1 . In October, I said to my students, “Why not do some _________ to make some money? Then we’ll buy food for someone in need.”

Then early in that week, they came with their hard-earned money at their homes, _________ to go shopping. We soon picked what we needed. As we headed toward the checkout, someone shouted, “Flowers!” The group rushed to the flowers. However, considering practicality, I said, “You can’t send flowers.” “But please, Mrs. Sherlock,” someone begged, “we want flowers.” Defeated (被打败了), I _________ them to buy some carnations (康乃馨).

An organization had given us the information of a _________ grandmother living alone for many years. After a long drive, we _________ arrived at a small, shabby (破旧的) house. An old lady came out to _________ us. Each box was _________ quickly. But when the woman noticed the carnations, she seemed _________. “She’s wishing it were a bag of rice,” I thought. “Do you like living here?” Michael asked. Hearing this, the woman _________,“ Of course. I’m quite fond of living here.” She told the children about the birds flying to the bread she __________. “Maybe that’s why I could get the food from you,” she said.

1.

A．shopping

B．reading

C．exercise

D．housework

2.

A．nervous

B．excited

C．unwilling

D．afraid

3.

A．taught

B．forced

C．encouraged

D．allowed

4.

A．brave

B．poor

C．reliable

D．sick

5.

A．finally

B．already

C．suddenly

D．hardly

6.

A．thank

B．guide

C．help

D．welcome

7.

A．carried in

B．left behind

C．sent back

D．handed out

8.

A．satisfied

B．worried

C．surprised

D．angry

9.

A．cried

B．replied

C．asked

D．complained

10.

A．hid away

B．put out

C．picked up

D．brought in

3 . China is an amazing country, on the Internet, only you can think of, there is nothing you can’t buy.

Welcome to Made-in-China Website!
	Tea pot Color: White Price: ¥120 Delivery（递送）time: 10 work days after received 30% payment. Tea pots with good quality. And the best gift for your friends or your family.
	Handbag Color: Black and white Price: ¥280（￥520 for two on Women’s Day） Delivery time: 7 days after confirmation（认证）. We have our own designers. Our new styles may give you a new surprise.
	2020 Newly Children BicycleColor: Blue Price: ¥240（20% off on Children’s Day） Delivery time: 5 days after confirmation. With a basket for children aged from 3—7.
	New Design Fashion Button Color: All kinds of colors Price: ¥1.00（¥9 for ten） Delivery time: 3 days after confirmation. New and popular designs, you can dye them into different colors if you like.

1. Where can you buy these things according to the ad?

A．In a shop.

B．In a mall.

C．On the Internet.

2. From the ad, you can buy the children bicycle for a child of ________.

A．2

B．5

C．8

3. The best birthday gift for your grandpa is ________.

A．some buttons

B．a handbag

C．a tea pot

4. My mother ordered some fashion buttons, and she can get them ________ days later.

A．Three

B．Five

C．seven

5. If you have ¥400, you can buy ________.

A．two handbags

B．500 buttons

C．a tea pot and a handbag

5 . It may seem as if Mother’s Day was invented by a company named Hallmark, but people have been giving a shout-out to Mom for a long time. A more recent tradition was Mothering Sunday, which developed in the British Isles during the 16th century. On the fourth Sunday in April, young men and women who were living and working apart from their families were advised to return to their mothers’ houses.

Mother’s Day as it is observed in the United States started in the 1850s with Ann Jarvis, a West Virginia woman who held “Mothers’ Work Days” to promote health and hygiene at home and in the workplace. During the Civil War, Jarvis organized women to improve sanitary conditions for soldiers on both sides, and after the war she became a peacemaker, bringing together mothers of Union and Confederate soldiers and promoting a Mother’s Day holiday.

Jarvis’s work inspired another 19th-century woman, Julia Ward Howe. In 1870, Howe published her “Mother’s Day Proclamation”, which envisioned the day not as appreciation of mothers by their children but as an opportunity for women to exercise their collective power for peace. Howe started holding annual Mother’s Day celebrations in Boston, her hometown, but after about a decade the tradition faded away.

It was Jarvis’s daughter, Anna, who succeeded in getting Mother’s Day recognized as a national holiday. After her mother died in 1905, Anna started holding yearly ceremony on the anniversary. In 1912, West Virginia and a few other states adopted Mother’s Day. Two years later, Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution naming the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day, making it an official US holiday.

It wasn’t long before whatever ideals the day was supposed to celebrate were buried under an amount of greeting cards and candy. By the 1920s, Anna Jarvis was campaigning against the holiday she had created. “I wanted it to be a day of emotionalism, not profit,” she said.

1. Who plays the most important role in creating Mother’s Day?

A．Ann Jarvis.

B．Julia Ward Howe.

C．Woodrow Wilson.

D．Anna Jarvis.

2. When was the second Sunday in May named as Mother’s Day?

A．In 1914.

B．In 1912.

C．In 1905.

D．In 1870.

3. Why did Anna Jarvis object to Mother’s Day at last?

A．Because the festival was not profitable.

B．Because the festival made her feel emotional.

C．Because the celebrations went against the original spirit.

