1 . Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.

Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to place in tin bores.

At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.

1. Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.

A．a monkey

B．an earth monster

C．a tin box

D．a strange world

2. The earth monster doesn’t have ________.

A．a head, arms and legs	B．brown or yellow strings on its head
C．a hole on its face	D．a swing on its body

3. The earth monsters don’t put ________ on their holes.

A．nice things

B．balls

C．fire

D．water

4. The square window box is ________.

A．a car or a bus	B．a very small earth monster
C．a TV set	D．a radio

2 . During the time of lockdown, a great way to kill time is to read. If you don’t want to buy books, I personally use Libby (or overdrive. com) to connect to my public library’s entire ebook and audiobook database. Here is my take on a well-rounded, diverse, and boredom-curing reading list:

SALT TO THE SEA by Ruta Sepytys

This is a young-adult historical fiction about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945. The story is from the point of view of four refugees (难民) from different countries, all keeping life-threatening secrets and struggling to escape to freedom.

AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie

One of the best murder mysteries of all time. 10 strangers are invited to a remote island by a secret person and are murdered one-by-one mirroring a nursery rhyme. You absolutely won’t guess who the killer is.

EDUCATED by Tara Westover

Completely isolated from society, Westover spent her young life living in a remote mountainous area where no one would ensure the children to receive an education. But Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her and ultimately she was accepted to Harvard and Cambridge University. Her story of fulfilling transformation of life is inspiring and may be exactly what you’re looking for.

THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray

This is a young-adult fantasy that follows a group of teens with powers in 1920s New York City. When Evie stays with her uncle, a string of murders occur. We follow each character as they find their powers and find out who’s killing people. The book’s a little long, but the twists, the 1920s slang, and the diverse and layered characters make it worthwhile.

1. What is the advantage of Libby according to the author?

A．It provides information on boredom.

B．It recommends ways to search online.

C．It helps to get access to the public library.

D．It shares some writers’ personal book lists.

2. What is the book EDUCATED about?

A．A historical event.	B．An inspiring life story.
C．A young-adult fantasy.	D．A life-threatening secret story.

3. Which books will attract the readers who are into stories of murder?

A．SALT TO THE SEA & EDUCATED.

B．SALT TO THE SEA & THE DIVINERS.

C．AND THEN THERE WERE NONE & EDUCATED.

D．AND THEN THERE WERE NONE & THE DIVINERS.

4 . Celebrate the moon landing anniversary with books Astronomy lovers are not the only ones excited about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Publishers (出版商) are also taking note, serving up a pile of books to mark the occasion.

One Giant Leap,＄29.99
Charles Fishman

Getting to the moon demanded a million hours of work for each hour spent in space, this book argues. Accordingly, the story focuses on the engineers, coders, project managers and others who worked hard to get the Apollo program off the ground.

Moonbound,＄35
Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Colorful and detailed, the comic-style illustrations (连环画风格的插图) in this book bring the moon landing to life. Much of the astronauts’ dialog is based on real recordings, making the book particularly reliable.

The Apollo Missions,＄19.99
David Baker

A former NASA engineer uses photographs, illustrations, blueprints (蓝图) and other documents to guide readers through a clear history of the space race and the Apollo program, from the beginnings of rocket science to the successful return home of the Apollo 11 crew.

The Mission of a Lifetime,＄22
Basil Hero

The Apollo astronauts rarely gave personal interviews. But now that they’re getting older, the astronauts are starting to get introspective (内省的). This book deals with conversations with the 12 astronauts who have general wisdom on overcoming fear and appreciating life.

1. According to the text,who is the text intended for?

A．Astronomy lovers.	B．Astronomy engineers.
C．Publishers.	D．Novelists.

2. Which book will you choose if you would like to know about the whole process in the moon?

A．One Giant Leap.	B．Moonbound.
C．The Apollo Missions.	D．The Mission of a Lifetime.

3. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

A．You can know numerous details from One Giant Leap.

B．Those who are interested in art are fond of Moonbound.

C．The Apollo Missions is formally supported by NASA.

D．The Mission of a Lifetime is actually based on The Apollo Missions.

5 . One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible insect. He lay on his armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.

"What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table—Samsa was a travelling salesman—and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur scarf who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff (暖手筒) that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer.

Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the window, which made him feel quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense," he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.

He thought, "What a heavy career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them." He felt a slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold tremble.

He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the time," he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your inferiors from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the money together to pay off my parents' debt to him—another five or six years I suppose—that's definitely what I'll do. That's when I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, my train leaves at five."

1. According to the passage, Gregor initially believes his transformation is a ?

A．curse

B．disease

C．nightmare

D．fraud

2. The word "floundering" in paragraph 3 most nearly means ?

A．struggling

B．painful

C．pitiful

D．trembling

3. The author most likely includes a description of Gregor's itch in paragraph 4 to ?

A．remind the reader that Gregor has already turned into an insect

B．stress the disconnection between Gregors' thoughts and his actual situation

C．present important details about what Gregor's new body looks like

D．show that Gregor's thoughts are focused on the changes to his body

4. The main rhetorical (修辞的) effect of the final sentence of the excerpt ("First of all though, I've got to get up, my train leaves at five") is to ?

