1 . Have you ever had problems in your life and don’t know how to be happy? If so, you will find “Being a Happy Teenager” by Australian writer Andrew Matthews
In his book, Matthews
Matthews writes about many
Many teenagers think
Some school students have
| A．wise | B．smart | C．useful | D．simple |
| A．orders | B．tells | C．asks | D．argues |
| A．problems | B．ideas | C．questions | D．comments |
| A．rules | B．classes | C．courses | D．topics |
| A．for | B．like | C．at | D．with |
| A．what | B．how | C．that | D．whether |
| A．yet | B．already | C．still | D．rather |
| A．bad | B．good | C．independent | D．normal |
| A．learn | B．rescue | C．struggle | D．separate |
| A．experiences | B．difficulties | C．personalities | D．problems |
| A．success | B．happiness | C．failure | D．height |
| A．way | B．means | C．goal | D．spirit |
| A．short | B．small | C．tall | D．fat |
| A．take up | B．stand up | C．turn up | D．burn up |
| A．work | B．lesson | C．teaching | D．study |
My friend had a chance to make a trip to Hong Kong
Arriving there, he was
Chinese and English are their official languages. English is
3 . The Nobel Prize in Literature, which has been awarded annually almost every year since 1901, netted(净赚)the winning author 747,000 pounds, a medal and a certificate (证书), and the legal duty to deliver a lecture in Sweden at some future dates. The winner was selected, as usual, by the Swedish Academy, which also picked a second laureate (获奖者)this year to make up for the fact that no prize was presented in 2018 because of a scandal(丑闻).
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 was awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (奥尔加·托卡尔丘克) for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic (百科全书式的)passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. She won last year’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights. Her representative works (代表作) include Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Primeval and Other Times.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 was awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke (彼得·汉德克) for “an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity(语言的独创性)has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”. His representative works include A Sorrow Beyond Dreams and Slow Homecoming.
Before the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature winners, there were also two nominees(被提名者)who have attracted much attention. Chinese people were keeping an eye on the nominee Can Xue. Can Xue, whose real name is Deng Xiaohua, was born in central China’s Hunan Province in 1953. She had a tough childhood, working as a worker in a street factory for eight years. Her life experience has formed her own unique literary path. Can’s books have been translated and published outside China. Frontier, published in the US in 2017, won attention and applause of the West.
The other hot guess was the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami (村上春树) whose books and stories had been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. His work has received numerous awards. Internet users kept an eye on him in the Nobel Prize in Literature because he had become a hot guess for years. His representative works include Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore and 1Q84.
1. Why are two writers awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this year?| A．To fill the prize gap of 2018. | B．To attract more people’s attention. |
| C．To inspire more outstanding writers. | D．To satisfy the development of literature. |
| A．Her high popularity. | B．Her language skills. |
| C．Her numerous works. | D．Her writing style. |
| A．Flights. | B．Slow Homecoming. | C．Frontier. | D．Kafka on the Shore. |
| A．Because he had created hundreds of great novels. |
| B．Because he had received lots of awards all the time. |
| C．Because he had been supposed to win the prize for years. |
| D．Because he had been recognized as the most popular |
It was a hot day in the middle of July. I decided to walk to the neighborhood store where it sold my favorite thing, ice cream. I pulled a friend towards the ice cream store, almost passing out from the burning sun on the way.
As we walked on, my friend kept saying that it was too hot. She thought that she was stupid to decide to come with me to buy ice cream. I felt sorry and tried to encourage her. “We're almost there. Just think of the cool and sweet taste of ice cream in your mouth. It'll be worth the walk,” I told her. But I had to admit that the store was quite a distance from our houses. During the journey, my mouth began to become dry and I wanted to drink.
When we were about a block away from the store, I noticed an old lady who was walking in our direction. She was about 70 years old. She had a big back problem, so she was unable to keep her back straight. She was struggling, pushing a shopping cart full of things like the soap, bread and water. With each step toward her, we began to see her appearance more clearly. It appeared that she was often unhappy and easy to get angry.
I looked at my friend to see if she had noticed her. I could see that she had and that she disliked the old lady due to the lady's appearance. As we approached the lady pushing the shopping cart, my friend directed me away from the old lady and the cart.
I began to observe other passers-by. They were also trying to avoid her. Suddenly I heard a terrible sound behind me. I quickly turned around to see what it was. I found the lady's cart had been knocked over by something on the ground.
