Saturday morning was bright and fresh. There was a song in every heart, cheer on every face, and a spring in every step.
Tom appeared with a bucket（桶）of white paint in one hand and a brush in the other. His Aunt Polly told him to paint the fence（篱笆）around the garden. It was ninety feet long and nine feet high. He felt very blue.
Then he had a wonderful idea. He picked up his brush and started to work.
Soon Ben came along the road. He was happily eating an apple. He stopped to look at Tom. Tom went on painting and pretended（假装）not to see Ben.
“I’m going swimming,” said Ben. “Do you want to go swimming, Tom? But I guess you can’t. You have to stay and work, don’t you?”
“Work?” Tom said. “This isn’t work. I’m enjoying myself. Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?”
Ben thought about this. Tom continued painting carefully. Sometimes he stopped, stood back to look at the fence like an artist, and then added（增加）a bit more paint in just the right place. Ben was watching Tom paint with great interest. He was getting more and more eager（渴望的）to have a try himself.
After a while, Ben asked Tom if he would let him paint a little. Tom thought about it, and said, “No, Ben, I can’t. You see. Aunt Polly wants it to be done well. Aunt Polly said that I must paint it with great care.”
“Oh, please, Tom,” begged Ben. “I can do it. I’ll be really careful. Just let me try. I’ll give you half of my apple. Well, I’ll give you all of it!”
“Well, all right, Ben,” said Tom. “You must be very careful.”
He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart. He sat down under the tree, and started to eat Ben’s apple. All day, boys came to make fun of Tom, but they ended up staying to paint. When Ben got tired, Billy was waiting. He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint. Then Johnny offered him a basketball, and so on.
By late afternoon Tom had got all kinds of toys, and the fence had got three coats of paint. Later Aunt Polly came to look at the painted fence. She was so pleased with Tom’s work that she gave Tom a large cake!Why did Tom pretend not to see Ben when he came and watched him painting?
| A．He saw Ben eating an apple happily. |
| B．He tried to make Ben interested in it. |
| C．He didn’t want to go swimming with Ben at all. |
| D．He didn’t want Ben to share the chance to paint the fence. |
What does the underlined word “spring” probably mean in Chinese?
| A．春天 | B．弹簧 | C．泉 | D．活力 |
What do you think of Tom?
| A．Honest. | B．Smart. |
| C．Shy. | D．Stubborn. |
Height is just one of the thousands of features that your genes (基因) decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then maybe you will be tall, too, but if you have questions about how tall you’re going to be, ask your doctor if he or she can help you find it out.
But genes don’t decide everything. For example, eating an unhealthy diet can keep you from growing to your full potential (潜力). Getting enough sleep and enough exercise will help you grow to the right height.
Maybe you’re wondering how fast you should grow. There’s no right answer. Kids grow about 2 inches (5 centimeters) a year between age 3 and the time they start puberty（青春期） .
Your doctor will know how your growth (生长) has been going over the years. Two centimeters here and 2 inches there are not nearly as important as the height you’re at now, how you’ve been growing up to this point, and what other changes your body may be going through.
Don’t be worried if you have grown a lot in a very short time. Everyone has a very quick growth during puberty. The age for starting puberty is about 10 for girls and about 11 for boys. But it can be earlier or later —between 7 and 13 for girls, 9 and 15 for boys.
You’ll usually begin to find that you’re growing faster about a year after your body starts to show the first changes of puberty.If you want to know how fast and how tall you should grow, _______.
| A．you should have enough exercise |
| B．you can ask doctors for help |
| C．you should protect the environment |
| D．you can record your growth during puberty |
This passage is mainly about _______.
| A．how the genes work in your body |
| B．when the time you grow fast is |
| C．why you look like your parents |
| D．how you grow to a certain (某一) height |
After reading this passage, we can explain (解释) _______.
| A．how good it is to be a doctor |
| B．how much sleep we need |
| C．why genes can’t decide everything |
| D．what an unhealthy diet is |
Below is some advice given by the English children on how to help Africa. Who do you agree with?
| I think being healthy is the most important thing. We need to make sure that the money we give is spent wisely. The money should be spent first on clean water supplies and better health care. ---Robin, aged 16, Birmingham |
| I think the most important thing is to improve the education in the African countries. There is an old saying, “ If you give a man a fish, you’ll feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you’ll feed them for lifetime.” We need to help people to help themselves, not just throw money at the problem when it appears. ---Rebecca, aged 15, Liverpool |
| People seem to give a lot more money to charity when there is a sudden, huge disaster like the earthquake. It’s good for people to do so, but I also think that everyone should give a small part of their money to charity. If everyone does that, it will make a big difference. ---Mary, aged 14, Stratford |
| Giving money to charity can help, but it’s not the final answer. I think what these countries need is a good government. ---Bethany, aged 16, Newcastle |
| The best thing we can do is to send experts like engineers, doctors and teachers to help the people to help themselves. ---Robert, aged 16, Cardiff |
Which two children have the similar ideas?
| A．Mary and Rebecca. | B．Bethany and Mary. |
| C．Rebecca and Robert. | D．Rebecca and Bethany. |
What does Rebecca mean by saying “ We need to help people to help themselves”?
| A．We should help the teachers in Africa to improve their teaching methods. |
| B．We should help people in Africa how to build a good government. |
| C．We should help the African people develop skills to make a living. |
| D．We should help the African people build more schools. |
Where can you possibly find the advice?
| A．In a travel guide. | B．On a website. |
| C．In a student’s textbook. | D．In a sports magazine. |
Food in China and western countries is different. China has about five thousand years’ history. They may spend half of their time on food. Chinese people choose food very carefully. They only use fresh materials（新鲜的材料）to make food. For example, they only eat fresh fish. Chinese have a lot of ideas for cooking. They can cook a chicken in over ten ways. Western countries, like England or America, don’t have fresh food because they buy their food from supermarkets which only sell stored materials (储存的材料).
