Big Issue Produced by Pupils Big Issue has launched (发行) a special 24-page edition (版本) created by school children recently. Big Issue is a weekly magazine launched in 1992 to help homeless people. Pupils in 13 schools across the country have started selling the special edition and will give the money they raise to charities (慈善) |
| ? The Richardson Primary School has created a classroom in a train carriage (车厢), marking 300 years since it was opened. The SUN EXPRESS carriage, which is no longer moving, includes a library, a place to eat, and another learning space. The carriage will help the school to teach STEM subjects (science technology, engineering and math). Students describe it as “magical”. |
| Celebrating the Daily Mile On 28 April, the Daily Mile had its 10th birthday. It’s an international movement designed to get children exercising every day. To mark the event, more than 320,000 students from 1,340 schools around the world completed a mile. One kid said, “Running a mile every day with my friends builds up my fitness.” |
1. We can probably read the information above in the “HI! KIDS!” section (版) in a newspaper.
2. We can infer (推断) that students can buy a copy of Big Issue every month.
3. The heading for the second piece of news could be “Magical STEM Subjects”.
4. To celebrate the 10th Daily Mile, kids ran a mile that day.
5. The activities in the news above were organized to call on more people for charities.
We often hear about people climbing mountains like Mount Everest in Asia, the highest mountain in the world; Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa; Mont Blanc in Europe. What about Mount Denali in America?
Denali in Denali National Park in Alaska is the highest top in the United States. If you measure it from the base to the top, it’s much higher than Mount Everest in fact. The base of Denali is at 2000 feet above sea level. It is 18000 feet from the base to the top of Denali.
Denali is one of the most difficult mountains in the Western for mountain climbers. Denali is closer to the North Pole than other tall mountains. This means that the air is thinner, so it’s harder for climbers.
The first group of climbers got to the top of Denali in 1909. Two other groups were successful after that. The next group got to the top in 1947. This group had a husband and a wife team, Bradford and Barbara Washburn. Barbara was the first woman to successfully climb the mountain. The Washburns were not climbing for sport; they were explorers. In the field of mountain mapping, Bradford Washburn was one of the best. The Washburns mapped many mountains and the Grand Canyon. Bradford dreamed of mapping Mount Everest project. Later they produced the best map ever made of Mount Everest.
1. Mount Denali is in_________.| A．Asia | B．Africa | C．Europe | D．America |
A． |
B． |
C． |
D． |
| A．The Washburns produced the most helpful map of Mount Denali |
| B．Climbing Denali is hard for climbers because it’s close to North Pole. |
| C．In 1909, two groups with a woman got to Mount Denali successfully. |
| D．Bradford was the first man to get to the top of the mountain |
| A．Climbing Denali | B．High Mountains |
| C．Enjoying Mapping | D．Dangerous trips |
3 . China is called the Kingdom of fans. Fans are everywhere in our daily life. But how much do you know about them?
It is said that fans were first used to cool the air during the Shang Dynasty. At that time, they were made of feathers, bamboo or silk. Some of them were round, while others were square.
Folding paper fans first became popular during the Song Dynasty. There were usually beautiful pictures on the fans. Some were mountains and rivers, others were flowers and animals. Many people, including Su Dongpo, a poet of the Song Dynasty, and Tang Bohu, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, even painted and wrote poems on fans. This made the fans into art works. Many rich and important people liked holding fans.
Today, fans are popular gifts. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, folding fans were given to leaders and officials from other countries, as well as audience members. While they were having their fans to get cool air, they were also experiencing Chinese culture.
1. The fans were made of different materials except ________ during the Shang Dynasty.| A．paper | B．bamboo | C．silk | D．feathers |
| A．The Shang dynasty. | B．The Song Dynasty. | C．Today. | D．In 2008. |
a. mountains b. animals c. flowers d. rivers
| A．abc | B．acd | C．bcd | D．abcd |
| A．Fans were first used to cool the air during the Song dynasty. |
| B．Tang Bohu never wrote or painted on fans. |
| C．Some fans were round, while others were square during the Shang Dynasty. |
| D．Folding fans were only given to leaders and officials from China. |
| A．The Development of Fans | B．The Shapes of Fans |
| C．When Fans Became Popular | D．How Fans Became Art Works |
4 . Everyone gets sick of hearing. “Put on your seat belt!”But it’s good advice. People who wear seat belts are 45 percent less likely to be killed while riding in the front seat of a car.
