1 . My father woke me up early one summer morning when I was fourteen and said: “Get up, you’re going with me to cut the grass in the garden.”

The idea that my father thought I was old enough to help him in his business (生意) made me feel proud (骄傲) and excited. From sunrise to sunset, my father, my younger brother and I worked in the large garden, in a rich part of Atlanta, Georgia. By the end of the day I was too tired to say a word but I felt good. This was my first time to help my father in his business. I got $ 6 for my work that day.

One day my father found some leaves I had missed and pulled me aside. “Take away these leaves!” he said seriously, “and don’t make me have to tell you to do it again.” The message was clear. Today I still value（珍视） it , which my father gave to me that day. It will always be helpful to impress (给……留下印象) the person you are working for.

After two years, I left home and went to another town to start my new life. Luckily for me, I quickly found a job to wash dishes in a restaurant. Every morning, I set off early, always with the same strong wish I got long long ago. I felt like I was old enough to be independent and make a living by myself.

In fact, washing dishes was not exciting, but that didn’t matter. It taught me that any job was a good job and whatever I got from the job was more than I had before. I could learn something meaningful from every job and do it better and better. One day, a newspaper reporter once asked me how someone could possibly live with hard work and low pay. “If you only think about hard work and money, 58 ” I answered.

In every job, from cutting the grass to washing dishes, I’ve learned much. I’ve learned something that helps me in my next job.

1. The writer felt proud to cut the grass because               .

A．he was not old enough to help his family

B．he thought he became important to his father’s business

C．he could cut the grass without others’ help

D．he could get $6 that day by cutting grass

2. Which of the following can be the missing part in Paragraph 5?

A．you will stay away from your family	B．you will live a hard life
C．you won’t do any better than you’re doing	D．you won’t be happy in your life

3. If we put the passage into three parts, which of the following is the best?
(①=Para. 1     ②=Para. 2     ③=Para. 3     ④=Para. 4     ⑤=Para. 5     ⑥=Para. 6）

A．①②③; ④⑤; ⑥	B．①; ②③④⑤; ⑥
C．①②; ③④; ⑤⑥	D．①②; ③④⑤; ⑥

4. The best title of this passage may be “              ”.

A．My Father, the Best Teacher in My Life	B．Work Hard to Find a Job
C．Different Jobs, Different Lives	D．Keep Learning in Your Jobs

2 . How do you turn your interests into a business (生意)? Mohammed Ali, 15, a teen gamer from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, UK, is a good example.

At the age of 12, he learned how to code (编程) by using YouTube and even made his own video game. Users have to pay 5.99 pounds (56 yuan) per month to play the game. He has already made 30,000 pounds. He also makes websites and is working on a finance app (理财应用软件), which will be open to the public in August.

Ali has saved lots of money for his future university costs and even bought two sofas for his family’s living room.

“When I first started making money, I thought I’d just spend it all. Then I thought, why should I spend it all? I save most of it in the bank, because I want to do more in the future,” he told the Daily Mail.

He became interested in computers when his parents bought him one at the age of 6. He often played video games on his computer. But after playing so many games, he decided to make his own.

Then, Ali learned how to code using YouTube videos and by reading books on the subject. In 2012, he made his own game called Project 2006 after working on it for seven months. It was a role-playing game and more than 3,000 people are members. After his game became popular, he started a website-making business.

In the future, he wants to go to university and study computer science. “I’m looking to study computer science, not business because I’ve got a lot of experience in business already,” he told the Daily Star.

1. What did Mohammed Ali do, according to the first two paragraphs?

A．He learned how to code for YouTube.

B．He made a video game by himself.

C．He started a video store and has made287,000 yuan.

D．He set up a website for people to do business.

2. What did Ali do with the money?

A．He kept it to pay for university.

B．He spent it all on his family.

C．He put all of his money into his new app.

D．He bought computers for his parents and himself.

3. Which one is in the right order?
① Ali made a website               ② Ali got a computer from his parents.
③ Ali made a game project.   ④ Ali learned how to code from videos.

A．②④①③

B．④②①③

C．④①②③

D．②④③①

4. What do we know from the story?

A．Ali became successful with the help of his parents.

B．Ali wanted to study business at university.

C．Ali is talented both with computers and business.

D．Ali wanted to give up school to do business.

3 . I remember the green coat in my fifth and sixth grades.

When I needed a new jacket, my mother asked what kind I wanted. I described something like bikers wear. She listened long. I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted.

The next day when I got home from school. I discovered on my bed a jacket which was not what I had expected. I went close to the jacket slowly as if it were a stranger.

From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet. I rushed and pulled at the clothes in the closet, hoping the jacket on the bed wasn't for me but my brother. No luck, I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big. But I knew I'd have to wear it a long time before I'd have a new one. I looked at the jacket like an enemy, thinking bad things before I took off my old and small jacket.

I put the big jacked on. I stood in front of the mirror, turning right and left. I looked ugly.

I threw it on my brother's bed and looked at it for a long time before I put it on and went out, smiling a "thank you" to my mom.

