I turned around to find a little old lady with warm smile. She said, “Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old.”
“Why are you in university at such a YOUNG age?” I asked. She replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have coupe of kids, and then retire and travel.”
I knew she was joking. I was curious(好奇) what might have encouraged her to be taking on this challenge at her age.
“I always dreamed of having a university education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. We became friends. Every day we would talk nonstop after class. I always enjoyed listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom(智慧) and experience with me. And Rose easily made friends wherever she went.
At the end of the term we invited Rose to make a little speech. She cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. I’ve learned a few secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.”
“There is a huge difference between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change…” When the author and Rose first met, they began their conversation in a _______ manner.
| A．polite | B．impolite | C．serious | D．humorous |
Rose went to the university in order to __________.
| A．meet a rich husband | B．make new friends |
| C．get a better job | D．get a university education |
The author considered Rose as a “time machine” because____________.
| A．she always came to class on time |
| B．she made friends easily at university |
| C．she enjoyed a long life and had lots of wisdom and experience |
| D．she knew the difference between growing older and growing up |
The word “That” in the Paragraph 7 refers to (指) _________.
| A．growing older | B．growing up |
| C．staying young | D．being happy |
From the passage, we know Rose believed___________.
| A．“Easier said than done.” |
| B．“Well begun is half done.” |
| C．“It is never too late to learn.” |
| D．“Reading makes a full man.” |
阅读理解
A crow(乌鸦) is about twenty inches(英寸) long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests(巢) in the trees. They sleep there at night.
Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns(轮流) like human beings(人类). It is easy to tell(判断) from crow’s sound if they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and some time later it dies too.Crows “live on bad food” means “ _________ ”.
| A．Crows eat old bad food. |
| B．Old bad food is crows’ nests. |
| C．Crows make their nests on old bad food. |
| D．Crows sleep on old bad food. |
Crows are more useful to us because they ________________.
| A．are clean birds | B．can move away waste food |
| C．can make our streets clean | D．aren’t dirty |
Crows always look for food _________.
| A．in the evening | B．all day |
| C．in the morning | D．at night |
People can’t hear crow talk __________.
| A．together | B．by turns |
| C．noisily | D．quietly |
If a pair of crows loves each other, ________
| A．they will not live together. |
| B．neither of them can live alone happily. |
| C．they will die. |
| D．one of them will die |
If we find a bird nest (巢), we will have a good place of watching and knowing about birds. Birds sit on eggs and take care of their babies from April to June. Because the baby birds are too young to leave the nest, parents often go to look for food and come back in several minutes. So it is good to watch birds. When we watch birds, we'd better hide ourselves in a close place to the nest, and it's better to use binoculars
But how do we make a bird nest? A good bird nest must be very fine, strong, thick and comfortable. If you want to make one, please follow these:
a) Each nest must have six boards (木板) for its cover and floor, for its left and right sides, and for its front and back sides. Don't make the boards too slippery (滑的).
b) Dig a small hole in the front of the nest as a "door". The "door" is big enough so birds can fly in or out easily.
c) Make sure the rainwater can't go into the nest.
d) One piece of the board should be easy to open.
e) Don't forget to colour the nest.We need ______ near a bird nest if we want to watch and know about birds.
| A．a good place | B．some trees |
| C．to sit on eggs | D．to make a bird net |
When we’re watching birds, we have to ______.
| A．look after the birds more often |
| B．use the binoculars to catch the birds |
| C．hide ourselves to make the birds do everything as usual |
| D．catch the birds at last |
We should leave a hole in the front of the nest so that ______ easily.
| A．we can clean the nest | B．birds can fly in or out |
| C．we can hang it | D．we can make it |
According to the text, we can make a bird nest like Picture ______ with the boards.
Long long ago, a donkey(驴) fell into a well(井). The animal cried for hours as the farmer tried to think out what to do. Finally, the farmer thought the animal was too old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, so he decided not to save the donkey.
The farmer invited his neighbours to help him. They began to shovel(铲) dirt into the well. The donkey cried harder. But a few minutes later, he became quiet. The farmer looked into the well, and was surprised by what he saw.
While every shovelful of dirt hit his back, the donkey would shake it off and take a step on the new layer of dirt. As the farmer’s neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, the donkey would shake it off and take another step up. Soon the donkey stepped up out of the well and ran away, to the surprise of all the neighbours.
The lesson we get from this story is that if life shovels some dirt on us, we must get out the well and not let it cover us. We must learn to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping-stone(踏脚石). We can get out of the deepest well by never giving up!The farmer is ________.
| A．careless |
| B．kind to the donkey |
| C．ready to give up the donkey |
| D．friendly |
When we are in trouble, we have to learn from _______ in the story.
| A．the farmer | B．the neighbours | C．the donkey | D．all of them |
the story tells us ________.
| A．never to give up even if we’re in great trouble |
| B．the donkey is a clever animal |
| C．the man has to be kind to the animal |
| D．the man is the most cruel(残酷的) animal |
阅读理解。阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
If visitors cannot see the animals, the animals may be______.
| A．playing | B．eating | C．acting | D．sleeping |
Jack is eight years old. He goes to the zoo with his 58-year-old grandfather．How much should they pay for visiting the zoo?
| A．$18. | B．$22. | C．$28. | D．$32. |
What should we do in order not to frighten the animals?
| A．We should ride bikes. |
| B．We should keep quiet. |
| C．Ｗe should feed the animals. |
| D．We should keep the zoo clean. |
If English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.
The study also found the effect is greater when the younger people learn a second language. A team led by Dr. Andrea Mechelli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.
Scans showed that grey matter density (密度) in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.
“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. “Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible (灵活的),” he said. “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of two and thirty-four. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.The main subject talked about in this passage is ________.
| A．science on learning a second language |
| B．man’s ability of learning a second language |
| C．that language can help brain power |
| D．language learning and maths study |
The underlined word “bilingual” probably means _______.
| A．a researcher on language learning |
| B．a second language learner |
| C．an active language learner |
| D．a person who can speak two languages |
We may know from the scientific findings that ________.
| A．the earlier you start to learn a second language, the higher the grey matter density is |
| B．there is no difference between a later second language learner and one who doesn’t know a second language |
| C．the experience of learning a second language has bad effect on people’s brain |
| D．the ability of learning a second language is changing all the time |
In the last two paragraphs, the author wants to tell us that _________.
| A．learning a second language is the same as studying maths |
| B．early learning of a second language helps you a great deal in studying other subjects |
| C．Italian is the best choice for you as a second language |
| D．you’d better choose the ages between 2 and 34 to learn a second language |
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