A Father’s Day Surprise
“Mano, do you know when Father’s Day is celebrated?” Ali asked his sister.
“Yes, it is going to be celebrated on June 19 this year. Yesterday my friend and I were talking about it.” Mano replied.
“Do you have any idea how we should celebrate this day and make it memorable for Dad?” Ali asked.
“Hmm... I was thinking about it too and have some ideas.” Mano answered excitedly. “What are you kids talking about?” their mum asked, entering their room.
“Mum, we were wondering about how to celebrate Father’s Day.” Mano said.
“Oh, I am surprised you kids remembered! Well, I am thinking of cooking some favorite dishes for your father. You both should think of ways to decorate the house beautifully.”Mum said.
“That would be great!”said Mano and Ali together. Both of them got up smiling, thinking of hundreds of ways to celebrate Father’s Day. Mum went to the kitchen, and Mano and Ali started doing their homework. But soon Ali noticed Mano deep in thought so he asked what the matter was. “Ali, I was thinking that our parents do everything for us and in return they want nothing. Isn’t it bad that we never think about them and are always concerned about our needs?” Mano replied. “Sometimes we are so busy with our lives that we don’t pay proper attention to our parents. We should listen to whatever they say properly and answer them. We must also study hard to get good grades.” Ali nodded.
The next day, all three of them, Mano, Ali and their mum, got busy preparing their surprise celebration for Father’s Day. Mano drew a family picture with her crayons, Ali bought balloons and candles and began writing a poem which he planned to sing that day. In short, a lot of things were being planned and prepared.
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Finally, when Father’s day came, both Ali and Mano came home from school and started decorating the house.
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Ali and Mano cried out together, “Happy Father’s Day!”
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . Mark Twain was a great writer in America. He was also a funny man. There were many interesting stories about him.
In his city, a man didn’t like Mark Twain. On April Fool’s Day, the man wanted to play a joke on the great writer. A newspaper in New York said that Mark Twain died. All his friends around the country were sad when they read it. Then they decided to visit his home. When the friends got there, they found Mark Twain writing in front of his desk. They got a big surprise and thought the newspaper did a bad thing. But Mark Twain didn’t get angry. He smiled and said, “The report(报道)about my death is right. But the time is too early.”
1. The report about Mark Twain was on ______.A.June 2nd | B.April 2nd | C.June 1st | D.April 1st |
A.前往 | B.居住 | C.拜访 | D.悼念 |
A.listening to the radio | B.reading |
C.writing | D.watching TV |
A.didn’t like that man | B.was a funny man |
C.didn’t like the newspaper | D.knew he wouldn’t die |
3 . Xiao Ming gets up very late. He rides his bike to the school quickly. He doesn’t look at the traffic lights, so he hits a car. The driver takes him to the hospital right now. The doctor looks over Xiao Ming very carefully. Xiao Ming wants to go to the school but the doctor and the driver ask him to stay in bed.
“ Now my boy,“ says the doctor.“ Could you tell me your name, please?”
“ What are you going to do?” asks Xiao Ming.
“I’m going to tell your parents and your teacher. ”answers the doctor.
“But my parents know my name and my teacher knows my name, too.“ says Xiao Ming.
1. How does Xiao Ming go to school?A.by bike | B.by car |
C.by bus | D.on foot |
A.His teacher | B.His parents |
C.The driver | D.His students |
A.Because he is very happy. |
B.Because he doesn’t notice the traffic lights. |
C.Because he doesn’t like going to school |
D.Because he can’t see anything |
A.He is very lovely. |
B.He is very bad. |
C.He is very lazy. |
D.He is very good. |
4 . I still remember the day when I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy cleaning my car with a brush. I went over and patted him on the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to smile at me. So I was sure he needed some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how poor he was. So I offered him a $100 bill. To my great surprise, he refused to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your car is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the bill.
As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so excited that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me home? It is only about 3 miles.” What the boy wanted to do was to show off to his friends and his family. As soon as I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you one someday.”
I noticed his sister had a pale face. What’s worse, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to walk.
After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his family. Poor as they were, the boy once again refused my money, and said, “I can make money by myself, thank you.”
Soon I told my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to work here the next day.
No matter how poor we are, we will never give in to ourselves.
