1 . Father’s Day isn’t just a day for Dads to get more ties. It’s celebrated on the third Sunday of June to honor Dads, Grandfathers, stepfathers and all men who act as a father figure. Like most holidays, the origin of Father’s Day is hard to trace (追溯) but most people will agree that Sonora Dodd played a big part in starting the holiday.

Sonora Luise Smart Dodd brought up the idea of a father’s day in 1909. she wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. When Sonora’s mother died in childbirth with her sixth child, William was left to raise the newborn and five other children by himself on a farm in Washington State. As an adult, Sonora realized how strong and unselfish her dad was, who had been raising his kids as a single parent.

Sonora wanted Fater’s Day to be celebrated on the first Sunday in June, because it was close to her dad’s birthday. Instead, the first Father’s Day celebration took place on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washing. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made the third Sunday of June Father’s Day. It wasn’t until 1972 that President Richard Nixon made Father’s Day a national holiday-about 60 years after Mother’s Day had been made a national holiday.

Looking for the perfect gift, Dads say some of the best Father’s Day gifts have been tools, electronics and home-made gifts. Don’t forget about gadgets(小器具)! Check out those handy gadgets and gifted ideas that will show your dad just how much you care about him. Try to stay away from ties, socks, and just not getting him anything at all!

1. Why did Sonora want a day to honor her father?

A．She thought her father was strong and unselfish as a single parent

B．She wanted to comfort her father after her mother died

C．There was a day to honor mothers but there was not a day for fathers

D．Her father raised his six children on a farm in Washington State

2. When was Mother’s Day probably made a national holiday in history?

A．In 1909

B．In 1910

C．In 1912

D．In 1972

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Father’s Day is not just celebrated for Dads but for men adults

B．Sonora was the first person to put forward the idea to honor fathers

C．At first Father’s Day was celebrated on the first Sunday of June

D．President Richard Nixon made Father’s Day a national holiday

4. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Suggestions for picking up gifts for Dads	B．Reasons for not buying anything for Dads
C．Benefits for buying Dads gifts	D．Ways to make gifts for Dads

2 . Cait, 11, was trying to fall asleep when her 8-year-old brother, Doug, came into her room. He looked around, but seemed really out of it. Then Doug went back into the hallway and stood there looking straight up at the light. This was really strange. Cait didn’t know what to do. Just then, Cait’s father appeared and explained Doug was sleepwalking.

Not all seep is the same every night. We experience some deep, quiet sleep and some active sleep, which is when dreams happen. You might think sleepwalking would happen during active sleep but a person isn’t physically active during active sleep. It usually happens in the first few hours of sleep in the period called deep sleep.

The truth is that not all sleepwalkers walk. Some simply sit up or stand in bed or act like they’re awake when, in fact, they’re asleep! Most, however, do get up and walk around for a few seconds or for as long as half an hour.

Sleepwalkers’ eyes are open, but they don’t see the same way they do when they’re awake They tend to go back to bed on their own and won’t remember it in the morning.

You also might have heard that sleepwalkers can get frightened if you wake them up. That’s true, so what do you do if you see someone sleepwalking? You should call for a grown-up who can lead the person back to bed. And once the sleepwalker is tucked back in bed, it’s time for you to get some sleep, too!

1. What does “out of it” most probably mean in Chinese?

A．茫然不觉

B．心满意足

C．垂头丧气

D．悠然自得

2. When does sleepwalking usually happen?

A．During active seep.	B．In the first few hours of sleep.
C．When dreams begin.	D．When we’re trying to fall asleep.

3. What should we do if we see people sleepwalking?

A．Wake them up.	B．Walk around with them.
C．Do nothing and get your own seep.	D．Ask grown-ups to lead them to bed.

4. Who is the text written for?

A．Teachers.

B．Doctors.

C．Parents.

D．Children.

3 . On the morning of March 27th,my father took my younger cousin and me to the water park. We had fun. Three hours later, my father had to leave for work, and we were ________ to go home by ourselves. When we arrived at front of our garden, a tall man _______ us, and asked us to show ________ the way to the hospital. I looked at the man ________, and refused. I went in with my cousin quickly.

