1 . Mr Brown is one of my friends. He can run very fast and likes to show people how fast he can run. One day, a thief（小偷）got into his house, took some of his things and ran out of the house fast. Mr Brown found it and ran after him, and shouted, “Hey! Don’t you know you can’t get away from me.”But the thief ran much faster, Mr Brown got angry and ran faster, too. He was soon a few kilometers away from his house, he was running hard when he met me. “Why are you running so fast?” I asked. “I want to catch a thief,” said Mr Brown. “But where is the thief?” I asked. “Kilometers and kilometers behind,” said Mr Brown proudly, “He thought he could run faster than me, but you see he is wrong.”

1. Did the thief steal（偷）anything from Brown’s house?

A．Yes, he has.	B．No, he wasn’t.
C．Yes, he did.	D．No, he didn’t.

2. Who ran faster, Mr Brown or the thief?

A．No one.	B．The writer.
C．Mr Brown.	D．The thief.

3. Did Mr Brown catch the thief?

A．Yes, he did.

B．No, he didn’t.

C．Yes, but he let him go away.

D．No, but his friend did.

4. What did Mr Brown do when he found the thief?

A．He ran after him.	B．He was angry with him.
C．He caught him.	D．He stayed far behind him.

5. What does the underlined word “proudly” mean? It means __________.

A．自豪地	B．难过地
C．兴奋地	D．不慌不忙地

2 .

Each year on Feb 21, UNESCO ( 联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day (IMLD ). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.

What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost-not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed too.

Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize he terrible situation and try to stop it.

Google's 2018 Endangered (濒临灭绝的) Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload (上传) texts, audios and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.

The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes (部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language , which died out in the 1960s.

These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep Languages

alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities. They "spread the word " to save the world.

So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother language. This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language，that goes to his heart."

1. UNESCO holds IMLD every year in order to help people to _______________.

A．learn and use endangered languages

B．show their talents in learning languages

C．practice reading skills of mother languages

D．realize the situation of endangered languages

2. What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?

A．Discuss how to make good use of Google.

B．Offer online courses on endangered languages.

C．Share materials about endangered languages online.

D．Translate endangered languages into mother languages.

3. What does the underlined word "revive" mean in Paragraph ( 段落) 4?

A．创造

B．学习

C．复活

D．清除

4. What can we infer ( 推断) from Paragraph 5?

A．It is more difficult to protect endangered languages.

B．The disappearance of languages has already stopped.

C．Young people don't care about endangered languages.

D．Young people have creative ways to protect languages.

5. The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to __________________.

A．tell the importance of one's mother language

B．show his contributions to language protection

C．tell the trouble in learning endangered languages

D．show the possibility of protecting mother languages

3 . 阅读短文，把A-G七个句子填入文中，使短文意思通顺、结构完整。

Anna comes from England.    1     She is in China with her family now. She is a student in No.1Middle School.     2     She thinks they are very friendly to her .She likes Chinese, too.     3    

Anna gets up very early in the morning. She has some milk and bread for breakfast at seven.     4     She doesn't like to be late.

In the evening she does her homework at seven.     5     She is very happy every day.

A．But she can't speak Chinese very well.

B．Her mother usually runs in the morning.

C．She's thirteen.

D．She goes to bed at nine o'clock.

E．She likes her school and her classmates.

F．She doesn't want to go to school.

G．And she goes to school at seven thirty.

4 . 请阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，每个选项只能用一次。

What is life’s greatest gift? It is choice. Choice is the ability to choose some actions from a set of things to achieve a goal.     1     The reason is that it turns us from dumb animals into artists. Choice becomes the tool we use to sculpt（雕刻）our life. The tool doesn’t come free, however, for the price of choice is responsibility.     2     It is enjoyment.

Choice is power. Choice is at the heart of life. It’s the creative power of life. Life is always changing and we   have to make lots of choices.     3     We often need to check where we are on our journey. We need to ask questions: Am I moving closer to my goals? If not, what action will I take now to make myself realize my goals?

    4     And our life becomes more convenient or comfortable because of them. Foe example, you decide which stores to shop at and which bus station to go to. But the decisions that we make to sculpt our lives are much more important than deciding where to shop. The more we understand the difference between small and big decisions, the more pleasure we will get.

Life is like a chess game.     5     All chess lovers realize that it isn’t necessary to win to enjoy the game. Make the best moves you can under the conditions. Then you can enjoy your life.

A．Why is choice so great?

B．The pleasure is in the playing.

C．In fact, we have to make choices every day.

D．But when we accept and carry it out, we get a great return.

E．Every choice we make leads us closer to or farther from our goals.