1. From the shoes the boy was wearing the author inferred .A.how poor the boy was! | B.how rich the boy was! |
C.how healthy the boy was! | D.how clever the boy was! |
A.the author volunteered to take the boy to his own supermarket. |
B.the author was volunteered to drive the boy around the town. |
C.the author volunteered to drive the boy around the town. |
D.the author volunteered to offer a job for the boy. |
A.tall | B.well | C.short | D.unhealthy |
A.No matter how poor we are, we should give in to ourselves. |
B.No matter how poor we are, we have to give up to ourselves. |
C.No matter how poor we are, we have to give in to ourselves. |
D.No matter how poor we are, we shouldn’t give in to ourselves. |
A visually-challenged man from Beijing recently hiked (徒步) 40 days to Xi’an, as a first step
On the 1,100 kilometer journey, the man Cao Shengkang,
Cao and Wu also collected garbage along the road, in order to promote environmental
In the last five years. Cao
Now, Cao has started the second part of his dream to walk along the Belt and Road route. He flew 4, 700 kilometers
6 . What are we celebrating today? I asked the above question at the beginning of every one of my classes, whether I was teaching kids or adults. Sometimes I asked it a little differently, as in, “Who has good news?” or “Who has something good to say?” However I asked it, it always meant the same thing. It was a call for celebrating life, for focusing on what’s right and what’s good.
This was something that started by accident in the 1970 school year and continued until I stopped classroom teaching in 2001—thirty years of celebrating! Believe it or not, it started as the result of two things that are not so popular among kids: daily news and homework.
When I was teaching courses in history and government in high school, I would always ask students to read the latest news every night. After a few weeks, one student came to me and said, “Dr. Urban, did you notice that most of the news was bad news?” And he was right. Then we had a long class discussion about this, and finally we all agreed on one thing: We needed to receive more good news.
So the next day at the beginning of class I asked, “What are we celebrating today? Who has good news? Who has something good to say?” Later, I suggested that we should also include good things in our own lives.
They thought it was a great way to start class, and it developed into something that had a profound and lasting impact on both my students and me. Over the years of doing this, we heard just about every bit of good news possible. Some were small things, some were huge things. But the most important was that my students learned to look for the good in everyday life. They looked for it, they found it, and they celebrated it by sharing it with others.
1. What do we know about the author from the passage?A.He was a primary school teacher. |
B.He always asked his students to do some news writing. |
C.He had been teaching for more than three decades. |
D.He used to work in the government. |
A.It started from an accident which happened 30 years ago. |
B.It started because students wanted to receive some good news. |
C.It started to make me popular among kids. |
D.It started when I wanted my students to read more news. |
A.To celebrate a special day |
B.To check students’ homework |
C.To learn about students’ life |
D.To focus on good things in life |
A.It’s great to focus on the good things in life. |
B.The world used to be filled with bad news. |
C.The teacher liked to celebrate his first class each year. |
D.Only big and important things can be celebrated. |
7 . A year after high school, I didn't know what to do. I was still one of those
Years later, I was doing
It was only then that I
My work keeps me going: it’s my passion, it’s my life and it’s a great pleasure and motivation, which
A.cautious | B.curious | C.serious | D.purposeless |
A.tried | B.arranged | C.happened | D.managed |
A.listening | B.reading | C.searching | D.writing |
A.determination | B.goal | C.movement | D.reason |
A.business | B.deal | C.degree | D.research |
A.died | B.existed | C.reacted | D.served |
A.approached | B.dashed | C.overcame | D.passed |
A.coming about | B.coming across | C.coming along | D.coming around |
A.actually | B.constantly | C.luckily | D.suddenly |
A.consider | B.judge | C.predict | D.remember |
A.cash | B.courage | C.memory | D.shyness |
A.invitation | B.illness | C.book | D.speech |
A.meal | B.case | C.question | D.speech |
A.came | B.attached | C.drew | D.signaled |
A.recorded | B.agreed | C.believed | D.realized |
A.life | B.day | C.year | D.century |
A.brief | B.broken | C.harmful | D.rough |
A.influenced | B.forced | C.limited | D.threatened |
A.follows | B.advises | C.drives | D.allows |
A.admirable | B.boring | C.short | D.unusual |
8 . I had an opportunity to teach at a five-star hotel in Nevis, a small island in the Caribbean Sea. After that, my friend Clayton and I flew into Panama City for a surfing outing at a surfing camp in the bay of Chiriqui, whose tourism is booming. To get there, we had to take my tennis bags on and off several buses and boats. After eight hours of travel we finally arrived. The camp was perfect, and the accommodations were not bad. We had an unbelievable week there!