A．provide a solution to the conflict Gregor faces

B．foretell the conflict between Gregor and his boss

C．illustrate Gregor's flexibility and ability to move on

D．emphasize Gregor's extreme sense of duty

6 . After two years of careful consideration, Robert McCrum has reached a conclusion on his selection of the 100 greatest novels written in English. Take a look at a few in his list.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

By the end of the 19th century, no book in English literary history had enjoyed more editions and translations. This world-famous novel is a complex literature that one cannot resist.

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)

A great work that’s been repeatedly printed, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels comes third in our list of the best novels written in English.

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)

Clarissa is a tragic heroine, pressured by her dishonorable family to marry a wealthy man she dislikes, in the book that Samuel Johnson described as “the first book in the world that shows the knowledge about the human heart.”

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)

Tom Jones is a classic English novel that gets the spirit of its age and whose characters are well-known since they have come to represent the society at that time.

Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

Jane Austen’s Emma is her most outstanding work, mixing the best parts of her early books with a deep sense of feelings.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1838)

Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel—a classic adventure story with supernatural elements—has fascinated and influenced generations of writers.

1. Which English book has got the most translations before the 20th century?

A．Tom Jones

B．Gulliver’s Travels

C．Robinson Crusoe

D．Emma

2. What does Samuel Johnson think we can learn about from the book Clarissa?

A．The human heart.	B．Quarrels in a family.
C．A love story.	D．The spirits of the time.

3. What makes the characters in Tom Jones famous?

A．Their classic life styles.	B．Their representation of the society.
C．Their typical spirits of the age.	D．Their different nationalities.

7 . Literature is an important part of a total language arts program at all grade levels because of the many benefits it offers.

Literature provides pleasure to listeners and readers.It is a relaxing escape from daily problems,and it fills leisure moments.Making time for recreational reading and using high-quality literature help to develop enthusiastic readers and improve achievement.Developing a love of literature as a recreational activity is possibly the most important outcome of a literature program.

Literature builds experience.Through reading,children expand their horizons through vicarious(引起共鸣的)experiences.They visit new places,gain new experiences,and meet new people.They learn about the past as well as the present and learn about a variety of cultures,including their own.They discover the common goals and similar emotions found in people of all times and places. Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly,Giff,a hard survival story,is set in Ireland during the potato hunger of I845,and Patricia Polacco's The Butterfly ,deals with Nazis,resistance,and Jewish persecution(迫害)during World War II.

Literature provides a language model for those who hear and read it.Good literature exposes children to correct sentence patterns,standard story structures,and varied word usage.Children for whom English is a second language can improve their English with the interesting context,and all children benefit from new vocabulary that is woven into the stories.

Literature develops thinking skills.Discussions of literature bring out reasoning related to sequence;cause and effect; character motivation; predictions;visualization of actions, characters, and settings; critical analysis of the story;and creative responses.

Literature helps children deal with their problems.By finding out about the problems of others through books, children receive insights into dealing with their own problems,a process called bibliotherapy. Children might identify with Gilly,living angrily in a foster home in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins,or with Mary Alice,a city girl forced to live with her grandma in a“hick town"in Richard Peck's A Year Down Yonder.

1. What is likely to be the most significant consequence of a literature program?

A．The habit of reading for pleasure.	B．The lessons learned from works.
C．The achievements of language skills.	D．The ways of thinking developed by reading.

2. Why are Nory Ryan's Song and The Butterfly mentioned in paragraph 3?

A．To introduce two great masterpieces..

B．To expand children's horizons in literature.

C．To prove literature includes a variety of cultures.

D．To give examples of books that provide such experiences.

3. From the last paragraph we know that literature can be___

A．educational	B．practical
C．changeable	D．reliable

4. What could be the best title of the text?

A．Power of Books	B．Ways of Reading
C．Source of Human Progress	D．Benefits of Literature

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Included in our price:
Return flights from London Heathrow
Three-and-four-star hotels, sharing rooms, breakfast and lunch included
Internal flight to the beautiful Garden Route
Full-day guided safari in the Kruger National Park
Visit the legendary Zulu War battlefields of Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift, the historical Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, Apartheid Museum and Blyde River Canyon
Travel on Outeniqua steam train or go whale watching depending on the season
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1. On this 16-day tour, visitors might experience the _______ of South Africa.

A．history, cultures and education

B．cultures, scenery and education

C．history, scenery and education

D．history, cultures and scenery

2. What can we learn about the tour?

A．The tour is available all year rounD．

B．Tourists will have a single room each.

C．Tourists are sure to go whale watching．

D．Suppers are not included in the price.

3. The passage is written to _______.

A．talk about touring experiences

B．attract people to the tour

C．talk about the history of Africa

D．introduce places of interest in Africa