The next day I wore it to school. At the morning break, my best friend, Steve looked at me for a long time. The girls turned away to whisper. The teachers looked my way and talked about how foolish I looked in my new jacket. When it was time for the whole school to get together on the playground._______. Although they didn't say out loud. "Man. that's ugly." I heard their talk and even laughter.

And so I went, in my jacket. So embarrassed, so hurt. I couldn't even do my lessons the rest of the day. I received Cs on tests.

I wore that thing for three years. All in those years no love came to me.

I blamed（指责）that jacket for those bad years. I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways. It was a sad time for the heart. Anyway. I spent my sixth grade year, looking forward to something good to happen to me.

And it was about that time I began to grow, still in that green ugly jacket, which had become my brother who went along wherever I went.

1. The writer went to school in the new jacket because ________ .

A．his jacket was too old and small

B．his brother asked him to do so

C．he wanted to show it to his friends

D．he would act in a school play

2. The sentence that shows the writer cared about his mother's feeling is "________".

A．I thought she understood for sure the kind I wanted

B．I blamed my mother for her bad taste and her cheap ways

C．I put it on and went out, smiling a "thank you" to my mom

D．From the kitchen mother shouted that my jacket was in the closet

3. Which of the following sentences can be put in the _______.

A．it began to rain	B．everyone saw me
C．my mother came	D．I got angry

4. The changes of the writer's attitude（态度）to the jacket can be described as ______ .

A．enemy-stranger-brother	B．brother-stranger-enemy
C．stranger-brother-enemy	D．stranger-enemy-brother

4 . Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”.

For example, people who show no human emotions or feelings are said to be cold-blooded. Cold can affect other parts of the body. But the expression “get cold feet” has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to do. For example, you agree to be CEO of a company. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned (辞职), and all the work of the company will be your responsibility (责任). You are likely to get cold feet about being CEO when you understand the situation.

The expression “give someone the cold shoulder” probably comes from the physical act of turning your back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face to face. You may give the cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you, or to someone who has lied about you to others.

“A cold fish” is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unemotional and shows no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone. Someone who is a cold fish could be cold-hearted. He or she will never feel sorry for those in bad situation.

“Out in the cold” means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise — he was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be.

1. If you get cold feet, this means that .

A．you feel brave to do something	B．you feel too nervous to do something
C．you feel too cold to do something	D．you feel very angry about doing something

2. Henry got the cold shoulder when he asked to see a film with Mary, that means .

A．Henry was treated politely when he asked Mary to see a film

B．Henry was afraid to invite Mary to see a film with him

C．Mary didn’t care about Henry’s invitation and didn’t plan to go with him

D．Mary behaved unfriendly because she didn’t like to talk with Henry face toface

3. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Opinions about cold weather.	B．Expressions connected with “cold”.
C．Relation between cold and body.	D．Examples of people who have a cold.

4. Which of the following shows the structure (结构) of the passage? (P = paragraph)

A．

B．

C．

D．

5 . Last Friday, I agreed to meet some friends at 6:00 p.m. in a coffee shop. The weather was sunny, so I decided to walk there. I arrived ten minutes early. I ordered a cup of coffee and sat watching people. There were some boys playing football on the street, and a small boy was running after the ball as it rolled (滚) across the road.
Suddenly (突然), there came a car. It was going very fast. When the driver saw the boy in his way, he braked (刹车) hard. But it was too late ... The small boy was lying on the street without moving. To everyone’s surprise, the car didn’t stop. It drove away quickly.
People ran to the boy. There was a cut on the boy’s head and he lost a lot of blood. The coffee shop owner (主人) telephoned the police. Soon an ambulance (救护车) arrived and took the boy to the hospital.
At 6:30 p.m., the police arrived and started questioning people. About half an hour later, they asked me to go to the police station because I saw everything. I gave them all the information I knew because I really wanted them to catch the driver. I didn’t leave the police station until 8:00 p.m. After that I went home because I didn’t feel like talking to anyone.
The next day, the boy’s parents called me to say thanks. They also told me their boy was fine and the driver was in the police station now.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Where was the writer at 5:50 p.m. last Friday?

A．At home.

B．On the street.

C．In a coffee shop.

D．In the police station.

2. Who called the police?

A．The writer.

B．The boy’s friends.

C．The boy’s parents.

D．The coffee shop owner.

3. The writer left the police station at ________ p.m.

A．6:30

B．7:00

C．7:30

D．8:00

4. Which is the right order of the following events?
① The writer ordered a cup of coffee.
② There was a cut on the boy’s head.
③ A car came very fast.   
④ The writer got a call from the boy’s parents.
⑤ The writer went back home.

A．①②⑤③④

B．①③②⑤④

C．③②①⑤④

D．③①②④⑤

5. How might the writer feel at the end of the story?

A．Happy.	B．Tired.
C．Worried.	D．Popular.

6 . Captain(船长) Nemo invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the forests of Crespo Island. I asked him why he was so interested in Crespo Island, “I thought you preferred the sea to being on land.”

“I do,” replied the captain. “But these forests are under the sea.”

