1 . Swimming and English Learning
Can you swim? Do you like swimming? Yes? Well, how can you learn to swim? I think the best way is to go into the water and learn. I'm afraid you'll never learn to swim just by reading books about swimming or looking at others swimming. It's the same with the English study. We must practice, practice and practice.
Listening and speaking are very important for beginners. The children in English - speaking countries first listen to others. Then they try to imitate and speak. We can listen to English programs on radio. You may just understand a few words. It doesn't matter. Just be relaxed, and try to catch every word.
Somebody may be a good listener. But he dare not speak. He's afraid of making mistakes. You know we sometimes make mistakes when we speak Chinese. Don't be afraid. We must be brave. If you really want to learn English well, you must try to speak with everyone so long as he knows English. Whether you know him or not is not important. When there's nobody to talk with, you can talk to yourself in English. It's interesting and also a good way to practice your spoken English. Remember, the more you speak, the fewer mistakes you'll make.
Reading and writing are more important for senior school students. First we must choose the books we're interested in. A lot of reading will improve your language sense. This is the most important.
Keep writing English diaries. We can also write English articles. You may even post them to English magazines. Don't be afraid of failure. Failure is the mother of success.
Easier said than done. Well, let's do more practice from now on. I'm sure you'll learn English well in this way.
1. We should learn English by ________.| A．listening and speaking | B．reading and writing |
| C．A and B | D．swimming |
| A．Don't make mistakes. | B．Study hard. |
| C．Try not to speak English | D．Don't be afraid. |
| A．by train | B．on the radio |
| C．every minute | D．now and then |
| A．The author likes swimming. |
| B．The author prefers English learning to swimming. |
| C．English learning way is similar to swimming. |
| D．Swimming is easier than English learning |
2 . A passion for photography often starts at a young age. The Youth competition, for all photographers aged 12-19, recognizes the next generation of talented young photographers.
The competition is intended to help young photographers grow into the next stage of their careers. Judges are looking for good composition, creativity and clear thoughts.
The judges want to review the world seen through the eyes of young photographers. In one single image you show the judges your environment, which should be understood in its widest sense. It could be a photograph sharing your culture, the important moment of an issue close to home, a special family moment or a beautiful scene.
In addition to the main prizes, all winning and shortlisted（把……列入入围名单）photographers will be included in a global press campaign, be featured across the World Photography Organization website and exhibit at Somerset House, London in the summer of 2019.
The judges will award:
·1 Youth competition winner
·Up to 10 shortlisted photographers
·Up to 40 recommended photographers
Please note:
You may only enter one competition at a time. Once you have successfully submitted your images to the Youth competition, you will not be able to enter the Professional of Open competition.
The closing date for the Youth competition is Jan.4, 2019.
1. What’s the aim of the Youth competition?| A．To promote young photographers’ career development. |
| B．To help young photographers well plan their life. |
| C．To arouse young people’s interest in photography. |
| D．To discover more beauty through the eyes of young photographers. |
| A．His career. | B．His environment. |
| C．His family members. | D．His successful moment. |
| A．A job in the World Photography Organization. |
| B．An exhibition specially showing their works. |
| C．An opportunity to visit Somerset House. |
| D．A chance to be widely recognized. |
3 . NEW BABY BROTHER
I was sitting in school when I heard the news “Your baby brother is born, and wants to see you!”
Dad got me from school and to the hospital with no delay.
Hurrying on our journey, he almost forgot the way!
My brother’s hands were tiny, and wrinkly soft, like a prune.
After he smiled at me, Mom said, “He’ll come home soon!”
Everyone “oohing” and “aahing”, they say “He is so sweet.
And one day he’ll walk around on those little baby feet!”
1. The writer was _______________ when hearing the news.| A．at school | B．at home | C．in the hospital | D．in the store |
| A．father | B．mother | C．brother | D．teacher |
| A．worried | B．surprised | C．relaxed | D．excited |
4 . “Earthquake!” The word flashed in my brain. A roaring sound filled my ears. I tried to slide beneath my desk. The desk did a wild tap dance, slipping and sliding towards the centre of the room. I twisted my body and grabbed at the windowsill behind me, somehow kicking free of my dancing chair. I tried to stand. My legs skated away as if on a bucking escalator.
