1 . After a long day of work, we call it a day and go home.
What does the phrase “call it a day” mean in Chinese in this sentence?

2 . Find Me! My first word starts with “p” and my second word ends with “e”, but I have thousands of letters. Who am I?

3 . On a farm there are sheep and chickens. Simon counts all the heads and feet on the farm and gets a total of 99. There are twice as many chickens as sheep. How many of each are there?

4 . Jack carves a “J” one meter above the ground in the trunk of a gum tree. If the tree grows 10 centimeters each year, how far off the ground will the “J” be in five years?

5 . Which of these shapes cannot be drawn without taking the pen off the paper or retracing (折回) your steps?

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6 . Please translate the underlined sentences in the following passage into Chinese or English. 请将下面篇章中的划线句子译成汉语或英语。想象一下在太平洋的巨浪里游4公里是什么样子的。 ________________Do you think you’d feel tired? How about a 180-kilometer road race on a bicycle in the heat of Hawaii? Tired again? 82. Then what about running a marathon in the same conditions? ________________What? Still tired? Now think what it feels like to do the swim, the bike race, and the marathon “back to back”, with no breaks in between, against the toughest and fittest athletes in the world. 如果你想知道这样一个竞赛是否存在, 让我告诉你——它的确存在。 ________________In an event that lasts at least nine hours, 1,500 competitors compete for the title: Ironman. Ironman is a version of the new sport of triathlon (三项全能运动) —a combination of swimming, cycling, and running that is rapidly growing in popularity. 第一届铁人竞赛是由美国人约翰·柯林斯 (John Collins) 在1977年想出来的。 ____________________In a Hawaiian beach bar, a group of friends were debating which of the local sporting events was the toughest, the four-kilometer swim, the 180-kilometer bike race, or the 42-kilometer marathon? ________________They couldn’t reach an agreement and so to settle the argument Collins suggested the unbelievable: why not try to do them all, one after another, on the same day? And so the Hawaiian Ironman triathlon, as the new event was known, was born.

7 . 请根据诗歌内容完成摘要。每空不超过三个词。

Creativity Is the Mother of Invention By Sha Azam Siddiqui

The world in which we live in This beautiful place which we belong to It’s so beautiful and so colorful But we always lack to see beauty of it and we continue to live the life which is so regretful This is the one life we have We have to live it to the fullest Not with happenings or desires of others But with the intention which truly inspires us. We have to live this life We have to create this life

This life is ours and only ours We need to realize this first It’s said that creativity is the mother of invention But it depends solely on individual intention If we are clear with our own destination It doesn’t matter then how much we get rejection Live this life as if you were the King Spend the luxuries as if you were the Queen It all starts with the only Intention If we just keep on thinking Then there is no end for this perspiration.

Creativity is the key to a bright future. We live in a     1     world. But we always tend to ignore the beauty of it and thus have many regrets in our lives. We only live     2    , so we have to live a fullest one. This life is ours, so we have to live and     3     it. We need to realize this first. Creativity is the mother of invention that depends on individual intention. If we have     4    , then the rejections we get would not be a problem. Bear this only intention in our mind and keep on thinking, and there will be     5     for this perspiration.

8 . Not only does Linda Greenlaw do one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but she also does it extremely well. She has been described as “one of the best captains on the entire East coast”.     1    

Linda was born and brought up on Isle au Haut, a tiny island ten kilometers off the coast of Maine, the USA. She fell in love with fishing as a child, and she worked on fishing boats during her summer breaks from college.     2     Alden Leeman, a man she’d never met before, hired her for thirty days on his swordfishing (捕箭鱼的) boat. The trip was a success and eventually Alden offered Linda her first boat to captain in 1986, which probably made her the only woman ever to captain a swordfishing boat.

    3     Linda says that not only does she like the way she feels on a boat, but she also gets passionate about catching a fish. More than anything, she’s proud of being a fisherman, even more than she is of being a best-selling author.

Linda has published four books to date.     4     In it, Linda tells the story of one fishing trip and describes the adventures she experienced on board with her five-man crew, including bad weather, sickness. mechanical problems and, of course, the fish.

But the world of fish and fishing is a man’s world.     5     In her own words, she says: “I am a woman. I am a fisherman. I am not a ‘fisherwoman’, ‘fisherlady’ or ‘fishergirl’.”

A．So why did she take up swordfishing in the first place?

B．And it’s not easy to find a word to describe Linda Greenlaw.

C．Before becoming a writer, she was the captain of a swordboat.

D．And that, in one of the leading countries in the fishing industry, is praise indeed.

E．Her first opportunity to go on a deep-sea fishing trip came when she was nineteen.

F．The swordfish is a very large fish that has a long swondlike beak formed by the bones of the upper jaw.

G．The first one, The Hungry Ocean, was top of the New York bestseller list for three months.

9 . 请阅读下面的篇章, 用以下三种形式中的一种填空: ①根据上下文填空; ②用所给单词的正确形式填空; ③根据单词所给的字母填空, 每空一词。

Science fiction doesn’t always get the respect it deserves. My friend Ryan calls    1     “brain candy”. My sister says science fiction novels are fairy tales for teenagers. I    2     you ask me, I think people should take science fiction     3     (serious) though it’s so much fun to read.

Yes, science fiction is fun, but it’s also “real” literature. After all, some of     4     great masters of literature—Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and Ursula Le Guin—have written science fiction.

Not only     5     science fiction books often examples of great literature, but the predictions made by science fiction writers help spark people’s imagination and lay the groundwork for       6     (invent) of the future.

One accurate example by a science fiction writer is the invention of the automatic sliding door,       7     H.G. Wells wrote about in When the Sleeper Wakes in 1899. The f    8     automatic doors were invented in 1954. I wonder if the inventors got the idea from H.G. Wells?

Okay, so maybe we could survive without automatic doors, but in the short story From the London Times of 1904 (published in 1898), Mark Twain described a m    9     significant invention — the Internet (specifically, video blogging) ! Imagine what the world       10     (will) be like without the Internet. Thank you, Mr. Twain. Thank you, science fiction!

10 . 请阅读下面的篇章, 并根据其内容提示, 从方框中所给的8 个词语中选出5个, 并用其正确形式填空。

add, as well as, apply, be composed of, locate, divide into, continue, subscribe to

The    1     of Mogao Grottoes on the Silk Road was not only a transfer station of east-west trade but also an inter-section (交汇点) where oriental and western religions, cultures and knowledge met. Mogao Grottoes, also known as “Thousand Buddha Grottoes”, were first built in 366 A.D., the second year of the Jianyuan Period of the Former Qin of the Sixteen Kingdoms, or 1,656 years ago. The grottoes were    2     built for around 1,000 years across 11 dynasties or periods. Spanning a distance of 1,600-plus meters, the grottoes     3     736 caves.

Mogao Grottoes are among the Four Greatest Grottoes of China     4     the largest and best-preserved treasure house of Buddhist culture and arts in the world. Due to its brilliance in ancient culture, Mogao Grottoes were     5     to the World Cultural Heritage list by the UNESCO in 1987.