1 .

	a I studied in Los Angeles in July 2019. During that time, I often went to a nearby library when I had time. Because I am a book lover. In this library, I met a girl called Elena. She gave up several hours to help us there every Friday afternoon. Her job was to read books to us and listen to our reading. She spoke very slowly. So we all could understand her. We liked her very much. She was a very kind woman. She thinks teaching the students to read is very meaningful. And she can do what she loves to do.
	b Have you ever helped your parents with household chores? If so, what do you think the worst chore is? You may have thought of several things already, but for English people, cleaning the oven is the most hated chore, a study released (发布) by Braun Care Style ironing (熨烫) systems on Sept 8 showed. Ironing is the second most disliked task, followed closely by changing the bed sheets (床单). However, their favorite chores—which they actually enjoy doing—are cooking, gardening and vacuuming (除尘).
	c If people around you have had a fever recently, it may not be COVID-19. According to China Daily, many places in China have come into the peak (高峰) period for seasonal flu. Influenza A (甲流) is sweeping across the country. In the past three years, people did things to stop COVID-19, which also stopped the flu. As a result, people’s immunity (免疫) to the flu went down. Besides, the flu and COVID-19 are different, so getting COVID-19 does not stop you from getting the flu. Symptoms (症状) of Influenza A: Cough, Fever above 38℃, Headache, Sore throat.

1. Match the passages a—c with three topics: ①Health ②Volunteer ③Chores

A．①-a; ②-b; ③-c

B．①-b; ②-a; ③-c

C．①-c; ②-a; ③-b

2. Who will probably have Influenza A?

A．Anna—She coughs too much and her temperature is very high.

B．Linda—She has a stomachache and a nosebleed.

C．Elena—She read a lot for students yesterday, so she has a sore throat.

3. For English people, which is the right order from the most hated to the third disliked chores according to the Braun Care Style ironing systems?

A．Cooking—Gardening—Vacuuming

B．Cleaning the oven—Changing the bed sheets—Ironing

C．Cleaning the oven—Ironing—Changing the bed sheets

4. Which following statement is NOT TRUE?

A．Elena read books to students and listened to their reading.

B．English people like cooking, gardening or vacuuming.

C．Getting COVID-19 can stop people from getting the flu.

2 . Should parents pay their kids for doing housework? Some kids talk about it.

I often do housework but I never want my parents to pay me. They work hard and feel tired when they get home. Sometimes they need our help. Also, it is a good chance (机会) for us kids to learn to look after ourselves. —Lucky

I think it’s fine for kids to get money for doing housework. It teaches kids that they can’t get money if they don’t work. They can also learn that hard work can be good for them. —Linda

I don’t think it’s a good idea to give kids money for doing housework. Parents should praise (表扬) them with good words but not with money. And I don’t think kids are old enough to keep lots of money. —Mage

Parents should let their kids do housework. When kids do housework for the whole family, parents can give them some money in return. It helps kids learn that good things only come from work. —Leaf

1. Lucky thinks doing housework can help kids learn ______.

A．to keep money

B．to save time

C．to praise someone

D．to look after themselves

2. How should parents praise kids according to (根据) Mage?

A．With good words.

B．With some money.

C．With pretty clothes.

D．With nice food.

3. Who thinks kids should get money for doing housework?

A．Linda and Mage.

B．Leaf and Linda.

C．Lucky and Linda.

D．Mage and Leaf.

3 . 根据短文内容，将下面的选项还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺，每个选 项只能用一次，其中有一个选项是多余的。

Do you ever wish you had more time in a day? Everyone gets the same amount (数量) of time each day.     1     As a popular saying says, “Work smarter, not harder.”

The best way to manage your time is to set priorities (优先权),     2     Also, consider whether or not they are urgent (紧急的) if they need to be done right away. It can be easy to forget important tasks that aren’t urgent, so make time for them.

Decide ahead what you are going to do at certain time each day.     3     Are you smarter in the morning, afternoon or evening? Do difficult tasks when you feel good and do easy ones when you’re tired.

