If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a genius（天才）, they will cause great damage to him. According to several leading educational experts, this is one of the biggest mistakes that some parents make. Generally, the child will understand very well what the parents expect. and will fall. Unrealistic（不现实）expectations of the parents can cause great damage to children.
However, if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are hopeful in a sensible（明智）way, the child may succeed in doing very well—especially if the parents are very supportive（支持的）to their children.
Michael Li is very lucky. He likes music and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and let him attend piano and violin lessons. Although Michael's mother knows very little about music, his father is a good musician. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.
Michael's friend, Winston Chen, however, is not so lucky. Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard（水平）for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him in every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “When I was your age I used to win every competition I enter.” Winston's father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always quiet and unhappy. The main idea of the passage is _________.
| A．how parents should make a child a musician |
| B．how parents should bring up a child |
| C．what differences there are between the two boys |
| D．what aim is easier for a child to reach |
Winston's parents set so high a standard for him that _______.
| A．he has to do his best to win every competition |
| B．he has made greater progress in music |
| C．he is afraid he may disappoint them |
| D．he often wants to kill himself someday |
It is one of the parents’ worst mistakes if ______.
| A．they want their child to be a musician |
| B．they help their child to win music competition |
| C．they don't care for their child's education much |
| D．they make their child try to achieve too much |
According to the writer's opinion, _________.
| A．it's unimportant to let the children develop（=grow）in the way they want |
| B．sensible parents can train their children to succeed in everything |
| C．parents should be realistic and supportive to their children |
| D．unrealistic parents should arrange（安排）private lessons for their children |
Many kinds of animals are in danger now. Here are some examples.
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Giant pandas live in the forests in China, Outside China, they are only in zoos. They eat only one kind of food-bamboo. Keeping a panda in the zoo is difficult because it must have bamboo to eat. |
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Asian elephants have much smaller ears than African elephants. They live in forests. There are only less than 3,000 Ceylon elephants (a kind of Asian elephant) in the world now. |
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Tigers belong to（属于） the cat family. They get small animals like deer for food. The tigers are in danger because people cut down the forests and hunt（打猎） them. People hunt them for their beautiful fur(皮毛）． In 1939, there were about 30,000 tigers in India, but today there are only 3,000. |
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The European otter（水獭） lives in Europe. It has soft, brown fur. It's about 75cm long. Its tail is half as long as its body. It has small and round ears. Today people still hunt the poor（可怜的） animals for their fur. |
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将答案填写在答题卷相应的方框里。If you want to visit a giant panda in America, where should you go?
| A．To the zoo. | B．To the forest. |
| C．To the park. | D．To the mountain, . |
Why do tigers become fewer and fewer?
| A．Because they don't have enough food to eat. |
| B．Because the weather is not as good as before. |
| C．Because they can't have babies in the zoo. |
| D．Because people destroy their living places and hunt them. |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．It's easy to keep giant pandas in the zoo. |
| B．Tigers can hunt big animals like lions for food. |
| C．An African elephant's ears are much bigger than an Asian elephant's. |
| D．The European otter has small and long ears, |
What can we learn from the passage?
| A．People begin to protect the European otter. |
| B．The number of the European otters is smaller and smaller. |
| C．All the animals in danger need to live in zoos. |
| D．People begin to plant trees so that the tigers will have places to live. |
What's the best title of the passage?
| A．Animals in Danger | B．Animals around the World |
| C．Large Animals | D．People and Animals |
Chen Zhengshan has a special classmate, his 63-year-old grandma.
His grandma began to look after him 10 years ago. Chen got a bad illness when he was three. His mother left the family. His father couldn't work. So his grandparents began to look after him. Chen had to take five kinds of medicine every day and it cost the family more than 1,200 yuan every month.
Chen couldn't speak well. Some boys often laughed at(嘲笑)him at school. He was very sad. In 2008, his grandma decided to go to school with him. She asked the school to let her do so, but the teachers didn't agree. In 2009, she made it,because the teachers were moved by her love. The teachers also asked students to help the boy and collected more than 600 yuan for him.