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Things in the shopping cart like the soap all dropped on the ground.
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Then my friend continued walking on while I went to the lady.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5 . Waiting for the airplane to take off, I was happy to get a seat by myself. Just then, an air hostess came to me and asked, “Would you mind
But a soft voice spoke, “She needs help.” Finally, I
| A．losing | B．changing | C．taking | D．giving |
| A．comfortable | B．suitable | C．available | D．favorable |
| A．No problem | B．No doubt | C．Nowhere | D．No way |
| A．decided | B．wanted | C．regretted | D．promised |
| A．treatment | B．travel | C．pleasure | D．business |
| A．challenge | B．address | C．realize | D．pretend |
| A．consider | B．feed | C．choose | D．support |
| A．offering | B．needing | C．stopping | D．trying |
| A．annoyed | B．fast | C．frightened | D．impolite |
| A．couple | B．neighbor | C．passenger | D．stranger |
| A．unusual | B．direct | C．important | D．shameful |
| A．refused | B．wondered | C．cried | D．did |
| A．warmed | B．jumped | C．broken | D．cheered |
| A．separate | B．independent | C．silent | D．upset |
| A．miss | B．serve | C．impress | D．improve |
One morning, my family and I woke up and went to eat breakfast——until we heard barking and scratching at the door. When my mom opened the door, we saw a puppy(小狗). We looked around to see if we saw its owner, but there was no one. We took it inside and fed it.
Regardless of how badly I wanted to keep the puppy, we decided to look for the owner. We looked all day, but we failed. We talked about whether we should keep looking or if we should look the next day. We all agreed to look for its owner the next day.
So, the next day my family and I looked for the dog's owner. It was so hard looking for its owner. We were looking for flyers(传单)that involved the puppy, but no luck. We wouldn't have quit because it's a puppy.
“We won't stop looking,” my mom and dad said. We were going to take care of the puppy until we found its owner.
When we woke up in the morning, we went to a pet shop to buy the puppy some dog food. After that we went back home to feed the puppy the dog food that we had just bought. After we fed the puppy, we gave it a nice bath. It was so dirty that the fur was black and sticky, but after we gave it a bath, it turned white.And I noticed there was a collar (狗项圈)on him, which said “Coby”. After we gave him a bath, we went to look for the p uppy's owner, but my mom stayed at home, and it was only my dad and me this time.
We continued looking more and more until we found flyers. “We looked at it.”it said.
“Lost Dog: Please Help if Found.” Then we looked at the picture;it looked exactly like Coby. We were all happy we found a flyer that was for Cody.
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There was a phone number on the flyer.
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We found the lady’s house, and then we knocked on the door.
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7 . Wang Weijia, a 17-year-old boy comes from Ertaizi, a village in Faku county, Shenyang, in Northeast China's Liaoning province. While at junior middle school, he
As a result, Wang often falls when
Wang's
| A．kept | B．got | C．stayed | D．improved |
| A．results in | B．makes up | C．worked out | D．takes on |
| A．speaking | B．climbing | C．playing | D．walking |
| A．pure | B．expensive | C．unusual | D．normal |
| A．strikingly | B．originally | C．severely | D．accidentally |
| A．neck | B．arms | C．hands | D．back |
| A．Beyond | B．Despite | C．Through | D．During |
| A．wondered | B．wasted | C．stopped | D．changed |
| A．actions | B．voices | C．dialogues | D．mistakes |
| A．disability | B．recovery | C．experience | D．inspiration |
| A．admitted | B．complained | C．explained | D．remembered |
| A．strength | B．services | C．encouragement | D．efforts |
| A．plan | B．attitude | C．choice | D．idea |
| A．lied | B．located | C．cared | D．mentioned |
| A．repay | B．support | C．offer | D．refuse |
8 . Haley Curfman, 25, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, is a teacher at Blackwell Public School and last year she bought a plain(朴素的) white dress, which she set up a station in her classroom for her students to decorate, encouraging them to go and draw on the dress whenever they had free time. Haley set up a station at a table with the dress and some colored markers so that her students could draw on it, having first seen the idea on Pinterest.
After the kids had finished the design, she then surprised them all by wearing the dress to class, sharing pictures of herself in it on Facebook in a post that has since been shared over 200, 000 times.
