success.
3. Ms. Gu and her mother began to pay attention to sleep from the age of 14.
4. Middle school students are advised to go to bed before 10 p.m.
5. This passage is talking about how to go to sleep quickly.
10 . Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England in 1942. He went to school in St Albans. After leaving school, Hawking first went to Oxford University where he studied physics, then he went on studying in Cambridge University. As he himself admits（承认）, he didn’t work hard. He was a lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still got good marks.
At the age of 20, he first noticed something was wrong with him. His mother was very worried and took him to see a doctor. He was sent to hospital for tests. He had an incurable（不可治愈的）illness. And the doctor said he would die before he was 23.
At first, he became very sad and disappointed. After coming out of the hospital, he suddenly realized that life was beautiful. Later, he married, found a job and had three children. He also went on with some of the most scientific research.
Today, he had left us forever, but he strongly believed that his story showed that nobody, however bad their situation is, should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said, “You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”
根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写“A”，错误的写“B”。
1. As a university student, Stephen Hawking worked very hard.
2. Stephen Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when he was 23.
3. Hawking changed his life attitude（态度）after he came out of the hospital.
4. There were three people in Hawking’s family.
5. From the passage, we know that we shouldn’t lose hope in our bad situation.
