1 . We sometimes say the lion is “the king of the forest” because it is stronger and most dangerous than the other animals. It can run faster than most other animals and it can hunt other beasts. It is said that the lion is the highest animal in the land food chain(食物链). In the sea, people say the shark is at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than most of the other sea animals. It can also use its big teeth to catch other sea animals and eat them.
What is at the top of the world’s food chain? Human beings! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the cleverest. We could not run faster than most animals, so we invented(发明) cars. We could not fight better than a lion, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the beasts.
People’s inventions are clever, but they can be dangerous, too. For example, many years ago in Inner Mongolia, people used guns to kill a lot of wild wolves. The wild wolves usually eat sheep. But in recent(近来) years, the number of wild rabbits is becoming larger and larger because the number of wild wolves is getting smaller and smaller. The wild rabbits competed(竞争) for the grass with the sheep and the cows. Much of the grassland became desert because the grass was eaten up by the rabbits.
Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger, too! If we love animals, we are loving ourselves.
1. Which is at the top of the food chain in the sea?| A．The dolphin. | B．The shark. | C．Sea animals. | D．Fish. |
| A．Because they can use guns. | B．Because they are the biggest. |
| C．Because they are the cleverest. | D．Because they can drive cars. |
| A．They can kill a lot of wild wolves. | B．They can destroy(毁坏) the food chain. |
| C．They can destroy the grassland. | D．They can make wild rabbits grow bigger and bigger. |
| A．People’s inventions. | B．Lions and sharks. |
| C．Food chain. | D．Desert. |
2 . Many people are afraid of public speaking. According to a study, it has an influence（影响）on 3 in every 4 people. It is surprising and worrying, because most jobs need some speaking ability. The following will help you to make a speech better.
Write note cards. Write main ideas on your cards. Don’t write details. Put in some fun facts, questions, and other activities on the cards to share with the class. Don’t look at your note cards for a long time while speaking. If necessary, you’re only going to want to have a quick look at the card for information, not to read every last word.
Smile at your class. When it comes time to speak, there’s nothing that draws your class into your speech than a good smile. Be happy, because you’re going to teach your class something they didn’t know before . Studies show that smiles are infections. So if you want your speech to go off well, smile. That will make everyone smile and maybe those smiles will make you actually smile.
Make eye contact. Nothing is more boring than listening to a speaker who looks at the floor or at note cards. Relax.Your class is made up of your friends and you talk to them all the time. Talk the same way now. Have a look at every person in the classroom at least once. That way, everyone will feel like you are talking with them . Also, you’ll look like you know what you’re talking about.
Use your hand motions. Move your hands along as you talk, using them to express（表达）your key points and keep the class interested. It will also make you become less nervous.
1. According to the passage, ________of people might be afraid of speaking in public.| A．100% | B．75% | C．50% | D．25% |
| A．we can pass on smiles | B．it’s hard to smile |
| C．smiles keep us happy | D．people have to smile |
| A．write down everything on our note card. | B．ask our classmates to smile |
| C．look at our friends all the time | D．move our hands to express our ideas |
| A．A Great Speech in Class | B．Don’t Be Afraid of Public Speaking |
| C．Speaking Ability for Jobs | D．How to Make a Speech Better |
3 . Simba, many people's favorite lion, came back to movie theaters in July, 2019. The popular movie The Lion King, opened for its 25th anniversary(周年纪念日).
The film was one of the Hollywood's best-loved cartoon movies! It made almost $970 million around the world. The film went on to win lots of prizes for its music, story and its later stage shows. Simba's story opened on Broadway in 1997. Many people around the world saw The Lion King.
Disney showed its first trailer(预告片) during Thanksgiving Day last year. In the first 24 hours, the trailer was watched more than 224 million times. Disney said that the new movie would keep the best of the old movie and would have something new.
Another exciting thing was that we can hear the sound of James Earl Jones again. He came back as Simba's father Mufasa with his fantastic voice. Jones is the only one of the original voice(原声) actors to come back in the new film.
Many famous stars will provide voices, such as pop star Beyoncé，actor Seth Rogan and director(导演) Jon Favreau. "It's a director's dream to bring this wonderful story to life."
1. When did the movie The Lion King start to show in theaters?| A．In 1994. | B．In 1997 | C．In 2018. | D．In 2019 |
| A．creative | B．serious | C．popular | D．talented |
| A．Because it would show the same story to all people. |
| B．Because there would be many original voice actors in it. |
| C．Because it would be a new story with a great acting team. |
| D．Because it would have something new in the old movie. |
| A．The Story of The Lion King. | B．The second coming of The Lion King. |
| C．The Actors of The Lion King. | D．The Director of The Lion King. |
4 . A computer can get very hot when it works on a lot of programs. It can cost a lot to cool the computer. So some scientists want to know what would happen when if the heat from the computer could be used.