The US government wants more seat belt laws. It says children aged 4 to 15 are often killed in car accidents. In 2005, there were 1,627 children aged 4 to 15 killed in car accidents. More than 1,000 of those children were not wearing seat belts. If they had been wearing seat belts, 500 of those children could be alive today.
These children are too old to be in car seats, but they often sit in the back seat. Seat belt laws in many states, including Wisconsin, only require people in the front seat to wear seat belts. Children who aren’t wearing seat belts can be thrown from the car. The risk of dying in an accident is three times greater if the person is thrown from the car.
New laws could require children aged 4 to 8 to be in booster seats in the car. Booster seats help seat belts fit children properly. Right now, only 5 percent of children aged 4 to 8 are seated in booster seats (儿童座椅).
While parents have the choice of whether wearing seat belts or not, children are too young to make that choice. Even if you decide not to wear a seat belt, make sure your children are in seat belts and car seats. It’s the law and it will save their lives.
1. The underlined sentence “Everyone gets sick of hearing”in the first paragraph means“________”.| A．there is something wrong with everyone’s ears |
| B．all people fall ill when they hear something |
| C．many people don’t pay attention to wearing seat belts |
| D．none of the people knows it is a piece of good advice |
| A．they weren’t using seat belts |
| B．they were too careful when they walked on the road |
| C．they were not old enough to sit in the car |
| D．they wore seat belts |
| A．keep them comfortable in the car seat |
| B．keep them safe |
| C．keep them awake in the car all the time |
| D．prevent all kinds of traffic accidents |
| A．Children Should Put on Seat Belts |
| B．Too Many Traffic Accidents Happened Recently |
| C．Traffic Laws Are Very Important |
| D．Parents Are Important to Children |
5 . Animals are part of the earth. But many of them are in danger. What should we do to help save them? In fact, it’s not as difficult as we think.
Be a vegan. Going vegan means that you don’t eat, wear or use anything that comes from an animal. Just by going vegan, you’ll save the lives of more than 100 animals every year. Is that great? So do it now!
Don’t watch animals for fun. Animals live for their own reasons (原因), not to bring us fun. Lots of animals are against their natural living places. And people will never allow them to play with their family or do anything they want to do in the wild. To stop these, never go to a zoo, movie or circus that uses animals.
Volunteer(志愿) at your local animal reserve(自然保护区). The animal reserve is always a great help to animals. Whether you walk dogs, clean their houses or put up notices of saving animals, you are helping them. Call your local reserve and ask if it needs any help. You can make a big difference in the life of some animals!
Tell your friend. Share with your friends why you want to help animals and ask them to join you. The more help with animals there is, the better they get!
1. How many ways to help animals are there in the passage?| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．动物学家 | B．驯兽师 | C．动物管理员 | D．素食主义者 |
| A．Put up notices of saving animals. | B．Clean their houses. |
| C．Feed animals. | D．Walk dogs. |
| A．We should never use anything that comes from animals. |
| B．We may buy an animal for our friend. |
| C．We should play with animals more. |
| D．We should go to the zoo often. |
| A．Watch animals in circus. | B．How to look after animals. |
| C．How to save animals. | D．How to play with animals. |
6 . Seven years ago, Joyce Akinpe moved to Australia to start a new life, finding an exciting job in Sydney. After the outbreak（爆发）of COVID-19, she suddenly lost her job.
Seeing that there were many others like herself in trouble from the outbreak, Akinpe and her two roommates, Michele Gomez and Maureen Lee, brainstormed ideas for how to help their local community. They came up with a street pantry（储藏柜）. Gomez said the idea was very simple, "Take what you need and leave what you can."
With the help of Gomez's father, they built the Blessing Box—a streel pantry with shelves and hanging baskets and two doors made from old furniture.
It sits just at the back of the three girls' home, so they can look after it. They put some information notices into their neighbors' mailboxes, and the Blessing Box was quickly filled with the donations（捐赠）from the community, "It is the community's strong support that keeps the project alive," Akinpe said.
We now have hundreds of people visiting our box every day. It might only an hour for the box to be full and next hour it might become empty again. "We are now helping others to carry out similar projects in their own communities, too", Gomez said.
