There was a robbery at City Central Bank last yesterday afternoon. Two men entered the bank at about 4 p.m. and told the bank teller on duty to give them $ 1,000,000. The robbers were carrying guns（枪） and wearing black masks（面具） to cover their faces. The robbers told all the customers （顾客）in the bank to lie down on the floor. Witnesses （证人）said that everyone in the bank was very frightened and did what the robbers told them.
The teller agreed to give them the money but told them they’d have to wait a few minutes. She said the bank manager would have to get the money out of the safety. As the robbers were waiting for the money. the teller tried to press an alarm button(按警报按钮) that was hidden under the counter. It was a silent alarm, so the robbers didn’t realize it had been set off. Just as the manager arrived with the money, ten police officers entered the bank. The robbers were very surprised that the officers caught them easily. The robbers are now in custody（拘留） , and will appear in court next week.
Police congratulated Miss Alston, the bank teller, on brave act. The bank manager said that he would give Miss Alston a week’s vacation to thank her.
| A．they were frightened |
| B．the robbers were very polite |
| C．the bank manager told them to |
| D．they knew the police were coming |
| A．under the counter | B．on the floor |
| C．in custody | D．in the safety |
| A．She telephoned the police |
| B．She didn’t want to give the money to the robbers |
| C．She got the money out of the safety. |
| D．She pressed an alarm button. |
| A．know who the police officers were |
| B．get the money |
| C．expect the police arrived at the bank so quickly |
| D．expect the money to be in the safety |
| A．to punish her | B．to show their thanks to her |
| C．to thank the police | D．to congratulate her |
Spending time in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good bookshop, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I 1h you?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. You may try to find out 2w the book you want is. If you fail(没有找到), the assistant will lead you there and 3t he will go away. It seems that he is not 4i in selling any books at all. There is a story about a good bookshop. A medical student 5f a very useful book in the bookshop, but it was too 6e for him to buy. He couldn’t get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to 7r a little. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its 8u place. He was leaving when he saw the assistant signing to 9h . He was surprised that the assistant 10p to the book in the corner. “I put it there so that people wouldn’t see it and buy it,” said the assistant. Then he left the student by himself to go on with his reading.
Although I’m not in my childhood, I still prefer reading fairy tales. They often make me think of some special experiences and feelings. This summer I’ve reviewed this kind of tales, The Little Prince. It was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy tale by the French author Antoine.
“I”, the narrator(讲述者) of the story, is a pilot. His plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. The little prince lives on a small planet, and he grows a flower called ROSE there. One day they have a quarrel(争吵), so the little prince runs away. On his all-alone journey, he meets different kinds of people. From these people he gets a conclusion(结论) that grown-ups are strange. And with the help of the man he meets, he descends in the Sahara.
This book moved me a lot. It is not only a fairy tale for children and teenagers, but also for grown-ups.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。The author loves fairy tales, because _____.
| A．they are very interesting |
| B．they are not about real life |
| C．they make him or her think of special feelings |
| D．they often have a happy ending |
The writer of The Little Prince is from _____.
| A．France | B．China |
| C．Canada | D．America |
The little prince runs away, because _______.
| A．he doesn’t love his hometown |
| B．he is a naughty boy and loves adventures |
| C．he has made mistakes |
| D．he has quarrelled with ROSE |
The underlined word “descend” means ______ in the passage.
| A．end | B．die |
| C．land | D．fly |
The best title for this article is “_____”.
| A．A fair tale |
| B．My favourite fairy tale—The Little Prince |
| C．How to choose the story |
| D．How I spent my childhood |
Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in America in 1899. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music. Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.
Hemingway had written many books in his life. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous and also my favourite. It came out in 1952. The main character in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck, because he doesn’t get a fish in eighty-four days. Every evening, he comes home with his empty boat. But the old man believes himself. Then on the eighty-fifth day the man takes a big fish. Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up(放弃).
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。 Hemingway’s father was a fan of _____.
| A．books | B．sports | C．music | D．art |
The Old Man and the Sea was published(出版) in _____.
| A．1852 | B．1899 | C．1952 | D．1989 |
The old man doesn’t get a fish until the _____ day.
| A．fifteenth | B．eightieth |
| C．eighty-fourth | D．eighty-fifth |
What does the old man do when he can’t get a fish?
| A．He has to look for food somewhere else. |
| B．He doesn’t give up fishing. |
| C．He doesn’t fish any more. |
| D．He has nothing to do. |
What can we learn from the old man?
| A．When we are in trouble, we should not give up. |
| B．When we want to fish, we can get a big fish. |
| C．We can do everything well because we are young. |
| D．We can live a better life if we like fishing. |
根据短文内容，完成下列任务
The picture that sits on my desk in my bedroom is my favourite. (A)When I have trouble studying, or I’m worried about an exam, I always take a look at it. It is a picture of my best friends taken three years ago when we were in middle school. It reminds(使……想起) me of the good time we’ve shared and the support(支持) their friendship still gives me today. Our lives have gone in different directions, (B)_______ our friendship we created has kept us close. Every week I get a message on my answering machine from one of them, or a letter in the mail with the latest news or vacation photos. I often get an email with a joke for the day or words of comfort about some problems in my life. My friends often show up for surprise birthday parties, and one of them (C)_______ travelled two hours from the other end of town just to watch my first English speech contest. Our friendship has carried me through a lot of difficult experiences, and has enriched the good ones.
任务一：简要回答下面的问题。 Where is the picture?
When was the picture taken?
任务二：将A处画线句子翻译成汉语。 ____________
任务三：在B处和C处填入一个适当的单词。B: __________
C: __________
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Zach Linsky, 11, watches TV for 3 and a half hours a day and plays video games every other day. Zach, a sixth grader in Washington, D. C., is an American. But unlike many kids, he doesn’t have a TV, VCR, or computer in his bedroom. He only has a boom box (手提录音机).
The survey of 3,155 kids, aged 2 to 18, shows that they spend 5 hours and 29 minutes on average(平均的) a day using some types of media outside of school, including 2 hours and 46 minutes watching TV, 21 minutes on the computer, 20 minutes playing video games, and 8 minutes on the Internet. The good news: The total includes 44 minutes spent reading.
The survey also shows that those aged 2 to 7 spend 3 hours and 9 minutes watching TV every day and shows that 32 percent in that age group have TV sets in their rooms. Among those aged 8 to 18, 21 percent have computers in their rooms, 65 percent have TV sets, and 61 percent say their parents don’t stop them from watching TV. Nearly 1 in 4 say they watch more than 5 hours a day.
“Kids are living much more lonely lives than ever before,” says Kay S. Hytnowitz. “They just disappear into their rooms and spend all of their time with these media.”At what age do children in America spend about five and a half hours on the media a day?
| A．Aged 2 to 7. | B．Aged 2 to 18. | C．Aged 8 to 18. | D．Aged 2 to 11. |
How long do kids aged 2 to 18 spend reading?
| A．46 minutes. | B．21 minutes. | C．20 minutes. | D．44 minutes. |
How many kids aged 2 to 7 have TV sets in their rooms?
| A．32%. | B．21%. | C．61%. | D．40%. |
Why do the children spend all of their time with these media? Because _______.
| A．they have too much free time |
| B．they feel very lonely |
| C．they like these media |
| D．they want to find out something |
What’s the problem of the kids in America according to the passage?
| A．There are too many media now. |
| B．Kids spend too much time on the media. |
| C．Kids are too fat. |
| D．Kids would rather be with friends than the TV. |
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