For teachers looking to do something similar for their own students, Haley said that she bought the dress off Amazon for less than $ 20 about six months ago and pre-washed the dress before she started the project. She used markers from Walmart. But she said these things can be bought in other places. She said, “To do the project, I set up a station at a table with the dress and markers. It takes anywhere from two weeks to a month to complete as we just work on it here and there when time allows. You'd better give the students enough time so they don't have to hurry.”
“Teachers have been sharing their dresses, T-shirts, etc. with me that they've been creating since the 1950s with the same idea. It is amazing, and I love the fact that you are sharing them with me! Thank you all so much for your kindness and support,” she wrote on Facebook.
Asked why she came up with the idea, Haley told Scary Mommy. “We don't have art in our school, so, I always try to do little creative projects when possible.”
1. What did Haley use the plain white dress to do?| A．To teach her students painting. |
| B．To prepare for her presentation. |
| C．To ask her students to draw on it. |
| D．To help her students with their homework. |
| A．It took Haley by surprise. | B．It is kept by Haley at home. |
| C．It is the product of a new idea. | D．It has enjoyed popularity online. |
| A．Buy the same dress online. | B．Give the kids enough time. |
| C．Buy the same markers in Walmart. | D．Leave the finished work untouched. |
| A．To teach art to her students. | B．To show her idea on Pinterest. |
| C．To share it with other teachers. | D．To excite her students' creativity. |
9 . Picking up a free newspaper at the Tube station, I see the title “Hot! Hot! Hot!”. Today, the temperature in London is
Sure enough, going down the stairs and onto the
Yes, each summer in London
| A．allowed | B．stopped | C．encouraged | D．expected |
| A．awful | B．powerful | C．helpful | D．peaceful |
| A．stage | B．lift | C．platform | D．playground |
| A．therefore | B．moreover | C．however | D．otherwise |
| A．outside | B．inside | C．beside | D．alongside |
| A．crowd | B．group | C．series | D．score |
| A．travelling | B．melting | C．sweating | D．freezing |
| A．possibly | B．eventually | C．accidentally | D．definitely |
| A．tired | B．scared | C．excited | D．disappointed |
| A．set | B．make | C．put | D．hit |
| A．immediately | B．gradually | C．slowly | D．suddenly |
| A．choose | B．engage | C．breathe | D．survive |
| A．Looking for | B．Looking through | C．Looking into | D．Looking after |
| A．environment | B．location | C．time | D．climate |
| A．Now that | B．Unless | C．Though | D．Where |
10 . Can you imagine a world without music? Studies show that public schools across the country are cutting back on music classes to save money. Worse, some schools have never had music classes to begin with. But without them, students’ academic(学业的) growth and emotional health could suffer. In fact, music classes are necessary for all students in schools.
A recent study by Brown University has shown that students who had music classes were better in math and reading skills than those without having music classes. Another study by The College Board found that students taking music and art classes got higher points. Students’ academic success seems to depend on taking part in music education.
Music programs in public schools also help to add to a student’s sense of pride and self-confidence. Teens today have too many learning tasks. Besides, they have family problems, self-confidence problems, relationship troubles, and choices about drugs and alcohol. All of these can stop academic success, but music education can help. Students who took part in school music programs were less likely to turn to drugs. Music programs encourage students to work together to produce an excellent performance.
Music crosses language, class cultural and political boundaries(界限). Music allows students from different countries to connect. For example, at a school talent show, a new Japanese student played a piano duet(二重奏) with an American classmate. Although they could not communicate verbally, they were able to read the music in order to play the duet. Two students from different cultures worked as a team with self-confidence and a common purpose through music.
The gift of music is priceless. We need to be sure of having necessary music classes for all students. The world is losing its music, and putting music into schools is the first step to get it back.
1. What can we know about education with music classes?| A．It wastes a lot of money from parents. | B．It leads to a lot of emotional problems easily. |
| C．It helps students improve their school work. | D．It has a bad influence on the quality of education. |
| A．not all students take part in music classes |
| B．students with great success attend music classes |
| C．students having music classes are better in all courses |
| D．music plays an important role in students’ academic success |
| A．Different cultures have different styles of music. |
| B．Music makes cross-country communication possible. |
| C．Japan has a good international relationship with America. |
| D．Japanese and American students are good at playing the piano. |
| A．Music education in schools | B．How to get music back? |
| C．Music—a bridge to understanding | D．The importance of listening to music |