Lee said things in the box were mostly convenience foods, as well as some necessary life things such as spaghetti and toilet paper. "Few people take everything once. They think there are other people, who need them more." Lee added.
There were many people rushing there for donations. The three girls needed to sanitize（消毒）all the donations and make sure all food packages were not broken. Gomez said that they had no time for rest, but what they did was well worth.
1. Paragraph 2 mainly talks about ________.| A．the way to build the Blessing Box |
| B．the help from the local community |
| C．the purpose of building a street pantry |
| D．the trouble from the outbreak of COVID-19 |
a. The three girls thought up a good idea.
b. The three girls received and sanitized the donations.
c. The three girls put information notices into their neighbors' mailboxes.
d. The three girls built the Blessing Box with the help of Gomez's father.
| A．c—a—b—d | B．c—b—a—d. | C．a—b—d—c | D．a—d—c—b |
| A．they would like to use their own things |
| B．they think other people need these things more |
| C．there aren't enough donations in the Blessing Box |
| D．it's not safe to use the things from the Blessing Box |
| A．Challenges through Life | B．Happiness from Strangers |
| C．Friendship during the Hard Times | D．Kindness behind the Blessing Box |
7 . I ran into a stranger as he passed by. "Oh, excuse me, please" was my reply. He said: "Please, excuse me too; I wasn't even watching for you."
We were very polite, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye. But at home a different story is told-how we treat our loved ones, young and old.
Later that day, when I was cooking the evening meal, my daughter stood beside me very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. "Move out of the way." I said with a frown. She walked away, her little heart was broken. I didn't realize how cruelly I'd spoken.
While I lay awake in bed that evening, my husband said to me, "While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy(彬彬有礼) you use, but the children you love, you seem to abuse. Look on the kitchen floor and you'll find some flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she brought for you. She picked them herself: pink, yellow and blue. She stood quietly not to spoil the surprise, and you never saw the tears in her eyes." By this time, I felt very small, and my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt down by her bed. "Wake up, little girl," I said. "Are these flowers you picked for me?" She smiled: "I found them out by the tree. I picked them because they're pretty like you. I knew you'd like them, especially the blue."
I said: "Daughter, I'm sorry for the way I acted today. I should not have yelled at you that way."
She said: "Oh Mom, that's okay. I love you anyway."
I said: "Daughter, I love you too. And I do like the flowers, especially the blue."
Are you aware that: If you die tomorrow, the company that you are working for could easily replace you in a matter of days. But the family you leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into our work than into our families－an unwise investment indeed.
1. Mother seemed to be acting ________ between a stranger and her daughter.| A．in a strange way | B．in a friendly way | C．quite differently | D．almost the same |
| A．get something to eat | B．pick some flowers | C．give her a surprise | D．play a hiding game |
| A．deal with a child in a cruel way | B．treat someone not kindly enough |
| C．look down on someone | D．refuse to be strict with someone |
| A．she came in and knelt by her daughter's bed | B．she found the beautiful flowers |
| C．her daughter walked away and cried | D．her husband told her |
| A．Don't Shout at Anyone | B．Don't Break Kid's Heart |
| C．Mother and Daughter | D．Mother and Stranger |
8 . When traditional Chinese food baozi and the pizza meet together, what will probably happen?
These days a kind of new food called “Baozza” is getting popular online. In Beijing, many local people and a number of foreigners are the fans of the food. Why?
The new food has the features (特点) of Chinese baozi and western pizza. It has included the tastes of the two kinds of food. The restaurant, located in Beijing, serves all kinds of tastes of Baozza such as margherita and BBQ chicken.
The inventors of the food are a few American businessmen. They used to travel to southern China for business meetings. After they saw and ate baozi made of pork or vegetables many times, they came up with the great idea of creating Baozza.
Alex Cree, one of the inventors, said, “We were talking about the idea of making a kind of special baozi with more traditional western tastes like that of hamburgers and pizza. And then we called it ‘pizza baozi’.”
“There are a lot of people who only order one or two Baozza for the first time. They worry that the food doesn't taste so good,” Loren Heinold, another inventor, said. However, they will ask immediately for more when they turn around.”