5 . Three Things to Do Before You Are 18
Are you bored with your daily life? Here are some things you should try before you are 18, because after that it’s too late.
★Learn to swim
Seriously, this is so important that it can save your life. If you can’t swim well, you won’t be able to do water sports like waterskiing, surfing and diving. Even taking a boat trip will be dangerous for you. Make sure you do it.
★Try at least one kind of team sports
Being a good team player is an important skill in life. You can’t just think of yourself, but have to work well with other people. Other advantages(优点) of team sports like baseball are that they keep you fit and healthy, and they are also great fun. Teams usually have a good social life too--- you’ll go to lots of parties and make many friends.
★Collect something
One of the best hobbies for boys and girls under 18 is collecting things. You could collect kinds of stamps, or you could collect things that make you remember what you have done, like cinema tickets for films you have seen or emails from friends. The best way to collect is to have a special album(专辑) to put your collection in and to write what each thing means to you. That way you won’t forget.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案
1. The most important reason for learning to swim is that______.

A．it can save your life.	B．it can make you healthy
C．you might easily do lots of things	D．it can make you happy

2. “A good social life” in the passage means_____.

A．you’ll study in groups

B．you’ll go to the parties and make many friends

C．you’ll take part in many matches

D．you’ll work in the society

3. The writer tells us that one of the best hobbies for boys and girls under 18 is to_____

A．collect something	B．do some water sports
C．send emails to your friends	D．camp out in the garden

4. What kind of collection is not mentioned(提及)in the passage?

A．stamps

B．cinema tickets

C．snowballs

D．emails

5. The passage is mainly about ____ before you are 18.

A．good habits to keep	B．skills to have
C．things to do	D．sports to have

6 . Everyone wants to relax after working or studying for a long time.    1    . Let me tell you some of my favorites.

    2     ,so the usual way I relax is to watch or play many kinds of sports. My favorite is tennis, but I am interested in all kinds of sports. Whether I am playing tennis or watching a game on TV, it is exciting to see team members doing their best.    3    . It’s true that playing sports is not physically(身体上的) "relaxing", but I find it really cool, and a good way of "relaxing" my brain after a day’s hard work.

I enjoy listening to music, and I always have some music playing during my free time. I listen to all types, but I enjoy listening to beautiful piano music. Some people can’t study while listening to music, but for me,    4    .

Some people choose to relax by traveling. I don’t have a favorite place, but I hear that traveling in Japan is really enjoyable. When I travel to other places,    5    .

阅读短文，把A-E五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整。

A．It’s amazing to see players playing very well

B．I have many ways of relaxing myself

C．I enjoy sightseeing and seeing how the culture and people change from place to place

D．I am a big sports fan

E．I believe I can study better by listening to light songs.

7 . This story comes from Nagaland in Northeast India. The Nagas say that, many years ago, the moon lived close to the earth near their village and made friends with the people there. One day, an old woman was cleaning her house. She hit the moon with her brush when she was not looking. The moon began to cry in pain. The children laughed at the crying moon and started to throw stones at it.
Only one little girl felt sad because the children were hurting the moon. She told the children to stop but they did not listen. Soon the moon decided to go and live far away from the earth in the sky so the children from the village could not find it. The moon turned its face away from the earth so the children could not see it.
The little girl was sad and sang a song to make the moon return. This was why, every month, the sky was dark except when the moon turned its face to the earth again to listen to the little girl singing.
根据短文，将下列信息匹配

A	B
The Nagas believe the moon     1    .	A. but now it lives far away
The children threw stones at the moon     2    .	B. the night’s sky shone bright
In the beginning, the moon lived close to the earth     3    .	C. to make the moon come back to the earth
Every month, when the moon turned and showed its full face to the earth,     4    .	D. ran away because it was afraid
The girl sang her song     5    .	E. because they thought it was funny

8 . Dragons are not real animals, but look like a combination(结合体) of many animals such as snakes, fish and deer. They have two horns(角) and a long moustache(胡子). With fantastic powers, they fly in the sky or swim in the sea. They can make rain, too. The Chinese dragon is a symbol of strength and good luck. The emperors of ancient China loved dragons. Their clothes were covered with pictures of dragons.

We are proud to call ourselves the “descendants(传人)of the dragon”. In Chinese, “excellent” people are often called “dragons”. A number of Chinese sayings talk about dragons, for example, “Hoping one’s child will become a dragon”, which means hoping he or she will be successful.

It is said that people born in the year of the dragon have certain characteristics(特征). They are creative, confident, brave and quick-tempered（性急的）. They are some famous “dragons” who have done excellent things, for example, the great man Deng Xiaoping, the famous businessman Li Jiacheng and the movie star Zhao Wei. They are all very successful.

There are also some traditional festivals about dragons in China, such as Dragon Head-Raising Day and Dragon Boat Festival. We have different kinds of activities to celebrate them. These two festivals come every year, but the Year of the Dragon comes every twelve years.