I began my homework after locking the front door. ________I was doing my homework, my cousin was watching TV in the living room. Suddenly, the ________ rang. My cousin thought it was my father, _______ he opened the door. I went out of my room and saw the ________ man who had asked the way standing outside. I tried to close the door, but he pushed the door very hard and came into our house with a ________. He ordered me to take out all the money. I was too ________ to shout out. My cousin ________ all the time. The man tied us up with a rope, then locked ________ of us in the kitchen. Quickly, he ________ the things he wanted, took what he could, and left immediately. I helped my cousin to ________ the rope. Then he untied me. I wanted to rush out to call the ________, but the door was locked from outside. Luckily, the kitchen window which faces the garden was open. We got out of the house ________ the window, and went to the _______ shop to ask for help. The owner helped us to call my father and the police.

The police came and ________for the man everywhere. Soon, my father came home from ________. We told him the whole story. My father was glad that we were not hurt. He told me that I had done well, but I should have stopped my cousin from opening the door to let the stranger in.

From this dangerous experience, we learned a lesson on ________.

1.

A．promised

B．taken

C．told

D．invited

2.

A．stopped

B．showed

C．left

D．told

3.

A．her

B．him

C．me

D．them

4.

A．easily

B．angrily

C．happily

D．carefully

5.

A．While

B．Before

C．If

D．Until

6.

A．mobile phone

B．clock

C．doorbell

D．fire alarm

7.

A．but

B．so

C．because

D．although

8.

A．tall

B．short

C．thin

D．heavy

9.

A．gift

B．book

C．card

D．knife

10.

A．happy

B．excited

C．relaxed

D．nervous

11.

A．laughed

B．slept

C．cried

D．ran

12.

A．all

B．both

C．any

D．some

13.

A．looked after

B．looked out

C．looked up

D．looked for

14.

A．tie

B．untie

C．cut

D．pass

15.

A．police

B．neighbor

C．man

D．doctor

16.

A．across

B．through

C．into

D．around

17.

A．biggest

B．smallest

C．nearest

D．farthest

18.

A．reached

B．called

C．hit

D．searched

19.

A．school

B．park

C．work

D．hospital

20.

A．safety

B．traffic

C．study

D．love

4 . If you are shopping in any toy store, you can easily find the different games and toys for boys and girls: There are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls and dark-colored toy cars, toy guns, and toy soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys.    1      

Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, the writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are crazy about the color. This may happen for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink.    2     Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can influence the choices and the decisions they will make in the future. 

    3     Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy with that. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle.    4     I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I’m worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says. 

    5     Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn’t worried at all. “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little, but as they get older, they change. This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change.”

A．Some parents are worried, too.

B．Blue says that you are strong and powerful.

C．Why do parents prefer to choose pink for their girls?

D．Different colors may have different influence on children.

E．In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.

F．But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink.

G．Besides, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink.

5 . A big fair ended in Beijing. The China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS,中国国际服务贸易交易会) took place from Sept. 4 to 9, 2020. It is a major service trade event. Visitors saw how new technologies are used in different areas. One highlight (亮点) this year was service robots. Let’s look at three of them.

Garbage sorting (垃圾分类) is new to many people. Swiss company ABB has designed (设计) a robot to help us do it. It uses two arms to pick garbage that comes down a conveyor belt (传送带). It then throws the garbage into the right bin. A screen can show how many pieces of garbage it has sorted.

Unitree, a company in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, has made a robot dog. With an AI-powered smart camera, it can record everything it sees in real time. It can move up to 3.3 meters per second. It can also carry objects weighing up to 5 kg, about as heavy as 10 bottles of water. The robot dog can give people a hand in many ways. For example, it can move goods or search for people who go missing during disasters.

Can you hit back a ball that is served by a robot? Find out by playing against a ping-pong serving robot made by Chinese company Siasun. The robot can serve balls one by one automatically (自动地). It can change the speed, angle, and landing area of the balls as well. It can record your performance with a camera so you can review it later. It will help ping-pong players train and improve.

1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Garbage sorting.

B．The robot.

C．The belt.

D．The bin.