After going through a door, we were about ten metres under the water. The light from the sun reached us. Everything looked very colourful. We were going deeper and deeper. At 100 metres deep, we could see quite well, and Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the forest. The “trees” in the forest were giant seaweed(海草), and all their “branches” were vertical(垂直的).We could not stop looking at them. Fish swam around the branches like birds in a forest. 

Suddenly, I saw a large sea spider about a metre tall. It was going to attack me. Captain Nemo's man killed it with his gun, but it reminded me that the sea could be as dangerous as it was beautiful. When we reached 150 metres, it was dark. The sun's light could not reach this depth(深度). We turned on our lights. We could see about 20 metres around us. Finally, we found Crespo Island—where a steep rock wall rose in front of us.

We could go no further, so we walked back towards the Nautilus. Suddenly, Captain Nemo stopped and shot an animal with his gun, it was a beautiful and rare sea otter(水獭). At last, we could see the Nautilus. Several large sharks swam over us. Luckily they didn't see us. We re-entered the Nautilus safely. I was tired but amazed by what I had seen.

1. What do “dark shapes” in Paragraph 3 refer to(指的是)?

A．Trees.

B．Seaweed.

C．Rocks.

D．Fish.

2. According to the passage, which is the correct order?
①Captain Nemo's man killed a sea spider.
②The men returned to the Nautilus.
③The men went to the forest.
④Captain Nemo invited us to go hunting.
⑤Captain Nemo shot an otter.

A．④①③⑤③

B．③④②⑤①

C．④③①⑤②

D．③④①⑤②

3. What is the best title of the story?

A．A Visit to a Sea Forest	B．Death Under the Sea
C．Captain Nemo and the Nautilus	D．Attacked by Giant Spider

7 . More than 700 years ago, Scotland was fighting with England. The King of England wanted to control Scotland. He had a strong army so it was difficult for the Scots to fight. They lost many times. King Robert of Scotland had to run from the English army.
One rainy day, King Robert lay in a cave (洞穴). He thought that he was not good enough to be a king. He was so worried that he didn’t even see a spider near him. He looked up when he saw the spider climbing. It was trying to climb up to its web at the top of the cave but it fell down.
“How sad!” thought King Robert. “The spider is like me. It’s not strong enough.”
He watched while the spider tried again. It fell down a second time.
“Be careful little spider, or you might die,” he said. “Life is so hard. You’ll never
get back to your web.” But the spider tried again and again. King Robert watched while it slowly climbed back to its web. After an hour, the spider got to the web.
“You are such a great spider,” he said. “If you can keep trying, I can too. I must carry on fighting. I won’t let the English win.” Then his army grew strong and they stopped the English army successfully.
1. Why was it difficult for the Scots to fight the English?

A．Because the Scots were too weak.

B．Because the King of England was very smart.

C．Because the English army was very strong.

D．Because the King of Scotland was not good enough.

2. Where was the spider’s web?

A．On the wall of the cave.

B．At the entrance of the cave.

C．In the middle of the cave.

D．At the top of the cave.

3. What did King Robert think of the spider at first?

A．It was clever.

B．It was careless.

C．It was not that strong.

D．It was great.

4. In what order did the following take place in the story?
a. The spider got to its web.
b. The spider fell down many times.
c. King Robert got his army to be strong enough to fight the English.
d. King Robert saw a spider trying to climb up to its web in a cave.
e. King Robert thought he should be like the spider.

A．d-b-a-e-c

B．c-d-b-a-e

C．d-e-b-a-c

D．c-d-e-b-a

5. What can we learn from the story?

A．We have to be strong if we want to win.

B．Keep trying and we will get what we want.

C．Try to find an easier way when we meet difficulties.

D．Life is so hard and sometimes we have to give up something.

8 . It had been snowing very hard for days. Jigs and Reads had nothing to eat for a day. They know that things weren’t right at home. So yesterday morning they wanted to go out. Bob helped them get out through a window, because the snow was so deep outside that he couldn’t open the door. Last night, they didn’t come back. Bob said to himself, “They are only five months old. This weather will kill them.” But just then Bob heard them calling him. He looked out and could not believe ----they were drawing a big hare through the snow. They dropped it through the window into Bob’s hands. A hare(野兔) for dinner.
1. Jigs and Reads in the story were _________.

A．Bob’s children

B．dogs

C．hares

D．neighbours

2. They know that things weren’t right at home. It means that they know _______.

A．Bob had no food to give them	B．Bob could open the door
C．it wasn’t very cold outside.	D．they were too young to eat anything

3. Finally, Jigs and Reads returned with a big _________.

A．fox

B．dog

C．hare

D．pig

4. .The story says that Jigs and Reads ____________.

A．wanted out to play with rain	B．asked to look for money outside
C．ate much more than Bob did	D．were a great help to Bob

5. . Choose the right order according to the story.
①They caught a hare in the snow.
②They went out and stayed outside for the night.
③They brought the hare home.
④They felt hungry and wanted to find food.

A．4321

B．1432

C．4213

D．2413