My fingers shook, grasped and held the windowsill tightly. Somewhere through the roar sounded the terrified scream of some wounded animal. I looked behind me and tried to steady my gaze on the other kids but the scene was a dizzy nightmare. Some of the class were sitting in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs and desks. One girl was screaming. A boy was trying to claw his way across the floor to the door in a crazy overarm crawl.
My grip froze me to the windowsill.
I cried aloud, “I’m going to die. I’m going to die. Save me. I’m not ready to die. I’m not ready!”
I hunched forward on my knees and pressed my face against my clenched (紧握的) fingers. I looked at the backs of my fingers and stupidly noticed the fragile pale hairs growing out of the pores. The fingers would soon cease to exist. Somehow the impending horror of my death was too terrible to even cry about.
Suddenly, I became aware that the rocking had ceased. Perhaps I wasn’t going to die.
1. The roaring sound was made by .| A．a wounded animal | B．people screaming |
| C．children running | D．an earthquake |
| A．afraid | B．angry |
| C．injured | D．impatient |
| A．injuries suffered by the narrator |
| B．effects of a bad nightmare |
| C．disorder in the classroom |
| D．narrator’s fear of death |
| A．panic | B．hope |
| C．sorrow | D．excitement |
5 . A big eating show, or mukbang in Korean, is an online audiovisual show in which a vlogger consumes large quantities of food while interacting with the audience. These shows originated in South Korea and have become a worldwide trend.
This eating performance has rapidly spread its influence to some Asign countries such as Japan and China where it became popular. In China, mukbang is' called “chibo”, in which mukbangers make their content into short videos and vlogs and upload them onto huge social media platforms like Weibo.
Many hosts of such shows become popular for their ability to eat large amounts of food, But these shows have also received criticism for their waste of food. On Aug 12，CCTV exposed several Chinese hosts who were pretending to eat large amounts of food while on camera, but actually later threw it away.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about a third of the world's food 1.3 billion tons is wasted every year, In China alone, as it was once reported that the amount of food wasted in China was enough to feed 200 million people a year.
In June 2020，the United Nations warned that the world is on the road of the worst food crisis in 50 years.
To discourage this practice, many video and live- streaming platforms, including Douyin, Kuaishou and Bilibili, have removed videos that show food waste.
People in China have realized the need for safeguarding food security and halting food waste. In Shanxi province，local restaurants have been asked to serve half portions to avoid waste. The Wuhan Catering Association proposed that restaurants adopt the“N-1 mode”. For example, a group of 10 diners should only order enough for nine people at first. More food is only brought to the table if required.
In addition, a nationwide “Clear Your Plate” campaign has been launched online. Users of Sina Weibo are encouraged to share photos or videos of empty plates after finishing their meals.
1. Why do many hosts of mukbang become popular?| A．It has been a worldwide trend. | B．They are expert at attracting audience. |
| C．They are able to eat large amounts of food. | D．They can pretend to eat a lot in a vivid way. |
| A．The food waste has been shocking. |
| B．China is to blame for wasting food. |
| C．Food waste in the world is increasing annually. |
| D．The United Nations is preparing for the future food crisis. |
| A．defending | B．quitting | C．encouraging | D．criticizing |
| A．The“N-1 mode" is created to reduce cost on food. |
| B．Videos, about food should be, strictly banned online. |
| C．Chinese people are taking pains to fight against food wasting. |
| D．Only users of Sina Weibo participate in “Clear Your Plate"” campaign. |
6 . Moksh Jawa, 16, a junior student in Washington High School in the US, has already become a hero among students. As a seventh-grader, he studied on the Internet and taught himself programming. As a high school freshman, he passed the AP Computer Science A Exam with a 5, the highest possible score. Because his high school didn't teach programming, he developed his own online course and helped classmates get through it. Everything he did came from his interest. "I just fell in love with computer science." Jawa said. He encouraged classmates to learn programming, too. Trying to make the knowledge easy for anyone to learn on the Internet, Jawa set about creating his own online course, with easy-to-follow lessons, quizzes and tests. The course has so far attracted 3,200 students across the United States and in 120 countries including China, Ukraine and Algeria. It shows, Jawa said, the huge need for programming lessons.