D．Because she had no passion on holding celebration activities.

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A．The Objection to Mother’s Day

B．The Argument on Celebrating Mother’s Day

C．The Story Behind the Creation of Mother’s Day

D．Different Forms of Celebrations on Mother’s Day

6 . Here are some wonderful festivals around the world that happen in spring. If you want to know more about them, please click Here or visit http://wws.buddhanet.netlfestival.Htm

SongKran — Thailand

Dates: 13th — 15th, April

In Thailand, people celebrate a festival called Songkran, when people bead out to the streets with water guns to spray (喷洒) everyone who walks past. It’s a very important traditional celebration in the country.

Naghol — Vanuatu

Dates: Every Saturday from April to May

Every year, villagers come together to celebrate the harvest of yams (甘薯), an important part in the people’s diet in Vanuatu. The festival is most famous for its “land diving ceremony”. During the ceremony men and boys dive to the ground from high wooden towers with only two thin vines (藤) tied to their feet.

Cherry Blossom Viewing — Japan

Dates: The cherry blossom season is different from year to year depending on the weather.

The festival is well-known. The Japanese celebrate the days when the flowers finally blossom. Only a few days later, the petals (花瓣) fall to the ground, like pink snowflakes. That means the traditional festival only lasts for several days. In Japan, almost everyone has picnics in the parks to view the flowers.

Sinhalese New Year — Sri Lanka

Dates: 13th or 14th, April

Just like in many other countries in South East Asia, this is the time when people celebrate the traditional New Year, an ancient celebration which marks the end of the harvest season and is one of two times of the year when the sun is straight above Sri Lanka. There are a lot of delicious foods during the celebration.

1. What will most likely happen to a tourist walking in the street during SongKran in Thailand?

A．He will get wet.	B．He will hurt his feet.
C．He will be treated to delicious foods.	D．He will see some petals falling.

2. Where can you go to see dangerous actions during the festival?

A．Thailand.

B．Vanuatu.

C．Japan.

D．Sri Lanka.

3. How is Cherry Blossom Viewing different from the other festivals?

A．It is a traditional festival.	B．It is a very famous festival.
C．Its date is different every year.	D．It provides visitors with delicious foods.

4. Where are you most likely to find the text?

A．On TV.

B．In a report.

C．On the Internet.

D．In the newspaper.

7 . Born in 1990, a wheelchair has been part of Zhao Hongcheng’s life since she was one year old due to poliomyelitis (小儿麻痹症) . And now, as a video content creator who has over 84, 000 followers on the video-sharing platform Bilibili, Zhao wants to be a bridge between the disabled and the rest of society.

“I made my first video in 2019,” Zhao says. “My original purpose was to find a way to reduce my emotional stress. I always met inconvenience caused by my wheelchair when going out, which made me feel sad. I barely had any disabled friends, so I had no one to talk to. I felt quite lonely,” Zhao explains.

Her first vlog was about a trip to Guangzhou with friends. The video was viewed more than 2, 000 times on the first day. “This made me feel that there were many things worth sharing in my life,” she explains. Since then, that first video has been viewed over 48, 000 times. Her fourth video, displaying how she got to work in a wheelchair, made her even more popular. The video has received more than 300, 000 views on Bilibili.

“One of the great things about being a content creator is that I feel like I have the opportunity of talking about the real difficulties and pains that a disabled person faces,” Zhao says.

1. What’s the purpose of Zhao’s first video?

A．To make a living.	B．To reduce her emotional stress.
C．To be popular.	D．To practice film skills.

2. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The problems the disabled face.	B．The difficulties of making a video.
C．The popularity of Zhao’s videos.	D．The four videos Zhao made.

3. What is the meaning of being a content creator for Zhao?

A．Receiving more views.	B．Being successful on Bilibili.
C．Sharing stories from the disabled.	D．Encouraging the disabled to be content creators.

4. Which can be the best title for the passage?

A．A Positive Disabled Influencer	B．A lonely Day of the Disabled
C．A Popular Content Creator	D．A Caring Community for the Disabled

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a solution     1     two of her country’s problems: rubbish and poverty (贫困). It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist from Detroit is asking local chip lovers     2     (donate) their empty chip bags rather than throw them into the trash so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip eaters drop off their empty bags at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and other     3     (volunteer) collect them. After they clean the chip bags in soapy hot water, they cut them open, lay them flat, iron (熨) them together and use liners from old coats to line the insides.

It     4     (usual) takes about four hours to sew (缝) a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve     5     family size. The result     6     (be) a sleeping bag that is waterproof (防水的), lightweight, and easy to carry around.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project     7     (collect) more than 800,000 chip bags and created 110 sleeping bags.

Sure,     8     would be simpler to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the goal for Oleita—whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria ten years ago with the hope of     9     (have) a better life—and her volunteer helpers. “We are working to make a     10     (different) not only socially, but environmentally,” she says.

10 . 假定你是李华，你的英国笔友罗伯特(Robert)发邮件说他下个月想来中国旅游，希望你向他推荐一个旅游城市。请你给他回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 表示欢迎；
2. 推荐城市并说明理由；
3. 表达期待。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
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