The dragon is very important in Chinese culture. As the “descendants of the dragon”, it is necessary for us to know the opinions on dragons in our culture. It can help us understand why our parents always want us to be “dragons”.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. The Chinese dragon is a symbol of_____.

A．a combination of many animals	B．Chinese sayings
C．traditional festivals	D．strength and good luck

2. The underlined sentence “Hoping one’s child will become a dragon. ” means_____ in Chinese.

A．龙马精神

B．龙飞凤舞

C．望子成龙

D．龙腾虎跃

3. What characteristics may the people born in the Year of the Dragon have?

A．Creative, confident, brave and powerful

B．Creative, confident, brave and quick-tempered

C．Lovely, confident, brave and quick tempered

D．Lucky, confident, creative and successful

4. Some traditional festivals about dragons are celebrated _____ in China.

A．every year

B．every twelve years

C．in some special year

D．every month

5. Which of the statements is True according to the passage?

A．Dragons are real animals.

B．There are many Chinese sayings about dragons.

C．People born in Year of the Dragon must be successful.

D．The “descendants of the dragon” are often called “dragons”.

9 . If you have a brother or a sister, you already know you are different from each other. You live together in the same house and have the same parents.     1     Why is this? One possible reason is the way your parents treat you.

First—born children receive all the attention from their parents. Most families have much more photos of a first—born than any other child. Parents give them more responsibility（责任）.     2     As a result, first—borns are often responsible, hard—working and serious. They often want to do well at school and work.     3     For example, Gorge Bush, George Washington, and Lyndon Baines Johnson are all first—born.

When a second child arrives, parents are more relaxed. The second child is allowed to be more independent. But he also has to compete with the first—born for the parents’ attention and love. These children often choose different sports and hobbies to show independence.     4     They are often adventurous（爱冒险的）, fun—loving, and outgoing, but can be jealous（好嫉妒的）and get angry easily.

The youngest child is the happiest. He has fewer responsibilities and more freedom. These children do not feel pressure to do well at school and work, but have to be creative to get their family’s attention.     5    So, many famous talk—show hosts and comedians were born last.

阅读短文，根据短文内容，选择适当的句子完成短文，使文章通顺。

A．There are more first- -born American presidents than second or last- -born children.

B．They are often friendly. humorous and calm.

C．But you have different personalities (个性) .

D．And they develop different personalities.

E．They depend on the first-borns to look after younger brothers and sisters.

10 . I grew up in New Hampshire, a small town in South Canada, where in my father’s words for the seasons were “Spring, Summer, Fairtime and Winter!”At that time, a week-long fair was held in the town every autumn. Thousands of people from other towns came to sell and buy things. It was the busiest time of the year.

When “Fairtime” came, my grandma became the busiest person of the family. Grandma was a kind old lady. She was good at cooking. All her relatives liked the food she cooked. During “Fair time”, they would come to live in her house and have meals there. Grandma was always happy to look after them.

Year after year, many people moved to big cities. There was no longer “Fairtime”. Grandma became very old and was gradually going blind. My parents and I moved to live with Grandma. We did our best to make her life comfortable. I was at high school then. What I often did at home was to help Grandma with the daily newspaper’s crossword puzzle. However, she didn’t look happy. She often sat in her room for hours, without saying a word.

To attract（吸引） people to move back, the Town Hall decided to reopen the fair. One day, when I came back from school, I saw Grandma wearing her glasses, washing the dishes in the kitchen. With a big smile on her face, she looked much younger. She told me that her two nieces(侄女) would come. “They said the food I cooked was very delicious and they wanted to stay in my house again,” Grandma said happily. “They will stay here for one week and we can have a big party. That must be the busiest week I’ve had in years!”

I suddenly realized that Grandma didn’t want to be looked after. She wanted to be “useful” and helpful.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. What do thousands of people come to the town to do at the Fair?

A．Enjoying Grandma food.	B．Selling and buying things.
C．Learning to cook.	D．Having a big party.

2. When “Fairtime” came, who became the busiest person of the family?

A．The writer’s father.	B．The writer’s grandpa.
C．The writer’s mother.	D．The writer’s grandma.

3. Why was Grandma unhappy after there was no longer “Fairtime”?

A．Because she was too busy.	B．Because no one lived with her.
C．Because she was no longer “useful”.	D．Because she couldn’t see anything.

4. Which of the following isNOT TRUEaccording to the passage?

A．Grandma was good at cooking.	B．Many people moved to big cities.
C．Grandma didn’t like “Fair time”.	D．Grandma was a kind old lady.

5. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．Fair time	B．My “Old” Grandma
C．A Small Town	D．Grandma’s Family