"I deliver it like I'm talking from one high school student to another." Jawa said, "It's always great to make it as clear and fun as possible, and to try to keep my voice as energetic as possible." He does that, too, when teaching members of the computer science club he founded in Washington.
"He's pretty amazing," said Bob Moran, the headmaster of Washington High School, who saw him lead the club. "He was just a fantastic teacher, clear, organized and entertaining. When a student got the right answer, he would throw them a piece of candy."
1. Which can be the main reason for Jawa creating the online course?| A．He has a great interest in teaching. |
| B．The online teaching can make him a hero. |
| C．He wants to help his classmates and others to learn the subject. |
| D．There is a huge need for programming lessons around the world. |
| A．They are hard to understand. |
| B．They've attracted learners around the world. |
| C．They are taught in different languages. |
| D．They are easy and fun without quizzes and tests. |
| A．Jawa has always been a great club leader |
| B．Jawa is a hero in Washington High School |
| C．Jawa is very good at computer programming |
| D．Jawa knows how to teach and encourage students |
7 . Read the following three posts from the website, ifonly.com, and answer the questions.
| ● CJ, 31, social worker I wish I had given the plain-looking guys a second chance while I was at school. I always went for handsome, athletic types. So, where am I today? Married to a good-looking fool. A handsome man who has no heart, no sympathy, and no love for anyone but himself. I sometimes visit my family back in my hometown and occasionally I run into old classmates – the plain-looking guys. And what do I see now? Very intelligent, warm, funny men who are everything I want, but will never have in a husband. |
| ● Mia, 22, photographer When I was at school, I played in most of the school sports teams. I remember one year our football team had to win the last game to get into the finals. Three minutes of the game left and we needed to score. I got control of the ball and ran towards the goal. Our captain was right next to me shouting “go on, take a shot.” But I picked and passed the ball to her. She shot and missed. If only I hadn’t passed the ball. I knew immediately that if I had taken the shot, I would have scored. Ever since that game I’ve always taken every opportunity I could. |
| ● Ben, 52, mechanic I wish I had listened to my parents more when I was a teenager. Thinking back, they gave me lots of good advice but I ignored everything they said. I thought they were old and didn’t know anything. Now I have got two teenagers of my own, and I realize how right they were. If I had listened to them, I might have made some better decisions in my life. I would have gone to university and probably waited a bit before I got married. I hope my daughters will listen to me more than I listened to my parents. |
1. Which of the following might be the best title of the first post?
| A．Missed Opportunities | B．Plain-looking Guys |
| C．Classmates Know Best | D．Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder |
| A．she had taken the shot |
| B．she had passed the ball to another person |
| C．she hadn’t missed the goal |
| D．she hadn’t got control of the ball |
| A．was determined to go to university |
| B．often turned to his parents for advice |
| C．looked up to everything that his parents said |
| D．thought he could make good decisions for himself |
8 . When public health officials started telling Americans that hand washing is one of the most powerful weapons against the spread of the coronavirus, Terence Lester wondered, “What about the homeless?” Lester had been homeless himself for a time as a teenager, and today he runs a nonprofit in Atlanta called Love Beyond Walls that helps raise money for and awareness of homeless people. He knows all too well that in the best of times they are lucky to find a public bathroom that will let them in to wash up occasionally, not to mention several times a day.
Lester’s experience of creating temporary shelters with his nonprofit led him to another idea: temporary handwashing stations, the kind you see at outdoor music festivals. He mentioned the idea to his friend Lecrae Moore, a Grammy-winning Christian rapper, who eagerly donated enough money to buy 15 of the $ 150 washing stations. They called their project Love Sinks In. “If leaders in this country are asking people to wash their hands, we also have to provide the tools to people living on the margins of society who are more likely to catch and spread the coronavirus,” Lester says.
After its success in Atlanta, the group sent sinks to Birmingham, Alabama; Oakland, California; Columbus, Ohio; and Austin, Texas, where a partner organization installed the sinks in parks and other public spaces, thanks to a $ 13,000 donation from Google. (In addition to the startup funds, it costs about $ 500 a month to keep each sink stocked with soap and clean water.) One Atlanta hand washer, Sam, left a note on a sink that said, “God bless you! The hand washing the others!” One Atlanta hand washer, Sam, made sure his gratitude didn't go unnoticed. He left a note on a sink that said，“Thank you all for not forgetting about us.”