Write down what you need to do and when. Keep two to-do lists: one for the present tasks and one for larger projects you’re working on.     4     And you don’t get discouraged by looking at a long list of items you can’t finish. You focus on the shorter list of each day’s tasks.

    5     When someone wants to give you a task, think carefully. Is it really necessary to spend your valuable time on? Could someone else do it instead?

In the end, using time well is about making a good plan and sticking to it.

A．Think about the time of day you work best.

B．That way you can make sure you don’t forget anything.

C．Make sure which of your tasks is the most important.

D．Say no to things that aren’t so necessary.

E．But there are some ways to use those hours better.

F．As we all know that time is money.

5 .

When I was a little girl, my mom used to cook dinner for my dad and me.

One night, she cooked dinner for us after a long, hard day at work. Maybe because she was too tired, the food she cooked wasn’t so good. She placed a plate of eggs and burned toast (烤面包片) in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! But all my dad did was to pick up his toast, smile at my mom, and ask me how my day was at school. I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him put butter (黄油) on that toast and eat it up! When I got up from the table that evening, I heard my mom say sorry to my dad for burning the toast. And I’ll never forget what he said, “Baby, I love burned toast.”

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night, and I asked him if he really liked the burned toast. He said, “Debbie, your mom had a hard day at work today and she’s really tired. Burned toast never hurts anyone. You know, life isn’t always perfect.”

What I’ve learned over the years is that learning to accept each other’s faults and choosing to accept each other’s differences is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and long-lasting relationship (关系). Understanding is the base of any relationship.

1. What did the writer do when his mother put the burned toast on the table?

A．She didn’t notice it.	B．She refused to eat it.
C．She stopped her father eating it.	D．She waited to see her father’s reaction.

2. What can we know about the writer’s mother?

A．She wasn’t good at cooking.

B．She felt sorry for the burned food.

C．She hardly had time to cook at home.

D．She spent more time cooking in the kitchen.

3. What does the writer often do in her dad’s room before going to bed?

A．

B．

C．

D．

4. How did the writer feel when her father said he loved burned toast?

A．Moved.

B．Excited.

C．Upset.

D．Glad.

5. Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The father thought burned toast was delicious.

B．The mother always cooked burned toast for her family.

C．The writer learned an important lesson about love that night.

D．The writer remembered clearly what she told her father at the table that night.

6 . Life is always full of stress these days. How do you usually deal with (处理) your stress? Do you know doing housework is helpful in dealing with stress? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed.

“Doing some housework such as washing windows or cleaning the house is a good way to face our stress without taking any medicine,” says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist (心理学家) in New York. She often advises people who are under lots of stress to try doing housework every day. “While washing something,” she says, “you can imagine you’re washing away some trouble in your life.”

Do people all agree with her idea? Here are some ideas about it.

“Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life,” says Linda in France (法国). “Get me out of doing the housework and then I’ll really be relaxed.”

Gary is a single (单身的) father. “So, a man pays a psychologist $200 an hour for his problem about stress. However, he is just told to go back home and do some housework. I really don’t know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man!”

1. What does Carol Clark advise people under stress to do?

A．To take some medicine.	B．To call on a psychologist.
C．To do some housework.	D．To be as tidy as possible.

2. What does Linda think of doing housework?

A．It makes her relaxed.	B．It makes her helpful.
C．It makes her in good health.	D．It makes her under much stress.

3. What can we know from the last two paragraphs (段落) of the passage?

A．People have more and more stress.

B．Some people have different ideas from Carol Clark’s.

C．Doing housework is helpful in dealing with stress.

D．Most people have to do too much housework.

4. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Housework and stress.	B．The reasons for stress.
C．Work and life.	D．A successful psychologist.

7 . ①Tomorrow is Saturday. Our teacher will take us to a farm and do some outdoor activities (户外活动) there. It’s a good place for us to have fun. We can sing songs, dance, fly kites and have a picnic there. Today our teacher tells us some rules (规则). Please look at them.

②Rule 1：You shouldn’t (不应该) run fast when doing the outdoor activities.