Large Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft have thousands of computers. As these computers deal with information, they produce lots of heat, so they need huge cooling systems. These systems send the heat into the air.
A company in the Netherlands thinks paying to make the computers work and then paying again to cool them are a waste of energy. So the company developed a special device—the e-Radiator.
Boaz Leupe, head of the company, says that e-Radiator works as a heating system and saves money. He explains that the energy is used twice—once to heat the home and once to cool the computer and that the users don't have to pay to cool their computers.
Five homeowners in the Netherlands are testing the heating system in their homes.
"We pay for the computer usage, so in that way, homeowners get heating for free." Boaz says.
Jan Visser is one of the homeowners. "If you use the computer more, the e-Radiator produces more heat," he says. "It cannot provide enough heat if you don't use your computer often." But he is ready to try it. It's a great help to his family.
The company says e-Radiators produce heat temperature of up to 55℃. It says the system could save its users about $ 440 a year.
1. Which of the following is true?| A．Before the e-Radiator appears, the heat of a computer is usually sent into the air. |
| B．Google and Microsoft don't need huge cooling systems. |
| C．Google and Microsoft developed a special device-the e-Radiator. |
| D．The heat of a computer usually makes the computer work better before the e-Radiator appears. |
| A．To help Google | B．To provide heat. | C．To heat the computer. | D．To clean the computer. |
| A．About 220 dollars. | B．About 440 dollars. | C．About 44 dollars | D．About 36 dollars. |
| A．A New Company | B．How to Heat Computers |
| C．A New Way to Heat Homes | D．How to Solve Environment Problems |
5 . I spent my last vacation trekking（徒步）in Nepal（尼泊尔）,a small country in the Himalaya Mountains of Asia.On a trekking vacation, you walk for long distances through the mountains.There are very few roads in Nepal, so trekking is the best way to travel.It's best if you hire（雇佣）a guide.The guides know the best paths to take and they also help trekkers with their bags.Our guide even cooked our food for us.Every day, we trekked for about four hours before lunch, and about two hours in the afternoon.At the end of the day's trek, we sat around a campfire and talked about the things we saw.Then we went to sleep in large tents.Every morning, our guide brought breakfast to our tent.It was great.At the end of the trip, 1 didn't want to go home!
1. How long did the writer walk every day?| A．Two hours. | B．Four hours. | C．Six hours. | D．Seven hours. |
| A．people who cook your food | B．people who travel by walking |
| C．people who carry bags for you | D．people who live in Nepal |
| A．Boring. | B．Funny. | C．Relaxing. | D．Terrible. |
| A．Traveling through Asia | B．The People of Nepal |
| C．Exercise and Health | D．Walking in the Mountains |
6 . As an English, I can speak threes languages - English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren’t.
Some statistics from the survey done by the European Commission showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more.
From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.
And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That's why my people don't think it is necessary to learn a foreign language.
In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14. So why don't students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history. To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.
Changing the British attitude(态度)to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try!
1. The writer comes from________.| A．America | B．China | C．Britain | D．Germany |
| A．They are good language learners. |
| B．62% of them speak two or more languages. |
| C．They are famous for speaking foreign languages, |
| D．More than half of them only speak English |
| A．science or German | B．history or German |
| C．science or history | D．German or French |
| A．give up learning a foreign language | B．only like science or history |
| C．take up learning a foreign language | D．learn science and history ate |
| A．Learning to Speak English | B．Foreign Language Learning in UK |
| C．Junior High Schools in UK | D．Young English Learners in Europe |
7 . People use their mouths for many things. In the English language. there are many expressions using the word "mouth". But some of them are not so nice.
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or a family member, Later they regret because it hurts that person's feelings. Or they tell the person something they didn't mean to tell. The speaker might say: " I really put my foot in my mouth this time. "
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say:" You took the words right out of my mouth!" Sometimes a person has a bad or sad experience with another person. He might say that experience" left a bad taste in my mouth. "Or the person possibly has a very frightening（可怕的）experience, like having an angry dog running after him. He might say: " I had my heart in my mouth. "
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. You might say the person "was born with a silver spoon（银勺）in his mouth. He is the opposite of a person living from" hand to mouth". This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.
