A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apple trees he grew.
One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to plant it. The farmer was pleased with the gift, but he did not know where to plant it.
He was afraid that if he planted the tree near the road, strangers would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree in one of his fields, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit. Finally he planted the tree in his wood. But without sunlight and good soil(土壤), the tree soon died.
Later the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place. “What’s the difference? ” the farmer said angrily and then told what he had thought.
“Yes, ” said the friend, “but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now you not only have robbed everyone of the fruit, but also you have destroyed (毁掉) a good apple tree! ”What gift did the farmer get from his friend one day?
___________________________________________________________How many people are there in the story?
____________________________________________________________Where did the farmer plant the apple tree at last?
____________________________________________________________Why did the apple tree soon die?
____________________________________________________________Who destroyed the apple tree?
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My name is Bill. I’m an American boy. I’m twelve. I’m a student in a middle school. I’m in Class1, Grade 7. Li Lei is my friend. We’re in different classes. He is eleven. Here is a photo of his family. Let’s look at it. His father, the one behind the tree, is a policeman. His mother, the one on the bike, is a Chinese teacher. He has two sisters. They are twins. They have a cat. Its name is Mimi. Look! It’s on the floor under the table. The twins are middle school students, too. They look after(照看) me at school. We are good friends.Bill is from________.
| A．England | B．America | C．China | D．Japan |
Li Lei is ________.
| A．twelve | B．ten | C．eleven | D．two |
Bill and Li Lei are _______.
| A．classmates | B．twins |
| C．friends | D．sister |
Li Lei’s mother is _______ in the photo.
| A．behind the tree | B．under the table |
| C．on the bike | D．in the table |
Who looks after Bill at school? ______.
| A．His parents | B．The twins |
| C．Mimi and Bill | D．His parents and Bill |
My name is Mary. I’ m a student. I’m twelve. My father is a policeman. My mother is a nurse. Nick is my brother. We are all at home today, because today is Sunday. My brother Nick is a student, too. We are in the same school. There are thirty-five classes in our school. My classroom is very big. _______are students and in the same school.
| A．My sister and I | B．My brother and I |
| C．My brother and my sister | D．Andy and I |
What’s Mary’s mother?
| A．She is a teacher. | B．She is a student. |
| C．She is a nurse. | D．She is a doctor. |
There are _______ classes in Mary’s school.
| A．25 | B．35 | C．24 | D．34 |
How old is Mary? ________.
| A．12 | B．14 | C．13 | D．30 |
Mary’s classroom is _______.
| A．not big | B．not very small |
| C．not strong | D．not short |
Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for more food than they can eat and others often forget to turn off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don‘t agree with them.
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Although China is rich in some resources（资源）， we are short of（缺乏） others， for example， fresh water（淡水）。 It is reported that we will have no coal（煤） or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources， what can we use in the future and where can we move？ Think about it. I think we should say no to the students who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.
In our everyday life， we can do many things to prevent waste from happening， for example， turn off the water taps（水龙头） when we finish washing， turn off the lights when we leave the classroom， try not to order more food than we need， and so on. Little by little， everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day， if we do our best.
◆根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。From the passage we know that some students often _______ in the school.
| A．eat too much | B．don‘t work hard |
| C．waste things | D．throw rubbish everywhere |
Which is not mentioned in this passage？
| A．Fresh water | B．Forest. |
| C．Oil. | D．Coal. |
What may happen in 100 years？
| A．We may still have enough oil. |
| B．We may still have enough coal. |
| C．We may have a little oil. |
| D．We may have no coal or oil to use. |
Which of the following is right？
| A．Waste brings problems. | B．Waste can bring no problem. |
| C．China is rich in fresh water. | D．Students never waste things. |
Which is the best title of this passage？
| A．Stop Wasting | B．School life |
| C．Waste in the School | D．Rich Resources in China |
He is quiet and shy. He likes to hide his eyes behind his hair. He doesn‘t smile very often. However， if you talk to him about music， he’ll have a lot to say.