③Rule 2：You shouldn’t climb trees or walls on the farm. You may hurt your legs or arms.

④Rule 3：There are many trees and much grass on the farm. Each child can’t play with fire or cook food. They are dangerous.

⑤Rule 4：A river is near the farm. Many fish are in it, but you shouldn’t fish in the river.

⑥Also, our teacher asks us not to go anywhere alone.

⑦These are the rules. We should follow our teacher’s rules on the farm tomorrow.

根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. What can the students do on the farm?
a. Play with animals.   b. Dance.     c. Fly kites.   d. Climb the trees.   e. Draw pictures.

A．abc

B．bed

C．bce

2. Which picture can show the meaning of Rule 4?

A．

B．

C．

3. The underlined word “follow” means “________” in Chinese.

A．跟随

B．遵循

C．顺从

4. How many rules are there in the passage?

A．3.

B．4.

C．5.

5. Which of the following shows the structure (结构) of this passage?

A．①②③④⑤/⑥⑦

B．①②/③④⑤⑥/⑦

C．①/②③④⑤⑥/⑦

8 . This is my father. His name is Paul. He’s 46 years old. He gets up early on weekdays.

He makes breakfast. His company (公司) is far. He often takes the subway to work. But on rainy days, he drives to work.

My father is a teacher but he doesn’t teach kids. He teaches young workers in his company. He is always busy.

At six o’clock, my father goes home. He usually gets home at a quarter to seven. Sometimes he helps my mother cook dinner. After dinner he always helps me with my homework. In the evening my father reads books. He loves reading.

On weekends (周末) he does different things. Sometimes he goes to the library. He reads books there. Sometimes he goes to a concert (音乐会). My father loves music but I think the concerts are boring. He doesn’t see a movie on weekends. He often watches TV in the evening on weekends.

I love my father very much.

根据材料内容选择正确答案。
1. Paul goes to work on rainy days ________.

A．by subway

B．by bus

C．by car

D．by bike

2. Paul teaches ________ on weekdays.

A．some kids

B．young workers

C．old workers

D．his son

3. What does Paul like?

A．Reading and music.	B．Driving and reading.
C．Music and movies.	D．Cooking and movies.

4. Which one is TRUE?

A．Sometimes Paul helps cook breakfast.

B．Paul usually gets home at six forty-five.

C．Paul does different things on weekdays.

D．Paul often sees a movie on weekends.

5. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Paul’s busy work.	B．The family of Paul’s.
C．A boy and his father.	D．The life of a father.

9 . What do you usually do on Saturday? I usually go to Michael’s Farm (农场) to see my grandfather and my cousins on Saturday. Michael is just my grandfather’s name.

It’s far from my home to Michael’s Farm. This Saturday, my friends Eric and Jim go there with me. At 10: 00 am, we start off by bike. We take a lot of food and drinks with us because we want to have lunch on our way to the farm. First, we ride on Blue Road for one and a half hours. Next, we have lunch under a tree near a crossing. After lunch, we turn left at the crossing and ride on Sky Road for another (再一的) hour to get to my grandfather’s farm. Along the way, we are tired (疲劳的) but happy.

My grandfather lives in a big farmhouse. He is very happy to see us. We help him water vegetables, feed (喂) animals and do some cleaning. We play games with my cousins. My grandfather cooks lots of food for us.

We have a good time with my grandfather and my cousins on Michael’s Farm. The next morning, we ride back home.

1. Eric and Jim are the writer’s ________.

A．friends

B．classmates

C．brothers

D．cousins

2. The underlined phrase “start off” means “________” in Chinese.

A．等待

B．出发

C．停止

D．奔跑

3. What do they do on Michael’s Farm? 　     　
①water vegetables   ②have lunch   ③feed animals
④do some cleaning   ⑤play games   ⑥cook dinner

A．②③④⑤

B．①③④⑥

C．①③④⑤

D．③④⑤⑥

4. The best title (标题) for the passage is ________.

A．A Happy Saturday	B．A Boring Day
C．A Great Farm	D．An Interesting Thing