2. Match the robots with the information and choose the right answer.
①The robot dog       a. It can pick garbage from a conveyor belt and throw it into the right bin.
②The ping-pong serving robot       b. It can run fast and carry heavy things.
③The garbage-sorting robot       c. It can record players’ performance and help to train players.

A．①—c②—b③—a	B．①—b②—c③—a
C．①—b②—a③—c	D．①—c②—a③—b

3. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．How smart the service robots are.

B．How fast the new technologies are improved.

C．How hard the scientists work on the new technologies.

D．How wide the new technologies are used.

6 . A dictionary is a book which explains the meanings of words. The words are put in order.     1     The word “dictionary” comes from the Latin “dictio” (saying).

    2     They include dictionaries which explain words and how they are used, dictionaries which translate words from one language into another, dictionaries of biography which tell about famous people, and so on.

Dictionaries which explain what words mean will give a clear “definition (定义)” of a word. Good dictionaries will also give more information about the word. They will explain how it is pronounced. Usually the International Phonetic Alphabet is used for this.     3     This is not a problem for a word like “hippopotamus”, but a word like “put” has so many different meanings that a large dictionary may have a whole page or more to explain how it can be used.

There are also dictionaries which translate words into foreign languages. When using a dictionary to find out how to say something in another language, one has to be careful to choose the right word. A word like “right” has two basic meanings in English: The first meaning is “correct”, and the second is “the opposite of left”.     4     They will have different words for these different meanings.

    5     You may wonder why. That’s because new words are often brought into a language or words that may change their meanings. The most famous English Dictionary is the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Words are always being added to the OED.

A．You can buy all kinds of dictionaries.

B．There are several types of dictionaries.

C．In this way they can be found quickly.

D．Words are never taken out of the OED.

E．Dictionaries need to be renewed frequently.

F．Also, they will explain how the word is used.

G．However, other languages are not like English.

7 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Yangge is a type of folk dance     1     originated in the northern regions of China. It is very popular especially among the older generation, as they will     2     (ready) join a yangge dance even when the performance is happening.

The dance is different from other Chinese dances in many ways. For instance, it promotes a sense of     3     (happy), because it is supposed     4     (celebrate) happy occasions, as opposed to classical Chinese dancing, which requires an air of serious, gradual movements.

It is said that the origins of this     5     (wonder) dance are from the Han Dynasty in northern China,     6     it reached its peak during the Qing Dynasty. During this time, it was no longer a dance     7     (perform) during harvests, but it extended to all festival celebrations.

The dance has four regional varieties. Each variety     8     (have) its unique characters and they are quite easy to tell apart. But they share the common three parts: the dancers, the music band, and the leader. Yangge was always     9     essential part of daily Chinese life that adapted to the times it was in. Yangge has made it into a well-preserved aspect of the culture that still holds strong to this day, even     10     (become) a part of required courses for Chinese dance students to learn.

8 . Masako Wakamiya, a native of Kanagawa, Japan, saw a need in her community. There were no good mobile apps for people of her _______. So at 81, she looked around and said _______, “I’ll do it myself!” Her story _______ us all that we’re never too old to try something _______.

We often think of coding (编码) as _______ - at least I know I do. But Masako had a different _______ - she thought it could be _______. Coding can take a few months to multiple years to _______, depending on how complicated your end goals are, the type of work you want to do and how long you _______ on it every week.

Masako never used a computer until she was 58 years old. Having no ________ with technology, she originally asked some younger app ________ to make something for her. But when they said that they didn’t know what seniors ________ in an app, she took matters into her own hands.

That day, her app story was born. Masako made it her ________ to help senior citizens get engaged with technology so they can stay ________ and lead more fulfilling lives, ________ the isolation that often comes with aging.

1.

A．age

B．gender

C．character

D．status

2.

A．sadly

B．shyly

C．angrily

D．firmly

3.

A．warns

B．teaches

C．guarantees

D．informs

4.

A．magic

B．basic

C．available

D．new

5.

A．complex

B．special

C．accurate

D．automatic

6.

A．aspect

B．aim

C．view

D．way

7.

A．painful

B．fun

C．boring

D．perfect

8.

A．arrange

B．control

C．analyze

D．learn

9.

