During the 1800s, African Americans worked long days in the fields of the American South. They sang songs that they had brought from Africa while working. One person sang a line. Then a group of workers repeated it. The songs' words told of the hardships (艰苦) that people suffered. They clapped their hands and stomped (跺) their feet to the music.
In the 1860s, the music changed greatly. African American music took new forms. It was also influenced by dance music, which had great rhythm. Banjos (班卓琴) became popular. A blues singer usually sang a line and then played the banjo in reply. By the early 1900s, the guitar had taken the place of the banjo in the blues music.
The blues music has many obvious characteristics. One of them is that the musical notes are often "bent". That is, they are changed slightly to give a song more strength.
Lyrics are the words of a song. Blues lyrics describe everyday life. The lyrics are often about the relationships between men and women. They tell about sadness and overwork. They tell about finding and losing love, having money or being poor, being happy or sad and lonely. They almost always use the rhythms of everyday speech. A group of blues lyrics usually has three lines. The second line repeats the first line. The third line has different words.
By the 1940s, a large number of African Americans moved to Chicago. There, a new kind of "Chicago" blues began. The new music was excellent dance music. Chicago blues led to the birth of a new music style-rock and roll.This passage is mainly about ___________.
| A．the rhythms of different music |
| B．the life of African Americans |
| C．the blues lyrics |
| D．the blues music |
What information does the passage NOT provide?
| A．How the blues music developed as time went by. |
| B．What the blues lyrics are mostly about. |
| C．When African Americans moved to the American South. |
| D．How long the banjo was popular in the blues history. |
Which of the following is the most likely taken from a blues song?
| A．You have to help me. I’ll die if you don't. You have to help me. |
| B．You have to help me. You have to help me. I'll die if you don't. |
| C．I'll die if you don't. You have to help me. You have to help me. |
| D．I'll die if you don't help me. You have to help me. Please help me. |
What fact does the passage lead you to believe?
| A．African Americans sang songs after a long day's work to relax in the 1800s. |
| B．The blues singers in the 1860s usually played the guitar while singing songs. |
| C．It is not difficult to tell the blues music from others from its musical notes. |
| D．Rock and roll was the most popular blues music in Chicago in the 1950s. |
This is my school. There are many trees and flowers. The teaching building is big and tall. There is a big playground in our school. It’s very nice to have it. After 4:30 in the afternoon, many students often come to the playground to play football and some students play table tennis in the table tennis room.
There are 1,200 students in 25 classes in our school. The students all like to study. The teachers in our school are very good. They help the students to study and sometimes play with them. All the students like them.The teaching building is _____.
| A．small | B．old |
| C．big and tall | D．big |
It’s very nice for this school to have ____.
| A．trees and flowers | B．a playground |
| C．students | D．teachers |
There are at least (至少) _____ students in one class.
| A．45 | B．65 | C．75 | D．48 |
After class the students often go to _____.
| A．their classroom | B．their homes |
| C．the playground | D．tennis room |
What may(可能) teachers NOT DO?
| A．Give the students lessons. |
| B．Play football and table tennis with the students. |
| C．Don’t like some students. |
| D．Help students study |
Miss Liu is an English teacher. She is very young. She works very well and the students all like her. There are twenty-six boys and twenty-four girls in her class. Now some of them are playing on the playground. Jim and Bill are jumping. Sam and Mike are running. Lucy and Simon are singing. The other girls are playing games with their teacher. They’re happy. Miss Liu is______.
| A．a Chinese teacher | B．very old |
| C．an English teacher | D．not good |
There are _____ students in Miss Liu’s class.
| A．forty-five | B．fifty-one |
| C．forty-eight | D．fifty |
The students are ______.
| A．at work | B．at home |
| C．all happy | D．in the classroom |
Who is singing?
| A．Miss Liu | B．Lucy and Simon |
| C．Sam and Mike | D．Jim and Bill |
All the students _________.
| A．like Miss Liu | B．are running |
| C．like English | D．are jumping |
It' s Sunday morning. There are many people in the park.Some boys are playing basketball. There are some girls under a big tree. They' re singing and dancing. What are those women doing? They are swimming. Look at the woman in a blue coat. Who' s she? She' s my mother. She is talking to Edward. Edward is her student. He is a good student. He studies hard . He' s good at all the subjects. And he' s friendly to all his teachers and his friends.The boys are _________
A. singing B. playing basketball C. dancingMy mother is___________ .
A. a teacher B. a doctor C. a writerEdward is in __________
A. the park B. the classroom C. the zoo— Who' s under a big tree? — .
A. Some women. B. Some girls. C. Some boys.— What color is my mother' s coat?—It's .
A. blue B. white C. red
Almost everyone likes dogs, and almost ①每个人都喜欢读关于狗的故事. I have a friend. He has a large police dog named Jack. Police dogs are very clever. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Jack for a long walk in the park. Jack like these long walks very much.
One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. ②It seemed that he was very happy . He talked and talked. ③Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for his walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack became very worried. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor paid not attention. He went on talking. Finally Jack got angry. ④He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down again in front of the visitor, but this time he took the visitor’s cap in his mouth.
读以上短文，完成下面任务：将①处的句子翻译成英语
将②处的句子改成同义句.
将③处的句子翻译成汉语
将④处的句子翻译成汉语
What do you think of Jack ?
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth(值得) the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the money he bought some cherries(樱桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty(口渴的) to walk on. At the moment, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had caught up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰) down in the beginning to pick up that horseshoe, you wouldn’t have bent so many times for the cherries. Always remember this lesson: If someone don’t worry about the little things, he will find it impossible（不可能） for him to do the great things.”Who picked up the cherries on the ground?
| A．Thomas. | B．The farmer. |
| C．Both the father and the son. | D．Nobody. |
The farmer bought some ______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.
| A．bread | B．water |
| C．cherries | D．pennies |
When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe , the father ______.
| A．did nothing | B．said nothing |
| C．felt worried | D．got angry |
The father dropped the cherry one by one, because ______.
| A．he wanted to teach his son a lesson |
| B．he wanted his son to do more exercise |
| C．he wanted his son to eat them all |
| D．he wanted to punish his son for not picking up the horseshoe at first |
From the story, we can learn that ______.
| A．cherries are so delicious that most people like eating them |
| B．a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us some money |
| C．we can’t get great things if we lose little things |
| D．we can’t do something great if we don’t worry about something little |
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