Each year on Feb 21， UNESCO （ 联合国教科文组织） holds an International Mother Language Day （IMLD ）． The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages； many of them are disappearing each year． UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact．
What happens when a language dies out？ Something great is lost﹣not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other． We keep different cultures and traditions through languages． Kill a language and all these are killed too．
Through IMLD， more and more people come to realize he terrible situation and try to stop it．
Google's 2018 Endangered （濒临灭绝的） Languages Project is a good example． Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload （上传） texts， audios and videos to the project website． They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world．
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes （部落） of the United States． Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language ， which died out in the 1960s．
These activities give life to those endangered languages． People who work to keep Languages
alive are not limited to the past． Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities． They "spread the word " to save the world．
So， while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one， there is hope． We all have a special feeling of our mother language． This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa， Nelson Mandela： "If you talk to a man in a language he understands， that goes to his head． If you talk to a man in his own language，that goes to his heart．"
（1）UNESCO holds IMLD every year in order to help people to ．
A． learn and use endangered languages
B． show their talents in learning languages
C． practice reading skills of mother languages
D． realize the situation of endangered languages
（2）What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project？
A． Discuss how to make good use of Google．
B． Offer online courses on endangered languages．
C． Share materials about endangered languages online．
D． Translate endangered languages into mother languages．
（3）What does the underlined word " revive" mean in Paragraph （ 段落） 4？
A． 创造
B． 学习
C． 复活
D． 清除
（4）What can we infer （ 推断） from Paragraph 5？
A． It is more difficult to protect endangered languages．
B． The disappearance of languages has already stopped．
C． Young people don't care about endangered languages．
D． Young people have creative ways to protect languages．
（5）The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to ．
A． tell the importance of one's mother language
B． show his contributions to language protection
C． tell the trouble in learning endangered languages
D． show the possibility of protecting mother languages
Albert Einstein was born in 1879. As a boy he was not happy in school. He seemed to be slower than others and he often failed in his exams. Most of his teachers did not like him. His parents, however, loved him very much. They often said to the teachers, “Albert is a bright boy. He failed in some of the exams because he had no interest in those subjects.” They believed their son would do something great. One day, the Einsteins and their friends were having a picnic by the riverside. Someone said, “See how the other children play and laugh, but not Albert. He just sits and looks off across the river.” Albert’s mother heard this and said, “Albert is quiet, because he’s thinking. Let’s wait and see. He’ll become a great scientist, I believe.”
She was right. Later, Albert became one of the greatest scientists in the world. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.Albert Einstein was _________.
A. an artist B. a journalist C. a scientist He won the Nobel Prize for _______in 1921.
A. medicine B. physics C. chemistry Einstein often failed in some exams because___________.
A. he was quiet
B. he wasn’t interested in those subjects
C. he was not clever Einstein’s mother ________.
A. understood her son
B. complained about her friend
C. was pleased with the teachers Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Einstein enjoyed playing with others.
B. Einstein was happy at school.
C. Einstein was born in Germany.
December 25th is Christmas Day. In most countries it is the most important day in the year. All the people come back to their homes to have the day with their parents or their children. On Christmas Day bells ring everywhere. The ringing bells tell people Christmas is coming. People sing and dance day and night. They have a good time.
Most families buy a Christmas tree for their children. And there are some presents hanging from the tree here and there. People also put presents in children’s stockings. In many places, Father Christmas himself brings presents to them. He is a kind man and in red clothes. There is a big bag on his back. In it there are a lot of presents.
Christmas is also a day when people enjoy all kinds of food. But some poor people have no homes and have no food to eat. They die of cold and hunger(饥饿)on Christmas Day.
根据以上短文内容，请判断下列句子的正误，正确的用“T”，错误的用“F”。Christmas is a very important day in some countries in a year.
Many people have a good time on Christmas Day.
Father Christmas wears red clothes.
There are a lot of Christmas trees in Father Christmas’bag.
Some poor people die on Christmas Day because they have no homes and no food to eat.
Mr. Ellis is very old. He has seen many changes in his home town.
He knows that things are different now. But he never forgets the old days. He likes to talk about them. He often talks about his favourite（最喜欢的）birds, the robins （一种小小鸟——鸫）. "When I was a boy, these houses were not here. There were wide fields and tall trees. Every spring robins would come. Thousands of them would fly up to the north from the south. They spent the winter in the south. Some would build their nests（巢）in the trees near our houses. Then people started to cut down trees, and they built more houses. The robins stopped coming. They couldn't build their nests near our houses because there were no trees."
"Now there are too many houses and too many roads. There are no places for the robins. They do come any more（不再）."Mr. Ellis often talks about________.
| A．his old house | B．the old days |
| C．his life now | D．his family |
The birds, the robins, spent the winter in________.
| A．the south | B．the west |
| C．the north | D．the east |
________ built the nests in the trees.
| A．Mr. Ellis | B．Some people |
| C．The robins | D．Some dogs |
Then people________ trees because they wanted to build more houses.
| A．cut down | B．planted | C．bought | D．watered |
From the passage（短文）we can know that________.
| A．Mr. Ellis likes his new life now |
| B．there were many houses there in the old days |
| C．the robins can make their nests without trees |
| D．Mr. Ellis is not happy with the changes there |
阅读下面的短文，并做每篇后面的题目。从四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。
One day, Allan and his friend Henry went swimming in a river. It was very hot. How happy they were in the river! After they got out of the water, they played games in the sun for a while.
On their way back, Henry saw some flowers. He liked flowers very much and ran into the green field to look at them. Now Allan was walking by himself.
Then he heard Henry calling out, "A snake（蛇）! Help!..."
"What's wrong with you?" asked Allan.
"A snake bit（咬）me in the leg. Come here!"
Allan ran over and saw a small red wound（伤口）on Henry' s leg.
"The snake was in the grass. I didn't see it."
"Sit down quickly"! Allan told Henry.
Allan put his mouth at the little red wound and began to suck（吸）at it. In this way he saved （挽救）Henry's life. "Oh, Allan, it's very kind of you to help me."
"That's all right. We are friends and we must always help each other."It was________ when-Allan and Henry went out.
| A．hot | B．cold | C．raining | D．wet |
After swimming, they played in the sun________.
| A．the whole morning | B．for 2 hours |
| C．long | D．for a while |
On their way home,________ got something wrong with his
| A．Allan; leg | B．Allan; head |
| C．Henry; leg | D．Henry; head |
Henry and Allan are________.
| A．workers | B．good friends |
| C．brothers | D．farmers |
Which of the following（下面的）is true?
| A．Henry went to look at the flowers with Allan. |
| B．Allan saved Henry' s life. |
| C．Allan saw the snake. |
| D．They ran to the hospital at once. |
Dear Jack,
How are you? I have been in the USA for six months. I like the life here. I have a few friends. I don't have much homework. There are a lot of sports at my school, but I don't like sports at all. like the food very much. I eat a lot of different kinds of food every day. I like coke（可乐）very much. I don't drink water. I drink coke instead（代替）. I'm enjoying my life here. The sad thing is that sometimes I get ill. I don't know why. My parents say I must go on a diet（节食）and do more sports. Must I?
Yours,
David
判断下列句子是否符合短文内容。符合的写“T”，不符合的写“F”。David has been in America for six months.
David has to do much homework.
There are many sports at David's school.
David likes coke better than water.
David knows why he is often ill.
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