They are healthy for man’s body. Western people do not have many skills for cooking, and mostly they only boil, steam (蒸) and bake the food. By the way, western people are very good at making desserts and chocolate. They can make very good cakes and chocolate.
In China, the person who invites other people for meal would pay for the meal, but it’s not the same way in western countries. They can afford it. They won’t be happy if you pay for them. In western countries like America or England, people will always give tips (小费) to the waiter after they finish the meal in a restaurant. If you don’t, the waiter will not be happy. In China this only happens in some top restaurants and hotels in large cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Another difference in eating is that:
Chinese people only have three meals during a day. But western people may have more. They usually have afternoon tea when they would have fruit, cakes or biscuits with cheese (奶酪饼干).
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺，内容完整，并将其标号填写在下面题号后的横线上。
| A. These food are very sweet and they can make you become fat quickly. B. Chinese people use chopsticks but western people use knives and forks. C. Western people also prefer fast food like hamburgers and chips. D. That’s why Chinese food is so popular around the world. E. In western countries, people will think you only invite them but don’t need to pay for them. |
Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate their birthdays in different ways. Now here are four people from different countries. They will tell us how they celebrate their birthdays in their countries.
Sandy comes from Madrid(马德里) . She says happily, “My 21st birthday is on Saturday, and I’m going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull on my ear 21 times, once for each year. It’s an old custom. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional.”
Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be 60 tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki(花甲)—it’s the beginning of a new life. The color red is for a new life, so we always give something red for a sixtieth birthday.
Liu Mei from Beijing feels very excited and tells us, “Tomorrow is my 16th birthday. It’s a special birthday, so we’re going to have a family party. Maybe I will get some lucky money from my relatives(亲戚). My mother is going to cook noodles for a long life.”
Phillip, from Paris, smiles to us, “I’m going to be thirty next week, so I’m going to invite three very good friends out for dinner. In France, when you have a birthday, you often invite people out.”
How do you usually celebrate your birthday?Sandy’s friends will pull on her ear ____ on her birthday.
| A．once | B．twice | C．21 times | D．we don’t know |
Kanreki is on everyone’s ____ in Japan.
| A．16th birthday | B．14th birthday |
| C．30th birthday | D．60th birthday |
Perhaps Mr. Sato will receive ____ on his 60th birthday.
| A．some red flowers |
| B．some lucky money |
| C．a white shirt |
| D．a pair of black leather shoes |
Liu Mei will eat ____ for a long life on her birthday.
| A．rice | B．noodles | C．dumplings | D．birthday cakes |
Phillip will celebrate his thirtieth birthday by ____.
| A．eating out for dinner with his friends |
| B．pulling on the ear of his friends |
| C．cooking noodles |
| D．receiving some lucky money |
Mr. Hunt came from a poor family. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father worked hard but wasn’t paid much. And his mother did all the housework at home. They were both able but they couldn’t get enough money for their family.
Mr. Hunt was in school for only three years and he had to stop to help his parents though he was good at his lessons. When he was sixteen, he came to the city and began to work in a small factory. He learned from an old worker and became a skilled worker. The old worker liked him and married his daughter to him. The young man did not have his own house and had to live with his parents-in-law(岳父母). His mother-in-law always thought he was poor and often chattered(唠叨). So the young man tried to save everything and hoped to have his own house.
It was one fine Sunday. The old woman wanted to have a picnic on the top of the hill. She told Mr. Hunt to drive her car. But sometimes she told him to turn left and sometimes to turn right. The young man had to listen to her. At a crossing the lights were red but she made him turn left. The policeman stopped them and told the young man to give his license to him.
“If I did wrong, sir,” said Mr. Hunt, “It was my mother-in-law’s fault(过错). She was driving the car though she sat behind me!”
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。The Hunts were poor because ____.
| A．they were lazy |
| B．they were too weak to work |
| C．they couldn’t make enough money |
| D．they weren’t able enough |
Mr. Hunt left the school because ____.
| A．he didn’t like studying |
| B．his family was poor |
| C．he wasn’t clever |
| D．he hoped to stay at home |
____, so the old man married his daughter to him.
| A．Mr. Hunt became a skilled worker |
| B．Mr. Hunt was friendly to him |
| C．Mr. Hunt was paid much in the factory |
| D．Mr. Hunt worked for six years there |
The old woman was ____ to Mr. Hunt.
| A．good | B．bad | C．friendly | D．useless |
Which of the following is wrong?
| A．The old woman herself drove the car that day. |
| B．It was the old woman’s fault. |
| C．Mr. Hunt hated his mother-in-law. |
| D．The old woman told Mr. Hunt to run the red lights. |
粤公网安备 44130202000953号