A．pass

B．waste

C．spend

D．save

10.

A．communication

B．combination

C．experience

D．patience

11.

A．developers

B．users

C．applicants

D．sellers

12.

A．discovered

B．downloaded

C．stored

D．wanted

13.

A．permission

B．mission

C．freedom

D．agreement

14.

A．devoted

B．conscious

C．connected

D．independent

15.

A．preventing

B．causing

C．suffering

D．leading

9 . The fear of making the wrong decision, or decidophobia (选择恐惧症), can influence people even when it comes to the smallest choices, such as what to have for lunch.     1     Below are several tips to overcome it and help you progress in life.

Try the Decision-Making Quadrant (象限)

A good tool for decision-making is the Decision-Making Quadrant. In relation to the decision to be made, list answers to these four questions: What happens if X happens? What won’t happen if X happens? What happens if X doesn’t happen? What won’t happen if X doesn’t happen?     2    

Reduce the number of decisions

If making decisions is a weakness, it’s important to admit that and reduce decision-making in as many areas as possible. Eat set meals. Wear standard outfits.     3     Do everything else you can to reduce decisions. Then, consider practicing making decisions with someone who is more decisive.

Take it one step at a time

Change can be hard. Not everyone likes to be different from routine by making decisions, big or small. When making a decision, look at it as a learning experience.     4     Don’t be afraid of the result. Look forward to it.

See things from a different perspective

When decision paralysis (决策瘫痪) has taken over and “what ifs” are holding you down, sometimes you need to step outside of yourself for a different perspective.     5     Ask yourself, “What would he or she do?” and let it be your guide.

A．Think about someone you trust and respect.

B．Develop a morning, work, and evening routine.

C．Create an action list with decision deadlines and stick to it.

D．Your decision will almost always be found in your answers.

E．Every choice you make teaches you something.

F．It can keep you stuck in place when you should be moving forward.

G．If decision-making is difficult for you, first take a look at potential choices and results.

10 . Spider webs are made from silk. And silk is made from something scientists call “proteins”. Proteins are special chemicals made by a living thing like an animal or a plant. You have lots of them in your body. Your hair and your nails are made of proteins (they are both made by a protein called “keratin”). Insects and spiders make silk in a special part of their bodies called a gland (腺), and use their legs to pull it out of their bodies. This is called spinning. Most species of spider have more than one kind of silk gland. Each one has different strength and stretchiness and is used for a specific purpose such as web frame, or covering eggs. The strength and stretchiness of silk depends on the way the spider’s body arranges the silk proteins.

We don’t usually notice just how strong they can be because they are amazingly thin. But the strongest silk, such as silk from a golden orb spider, is actually stronger than steel. Even more amazing, it is about 50 times as light. Actually, spider silk is a bit like a cross between steel and rubber. Even with the help of complicated machines and chemicals, humans still don’t know how to make a material this strong, stretchy, and light. Spiders are still the champions at this.

In fact, silk-making animals include crickets, glow-worms, ants, bees, etc. Some of these make silk to protect themselves. Crickets, for example, use silk to sew leaves together to build a nest. Some use silk for hunting, such as spiders and even glow-worms, which use sticky silk to capture flying animals they’d like to eat.

Studies about spider webs could pave the way for creating new materials that could be used in medicine and engineering. But synthetic (人工合成的) spider silk has been difficult to create. In the meantime, researchers hope their work will help us unreel one of the toughest materials of the natural world.

1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?

A．Insects and spiders’ legs can make silk.

B．Spider webs are made of keratin.

C．All species of spiders have a variety of silk glands.

D．Arrangements of proteins determine silk features.

2. Why is steel mentioned in paragraph 2?

A．To stress the strength of spider silk.	B．To describe the advantages of spiders.
C．To compare the two materials.	D．To highlight spiders’ advantages over people.

3. Which of the following can replace the underlined word in paragraph 4?

A．Remove.

B．Explore.

C．Test.

D．Replace.

4. What is the writing purpose of the passage?

A．To raise awareness of the research on insects.	B．To explain the knowledge about spider silk.
C．To encourage us to focus more on the spiders.	D．To present the application of spider silk.