This is Jay Chou，the 24-year-old Taiwanese pop king（天王）。 His fans are so excited because he will sing songs in Beijing on September 12. Those songs are from his new album （唱片）， “Ye Huimei”， and the album was released （发行） in July and was named after his mother.
Chou grew up just with his mother. He did not talk much and did badly in many school subjects.
His mother noticed the boy‘s special interest in music and sent him to learn piano when he was only three years old. He loved it and kept on practicing.
Chou is not very handsome. He does not speak clearly when he sings or talks. But the singer has huge crowds of fans. “He is really good at music. It makes him attractive（有魅力的） to me，” said Liu Jiajun， a Junior 2 student in No.101 Middle School in Beijing.
“He is true to himself. He never follows others，” said Zhang Yujie， a Junior 1 girl at Huaibei Middle School in Sihong，Jiangsu Province.
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。From this passage，we know that Jay Chou _______.
| A．is very handsome |
| B．has a bright smile |
| C．often makes too much noise |
| D．is a pop music star |
His fans are so excited because _______.
| A．he released a new album in July |
| B．he will sing new songs in Beijing |
| C．he can play the piano very well |
| D．his new album was named after his mother |
When he was a little child， he _______.
| A．talked a lot every day | B．did well in his study at school |
| C．started to like music | D．had huge crowds of fans |
According to one of his fans，Jay _______.
| A．is a good student | B．has long and beautiful hair |
| C．is a well-known pianist | D．is very attractive to them |
The sentence “He never follows others” in the last paragraph means _______.
| A．he always has his own style（风格） |
| B．he likes to walk alone |
| C．he doesn‘t like other people’s songs at all |
| D．no one can catch up with him |
A Brown University sleep researcher has some advice for people who run high schools: Don't start classes so early in the morning. It may not be that the students who nod off at their desks are lazy. And it may not be that their parents have failed to enforce (确保) bedtime. Instead, it may be that biologically these sleepyhead students aren't used to the early hour.
"Maybe these kids are being asked to rise at the wrong time for their bodies," says Mary Carskadon, a professor looking at problem of adolescent (青春期的) sleep at Brown's School of Medicine.
Carskadon is trying to understand more about the effects of early school time in adolescents. And, at a more basic level, she and her team are trying to learn more about how the biological changes of adolescence affect sleep needs and patterns.
Carskadon says her work suggests that adolescents may need more sleep than they did at childhood, no less, as commonly thought.
Sleep patters change during adolescence, as any parent of an adolescent can prove. Most adolescents prefer to stay up later at nigh and sleep later in the morning. But it's not just a matter of choice — their bodies are going through a change of sleep patters.
All of this makes the transfer from middle school to high school — which may start one hour earlier in the morning — all the more difficult, Carskadon says. With their increased need for sleep and their biological clocks set on the "sleep late, rise late" pattern, adolescent are up against difficulties when it comes to trying to be up by 5 or 6 a.m. for a 7:30 a.m. first bell. A short sleep on a desktop may be their body's way of saying. "I need a timeout."Carskadon suggests that high schools should not start classes so early in the morning because ________.
| A．it is really tough for parents to enforce bedtime |
| B．it is biologically difficult for students to rise early |
| C．students work so late at night that they can't get up early |
| D．students are so lazy that they don't like to go to school early |
The underlined phrase "nod off" most probably means " ________".
| A．turn around | B．agree with others | C．fall asleep | D．refuse to work |
What might be a reason for the hard transfer middle school to high school?
| A．Adolescents depend more on their parents. |
| B．Adolescents have to choose their sleep patterns. |
| C．Adolescents sleep better than they did at childhood. |
| D．Adolescents need more sleep than they used to. |
What is the text mainly about?
| A．Adolescent heath care. |
| B．Problems in adolescent learning. |
| C．Adolescent sleep difficulties. |
| D．Changes in adolescent sleep needs and patterns. |
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