On our return trip, when we got to the bus station, we learned that our bus had been delayed for 2. 5 hours. The sun was beating down on us.
As we walked over to the shaded area, a couple of kids started throwing rocks at me. I opened a can of tennis balls. They stopped and took an interest in the balls. I had a special racket (球拍) with me. I had the strings cut out and replaced them with a net, which is prefect for hotel teaching. I got them to throw the balls into the net. They seemed to enjoy that. Then an older boy got interested, to whom I gave another racket to hit the ball into the net of the catching racket. I showed him how to position and hold the racket. Soon, their bus arrived, and they were on their way.
But families from across the street came over and wanted their 10-minute tennis lesson,too. The other passengers waiting for the bus each got a lesson. Eventually, restaurant workers next door and the bus terminal clerk invited me to give them a lesson, too. They learnt well and were having a great time. And so was I. In what seemed like no time, our bus arrived. Satisfied with what I did, I changed my shirt, and made it back to Panama City.
1. Which can describe the bay of Chiriqui?A.It develops depending on tourism. |
B.It is famous for its tennis camps. |
C.It offers cheap accommodations. |
D.It is far away from Panama City. |
A.To attract children. | B.To catch the rocks. |
C.To help him to teach. | D.To hit the balls back. |
A.Waiting for the bus. | B.Learning to play tennis. |
C.Fighting for the shaded area. | D.Playing games with each other. |
A.Embarrassed. | B.Confident. | C.Amazed. | D.Proud. |
9 . A one-armed 13-year-old basketball player in a video moves China. He is Zhang Jiacheng, from Guangdong Province. In the video, facing a taller, stronger, and older opponent (对手), he isn’t afraid at all.
Attracted by his good skills in the video, many people even fail to know that Zhang Jiacheng has only one arm. Although the young boy lost one of his arms in an accident, he became crazy about playing basketball at 12. “Work hard or just give up,” he always says. Thus, he spent all of his free time on it without considering his body condition.
People’s attention has encouraged him to work harder towards his goal — to become a top basketball player. “I just keep practising every day to improve myself, whether at home or in the playground,” he says, “My biggest challenge (挑战) is to control the ball much better.” After only a year of hard practicing, Zhang Jiacheng has improved his skills greatly. Through patience, confidence and determination, the young basketball player is getting closer to his life goal.
His effort and courage finally caught the attention of Yi Jianlian, a Chinese professional (职业的) basketball player, who shared the video on his own Weibo.
1. Why do people fail to know the boy has only one arm?A.Because his good skills attract people. |
B.Because his life goal encourages people. |
C.Because he jumps to an amazing height. |
D.Because he hides the other arm carefully. |
A.Controlling the ball better. | B.Keeping his balance. |
C.Making some more friends. | D.Getting closer to his family. |
A.To live a comfortable life | B.To become a top basketball player. |
C.To set up a basketball team. | D.To build a large gym for his school. |
10 . I am a middle school student. I have a lot of classes and homework every day. I have a bad memory and I often forget(忘记)my family’s birthdays. But I don’t forget my mum’s birthday today. I want to buy her a present.
There is a big store near my school. It sells many things. From the store, you can buy food, clothes, shoes and some other daily things. So, I go to the store and want to choose a present for my mum. I want to buy a beautiful skirt, but I don’t have enough money(钱). At last, I go to a flower shop and buy a rose.
After I get home, I give the rose to my mum and say, “Happy birthday, dear mum. It is 14 October today. I don’t forget your birthday.”
My mum is very happy and she says, “Thank you, my son. But my birthday is tomorrow.”
1. What does the underlined(画线的) word “memory” mean?A.品德 | B.脾气 | C.记性 | D.兴趣 |
A.Because he doesn't like his family. | B.Because he has many classes. |
C.Because he has a bad memory. | D.Because he has much homework. |
A.Cake. | B.A skirt. | C.Shoes. | D.Food. |
A.A skirt. | B.A shirt. | C.A cake. | D.A flower. |
A.15 October | B.14 October | C.13 October | D.16 October |