The grandma planned to go to school with her grandson until he got well. She said,”My boy who likes playing the piano is as clever as the other children."
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将答案填写在答题卷相应的方框里。When did Chen's grandma begin to go to school with him?
| A．In 2008. | B．In 2009. |
| C．In 2010. | D．In 2011. |
How is the life for Chen Zhengshan?
| A．Relaxing. | B．Busy. |
| C．Boring. | D．Difficult. |
Why did Chen's grandma decide to go to school with him?
| A．Because she wanted to learn something. |
| B．Because her grandson couldn't walk. |
| C．Because she wanted to look after her grandson. |
| D．Because her grandson didn't study well. |
What does the underlined word "moved" mean in Chinese?
| A．打动 | B．激怒 | C．让步 | D．拒绝 |
What can we learn from the passage?
| A．Don't laugh at others. |
| B．Love is great. |
| C．It's never too late to learn. |
| D．Help the people in need. |
John is six years old. He can read and write well. But he can’t tell the time. He says “breakfast time”, “lunchtime”, and “teatime” when it is eight o’clock, twelve o’clock and four o’clock in the afternoon. His mother doesn’t know how to help him.
One day John’s aunt, Mary, comes to see his mother. His mother tells her about that. “Let me help you. I think I can help him.”
When John gets home after school, Mary starts to teach him.
“Can you count, John?” she asks him.
“Yes. One, two, three, four…” John says. “That’s great. Now I put the longhand on twelve and the shorthand on one – that is one o’clock. I put the short hand on two, what is the time?”
“Two o’clock.”
“Good. And on three?”
“Three o’clock.”
It is then four o’clock in the afternoon, and John’s aunt asks him, “What time is it now, John?”
“Teatime, Aunt.” John looks at the clock and answers. John’s mother can’t help him to _________ the time.
| A．read | B．write | C．tell | D．listen to |
When it’s twelve o’clock, John says it’s _______.
| A．breakfast time | B．lunchtime |
| C．supper time | D．teatime |
Mary is John’s ________.
| A．mother | B．aunt | C．teacher | D．sister |
The underlined word “count” means “_________” in Chinese.
| A．认识 | B．读 | C．数 | D．熟记 |
From the passage(短文) we know ____________.
| A．John thinks breakfast time is eight in the morning. |
| B．John thinks four o’clock in the morning is teatime. |
| C．John can’t count |
| D．John has a nice watch but it doesn’t work. |
Animals are our friends. We can find different animals here and there. Some animals live in big forests(森林) and some animals live with man.
Animals can help us a lot. Elephants can do some heavy work for us. And dogs can look after the home. The kids like dogs very much. Cats are women’s favorite animals.
We can eat their meat. We can make coats and shoes with their skins(皮). We can get milk from them. So man can’t live without animals. ________ are our friends.
A. Animals
B. Some animals on the farm.
C. Some animals in big forest.Women like _______ very much.
A. dogs B. cats C. elephants“We can make coats and shoes with their skins.” “their” refers to (指的是)_____.
A. trees B. men C. animalsWhich sentence (句子) is RIGHT?
A. All animals live in big forests.
B. Dogs can’t look after our homes
C. Elephants can help us workWhat’s “without” here in Chinese?
A. 没有 B. 不吃 C.与···一起
It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order(订购) some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, she lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying. He asked her what was wrong and she answered, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother,” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地), then she placed the rose.
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house. Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.The man went to the shop to ______.
| A．help the girl | B．order some flowers |
| C．buy some food | D．buy some water |
The man’s mother lived ______ away from him.
| A．2 kilometres | B．200 kilometres |
| C．200 miles | D．300 miles |
The girl was crying on the road because ______.
| A．she was hungry |
| B．she couldn’t buy a rose |
| C．she couldn’t find her way home |
| D．she was angry. |
After the man bought the girl a rose, they went to_________ together.
| A．the cemetery | B．the girl’s home |
| C．his mother’s house | D．the shop |
From the passage we can infer(推断) that ______.
| A．the girl loved flowers very much |
| B．the girl loved her mother very much |
| C．the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother |
| D．the girl’s mother lived happily. |
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