1. How many expressions using the word "mouth" are there in the text?| A．Four. | B．Six | C．Seven | D．Five, |
| A．feel sorry | B．feel excited | C．feel proud | D．feel surprised |
| A．excited | B．afraid | C．surprised | D．happy |
| A．busy | B．hard | C．easy | D．rich |
| A．Different Uses of Mouth | B．People and Their Mouths |
| C．Expressions about Mouth | D．The Importance of Mouth. |
8 . “Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy- they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” - Jeff Bezos.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife Mackenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to expect. Mackenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he persuaded me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but finally, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I believed I would always be haunted(萦绕) by a decision to not try at all.
After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.
1. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?| A．The desire to follow his passion. | B．The strong support of his wife. |
| C．The increasing usage of the Internet. | D．A bookstore with millions of exciting titles. |
| A．He was a garage inventor. | B．He was in search of a good job. |
| C．He was more than thirty years old. | D．He was satisfied with his working condition. |
| A．Try to do it. | B．Guess it. |
| C．Take a picture. | D．Do quickly. |
| A．He got approval(批准) from his boss. | B．He wanted someone else to try the idea. |
| C．He might not regret if he failed the idea. | D．He might go back to his boss if he failed. |
| A．Cleverness and Kindness | B．The Starting of Amazon |
| C．Following My Passion | D．We Are What We Choose |
Very often people who travel to the United States forget to tip（付小费）.It is usual to tip porters who help carry your bags，taxi drivers and waiters. Waiters expect to get a 15% tip on the cost of your meal. Taxi drivers expect about the same amount.
In England，make sure to stand in line even if there are only two of you. It’s important to respect lines there. It’s a good idea to talk about the weather. It’s a favorite subject of conversation with the British.
In Spain，it’s a good idea to have a light meal in the afternoon if someone invites you for dinner. People have dinner very late，and restaurants do not generally open until after 9 pm.
In Arab countries，men kiss one another on the cheek（脸颊）. Your host may welcome you with a kiss on both cheeks. It is polite for you to do the same.
In Japan，people usually give personal or business cards to each other when they meet for the first time. When a person gives you a card，don’t put it into your pocket right away. The person expects you to read it.
Don’t forget to be careful of your body language to express something In conversation. A kind of body language that is acceptable in one culture may be impolite in another.
1. When you travel to the USA，you don’t need to tip .
| A．porters | B．waiters | C．bus drivers | D．taxi drivers |
| A．Love me，love my dog |
| B．He who laughs last laughs best |
| C．When in Rome，do as the Romans do |
| D．Where there is a will，there is a way |
| A．搬运工 | B．清洁工 | C．接线员 | D．售票员 |
| A．In Spain，People usually have dinner very early |
| B．In England，It’s a not polite to talk about the weather |
| C．In Arab countries，men kiss one another on the cheek |
| D．In Japan you should not read the business card as soon as you get it. |
| A．How to Tip | B．Body Language |
| C．When to Have Dinner | D．Advice to International Travelers |
10 . Everybody likes to feel that she or he is special. Sadly, many of us grow up believing that we’re not special at all. We wish that we could be more attractive or better at sports. We wish we had had more money or nicer clothes. Like the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, or the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz, we think we’re not good enough just as we are. In the film. The Tin Man wishes he had a heart. The Scarecrow wishes that he had a brain, and the Lion wants courage. Finally, each of them realizes that he already has what he wants.
Nearly all parents want us to be the best we can be. They sometimes try to encourage us to do better by comparing us to others. They mean well, but the message we usually get is that we’re not good enough. We start to believe that the only way we can be special is by being better than somebody else, but we are often disappointed (失望的). There will always be somebody out there that is better than we are at something. There are a lot of people around who may not be as smart as we are but who are better at sports. Or they may not be as handsome, but they are more successful. It is unthinkable for us to be better than everybody else all the time. Like the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, we all need what we believe will make us better people.
What we don’t understand is that often we already have the very things inside us that we look for. Our parents often forget to tell us that we are special, that we are good enough just as we are. Perhaps no one told them when they were growing up, or maybe they just forgot. Either way, it’s up to us to remind them sometimes that each of us, in our own way, is special. What we are ... is enough!
1. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing the text?| A．To describe how smart we are. | B．To talk about your family problems. |
| C．To explain the importance of being yourself. | D．To suggest how people can change their way of life. |
| A．a teenager | B．a youth worker | C．a teacher | D．a parent |
| A．They never compare us to other children. | B．They always tell us that we are good enough. |
| C．They often forget to tell us that we are special. | D．They never forget to tell us that we are special. |
| A．What Makes You Smart | B．What Makes You Happy |
| C．What Makes You Strong | D．What Makes You Special |
