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Look at the picture. Do you know what the girl and the boy are doing? They are throwing two baby puffins (海鹰) off a cliff (悬崖). Every year in late summer, people on Iceland’s Westman Islands throw thousands of baby puffins off cliffs. This yearly tradition is called “puffling season”. In fact, they just want to save these birds’ lives.
Puffins are the most common birds on the Westman Islands in Iceland. Different from most sea birds, they are able to go under water to 60 meters deep to catch fish. Puffins are born on sea cliffs. When baby puffins become large enough, they fly away and spend several years at sea. Then they return to produce their babies. In the past, the birds found the sea by following the light of the moon. But now, city lights make them lose their way.
Kyana Sue Powers is an American photographer. She found out about the puffling season while visiting the Westman Islands last summer. One day when she was leaving a restaurant after dinner, she noticed a group of children acting strangely. They were running after puffins. Later, she learned that every year many baby puffins fly into the town after mistaking city lights for the moon. People there spend a few weeks in August and September collecting lost baby puffins, usually four to ten in a night. Then they throw them off cliffs and set them on the right way. That is significant for the puffins.
Powers says she feels excited when seeing people throw young puffins. “When you take a baby puffin to the cliff, it’s the first time in its life that it has seen the sea, and it is going to live there for the next few years,” she says. “I really hope it will have a great life!”
1. According to the text, we know puffins ________.| A．can fly at birth | B．produce babies on the sea cliff |
| C．always get lost when they are at sea | D．can quickly find the sea with the help of city lights |
| A．natural | B．possible | C．terrible | D．important |
| A．why Powers became interested in puffins |
| B．how Powers learned about the puffling season |
| C．how people on the Westman Islands protect puffins |
| D．why people on the Westman Islands help lost puffins |
| A．A special way to save puffins | B．How to get on well with puffins |
| C．Something you don’t know about puffins | D．The Westman Islands—a place for puffin lovers |
2 . “坚持不懈，方得始终”。你在初中生活中一直坚持的一项爱好或习惯是什么？请你根据以下提示要点用英语写一篇短文，要点如下：
（1）坚持的事；（2）如何做的；
（3）你的收获/感想。
注意：
（1）词数80—100，开头已给出，不计入总词数；
（2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（3）文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称。
参考词汇：
坚持…… stick to doing …
A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence (坚持).
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Nowadays, typing or texting is taking the place of the strokes (笔画) of Chinese characters (汉字). For the reason, people are paying less attention to handwriting. As a result, they can’t even remember exactly how to write a given character sometimes. This is called “character amnesia (提笔忘字)”.
To change the situation, the TV program named Chinese Character Dictation (听写) Competition came out. Meng Man, who teaches at Minzu University of China, took part in the competition as a judge (评委). “I was surprised by some competitors because I couldn’t even remember how to write certain characters. But they could,” she said. “Now many adults have trouble writing Chinese characters. This program is really great, since it draws people’s attention to this problem.”
When typing or texting, most people use a system where they type out the pinyin of a character and then get a list of all possible Chinese characters. They just need to choose the one they want from the list. The bad thing about the system is that it stops people from thinking about how a Chinese character is formed.
“Chinese characters are generally square. They teach people to be upright (正直的). Typing or texting will influence people’s understanding of the traditional culture behind the Chinese characters,” Meng said.
To solve the problem of “character amnesia”, experts suggest that people change their mobile phone texting way from pinyin to handwriting. In this way, they can avoid forgetting how to write characters.
1. Why are people paying less attention to handwriting nowadays?2. What does Meng Man do?
3. What is the disadvantage of the pinyin typing system?
4. Do you think it’s necessary for us to write Chinese characters every day? Why? Write 30 words or more.
The Shenzhou-18 manned spaceship was successfully launched at 8:59 pm
It sent three astronauts as well as nearly a hundred experimental (实验的)
The astronauts
The Shenzhou-18 astronauts are planned
Henry’s mother often told him, “Haste makes waste (欲速则不达).” Henry thought differently. “Being
One day, Henry read a storybook as soon as he got it. It was about a man selling coconuts (椰子) for a living. One day, to
Just then, a boy passed by. The man asked him for
Hearing the
The man didn’t listen to the boy and drove the wagon quickly. But soon, coconuts began falling from the wagon. The man had to
“I may waste more
| A．quiet | B．slow | C．quick | D．high |
| A．sell | B．collect | C．grow | D．check |
| A．full | B．broken | C．small | D．empty |
| A．reasons | B．results | C．methods | D．directions |
| A．quickly | B．happily | C．slowly | D．quietly |
| A．useful | B．strange | C．common | D．correct |
| A．return | B．wait | C．agree | D．stop |
| A．paying for | B．looking for | C．picking up | D．taking away |
| A．money | B．time | C．food | D．energy |
| A．understood | B．doubted | C．remembered | D．changed |
How to Improve Your Reading
Learning how to read well in English might not be an easy task.
Choose right reading materials (材料).
There are so many choices! There are textbooks and graded readers, but there are also a lot more books you can read.
Be intentional (意图明确的).
Being intentional means doing something on purpose with a reason in mind. With reading, you need to be intentional by setting a reading aim. Decide on a certain number of pages you want to read each day.