1. What is Baozza according to the passage?| A．A kind of traditional Chinese food. | B．A kind of traditional western food. |
| C．A new invention of food. | D．A new restaurant in Beijing. |
| A．Some local people in Beijing. | B．A few Americans in Beijing. |
| C．Some Chinese people in America. | D．A few businessmen in South China. |
| A．Because they don’t have enough money. | B．Because they don’t like the special taste. |
| C．Because they worry that it isn’t healthy. | D．Because they worry that it isn’t delicious. |
| A．It’s exactly a kind of pizza. | B．It’s sold only in South China. |
| C．It’s loved by more and more customers. | D．It’s made of pork or vegetables. |
| A．A kind of new food called Baozza. | B．American businessmen in Beijing. |
| C．The differences between baozi and pizza | D．Delicious traditional Chinese food. |
9 . Embroidery(刺绣) has a long history and can date back to the Warring States period in China. Embroidery is very popular in many countries such as China, India, and Japan. Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needles and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also use other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often used on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.
Embroidery has many unique characteristics(特点). One of the interesting characteristics of embroidery is the basic techniques or stitches(针法), such as the chain stitch, the buttonhole or the blanket stitch, the running stitch, the satin stitch and the cross stitch. They are still the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
Embroidery can be classified according to whether the design is stitched on top of or through the foundation fabric; and by the relationship of stitch placement to the fabric. Different embroidery has its own advantages and disadvantages. In modern society, we can produce many different embroideries. Machine embroidery is one of them. It appears in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.
1. From the passage, we can know embroidery can date back to ________.| A．the Warring States period | B．the Spring and Autumn period |
| C．the modern times | D．the Ming Dynasty |
| A．Metal strips. | B．Pearls. | C．Quills. | D．Wood. |
| A．Seven. | B．Six. | C．Eight. | D．Five. |
| A．The flying stitch. | B．The satin stitch. |
| C．The flat stitch. | D．The button stitch. |
| A．The Introduction of Embroidery | B．The Advantages of Embroidery |
| C．The Disadvantages of Embroidery | D．The Meaning of Embroidery |
10 . Need to buy something? Why go to a store? Buy it on the Internet! Need it now? Why wait? Ask to receive it the next day! Each day, more and more people try online shopping. In fact online sales have doubled in the last ten years. But not everyone is excited. Some scientists now say that online shopping is bad for the environment.
People are surprised to hear this. “They think, ‘I don’t need to drive, and the business doesn’t need to build a store, so there will be less pollution,’” says Nuria Prost, an environmental scientist. “But it is not so simple. In fact, online shopping is wasteful. It also adds to air pollution.”
In truth, the Internet is not always as a good friend to the environment as it seems. For example, most people thought that the Internet would help offices use less paper and other materials. But paper use increased by 33 percent between 1986 and 1997. “Online shopping could have similarly negative effects,” says Nevil Cohen, a professor of environmental science. Part of the problem is what people are buying these days. In the past, people bought things on the Internet that did not require much packing material, such as books and clothing. But now people also shop online for large, heavy products such as televisions, computers, chairs and tables. These products need to be packed in large amounts of plastic and paper. This creates a lot of waste.
Another problem caused by online shopping air pollution. When customers buy products and ask to receive them next day, online businesses often have to send them by air. Airplanes use much more oil than cars and produce more carbon dioxide(CO2). When people buy a lot of different things from different online businesses, this creates
Online product returns are also a problem. For example, an online shoe store may allow customers to return shoes for free if they are the wrong size. This doubles the packing material and number of airplane trips required to sell one pair of shoes.
“If people want to protect the environment, they need to think before they shop,” says Prost, “People need to ask themselves: Is this exactly what I want? Do I really need it tomorrow, or can I wait?” Online stores can also ask customers to pay money for returns. This may make people shop more carefully, “Online shopping is fast and easy,” says Prost, “but we can’t forget the harmful result it has caused to the environment.”
1. The passage begins with several questions to .| A．introduce the main topic | B．show the writer’s opinion |
| C．describe online shopping | D．list advantages of shopping |
| A．The Internet is not good to the environment. | B．Online shopping is very convenient for people. |
| C．Online shopping does something bad for the environment. | D．Stop online shopping to protect the environment. |
| A．Large products need more packing materials. | B．Paper use increased by 33 percent about ten years. |
| C．Businesses need to build a store to sell the products. | D．Online shopping costs less than shopping in a store. |
| A．A Good Deal to Make | B．A Cleaner Way to Shop |
| C．A Different Lifestyle to Keep | D．A New Business to Start |