1. What makes Lester know the homeless well?| A．His research into the homeless. | B．His personal experience. |
| C．The public health warming. | D．The nonprofit organization. |
| A．He fixed handwashing stations at musical festivals. |
| B．He installed the sink for hand washing in person. |
| C．He launched the project Love Sinks In. |
| D．He created temporary shelters. |
| A．The homeless are unlikely to develop coronavirus. |
| B．The project involves individual and collective efforts. |
| C．The homeless have good public health consciousness. |
| D．Handwashing is the most effective way to cure coronavirus. |
| A．Grateful. | B．Negative. |
| C．Concerned | D．Doubtful |
9 . You' re rushing to work and a man ahead of you suddenly falls down. Do you stop to help? In a study of bystanders, it was found that some people look away or keep on walking rather than stop and get involved.
“There is an inclination(倾向) to decide that no action is needed," says Ervin Staub, a psychologist(心理学家) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who studies the role of bystanders.“The first thoughts that come into your mind often keep you from offering help."
Time and again, good and caring people fail to come to the aid of others. They know they should act and yet, for reasons they themselves don't understand, people sometimes don't respond. Longtime researchers of bystander behavior continue to struggle with the question,“Why?"
One thing we do know is that the more ambiguous a situation is, the less likely people are to help. Let's say you see vapors(水汽) coming out of a building. You ask yourself,“Is it steam or smoke?" If you are not sure, you look to other people for a clue about how to react.If you see other people doing nothing, you think,“Of course, that's just team." You don't want it to be smoke, because then you would have to do something about it.
Another one is known as“the bystander effect": This says that the more people there are observing an emergency(突发事件)，the less responsible each one of them personally feels. For example, if you are the only person in the world who can act to save someone in a dangerous situation, you are more likely to act. However, if you are one of 100,000 people who could save the situation, you would be happier if one of the other 99,999 people did it!
"If you notice trouble, force yourself to stop and judge the situation instead of walking on," says Ervin Staub. Then try to involve other people; you don't have to take on all the responsibility of being helpful According to Staub, it is sometimes just a matter of turning to the person next to you and saying,“It looks like we should do something," Once you take action, most people will take their cues(提示) from you and also help.
1. According to Ervin Staub, when accidents happen, people's first thoughts______.| A．force them to give a hand | B．prevent them from helping |
| C．often lead to embarrassment | D．depend on others' reaction |
| A．difficult | B．dangerous | C．unclear | D．unpleasant |
| A．many people have the same ideas |
| B．more people carry out more responsibility |
| C．people usually think a lot before difficulties |
| D．people tend to behave in the same way as most other people do |
10 . Every human being, no matter what he is doing, gives off body heat. The usual problem is how to get rid of it. But the designers of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem-----how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which makes good use of not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as electric lights and fridges as well. The system works so well that no fuel is needed to make the university’s six buildings warm and comfortable.
Some parts of most modern buildings-----theaters and offices as well as classrooms are heated by people and lights far more than necessary, and sometimes they must be air-conditioned even in winter. The skills of saving heat and sharing it out again in a different way is called “heat recovery.” A few modern buildings recover heat from some buildings and reuse it in others.
Along the way, Pittsburgh has learned a great deal about some of its heat producers. The harder a student studies, the more heat his body gives off. Boy students send out more heat than girl students, and the larger a student is, the more heat he gives. The hottest for the Pittsburgh University would be a hardworking, overweight boy student who is very clever in the university.
1. According to this passage, the heat system of the Pittsburgh University is supplied by ________.| A．human bodies | B．human bodies and electrical equipment |
| C．human bodies and fuel | D．human bodies, electrical and fuel |
| A．A fat boy student who is clever and studies hard. |
| B．A thin girl student who is not clever and does not study hard |
| C．A thin boy student who is clever and studies not study hard |
| D．A fat girl student who is both clever and hard-working |
| A．recovery of boys’ heat in the Pittsburgh University. |
| B．modern buildings’ heat system of human being. |
| C．a new heat recovery system in the Pittsburgh University. |
| D．a best way to save fuel or electricity. |
| A．By telling facts. | B．By following time order. |
| C．By analyzing causes. | D．By making comparison. |