Reading can both introduce you to new vocabulary (词汇) and teach you how to use them. Many words in English are often used together in a consistent (相互连贯的) way. Reading groups of words, or words that go together, will help you better understand how to use your new vocabulary.
| A．Read word groups. |
| B．Don’t try to understand everything. |
| C．Don’t choose a book that is too easy or too difficult. |
| D．You could also be intentional with planning a time to read. |
| E．But it’s something you’ll have to do on your language learning journey. |
7 . Trends (潮流) always come and go. Many goods (商品) people buy to keep up with fashion (时尚) often end up in the rubbish bin. Now many young Chinese people are giving these things a second life. They are called “stoopers”, and they pick up idle (闲置的) things and reuse them. They are mainly in big cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Chen Jiaorong is one of them. She started stooping in June 2022 when she found many people were throwing away the things that they hardly ever used after they got free from the COVID lockdown in Shanghai. After that, Chen often “found treasures” in her spare time. Now her house is filled with things that have been redesigned (重新设计) from the idle goods she has collected, including tables, chairs and clothes.
“Some people say stooping means collecting rubbish,” Chen said. “But for me, it is about making the best use of things.” That’s why she wants to introduce the trend to others. Sometimes Chen also puts stickers on idle goods that she doesn’t need and posts pictures of them online for others to find.
Huang Xiaohe from Kunming No.1 High School loves stooping too. She’s had a hobby of keeping things since her childhood. Though the 13-year-old girl has few chances to go stooping in her city, Huang often looks for idle goods around her school. She then cleans and redesigns them, turning them into fun things at home.
“I believe that any waste can be turned into treasures,” said Huang. She also added that stooping was an action to fight over-buying.
1. What can we know about stoopers?| A．They are mainly in villages. | B．They always keep up with fashion. |
| C．They can’t afford expensive goods. | D．They try to protect environment. |
| A．What does Chen think of stooping? | B．What has Chen collected? |
| C．Why did Chen start stooping? | D．When did Chen start stooping? |
| A．keep up with fashion | B．recycle and reuse idle goods |
| C．buy what they really need | D．give useless things to others |
| A．Zhou Liang often collects useless things for sale in his free time. |
| B．Smith always tells his students to protect our environment. |
| C．Mina uses old clothes people no longer wear to make bags. |
| D．Li Jing’s mum often donates money and food to help those in need. |
8 . How fast can someone climb 15 meters? The answer is: less than 5 seconds.
On May 30, Chinese speed climber (速度攀岩者) Cao Long made history. In Zhejiang, he finished his climbing at 4.98 seconds and people call him “Chinese Spider-Man”.
“The race finishes in seconds. So a climber should be careful and keep calm. Otherwise (否则), he will make mistakes and lose the race,” Cao said.
In fact, that pressure (压力) is part of the reason why Cao loves the sport. “Competing side by side with another climber really excites me,” he said.
Cao took up climbing at the age of 8 and he won the national climbing competition two years later. When he was 14, a terrible accident happened to him. He fell from a 13-meter wall, breaking his lower back. Though it was hard, Cao’s love for the sport made him go back to climbing.
Now, Cao is preparing for the Paris Olympics in 2024. In his eyes, the good race result is a thing of the past. “I’ll keep improving myself and try to do better next time,” Cao said.
1. Cao Long thinks speed climbing is ________.| A．easy | B．healthy | C．exciting | D．relaxing |
① Cao started to take up climbing. ② Cao broke his lower back in an accident.
③ Cao finished his climbing at 4.98 seconds. ④ Cao won a national climbing competition.
| A．①②④③ | B．②③①④ | C．③②④① | D．①④②③ |
| A．A Chinese Spider-Man. | B．The history of speed climbing. |
| C．Chinese speed climbers. | D．The development of speed climbing. |
| A．His parents’ love made Cao go back to climbing. |
| B．Cao is expected to compete in the Paris Olympics in 2024. |
| C．Cao once played an important role in the movie Spider-Man. |
| D．Remembering the good race results makes Cao work harder. |
| Paper Cut Art Competition To further develop the culture of paper cut art, to offer chances to people to help them become more creative, and to spread local cultures through the art, we invite middle school students aged 13-19 from all cities in Liaoning Province to take part in the competition and excellent works will be shown to the public. |
Size: The size of each entry (参赛作品) mustn’t be larger than B2-size (51.5cm x 72.8cm). Entry fee: ¥30 per person. Entry period: All entries must arrive between 1st June and 31st June 2024. Rules: One entry per person; ·Entries must be original (原创的) and unpublished (未出版的). ★All entries must be emailed to lixunpapercutart@163.com. Please write your name, grade, school name, city and email address on a piece of paper and send it with your entry. PRIZES ·1st Prize / 1 winner/ A trophy (奖杯) and ¥10,000 ·2nd Prize/ 1 winner/ A trophy and ¥5,000 ·3rd Prize / 1 winner/ A trophy and ¥3,000 ·Prizes for Excellence /5 winners/ A trophy and ¥1,000 for each For more information, please call Mr. Wang at 024 48477XXXX. |
1. What is the competition about?
| A．Science. | B．Art. | C．Sports. | D．Music. |
| A．Wang Xiao, 9, Dalian. | B．Li Zimeng, 12, Fuxin. |
| C．Zhao Tong, 16, Benxi. | D．Wang Yinan, 20, Shenyang. |
| A．three | B．four | C．six | D．eight |
| A．send two entries by email | B．hand in their entry before 1st June 2024 |
| C．make sure the entry is in B2-size or smaller | D．publish their entry first before they hand it in |
10 . 请查看你校英语节安排表（Schedule），给外教老师Dave写一封80-100词左右的电子邮件，告知他调整的内容并给出你认为恰当的理由。
Schedule for English Day | |||
Date | Time | Activities | Place |
June 21st | 13: 00﹣14: 30 12: 30﹣14: 00 | English Talk Show | Art Theater |
| 14: 00﹣15: 30 | English Speech Contest | Library | |
| 15: 40﹣16: 40 | English Corner | School Hall Playground | |
| Subject: | Changes to the schedule |
| From: | Li Ping |
| To: | Dave |
| Dear Dave, _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Ping | |
